This is my fourth time in Yangzhou. Spring, summer, autumn and winter can be considered to make up the four seasons of Yangzhou. In spring, in Yangzhou, peaches and willows are red on both sides of the canal, and the grass grows and orioles fly on the bank of the Slender West Lake. When the spring rain drifts, you can see the green bamboo leaves in front of the hall, and listen to the rain falling on the jade plate. In the scorching summer, Yangzhou, in autumn, has faded from the sultry summer, and the leaves in the garden are full of red and yellow. If it snows in Yangzhou in winter, will Pingshantang after the snow rub shoulders with Su Dongpo?

Everyone loves to say that fireworks shine in Yangzhou in March, but the beauty of Yangzhou is more than just March.

Every time I come to Yangzhou, what I have to do is to start from Caiyi Street, Dongguan Street, and Pishi Street. Geyuan and Heyuan have their own advantages in every season, and I have to go to Slender West Lake because there are always new changes. The new things I found were: I had morning tea and went to a fun place with few people-the China Huaiyang Cuisine Museum. I also checked in to the Yangzhou Double Museum to have a deeper understanding of the city. I visited Hanling Garden and lamented the great wisdom of the tombs of the ancients; Going to the Beihu Wetland is perfect for a family camping vacation!

My favorite part of the entire trip is Gaoyou, an hour's drive from downtown Yangzhou. It is Wang Zengqi's unforgettable hometown. There are not only salted duck eggs, cattail wrapped meat, smoked roast meat, and straw stove sesame cakes that haunt him, but also quiet ancient towns and old streets with few people. Passing by green bricks and small tiles, walking through a market full of locals, and meeting snacks that I have never seen before. This is the really suitable place for citywalk. I like it, I will come again next time.

trip sharing

Day1 Go to Huaiyang Cuisine Museum for morning tea, Yangzhou Double Museum in the Rain, Slender West Lake Shaoyao Garden Small Theater, Night Tour in Geyuan

Day2 Gaoyou one-day trip to Yucheng Posthouse Wang's Family Banquet at Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall

Day3 Wanfu Bridge Green Tea Train Hotel Beihu Wetland Hanlingyuan

Morning tea at Huaiyang Cuisine Museum

Every time I come to Yangzhou for morning tea, I can subvert my understanding of "breakfast". After I brewed the best Kui-dragon balls, I began to accept the baptism of traditional breakfast one after another. The crystal clear meat and jade roasted wheat are stuffed with shepherd's purse. The big five Ding bags are freshly cooked and steamed. The crab yellow soup buns are held sway in front of me, and a small hole is poked to drink the soup while it is hot...

There are always people who come to Yangzhou to find authentic Huaiyang cuisine. How can you go wrong to eat at the Huaiyang Cuisine Museum? After breakfast, we can stroll around the museum. It is located in the Lu family's ancient house. The entire building was personally built by the salt merchant Lu Shaoxu during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. It cost 70,000 taels of silver and the overall construction area exceeds 4000 square meters. It is grand and magnificent. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

While traveling through, it is interesting to see the "nine entrances" of Lu's ancient house. The doors and windows are gradually getting smaller. The ancient house displays luxurious banquets of the past, and I want to travel back to ancient times to touch the exquisite and rich times.

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

Tickets: Free to the museum

Opening hours: 7:00 a.m.

Morning tea: 50 per capita

Yangzhou Double Museum

In my understanding, the best way to understand a city's cultural history is to walk into the city's museums. This time, I came to visit Yangzhou's Double Museum. This is a traditional old museum in Yangzhou. We rushed to open the museum. There are very few people, and the entire venue is very quiet, and it is a different world from the popular Grand Canal Museum.

Quietly walk through documents and cultural relics with historical clues as clues, and touch the heartbeat of history. Yangzhou Double Expo Museum consists of Yangzhou Chinese Engraving and Printing Museum and the new Yangzhou Museum. It is a national AAAA tourist attraction. Double Expo Hall is located on the west side of Mingyue Lake, facing Yangzhou International Exhibition Center across the lake. The national treasure-level cultural relic "Yuan Dynasty Ji Blue Glazed White Dragon Plum Vase" is the treasure of the town museum.

