On January 17, 2020, my wife and I drove to Yangzhou. Although I had long known countless famous quotes such as "Fireworks fall under Yangzhou in March" and "Green Yang City is Yangzhou", although I have also traveled through Yangzhou many times, I have never had the opportunity to stop my hasty steps and calm down and see the scenery. Today is just an opportunity. At the kind invitation of my college classmates Huang Han and his wife, I finally came to the Slender West Lake to enjoy the beauty of the legendary Slender West Lake. After I saw it, in my eyes, the so-called Slender West Lake was just a river. As for why he became relatives with the West Lake, it was because during the Qing Dynasty, Wang Hang, a Qiantang poet, came to Yangzhou from Hangzhou. When he saw the scenery here, he couldn't help but write a poem praising: "The weeping poplar continues to pick up the remnants, and the geese 'teeth are painted by the Hongqiao Yan. It is also a pot of gold, so it should be called Slender West Lake." As a result, a moat in Yangzhou, also known as the "Guarantee River", was forcibly transformed into the famous "Slender West Lake". Moreover, Slender West Lake also became the name of Yangzhou, just like when mentioning Hangzhou, it is called West Lake. Since ancient times, literati have always felt their own feelings, and Yangzhou has naturally enjoyed its success.

We entered the scenic area from the magnificent west gate of Slender West Lake. The three-character plaque of "Slender West Lake" on the lintel was the writing of the late Yangzhou calligrapher Sun Longfu. Starting from the entrance, cross the tree-lined avenue and cross the Quchi Bridge. Among the green trees, a sizable two-story building came into view. This was the first stop of our trip, Xichun Terrace. Xichun Terrace is the main building of the 24th Bridge Scenic Area, facing Xiaojin Mountain in a distance. It is also the location of "Chuntai Bright Moon", one of Yangzhou's "24th Scenery". The word "Xichun" comes from Lao Tzu's saying,"Everyone is bustling, like climbing a spring terrace." It expresses a state of climbing high in spring, people coming and going shoulder to shoulder, and integrating with nature. Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou salt merchants once celebrated Emperor Qianlong's birthday here, so this scene is also called "Chuntai Birthday Celebration". The emperor himself also enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Slender West Lake here and left many poems.

The main shape of the Xichun Terrace building is a two-story pavilion on the top of the mountain. The walls are made of blue-gray masonry like other local buildings in Yangzhou. The main wooden components such as doors, windows, columns and other main wooden components are dark brown, which reflects the grand style of the royal garden everywhere. The style, using white jade, jade body and gold roof and green glazed tiles, is particularly commensurate with the surrounding blue sky and green trees. Looking from the front, the pavilions and eaves corners are like a roc spreading its wings, looking powerful and majestic. On the plaque on the front, two sets of golden characters "Xichun Terrace" and "Spring Terrace Celebrating Birthday" are written, highlighting the royal family's supremacy over the world, and the various carved doors and windows are quite exquisite and meticulous, which also reveals the unique elegance and delicacy of Jiangnan water towns, which is endless aftertaste.

The main building of Xichun Terrace is magnificent, with a thousand-meter platform in front of the door. The scene is magnificent. The second floor is a place for drinking tea. It is antique. Several guzheng are plucked by slender jade fingers dressed in ancient costumes. The wonderful melody makes people feel like they have traveled through the long Tang and Song Dynasties. Xichun Terrace can be regarded as the best viewing platform in Slender West Lake. Looking out from the windows on the second floor of Xichun Terrace, you can have a panoramic view of Wuting Bridge and Slender West Lake. On the left and right sides of the main building, there are verandas rockery on one side, which has the changing beauty of the southern garden. The mountains and rivers are flat and distant, and the towers are scattered, becoming a classic picture on the Slender West Lake. On the other side is the curved corridor and cross pavilion, which is planted with stone flower beds such as black pine and golden osmanthus, and is connected by a compound road to the double-eaves pavilion. Looking forward from here, you can have a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery. The turquoise water surface is like a glowing bronze mirror, reflecting the surrounding blue skies, white clouds, green trees, red flowers, pavilions and pavilions. Wandering among the lakes and mountains, it seems to be appreciating a moving landscape painting.

