Not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personal losses, I ascend to the height to overlook Dongting Lake

One of the four famous towers in China, Yueyang Tower, stands on the famous scenic spot by Dongting Lake in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, carrying a heavy historical accumulation and humanistic feelings. Yueyang Tower is located at the top of the west gate of Yueyang City, facing the vast Dongting Lake, capturing the beauty of the lake and mountains. Since ancient times, Yueyang Tower has been known far and wide for its magnificent lake view and rich cultural connotations. Built during the Three Kingdoms period, and repaired and rebuilt during the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, Yueyang Tower has become a gem of ancient Chinese tower architecture. The main building has three floors and four pillars, with flying eaves and corners, and a majestic momentum. Its unique 'helmet top' structure implies the meaning of ascending to see far and having high aspirations. Yueyang Tower has a profound cultural heritage, especially the 'Yueyang Tower Notes' written by Fan Zhongyan, a literary scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has made it famous. The famous sentence in the text, 'Not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personal losses; those who live in the high temple worry about their people, those who live far from the river and lake worry about their monarch', expresses the feelings of the literati worrying about the country and the people, and also gives Yueyang Tower a lofty spiritual symbol. Here is a quote from the original text: 'When it comes to spring and the scenery is bright, the waves are not shocked, the sky is up and down, and the green is ten thousand acres; the sand gulls fly together, the brocade scales swim; the shore is full of orchids, and the green is lush.' This description of the spring scenery of Dongting Lake can still evoke people's endless beautiful imagination of Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake.