My fourth visit to Yangzhou, in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, is also considered to have gathered all the four seasons of Yangzhou. In spring in Yangzhou, peach blossoms and willows are green on both sides of the Grand Canal, grass grows and birds fly by the slender West Lake. When spring rain falls, I see the green bamboo leaves in front of the hall and listen to the sound of rain as pearls fall on the jade plate; In the scorching summer, Yangzhou is a city with unique red lotus flowers. In autumn, Yangzhou sheds the heat and humidity of summer, and the leaves in the garden are colorful in red and yellow. If there is a snowfall in Yangzhou in winter, will Pingshantang after the snow rub shoulders with Su Dongpo.

Everyone loves to say that fireworks bloom in Yangzhou in March, and the beauty of Yangzhou is not limited to March.

Every time I come to Yangzhou, what I must do is to start from Caiyi Street, Dongguan Street, and Pishi Street. Every season has its own unique style, and I also want to go to Shouxi Lake because there are always new changes. What's new is that we went to the Huaiyang Cuisine Cuisine Museum, a place with few people and fun, to have breakfast tea, and we also punched in the Yangzhou Double Museum to get a deeper understanding of the city, and visited the Hanling Garden to feel the great wisdom of ancient tombs; Going to Beihu Wetland is perfect for a family camping vacation!

My favorite part of the entire trip was Gaoyou, which is an hour's drive from the city center of Yangzhou. It is Wang Zengqi's unforgettable hometown. There are not only Salted duck egg, steamed stuffed buns, smoked buns, straw oven Shaobing (Baked cake in griddle) that haunt him, but also ancient towns and old streets where there are few quiet people. Passing by Qingzhuan Xiaowa, passing by a market full of locals, I met snacks that I had never seen before. This is the perfect place for CityWalk. I like it and will come back next time.

Travel itinerary sharing

Day1 Have morning tea in Huaiyang Cuisine Museum Yangzhou Double Museum Slim West Lake Paeonia Garden Theater in the Rain Night Tour

Day2 Gaoyou one-day tour Yucheng Post Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall Wang Family Banquet

Day3 Wanfu Bridge Green Skin Train Hotel North Lake Wetland Hanling Garden

Huaiyang Cuisine Museum has breakfast tea

Every time I come to Yangzhou for morning tea, it subverts my understanding of "breakfast". Brewing the best Kui Long Zhu, I start to receive the baptism of traditional breakfast one by one. The translucent meat dishes, jadeite roasted wheat stuffed with shepherd's purse, five diced buns freshly made and steaming hot, crab roe soup dumplings swaying in front of me, poking a small hole to drink the soup while it's hot

There are always people in Yangzhou looking for authentic Huaiyang Cuisine cuisine. Can it be wrong to eat in Huaiyang Cuisine Museum! After finishing breakfast, take a stroll around the museum, which is located inside the Lu family's ancient residence. The entire building was handmade by salt merchant Lu Shaoxu during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, costing 70000 taels of silver. The overall construction area exceeds 4000 square meters, magnificent and grand, and is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Traveling through it, it's interesting to catch a glimpse of the "nine entrances" of the Lu family's ancient mansion. The doors and windows gradually shrink layer by layer, and the mansion displays luxurious banquets from the past. I want to travel back to ancient times and touch the exquisite and prosperous time.

Address: Huaiyang Cuisine Cuisine Museum, No. 22, Kangshan Street, Yangzhou

Admission: Museum free of charge

Business hours: 7:00am

Morning tea: 50 per person

Yangzhou Twin Museums

In my understanding, the best way to learn about the cultural history of a city is to visit the city's museums. This time, I came to visit the Double Museum in Yangzhou, which is a traditional old museum in Yangzhou. We rushed to open it, and there were very few people. The entire venue was very quiet, and it was two different worlds from the popular Grand Canal Museum.

Walking quietly through literature, cultural relics, and ornaments with historical context as clues, touching the heartbeat of history. The Yangzhou Shuangbo Museum consists of the Yangzhou China Woodblock Printing Museum and the Yangzhou Museum New Building, and is a national AAAA level tourist attraction. The Shuangbo Museum is located on the west side of Mingyue Lake, facing the Yangzhou International Exhibition Center across the lake. The national treasure level cultural relic "Yuan Dynasty Blue glazed White Dragon Plum Vase" is the treasure of the museum.

