Yangzhou is referred to as Yang, known as Jiangdu and Guangling in ancient times, and is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province. The total area of the city is 6591 square kilometers, with jurisdiction over 3 municipal districts, 1 county, and 2 county-level cities. Yangzhou was born because of the canal, prospered because of the canal, and the history of the city is more than 2500 years.

(1) Yangzhou is one of the first 24 national historical and cultural cities.
(2) Yangzhou was the capital of Yang Wu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty for a short period of time; in addition, the capital of the State of Han was likely to be in the ruins of the ancient city of Shugang.
(3) King Huai of Chu built Guangling City on the site of Hancheng in 319 BC, which is the beginning of the name of Guangling.
(4) Yangzhou during the Two Han Dynasties was called Guangling, but it did not belong to the Yangzhou Thorn History Department, but belonged to the Xuzhou Thorn History Department.
(5) Liu Xijun, the first princess in Chinese history to leave a name, was a native of Guangling Commandery (present-day Yangzhou) in the Western Han Dynasty; Liu Xijun first married Kun Mo, the king of Wusun, and then married his grandson Cen Junsu Jing.
(6) Nanjing was called "Yangzhou" for more than three hundred years in history, until the ninth year of Emperor Wen of Sui (589), yangzhou of the Chen Dynasty was changed to Jiang Prefecture, Wuzhou was changed to Yangzhou, and the historical Yangzhou and today's Yangzhou had a geographical relationship; after the ninth year (626) of Tang Gaozu Wude, the name "Yangzhou" no longer had anything to do with today's Nanjing.
(7) The main purpose of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Sanxia Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou City) was not to admire the beautiful women of Qionghua, but to soothe the south, consolidate the rear, and achieve "great causes".
(8) The Sui Emperor was strangled to death in Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou) by Yu Wenhua and his men in the twelfth year of Daye (616); the tomb of the Sui Emperor was in the Hanjiang District of present-day Yangzhou City, and it is more coincidental that the project leader of the developer who excavated the tomb of the Sui Emperor was named Yang Yong, who had the same name as the brother of the Sui Emperor.
(9) The English name Yangtze of the Yangtze River originates from the Yangtze Jin Ferry Port established in the southern part of Yangzhou in the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran's "Yangzi JinWangjingkou" describes him standing in Yangzijin overlooking the south bank of Jingkou (present-day Zhenjiang City).
(10) Luo Binwang, one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, wrote the famous "Discussion of Wu Wu Shuo" in Yangzhou in the first year of Wu Zeguang's residence (684), of course, people are most familiar with his "Wing Goose".
(11) Zhang Ruoxuan, one of the four warriors of Wuzhong, was a native of Yangzhou, and his famous poem "Spring River Flower Moon Night" was evaluated by Wen Yiduo as "a poem in poetry, the peak of the peak, and a single piece overwhelmed the whole Tang Dynasty"
(12) In the fifteenth year of The Founding of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (727), Li Bai of Jiuyin Anlu (Who Chewed on the Old Man) wrote the most beautiful advertising slogan for Yangzhou when he bid farewell to Meng Haoran, "Fireworks in March under Yangzhou".
(13) Yangzhou is known as the City of the Moon stems from Xu Ning's poem "The world is divided into three distinct moonlit nights, and the two rogues are Yangzhou", but Xu Ning's "Remembering Yangzhou" is ostensibly reminiscing about a city, but in essence it is missing a person.
(14) The martial arts masters of the Tang poetry circle, Bai Juyi of the "Poetry King" and Liu Yuxi of the "Poetry Hero", met in Yangzhou in the second year of the Tang Jingzong Bao calendar (826), and the two of them pitied each other with the same illness and sympathized with each other to meet friends with poetry, and Liu Yuxi wrote the famous article "Reward Lotte Yangzhou First Meeting at the Banquet". Does the phrase "a thousand sails on the side of the sinking boat pass, and the sick tree in front of the head of the ten thousand wood spring" appear in your middle school essay?
(15) The Twenty-Four Bridges are famous for Du Mu's "Sending Yangzhou Han Shu Judges", and it is not known whether the Twenty-Four Bridges are twenty-four bridges or one bridge; the rebuilt Twenty-Four Bridges are single-hole arch bridges in Hanjiang District, with a length of 24 meters, a width of 2.4 meters, 24 columns and 24 steps.
