Which year did I visit the autumn scenery of the Grand Canal in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province? Practical tips for a three-day self driving tour in Gaoyou. Practical tips for a winter trip to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. 2020_Yangzhou_Jiangsu

Which year did I visit the autumn scenery of the Grand Canal in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province? Practical tips for a three-day self driving tour in Gaoyou. Practical tips for a winter trip to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. 2020

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I am visiting the autumn scenery of the Grand Canal in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province. Practical tips for a three-day self driving tour in Gaoyou City. Practical tips for a winter trip to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. [December 1, 2020]

I spent 3 days exploring Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province. The last battle of the Anti Japanese War in Gaoyou Cultural Park, Gaoyou Cultural Tourism Platform, Gaoyou Town Temple, Gaoyou Grand Canal Jieshou Ancient Town, Gaoyou West Causeway Canal Cultural Park, Gaoyou Ming and Qing Canal Ancient Road, Gaoyou Lake Wetland, Gaoyou Pingjin Weir Site, Gaoyou North Gate Old Wengcheng Site Park, Gaoyou South Gate Street, Gaoyou Yucheng Post Station. [December 1, 2020]

preface;

Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province:

Gaoyou City is a World Heritage City, a National Historical and Cultural City, and a National Comprehensive Tourism Demonstration Zone. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it is an important gateway to central and northern Jiangsu. It is the hometown of Chinese folk songs, Chinese poetry, national philately, and Chinese architecture.

Gaoyou has a civilization history of over 7000 years and a city building history of 2240 years. Formerly known as Jiangzuo Famous District and Guangling First Town, it is the hometown of Emperor Yao and the birthplace of Yao culture. It is an important area for Jianghuai civilization and postal culture. As early as 7000 years ago, our ancestors cultivated and thrived here through slash and burn farming.

King Ying Zheng of Qin built a high platform and set up a postal pavilion here in 223 BC, hence the name Gaoyou, also known as Qin Post. It is a postal town in China and is the only city among more than 2000 counties and cities in China named after postal services.

Memory: For Qingdao people from the seaside, perhaps they have been admiring the beautiful scenery of the sea for too long. The attraction of the sea is no longer as strong, and I always yearn for the various landscapes of Gaoyou City. I long for the long history and beautiful scenery of Gaoyou City. The unforgettable cuisine of Gaoyou City constantly touches me and attracts me. The wonderful imagination that transcends time and space forces me to embark on this mysterious journey.

Overview of itinerary;

Time: 3 days from December 1st to December 3rd, 2020

Character; Two couples

Method: Self guided tour

vehicle; Self driving car

Cost: 500 yuan per person (including all expenses such as gasoline, highway toll, accommodation, tickets, etc.)

That year, the self driving itinerary for the trip to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui was arranged; Starting from Qingdao -- Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province -- Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province -- Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province -- Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province -- Jiangshan City, Zhejiang Province -- Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province -- Mount Huangshan City, Anhui Province -- Yi County, Anhui Province -- Xuancheng City, Anhui Province -- Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province -- Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Before going to Gaoyou City, I knew very little about it. I drove from Qingdao to Gaoyou City for sightseeing, heading south all the way. The beautiful scenery along the way and the bits and pieces of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal made me intoxicated. The journey to Gaoyou City has begun.

This is the most suitable place for couples to travel, take a stroll together, and interpret the magnificent and dynamic landscape of nature. Appreciating the undulating peaks and lush forests, savoring the delicious food of Gaoyou, and walking along the canal side roads in Gaoyou at night, one can have a panoramic view of the city's scenery.

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1、 Origin of Gaoyou

Although I have passed through Gaoyou City several times in Jiangsu before, I never stopped to take a closer look at this canal city. For a few years, I have wanted my husband and wife to drive around Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui in just one month. After August this year, I started a self driving exploration tour plan in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces; In December, during the early winter season in Jiangnan, the couple walked south to see the scenery of the Gaoyou Winter Canal in Jiangnan. Breathe the air of Gaoyou, taste the delicious food of Gaoyou, and express your passion.

2、 Preparation for departure

There is no reason to worry, let's embark on a spontaneous trip. For the trip, make various preparations for departure, understand the weather conditions at the destination, and make a list of necessary items.