Ticket: Free

Opening hours: Every Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00-17:00 (closing at 16:00), closed on Mondays

Strolling through West Lake in the Rain

There is another beauty to West Lake in the rain. The slender ancient river is connected to the Grand Canal, with two embankments of flowers and willows all leaning against the water. The lake surface winds and turns, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, with intertwined trees on both sides and pavilions and towers. This place was already a prosperous scene during the Qing, Kangxi, and Qianlong periods, known as the "peak of gardens, unparalleled in the world". On both sides of the Skinny West Lake, there are red shore flowers blooming, and the sky is very cloudy. As we walk, it rains. We take shelter at Wuting Bridge, and the oil paper umbrella prop brought by our companions can really block the rain!

After coming here many times, I feel that my knowledge reserves are all on the road. Nowadays, it is also easy to tell first-time visitors about Shouxi Lake with ease. For example, there are 14 scenic spots to see in Shouxi Lake, including Dahongqiao, Changdi Chunliu, Wuting Bridge, Xiaojin Mountain, Baita, Wangchun Tower, Xichun Terrace, Diaoyutai

The Wuting Bridge, where we take shelter from the rain, is a representative building of Shouxi Lake and one of the top ten famous bridges in ancient China. Built in the 22nd year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, it was modeled after the Five Dragon Pavilion and Seventeen Arch Bridge in Beihai, Beijing.

The yellow pavilion in the center of the lake is a fishing platform. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong came to Yangzhou, the local salt merchants heard that Qianlong liked fishing and quickly built a pavilion to fish. If there were no fish in the lake, they would release them now.

How can the White Tower in the distance be the same as the one in Beijing? Don't doubt it is not the same. During his boat tour of Shouxi Lake, Emperor Qianlong pondered and said to officials in Yangzhou, "This place is really like the spring shade of Qiong Island in the capital city of Beihai, but unfortunately it is missing a white pagoda. As soon as the words fell, the White Pagoda quickly reached the ears of the salt merchants. Jiang Chun, one of the eight major salt merchants, used ten thousand gold to build a White Pagoda overnight with salt packets. The next day, Emperor Qianlong saw it from afar and couldn't help but feel delighted, saying, "The salt merchants in Yangzhou are truly renowned for their wealth. After Qianlong left Yangzhou, Jiang Chun spent a lot of money to build a real White Pagoda. The White Pagoda on the banks of Shouxi Lake today was built by Yangzhou salt merchants for Emperor Qianlong in the past.

The Twenty Four Bridges on a Bright Moon Night

Clear Sky, Heyuan, Light and Shadow Secret Realm

The fourth visit to Yangzhou to He Yuan can be considered as gathering all the spring, summer, autumn, winter, and winter of He Yuan. This time, I am already satisfied. After the rain, the sky is clear, the air is transparent, and the light and shadow wander around. Everywhere I look, there are paintings. However, there are always regrets. I haven't seen the blooming magnolia trees in early spring and the red leaves in the garden in late autumn. I can come and go many times.

The owner of He Yuan was He Zhizhen, a third rank official of the Qing Dynasty. In the ninth year of the Guangxu reign, he resigned from his official position and returned to Yangzhou to show filial piety to his mother. It took him 13 years to build He Yuan. The whole garden is divided into four parts: East Garden, West Garden, Garden Residence Courtyard, and Pianshishan Mountain House. There is a Water Heart Pavilion in the pool for the garden owner to enjoy the scenery and cool off. The young and old people in the garden live in the Jade Embroidery Building in the south, a building that combines Chinese and Western styles. It combines traditional Chinese brick and wood structures with French style louvered doors, windows, fireplaces, and Japanese style sliding doors.

Strolling through the corridor, seeking shelter from rain on rainy days and shade from the sun on sunny days, the corridor is adorned with various flower windows for framing, with designs inspired by plum blossoms, crabapples, lotus petals, folding fans

📍 Location: No. 66 Xuningmen Street, Guangling District, Yangzhou

🎫 Ticket: 45

🕢 Time: 7:30-17:30

Night tour of a garden, peony garden, listening to music

Regarding the nightlife in Yangzhou, in addition to finding a Yangzhou master to rub your back, you can also stroll around the garden, listen to music in the small theater, go to Winter Glory Garden last winter, and this time go to Peony Garden in Changle Inn on Dongguan Street to perform traditional performances such as Guqin, Yangzhou Qingqu, Pingtan, etc. brought by artists. The performance in the small theater was casual, and the guests ate Dim sum while drinking tea. The artists told stories while performing on the stage. The master who played the ancient zither told us about the "nine sky pendant" worth 400 million yuan, which everyone enjoyed.

After the performance, we strolled to a garden. The original owner of the garden was Huang Zhiyun, the salt general of Lianghuai during the Qing Dynasty's Jiaqing period. He had a great love for bamboo and believed that it had the characteristics of solidity, guilt, straightness, and chastity, and had the style of a gentleman. Therefore, he named his garden after Yuan Mei's poem "The moon reflects thousands of words on bamboo".

