934, picturesque and picturesque Yangzhou City

Today's Yangzhou, near the river and the sea, is located in China's most dynamic "Yangtze River Delta" economic circle, now governs Guangling, Weiyang, Hanjiang 3 districts, Gaoyou, Yizheng, Jiangdu 3 cities and Baoying County, with a total area of 6,638 square kilometers and a population of 4.7 million, of which the total urban area is 973 square kilometers and a population of 1.08 million. Yangzhou market hinterland is vast, since ancient times is the gateway of northern Jiangsu, is the Yangtze River Delta radiation of northern Jiangsu, southern Shandong, eastern Anhui region of the important node city, with Yangzhou as the center, a radius of 100 kilometers with a population of 40 million, a radius of 200 kilometers with a population of 80 million.

Today's Yangzhou, with convenient transportation, magnificent, full of modern atmosphere of Yangzhou Railway Station, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Nanjing-Tong Expressway intersect here, take more than 1 hour from the expressway to Nanjing, more than 2 hours to Shanghai, more than 8 hours to Beijing. Yangzhou is the railway hub of Jiangsu-China and northern Jiangsu, with a number of golden railway lines from Yangzhou to Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Shanghai and Wuhan, radiating the east, west, north, south and middle of the country. Yangzhou is only 1 hour away from Nanjing Lukou International Airport and more than 2 hours away from Shanghai Hongkou Airport. The Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal converge in Yangzhou, and Yangzhou Port, a first-class open port, has sailed into the world shipping network. The Runyang Yangtze River Highway Bridge connecting Yangzhou to Zhenjiang has achieved zero distance between Yangzhou and southern Jiangsu.

Today's Yangzhou, the first sight is the beautiful natural scenery, the second sight is the dazzling history and culture. If "the city is in the park, the garden is in the city" is the most direct feeling of Yangzhou city, then the "bookish atmosphere" is a kind of temperament of the city, the core of the city, which makes people have a long aftertaste. Yangzhou gardens, represented by He Garden and Geyuan, are eclectic, integrating the male gardens of northern China and the beauty of southern gardens; Visit the most culturally significant places of interest in China, Daming Temple and Tianning Temple have their own styles, condensing the thousand-year-old history of Yangzhou; Appreciate the unparalleled qionghua and peony in the world; Taste China's unique Huaiyang cuisine and local snacks; Hear the unique charm of Yangju, Yangzhou commentary, Guangling Qin School guqin famous songs; Enjoy the most humanistic characteristics and ancient bathing culture; Appreciate the world-famous Yangzhou lacquerware, jade, and bonsai; Reminiscent of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" who traveled alone in ancient and modern times.

Today's Yangzhou, the city is changing with each passing day, and the city's comprehensive competitiveness is increasing day by day. "National Sanitary City", "National Environmental Protection Model City", "National Ecological Demonstration City", "National Garden City", "China Excellent Tourism City", "Chinese Habitat Environment Award" and other golden signboards have been laid in Yangzhou. "Highly recommended cities for Taiwanese investment", "Forbes Commercial City Ranking", etc., citizens are even more treasured.

Yangzhou, China's ancient historical and cultural city with unique humanistic charm, is full of youth and shines with the beauty of harmony and atmosphere.

