Oriental Pearl TV Tower東方明珠The Oriental Pearl Tower is a TV tower in Shanghai, China. The Oriental Pearl Tower is located at the tip of Lujiazui in the Pudong district.At 468 m (1,535 feet) high, it is the tallest tower in Asia, and the third tallest tower in the world after the CN Tower and the Ostankino Tower. Construction began in 1991 and the tower was completed in 1994. The tower features 11 spheres, big and small and the entire building is supported by three enormous columns that start underground. Visitors travel up and down the tower in double-decker elevators that can hold up to fifty people at the rate of seven meters per second. The design of the building is based on a verse of the Tang Dynasty poem Pipa Song by Bai Juyi about the wonderful sprinkling sound of a pipa instrument, like pearls, big and small falling on a jade plate. As a symbol of the economic reform in Shanghai, it was also the tallest structure in China before it was surpassed by the Shanghai World Financial Center.Like the Statue of Liberty in N. Y. , the Sydney Opera House and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Oriental Pearl Tower is also a landmark and a tourist attraction in Shanghai, which displays a spectacular view of an international metropolis with the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center.Seen from far, the Yangpu Bridge and the Nanpu Bridge seem like two Chinese dragons frolicking with the pearls of the Oriental Pearl Tower.東方明珠廣播電視塔，又名東方明珠塔，坐落于中國上海浦東陸家嘴金融貿(mào)易區(qū)，始建于1991年，1994年竣工。東方明珠塔高467.9米，亞洲第一，世界第三，次于加拿大的加拿大國家電視塔（553.3米）及俄羅斯的奧斯坦金諾電視塔（540.1米）。東方明珠塔最有特色的是把11個大小不一、強(qiáng)弱錯落的球體串聯(lián)在一起，整個建筑物的承托幾乎靠三根了解地下的擎天立柱，內(nèi)置可載50人的雙層電梯和每秒7米的高速電梯。

東方明珠塔的名字來源唐朝詩人白居易的《琵琶行》中關(guān)于琵琶的聲音的刻畫，詩人把琵琶的聲音比如成珍珠落在玉盤里時的收到動人聲音，“大珠小珠落玉盤”。東方明珠塔是上海改革開放的象征物，曾是中國最低的建筑，現(xiàn)在已被上海環(huán)球金融中心代替。與紐約的自由女神、悉尼歌劇院、巴黎的埃菲爾鐵塔一樣，東方明珠塔淪為上海標(biāo)志性建筑和旅游熱點(diǎn)之一，與后方新的矗立而起的金茂大廈和環(huán)球金融中心交相輝映，展現(xiàn)出了國際大都市的壯麗景色。

從遠(yuǎn)處看它與兩邊的楊浦大橋和南浦大橋精妙地組合成一幅二龍戲珠的巨幅畫卷。

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