The nightclubs of my garden have opened, with rockeries representing the four seasons illuminated by different colored lights. The mountains are made of stacked stones, and bamboo forests are planted. In the deep water pavilion, amidst the interplay of light and shadow, the pipa performance touches people's heartstrings. Walking around, there are also Pingtan and dance performances, with a few plucked strings and the melodious guzheng playing at night. There are very few people in the garden at night, which is a completely different and pleasant feeling.

Evening Night Tour Entrance: North Gate and South Gate of Geyuan

Night tour performance ticket price: Adult ticket: 55 yuan/person Half price ticket: 25 yuan/person

Detailed address: No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Ancient Cainiao Station Yucheng Station

When strolling on the streets of Gaoyou, one can always feel the unique postal culture of this small town: the sculpture of a letter messenger in the south of the city, and the statue of a messenger holding a document in the city. The Yucheng Post Station we are visiting is the best preserved ancient post station in China, with functions such as philatelic post station, mansion, transportation, and canal transportation. It covers an area of over 16000 square meters and consists of buildings such as a gate, drum tower, warehouse, gift giving room, post office, courier house, horse temple, etc. It has now been listed as a key cultural heritage site in the country.

Although Yucheng Posthouse is not large in area, it is the only ancient postal culture exhibition in China. You can wander around the ancient courtyards, ancient post wells, ancient courtyards, ancient memorial archway and other relics in the post house. Compared with today's logistics and express industry, you really feel that the changes are too fast and the changes are changing.

Address: No. 13, Guanyi Lane, Nanmen Waiguan, Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City

Admission: Adults 25, Students 15

Opening hours: 08:15-17:30

Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall

The whole world is cold, only I am hot

I feel like I've known Mr. Wang for a long time, and I already know about the delicious food he wrote about, just like he said, 'Have a friendly conversation with a friend you can talk to about the life you know.'.

I love reading Wang Lao's prose. He is a person who is good at observation and loves life. He is a foodie and a versatile artist. He knows how to eat and cook, making him the best cook among writers and the best writer among foodies. His words make people feel that everything is calm and beautiful. He speaks calmly and calmly, soothing restless hearts.

Adding some information, Wang Zengqi is a contemporary Chinese novelist, essayist, and playwright, known as a representative figure of the Beijing School writers. On March 5, 1920, Wang Zengqi was born into an old-fashioned landlord family in Gaoyou Town. In the summer of 1939, he was admitted to the Chinese Literature Department of Southwest Associated University. Most of Wang Lao's works were about the local customs and daily life in his hometown of Gaoyou, where he had memories and dreams of his childhood.

The memorial hall was built in 2017 and officially opened to the public on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Wang Zengqi in 2020. The Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall is divided into four functional areas according to the principle of "one axis, two belts, and three sections", namely the Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, the Wang Fan Tribe, the Wang Family Banquet, and the Wang Family Inn. There are 11 exhibition halls on the two floors of the museum, divided into five themes: "One Hundred Years of Mr. Wang", "Wang Zengqi's Literary World", "People and Events in Hometown", "Human made Literature", and "Nostalgia and Inheritance", fully showcasing Mr. Wang's master style.

Address: No. 9 Zhujia Lane, Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Time: Open from 09:00 to 17:00 (closed at 16:30)

Ticket: Free

Restoration of Text: Wang Family Banquet

The Wang family banquet is held next to the memorial hall. This restaurant was initiated by the government through a study of Wang's culinary language and consulting with Wang Zengqi's family to restore the authentic flavor that Wang admires. The Wang family banquet has become a local tourist attraction.

In his book "Old Taste · Cooking", Wang Lao wrote: "deep-fried dough sticks stuffed with meat is my invention and can apply for a patent. deep-fried dough sticks is cut into half inch long segments. Use your fingers to take out the gaps in the inner layer, insert minced meat, scallions, and mustard tuber, and then deep fry it in the pan."

You can also eat the "Wang Tofu" that you learned about when you were a child. In "Tofu", it is written: Cut the tofu into small slices the size of a fingernail, push them into shrimp soy sauce soup, roll a few times, thicken the sauce, pour a spoonful of cooked lard in a grand bowl, and you are ready to eat. It's called 'Wang Tofu', probably because it has a layer of oil on top. I scooped it with a spoon and ate it. Be careful when eating, don't be impatient because it's very hot.

Pu Bao Rou, as mentioned in the novel "Yi Bing", was used by people in Gaoyou to make delicious food with Pu Bao and meat filling, which is very suitable for buying as souvenirs. There are also various food presentations in books that need to be carefully read and tasted slowly.

