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Chapter 54: Cross-Century Grievances I

Yangzhou Slender West Lake, a scenic spot in country C, is located in the northwest of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and is named after the slender lake. The slender and winding lake road, strung with the spring willows of the long causeway, is the famous beauty of the Slender West Lake. The surface of the lake twists and turns, stretching and stretching, like the belt of a goddess, charming and moving. Walking along the shore, the slender West Lake is like a natural Chinese painting scroll.

Slender West Lake] garden is famous for its beautiful natural scenery. At four o'clock and eight festivals, the wind and the moon and the evening make the Slender West Lake transform into infinite natural fun. The rich history and culture make the Slender West Lake like a mellow wine, often look at the new, taste it, and have an endless aftertaste. Slender West Lake is a famous lake garden in our country, with a slender and tortuous lake road, strung with the long causeway spring willows, lotus pu lavender wind, four bridges of smoke and rain, Xu Garden, Xiaojin Mountain, blowing platform, water cloud shengji, Wuting Bridge, white tower clear clouds, 24 bridges scenic spot, stone wall flowing murmur, spring stream painting boat, 10,000 pine stacked cui, 24 bridges scenic spot and other scenic spots, just like a natural Chinese painting scroll. After years of construction, the scenic spots of Slender West Lake have become particularly charming and colorful. On the boating lake, the beautiful scenery along the coast is overwhelming, which makes people overwhelmed and fascinated.

"Yangzhou is good, the first is Hongqiao. The willows are green and rainy, the cherry red is broken, and the orchids are stationed everywhere. "This is the famous Hongqiao in the history of Yangzhou. The beautiful scenery of Hongqiao has attracted many literati and scholars to guide the country here. Discuss poetry. There are many precious inkblots and touching stories left behind. During the Kangxi period, Wang Yuyang had a song: "The red bridge flies across the water." The word railing is nine curved red; At noon, the painting boat bridge passed by, and the figure of the clothed person was too hurried. It is even more popular, and even Emperor Qianlong once wrote a poem to praise the scenery of Hongqiao.

If Slender West Lake is compared to a classical beauty, it was Hongqiao who lifted her hijab; If Slender West Lake is compared to a long drama, it was Hongqiao who opened the curtain on her. Let's start from Hongqiao and enjoy the beautiful scenery of "two embankments of flowers and willows all by the water, all the way to the mountain".

Yangzhou Slender West Lake Hot Spring is located on the shore of the picturesque Slender West Lake, across the air from Wan Huayuan. The resort covers an area of 130,000 square meters. There are 68 hot spring pools with different forms and functions, which are divided into public areas and private areas, and the public areas are divided into a number of theme spaces with different characteristics, such as lakes and streams, rockery waterfalls, small bridges and flowing water, pavilions and pavilions, bamboo forest paths and hot spring pools.

If the slender West Lake is compared to a graceful girl, then Wuting Bridge is the gorgeous belt on the girl's body. Wuting Bridge is not only the symbol of Slender West Lake, but also the symbol of Yangzhou City. It was built in the 22nd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 200 years. There are five wind pavilions with great southern characteristics built on the Wuting Bridge, and the tall and beautiful wind pavilions are like five lotus flowers rising out of the water. There is a treasure roof on the pavilion, and the ceiling is painted in the pavilion. Wind chimes hang outside the pavilion. The piers of Wuting Bridge are made of 12 large pieces of bluestone, forming a thick and powerful "work" shaped bridge abutment. The delicate bridge body and the bridge foundation of Shen Xiong. How can the two be configured in such harmony? The answer lies in the bridge cave. The bridge body of Wuting Bridge is composed of rolling holes of different sizes and shapes. The ethereal vault roll hole is matched with the solid bridge abutment, and the bridge abutment is matched with the curve of the bridge hole in a straight line, coupled with the natural and smooth proportions, to achieve a harmonious and unified visual effect. It is no wonder that Mao Yisheng, a famous bridge expert in China, commented: China's oldest bridge is Zhaozhou Bridge, the most magnificent bridge is Lugou Bridge, and the most artistic bridge is Wuting Bridge in Yangzhou.

