Many people say that travel is for "poetry and distance". In the past few years, I have traveled a lot to distant places, and my poetry has also been influenced, which has been reflected in my past travel notes. This travel note tells the journey of the five cities around me, Yangzhou, Yancheng, Huai 'an, Suqian, and Xuzhou and northern Jiangsu.

These five cities are all outstanding tourist cities in China. Yangzhou, Huai 'an and Xuzhou are also national historical and cultural cities. The ancient canal flows through here, leaving behind splendid Huaiyang culture, Chu-Han culture, rich historical relics and tourism resources. We have visited Yangzhou Slender West Lake, Geyuan, Dongguan Street; Yancheng Julong Lake Park, New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, Dutch Flower Sea, Dafeng Zhiqing Farm; Huai 'an Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, China Water Transport Museum, Huai' an Prefecture Office; Suqian Ancient Yellow River, Xiang Wang Hometown; Xuzhou Poetry Expo Park and other scenic spots, and felt the profound cultural heritage, good ecological landscape, and high entrepreneurial passion.

Yangzhou is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities and a scenic tourist city with traditional characteristics. From the poems that have been sung to this day, such as "The old friend leaves the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks fall under Yangzhou in March","The world is three-part bright moon night, and two-part scoundrels are Yangzhou", and "The waist is tied with a hundred thousand yuan, riding a crane down Yangzhou", we can see the prosperity of the year. However, with the decline in shipping capacity of the Grand Canal and the rise of railways and other transportation methods, this medium-sized city has gradually declined. But the "skinny big ones"(Slender West Lake, Daming Temple, and Geyuan) are still there, and the three knives (kitchen knife, barber knife, pedicure knife) are still popular. Let's take a walk together and have a look.

The first stop is Slender West Lake. The tour method is: walk around the lake first, and then take a pleasure boat.

Slender West Lake was originally named "Paoshan River", also known as the "Baoshan River". It is a flood drainage channel through which Shugang Mountain water flows to the canal. During the Qianlong period, Qiantang poet Wang Hang compared the "Guarantee Lake" with the West Lake in Hangzhou and wrote a poem: "The weeping poplar continues to receive the remnants of the grass, and the goose teeth and red bridges draw 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.

The wind of lotus puffs is smoky, one of the twenty-four scenic spots

Long embankment spring willows, one of the twenty-four scenic spots

Xu Yuan, a ancestral hall in memory of Xu Baoshan, warlord during the National Revolution. The plaque was written by Ji Lianggong, a well-known calligrapher who once worked with Xu Baoshan. The character "Xu" is Xingji, and the character "Yuan" is Xingcao. The character "Tiger" nicknamed "Xu Tiger" is inlaid inside the frame of the character "Yuan".

Xiaojinshan is located on the north side of Xuyuan and is a small island in the Slender West Lake.

The boat-shaped stalactite basin is a relic of the "Huashi Gang" of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was moved from the "Huyuan" of Dongquanmen in 1953. The whole stone is 262 centimeters long, 88 centimeters wide, and 49 centimeters high. On rainy days, you can see the reflection of the peaks through the stagnant water, like a natural landscape bonsai.

There are many scenic spots named after "Diaoyutai" in China. The Diaoyutai in Slender West Lake is the smallest in size, but it is very distinctive. It is a masterpiece of the art of "framing" and "borrowing" in gardens. Standing at a 60-degree angle of Diaoyutai, you can borrow the view of Wuting Bridge through the entrance in the west. The Wuting Bridge lies across the waves and the hole is in a perfect circle; while through the entrance in the south, you can borrow the view of the White Pagoda. The white pagoda shines into the sky like bamboo shoots from a broken ground, stretching the hole into an oval shape. This kind of scenery is a wonderful picture.

Legend has it that when Qianlong visited Slender West Lake by boat, he saw fish jumping out of the water, so he became interested in fishing. After knowing the emperor's thoughts, Yangzhou salt merchants chose here to invite him to fish. At the same time, they sent fishermen to take live fish underwater and breathe through the lotus leaf handles. Whenever the emperor went fishing, live fish would hook up and catch a lot of fish, so he changed his name to "Diaoyutai".