Not far northwest of Xichun Terrace is the famous "Twenty-Four Bridge". It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there were twenty-four graceful young women who were good at singing and dancing living around this bridge. They were called "Twenty-Four Jiao". Because the pronunciation of "Jiao" and "Bridge" were similar at that time, they spread rumors, leaving behind the allusions of "Twenty-Four Bridge" and becoming a landmark sight. Scholars from all dynasties and dynasties have praised and described this scene. For example, Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty left behind a poem such as "The green mountains are faintly and the water is far away, and the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not yet withered at the end of autumn; the twenty-four bridges and the bright moon night, where is the jade man taught to play the flute?" This is a popular poem.

The Twenty-Four Bridge Scenic Area has pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and is decorated poetically. The 24th Bridge is a combination bridge connected by a mountain stream plank road, a single arch bridge, a three-folded flat bridge and a blowing flute pavilion. The mountain stream plank road is made of Huangshi, which is powerful and simple. Among them, the most eye-catching thing is a single-hole arched stone bridge made of white marble. The white marble railings are elegant like jade belts and neon waves. The bridge hole in the middle is like a frame, enclosing the water surface and the scenery on the shore, forming an effect similar to a landscape painting. The bridge is 24 meters long and 2.4 meters wide. There are 24 steps on the upper and lower sides of the bridge, surrounded by 24 white jade railings and 24 fence boards. It can be said that it has an indissoluble bond with the "Twenty-Four". The embossed of colorful clouds chasing the moon on the white fence, the junction between the bridge and the water is stacked with cleverly cloud-shaped lake stones, and the fragrant osmanthus is planted all over the place, allowing people to see clouds, water, moon and flowers at any time, and experience the "Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night". The wonderful scenery of the "Bright Moon Night" is remembered from the past. Connected to the bridge is a three-folded flat bridge in the shape of a curved ruler. When people walk in it, the scenery they see at each position is different. The end point is the "Blow Xiao Pavilion". The name comes from the allusions in the poem. The shape is exquisite and transparent., quite unique, a series of landscape combinations have formed the artistic conception of poetry, painting and stories, which reminds people of the prosperity of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The 24th Bridge Scenic Area includes Xichun Terrace, Linglong Flower World, General Xiao Li's Painting Book, Wangchun Tower and 24th Bridge. We walked along the water's edge to a courtyard surrounded by greenery and clusters of flowers. The hard hilltop tea room with blue-gray bricks looked antique against the surrounding corridor. The Taihu Lake stone flower beds in the courtyard were originally planted with peonies and peonies. Flowers such as peonies and peonies are called the "Linglong Flower World", which is the place to watch peony in Guangling. In the Song Dynasty, there was a saying that "Luoyang peonies, Guangling peonies". Ouyang Xiu once wrote such a poem: "Qionghua peonies have no ethics in the world. Occasionally, if you don't write poems, you will blame others; and you will get drunk in the Wushuang Pavilion, knowing that you will live up to Guangling Spring." The peony is about 1 meter high, has a spindle-shaped root tuber, and produces new buds on the underground stem. The new buds emerge from the ground in early spring, and the first leaves are red. The base of the stem often has scale-like deformed leaves, and the middle compound leaves appear twice and three times. The leaflets are rectangular or lanceolate, and the branch tips are tapered or become simple. The flowers are large, beautiful and fragrant, and bloom from April to May. The peony flower has red leaves and yellow waist, and is called Jindaiwei. It is a very rare flower, different from ordinary peony flowers. History books have only been opened 6 times in the past thousand years. When Duke Wei of Han was the prefect of Yangzhou, he received a golden belt to surround four trees and invited three guests to reward them. At that time, Wang Wei was a county soldier and Wang Anshi was an order official. They were both invited and there was still one person missing. At this time, the flowers were in full bloom, and Duke Han Wei said: There was a guest passing by today, so I invited him to enjoy it. In the evening, a servant at the door announced that Chen Shengzhi's tutor had arrived. Duke Wei of Han kept him and held a banquet the next day. He folded a gold belt around it and placed it on the official hat. In the next ten years, four people became prime ministers one after another.

The buildings opposite the Linglong Flower Boundary across the lake are Wangchun Tower and General Xiao Li's paintings. They are built on a platform surrounded by white marble railings. The white walls and gray tiles in the style of Jiangnan water town appear particularly soft against the backdrop of the winter sun, presenting a Jiangnan garden style. The architectural layout belongs to Xichun Terrace, and the color tone is fresh and elegant, fully reflecting the beauty of the south. The main building of Wangchun Tower is a water-facing hall and a two-story pavilion. The north and south rooms on the lower level are water courtyards and mountain courtyards respectively, introducing the landscape into the interior and perfectly integrating it with the surrounding landscape, mountains and trees. Together, the upper doors and windows can be removed to turn into a terrace, which is a good place to admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. General Xiao Li refers to Li Zhaodao, the son of Li Sixun, a great painter of the Tang Dynasty. This father and son were not only good at leading troops, but also founded the Jinbi Landscape Painting School. As the saying goes,"flowers are the book of paintings, and the moon is the source of poems." Named General Xiao Li's Painting Book, it means that the beautiful scenery here is the source of inspiration for General Xiao Li's paintings.

