This is a comfortable city, but also a city that makes countless tourists linger, here there are tourists dreaming of the place of robes, but also it is an ancient city with a long history and deep cultural heritage, it once had a rare prosperous era in history, there is also today's slow pace of life, more comparable to the city scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou, there are also local cuisines comparable to Chengdu, it is: Yangzhou.
Yangzhou, Jiangsu, it is the confluence of the Huai River and the Yangtze River, the Once Beautiful Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the city, and it also connects the north and south of the motherland. Yangzhou's four-season climate and the phrase "fireworks in Yangzhou in March" make the world remember this ancient city that makes people dream. The city of Yangzhou, which originated during the Zhou Dynasty, can be said to be a city that synchronizes with the entire prosperous history of China.
As early as the ancient period of Yangzhou City, in the past five thousand years of feudal history, it has had three most brilliant and prosperous eras, starting from the earliest Han Dynasty to the later Tang and Song Dynasties, until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, three different prosperous eras. In China's five-thousand-year feudal history, Yangzhou has seen the prosperity of the world and is a unique city with more than a thousand faces.
The "slowness" of the city of Yangzhou is a unique existence in the world. The early morning Yangzhou City and yangzhou people are awakened by authentic Yangzhou cuisine. When the people who stay up at night are still dreaming, the tea houses in the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City have begun to slowly become lively, and the early Yangzhou people have entered the tea houses and ordered the four-piece set that belongs to Yangzhou people, three buns, hot dry silk, small dumplings, and a pot of tea, which is the beginning of the day of the old Yangzhou people.
Chengdu people in the food capital love to drink tea and play mahjong, while Yangzhou people like to listen to opera. The old Yangzhou people lament the past life in the opera, feel the unique slow time of Yangzhou in the opera, and experience the unique feelings and romantic feelings of Yangzhou City, Yangzhou is always a city that people have to slow down. Yangzhou people are not only born to eat, but also born with a skillful mind, from paper cutting, bamboo carving, lacquerware, brushes, jade carving, etc. can see the figure of Yangzhou craftsmen.
Yangzhou not only has the quaint urban charm and humanistic feelings of a thousand-year-old city, but also today's Yangzhou has the lights and greenery of a modern city. In the alleys of Yangzhou City, locals everywhere drink tea, play cards, play chess, and at the same time, they can be seen everywhere in Yangzhou's bustling commercial districts: high-rise buildings, bars, cafes, KTV, etc. all show the elements of the big city to the fullest.
In Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, there is a beautiful name: garden culture. Since the ancient Yangzhou garden world famous, as early as the early morning dynasty in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions there is a folk saying: Yangzhou is famous for garden pavilions, Hangzhou is famous for Lakes and Mountains, Suzhou is famous for the city, and the three cities have formed a three-legged urban style characteristic in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
In Yangzhou, there is the famous "Slender West Lake", in the park people can see the famous Slender West Lake 24 scenery, here is the most beautiful, the most architectural representative: Wuting Bridge. There are also rich people's private garden "Geyuan" on the rich side, although the whole yard is not particularly large, but the people who can enter and leave here at that time are not rich or expensive, which shows the attitude of the rich people in contemporary Yangzhou to life.
Yangzhou in Jiangsu and Chengdu in Sichuan are UNESCO-designated cities of China's gastronomy capital, spicy is the label of Chengdu cuisine, and light and elegant is the soul of Yangzhou cuisine. Yangzhou cuisine pays more attention to the original taste of the dish, and also pays more attention to the delicacy of the knife work, the method is cumbersome but the taste shape is light and indifferent.
In Yangzhou folk there is a saying: in the morning leather bag water, evening water foreskin, the old Yangzhou people from the morning a pot of morning tea to start a new day of life, to the night is from the bath, pedicure in the comfortable sleep to wait for tomorrow's sunrise.