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Tengwang Pavilion, located in Yanjiang Road, Donghu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, is located on the east bank of Ganjiang River and at the intersection of Ganjiang River and Fuhe River. It is a landmark building in Nanchang City and a symbol of Yuzhang ancient civilization. Built in the fourth year of Yonghui of the Tang Dynasty (653), it was built by Li yuanying, the younger brother of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, when he was the governor of Hongzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. The existing building was rebuilt in 1985. It is famous for the Preface to Tengwang Pavilion written by Wang Bo, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. It is one of the four famous buildings in ancient China, together with Yueyang Yueyang Tower in Hunan Province and Wuhan Yellow Crane Tower in Hubei Province, known as the Three Famous Buildings in the South.