Jiangsu, east of the Yellow Sea, north of the Huai River, south of the Yangtze River, in the middle of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. There are many rivers and lakes in the territory, it is the province with the lowest average altitude in China, the proportion of plains and water surfaces ranks first in the country, the journey into Jiangsu begins from an island in the Yellow Sea, in the largest wetland on the Yellow Sea, encounters the beautiful red-crowned crane, and then travels south along the coastline to reach the mouth of the Yangtze River, recalling the past and present life of a port, Jiangsu in the east bordering the Yellow Sea, stretching 765 kilometers of coastline, scattered with 26 small islands, Qinshan Island, is one of the few offshore islands in Jiangsu, overlooked from the air, Qinshan Island is very much like a bubbled baby fish, thousands of years of sea erosion, the sea slowly swallowed the stone, but also slowly spit out this fish, the baby fish's small tail, is the legendary god road, due to the perennial erosion of the sea tide, the rocks on the island will collapse, collapsed rubble, under the influence of the sea water flow, gathered between the island shores, slowly forming the island dam, the tide is not in the sea, and the tide is clearly visible when the tide falls. The sea paved itself with a path to land.
The Jade Girl Peak of Huaguo Mountain, only 624.4 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in Jiangsu Province, and here, perhaps it is the starting point of Sun Wukong's one-rib bucket and turning over 108,000 miles. The birthplace of Wu Cheng'en, the author of the novel, is only more than 100 kilometers away from Huaguo Mountain. Water Curtain Cave, Eight Precepts Stone, Tang Monk Rock, a "Journey to the West", is the travel guide of Huaguo Mountain.

Lianyungang is the oriental bridgehead of the new Eurasian Land Bridge, an important node of sea-land intermodal transport, more than 50 sea container routes, which can be converted into railway transportation here, all the way west to Central Asia, West Asia, and the hinterland of Europe. The tidal flats are a unique creation of rivers and seas. 1/4 of the national coastal beach area is in Jiangsu. Jiangsu has 765 kilometers of coastline, and Yancheng Wetland covers 582 kilometers. The Yancheng Wetland is an important stop on the migratory bird routes of Northeast Asia and Australia. Nearly 3 million migratory birds stay here in spring and autumn every year. In this army of migratory birds, red-crowned cranes are always particularly prominent, and they will stay in the Yancheng wetlands for the winter. The red-crowned crane has no feathers on the top of its head, and under the bare skin, a large number of capillaries are gathered in scarlet color, hence the name of the red-crowned crane. Red-crowned cranes attract the opposite sex with their dances, and once they are married, they usually stay together for life. Red-crowned cranes are extremely sensitive to changes in the wetland environment, and this clean and open wetland provides a habitat for red-crowned cranes. Elk, also known as the "four unlikes", was once widely distributed in the swampy areas of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and due to human overhunting, by the end of the 18th century, only the Nanhaizi Royal Hunting Garden in Beijing remained, and there was the last group. In 1900, the last elk also disappeared in China, but a few were brought back to China by the British and survived and thrived there. In 1986, 39 elk were returned to China to make their home in Dafeng. At present, there are two elk sanctuaries in the country, more than 50 elk stocking sites, and the population is at least 4,000 or more. Nowadays, no matter which direction they run, they are on their way home.
Along the coastline all the way to the south, to the longevity of the hometown of Rugao, Rugao out of the history of life has a long history. The Chronicle of Rugao County records that the Qianlong Emperor invited more than 8,000 elderly people over the age of 60 from all over the country to the capital to participate in the "Feast of a Thousand Sorrows", two of whom were from Rugao. Today, rugao has more than 60,000 people over the age of 80, more than 8,600 people over the age of 90, and more than 400 centenarians.