Yangzhou City flower-Qionghua

The White Tower is built after the White Tower in Beihai, Beijing. There is a legend in Yangzhou that "a tower was built overnight". When Qianlong visited Slender West Lake by boat for the sixth time in 1784, he said: The scenery around the entire Lianhua Bridge is very similar to the North Sea, but unfortunately there is no white tower. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. The salt merchants immediately spent hundreds of thousands of silver to buy blueprints of the Beihai White Pagoda, and then used salt bags to build a white pagoda overnight. When Qianlong visited again the next day, he saw the white tower standing in the distance and was amazed: I couldn't help but sigh at the wealth of Yangzhou's salt merchants.

Wuting Bridge, also known as Lotus Bridge, is named because it looks like a lotus flower from the sky. It was built in the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757) by Gao Heng, the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor, and was built in imitation of Beijing Beihai Wulong Pavilion and Beihai Bridge. Mao Yisheng, a famous bridge expert, commented: The oldest bridge in China is Zhaozhou Bridge, the most magnificent bridge is Lugou Bridge, and the most beautiful and artistic representative bridge is the Wuting Bridge in Yangzhou.

Hongqiao Range Rover, one of the 24 scenic spots

Twenty-four Bridge Scenic Area. "Twenty-Four Bridges" comes from the poem written by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty,"To Judge Han Chuo of Yangzhou","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; on the bright night of the Twenty-Four Bridges, where is the jade man taught to play the flute?" There is also a saying that the 24th Bridge refers to many Yangzhou bridges in the Tang Dynasty.

Xichun Terrace is the main building of the 24th Bridge Scenic Area. The word "Xichun" comes from Lao Tzu's words,"Everyone is bustling, like climbing a spring platform", which shows that people come and go here and it is very lively.

Mao Zedong wrote Du Mu's poem stele "To Judge Han Chuo in Yangzhou"

Here are the views you can see while taking a pleasure boat tour

The landscape of Slender West Lake is unique. Through bridges, pavilions, embankments, and banks, the long and narrow water surface becomes many spaces with width, width, width and circle, which increases the level of the landscape, broadens the tourists 'horizons, and moves. During the change of scenery, I realized the artistic conception of "the mountains are poor and the rivers are full of doubt, and the willows are bright and clear."

Song Dacheng West Gate Site

Yangzhou Lion Head

Yangzhou Geyuan was built in 1818 by Huang Zhiyun, a salt merchant in Lianghuai. The landscape is won by bamboo and stone and is known as one of the "Four Famous Gardens in China". The "ge" in the name of the garden is half of the word "bamboo".

The entire garden is stacked into a rockery in spring, summer, autumn and winter through bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellowstone, and Xuan stones. It is praised by Chen Congzhou, the garden master, as an "isolated case in China."

Spring Mountain is more appropriate to say it is a "spring scene", because there is no "mountain" here at all. It is just a few bamboo poles swaying in the wind on both sides of the garden gate and a few bamboo shoots and stones among the bamboos. The bamboo and stone match, like bamboo shoots after rain, showing the spring spirit that breaks out of the ground and moves up steadily.

Qiushan is made of stacked yellow stones

Xia Mountain is built with exquisitely carved Taihu Lake stones

Winter Mountain is made of Xuan stones

In Fengyin Cave, it is said that the owner likes to listen to the wind. When the wind blows, he cries loudly. There is also a saying that it is a vent hole, which means that when a new official takes office, he "reveals the evil customs of the former official."

Yangzhou Qing Opera Performance

Siwang Pavilion has a brick-and-wood structure, with eight sides and three floors, and a tiled roof. Each pavilion eaves has eight flying horns, and each flying horn has a wind chime.

Wenchang Pavilion, built in the 13th year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty (1585), is the Kuixing Tower of Yangzhou Prefectural School. It is 24.25 meters high and has an octagonal third-level brick-and-wood structure building, similar to the Hall of Praying for Good Years in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

Yangzhou fried rice, steamed buns, boiled dried shredded rice, it feels like it is.

There are also many scenic spots in Yangzhou, such as Daming Temple, Heyuan, Ancient Canal, etc., but they have not been visited due to time constraints.

Yancheng is the city with the largest land area in Jiangsu Province. It is the hometown of red-crowned cranes and elk deer. It has a beautiful natural environment and many tourist attractions. The province's only world natural heritage site, China's Yellow Sea (Bohai) Sea migratory bird habitat, is located in the tidal flat wetland on the coast of the Yellow Sea.

