Dragon City Canal Mi Zhiyin
Changzhou, also known as Dragon City, is an ancient cultural city with a history of more than 3,200 years, with a water network and dense rivers, and flowing Grand Canals, like blue streamers embedded in the splendid land of Dragon City.
In 495 BC, Wu Wangfu sent to dig the "Hangou", from the Wangting to Changzhou through Wuxi to run cattle, and the people of Changzhou began to build a city along the canal. At that time, Yu Boya also sailed up along this river and found Zhongzi period. The words of the mountains and flowing water have made a good story for thousands of years.
Map of the ancient Yanling Canal
In Changzhou in history, the canal passed through the city, and the city spread along the main axis of the canal, and this shape was unique on the Grand Canal. Built by the river and prosperous because of the river, it is the main reason for the prosperity of Changzhou City for more than 2,500 years. After the Yuan Dynasty, the canal moved south three times, forming the current "three rivers and four cities" style of "building cities by the river, moving with the city with the river, and setting the river city".
"Ancient Transport Looking Back Map" Changzhou section of the canal
In this small bridge flowing water and the Jiangnan water town of the pillow river, there are also many scribes and celebrities who have formed an indissoluble bond with the Changzhou Canal. The famous poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Lu Tortoise Meng, Pi Rixiu, Du Mu, Li Shen, etc., all sailed on the river, carrying wine and poems, and recorded the water and mountains of the year and the water town scene of "Biye Tian Fan Fishing Peng".
In the second year of Yuanfeng of the Northern Song Dynasty (1079), Su Shi, a generation of literary heroes, was imprisoned for the "Wutai Poetry Case". Throughout his extremely bumpy life, he traveled to more than ten provinces and dozens of places, but almost every place was sent or degraded by the imperial court, and only to settle in Changzhou was Su Shi's only voluntary choice. Especially more than a month before his death, Su Shishu spat out his heartfelt words: "Now and quickly return to Biling, talk about self-rest, this is me!" It shows Su Shi's lingering love for this land.
Dongpo Park
The excavation of the canal runs through the east and west of Changzhou, and is also the boundary between the waters of the Yangtze River and the waters of Taihu Lake, and the sect of all rivers. In this way, Changzhou is well connected with other regions, forming a water transportation network from the Yangtze River to the canal in the north, Yixing, Liyang and Jintan from the south canal to the south, and Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai in the southeast.
Changzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the Qing Dynasty
The canal highlights Changzhou's "water" advantages and drives Changzhou's economic development. The traditional rice, bean, salt, silk and wood industries, which are the backbone of Changzhou's economy, have seized the opportunity to achieve revival and development. Various provocative and provocative industries engaged in the connection of land and water came into being, expanding the economic category, while the banking, pawnbroking, insurance and medical industries that treat diseases and save people have also become larger and larger, providing guarantees for the development of traditional industries. Especially rice, although Changzhou does not have a wide jurisdiction, but the abundant Changzhou rice smells fragrant, soft and delicious, which has won the praise of people from the south and north, and the fame has spread, and the rice industry has also flourished, and merchants have come to Changzhou to start a rice business.
Changzhou is a city built along the river, prosperous because of the river, and its economic and social development has formed distinctive canal characteristics. Today, Changzhou Canal is also becoming a tourist landscape corridor integrating scenic spots and historical and cultural landscapes.
Review丨Chen Rui
Executive producer丨 Fan Yizi
Coordinator丨Luo Jingyue Yan Naiyi
Responsible editor丨Luo Jingyue
Copywriter丨Zhang Xiaoguang
Art design丨Yang Hua
Proofreader丨Meng Jing
References丨"Changzhou and the Grand Canal are connected by flesh and bone", "Six Thousand Miles Canal, 21 cities", "History of Changzhou Canal", "Past and present life of Changzhou Canal"
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