Yinyang Town in Qidong is located in the southeast coast of Jiangsu, is a developed shipping town, the shipping industry has driven the development of shipbuilding industry, in the Qidong Donghai Industrial Park, there are dozens of shipbuilding enterprises. The first dual-use 50,000-ton semi-submersible vessel on the mainland has been built here, as well as a number of advanced suction dredgers and deep-sea drilling platforms. It is not only the manufacture of special ships and marine engineering equipment, but also an important container production base. A large number of brand new containers have arrived at the terminal and are about to be loaded into ships and will go to sea. Qidong, is a sediment accumulation of sediment plains, thousands of years ago, our ancestors were still difficult to set foot here, then here is still a vast ocean, a large amount of sediment carried by the Yangtze River, by the sea tide top and continuous sediment, gradually, the sandbar into a beach, plain, become today's Qidong. Qidong is also named after the meaning of "Qiwu Eastern Frontier". Yuantuojiao in Qidong, located at the easternmost tip of Jiangsu, is the mouth of the Yangtze River, all the way to the east, the Yangtze River, which flows for more than 6,300 kilometers, is integrated into the East China Sea from here.

Leaving the coastline and making the next stop for the river and lake, we headed to Zhenjiang to explore the history of the changing banks of the Yangtze River, fly over Tianmu Lake, and visit a pulp masonry arch dam. Fly east to Taihu Lake and explore the beautiful legends between the mountains and rivers.
More than 2,000 years ago, Zhenjiang was a coastal city, and the estuary of the Yangtze River at that time was like a trumpet, and Zhenjiang was located on the edge of the horn mouth. It is said that at that time, people could still see the sea when they climbed Beigu Mountain, and the Western Han Dynasty writer Mei Cheng once described the spectacular field when the river was flowing against the current and the tide was rising in one of his articles. Later, due to silt accumulation, the estuary gradually pushed eastward, and after thousands of years of evolution, the current estuary is more than 250 kilometers away from Zhenjiang. Jinshan Temple, according to legend, is the place where the White Lady and the Fahai monk Dou Fa were angry and flooded the Golden Mountain. There is a stone cave on the cliff wall on the lower side of the Cishou Pagoda of Jinshan Temple, and legend has it that Fahai lived in it and practiced hard after driving the pythons in the cave into the sea.
Continue south to Tianmu Lake in Liyang. Tianmu Lake is small and delicate, the waves are not alarming, surrounded by low hills, is a pleasant landscape landscape. The Pingqiao River is a tributary of Lake Tianmu, and before the 1960s, the Pingqiao River would be choppy and flooded during the rainy season. It was not until the emergence of barrage dams that the Pingqiao River began to be gentle and peaceful, and the Pingqiao Stone Dam is a pulp masonry arch dam made of countless large blocks of square stones cut, such a public welfare is more time-consuming and laborious than concrete dams. However, it can make full use of local resources. Take rocks from nearby mountains to build a dam. From the air, the stone dam is like the arch of the Zhaozhou Bridge, which is understood by the huge pressure from the storage capacity with its thin arch wall. In the upper reaches of Tianmu Lake, a pumped storage power station was built, which used excess electricity to pump water to the peak reservoir for storage when the power was at a low point. At peak times of electricity consumption, water is released to generate electricity.
TaibaiLou records the story of the poet Li Bai coming to Liyang three times. The Tang Dynasty was experiencing the Anshi Rebellion, hiding from the war, Li Bai did not find his old friend but accidentally met the famous calligrapher Zhang Xu, Shi Xian and Cao Sheng met, and drank in the Taibai Building.
Yixing is the ancient capital of tao, especially famous for the business card of purple sand. The mouth of Huanglong Mountain has now become a small pond; This is the pit left by the collection of purple sand mud in that year. Purple sand, the ancients called it rich soil, purple sand pot with craft and cultural relics value, the most expensive auction record reached 92 million yuan. Today, the sand mud has been restricted from mining, and the sand mud stored in the hands of purple sand artists can still be used for about 50 years.
The history of cherry blossom cultivation in Yuantouzhu, a peninsula that stretches out to Taihu Lake, dates back to the 1930s, when cherry blossoms on both sides of the Changchun Bridge were planted. In March 1988, more than 400 Japanese friends came to Yuantouzhu to plant 1,500 cherry blossom saplings with the citizens of Wuxi. Since then, more than 10,000 Japanese friends have come here to plant cherry blossoms.