Tickets: Free

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00-17:00 (no admission at 16:00), closed every Monday

Stroll in the thin West Lake in the rain

Slender West Lake has another beauty in the rain. The long and slender ancient river is connected to the Grand Canal. The two embankments are all surrounded by the water, and all the way to the mountains. The lake surface is winding, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow. Trees on both sides are intertwined, and pavilions are pavilions and pavilions. This place was already a grand scene during the Qing, Kang and Qianlong periods. It is called "the prosperity of gardens, the supremacy of the world." The banks of Slender West Lake are covered with red lily flowers. The sky is very cloudy. It starts to rain while walking. We hid from the rain at Wuting Bridge. An oil-paper umbrella prop brought by our companions can really stop the rain!

After coming here many times, I lamented that my knowledge reserves were all on the road. Nowadays, I can also tell my first-time companions about Slender West Lake with ease. For example, Slender West Lake needs to see 14 scenic spots, including Dahongqiao, Changdi Chunliu, Wuting Bridge, Xiaojinshan, White Pagoda, Wangchun Tower, Xichun Terrace, Diaoyutai...

Wuting Bridge, where we are hiding from the rain, is a representative building of Slender West Lake. It is one of the ten famous bridges in ancient China. It was built in the 22nd year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It was built in imitation of the Five Dragon Pavilion and the Seventeen-Arch Bridge in Beihai, Beijing.

The small yellow pavilion in the middle of the lake is Diaoyutai. Legend has it that when Qianlong came to Yangzhou, local salt merchants heard that Qianlong liked fishing, so they quickly built a pavilion to fish. If there were no fish in the lake, they would release fish immediately.

Why is the white tower in the distance the same as the one in Beijing? Don't doubt that it is not the same but the same. When Qianlong took a boat to visit Slender West Lake, he said to Yangzhou officials thoughtfully: "This place is really like Qiongdao in the north sea of the capital, but it is a pity that there is a white tower." As soon as he finished speaking, the white tower quickly reached the ears of the salt merchants. Jiang Chun, one of the eight major salt merchants, used thousands of gold to build a white tower with salt bags overnight. The next day, Qianlong saw it from afar and was overjoyed. He couldn't help but sigh: "Humanity Yangzhou salt merchants are the most prosperous in the world. They really live up to their reputation." After Qianlong left Yangzhou, Jiang Chun spent a lot of money to build a real white tower. Today, the white pagoda on the bank of Slender West Lake was built by Yangzhou salt merchants for Qianlong.

Twenty-four bridges on a bright night

Sunny day He Garden Light and Shadow Secret Realm

He Yuan, who came to Yangzhou for the fourth time, has gathered all the spring, summer, autumn and winter of He Yuan. This time, he is satisfied. After the rain, the sky is clear, the air is transparent, and the light and shadow are dancing. Everything you can see is painting. However, there is always a pity that I have never seen the trees full of magnolias blooming in early spring and the red leaves in late autumn. I can come and come again many times.

The owner of He Garden was He Zhiqian, a third-rank official of the Qing Dynasty. In the ninth year of Guangxu, he resigned and returned to Yangzhou. It took him 13 years to build He Garden in order to honor his mother. The whole park is divided into four parts: East and West Parks, Garden Residential Courtyard, and Stone Mountain House. There is a water center pavilion in the pool for the owner of the park to watch the opera, enjoy the cool scenery. The owners of the park, old and young, live in the Yuxiu Building in the south, a building that combines Chinese and Western styles. It has both traditional Chinese brick-and-wood structures, as well as French shutters, fireplaces and Japanese sliding doors.

Walking through the corridor, you can shelter from rain on rainy days and shade on sunny days. The corridor is inlaid with various flower windows to take pictures. The shapes are taken from plum blossoms, crabapple, lotus petals, folding fans...

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

Tickets: 45

Time: 7:30-17:30

Visit Geyuan and Shaoyao Garden at night and listen to music

Regarding Yangzhou's nightlife, in addition to finding a Yangzhou master to rub your back, you can also go to the garden and listen to music in the small theater. Last winter, we went to Winter Rongyuan. This time, we went to Shaoyao Garden in Changle Inn on Dongguan Street to perform traditional performances such as guqin, Yangzhou Qing Opera, Pingtan, etc. brought by artists. The performances in the small theater are very casual and will not be stereotyped. Guests eat snacks while drinking tea, artists perform and tell stories on the stage, and the master playing the guqin talked about the "Jiuxiao Huanpei" worth 400 million yuan. Everyone listened with gusto.

After the performance, we strolled to Geyuan. The original owner of the Geyuan was Huang Zhiyun, the Yanghuai Salt Chief during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. He loved bamboo and believed that green bamboo had the characteristics of solid roots, guilty conscience, straight body, and chastity, and had the style of a gentleman. Therefore, he named his garden after Yuan Mei's poem "The moon reflects a thousand words on bamboo".