The Diaoyutai deep in the middle of the lake was originally a place where silk and bamboo musical instruments were played. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong came here and somehow became interested in fishing. So someone immediately sent the rod. However, the fish in the Slender West Lake were disobedient, and the Qianlong Emperor, who responded to the call on weekdays, fished for a long time, but none of the fish were hooked. At this time, the Yangzhou salt merchants who accompanied him were anxious, and immediately quietly selected a few sailors with good water quality to dive under the water with live fish. Hold the lotus leaf and rely on the lotus stem to ventilate. As soon as the Qianlong fish rod on the top fell, the live arowana below was hooked. This time, Qianlong Ye is naturally a dragon's heart.

In China, there are many scenic spots named after "Diaoyutai", but the fishing in Yangzhou is the smallest and most distinctive one among the many Diaoyutai. It is a model of China's famous pavilion architecture and a representative work of Chinese garden "framed" art. Standing at an angle of 60 degrees, you can see the horizontal waves of the Wuting Bridge in the round hole on the north side, and the towering White Tower can be seen in the oval hole on the south side. This scene is one color and one element, one horizontal and one lying, which is really wonderful. It is also a place where foreign tourists must take photos when they come to Yangzhou. The picture of the borrowed scenery in the cave corresponds to the name of "three-star arch photo".

Xiaojin Mountain is the largest island in Slender West Lake, and it is also the place with the highest density of buildings on the lake. The wind pavilion, the blowing platform, the piano room, the Muxi Book House, the chess room, and the moon view are all concentrated here. The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong, was very fond of strange flowers and stones, and on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, he decided to build a longevity mountain in Kaifeng Mansion, the capital. This stalactite from Guangxi was left in Yangzhou by a peasant uprising that happened to run into Shangla during transportation. This is also the largest stalactite in Yangzhou at present. The stalactite is made of calcium carbonate deposited in the cave, and its shape is very beautiful. - Stalactites allow us to climb the stairs along the winding mountain road to climb the wind pavilion of Xiaojin Mountain. Fengting is the commanding height of the Slender West Lake Scenic Area, and it is the place where Mr. Zhu Ziqing said that "the Slender West Lake is the best to see the water, and it is quite appropriate to see the moon". There is a couplet on the wind pavilion "The wind and the moon are boundless, how can you have a mind here; The pavilion is still the same, and he is envious of all the smoke and water." The name Wind Pavilion is taken from the first word of the upper and lower couplets. The so-called "mountains are not high, but noble." The water is not wide, but the magic is tortuous. "That's the beauty of Slender West Lake and Little Gold Mountain.

The buildings across the lake from the Linglong Flower World are Wangchun Tower and General Xiao Li's painting book. They are completely in the style of Jiangnan gardens, the scale of the building is subordinate to Xichuntai, and the color tone is pure and elegant. Embodying the Southern Show. The north and south rooms of the lower floor of Wangchun Building are respectively water courtyard and mountain garden. Bring the landscape into the interior. Remove the doors and windows of the upper floors and turn it into a terrace. It is a good place to admire the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition, Wangchun Tower is also as the name suggests, when spring comes, stand and look at the spring, it is also excellent.

General Xiao Li refers to Li Zhaodao, the son of the great Tang Dynasty painter Li Sixun. Although this father and son have never led soldiers, they both have the title and treatment of generals. Both of them were famous painters of the time, and together they founded the Jinbi Landscape Painting School in the Tang Dynasty of China. The so-called "flowers are paintings." The moon is the source of poetry". The name General Xiao Li's painting originally refers to the fact that the scenery of this place is very similar to General Xiao Li's landscape painting.

The 24 Bridges Scenic Area includes Xichun Terrace, Linglong Boundary, General Xiao Li's Picture Book, Wangchun Tower and 24 Bridges. Xichun Terrace is the main building of the 24th Bridge Scenic Area. It is far away from Xiaojin Mountain, and it is at the turning point of the lake. It is also one of the "24 Scenes" of Yangzhou, "Spring Terrace Bright Moon". The word "Xichun" comes from Lao Tzu's 'everyone is bustling, such as ascending the spring platform'. It refers to the bustling scene of people coming and going in front of Xichun Terrace. Yu Dafu once commented that the bright moon of the 24th Bridge is one of the four autumn colors in southern China. Legend has it that Yangzhou salt merchants once celebrated the birthday of Emperor Qianlong here, so this scene is also called "Chuntai Birthday". The architectural style of the Xichuntai area reflects the magnificent grandeur of the royal garden. All the buildings are made of green glazed tiles, Zhu Dong, white jade and gold roofs, which contrast with each other.

