- Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
- favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
- Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'
- one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi