Yueyang is famous for
岳阳楼, one of the 'three great towers south of the Yangtze'. The Song-dynasty prose
《岳阳楼记》 by
范仲淹, with its famous line
先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐 ('worry before the world worries, rejoice only after it rejoices'), is a staple of every Chinese high-school textbook.