Sanshan Island is another good scenery of Taihu Lake, Jiangsu has 290 lakes, the largest is Taihu Lake, an area of 2338 square kilometers of Taihu Lake, irrigating 12.9 million mu of arable land in the Taihu Lake area of southern Jiangsu.
The country's earliest film and television base is located on the shore of Taihu Lake, where the family and the world, the world, the world's sorrows and joys, through more than 600 film and television dramas spread. The unique shooting scenes have attracted a large number of tourists. Covered bridges, water villages, and the vast Taihu Lake are unique labels here.
Peeling down the introduction, we talk about surrounding Hanshan Temple and listening to the morning bell and twilight drum of the thousand-year-old temple. Travel through a city, admire the most representative private garden in Jiangnan, and then fly to Yangcheng Lake to catch a net of fat hairy crabs.
"City of Gardens" and "Venice of the East" are no longer enough to describe today's Suzhou. Suzhou has become the second largest immigrant city in the country after Shenzhen. New industries, new technologies, new styles, attract countless people with dreams.
The old name of Fengqiao Bridge is "Closed Bridge", which is named after the closure of this bridge at night and the prohibition of boat traffic. Hanshan Temple, by the Maple Bridge, has a history of more than 1,400 years. Myo Li Phu MinTa Temple was its original name. Hanshan Temple really became a household name because of a poem written by Zhang Ji, a Scholar of the Tang Dynasty, that has been passed down through the ages. "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, midnight bell to the passenger ship." Accompanied by the bells of this "Maple Bridge Night Berth" Miaoli Puming Pagoda Courtyard, it echoes the different poetry of Hanshan Temple. For thousands of years, the flourishing hundreds of industries in Jiangnan and the spiritual appeal of Chinese the unity of heaven and man have made these gardens.
The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in 1509 as the private garden of a former official of the Ming Dynasty. He invited Wen Zhengming, the most famous Jiangnan talent at that time, to participate in the design, and outlined the overall layout of the garden with the aesthetic taste of the literati. Most of the gardens in Suzhou are introduced into the garden. Pavilions through specially designed pavilions. Small bridges and corridors. Supplemented by elaborately laid flowers and trees and mountain stones, the downtown area creates a rich space of landscape idyllic gardens. Changing scenery step by step, comfortable and leisurely. Inside the simple courtyard wall, the owner's taste and feelings for the landscape and the homeland are hidden. Reed flowers are placed in rows of fragrant rice and willows.
The Peking opera "Shajiabang" once made this water a household name, and these crisscrossing networks of rivers and rivers nourish the land like capillaries. In ancient times, the Jiangnan region was low-lying and was once plagued by floods. A large number of artificial canals were excavated to solve the drainage problem. Since then, Jiangnan has been free of drought and flood, and the products are abundant.
Yangcheng Lake is famous for its abundant production of hairy crabs in Qingshui, and is connected to the water surface of about 180,000 mu of Yangcheng Lake, which is a table from all over the country. Every year, more than 1,000 tons of hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake become a good product for mid-autumn festival gifts. It is said that the difference in the quality of crabs is underwater. The best crab field in Yangcheng Lake is hard ground, and such a crab field has cultivated the tight muscles of hairy crabs.
Small bridges, flowing water, people... Zhouzhuang is a classic Jiangnan town. To this day, Zhouzhuang still preserves many ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties and an authentic water town lifestyle.
Kunqu opera, also known as Kunshan Cavity, originated in the 14th century in the South Wharf of Taicang, Suzhou, and is the oldest drama genre in China, known as the "ancestor of a hundred operas". Kunqu Quwen adheres to the literary tradition of Tang poetry, Song Ci and Yuan Qu, and reads Bai Ruya. The performance focuses on the clever combination of song and dance and body. There are strict specifications for every move. The gentle, delicate and distant "water mill cavity" in Kunqu opera is the elegant tone of Jiangnan. "Peony Pavilion" is a more famous masterpiece of Kunqu opera.