On the middle peak of Shugang in the northwest of Yangzhou, in the west of Guanyin Mountain, there is a temple built in the Southern Dynasty between Liu and Song Dynasty, so it is called Daming Temple. In the first year of Renshou of the Sui Dynasty (601 AD), the Qiling Pagoda was built in the temple, so it is also called the Qiling Temple. Tang Huichang three years (843) the tower was destroyed, still for the Daming Temple. In the thirtieth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1765), Emperor Qianlong toured Yangzhou, changed the title to "Fajing Temple", and later reverted to Daming Temple. Moreover, it was also the place where the Tang Dynasty monk Jianzhen lived and lectured, and the Jianzhen Memorial Hall was in this Daming Temple. Jianzhen monk (688~763), common surname Chunyu, Yangzhou. Since the first year of Tang Tianbao (742 AD), he has endured hardships and dangers for more than ten years, and finally succeeded in crossing to the east for the sixth time, introducing Chinese Buddhism, medicine, language, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy, printing and other literary skills to Japan, and making significant contributions to the development of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. In 1963, on the occasion of the 1,200th anniversary of the death of Jianzhen, the Chinese and Japanese people jointly held a grand commemorative event in Yangzhou and laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Jianzhen Memorial Hall. In 1973, the memorial hall was completed. The hall covers an area of 2,540 square meters, and the front is the entrance hall, and the plaque of the memorial hall of the seal book is hung. In the middle is the stele pavilion, the horizontal monument is erected inside, the stele is 2.06m high, 3m wide, the front is engraved with the title of Guo Moruo's book "Tang Jianzhen Great Monk Monument", and the back is engraved with the inscription of Zhao Puchu's book. The back hall is built according to the structure and form of the temple hall of the Tang Dynasty, and the middle of the hall is the statue of Jianzhen dry lacquer sandwich. On the east and west walls are silk ornaments of the deeds of Jianzhen Dongdu. The corridor on both sides of the stele pavilion and the hall is 80 meters long, forming a group of separate halls. The current Daming Temple was rebuilt during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. In front of the temple is the archway of three rooms and three floors, to the north is the mountain gate (there is the statue of the king of heaven inside), the north of the courtyard is the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the front of the middle of the hall is the three Buddhas, the back is the island, the group statue such as the plastic Guanyin, the two sides are the eighteen Arhat statues. The east side of the main hall is the East Garden, and there is the Sky Pavilion behind it, and it is now the exhibition room of the deeds of the monk Jianzhen Dongdu. In 1980, the statue of the Nianjian came to China from Japan and was first exhibited in Daming Temple.

Come to the north of Yangzhou City, you can see a Tianning Temple, which is said to be the villa of Jin Taifu Xie An, and the Xie Sikong Temple is built in the back house. In the fourteenth year of Yixi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (418 AD), the famous Nepalese monk Badrala translated the Huayan Sutra here. In the first year of Tang Zhengsheng (695), the Zhengsheng Temple was built. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was changed to Tianning Temple. After the temple was destroyed, it was rebuilt during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, when Cao Yin concurrently served as the salt envoy of the two Huai patrols, he was ordered to set up a poetry bureau here, presided over the publication and engraving of "Quantang Poems", and usurped the "Peiwenyun Mansion". In the twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757), Emperor Qianlong toured Yangzhou and built a palace, an imperial garden and an imperial wharf in front of the temple. The Wenhui Pavilion of the Imperial Garden has the manuscript of the "Four Libraries Quanshu", and there are still the mountain gates, the Tianwang Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Huayan Pavilion, the two-compartment corridor room and the abbot building in the temple now.

In the west of Yangzhou City, there is an ancient Mulan Courtyard stone tower, also known as the stone tower of the Stone Tower Temple. It was built in the fifth year of Tang Kaicheng (840 AD), originally outside the West Gate, and moved to the current site during the Baoyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty. Except for a few Buddha statues on the tower, most of them were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. The tower has five levels and six sides, all built of stone. The base of the tower is the seat of Sumeru, there is a stone railing built around it, the animal figures such as dragon, phoenix, ox, horse are carved in the railing plate respectively, and the pillar is carved with a ruyi-shaped pattern. The body of the tower is reduced layer by layer from the bottom to the top, there are round chair pillars at the corner of each floor, there is an arched hole door on the north and south sides of the first, third and fifth floors, and the other layers are embedded with small Buddha statues. The stone waist eaves are all chiseled into a cylinder tile shape, the slope is very small, the corner eaves are ridged, stretch outward, and slightly upward reversal. The top of the tower hexagonal accumulation point, on the top is the tower brake of the inverted rosette and the gourd shape, the shape is unique and novel. The stone tower was originally in the ancient Mulan courtyard, after the road was widened, it was located in the middle of the green island in the center of Yingbin Road, and the Tang Dynasty ginkgo tree and Wenchang Pavilion in the east formed a straight line, looking at each other from afar, and nature was one.

Emperor Yang of Sui Mausoleum, in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, North Leitang. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty went to Yangzhou in the first year of the Great Cause (605 AD), the sixth year, and the twelfth year. Due to the tyranny of the harvest and the extreme desire for poverty and luxury, the peasants in various places revolted one after another, and the fourteenth year of the great cause was hanged in Yangzhou by Yu Wenhua and others. The first burial was under the platform of Wu Gong, and in the fifth year of Tang Wude (622), Chen Ling, the governor of Jiangdu, was reburied at the present site. The days have been desolate. In the twelfth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1807), the scholar Ruan Yuan rebuilt and erected the tombstone, and the center of the stele was engraved with four big characters of "Emperor Yang of Sui's Mausoleum", which was written by the Yangzhou Taishou and calligrapher Yi Bingshou at that time.

