A Stately Tower of Immense Cultural Connotations

摘要

cqvip:The Yueyang Tower (Yueyanglou) stands on the banks of Dongting Lake in Yueyang City,Hunan.It is one of the three towers most admired in southern China.Of the numerous articles and poems it has inspired throughout the dynasties,perhaps best known is the essay by renowned scholar Fan Zhong- yan,written to celebrate the tower's reconstruction in 1046.It was the sen- timent expressed within the work,'One should be the first to worry about the fu-