Yueyang Tower was built around 220 AD, and its predecessor is said to be the "Yuejun Tower" of Lu Su, a general of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. It was called "Baling Tower" in the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was called "Yueyang Tower" only after Li Bai wrote poems in the middle Tang Dynasty. At this time, Baling City has been changed to Yueyang City, and Baling Building has also been called Yueyang Building. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Su, a general of Sun Quan, was ordered to guard Baqiu, drill the water army, and build the ancient city of Baqiu in the dangerous area connected with the Yangtze River in Dongting Lake. In the 20th year of Jian 'an (AD 2 15), Lu Su built a military reading building on Baling Mountain to train and command the navy. Standing on the shore, you can see all the sails and waves in Dongting Lake on Yuejun Tower. The momentum is extraordinary. This Yuejun Building is the predecessor of Yueyang Building. Yuejun Tower was called Baling Tower in the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Yueyang Tower was not called Yueyang Tower until the Tang Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Song Dynasty (A.D. 1044), Teng was banished to Yuezhou, which coincided with the collapse of Yueyang Tower. In the fifth year of Qing Li, Teng rebuilt Yueyang Tower with the support of the people.

Yueyang Tower rebuilt by Teng was destroyed in the 11th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1April 639) and rebuilt the following year. Many repairs were carried out in the Qing Dynasty. In the sixth year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1880), Zhang Derong, the magistrate, carried out a large-scale renovation of Yueyang Tower, and moved the building site more than 60 feet.

In the history of 1700 years, Yueyang Tower has been repeatedly repaired and destroyed, and repeatedly repaired and built. After many vicissitudes, it has been destroyed and built repeatedly, and it has been repaired more than 30 times in history. After each renovation, "there is an ice pavilion on the eaves, which is praised by some people, and the literati climb high and wander"; ; At the time of destruction, "the waves were overwhelming, and the poet bowed his head and took a deep breath" (Zhang Derong rebuilt Yueyang Tower in Qing Dynasty).

By the end of the Republic of China, the building was dilapidated.

After the founding of New China, the people's government allocated funds to repair Yueyang Tower, built Huaifu Pavilion and stele gallery, and rebuilt Sanzui Pavilion and Xianmei Pavilion.

1983, the State Council allocated special funds for a one-and-a-half-year overhaul of Yueyang Tower, with the aim of "repairing the old as the old" and copying and updating the decaying components as they are.

In May 1984, 1, Yueyang Tower was overhauled and opened to the public. The restored Yueyang Tower retains the scale, style and most building components of the Qing Dynasty.