3、 Travel itinerary for self driving in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province;

Day 1: Enjoy the cultural park of the last battle of the Anti Japanese War in Gaoyou, Gaoyou Cultural Tourism Platform, and Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town

Day 2: Gaoyou Grand Canal Jieshou Ancient Town, Gaoyou Xidi Canal Cultural Park, Gaoyou Ming Qing Canal Ancient Road, Gaoyou Lake Wetland, Gaoyou Pingjin Weir Site

Day 3: Gaoyou North Gate Old Weng City Ruins Park, Gaoyou South Gate Street, Gaoyou Yucheng Post Station

Traffic information:

1、 Train number: Self driving [Qingdao City - Gaoyou City]

Departing from 05:00 on December 1, 2020 in Qingdao and arriving at 15:00 on December 1, 2020 in Gaoyou, covering a distance of 450 kilometers and driving for 10 hours.

About the author: I am a free travel enthusiast and also a photography enthusiast. In my spare time, I mainly take landscape photos and like to travel around to various places to see and capture the beautiful scenery and local customs. As someone who loves photography, I will never let go of all the beautiful people and things along the way. I believe that the freeze of that moment will make up all my memories. If you want to learn more about my photography works and travelogues, you can follow my:
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Memory:

The essence of self driving self guided tourism routes in Gaoyou City:

When you bow your head, you realize that the path beneath your feet is like a bird flying in the sky, without wings left behind

Day 1: Gaoyou Cultural Park for the Last Battle of the Anti Japanese War [Free Admission]

The Memorial Hall of the Last Battle of the Anti Japanese War is now a national 4A level tourist attraction, a list of national anti Japanese war memorial facilities and sites, and a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. It is a blend of Chinese and Western architecture from the Republic of China, originally a church established by the British.

The Battle of Gaoyou became the last battle against the Japanese invaders in the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan. The Liberation Daily once reported on the Battle of Gaoyou. On August 15, 1945, Japan announced unconditional surrender.

At the end of 1945, there was still a county town south of the Su Wan Border Region government that had not been liberated and was still occupied by the Japanese puppet army. This was Gaoyou City.

From December 19th to 26th, 1945, with the approval of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, the 7th and 8th Columns of the Central China Field Army and local armed forces, as well as the Central China Military Region of the New Fourth Army, resolutely executed the orders of Commander Zhu De, sent troops to surrender, and resolutely eliminated the Japanese puppet armed forces that refused to surrender.

Under the personal deployment and command of Commander Zhang Dingcheng and Deputy Commander Su Yu of the Central China Military Region, the Battle of Gaoyou was launched. The Fourth Army's Central China Field Army launched an attack on the Japanese puppet army that refused to surrender in Gaoyou and recaptured Gaoyou City in one fell swoop. This was also the last city liberated during the War of Resistance Against Japan and one of the counties and cities with the most enemy kills nationwide.

Gaoyou Cultural Park during the final battle of the Anti Japanese War

Guide Guide

Victory Square

Guide Guide

Victory Square

Guide Guide

Gaoyou Revolutionary Struggle History Museum

The Last Battle Memorial Hall

City Study Room

Wanqing Garden

Gaoyou People's Heroes Monument

The Last Battle of the Anti Japanese War in Gaoyou Cultural Park - Thick Autumn Colors

Gaoyou Cultural Park during the final battle of the Anti Japanese War

Day 1: Gaoyou Cultural and Tourism Platform [Ticket Purchase]

Gaoyou Wenyou Platform is one of the eight scenic spots of the ancient Qin Dynasty. It was originally built in the Taiping Xingguo period of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was originally the Dongyue Temple (i.e. Mount Taishan Temple). It was named after Su Shi who had been in Gaoyou and gathered with the local local sages Qin Guan (Qin Shaoyou), Sun Jue, and Wang Gong. After drinking and writing, this temple platform, which was originally attached to the charm of the Dongyue Emperor, took the lead. Celebrities and scholars of all dynasties came to the platform one after another to see the style and leave immortal poems.

Wenyou Square

Wenyou Platform

Day 1: Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town 【 Free Admission 】

Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014 (an important part of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, the 46th World Heritage Site in China). Located in the middle of the Grand Canal in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, it borders Gaoyou City to the east and Gaoyou Lake to the west. It is truly a land of dragons, now known as the "Canal Buddha City". Zhenguo Temple was first built in 874.

Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town

Guide Guide

Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town

The Zhenguo Temple Pagoda, also known as the West Pagoda, is hailed as the "Big Wild Goose Pagoda of the South" by people. As a national key cultural relic protection unit and a 3A level tourist attraction. It is a square seven story brick tower in the style of a pavilion, with a height of 35.36 meters. The top of the tower is a bronze cast gourd, and the surface of the gourd is engraved with the eight characters "Wind and rain are smooth, the country is prosperous and the people are safe".

Zhenguo Temple Pagoda

Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town

The canal flows through Zhenguo Temple

Day 2: Gaoyou Grand Canal Jieshou Ancient Town [Free Admission]

Gaoyou Jieshou Ancient Town is located in Laozhen District, Jieshou Town, Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province. It was founded in 957 AD and has a history of over a thousand years. There is currently one World Heritage site, one provincial-level cultural relic protection unit, seven municipal level cultural relic protection units, and more than 20 cultural relic sites. It has many famous historical sites such as the former site of Huazhong Xuefeng University, Jieshou Old Street, Jieshou Huguo Temple, Jieshou Post, Gaoyou Jieshou Folk Customs Museum, Jieshou Canal Grand Pier, Ming and Qing Nanbei Street, Daqing Post Office, Jieshou Historical Exhibition Hall, Rural Normal School, Taiping Street, etc.

Jieshou Ancient Town

Street View of Jieshou Ancient Town

Jieshou Wharf Site

Day 2: Gaoyou Xidi Canal Cultural Park [Free Admission]

The Gaoyou Canal West Embankment Scenic Belt is located in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province. After the completion of the scenic belt, it will fully showcase the historical culture, religious culture, water conservancy culture, and sports culture on the west bank of the canal, further enhance the landscape image of the canal and lakes, and make it a unique tourist resort and fitness and leisure place in the country.

Gaoyou Xidi Canal Cultural Park

Day 2: Gaoyou Ming Qing Canal Ancient Road [Free Admission]

The ancient canal route of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Gaoyou is one of the six national key cultural relics protection units in Gaoyou. The ancient Hangou Gaoyou section in history was the predecessor of the Gaoyou Canal. In 2006, the ancient course of the Gaoyou Ming Qing Canal was designated as a national key cultural relic protection unit. According to relevant sources, the main purpose of this project is to restore the old route of the Gaoyou Ming Qing Canal, and partially restore the shape of the Yangjia Shipyard. The surrounding environment of the Wanjiatang Shipyard has been renovated, reproducing the living scenes of fishermen in the past.

Ming and Qing Dynasties Grand Canal Ancient Road

Day 2: Gaoyou Lake Wetland 【 Free Admission 】

Gaoyou Lake, also known as Biwa Lake, is the third largest lake in Jiangsu Province, China. The total water area is 760.67 square kilometers. When the water level is 5.55 meters, the water area is 648 square kilometers, and the area of reed marshes and dams is 112.67 square kilometers.

The water area of Gaoyou Lake in Gaoyou City is 392.82 square kilometers, accounting for 55.32% of the total water area of Gaoyou Lake. Gaoyou Lake is a shallow water lake, serving as a waterway for the Huai River to enter. It has a wide water surface, beautiful environment, and abundant resources.

Gaoyou Lake crab is one of the famous species, and the production of fish and shrimp is also very large. Gaoyou Lake Reed Swamp Wetland Park, Gaoyou Lake Beach Country Park, and Yujiale Water Park, one of the planned 20 urban and rural tourist attractions in Jiangsu, will add more charm to Gaoyou Lake.

Gaoyou Lake Wetland

Day 2: Gaoyou Pingjin Weir Site [Free Admission]

The Gaoyou Pingjin Weir Site was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014 (an important part of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, China's 46th World Heritage Site), and this stone weir is also the only ancient weir discovered in the Huaiyang Canal section.

The Pingjin Weir Site is located on the west bank of the old road opposite the Guosi Pagoda in Gaoyou Town, Grand Canal. It was originally a water conservancy facility built by Li Jifu, the prime minister and Huainan military governor during the Tang Yuanhe period, to regulate the water level of the canal. Today, there is still a nearly 100 meter long ancient stone weir made of Ming Dynasty stones.

The Pingjin Weir in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, was built by Li Jifu, the Tang Huainan Jiedushi, who was concerned that the canal could not accommodate water and therefore built a dam, known as the "Pingjin Weir". In 1984, the National Tang and Song Ancient Canal Expedition Team came to Gaoyou for investigation and recognized its current situation.

