History says that in Yangzhou, "Bian water and Si water flow to the ancient ferry of Guazhou, and Wushan is a little sad." Folks say that in Yangzhou, "Hangzhou is better than the lakes and mountains, Suzhou is better than the market, and Yangzhou is better than the gardens and pavilions. The three of them stand side by side and are incomparable."

The poet said that in Yangzhou, "On a moonlit night under the twenty-four bridges, where can the beauties learn how to play the flute?" The poet said that in Yangzhou, "for forty-three years, I still remember the beacon fire on Yangzhou Road."

Yangzhou is three parts poetry and calligraphy, three parts ink and wash, two parts riddles, and two parts legends. The face is covered with gauze, and the breeze blows at the corner, waiting for people to reveal its true appearance.

So with the mood of searching for answers, I came to Yangzhou in March, a month of fireworks and catkins.

Questions and Answers about Fishermen and Woodcutter on the Bank of Slender West Lake After walking through the lights of the two streets next to Wenchang Pavilion on Wenchang Road, tasting the crab roe tofu on Huaihai Road, and following the recommendations of Yangzhou historical sites, my first stop was Slender West Lake.

Sunny spring mornings always make people smile and rejoice. This bright mood continues by the Slender West Lake. Any idiom that describes the beauty of spring seems to be applicable here. The grass is growing, the orioles are flying, the purples and reds are bright, and the waves are shining.

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If the West Lake in Hangzhou is the beauties of the Tang Dynasty in gorgeous clothes, then the Slender West Lake is the enchanting Chinese women in curved trains. They are graceful and graceful. They look like beautiful flowers shining in the water when they turn around, making people want to see more.

Appreciate the bending and dancing.

The landscape design of Slender West Lake is based on the flowing manner of Slender West Lake, and also adopts the painting style of Jiangnan gardens, with blue waves containing smoke, weeping willows like shades, flowers blooming, stacked rocks and waterfalls. If you put the Slender West Lake in

If the scenery is transplanted into a certain real estate, the value of this real estate will rise sharply because of the poetic scenery.

While visiting Slender West Lake with a relaxed and happy mood, I met a pair of old people who were returning to their old place.

My classmate *** studied at Yangzhou University when I was young, and we vowed to be together for the rest of our lives in our youth. We returned to the Slender West Lake together in our sixties. In the Chinese dictionary, holding the hand of the son in the weak years, and growing old together with the son in the seventies are the most perfect harmony.

The most ideal love, this pair of old people who love each other, the past is like yesterday. In their free time, they hold hands and swim around the lake, as if they are leisurely and contented, playing the harp and playing the fisherman's questions and answers.

The three plum blossoms in the Daming Temple create the Slender West Lake. Across the street is the Daming Temple. Walk up the stairs step by step to the shallow hills. The light brown walls outside the Daming Temple scenic area separate the simplicity of the temple from the beauty of the Slender West Lake.

Come.

Half of the Daming Temple is majestic and open, and the other half has towering ancient trees. It is a place where you can cultivate yourself and worship the Buddha, and you can also watch the coming and going of spring and autumn. It is not so much a temple as a Buddhist garden.

Walking in the Daming Temple, you can climb the Qingling Pagoda to overlook the city of Yangzhou, listen to the lingering sounds in the Drum Tower, admire the pavilions and pavilions in the Western Garden, and look for Ouyang Drunkard in the Pingshan Hall, Gao Lin Fushu, and spend the afternoon in this temple garden.

Dust danced lightly.

Of course, what gives Daming Temple the greatest significance is that Jianzhen served as the abbot of Daming Temple before going east to Japan.

The culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty was rich and exported to the outside world. Buddhism, medicine, humanities, art, and architecture were introduced to East Asia, which planted a profound and heavy soil for the spread of Chinese civilization in Asia. Jianzhen's eastward journey was to spread Chinese civilization.

A spark to Japan.

Jianzhen became a monk in Daming Temple. After studying scriptures, he broadcast Buddhism in Daming Temple. The culture in the prosperous times was always overflowing with brilliance and lingering in the bright light. Therefore, Jianzhen not only attracted religious men and women from Jianghuai, but also attracted

Japanese monks seek wisdom.

Jianzhen made six trips to the east, and finally completed the Five Elements and One. After going through hardships, the Tang Dynasty prospered on the east coast of China, just like the plum blossoms finally blooming in the cold wind, like a seven-stringed guitar playing a plum blossom song with three tricks.

Among the private gardens, Suzhou has the Humble Administrator’s Garden and the Lion Garden, and Yangzhou has the Garden and the He Garden. Since people say that Yangzhou and Suzhou are incompatible, then after visiting the Buddhist gardens in Yangzhou, the next attraction must be the private gardens in Yangzhou.

Garden.

I quickly walked down the stairs outside Daming Temple and took a bus to the northeast of Yangzhou. I entered the garden through a less noticeable door on Yanfu East Road.

It is said that the garden is clever and interesting, with rich green bamboos and stacked stones like scrolls of the four seasons. Bamboo and stone are the famous labels of the garden.

However, when I entered the garden from Yuedong Gate to enjoy the landscape, I had doubts. Elements such as building mountains, arranging ponds, planting, and building pavilions were all present in the garden. The landscape was layered, delicate, elegant, and beautiful, but there were not many elements in the garden.

The freehand feeling of poetry and painting is why Ge Garden is listed as one of the four famous gardens.

After all, ancient Chinese gardens used paintings to guide their construction, and the garden landscapes under poetry and paintings should have the meaning of changing scenery with each step and through windows.

This question was answered after I opened the history of Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is located at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. When the country was unified, it was prosperous and prosperous. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was as close to the two capitals as Chang'an and Luoyang. When the country was divided, wars were frequent. From the Three Kingdoms to the end of the Qing Dynasty, it experienced ten "city destructions and casualties"

, Ge Garden is a garden that still exists in Yangzhou after years of wars in the war-torn city. The scenery of a garden stubbornly displays the saying "Yangzhou is better with gardens and pavilions" in the "Yangzhou Painted Boat Record", and Ge Garden is the most famous garden in the Qing Dynasty.

The characteristic of the private garden of the salt merchant also tells the history of Yangzhou's prosperous salt transportation.

To read Ge Garden is to read about the 2500 years of bright and gray Yangzhou. To know Ge Garden is to know Yangzhou through the mountains and flowing water.