Legend has it that in 1784, Emperor Qianlong took a boat tour of Yangzhou Slender West Lake for the sixth time. Seeing the scenery around Wuting Bridge from the water, I couldn't help but say regretfully: "It's a pity that there is a white tower missing, otherwise it looks like Chunyin on Qiongdao in Beihai." The speaker had no intention of listening, and the wealthy Yangzhou salt merchant immediately spent 100,000 taels of silver with the eunuch to buy the pattern of the Beihai White Tower, and piled up a white tower with white salt bags overnight. This is the story of "building a tower overnight" that has been passed down in Yangzhou to this day. The white pagoda is 27.5 meters high, and below it is the girdle Sumeru pagoda. Eight sides and four corners, three niches on each side. Inside the niche are carved the portraits of the Twelve Beings. Different from the thick and steady white tower of Beihai, the white tower is well-proportioned and jade is paviliond. It contrasts with the Wuting Bridge around it.

Yangzhou is "China's Moon City", Yangzhou's moonlight is beautiful, and there are many places to admire the moon, and the "Moon View" Slender West Lake is one of them. "Moon view" sits in the west and faces east, facing the open lake in front, whenever the bright moon rises in the east, stands by the railing, the two moons in the water in the sky reflect each other, we can experience the wonderful artistic conception of "the moon comes to the water on the ground, and the clouds rise from the mountains for a day". It is often said that "the moonlight is like water", and here, the moonlight and the lake water dissolve, and the shadows of the clouds and mountains are connected. This couplet, written by Zheng Banqiao, is a fitting depiction of the unique and enchanting moonlit night of the moon view. The Haimei furniture in the moon view is also very distinctive, and the content of the carvings is related to the moon viewing. Those lotus, mandarin ducks, lotus leaves, lotus roots, all natural and vivid, is the representative work of Yangzhou wood carving technology.

At the end of the Slender West Lake Causeway is the "Xu Garden". It was the ancestral hall of the warlord Xu Baoshan during the Xinhai Revolution. The name of the Oriole Pavilion in the park comes from the poetry of "two yellow orioles singing green willows, and a line of egrets going to the sky". The Nanmu cover in the museum is the boutique in the existing cover in Yangzhou. The two large iron woks in front of the Listening Oriole Pavilion are the artifacts of the water town more than 1,500 years ago, and the prosperity of Yangzhou's economy can be seen from the developed smelting industry in Yangzhou in those years. There is a hall, a pavilion, a pavilion in the Xu Garden, there is a curved water outside, there is a pond inside, flowers, trees, bamboo and stones, just right, fully embodies the exquisite elegance of the Jiangnan garden.

"Twenty-four Bridges" comes from the poem of the famous poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty: "The green mountains are hidden in the water, and the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered at the end of autumn; On the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where does the jade teach to blow Xiao". The 24 bridges in the minds of Yangzhou people are composed of the falling sail plank road, the single-hole arch bridge, the nine-curved bridge and the blowing Xiao Pavilion, the jade ribbon arch bridge in the middle is 24 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, there are 24 steps on the upper and lower sides of the bridge, and 24 white jade railings and 24 railings are enclosed. As for which bridge the 24th Bridge refers to, there are still different opinions. It is better for us to throw away those cumbersome researches and savor the hazy artistic conception of "can only be understood, not spoken" in Du Mu's poems.

