Cai Mulan
Brilliant sunshine lights up the mood of the day, and the warm spring breeze blows away the sorrows. In the spring of March, everything has begun to glow with vitality and vitality, which is the unique charm of spring. Nature gathers in this season, competing for beauty, very lively. In this lively season, there are indispensable people who step on the green. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of stepping on the green, and poets have also left many poems that sing about nature and praise life. We will launch "green destinations" from time to time, from the big spots to the park around you, hoping that whether it is the spring light or the "strange and cute love" flowers can bring you pleasure. "The late man resigned to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March." The short words of the poem Li Bai depict Yangzhou, which is full of flowers in March, evoking many people's reverie about the city. In the spring, you may wish to go to see the city and feel the fireworks in Yangzhou.
Yangzhou people are brilliant and talented, Du Mu left a poem "Ten years a dream of Yangzhou", one of the eight monsters of Yangzhou Zheng Banqiao's "life is rare and confused" is regarded by many people as a classic. The canals of the Spring and Autumn Period, the tomb of the Guangling King of the Han Dynasty, the daming temple of the ancient temple of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the labyrinth of the Sui Dynasty, the mausoleum of the Sui Emperor, the ruins of Tangcheng, the tomb of Puhadin in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Xianhe Temple, the Pingshan Hall and the buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions and gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, make the ancient city of Yangzhou radiate dazzling brilliance.
Slender West Lake
Shugang- Slender West Lake Scenic Area is a national key scenic spot based on the culture of the ancient city, featuring important historical and cultural relics and the classical garden group of Slender West Lake, closely related to the ancient city of Yangzhou, and is the core gathering place of Yangzhou's cultural, ecological and tourism resources, which is divided into Slender West Lake Scenic Area, Shugang Scenic Area, Tangzicheng Scenic Area, Beacon Mountain Scenic Area, and Luyang Village Scenic Area.
Slender West Lake Scenic Area is the core component of Shugang -Slender West Lake Scenic Area, and Slender West Lake is the representative of China's lake gardens. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, gardens were built one after another along the Slender West Lake, and until the Qing Dynasty, the kangxi and Qianlong emperors "toured the south" six times, forming a grand situation of "two banks of flowers and willows all by the water, all the way to the mountain".
In spring, the Slender West Lake is lined with green willows, and flowers and trees such as camellia, pomegranate, rhododendron and peach bloom, adding a lively color to the whole garden. For thousands of years, countless literati and inkers have chanted and painted here, and also left a lot of ink treasures and good stories for Slender West Lake. Wuting Bridge is the symbol of Slender West Lake, which has a history of more than 200 years. There are five wind pavilions built on the bridge, and every full moon night, each of the fifteen bridge holes under the five pavilions bridge contains a moon. The Twenty-Four Bridge is another famous scenic spot in the scenic spot, from Du Mu's poem "Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night, Where the Jade People Teach Blowing Pipes", the original bridge has ceased to exist, and now it is seen that it is a rebuilt bridge. It was also a must-visit place when the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty went down to Jiangnan, and the architectural landscapes such as the Great Hongqiao, Diaoyutai, White Pagoda, and XichunTai that you see today have left an allusion that is inseparable from the Qianlong Emperor.
Yangzhou Daming Temple
The famous Daming Temple stands majestically above the middle peak of Shugang. Daming Temple is named after the great ming dynasty of Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Dynasty. Historically, Daming Temple has suffered several disasters, and what we see now is the reconstruction during the Qing Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty Master Jian Zhen traveled to Japan, he preached the sutra at Daming Temple, making Daming Temple an important ancient temple in the history of Sino-Japanese Buddhist cultural relics relations.
Memorial Hall of Authenticity
Daming Temple consists of the main temple building in the central part, the Qiling Pagoda in the east, and the garden-style garden in the west. Along the way up the mountain, there are a number of memorial halls, pingshan hall built by Ouyang Xiu as Yangzhou too punctual, Gulin Hall built by Su Dongpo to commemorate Ouyang Xiu after the Pingshan Hall, and the important architectural Jian Zhen Memorial Hall of Daming Temple. Master Jian Zhen made six trips to the East and brought Chinese Buddhism and culture to Japan. Master Kanzen presided over the construction of Tang Zhaoti Temple in Nara, Japan, and died here, and the Jian Zhen Memorial Hall of Daming Temple was built in imitation of Tang ZhaoTi Temple. Opposite the memorial hall is the Jian Zhen Historical Museum, where you can learn more about the deeds of The Jian Zhen Master.
Ho Garden
Jiangnan out of the garden, especially known as suzhou garden. Yangzhou He Garden, together with the Beijing Summer Palace and the Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, was rated as the first batch of national key gardens, and it is still worth watching in Yangzhou.
