Located in the center of Liaocheng ancient city, Guangyuelou is a four-eaves street pavilion, which consists of pier and main building. The pier is a quadrangular prism made of masonry, 9 meters high, and the four-story main building is built on the pier, 24 meters high. The height and side of Guangyue Building are 33 meters, which is nine feet nine in ancient times. In ancient China, nine was the pole of yang number, indicating that it could not be surpassed.
In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Chen Yong, commander of Dongchangwei, converted the earthen city built in Xining of Song Dynasty into a brick city in order to crack down on the remnants of Yuan Dynasty. In the seventh year of Hongwu, the Drum Tower was 100 feet high. It was built with battens from Xiucheng, so it was originally named "batten wooden building", and later named "Dongchang building" because of the land. At that time, the purpose of building this building was to "be stricter and more leaky, observe the enemy's situation from a distance, and report the time to the police." With the consolidation of the Ming dynasty, the military function of this building was quickly forgotten, but the Guangyue Building is famous for its majestic height.
Guangyue Building is a masterpiece of the transition from Song and Yuan architecture to Ming and Qing architecture, which occupies an important position in the history of ancient architecture in China. On 1988, Guangyuelou was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
The Yellow Crane Tower, one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, was originally located at the head of the Yellow Crane Tower in Sheshan, Wuchang, Hubei. According to legend, it was built in the second year of Wu in the Three Kingdoms (AD 223). In the long river of history, the Yellow Crane Tower has experienced vicissitudes, been destroyed and built repeatedly, and traveled around the world for more than 30 times. The Yellow Crane Tower was last destroyed in August of the 10th year of Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1884). Due to the fire in Dongjiapo residential building outside Hanyang Gate, the wind and fire were fierce, which damaged the tower. This historical building was quickly reduced to ashes, leaving only a few thousand kilograms of bronze tripod with treasure cover. It has not been rebuilt for nearly a hundred years since then. The existing Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt in the 1980s.
Yueyang Tower is located in Yueyang, an ancient cultural city with a long history, and was called "Baling" in ancient times. It is located in the north of Hunan Province, where the vast Dongting Lake and the Wanli Yangtze River meet. Yueyang Tower, the first of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is located at the head of Ximen City, an ancient city born of water. Yueyang has mountains, water, buildings, picturesque scenery and many places of interest. The beauty of Yueyang scenery is concentrated in Dongting Lake and finally on the first floor of Yueyang. Baling Scenic Area, centered on Yueyang Tower and Junshan Mountain, is well known. Known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", it deserves to be called "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building". Yueyang Tower, Wuchang Yellow Crane Tower and Nanchang Knee King Pavilion are collectively called "Three Famous Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River". Yueyang Tower stands on the east bank of Dongting Lake, on the wall of the west gate of Yueyang City, with the vast Dongting Lake in the west and the Yangtze River rolling eastward in the north. Shui Ying set each other off, known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is one of the famous tourist attractions in China.