The night court in Geyuan is open. The rockery representing the four seasons is lit up by lights of different colors. The mountains are stacked with rocks and bamboo trees are planted into forests. In the deep water pavilion, amidst the intertwined light and shadow, the pipa performance touches the heartstrings of people. There are also pingtan, dancing, plucking strings in three or two, and the melodious guzheng at night. There are very few people in the garden at night, which is a completely different and pleasant feeling.

Entrance for evening tour: North Gate and South Gate of Geyuan

Night tour 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 Yuchengyi

When walking on the streets of Gaoyou, you can feel the unique postal culture of this small town at any time: There is a statue of a messenger carrying letters in the south of the city. There is a statue of a messenger holding a document in the city. The Yucheng Posthouse we came to visit is the most well-preserved ancient station with both land and water in the country. It combines philatelic station, residence, transportation, water transport and other functions, and covers an area of 16,000 square meters. It consists of doors, drum towers, warehouses, gift rooms, post cheng house, post soldier house, horse temple and other buildings. It has now been listed as a national key cultural protection unit.

Although Yucheng Posthouse is not large in area, it is the only exhibition of ancient postal culture in my country. It is located in a posthouse and wandering in ruins such as Guting Hall, Guyi Well, Ancient Courtyard, and Ancient Archway. Compared with today's logistics express delivery industry, I really feel that the changes are too fast. The sea is changing.

Address: No. 13, Outer Guanyi Lane, South Gate, Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City

Tickets: 25 adults and 15 students

Opening hours: 08:15-17:30

Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall

"The whole world is cold, but only I am hot."

I feel like I have known Lao Wang for a long time, and I seem to have known the delicious food he wrote about for a long time, just as he said,"Talk cordially about life you know with a friend you can talk to."

I love reading Lao Wang's prose. He is a person who is good at observing and loves life. He is a gourmand and a multi-talented artist. He can eat and cook. He can be said to be the best at cooking among writers and the best at writing among gourmets. His words make people feel that everything is quietly observed, and everything is not beautiful. He is neither anxious nor panicked, and talks calmly, soothing the impetuous and uneasy heart.

To add some information, Wang Zengqi is a contemporary Chinese novelist, essayist, and dramatist. He is known as a representative figure of the Beijing School of Writers. On March 5, 1920, Wang Zengqi was born into an old-style landlord family in Gaoyou Town. In the summer of 1939, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature of Southwest Associated University. Most of Wang's works write about the local customs and market life of Gaoyou, his hometown, where there are memories and dreams of his childhood life.

The memorial hall will be built in 2017 and will be officially opened to the public in 2020 on the 100th anniversary of Mr. Wang Zengqi's birth. Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall is divided into four functional areas according to "one axis, two belts and three sections", namely Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall, Wang Mi Tribe, Wang Family Banquet and Wang Inn. There are 11 exhibition halls on the two floors of the museum, which are divided into five themes: "Centenary Wang","Wang Zengqi's Literary World","People and Things in Hometown","Being a Literature for People" and "Remembering and Inheriting", which comprehensively demonstrate Mr. Wang's master style.

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

Hours: Open from 09:00 to 17:00 (stop at 16:30)

Tickets: Free

Restoration of words Wang's family banquet

The Wang Family Banquet was held next to the memorial hall. This family was organized by the government to review Wang Lao's food writing and invite Wang Zengqi's family to serve as consultants to restore the true flavor that Wang Family highly praised and launch the Wang Family Banquet. Become a tourist business card for the local area.

Lao Wang wrote in "Old Taste·Cooking":"Putting meat back into the pot and putting fried dough sticks is my invention and can apply for a patent. Cut the fried dough sticks into small pieces that are an inch and a half long, use your fingers to take out the gaps in the inner layer, add the minced meat, chopped green onion, and shredded pickled mustard, and put them in the oil pan and fry them again."

You can also eat "Wang Tofu" that you read about when you were a child."Tofu" says: Cut the tofu into small slices as big as nails, push them into shrimp soy sauce soup, roll them a few times, thin and thicken them, and pour them into a grand bowl. Pour a spoonful of cooked lard to get it. It is called "Wang tofu", probably because it is covered with oil. Spoon and eat. Be careful when eating and not be impatient because it is very hot.

Pork wrapped with cattail buns. In the novel "Yi Bing", it was mentioned that Gaoyou people use cattail buns and meat stuffing to make delicious food, which is very suitable to buy some as a companion gift. There are also delicious food presentations appearing in various books that require everyone to read carefully and taste slowly.