We continued to move eastward along the water surface. Looking north from the water pavilion on the shore, the willows along the coast swayed in the wind, looking soft, flexible and graceful. The trees were in different shapes and stacked on top of each other, forming a rich variety. Canopy line. Across the open water, a strange-looking bridge came into our view. This is the Wuting Bridge, a landmark building in Slender West Lake and even Yangzhou. Because it was built on the Lotus Embankment and the front shape of the pavilion corridor resembles a lotus flower, it is also known as Lotus Bridge. If you look at it from the air, it looks very like a large and beautiful lotus flower floating on Slender West Lake. This bridge was built in the 22nd year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1757). It was specially designed and built by the Yangzhou Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy and local salt merchants at that time to welcome the Emperor Qianlong's patrol. The shape is modeled after the Five Dragon Pavilion and the Seventeen-Arch Bridge in Beihai, Beijing. The pavilion and the bridge are combined into one with a new site."Five pavilions are built on the top and four wings are below, and there are five out of ten on the front side of the bridge hole." The architectural style not only has the vigor and vitality of the north, but also the clarity and beauty of the south. It can be said that it has the beauty of the south and the majesty of the north. Professor Mao Yisheng, a famous Chinese bridge expert, once commented: "The oldest bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, the most magnificent bridge is the Lugou Bridge, and the most beautiful and artistic representative bridge is the Wuting Bridge in Yangzhou."

The Wuting Bridge has an elegant and beautiful shape. There are five peak wind pavilions with southern characteristics. There are treasure roofs on the pavilions, and the eaves corners stretch in four directions, like a phoenix fluttering its wings about to fly. Wind chimes are hung outside the pavilions. The pavilion is decorated with colorful caisson, carefully carved and magnificent. The golden tiles at the top of the pavilion are matched with vermilion beams and white railings, making it even more luxurious and magnificent. The Five Dragons Pavilion is built near the water. The middle pavilion is called Longze, and the bottom of the double eaves is round, symbolizing the round sky and the square earth; the west pavilion is Yongrui and Fucui, Yongrui is square double eaves, and Fucui is square single eaves; the east pavilion is Chengxiang and Zixiang, and Chengxiang is square double eaves. The five pavilions are all roofed with green glazed tiles, and there are stone beams connected between the pavilions, which are like a swimming dragon. The other three pavilions, Longze, Zixiang and Fucui, have single-hole stone bridges connected to the stone bank, and pearl railings and painted buildings shine on the ripples. Wuting Bridge in Yangzhou has no open water in the North Sea, so of course it is impossible to copy the Wulong Pavilion. However, smart craftsmen took a different approach and combined the pavilion and the bridge to form a pavilion bridge, which was divided into five pavilions and gathered on one bridge. The pavilions were connected by short corridors to form a complete roof.

Under the Wuting Bridge are thick piers with northern architectural characteristics, harmoniously combining the architectural art of the north and south, garden design and bridge engineering. The piers of Wuting Bridge are made of 12 large bluestone blocks, forming a thick and powerful "I"-shaped bridge foundation. The bridge body of Wuting Bridge is composed of rolling holes of different sizes and shapes. While ensuring uniform stress, it also makes the structure of the bridge body lighter and more transparent. The bridge builders built the bridge body into an arch roll shape, connected by three different types of roll holes. There are 15 bridge holes. The center bridge hole is the largest, with a span of 7.13 meters. It is in a large semicircle that runs straight through the east and west. Twelve bridge holes are arranged on three sides of the bridge foundation and can lead to the north and south, which is also a small semicircle. The bridge step holes are fan shaped and can lead to the east and west. Looking from the front, together with the reflections, five holes are formed. In this way, on the thick bridge foundation, ethereal arches are arranged, and curved bridge holes are placed in the straight joint corners, which is naturally harmonious with the bridge pavilion. No wonder later generations compared the bridge foundation to a mighty warrior in the north, and compared the bridge pavilion to a beautiful girl in the south. This is the combination of strength and beauty, and the harmony of strength and beauty. There are fifteen rolling holes on the front side of the four wings below the bridge, which are connected to each other. Whenever the bright moon is in the sky, each hole holds the moon, rippling gold, and the moons compete for glory, hanging upside down in the lake, and rafting between the holes, which is unique and interesting. Just as Huang Xing 'an, a native of the Qing Dynasty, praised in "Looking at the Hundred Songs of Jiangnan":"Yangzhou is good. It spans the Wuting Bridge high, has clear waves on all sides and a moon mirror, its head is hollow across the clouds, and you listen to the jade flute at night."

