The breeze sings the Nanchuan Tower/A boat with bright moon passes Cangzhou

📍Attraction address:
220 meters south of the intersection of Diding Road and Jiefang Road, Cangzhou, Hebei

🚗 Transportation to attractions:
1.4 km walk to North China Commercial Building

👍️Must-see attractions:
Langyin Tower, Qingfeng Tower and Nanchuan Tower complement each other and are all together.

🌈Attractions:
The three famous towers in Cangzhou that have come from history have gone through the vicissitudes of time and stand tall in the Cangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal with a brand new look and quaint charm.
There is a poem saying:
It was a prosperous place in the Jin Dynasty, and now there is this building.
The evening clouds extend over the sea and the mountains, while the bright moon fills Cangzhou.
The returning birds fly by like clouds, and the flying stars brush against the tiles.
Autumn is coming to an end in the south of the city, and the lotus-picking boat is lonely.

A river flows for thousands of years, and the fireworks on both sides are endless.

There is also a mythological story about Langyin Tower. Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, once came to Cangzhou and asked for more than a thousand buckets of Cangzhou wine. After drinking it all, he rode away on a crane. Later generations built a tower for this reason and made a statue of Lü Dongbin inside.

Lü Dongbin once wrote a poem:
"I got drunk three times in Yueyang and no one recognized me, my reciting poems flew over Dongting Lake", so this building was named Langyin Building.

Many famous towers in history are famous for poetry and prose. Cangzhou Nanchuan Tower is famous all over the world for its salt and wine.

When you first left me, I broke some willow branches, and on our return sail I brought some Changlu wine with me.
Now I am returning to the south in early autumn, and I also buy some Cang wine and go to Cangzhou.

Cangjiu is famous all over the world, and its secret is hidden in the Grand Canal under Nanchuan Building. There is a hidden spring in the middle of the riverbed of this section of the canal. The spring water is clear and sweet. The wine brewed with this spring water is the finest Cang wine.

Riding on the favorable conditions of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, Nanchuan Tower and Langyin Tower reappeared on the bank of the canal.

The rebuilt Nanchuan Tower retains the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with carved beams and painted rafters, flying eaves and pointed corners, towering into the clouds. It is across the river from the Cangqu Book House on the ancient ferry of Nanchuan, and is also adjacent to the Langyin Tower and Qingfeng Tower to the north. The third floor is full of the city's colors, and the red and green fill the Whale River, making it a new landmark of Cangzhou culture.

🎟️Ticket related:
Free 🆓

💗Other tips:
You can enter the three buildings through the snack street

Post by Prof. Lelah Ledner | Mar 2, 2025

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