Golden Eagle Shangmei Hotel

Julong Lake, located in Yannan High-tech Zone, Yancheng City, is an artificial lake covering an area of 500 acres, including 360 acres of water surface.

Julong Lake Park is an open park with water-rhyme stage, music fountain, nine-bend trestle, Qingfeng Pavilion, Shuiyunxuan and other attractions. We walked around the lake and felt that the visual effects of the TV tower and the culture and art center were good. The lights are colorful at night, and a bright moon reflects in the water, which is quite spectacular.

Yancheng New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, fully known as the "National Revolutionary Army New Fourth Army Reconstruction Military Memorial Hall", is the only professional New Fourth Army Memorial Hall in the country. It consists of three parts: the main museum area, Jianjun Square (Tongma Square), and the former site of the New Fourth Army's reconstruction military headquarters (Taishan Temple).

The shape of the exhibition hall reflects the "four" character of the New Fourth Army. Above the main entrance is a blue and white "N4A" armband pattern. The flag-shaped granite intaglio carvings on both sides reproduce the historical scene of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army's successful rendezvous at Shizikou in Baiju and the New Fourth Army's reconstruction of the military in Yancheng after the Southern Anhui Incident.

The exhibition hall is divided into 4 parts and 32 units in chronological order, including "Marching into Central China and opening up anti-Japanese battlefields behind enemy lines","Rebuilding the Military Department and comprehensively strengthening troop building","Persisting in the War of Resistance and galloping across the Jianghuai River Branch","Counter-offensive operations and winning the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War" and other contents.

Bicycle with the "Man" brand name is produced by Manchukuo Manchuria Corporation. This bicycle followed the Japanese invasion of China to Central China, and was captured by the New Fourth Army in a battle.

Dutch Huahai is located in Xinfeng Town, Dafeng City and is a rural tourist attraction. We were sowing seeds when we came. Although we didn't see the flowers in full bloom, after walking around, we could also feel the artistic conception of "pastoral areas, river networks, windmills, and sea of flowers" from the magnificent momentum.

Dafeng Shanghai Educated Youth Memorial Hall is located at the former site of Haifeng Farm in Yancheng City. It covers an area of 88 acres and houses more than 40,000 objects of the life and production of educated youth at that time.

Through exhibition areas such as historical impressions, directory of educated youth, real life scenes, farm construction, and company microcosms, the scene of 80,000 Shanghai educated youth living, working, and studying on the Yellow Sea beaches is reproduced.

The destiny of individuals has always been closely linked to the country and society. It is an unforgettable time for educated youth to go to the countryside.

When we visited Yancheng, the Yellow Sea (Bohai) Sea migratory bird habitat had not been included in the World Natural Heritage List. After Dafeng's trip, he went to Huai 'an.

Huai 'an has a history of more than 2200 years. It was established as a county during the Qin Dynasty. It was once a hub for water transportation and housed the Governor's Office for Water Transportation. It is called the "four major cities" along the canal together with Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yangzhou.

This is the hometown of famous celebrities such as Han Xin, the great military strategist, Mei Cheng, the master of Han Fu, the heroine Liang Hongyu, the author of "Journey to the West", Wu Cheng 'en, the author of "Journey to the West", Guan Tianpei, the national hero, Liu E, the author of "The Travels of Lao Can", and Zhou Enlai, Premier of the Republic.

Our trip began at the Guanzhan Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall. The commemorative buildings are distributed on the central axis of 800 meters long from north to south. From south to north, there are Zhantai, main hall, annex hall, Zhou Enlai bronze statue, etc.

The main hall is 26 meters high and adopts a quadrangular octahedron, implying that the spirit of Zhou Enlai shines on the four directions and eight directions of the land of China. Four granite stone pillars represent Zhou Enlai's grand vision of realizing the "four modernizations" in our country four times in 1954, 1962, 1964 and 1975.

Zhantai consists of a corridor hall and two sword steles 16 meters high. The sword stele is solid outside and empty inside, implying that Zhou Enlai left nothing to himself during his lifetime, but his spirit, moral character and achievements stand like an upright monument in the hearts of the people.