We walked along the ramp to the top of the bridge, stood in the middle of the double-eaves pavilion and looked around. We had a panoramic view of the surrounding lakes and mountains. Not far away, there was a waterside pavilion with white walls and gray tiles. It was built by Chen Chenshuo, a county gentleman in Yangzhou during the Republic of China. The villa was built in 1921. Because it floated on the water like a waterbird, it was named "Fuzhuang" and can be called a Penglai Wonderland in Slender West Lake. The features of the scenery should be as small as possible, detailed and exquisite. The pavilions, pavilions, corridors and pavilions on the village are small and unique. There is a water pavilion in the east, and several water pavilions in the west, surrounded by corridors surrounded by water. Only a curved bridge in the south is connected to the lake bank. The beauty of Fuzhuang is that it is surrounded by water and ducks are in the water, reflecting that the owners of the garden at that time wanted their lives to rise and fall independently. Now there are platforms and carved railings here, where you can sit in the open air and look out from the water. There is a curved corridor on the west side, where you can look up at the beauty of the bridge pavilion and the joy of swimming fish. Looking up at the Wuting Bridge here, you only feel the resplendent and magnificent; looking at Fuzhuang from the bridge, you can feel the pleasant style of Jiangnan gardens.

Walking through Fuzhuang, you will see a long ridge built in the lake in front of you. At the top of the ridge is a very small yellow pavilion. This is the blowing stage. The original intention of the designer was to play Jiangnan silk bamboo in the lake during Qianlong's tour, so it was called "blowing stage". Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong once fished fish here, so it is also called Diaoyutai. However, this small Diaoyutai in Yangzhou is also a model of famous Chinese pavilion architecture and a representative work that reaches the peak of "borrowing scenery" of Chinese garden art. The Diaoyutai faces the water on three sides, each with a round door and a hole. Looking from the front and right side of the Diaoyutai Islands, the round hole in the center just contains the scene of "Wuting Bridge", and the round hole on the left just contains the scene of "White Tower". They are like two unique pictures. The skillful borrowing technique is admirable. The three words "Diaoyutai" were personally inscribed by Mr. Liu Haisu, and the couplet on both sides "The great song goes to Nanzhu, fishing for the autumn wind" was inscribed by Qi Gong.

Our group walked along the garden road. On the north bank, there were basically relatively open lawns and dense forests with scattered heights and layers of layers. From time to time, a few pigeons flew by, which was full of the atmosphere of modern life. Not far away is the Jade Banqiao Bridge. It was built in the late Ming Dynasty. It was originally a wooden structure, but after a long period of disrepair, it was changed into a masonry structure during reconstruction and has been passed down to this day.

Walking through the Jade Banqiao Bridge, we arrived at the island in the lake in Slender West Lake, and we saw the bonsai "Dead Wood in Spring", which is known as the largest tree stump in Yangzhou. There are two types of city trees in Yangzhou. One is willow tree, because of the reputation of Yangzhou Baigu as "Green Yang City is Yangzhou". The second is ginkgo tree, because its age is generally relatively long and can reflect the history of Yangzhou. This tree is a ginkgo tree planted in Ancient Mulan Temple in Yangzhou during the Tang Dynasty. It has been more than a thousand years old now. After being struck by lightning, only the withered trunk remains, but the tree pattern is smooth and ornamental. Later generations moved here after thinking about it, and then planted a climbing sky. The climbing sky is a rattan plant that climbs it. Every summer, the climbing sky sky flowers have luxuriant leaves and produce orange-red morning bells. Looking from a distance, it seems that the ancient tree has come alive again, so it is named "Dead Wood in Spring" and becomes a scene in the park.