(16) "Yangzhou Skinny Horse" has nothing to do with horses, and this name comes from Bai Juyi's poem "Mo Raises Thin Foals".
(17) The allusion to Nanke's dream takes place in Yangzhou, and the protagonist Nanke Taishou Chun Yu had a dream next to the locust tree; it is said that the locust tree is the Tang locust in Huoling Lane in Guangling District, which is also the second ancient tree in Yangzhou.
(18) The ancestor of the Japanese Vinaya and the inventor of Japanese architecture and medicine, Jian Zhen was a native of Jiangyang County (present-day Yangzhou City), Yangzhou, who set out from Yangzhou to cross to Japan; it is said that the practice of tofu was also transmitted from China to Japan.
(19) Yangzhou in the late Tang Dynasty became the most prosperous industrial and commercial city in the country, with an economic status surpassing the capital chang'an and the eastern capital Luoyang, and was known as "the world's grand yang as the head" and "Yang Yi Yi Yi Two".
(20) Yangzhou was the first city in Jiangnan to stubbornly resist the Qing army; Shi Kefa led the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou to rise up against the Qing army, triggering the slaughter of Yangzhou, and the "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" recorded that more than 800,000 people were killed and injured.
(21) The World's Earliest And Longest Canal, the Grand Canal of China, originated in Yangzhou; Wu Wangfuchai built the city of Hancheng in 486 BC and opened the Hangou Ditch, which was the beginning of the Grand Canal.
(22) Yangzhou, the first city of China's canals, is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
(23) The Secretariat of the World Canal Historical and Cultural Cities Cooperation Organization (WCCO) is permanently located in Yangzhou.
(24) Yangzhou is one of the most representative Jiangnan cities in Jiangnan, but it is north of the Yangtze River.
(25) Slender West Lake is originally a river, "the world's West Lake thirty-six, the unique Slender West Lake".
(26) The place where Wang Anshi moored his boat - Guazhou Ancient Ferry was in Hanjiang District, where Wang Anshi wrote "Mooring Boat Guazhou".
(27) The "code" on the Yangzhou Royal Pier Stele has been removed from the stone characters because there can be no obstacles under the emperor's feet, and the Royal Wharf is now the starting point for visiting slender West Lake.
(28) Yangzhou Xianhe Temple, one of the four major mosques in China, is in Guangling District.
(29) One of the top ten famous gardens in China is in Guangling District.
(30) The first garden of the late Qing Dynasty - He Garden is in Guangling District.
(31) Wu Daotai, one of the three major mansions in Jiangnan, is in Guangling District, and the total number of houses is known as 99 and a half.
(32) The only village in China named after the ancient Persian state (present-day Iran) is in Jiangdu District, and there are dozens of descendants of Persian merchants living in the village, all surnamed Nai (佴).
(33) Zhu Ziqing claimed to be a native of Yangzhou, but in fact he was born in Haizhou, Jiangsu (present-day Donghai County, Lianyungang City), and lived in Yangzhou for only 16 years from 1901 to 1917. ”
(34) The highest award in China's prose industry, the "Zhu Ziqing Prose Award", is permanently awarded in Yangzhou.
(35) China's first foreign celebrity memorial hall, the Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall, is located in Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City.
(36) The first rich district in Yangzhou, Shugang, is in Hanjiang District; Shugang has nothing to do with Shudi or Sichuan, and the ancient pronunciation of "Shu" is the same as "du", and "Shugang" is "dugang".
(37) The country's first tower-bridge integrated landscape bridge - Wanfu Bridge is in Guangling District.
(38) Yangzhou City Flower - Qionghua is no longer the ancient Yangzhou Qionghua, but the eight immortals.
(39) The first banquet in China, the Manchu Han Full Seat, was born in Yangzhou, and the Manchu Han Full Seat had a total of 108 dishes; during the Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour, the two Huai Tour Salt Yushi Cao Yin (Cao Xueqin's grandfather) took over the carriage four times in Yangzhou, and the Manchu Han Full Seat was set up.
(40) Yangzhou is the world capital of cuisine, the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine, the more famous are boiled dried silk, lion's head, three buns, crab yellow soup buns, emerald roasted wheat, brine goose, Yangchun noodles, spring rolls, Yangzhou fried rice and so on.
After reading these 40 cold knowledge in Yangzhou, do you understand Yangzhou? In addition to these, what else do you know about Yangzhou?
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