In the east of the Daming Temple in the middle peak of Shugang, is Guanyin Mountain. This mountain is located on the east peak of Shugang on the bank of the Slender West Lake, it is the site of the maze of the Sui Dynasty, the Song Dynasty is the Xingxing Temple, it is clearly called the merit forest, also known as the merit mountain. You can climb the mountain according to the stone steps, and there are mountain gates, palaces, buildings, etc. There was originally a statue of Goddess of Mercy in the Guanyin Hall, so it was called Guanyin Mountain. Most of the buildings on the mountain are from the late Qing Dynasty and later. This mountain is located in the southwest corner of Yangzhou Tangcheng ruins sub-city, with Yangzhou Tangcheng ruins cultural relics depository, climbing can overlook the Tangcheng ruins and the slender West Lake scenic spots, the so-called "Jianghuai north and south, at a glance can be exhausted", that is, refers to this place. And the ruins of this Tang City are also on Shugang. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu began to build "Hancheng", which was built successively in successive dynasties, and had been expanded to the plain under Shugang in the Tang Dynasty. The site of the city is divided into two parts, the city and the city of Luo, and the two cities are adjacent. The sub-city is on the Shugang, also known as the tooth city, that is, the yacheng, which is the place where the officials gather. Luocheng is located in the southeast of Shugang Xiazicheng, also known as Dacheng, which is a residential and commercial area. The current city site is the sub-city of Shugang, the plane is slightly square, and it is a version of the earthen wall. The ruins of Luo Cheng are no longer obvious on the ground. After many excavations after liberation, the remnants of rammed earth walls and brick walls built in Shugang before the Tang Dynasty were found, as well as the city bricks and tiles of the Tang Dynasty. In the city site, a lot of Tang Dynasty ceramics sancai, production tools, burial epitaphs, stone carved Buddha statues and so on were unearthed. These cultural relics reflect the urban architecture, economy, culture and other aspects of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, which deserve the attention of the world, and are worthy of our appreciation, research and proper preservation of this historical and cultural heritage.

Yangzhou Slender West Lake is in the western suburbs of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and has been a scenic spot since the Six Dynasties. But its original name is not called Slender West Lake, but called Paoshan River, a guarantee river, Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, because of the north of Changchun Ridge (that is, Xiaojin Mountain), also known as Changchun Lake. Therefore, compared with Hangzhou West Lake, the lake has another thin and beautiful characteristic, so it is called Slender West Lake. Qing Qiantang (now Hangzhou) poet Wang Xin has a poem: "The weeping willows continue to pick up the remnants, and the wild goose teeth Hongqiao is like a drawing, which is also a pot of gold, so it should be called the Slender West Lake." Since then, the name of Slender West Lake has become famous all over the world. It was originally a criss-crossing river, and it has been operated and communicated, using the characteristics of China's gardening art, and building a lot of landscape buildings according to local conditions. After liberation, build greening year by year, from the Shi Gong Temple to the west, starting from the Qianlong Imperial Wharf, along the lake through Yechun, green poplar, red garden, West Garden Qushui, through the big Hongqiao, the long causeway spring willow, to Xu Garden, Xiaojin Mountain, Diaoyutai, Lianxing Temple, White Tower, Zhuangzhuang, Wuting Bridge, etc., and then to the north to Shugang Pingshan Hall, Guanyin Mountain. The lake is more than ten miles long, like a landscape painting, with both natural scenery and Yangzhou's unique style of garden, which is one of the famous scenic spots in China.

Dogwood Bay, now known as Bay Head. In the northeast of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the canal entered the first wharf in Yangzhou from north to south. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went to Yangzhou three times, all passing through this bay. The Tang Dynasty's Zhuyu Bay is an important port in China, and at the same time it is a beautiful hometown in the suburbs of Yangzhou, and the Tang poet Yao He has a poem: "In the smoke and light of Jiangbei, Huainan has many victories; 市廛 (chá

In ancient times, it referred to a house where a commoner lived. Holding a candle in, the neighborhood is passing by. There is land but bamboo, and there is no home to raise geese; The spring breeze swings the city, and the ears are full of sheng songs. This is a vivid and true portrayal of Jufen Bay. It is still the main route for ships on the Grand Canal.