Xiaojinshan is the largest island in the Slender West Lake Scenic Area. At that time, in order to open up the water passage from Slender West Lake to Daming Temple, the Yangzhou gentry dug the Lianhuaneng New River northwest of Slender West Lake. The earth piles of the river turned into a hill. This is today's Xiaojinshan, formerly known as Changchun Ridge. Xiaojin Mountain is surrounded by water. The water turns with the mountains. The mountains are alive because of the water. The mountains and gardens are both on the small island in the center of the lake. It is a group of garden buildings bordering the mountains and the water. Most of the existing buildings, rockery, etc. are relics of the Qing Dynasty. The surrounding area is surrounded by Huangshi to form a retaining wall, which plays the role of decoration and soil consolidation and slope protection. Ancient trees stand tall in the sky and are densely shaded, and mottled tree shadows are evenly scattered on the ground, making people feel particularly comfortable and comfortable. Plum blossoms are planted all over the mountain. Whenever the fragrance of plum blossoms overflows in winter, tourists come here to walk in the snow and find plum blossoms. Therefore, it is also called "Meiling Deep Spring" and is one of the twenty-fourth scenic spots in the Qing Dynasty.

Pine and cypresses are planted on the mountain, and there is a "Wind Pavilion" on the top of the mountain. It is the highest point in the park and overlooks the lake. It is one of the main scenic spots of Slender West Lake. It is what the famous essayist Mr. Zhu Ziqing said,"Slender West Lake is the best place to see the water and the moon." There is a couplet on the wind pavilion,"The wind and moon are boundless, what is the heart here? The pavilion is still the same, I envy him for collecting all the smoke and water." The name Fengting is named after the first word of the first and second couplet. It can be seen that the scenery you can enjoy standing on the top of Xiaojin Mountain is very beautiful."The mountains are not high, but the value lies in the level. The water is not wide, but twists and turns are wonderful." This is the beauty of Slender West Lake and Xiaojinshan.

Xiaojinshan was actually built by Cheng Zhiquan, an alternate governor during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, because of the method of making plum blossoms piles taught by Guan Yu in his dream. It is said that when the soil was pushed to form the mountain, the rhinoceros piles collapsed many times, but it failed for three years. Cheng Zhiquan was very anxious. Once, in his sleep, he saw Guan Di leading his soldiers to drill plum blossoms piles. He would drive the wooden piles into the center of the river in groups, and then pile up soil so that it would not collapse. He suddenly woke up and immediately did as the Guan Emperor told him. Ten days later, it was completed. In order to be grateful to Guan Yu for his dream, Cheng Zhiquan built the Guandi Temple at the foot of Xiaojinshan Mountain. The most eye-catching thing in front of the Guandi Temple is a stalactite bonsai, which originated in Guangxi's karst cave. The stalactite bonsai is said to be a relic of the "Flower Stone Gang" in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, ships were used for transportation, and the number of ten ships was counted as a class. This was to ship flowers and stones, so it was called the "Flower Stone Class". Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, particularly liked strange flowers and stones. On his 60th birthday, he ordered people to build Wanshou Mountain in the capital Kaifeng. During the transportation from south to north, this stalactite was left behind in Yangzhou due to the Fangla Uprising. There is also a pair of stone lions in front of Xiaojinshan, which are stone carvings from the late Ming Dynasty.

There is such a legend about the name "Little Jinshan". When two monks in Yangzhou and Zhenjiang were chatting, the monk from Zhenjiang wrote a poem saying: "Green water is also annoying to Yangzhou customs. How many peaks cannot reach the river." The Yangzhou monk disagreed with this statement, so the two played chess and made a bet. As a result, the Yangzhou monk was superior and asked the Yangzhou salt merchants to change the name of the scene to "Little Jinshan" and hang such a couplet in the courtyard: "Everything is empty, the jade bureau has been left and taken away; if the fist is not big, the Jinshan is willing to cross the river." With only the word "small", he extradited "Jinshan" and changed "Yangzhou customs" into "Yangzhou elegance".

Hangzhou has West Lake, Yangzhou has Slender West Lake, Zhenjiang has Jinshan, and Yangzhou has Xiaojinshan. One is "thin" and the other is "small". For this reason, Li Yaru, the old director of the Yangzhou Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting, wrote such a pair: "Borrowing a corner of the West Lake can be praised for its thinness, but moving a golden mountain can be praised for its thinness." Thin means slim, small means exquisite. Yangzhou imitates others, but also creates its own uniqueness.

