The Stork Tower at Yongji, and the Tower in the Poem
The tower a Tang poem made famous, the concrete tower standing at Yongji now, and what the gap between the two of them does to the view.
Stork Tower
The Stork Tower stands at Puzhou town in Yongji, on the Yellow River near the old Pujin ferry, and is named for the storks that used to rest on it. With the Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower and the Pavilion of Prince Teng it is counted among the four great towers of China, and it is the only one of the four north of the Yellow River. The first tower was raised in the Northern Zhou as a military watchtower; it lasted through the Tang and Song, about seven hundred years, and was destroyed in 1222. What visitors climb now is a reconstruction opened in 2002.