Dēng Guàn què Lóu yuǎn tiào, fǎngfú kànjiàn Huánghérùhǎiliú.
Climbing the Stork Tower and gazing out, one seems to see the Yellow River flowing to the sea.
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From the High-Tang poet 王之涣's 登鹳雀楼 ('Climbing the Stork Tower'): 白日依山尽，黄河入海流。欲穷千里目，更上一层楼. The Stork Tower stood at Puzhou in Shanxi, facing the Yellow River. From the view atop the tower the poem draws the lesson 'to see farther, climb higher', a model five-character quatrain.
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Geographically the Stork Tower could not actually see the river's mouth (the Yellow River reaches the sea at Dongying in Shandong); this is the poet's imagination. Commonly quoted together with 白日依山尽 and 更上一层楼.