Wan Garden is the Slender West Lake Scenic Area, according to Kangxi's "Yangzhou Mansion Chronicles" record, "Wan Garden, Song Duanping three years (AD 1236) system to make Zhao Kui that is the fortress city control of the Ya for it". Today's Wanhuayuan is adjacent to Slender West Lake on the west and south sides, with a small canal in the north and Pingshantang Road in the east, with a total area of about 500 acres. Designed by Hangzhou Landscape Design Institute, with a total investment of about 180 million yuan, the construction officially started on September 8, 2006. Since April 18, 2007, Wan Huayuan has been officially merged into the Slender West Lake Scenic Area. Visitors have direct access to the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens. You can also enter the Wan Garden through the Wuting Bridge or the North Gate of Slender West Lake. There is no separate charge for Wan Garden. Citizens and tourists can enter the Wan Garden for sightseeing with Slender West Lake tickets and annual passes. Every year from April 18 to May 18 is the Yangzhou International Trade and Tourism Festival, when Wan Huayuan will also hold large-scale activities such as large-scale lantern festivals in the evening.

One of the "Twenty-four Views of Slender West Lake" - "Stone Wall Flowing Song", is located in the north area of Slender West Lake Wan Garden, and connects "Shizuka Study", "Twenty-four Bridges", "White Pagoda Clear Clouds", "Wuting Bridge" and other scenic spots from north to south, forming a continuous lake scenery line of "flowers and willows on both sides of the river, all the way to the mountain". "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record" describes the "stone wall flowing" scenic spot: "the stone wall flowing flowing", and the water stone wins also. It is the garden of the stone, Lei Qi Peak. The spring water flies out of the precipice, and becomes the red water of the blue lake, and the victory of this "stone wall flowing murging" is also ...... Such as the new fence out of the seed, the practice of hanging in the air, hanging the bank of the river, covered with moss cracked stones, the laser shot is silky, so that the lake water is all alive, so the name is called "Song". The water is full of water. Turbulent and thunderstormy. Clusters of streams on all sides also. The described stream is a waterfall in which water comes together and hits from high to low. Its hanging waterfall falls as fast as the wind, the sound is like thunder, and the water splashes in all directions when it is near the water, which is magnificent. Mr. Zhou Ruchang, a famous red scholar, once pointed out that the main attraction in "Dream of Red Mansions", Yihong Courtyard, is based on Yangzhou Water Bamboo Residence. The stone wall flows and the "origin of the scenic spot" willow embankment is Guishuang, and the walk is vulgar and dusty. The water is clear, and the sound of bamboo is cool into the window. Secluded and sincere, and the joy is unique. Listen to the stone wall. This was written by Emperor Qianlong to "Stone Wall Flowing". "Stone Wall Liuzhuan" also has a name called Xu's Villa. "Xu" is Xu Zanhou, whose ancestral home is She County, who made a fortune selling salt in Yangzhou and became a big salt merchant. The "stone wall flowing" is the house built by their family. According to records, during the Yiyou period of Qianlong, Qianlong came here and saw that the scenery was so beautiful, in the middle of the pavilions and pavilions, rockery waterfalls, flowers and green willows...... So he gave it a name: "Water Bamboo House", and with a wave of the pen, the above poem was inscribed. It can be seen how amazing the "stone wall flowing" of the Xu family's villa at that time was. In the late Qing Dynasty, the "Stone Wall Streaming" was defeated in the war, and the scenery is still not there.

Those who are in the flower village are also vassals of the flower village. Panghua Village is an ancient village with a long history in the northwest of Yangzhou City, and now Panghua Slender West Lake Village is south to Changchun Road, north to the small canal, east to Song Jiacheng River, west to Pingshantang Road, close to Wan Garden, covering an area of about 400 acres, with a total investment of 120 million yuan. Panghua Village focuses on shaping the image of Yangzhou Habitat "Flower City", integrating sightseeing, experience and vacation, making full use of the natural ecological environment in the spatial layout, creating a delicate and leisurely, poetic and picturesque overall tourism landscape atmosphere in the new scenic spot of Slender West Lake, and building a catering club area with Yangzhou characteristics. After completion, it will show Yangzhou's unique charm of "flower culture", "folk culture", "food culture", "leisure culture", tourists can enjoy the leisure and comfort of returning to the countryside, watch the wetland park, the flower family, taste the flower feast, Weiyang special banquet, etc., and at the same time set up the unique farming, picking, fishing, breeding and other life situations of rural farmers, make full use of the original ecological plants, cleverly separate the local space, create a beautiful environment of mountains and rivers, and shape a new image of Yangzhou's leisure tourism.

