Taibai Tower

 

 

Taibai Tower is located in the west side of Taiping Ancient Bridge. The tourists could go upstairs to look at the landscape of west part of city and the charm of tower and bridge. In this tower there is a Xinan Stele Garden, many famous calligraphic inscription stones are preserved in it. Taibai Tower is situated on the way to Huangshan Mountain and Thousand-isle Lake. Taibai Tower is a double-storey building with the exemplified traditional architectural style. It is said that in the prosperous time of Tang Dynasty, the great romantic poet Li Po visited Xu Xuanping, who was a hermit in Shexian County, but they missed each other on the riverbank of Lianjiang River. So the later people specially built this tower at the location where Li Po drunk wine. And they named this tower as Taibai Tower, because Taibai was another name of Li Po.