Head north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and encounter a city the same age as the ancient canal, heading to a swampy highland to see the water wonders transformed into deserted beaches. Then continue to fly northwest to Xuzhou to see the hometown of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao. Yangzhou is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In 486 BC, Wu Guo excavated hangou in Yangzhou as the predecessor of the Grand Canal. Later, the Grand Canal was continuously excavated and renovated, from Hangzhou to Beijing, and the section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which ran from north to south, was not really formed until 1293. The Grand Canal has brought thousands of years of prosperity to Yangzhou, and it is the only "Canal City" of the same age as the ancient canal.
Slender West Lake, located in the northwest suburbs of Yangzhou City, is a garden complex composed of a number of pavilions and pavilions. Most of these landscapes were funded by wealthy merchants who benefited from the Grand Canal. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was the first peak of the Slender West Lake, and in that year, the Qianlong Emperor visited the Slender West Lake many times under the Jiangnan.
Stacked fields are a kind of island farmland formed by digging up soil and stacking in low-lying swampy areas with lakes. Jiangsu has a lot of water, land is scarce, Xinghua ancestors, in the swamp area to dig ditches to take soil, one side of the piled up into a good field that can be cultivated. The stacked fields seem to float on the water, two or three acres of large, and only a few centimeters of the small ones. Because the space is too small, there are no cattle or plows here, and the farming is all manual. There are no roads and no bridges, and you can only come and go by boat.
Huai'an, the Huai River and the Grand Canal meet here. Located in the southern suburbs of the city, the Huai'an Water Conservancy Hub Project, which was completed in 2006, is a waterway interchange project. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Huai River inlet channel have achieved a three-dimensional intersection here. The entire project consists of more than 40 buildings. The main project interchange culvert. The upper channel is responsible for the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the south-to-north water diversion, and the culvert below is the inlet channel connecting the Huai River. It is a water overpass. Water can be redistributed on demand from the east, west, south and north directions. This is the intersection and handshake of two old and new projects 2,000 years apart.
Continuing to the northwest, it is the famous "hometown of emperors", Xuzhou has produced many founding emperors in history, and is the hometown of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao. Liu Bang was the governor of Surabaya pavilion during the Qin Dynasty, and he destroyed the Chu state in only four years and became emperor in seven years. One day in December 1984, at the foot of Lion Mountain, four kilometers east of Xuzhou, a brick and tile factory worker went down with a shovel and inadvertently shoveled open a funerary pit with painted terracotta warriors. Finally, near the cellar where a villager's family could store thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes, the tomb patio was found. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial tombs appeared in the shape of "chiseling mountains for mausoleums", and people chiseled the mountain and embedded the burial chambers into the abdomen of the mountain to a depth of 100 meters. It is speculated that the Lion Mountain Han Tomb is the mausoleum of a certain Chu king in the Western Han Dynasty.
Continuing our journey, we will arrive at the Purple Mountain, passing through the beautiful scenery of Zhong Lingyu. Wander through Xuanwu Lake and encounter the only remaining royal garden in Jiangnan. In the smoke and rain of Qinhuai, explore the leisurely past of this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Nanjing, together with Xi'an, Luoyang and Beijing, is known as the four ancient capitals of China. Xuanwu Lake was originally just a swampy wetland. During the Three Kingdoms period, water was introduced, and it became the later Xuanwu Lake. In 1391, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, stored the "Yellow Book" in the treasury of Xuanwu Lake, which became the state-level archive for the Ming Dynasty to manage household registration and servitude, and was listed as a royal forbidden place.
Among the Ming Dynasty mausoleums, Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiao mausoleum is the largest. On both sides of the Ming Tomb Shinto are symmetrically arranged 12 pairs of stone beast statues, with smooth and rounded lines and grandeur. Each statue is carved from a single boulder. One of the elephants can weigh up to 80 tons.