Under the premise of protecting the original wetland landscape and the cultural landscape of the Songjiacheng River, the Songjiacheng River Wetland Park makes rational use of resources and highlights the ecological effect. The project covers a total area of 840 acres and is planned and designed by Hangzhou Landscape Design Institute, with a total investment of 160 million yuan. The project makes use of the unique natural conditions of the moat of Song Jiacheng and its two sides, and is characterized by retaining the original ecological features, and adopts a variety of means such as borrowing scenery, perspective view, frame view, and obstacle scenery to build a wetland park that not only has the charm of the wetland, but also integrates the scenery of the Slender West Lake, penetrates the history of Yangzhou and does not lose the sense of the times. In December 2006, the scenic spot invested more than 50 million yuan, the early start of the Mizhuang Bridge to Yangzhuang Road West City Gate Bridge section of the project, an area of about 300 acres, the project combined with the regional culture of Yangzhou, so that the plant population is rich in connotation, the park in the quaint stone path, the thatched house with a very rural atmosphere, the exquisite art sketches, the roundabout flower stand gallery, the open wooden platform...... All of them reveal the simple and natural romantic mood of the pastoral landscape design, which makes people feel comfortable and comfortable during the leisurely stroll.

Passing through Xu Garden and standing on the small Hongqiao, people have a feeling of sudden enlightenment. West. It is the most open scenic spot of the slender West Lake. Look back at Xu Yuan again. It is known that it is just a prologue, and from now on, the Slender West Lake Scenic Area will gradually open up, like a climax. There is a building on the east side called "Four Bridges Smoke and Rain". Whenever "the mountains are empty and rainy", the scenery here is "four bridges flying across the smoke". Standing on this building, you can see four Chunbo Bridges, Dahong Bridges, Changchun Bridges, and Lotus Bridges with different colors and shapes. In the mist and rain, the four bridges are far and near. There are thick and light, high and low. At that time, Emperor Qianlong loved the scenery here very much, recited poems many times, and personally gave the "Fun Garden".

Slender West Lake is actually a wide river outside Yangzhou, formerly known as Baoyang Lake. It covers an area of more than 500 acres and is 5,000 kilometers long. It was originally the moat remains of Tang Luo City and Song Dacheng, starting from the Beicheng River in the south, reaching the foot of Shugang in the north, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, many salt industry giants who were rich in the world were on both sides of the river. At the expense of a lot of money, we hired a famous gardener to paint and operate, and built a water garden. In the heyday of Qianlong, there were 24 scenic spots along the lake: Rolling Stone Cave Heaven, Xiyuan Qushui, Hongqiao Lansheng, Yechun Poetry Society, Long Causeway Spring Willow, Hepu Xunfeng, Jasper Exchange, Four Bridges Smoke and Rain, Spring Terrace Bright Moon, White Pagoda Clear Clouds, Three Flowing Streams, Shugang Evening Zhao, Wansong Stacked Cui, Huayu Shuangquan, Shuangfeng Cloud Stack, Mountain Pavilion Wild View, Linshui Hongxia, Green Rice Xianglai, Zhushi Xiaolou, Pinggang Yanxue, Lvyang Chengkuo, Xianghai Ciyun, Meiling Chunsheng, Shuiyun Sheng. It is known as "two embankments of flowers and willows are all according to the water, all the way to the mountain". The two emperors, Kangxi and Qianlong, both visited here on six southern tours and appreciated the scenery here.

The origin of the name of Slender West Lake is a poem by Wang Xin, a poet who lived in Yangzhou during the Qianlong period, who lamented the rich businessman's spending of money: "The weeping willows continue to pick up the remnants, and the wild goose tooth red bridge is like a picture; It is also a pot of gold, so it should be called Slender West Lake. "The characteristics of Slender West Lake are that the lake surface is slender and long, meandering, and "more than ten garden pavilions are combined into one, connecting to the mountain, and the momentum is through." ”

After the 20th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1815), Yangzhou's salt industry declined, and the gardens on the lake gradually fell into depression and abandonment. Since then, it has experienced the war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, dilapidated, and a small part of the Wuting Bridge and the small gold mountain were restored during the Guangxu period. In the 1980s, scenic spots such as the 24th Bridge, Xichun Terrace, and Rolling Stone Cave were restored. In 2007, scenic spots such as the smoke and rain of the four bridges and the flowing water of the stone walls were restored.

