By the first year of Yongtai in the Tang Dynasty (AD 765), the Yellow Crane Tower had reached a certain scale, which made many Jiangxia celebrities "feast". However, wars and fires occur frequently, and the Yellow Crane Tower is repeatedly built and abandoned. The last "Lou Qing" was built in the seventh year of Tongzhi (A.D. 1868) and destroyed in the tenth year of Guangxu (A.D. 1884), and has not been rebuilt for nearly a hundred years.
In June 198 1, the Yellow Crane Tower reconstruction project broke ground and was completed in June 1985. The main building is based on Tongzhi Building in Qing Dynasty, but it is bigger and more magnificent.