Xiaojinshan is the place with the densest buildings on Slender West Lake. The wind pavilion, moon view, blowing platform, piano room, wooden clover bookstore, and chess room were first recorded in history. Now they are all concentrated here, with high and low scattered in an orderly manner. The layout of each building is very unique. To the east of Guandi Temple is the Qin, Chess, Painting and Calligraphy Building Complex, which consists of three groups of buildings: "Guihua Hall","Chess Room" and "Yueguan". The name of the courtyard is Jingguan. The word "Jingguan" was inscribed by Deng Shiru, a famous stone and stone master in the Qing Dynasty. Visiting Chinese gardens is very particular and cannot be an ordinary cursory tour. Generally speaking, visiting the garden emphasizes the viewing of the big garden. You can watch while walking or visit it by boat. Small gardens should be carefully observed, and it is best to sit down and watch quietly. As soon as you enter the door, it is the largest and most open area in the entire yard, and the corner is the narrowest. It uses a method of releasing and retracting from time to time, which seems to be infinitely profound. Judging from the name, the garden is not big, but standing at the corner, you can't see its end yet. This makes people wonder how deep and how far is it? Thereby attracting people to want to go in and watch. From the perspective of gardening art, the most successful part of the courtyard is its walls. The flower walls bend with the trend and are naturally processed into a folded screen shape, gradually opening up like a fan, making people feel infinitely profound. There are flower-shaped windows with different geometric patterns on the flower-shaped wall. Through the flower-shaped windows, you can borrow different views outside the window, giving people the feeling that there is a garden outside the garden and a scenery outside the scenery. At the same time, the small courtyard also has flowers that are ungrateful at all times: peonies and peonies in spring. There are fruiting loquat in summer, osmanthus flowers more than a hundred years old can be seen in autumn, and wintersweet and Indian trees in winter. If you look carefully in the courtyard, you will have poetic associations.

Yangzhou is known as "China's Moon City". Yangzhou has beautiful moonlight and many places to watch the moon."Moon View" is one of them. The three wings of the "Moon View" sit facing west and face the open lake in front of them. Whenever the bright moon rises in the east, open the door and lean on the railing. There is a moon in the sky and the water, and the two moons meet each other. I can't help but sigh,"This moon and the ancient moon are full of brilliance. I ask the blue sky for wine to understand the vicissitudes and tribulations; I have a long bridge and a short bridge, draw six tunes, move the boat to the Yanzhu, and I can withstand the wind and willows." There is a couplet hanging in the Moon Temple written by Zheng Banqiao,"The moon comes and the water is everywhere, and the clouds rise to a Tianshan Mountain." The moonlight is like water, and the moonlight water connects with the real lake water, so Slender West Lake is no longer thin. Although the small Jinshan Mountain is insignificant, the clouds in the sky are reflected in the water like mountains, which naturally connect with the lake water in front. When the lake water connects into one piece, the sky is filled with mountains. By blurring the real scene, the small scenery becomes larger, and turning the limited garden space into infinite artistic conception. The Moon Temple not only has a good scenery, but also has a very distinctive sea plum furniture. The carvings are all related to appreciating the moon. Lotus, mandarin duck, lotus leaf, and lotus node are representative works of Yangzhou's wood carving craftsmanship. The craftsmanship is exquisite and the style is simple, which truly reflects Yangzhou's wood carving craftsmanship during the Qianlong period. The Moon Temple is the hall of the lake-facing building, with grid fans on all sides, and behind the hall is the Gui Garden. When osmanthus flowers are in full bloom in August, I push the window to admire the moon, and the fragrance is overflowing. The two months in the sky and under the water are closed together. This scene and situation are very moving.

Across the water from Xiaojinshan is Xuyuan. It was rebuilt in 1915 at the former site of Taohuawu in Qing Dynasty. It was built to worship Xu Baoshan, the commander of the Second Army who was originally stationed in Yangzhou. It is called Xuyuan, covering an area of 0.6 hectares and is small and exquisite. The gate of the garden is shaped like a full moon, and the word "Xu Yuan" is inscribed in the cursive script on the forehead of the door by Ji Lianggong, a famous calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Ji Lianggong wrote the word "Xu Yuan", he was still in a heavy mood when he first waved his hair. Therefore, the word "Xu" was written in Xingji, and the more excited he became, so that when he wrote "Garden", he could not help but write it into Xingji Cursive. However, using the outer frame of the word "Yuan" to cleverly embed the word "Tiger", Xu Baoshan's nickname "Xu Tiger", into it, became a good story in Yangzhou.