Yangzhou is a place where humanities gather, politicians, writers, painters, and artists of all dynasties gathered, leaving countless classic poems, calligraphy and paintings, music, songs and dances in Yangzhou, and also leaving many beautiful legends and stories. Therefore, when visiting the Slender West Lake, when enjoying the beautiful scenery, it can also be said that you are reading a history book with rich content, enriching people's knowledge and sublimating people's souls.

The Slender West Lake Garden has both natural scenery and rich history and culture, four seasons and eight festivals, the wind and the moon and the evening, so that the Slender West Lake is transformed into infinite wonders. After years of construction, the scenic spots of Slender West Lake have become particularly charming and colorful. Especially when the spring color of the south of the Yangtze River comes, the fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, strolling on the bank of the Slender West Lake, but seeing a few steps and a willow, like the soft and moving green mist, coupled with the charming flowers and trees such as camellia, pomegranate, rhododendron, peach, etc., it is more comfortable and elegant, slender and colorful, and all kinds of poetry and painting are fully present in it.

"The West Lake in the world, there are six out of thirty", but the West Lake of Yangzhou, with its delicate and graceful demeanor, is unique from the lakes, and occupies an appropriate "thin" word.

Slender West Lake Scenic Area is the core and essence of Shugang-Slender West Lake National Key Scenic Area. A stream of water is like a brocade belt, such as a whisk, when it is put and received, compared with Hangzhou West Lake, there is another kind of thin charm. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, gardens were built along the Slender West Lake. In the Qing Dynasty, due to the six "southern tours" of the emperors of Kangxi and Qianlong, the grand occasion of "two embankments and willows are all according to the water, all the way to the mountain" was formed. Wang Xin, a poet from Qiantang in the Qing Dynasty, compared the West Lake in Yangzhou with the West Lake in Hangzhou, writing: "The weeping poplars continue to pick up the remnants, and the wild goose teeth and rainbow bridges are painted. It is also a pot of gold, so it should be called Slender West Lake. Slender West Lake got its name from this, and it is recognized by the people, and it has been famous at home and abroad.

A long section of Slender West Lake is the site of the moat of the original ancient city of Yangzhou, the moat of Yangzhou, which was once a famous port in the East for the goods of Chinese and foreign merchants in the Tang Dynasty; Qing Dynasty salt merchants, Caoyun distribution place, bosses in this feng shui treasure land, with wisdom day into the gold, rich in the world, its reputation spread far and wide in the court. As early as two thousand Wu Bai years ago, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty brought twenty-four beauties to enjoy the moon and blow the flute here, and the local tycoons in order to welcome the arrival of the holy car, they funded the excavation of this besieged river - "moat", connecting the slender West Lake, leading directly to Beijing and Hangzhou. Later, before Kangxi visited the Yangtze River many times in the Qing Dynasty and Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, the salt merchants donated funds to dredge and widen the moat in 1735, and planted trees along the way, built buildings and water pavilions, and recruited young beauties. It creates a beautiful and exquisite scenery. Time. Literati and writers flocked to it. Accompany the ancient times to explore the secluded, improvise poems and paint (it is said that the "Yangzhou Eight Monsters" often come here for boating); Famous prostitutes gathered, singing and dancing all day long, diffusing the fragrance and glamorous (Yangzhou beauties come from this); Loved relatives and friends are invited, the water pavilion tastes tea and watches the scenery, and makes friends with heart; Foreign tourists take the lamp, enjoy the Huaiyang cuisine, and sigh at the delicious food; People carry baskets and go shopping. Buy firewood, rice, oil and salt, and take what you need for life...... What a thriving scene. When Emperor Qianlong saw this, he was very happy, so he boarded the dragon boat from the "Yechun Garden" (Royal Wharf) and inspected along the way. As a result, Yangzhou is famous all over the world, and its connotation has laid a solid foundation for today's Yangzhou to be known as the best living environment and a famous historical and cultural city in the world.