He Garden, formerly known as Jixiao Mountain Villa, is the finale in Yangzhou's private garden. The He family is very closely related to several well-known figures in modern Chinese history. He was related to Li Hongzhang, the chancellor of Beiyang, and Sun Jianai, the teacher of the Guangxu Emperor, and was also related to another more famous teacher of the Guangxu Emperor, Weng Tonggong, and Zhang Zhidong, a prominent minister of the Qing court and a representative figure of the Western affairs faction.
In addition, the most distinctive and symbol of He Garden is the convenience of the garden and the architectural beauty of the loop change composed of the 1500-meter compound corridor that enjoys the reputation of "the first corridor in the world", which is unique in Chinese gardens, and industry experts call it the prototype of China's overpass. Contemporary Chinese ancient garden experts Tong Liao, Liu Dunzhen, Pan Guxi, Luo Zhewen, Chen Congzhou, etc. all praised He Yuan's unique gardening techniques, calling it "the only case in Jiangnan gardens". Mr. Luo Zhewen also specially wrote the inscription "The First Garden of the Late Qing Dynasty".
Dongguan Street
Dongguan Street is a historical witness to the development and evolution of Yangzhou City, and also the birthplace of Yangzhou canal culture and salt merchant culture, with a history of 1200 years. Dongguan Street east to the ancient canal, west to the National Day Road, its eastern end of the Dongguan Ancient Ferry in the Tang Dynasty is a more prosperous wharf in Yangzhou, with the dock developed a dense trade market Dongguan Street.
Today, Dongguan Street still brings together local traditional handicrafts, special snacks and long-established commercial brands. There are many "time-honored" merchants here, such as Simei Sauce Garden, which opened in 1817, Xie Fuchun Xiang powder shop, which opened in 1830, Pan Guanghe Hardware Store, which opened in 1862, Xia Guangsheng Tofu Shop, which opened in 1901, and Chen Tongxing Shoe Shop, which opened in 1909. In addition, there are many monuments on the street, such as Yipu and Wang's Xiaoyuan, Guangling Academy, Anding Academy, Yidong Xuetang, which were founded earlier in Yangzhou, and Wudang Palace in the Ming Dynasty and Zhunti Temple in the Ming Dynasty. Climbing to the city gate offers a panoramic view of Dongguan Street, and inside the city tower, the cultural history of Yangzhou and Dongguan Street is introduced in the form of an exhibition hall. Tour Dongguan Street and learn about its history, starting with the Dongmen Ruins is a good choice.
However, I think the most interesting place is in the alleys of Dongguan Street, where the aborigines still live, reflecting the most quaint and original old Yangzhou.
Yangzhou Double Museum
The Yangzhou Double Museum refers to the Yangzhou Museum and the Chinese Engraving and Printing Museum, and the two museums are built together. Yangzhou Museum is divided into exhibition halls, national treasure halls, sculpture art museums and calligraphy and painting halls. The National Treasure Museum only exhibits one cultural relic, but also the "treasure of the town hall" of the Yangzhou Museum, the Yuan Dynasty Ji blue glazed white dragon pattern plum bottle, the lustrous dark blue is the background color of the bottle, the pattern around the bottle is a lifelike white dragon, like this plum bottle in the world currently only three pieces, the other two are flawed, only the Yangzhou one is the most intact and largest. The Calligraphy and Painting Museum exhibits the famous authentic calligraphy and paintings of the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou, as well as the paintings of Zheng Banqiao.
Go to Yangzhou can not miss the morning tea, Yangzhou morning tea once made the Qianlong Emperor remember. What's more, Yangzhou food representatives are the first to promote morning tea. A pot of tea, two or three friends, a few plates of snacks, the beauty of the day begins with morning tea.
There are many shops in Yangzhou that eat breakfast, often called tea houses, and the long-established "Fuchun Tea Society" and "Yichun" are the most prestigious. There are many kinds of morning teas, each with its own characteristics. If you like to eat buns, you can't miss the three-ding buns. Three-diced buns are made of diced chicken, diced meat and diced bamboo shoots. The skin of the bun is thick and thin, and the steaming process absorbs the marinade of the filling, making the whole bun richer, salty and sweet, sweet and crisp.
Yangzhou soup buns
Yangzhou soup bun, made of fine powder, ribbed meat with bone marrow soup as the filling, with a variety of condiments, showing a fresh and soft taste.
Mille-feuille oil cake is a famous dish of Yangzhou with a long history, and jade roasted wheat is called the "Yangzhou Double Absolute" in the noodles, the mille-feuille oil cake is divided into 64 layers, the layers of sugar and oil are interspersed, and the entrance is soft and sweet.
Shrimp seed ravioli, Yangzhou wontons to eat red soup, lard and shrimp soy sauce are essential, wonton skin must be made of fine noodles plus egg white kneaded by alkaline water, filling mixed with shrimp seeds and sesame oil, the soup is the most praiseworthy, bone soup penetrates into the shrimp seeds wonton soup overflowing, food fingers.
Editor-in-Charge: Li Shuping
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