Introduction of Lion Building attractions:
Lion Building is located in the central cross street of the old city of yanggu county. According to Jin Ping Mei and Water Margin, it was originally named "Lion Bridge Restaurant" and "Lion Street Bridge Restaurant", which was the place where Song Wu killed Ximen Qing, and later called Lion Building. Without the test of the age of creation. Originally a two-story earth building, it was converted into a two-story brick-wood structure antique building in 1958, with five floors up and down, with a total height of 15.5 meters.
In 1983, Chen Congzhou, a professor of Tongji University and a famous expert on ancient architecture, directed the design, and the ancient architecture team in Qufu, Shandong Province rebuilt the Lion Building, which was fully completed in 1984. The reconstructed Lion Building is a Song Dynasty building with five bays on the second floor and three depths, with a building area of 45 1 m2 and a height of15.8m.. The building sits west to east, with blue bricks and gray tiles, cornices and arches, carved beams and painted buildings, which are magnificent. Mao Dun, a famous writer, personally inscribed the plaque of "Lion Building". There are four pairs of stone lions in front of the building, including several murals of Water Margin and eight statues of water margin figures, which are lifelike and lifelike. This building is famous for the story that Ximen Qing was killed by the Chinese and British heroes in Water Margin, and tourists come here in an endless stream every day. Contemporary cultural and academic celebrities such as Shen Yanbing, Liu Haisu, Li Kuchan and Gu Jiegang have all written poems.