Yangzhou moat, the left hand is the "Shi Gong Ancestral Hall", which records General Shi Kefa's "city death and death, I have made a decision." That is, the corpse is broken into thousands of pieces, and it is as sweet as food. But the millions of living beings in Yangcheng cannot be killed! "Heroic feats." Imperial Wharf", the stele in the pavilion is clearly engraved with the "Royal Horse Head", it is built when the Qianlong Emperor traveled to Yangzhou, it is said that because of the "code" word with "stone", there is a suspicion of barricades, and the emperor's feet can not have any obstacles, so go to it. Along the stone steps down the riverside, there are more than 10 antique "imperial boats" docked on the wharf, with yellow glazed roofs, carved eaves and paintings, and the four walls are transparent. In the spacious cabin, it is equipped with Yixing purple sand tea set for visitors to enjoy the scenery. Because it is daytime, there are very few tourists by boat, because when the lights are shining and the neon is flashing at night, and then boating on the water, you can suddenly feel that you are in the Yao Pond in the world, fluttering like a fairy. It seems that the ancestors of Yangzhou have already entered the romantic realm of today's nightlife. More than 200 years ago, the Qianlong Emperor was in a similar boat night tour, when he was full of interest, waving an inscription poem: "The boat is light along the stream, and the bell chime in the deer park has an aftersound." There is a ditch water in front of the door, and the veins often contain eternal feelings. It can be seen that the Holy One is also a man of a suave temperament.

It is in this Slender West Lake, which is rich in history and humanities and beautiful in terms of scenic spots, that very strange events have continued to occur in recent times. One is located in the moat section of Yangzhou on the surface of the lake, due to the environmental protection of dredging and water exchange at the bottom of the lake, the silt at the bottom of the lake has been basically completely removed, just when the silt is removed at the most rear, a large number of scattered bones have been cleaned up, almost covering the bottom of the lake half a meter thick, after research, these bones should be the "Yangzhou Ten Days" Qing Army Massacre left; Second, since the completion of the environmental protection of Slender West Lake, the water of Slender West Lake has become clearer, and even the bottom of the lake can be clearly visible, but some people always say that they have seen dark shadows gathering and swimming under the water, which is very appalling; The third is that many lovers who talk about love at night, all in the night when the wind is high and the moon is dark, they see ghostly shadows floating in the lake, sometimes they are scattered, sometimes they are over and over again, so frightened that these lovers don't talk about love, and they run home and tremble with fear. At this point, the legend of the ghost and ghost of the Slender West Lake has spread to the hundreds, and no one dares to come here at night to play and fall in love, and at the same time, it has also led to a sharp decline in the number of tourists in the Slender West Lake, at least the people in Yangzhou City dare not visit here.

This must start with the "Ten Days of Yangzhou" created after the Manchurian "Tatars" entered the customs. In 1645 (the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty and the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), there was a massacre of civilians in the city after Duoduo of the Qing Dynasty conquered the city of Yangzhou. Due to the desperate resistance of Shi Kefa, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty to the Qing army, on the 25th day of the fourth month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar), after the Qing army captured Yangzhou, it carried out a ten-day massacre in the city of Yangzhou. The "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" written by Wang Xiuchu, a survivor at that time, recorded that the massacre lasted for ten days, hence the name "Yangzhou Ten Days".

On the twenty-fourth day of April, the Qing army mobilized Hongyi artillery to bombard Yangzhou, and Shi Kefa again asked Nanming for help, but there was still no response. On the twenty-fifth day of April (May 20), the city of Yangzhou was breached, and Shi Kefa wanted to draw his sword and kill himself, but was blocked by his subordinates. Duoduo persuaded him to surrender, but Shi Kefa sternly refused, and Duoduo ordered Shi Kefa to be executed before the army. Shi Kefa's general, Liu Zhaoji, continued to lead the remnants and the residents of the city to engage in street battles with the Qing army, and after fierce fighting, the Qing army occupied Yangzhou. After the Qing army captured Yangzhou, it was pouring rain, and Duoduo announced a bloody massacre in the city of Yangzhou. The "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" written by Wang Xiuchu, a survivor at that time, recorded that the massacre lasted for ten days, so it was called "Yangzhou Ten Days", and 800,000 people died in Yangzhou. (To be continued......)