On May 3, 2013, Pingjin Weir Site was announced as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units

Pingjin Weir Site

Day 3: Gaoyou North Gate Laowengcheng Site Park [Free Admission]

The Gaoyou North Gate City Wall Site Park is located on Beimen Street in the national historical and cultural city of Gaoyou. It is an important witness to the history of Gaoyou's city construction and plays a very important role in determining the orientation of the Gaoyou Song City Wall. Therefore, the Gaoyou Municipal Party Committee and Gaoyou Municipal People's Government have decided to build a new Beimen City Wall Site Park (also known as Wengcheng Site Park) covering an area of about 12000 square meters at the north end of Beimen Street, in order to recreate the old style of Gaoyou's ancient Wengcheng and add a new historical cultural relic highlight to the national historical and cultural city of Gaoyou.

The Gaoyou City Wall was first built in the fourth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (971 AD) by Gao Ningyou, the commander of the Gaoyou Army. It originally had a circumference of 316 steps, a height of 2.5 zhang and a width of 1.5 zhang. Due to historical reasons, the Gaoyou City Wall was later demolished, leaving only the southeast corner.

Beimen Laowengcheng Site Park

Beimen Laowengcheng Site Museum

The charm of Beimen Laowengcheng

Day 3: Gaoyou Nanmen Street 【 Free admission 】

Gaoyou Nanmen Street was listed as a World Heritage Site in June 2014 (it is an important part of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, the 46th World Heritage Site in China). On December 11, 2015, Nanmen Street and Yucheng Post were approved as national 4A level tourist attractions. Nanmen Street is an important node in the "One Axis, One Belt, Five Zones" tourism plan of Gaoyou, and also an important tourist attraction promoted by Gaoyou to the outside world.

Nanmen Street was once the busiest historical and cultural district in Gaoyou City during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The street was built in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and prospered in modern times. It is truly a vital link connecting the Lixia River and the Grand Canal, and linking the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. Customers came to both sides of the Grand Canal for transportation, and the situation lasted for more than 600 years until around the 1940s, when it was severely damaged by war and a fire that affected more than 40 shops, gradually leading to a depression.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the restoration of Yucheng Post by the People's Government of Gaoyou City from 1993 to 1995, this 230 meter long Nanmen Street was restored to its original state and revitalized.

Nanmen Street

Day 3: Gaoyou Yucheng Post [Purchase Ticket]

Yucheng Post Station is located in Guanyi Lane outside the south gate of Gaoyou City. The post station was established in the 8th year of the Ming Hongwu period and is one of the well preserved ancient post station relics in China. After restoration, it has been turned into the only "Post Station Museum" in the country. It is now a national level cultural relic protection unit.

Yucheng Post Station

Qin Youting

Yucheng Post Station

Gaoyou City Cuisine:

Gaoyou Lake hairy crab

Gaoyou Duck Egg

Jieshou dried tea

Crab roe meat bun

Gaoyou Soy Sauce Noodles

Fan Chuan's little belly

Snow Tofu

Chen Xiaowu Wonton

Hot dried silk

Traveling may not necessarily cost much money, and not traveling may not necessarily save much money or become wealthy. In life, there is not much time that truly belongs to oneself. Living according to one's own will is the best life. When the sunshine is just right and the breeze is not dry, go see the people you want to see and the scenery you want to see. This is the beautiful life

The mountains and rivers along the way are connected and undulating. The winding and twisting road winding on the mountainside is like strands of ribbons wrapped around the green mountains, becoming a unique and beautiful scenery. The hazy distant mountains are shrouded in a layer of light veil, casting a shadow that is elusive. In the misty clouds and smoke, they suddenly come and go, seeming both close and distant. Seeing this scene, one can only sigh: "This scenery should only exist in the sky, and we can hear it a few times on earth

Traveling feeling: I was a person who loved to walk around. I walked through countless mountains, rivers, Rivers and Lakes, from the southern paradise Suzhou and Hangzhou, to Harbin Ice City in the north, to the northernmost desert in China, from the south of colored clouds in the west, to the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in the east, to Putuo who had visited the East China Sea in the east, and continued to travel south to Hainan, from the Central Plains to Sichuan and Lhasa in the southwest, and from Gansu and Shaanxi to Xinjiang in the northwest. I will look for highlights of my journey in this place of love and longing, and carefully record my love for a place, most of which is for someone or something For your experience and beautiful scenery, please visit Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province.

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