After receiving special air tickets, it happened in March of spring and the May Day holiday, so I went to Jiangnan with my husband and his son.

"There are six out of thirty West Lakes in the world." Only Yangzhou West Lake is unique to other lakes with its delicate and graceful charm. Compared with Hangzhou West Lake, there is another kind of thin charm. Wang Hang, a poet from Qiantang in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote in a poem: "The willow trees continue to receive the remnants of the grass, and the geese 'teeth on the red bridge are drawing pictures. It is also a pot of gold, so it should be called Slender West Lake." This is why Slender West Lake got its name and is famous at home and abroad. Then, let's go after it.

Jiankang, Jinling, Qinhuai Banyan, these are the impressions of Nanjing in history class. So we stopped by!

The first day of the garden

Yangzhou Geyuan wins with bamboo and stone. Even the word "ge" in the name of the garden is taken from half of the word "bamboo". Green bamboos are planted all over the garden, and the poem is based on Dongpo: "I would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo; without meat makes people thin, without bamboo makes people vulgar." To show that the owner is not bad. Geyuan is famous for its exquisite stacking of rockery in all four seasons. The stone stacking art in Geyuan adopts the method of dividing peaks and using stones, and uses different stones to stack them to form four scenes of "spring, summer, autumn and winter". The rockery in the four seasons has its own characteristics, expressing the poetic meaning of "the spring scenery is beautiful and smiling, the summer mountains are green and dripping, the autumn mountains are clear and clear as makeup, and the winter scenery is bleak and like sleeping" and "the spring mountains are suitable for traveling, the summer mountains are suitable for viewing, the autumn mountains are suitable for climbing, and the winter mountains are suitable for living." The garden has its owner's ancient house, which makes people feel how deep the courtyard is.

Dongguan Street is paved with stone slabs to form the main street. Walking on the road, you can see the salt merchant compound with blue bricks and gray tiles from time to time. The concentration of delicious food and local specialties adds the fun of shopping to tourists. It is worthy of being called "a representative historical old street in Yangzhou City."

The Yangzhou section of the ancient canal is the oldest section of the entire canal. It is completely consistent with the canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, forming the famous "Three Bays of Yangzhou". This section of the canal is the oldest, with many historical relics, stars and cultural landscapes. The scenery is particularly beautiful and charming. It is right behind the hotel where I stayed, and I have to go for a walk after meals.

The next day, Nanjing

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is a must-see attraction. I visited it once more than ten years ago, but because my husband had never been there, he went there again. The entire building complex is built along the mountain, arranged on a central axis from south to north, and the entire cemetery has a "alarm bell" pattern.

Laomen East is right in front of the B & B. It is very convenient for shopping and eating at night, and traffic is also controlled that day.

Day 3, Yangzhou, Nanjing

The Confucius Temple in the morning is very comfortable with few people. The Confucius Temple was built in the Song Dynasty and is located next to Gongyuan Street on the north bank of the Qinhuai River. It was originally a place where Confucius was worshiped, but it was later destroyed many times and rebuilt. Together with Beijing Confucius Temple, Qufu Confucius Temple, and Jilin Confucian Temple, it is also known as the Four Great Confucian Temple in China. It is also the main attraction of the Confucius Temple in the Qinhuai River Scenic Belt. Walking along the Qinhuai River, it's very good to take photos. Due to time constraints, Qin Huai Bayan will try again next time. Boating is also planning to go another night.

He Garden is also known as Jixiao Villa. Corridor buildings are a major feature, and I almost couldn't get around that day. The collision between Qing Dynasty culture and Western culture is vividly vivid, and the combination of China and the West is vividly interpreted. I personally prefer He Yuan to Ge Yuan.

Day 4 Yangzhou

Slender West Lake is the finale of this trip. Coincidentally, it was drizzling that day, which was especially suitable for the occasion. Slender West Lake is a long and narrow river. The south gate passes through Xuyuan, Diaoyutai, Wuting Bridge, Baita, and 24 Bridge all the way to the west gate, and then takes a boat to the north gate. I not only tasted the poems, paintings and ink treasures of literati and literati of past dynasties, but also felt the leisurely mood of Emperor Qianlong when he visited the lake.

The Eight Eccentrics Museum finally understood that the Eight Eccentrics are not eight people, but a group and a representative of the innovative spirit.

At the King's Tomb Museum of Guangling of the Han Dynasty, you can see unearthed imitations of gold strands and jade clothes, as well as the spectacular authentic "Yellow Intestine Inscription Style" wooden coffin, which are all of the highest-standard burial systems that ancient emperors could enjoy.

When you come to Yangzhou, you can't miss intangible cultural heritage back rubbing. As a Cantonese, I experienced it once when I was shy, which was very interesting. "Eight light, eight heavy and eight thoughtful" is the essence of Yangzhou back rubbing, and it is also the inheritance of practitioners over thousands of years. They pay attention to health care skills such as light but feeling, heavy but not painful, gentle skin care, and heavy body strengthening.

Food, I still think Guangdong's food is the best. There is no burden here!

In March of the spring, Yangzhou's lyrics are slow, and the ancient city is boating. A small scenery in the garden, a fragrant narrow alley, a city inherited from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Jianzhen Daming Temple. And West Lake is too thin, too thin. Yangzhou is worth our second and third brushes!

Recorded at Taizhou Airport on May 4, 2021