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Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.

Yueyang has an administrative area of 14,896 km² and the city proper, 304 km².

Yueyang was called Baling in ancient times, and is also known as Bazhou.

It is located in the lower reaches of Xiangjiang River in the northeast of Hunan Province, at the estuary of Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River.

Perhaps the most famous thing in Yueyang is the Yueyang Tower on the edge of Dongting Lake.

Fan Zhongyan composed "Yueyang Tower Notes" in the Northern Song Dynasty and made it famous.

In addition, there are scenic spots such as Junshan Island, Lingwu Mountain, Quzi Memorial, Tieshan Reservoir and Dayunshan National Forest Park. There are also revolutionary memorial sites such as the former site of the Pingjiang Uprising and the Ren Bishi Memorial Hall.

By train Two railways connect Yueyang with other parts of China: Beijing–Guangzhou Railway and Wuhan-Guangzhou Highspeed Railway.

The Beijing–Guangzhou Railway is used for both passenger and freight trains, while the Wuhan-Guangzhou Highspeed Railway is specifically constructed for passenger transport.

It takes 50 minutes to transit from Wuhan, 40 minutes from Changsha, and 3 hours from Guangzhou by taking the G-train.

Normally an hour of a trip on G-train costs 100 CNY.

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★★ Yueyang Tower ★★
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The famous Yueyang Tower, located at the western city gate of Yueyang in Hunan province, is listed as one of the Three Great Towers in the south of the Yangtze River in China.

Yueyang Tower was originally built for military use.

The construction of the tower was commissioned by General Lu Su of the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period(220-280).

It was designed as a tower for training, directing marine troops and for military reviews.

Standing on the bank of Dongting Lake of Yueyang, Yueyang Tower is magnificent and imposing, overlooking the 400-kilometer waterway scattered with sailing boats. Since the Tang Dynasty(618-907), Yueyang Tower had gradually become a popular tourist destination as well as a favored site for romantic scholars, who would frequent the place for chanting and writing poems.

The great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty(960-1127) Fan Zhongyan wrote the widely-read article "On Yueyang Tower" with the famous lines: One should be the first to bear hardship and the last to enjoy comforts. This brought great fame to Yueyang Tower, making it a well-known scenic spot in South China.

Yueyang Tower has been renovated and reconstructed for many times. The current structure was rebuilt in 1867 during the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911). The tower resides on a wooden structure and has three stories.

No rivets or nails were used in the construction of Yueyang Tower, which is a complete wood structure, simple and unique, holding unparalleled artistic values in the architectural history of ancient China.

The tower's roof is covered with yellow-glazed tile and eaves rising high. The roof's ridge is decorated with various animal figures with a color-glazed fluttering phoenix in each of the four corners.

Lattice works on the windows and doors are delicate, and the colored drawings painted on columns, girders and frames are magnificent. A round corridor is built on the second floor where one can lean on the balustrade and enjoy the distant view of the mists and ripples of Dongting Lake.

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