Green Skin Train Hotel

Yangzhou Green Leather Car Hotel, a retro experience of traveling through time and space In the town of 1912 of Yangzhou Ecological Science and Technology New City, there is a Green Leather Car Hotel. It takes train carriages as the main body of transformation and takes green leather trains traveling through time and space as the theme, integrating China's 80s green leather trains retro and nostalgic. The Green Leather Car Hotel contains 1 steam locomotive (locomotive) and 28 railway carriages, which can accommodate about 200 people at the same time. The appearance is no different from ordinary green leather trains, but it has a lot to do inside. In the small carriage room, everything should be cut. Everything you need.

Photograph Wanfu Bridge and be a blessing person

The Wanfu Bridge is so beautiful when the air is clear. The Wanfu Bridge spans Liaojiagou, the main channel of the Huaihe River inflow channel. It is not so much a bridge. The bridge is full of traffic and pavilions, and its base is like an Arc de Triomphe. The main building height of the bridge is 90 meters, plus the copper gourd roof, the landscape bridge is nearly 100 meters high, the main span is 188 meters, and the total length is 664 meters. The upper layer is two-way six lanes, and the lower layer is for non-motor vehicles and sidewalks to climb the tower. Overlooking the seven rivers and eight islands, Jiangguang New City

"It stretches for more than a hundred miles, with intertwined river networks and densely covered lakes..." This is the North Lake recorded in the "North Lake Notes"; hundreds of years later, walking in Yangzhou Beihu Wetland Park, the Qionghuawu, Beihu viewing lotus, Huanghu Fandai, etc. mentioned in ancient books have also been reproduced. The attractions retain their classical charm and also have modern functional facilities.

Beihu Wetland Park is now divided into ecological conservation areas, restoration and reconstruction areas, and propaganda and exhibition areas. In line with the principle of ecological restoration, protection and utilization of the natural environment, the park has created "32 West Lake","Liuhu" and "The three major parts of the" Wasteland Lake "have a total of sixteen landscape areas. Address, here has a wide view and a natural oxygen bar, becoming a treasure check-in place for visiting around Yangzhou.

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

Hours: Open all day round

Tickets: 20 Park Small Train 20

Hanlingyuan Han Dynasty large-scale wooden coffin tomb miracle

The owner of the Han Tomb in Hanlingyuan was the fourth son of Liu Xu, the first generation of Guangling King of the Western Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In 117 BC, he was granted Guangling, the Dingcapital of Guangling King. During his 64 years in power, he was repeatedly summoned to curse the emperor by witches. The incident occurred in 54 BC and was sentenced to commit suicide with a ribbon. History books record that Liu Xu had an empty head but developed limbs. He has extraordinary arm strength and is strong enough to fight against fierce beasts, so the golden and jade coat I saw outside the museum is very large.

Regarding the tombs of ancient Chinese emperors, you can imagine how luxurious it is. The coffin room of the tomb 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 theme, an east chamber, a west chamber, a middle coffin, an inner coffin, a toilet room, and a Zizi palace. It is an underground palace.

Many people know about the golden thread and jade clothes, but they may be unfamiliar with the "Yellow Intestine Question", which is a prominent feature of the Han tomb in Hanlingyuan. The intestines are a wooden structure located outside the coffin. The material used in the "yellow sausage" is yellow-heart cypress, the "title" refers to the header, that is, the end of the wood, and the "joint" refers to the structure formed by the inward aggregation, that is, using wood instead of bricks. With the ancient tenon and tenon technology, each wooden component in the tomb has different size and sizes, and the four sides are spliced in an orderly manner. Even the thinnest blades with tight gaps cannot be inserted. It is really amazing.

Hanling Garden is large in scale, well-preserved, complex in structure, exquisite in materials, and well-made. It has become a typical representative of the "Yellow Chang Tibiao" type wooden coffin tomb. It has advanced some of the woodwork systems recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Creation Fa" by 1100 years. It is a major miracle in the history of architecture

After visiting, don't forget that there is also an outer chamber of the Queen's Tomb next to it, with a total area of 182.85 square meters. This tomb uses about 450 cubic meters of nanmu wood. Its structure is composed of sealed soil, tomb pits, main and outer coffins in the north and south tomb paths, etc., 12 carriages were unearthed in the coffin, which is a large carriage and carriage warehouse

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

Open from 08:30 to 17:00 (stop at 17:00)

Tickets: 30