What is the legend of the Yellow Crane Tower?
When I was in junior high school, I read Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower, and now I can recite it backwards: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but now there is no Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the river waves were filled with sad mist. " This poem is sad, "conveying the ancient style in the form of law and expressing the depressed feelings of talented people", which has always been respected by people and is listed as the first of the seven laws in Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Li Bai was deeply touched by his visit to the Yellow Crane Tower, but he had no choice but to put pen to paper and said, "There is a scene in front of him, and Cui Hao inscribed a poem on it." . To this end, a "writing pavilion" was specially built in front of the Yellow Crane Tower.
We followed the bustling crowd upstairs and downstairs, took some photos with Gu Lou and DJI as the background, and then hurried to the next stop. The impression of the building is inevitably a little vague, but the intriguing legend about it has not faded with the passage of time.
The legend of Gai Lou is very beautiful. More than a thousand years ago, an old man named Xin opened a hotel in Sheshan. One of the regulars is a Taoist priest, who goes back to drink without buying tables and drinks, and only uses the fruits he takes with him. The shopkeeper thought he must be very poor, insisted on not accepting his drinks and made friends with him. The Taoist priest did not refuse, but accepted. One day, he drank with oranges. He drew a yellow crane on the wall of the hotel with orange peel and said to himself, "As soon as the drinkers clap their hands, the crane will fly down." There are curious drinkers in the shop who want to try it on the spot. Clap your hands at the picture on the wall. The yellow crane spread its wings and flew down, dancing outside the store and recovering. The matter spread quickly and the hotel business was booming. A local corrupt official tried to move the fence to the official residence under the pretext of exorcism. Who wants to fly away when the boat is halfway through? Corrupt officials chase cranes and are buried in the river. To commemorate the white crane, the old wine seller built the Yellow Crane Tower on the original site.
But the Yellow Crane Tower is not easy to build. According to legend, Lu Ban visited Chu from Lu and knew exactly how to build a building. He put a draft on his head and wanted to sell it to others in the market as a father. A poor man took Luban home. Every day, Lu Ban went up the mountain to cut wood. He chose a good piece of wood from the wood and cut it into bare wooden wedges for storage. The poor were puzzled and put a wooden wedge on the stove fire when cooking. Lu Ban sighed: "This is priceless and will be useful in the future." On the hundredth day, Lu Ban left a message: "If you put the goods for a thousand days, you will exchange money." Then leave. Three years later, the Yellow Crane Tower was built on Snake Mountain, but it was seriously tilted and was in danger of being destroyed. Wedged at one end and tilted at the other, the craftsmen were in a hurry. The poor cut one according to the wedge, made up a hundred, and put it away for sale. When the architect saw this treasure wedge, he liked it very much and spent a lot of money to buy it. Ninety-nine wedges were firmly wedged on the Yellow Crane Tower, and only the one cut by the poor man fell off. The Yellow Crane Tower is slightly tilted because it lacks a wedge, but it will be fine after a long time.
It's been a long time since the trip to the Yellow Crane Tower, but the legend of the Yellow Crane Tower is deeply engraved in my heart. Every time I think of it, I seem to understand more clearly that a person should be kind, appreciate the strengths of others, be open to things other than fame and fortune, not fight for things that don't belong to him, cherish what he has and never give up easily. Just like Li Bai, he dares to admit that he is inferior to others in some aspects. Although his poems about the Yellow Crane Tower are not very famous, do he still leave few excellent works?