Long long ago, there was an aged man with gray hair and long beard who rode a yellow crane, flying slowly to fall down on the top of Mount Snake. All the farmers, old and young, chatting and playing on the hillside with rocky ground were surprised to look at the stranger. One of boys stepped forward to ask him “Who are you? Where are you from? " Listening carefully to the boy, touching his beard, the aged stranger answered: "My name is Wang Zi-an [King’s Son-safety], my hometown is over there" he pointed out to the blue sky, and rode on the crane’s back again to fly lightly to the heaven. The Yellow Crane was fluttering higher and higher, passing through the thin mist and thick cloud and vanishing in the remote dome of the sky. An old farmer said: "there are only the cranes in white, in gray or the red-crowned cranes we have seen in our human world, but no crane in yellow. I’m sure the yellow must be a fairy crane." And then a mid-aged man said: "What we have seen is a strange event, and we should build a pavilion to commemorate what happened to us." "Sure!" everyone agreed with him. Afterwards, the Yellow Crane Tower was established at the top of Mount Snake. That’s the tower’s origin.

At first, it was to be built in 223 (during the period of the Three Kingdoms, China) at the top of Mt Snake lying near the southern Yangtze riverside, in the east part of Wuchang, Wuhan municipality where the Chinese greatest river and the most important railway line cross each other. However, the most famous tower had been burnt and rebuilt for seven times. The present Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt and established completely in 1985. It covers 15 hectares (more than 100 Chinese Mu). The whole park area is divided into four parts named the east, the west, the south, and the north. In the east part, the exhibition halls are used to display the story of the Chinese national hero Yue Fei (1103-1142), the west part is the main body of the whole scenic area where the tower stands up. The north area is full of the azalea, bamboo, pine and the like as a plant park. And in the south area stand a lot of steles with carved inscriptions written by famous scholars, writers and poets such as Li Po (701-762), Cui Hao (695?-754) and Lu Youh (1125-1210)