Green Skin Train Hotel

Yangzhou Green Car Hotel, a retro experience that travels through time and space. In the 1912 town of Yangzhou Ecological Science and Technology New City, there is a Green Car Hotel that focuses on the transformation of train carriages and the theme of green train travel through time and space, incorporating the retro and nostalgic style of China's 1980s green trains. The Green Leather Car Hotel includes one steam locomotive (locomotive) and 28 train carriages, which can accommodate around 200 people at the same time. Its appearance is no different from that of a regular green leather train, but it has a lot of features inside. In the small carriage rooms, everything that should be available is fully equipped.

Shoot Wanfu Bridge and become a person of Wanfu

The air is clear and the Wanfu Bridge looks so beautiful. The Wanfu Bridge spans over the main river channel of the Huai River, Liaojiagou. Rather than being a bridge, the bridge is filled with traffic, buildings, pavilions, and towers, with a base resembling a triumphal arch. The main building of the bridge is 90 meters high, and with the addition of a copper gourd roof, the landscape bridge is nearly 100 meters high, with a main span of 188 meters and a total length of 664 meters. The upper level is a two-way six lane road, and the lower level is for non motorized vehicles and pedestrian walkways to climb up the tower, overlooking the Seven Rivers and Eight Islands, Jiangguang New City

Stretching for over a hundred miles, the river network interweaves, and the lakes are densely covered... "This is the record of Beihu in the" Beihu Chronicles "; Hundreds of years later, strolling through the North Lake Wetland Park in Yangzhou, the ancient books mentioning Qionghuawu, North Lake Viewing Lotus, and Abandoned Lake Pink and White have also been reproduced. The scenic spots retain their classical charm and also have modern functional facilities.

The Beihu Wetland Park is now divided into an ecological conservation area, a restoration and reconstruction area, and a propaganda and exhibition area. In accordance with the principle of ecological restoration and protection of the natural environment, the park has created a total of sixteen landscape areas consisting of three major parts: "Thirty Two West Lakes", "Liuhu Lake", and "Abandoned Lake". Address: With a wide view and a natural oxygen bar, this place has become a treasure check-in spot for sightseeing around Yangzhou.

Address: Northeast of the intersection of Diding Road and Dongxing Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City

Time: Open all day of the year

Ticket: 20 Park Small Trains 20

The Miracle of Han Dynasty Large Wooden Coffin Tomb in Hanling Garden

The owner of the Han Tomb in Hanling Garden was the fourth son of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Xu, the first king of Guangling in the Western Han Dynasty. In 117 BC, he was appointed as the capital of Guangling. During his 64 year reign, he repeatedly summoned witches to curse the emperor for coveting the throne. In 54 BC, he was convicted of suicide with a ribbon. According to historical records, Liu Xu had an empty head but developed limbs. He has extraordinary arm strength and is strong enough to fight wild beasts, so the golden jade robe he saw outside the museum was very large.

When it comes to the tombs of ancient Chinese emperors, you can imagine how luxurious they were. The tomb chamber of King Guangling covers an area of 237 square meters and consumes 540 cubic meters of nanmu. It consists of an outer coffin, a yellow sausage inscription, an east and west pavilion, a middle coffin, an inner coffin, a toilet room, and a Zi Palace, making it an underground palace.

Many people are familiar with the Golden Thread Jade Robe, but may be unfamiliar with the "Yellow Intestine Inscription", which is a prominent feature of the Han Tomb in Hanling Garden. Intestinal structure is a wooden structure set outside the coffin. The material used for 'Huangchang' is cypress wood with a yellow heart. 'Ti' refers to the head of the question, which is the end of the wood. 'Jiao' refers to the structure formed by aggregating and piecing together the wood, which replaces bricks. The ancient mortise and tenon technique, with each wooden component in the tomb having different sizes and staggered edges on all four sides, arranged in an orderly manner. The gaps are tight and even the thinnest blades cannot be inserted, making it truly a masterpiece.

Hanling Garden is a grand scale, well preserved, complex structure, exquisite materials, and well crafted wooden coffin tomb, becoming a typical representative of the "Yellow Intestine Inscription Collection" style. It advanced some of the wooden coffin systems recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Construction Method" by more than 1100 years, which is a great miracle in the history of architecture

After visiting, don't forget that there is also a queen's tomb chamber next to it, with a total area of 182.85 square meters. This tomb is made of approximately 450 cubic meters of nanmu, and its structure consists of sealed soil, tomb pits, north-south tomb passages for storing coffins, and external coffins. Twelve carriages were unearthed inside the coffin, making it a large carriage and horse storage facility

Address: No. 98 Pingshantang East Road, Weiyang District, Yangzhou City

Open from 08:30-17:00 (closed at 17:00)

Ticket: 30