In traditional Chinese culture, plum blossoms are endowed with a noble, tenacious, and indomitable character. Nanjing people love plum blossoms, starting from the Six Dynasties, the plums of the Ming Xiaoling Tomb have just fallen, the spring plums of Meihua Mountain have bloomed again, and there are more than 360 kinds of plum blossoms on Plum Blossom Mountain that have been found in the world.
At the foot of purple mountain, there is an emerald necklace, which is made of sycamore trees on the road to the cemetery. It is said that there was no necklace design in the design plan at that time, which is just a fascinating coincidence.
Flying northeast along the sycamore-covered cemetery road is the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Located at the southern foot of Purple Mountain, Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is the mausoleum and memorial complex of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In 1925, the design of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum was open to the public at home and abroad for nearly four months. A total of more than 40 application patterns were received. In the end, the plane took the shape of a bell, and the plan with the meaning of "awakening the people" was selected.
The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is like a lying alarm bell. The music station in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum East, which was originally used for music performances for large-scale commemorative ceremonies, has now added a new function and has become a good place for music lovers to spend the summer gathering.
Flying over Nanjing's old town is like browsing through a history book. Stone City, park 333 BC, king of Chu Wei built Jinlingyi here. Jinling, is its original name.
The Ming City Wall of Nanjing, composed of four walls of Miyagi, Imperial City, Capital City and Waiguo City, is a complete defense system. The urn city of Zhonghua Gate was set inside the city gate and was pioneered by the Ming Dynasty. The Nanjing Ming City Wall was built in 1366, using hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, and took 28 years to complete. The bricks used in the construction of the city were fired with the participation of the Ministry of Works, the Army GuardHouse and the 37th Province. From the supervisor down to the ordinary craftsman, he needs to leave a name on the brick. This could have been the quality control and accountability system at that time. Just over 20 years after the completion of the Ming City Wall, zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing. For more than 600 years, the Ming City Wall in Nanjing suffered from wind and rain. Today, its military defense value is no longer important, but history has endowed it with precious cultural and cultural value.
Qinhuai River, the mother river of Nanjing. The north bank of the Qinhuai River was once a place where the literati and scholars of Jiangnan gathered for entertainment activities.
Nanjing Confucius Temple, a place dedicated to Confucius, is one of the four major Confucian temples in China. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was the cultural and educational center of Nanjing, and there was a model of a glass pagoda in the city, which was based on the glass pagoda of Nanjing Dabao'en Temple. At that time, the glass tower was beautiful throughout the glass. It is a pity that it was destroyed by the war during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The predecessor of Dabao'en Temple can be traced back to the Jianchu Temple of the Eastern Wu Dynasty. In the thousands of years since, Baosha has been damaged many times. In 1412, Zhu Di ordered the reconstruction of the new temple on the ruins destroyed by the fire, and named it Dabao'en Temple in return for the nurturing grace of Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma.
The Lantern Festival is a traditional folk custom in Nanjing that has been continued for thousands of years. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, the city of Nanjing appeared in the important festivals, the phenomenon of zhang lanterns, the lanterns at that time were mostly made of brocade, the cost was high, and those who could afford the lanterns were limited to the court and a few rich and noble families. By the Southern Dynasty 200 years later, papermaking technology developed rapidly, and low-cost paper replaced silk fabrics and were widely used, and the art of illumination was able to develop rapidly to the folk.
In this brand new building, a new repertoire is being staged. The shape of the building is like a lotus leaf dragging water droplets, it has a good meaning, called "water rhyme Jiangsu".
Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, built in 1968. It is the first major river on the Yangtze River to be built by Chinese himself. Its completion was widely and persistently publicized, and it was the most dazzling construction achievement of that period.
Today, there are 13 Yangtze River bridges on the nearly 400-kilometer Yangtze River that flows through Jiangsu. Under the bridge, the yangtze river is still contributing new kinetic energy to Jiangsu.
Reference to Aerial Photography China Season 2