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黃鶴樓

HuánghèLóu

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄜˋ ㄌㄡˊ

Simplified 黄鹤楼

  1. 1Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
  2. 2favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
  3. 3Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'
  4. 4one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi

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