A big-character poster. Premier Zhou often works seventeen to eighteen hours a day, sometimes even all night long. When the staff around him saw him working tirelessly day and night, they were all anxious for his health. Comrades took turns to put forward opinions and even joined forces to write a big-character poster, advising him to pay attention to his health and combine work and rest.

Bronze statue of Zhou Enlai

Former Residence of Zhou Enlai

Elm trees were planted by Zhou Enlai himself when he was a child.

Kitchen, wells and vegetable plots used as a teenager

Guanyin Willow has been passed down by Zhou Enlai's ancestors for more than 100 years. Stem and leaf are drugs to treat measles, also known as "Jishan Willow".

The China Water Transport Museum is a special museum that displays the relics and history of water transport in Huai 'an, the "capital of canals". On display are ancient water transport (canal water transport) tools and ancillary items left behind, work and daily necessities in the governor's office, letters, letters, inks and daily necessities from the governor of water transport and other water transport officials, and documents, measuring tools, substitutes and other cultural relics related to the circulation of water grain.

Huai 'an Prefecture is an ancient government-level official building and is currently the largest Ming and Qing government scenic spot in the country. Covering an area of more than 50,000 square meters, there are more than 600 houses in total, divided into three roads: East, Middle and West. The middle road is the lobby, second hall, six-department rooms, etc., the east road is the place for welcoming guests and banquets, and the west road is the military arrest hall. There are stone lions, Zhaobi, archways, etc. outside the gate.

Suqian has a long history and rich cultural heritage. It is the hometown of Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty, and the capital of Chinese liquor. Two famous wines, Yanghe and Shuanggou, are produced here.

Suqian is ancient and young. In 1996, it was removed from the county and established as a city. Based on the special city conditions, Suqian people put forward the "Suqian Spirit" of "uniting and forging ahead, daring to try and venture, being pragmatic and hard, and being self-reliant and self-reliant" shortly after the city was founded. Later, the urban spirit was expressed as "ecology is the destination, entrepreneurship seeks change", which inspired the whole city to "venture" and "create" and create ecological and harmonious Suqian.

Ancient Yellow River Water Conservancy Scenic Area

Due to its abundance of sand and silt, the Yellow River has been diverted frequently in history. Suqian is located on both sides of the 6.8-kilometer-long Ancient Yellow River, including three major sections: "Impression Yellow River","Waterscape Park" and "Majestic River Bay".

the morning sun

Xiang Yu was known as the Overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty. He died at his peak and refused to cross Jiangdong, which makes people sigh. His martial arts skills are unparalleled, his bravery is extraordinary, and his ending is regrettable, but he is a great hero in the hearts of the world.

Weapons at the time

This alternative hero was the only loser included in "History and Chronicles". In that era when "times created heroes, and heroes created times", although he was a "defeated bandit", he was recognized as a hero. In Li Qingzhao's "Summer Quatrain","Life is a hero, and death is also a ghost hero. The first two sentences of "missing Xiang Yu and refusing to cross Jiangdong" are often used to inspire people to move forward bravely.

Mao Zedong once analyzed three reasons for Xiang Yu's failure: first, the Hongmen Banquet did not listen to Fan Zeng's words and let Liu Bang go; second, the Chu and Han concluded a gap agreement, but Xiang Yu took it seriously, but Liu Bang did not agree; third, Xiang Yu established the capital of Xuzhou, and the geographical location was unfavorable to him.

Golden silk small sand

Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times. It has a history of 6000 years of civilization and a history of 2600 years of city construction. It is the birthplace of Han culture, one of the nine states in China, and the political, economic and cultural center of Huaihai region.

We didn't stay in Xuzhou for a long time. We visited the Poetry Expo Garden located in Yunlong Lake Scenic Area, watched the sunrise on Dalong Lake next to the Green Crown Hotel, and felt the open artistic conception of the distance.

The Poetry Expo Park covers an area of about 85 acres. Through landscape walls, screens, glass carvings, sketches and other forms, as well as stone, glass, metal and other materials, it displays 68 Xuzhou poetry and landscape sketches from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to modern times.

Shishi Avenue

The submerged corridor is 148 meters long and has a water area of 11,000 square meters.

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Green Land Crowne Plaza Hotel

spicy soup

See the golden silk small sand again

Dalong Lake sunrise

Let's go home.

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