The main hall in Xu Garden is the "Listening Orioles Hall". It used to be Xu Baoshan's hall, but is now a resting place for tourists. The name of the hall comes from the poet Du Fu: "Two orioles sing the green willows, and a line of egrets rises to the blue sky." There is a nanmu cover pavilion in the museum, which is made of fine nanmu. It is extremely delicate and seems to be a whole, but it is actually a combination of three pieces. However, the joints are extremely delicate. It is a masterpiece among the existing enclosures in Yangzhou, reflecting the wood carving craftsmanship of Yangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty. The two iron wok displayed in front of the Tingli Hall are unearthed cultural relics in Yangzhou. According to the "Iron Wok Stele", they were water-holding objects during the Xiaoliang era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Each iron wok weighs about 3 tons. It can be seen that as early as 1500 years ago, Yangzhou's iron-smelting technology was already quite developed. Xu Garden's garden construction techniques are very superb. There is a hall, a pavilion, and a pavilion in the garden. The flowers, trees, bamboo and stone are just right, fully reflecting the exquisiteness and elegance of the Jiangnan garden. There are lotus ponds stacked with yellowstone in the garden, and the ponds are dotted with various forms of rocks, and several emerald willows dance in the wind, giving a pleasant scenery. There is a meandering water outside and a pond inside. The pool water is connected with the lake water. It is a very exquisite garden on the lake. Among them, the "Spring Grass Pond Yin Pavilion" is a guest seat, suitable for guests to rest, and the "Shufeng Pavilion" is a living room, suitable for entertaining guests. "Yechun Houshe" is a poetry club, suitable for reciting poems.

Coming out of Xuyuan, stepping on the small Hongqiao Bridge, standing on the bridge and looking east, I suddenly felt like suddenly enlightened. In front of me is the "Four Bridges Misty Rain", which is also one of the twenty-fourth scenic spots of the Qing Dynasty. It was first built during the Kangxi period. The building is two-story high, with three towers facing west and four corridors. Climbing the building and looking into the distance, the bridges are of different shapes. Looking south, there are Chunbo Bridge and Dahongqiao Bridge, looking north, there are Changchun Bridge, and looking west, there are Yuban Bridge and Lianhua Bridge. What is valuable is that the bridges are close at hand, but the bridges have different shapes, shapes and colors. The style and interest are also completely different. This building displays different bridge views within a stone's throw in front of your eyes through the method of comparing scenery, and at the same time connects the scenery on the lake. It releases and recedes from time to time, dividing and combining, making each scenic spot show a different charm. Whenever "the mountains are clear and the rain is strange", in the misty rain, the four bridges are far and near, some thick and some light, some high and some low. The scenery you appreciate is "the four bridges flying across the smoke." At that time, Emperor Qianlong loved the scenery here very much. He recited poems and wrote poems many times, and personally presented it to "Fun Garden".

In front of Xuyuan is a long embankment hundreds of meters long. This is also the "Long Dike Spring Willow", one of the 24th Scenery of the Qing Dynasty. The embankment is more than 600 meters long and is planted everywhere. Peaches and willows are planted. One peach in three steps, and one willow in five steps, alternating with peach and willow. Whenever fireworks are in March, spring flowers are colorful, peach blossoms are in full bloom, willow silk dance gracefully, flying like smoke, like green mist, and among the rain and smoke, the willow color sets off a colorful purple, peach red willow green, bright like cloud brocade, walking through it, it is indeed a place where tourists are mesmerized and keep them lingering. "The weeping willows on the long embankment are the most affectionate, and they are fascinated as soon as they cross Hongqiao." It is said that when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guangwei, went to Yangzhou and ordered the excavation of the North-South Grand Canal. After the river was dug, Yu Shiji, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, suggested planting willows on both sides of the river to provide shade and protect the dam. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also planted a willow tree with his own hands and gave it the surname "Yang". Later, people called the willow tree "Willow".

Slender West Lake not only displays picturesque scenery, but also has cultural connotations. For example, the calligraphy and painting stele gallery has the theme of singing Yangzhou, and the main content is the poems, songs, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the Ming, Qing and Republic of China, and the portraits of celebrities in Yangzhou's history and culture. It has a total of 152 rooms and is more than a thousand steps long. It is the second corridor in the country after the Summer Palace. Each inscription is 0.8 meters long and 0.4 meters wide, and is all carefully carved from bluestone. The first part of the stele gallery is a calligraphy and painting work singing about Yangzhou with the theme of Zheng Banqiao's "Singing Ancient Yangzhou", outlining the outline of Yangzhou culture over the past 300 years. With the theme of "Poetry and Painting Slender West Lake", there are also many excellent poems and paintings sung by modern literati on Slender West Lake.

