Yellow Crane Tower, located on Snake Hill in Wuchang, is one of the "Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River (the other two: Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Tengwang Tower in Jiangxi). 與湖南的嶽陽樓，江西的滕王閣並稱為“江南三大名樓”
Legend has it that in Wuchang, there used to be a wine shop opened by a young man named Xin. One day, a Taoist priest, in gratitude for free wine, drew a magic crane on the wall of the shop and instructed it to dance whenever it heard clapping. Thousands of people came to see the spectacle and the wine shop was always full of guests. After 10 years, the Taoist priest revisited the wine shop. He played the flute and then rode on the crane to the sky. In memory of the supernatural encounter and the priest, the Xins built a tower and named it Yellow Crane Tower.
黃鶴樓這個美麗的名稱來自壹段美麗的神化傳說。
很久以前，有壹個姓辛的人在黃鵠山頭賣酒度日。壹天，有位衣衫襤褸的老道蹣跚而來，向他討酒喝，辛氏慷慨答應。老道非常感激辛氏，於是在酒店畫壹幅鶴。老道對辛氏說：只要妳拍手相招，黃鶴便會下來，為酒客跳舞助興。消息傳開後，吸引了武漢三鎮的老百姓和遠近的遊人，都來店中看黃鶴起舞。從此酒店生意興隆。十年後的壹天，老道又出現在酒店，吹起鐵笛，馬上黃鶴飛走了。為幾年這個奇異的相逢，辛氏建了壹個塔並叫它黃鶴樓。
According to records, the tower was first built in 223 A.D during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). After completion, the tower served as a gathering place for celebrities and poets to party and compose poetry. It was estimated that up to the Tongzhi Reign of the Qing dynasty, as many as 300 poems about the tower had been found in historical literature. Cui Hao, a famous poet during the Tang dynasty (618-907), made the tower well known throughout China with his poem "Yellow Crane Tower".
根據記載，黃鶴樓始建於公元223年，歷經三國時期（220-280）。竣工後，這裏成為名人和詩人作詩和聚會的集會場所。據估計,到清代鹹同年間統治期間,在歷史文獻中以找到多達300首關於黃鶴樓的詩。崔顥，壹位唐代（618-907）著名的詩人，作了壹首詩叫《黃鶴樓》從此使黃鶴樓聞名於世。
Destroyed many times in successive dynasties, the tower was rebuilt time and again until 100 years ago when it was, for the last time, reduced to ashes.化為灰燼 The present tower is a complete reconstruction and is the result of four years of work beginning in 1981. Where the old tower was only 15 meters wide, the ground floor of the new structure was increased to 20 meters wide. The tower, 51.4 meters high, is five-storied with yellow tiles and red pillars, overlapping ridges and interlocking eaves, more magnificent than the old one.
The new Yellow Crane Tower is regarded as the symbol of Wuhan city.