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.