We continued to tour. Not far away is Fahai Temple. It was built in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty. It was named "Lianxing Temple" during the southern tour in the 44th year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1705), but the world still calls it "Fahai Temple". The temple is surrounded by a lake on all sides, with a stone arch bridge on the south side. Lotus flowers are planted all over the bridge. When the flowers bloom, the fragrance overflows, hence the name Lotus Fragrance Bridge. The existing buildings in the temple include Maitreya Hall, Daxiong Hall, Sutra Pavilion, White Pagoda, and Yunshan Pavilion. Among them, the most symbolic scenery is the white pagoda in the middle of the courtyard in front of the temple. It is a symbol of Lamaism. It originally belonged to the pagoda system of Lamaism temples in Tibetan Buddhism. Since the Yuan Dynasty, it has gradually spread across the country. The white tower was built in the forty-ninth year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1784). Lianghuai Salt Administration Jiangchun raised funds to imitate the Beijing Beihai White Tower and build it on the old tower base. It is recorded in history that the white pagoda modeled on the spring shade of Qiongdao in the Beihai Sea is 27.5 meters high and consists of three parts: thirteen days, a niche and a tower base. The base of the tower is all brick carved with waist waist. The seat is octagonal and four sides, with three shrines on each side. The niche is decorated with twelve zodiac statues, symbolizing the twelve months of the year and twelve o'clock a day. The stage is built at fifty-three levels, symbolizing the fifty-three reference pictures of children praying to Guanyin. The phase wheel is thirteen floors, symbolizing the highest point of the sky. The thirteen days. There are symbols and hints everywhere. The techniques of Yangzhou's gardening art are cleverly blended into the foreign scenery. The white pagoda has a beautiful and even proportion and is decorated with jade pavilions, which is different from the thick and stable construction of the Beihai Pagoda. This is really a scene in the north, but it also follows the customs in the south. The majestic spirit has been reduced sharply and the graceful temperament has doubled.

Yangzhou still has the story of "building a white tower in one night". This story comes from "The Unreal History of the Qing Dynasty". One day, Qianlong was sightseeing in Slender West Lake. When he arrived at the Wuting Bridge, he suddenly said to the accompanying officials in Yangzhou: "This place looks like Qiongdao in the North Sea of the capital, but it is a pity that there is a white tower." The speaker didn't mean it, but the listener did. The next morning, the emperor opened the pavilion and saw a white tower standing tall next to Wuting Bridge. He thought it was falling from the sky. The eunuch beside him quickly knelt and reported: "It's a salt merchant. In order to make up for the emperor's regret of visiting the West Lake, it was made overnight." It is said that Jiang Chun, one of the eight major salt merchants, bribed Qianlong with thousands of gold to draw a picture. Then, one night's sound used salt bags as the basis and paper bundles as the surface. Although he could only be long-sighted and not close, Qianlong said with emotion: "The Yangzhou salt merchants are among the richest in the world. They really deserve their reputation."

We walked slowly in the scenic area, savoring the beauty and culture of Slender West Lake. Unconsciously, it was noon and we were hungry, so we ended our trip to Slender West Lake. For a few hours, we walked by the lake. We couldn't enjoy the scenery of the lake and mountains, and we couldn't finish listening to the piano, flute, and Yingsong. We couldn't be beautiful enough to see the people in their clothes. The ten-mile lake is clear and green; the flowers and trees are sparse and continuous; the pavilions and towers are scattered; the cultural landscape is unique. Slender West Lake is still a place for everyone to pursue. Whether you are boating on the lake or walking by the lake, its winding and stretching landscape is like a goddess's belt, charming and moving. In my mind. The beautiful scenery of Slender West Lake has been fascinated by the world since ancient times. Liu Daguan, a native of the Qing Dynasty, said: "Hangzhou wins with its lakes and mountains, Suzhou wins with its cities, and Yangzhou wins with its country." Shen Fu, a native of the Qing Dynasty, praised in "Six Chapters of a Floating Life":"Strange thoughts and illusions are dotted with nature. That is, the Yaochi of Langyuan, and the Yuyu of Qionglou, which cannot be forgiven. The beauty is that the gardens and pavilions of more than ten homes are integrated into one, connecting to the mountains, and the momentum is consistent." In history, Li Bai, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Wang Yuyang, Pu Songling, Kong Shangren, Wu Jingzi, Yu Dafu, Zhu Ziqing and other cultural celebrities have left popular chapters here. Countless famous quotes have been passed down through the ages, adding dazzling ink to Slender West Lake.