Yancheng, which borders the Yellow Sea in the east, covers an area of 15, square kilometers and has a population of 8.15 million. It has a long history of more than 2,1 years, beautiful ecological environment, rich cultural heritage and convenient transportation, and is famous as "Oriental Wetland and Water Green Yancheng".

Yancheng has a long history and a rich collection of people. Since the establishment of the county in the 4th year of Emperor Yuan Shou of the Han Dynasty (119 BC), the history of more than 2,1 years has left many places of interest to the ancient land of Yanfu. Yancheng is the hometown of Shi Naian, Steven Song Xiang Lu Xiufu and Song Cao, a famous calligrapher in Ming Dynasty. It is a famous hometown of acrobatics, Huai Opera and fireworks in China, with rich cultural heritage. Yancheng is also one of the important revolutionary old areas in China. It was once said that "Yan 'an is in the west and Yancheng is in the east", and it has the largest, most comprehensive and most representative memorial facilities for the New Fourth Army in China.

Yancheng is rich in eco-tourism resources. The coastal beach area is 6.83 million mu, accounting for 75 of the total beach area in Jiangsu Province and 1/7 of the whole country. There are two national nature reserves of red-crowned crane and elk, a Chinese sturgeon nature reserve under construction and the largest offshore sandbar in China. Dongsha. Here, the sea meets the sky, the vegetation is lush, and cranes dance in Luming Literature, which is a primitive ecological scenery. It is the habitat and growth place of nearly 1 kinds of national first-and second-class protected animals and nearly 1, kinds of animals and plants. 6 and 25 of the world's wild red-crowned cranes and elk populations live here and are listed as the world's key wetland reserves. The western part of Yancheng is located in the hinterland of Lixiahe area, and the waters of Dazong Lake, Jiulongkou Lake and Majiadang Lake cover an area of nearly 1 square kilometers. There are abundant products, picturesque scenery, simple folk customs, long and colorful folk culture, and well-preserved primitive ecological environment, which is known as "Jin Tan's silver swing" and "land of plenty".

At present, Yancheng is actively planning to build Yancheng Wetland Ecological National Park, making it "the largest wetland park on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and the best eco-tourism paradise in eastern Asia". Yancheng tourism will welcome guests from all corners of the country with distinctive theme image, high resource grade, unique landscape form, huge ecological effect and strong tourism attraction function.

Welcome to the home of red-crowned crane, the hometown of elk, the beautiful Yancheng and the open Yancheng!

Yancheng Ten Scenes

Overview of "Yancheng Ten Scenes" selection

With the consent of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, Yancheng Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Yancheng Spiritual Civilization Construction Committee Office, Yancheng Tourism Bureau, Yancheng Construction Bureau, Yancheng Cultural Bureau, Yancheng Radio and Television Bureau and Yanfu Popular Newspaper jointly sponsored the "Yancheng Ten Scenes" selection activity, which was undertaken by Yancheng Tourism Bureau and planned by Yancheng Agricultural Bank. Starting from June 21, it lasted for half a year, and the selection results were announced on December 18, 21 after the procedures of collecting participating units, screening by the organizing Committee, mass voting, expert evaluation and evaluation by the jury. The ten short-listed scenic spots are:

Haitian Crane Township-Yancheng National Rare Bird Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province

Jin Tan Zhenlu-Dafeng Elk National Nature Reserve

Dead branches and exotic flowers-Yancheng Dead Branch Peony Garden

Autumn colors of vertical lakes-Dazong Lake Scenic Area in Yandu County

Dragon Play Beads-jianhu county Jiulongkou

Tiejun Feng.

Memorial Hall of the Fourth Army-Shi Naian Memorial Hall

Xixi Ancient Rhyme-Taishan Temple in Dongtai City

Golden Pagoda Liuhui-Agricultural Bank Building in Yancheng City

Yingbin Jixian-Yingbin Park in Yancheng City

These scenic spots are a number of natural and cultural landscapes newly built, expanded and rebuilt in our city since the reform and opening up, especially since the city was established in 1983.

Yancheng's tourism industry started in the middle and late 198s. After nearly 2 years' development, it grew from scratch, grew from small to large, its industrial scale continued to grow, its infrastructure and supporting facilities were gradually improved, and its tourist reception conditions were obviously improved, initially forming a tourism development pattern of "three belts and one area", that is, the natural scenery belt along the eastern coastal beaches. The human landscape belt along Tongyu Road in the middle; The folk-custom tourist belt of Lixiahe water town in the west and the tourist area composed of the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall in Yancheng City. The selection of "Ten Scenes of Yancheng" has effectively strengthened the tourism awareness of the general public, created a social atmosphere of promoting tourism and participating in tourism throughout the city, and laid a broad mass foundation for the healthy and rapid development of tourism in our city.

local specialty

Dongtai fish noodle soup was originally a court food, and its soup was thick as milk, dripping into beads, and the noodles were white and fine, fresh but not greasy, which was a traditional name. In 1924, he won the gold medal in Panama Expo.

Jianhu lotus root starch dumplings have a history of one hundred years. The above-mentioned lotus root powder is used as raw materials, mixed with white sugar, jujube paste, sesame powder, meat oil and osmanthus as stuffing pills, and boiled in boiling water for many times. Shaped like a projectile, it is lavender, delicate and plump, soft and plump, sweet but not greasy. Gui Xiang is full of words and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

raw fried shrimp strips are a specialty of Yancheng coastal areas. The method is unique: add salt to the raw shrimp, sterilize the raw shrimp with koji, and then add the auxiliary materials such as fermented milk, white soy sauce and white sugar to eat. This dish is best eaten before Qingming Festival.

white stewed mullet is a famous seafood in Yancheng, with delicious meat, diced pork, sliced ham, sliced mushrooms and bamboo shoots, etc. It is steamed in a cage with high heat. The stewed mullet meat is garlic cloves, with clear soup, beautiful color, fresh and delicious.

It is said that stewed vegetarian fish skin was first created by the chef of Doulv Temple in Yancheng in the early Qing Dynasty. Put the sweet potato powder into a boiling water pot and solidify it into powder skin, cut it into cubes, and it looks like fish skin. With chicken soup, ham and chicken breast, it is delicious, refreshing and delicious.

The crab roe buns in Qiyuan, Yancheng have a history of more than 3 years. They are made from a fat and yellow live female crab and refined noodles, and they are very delicious, especially the crab roe buns in Qiyuan Restaurant, hence the name.

Polygonum multiflorum Thunb cake is made of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb powder, a specialty of Binhai County. It is delicious and transparent in color. It can preserve health and cure gray hair. It has become a good banquet.

Four-gill perch is produced in Guanhe River in Xiangshui County. The mouth is big, the scales are thin, and the body side is flat. In cauliflower season, the fish body has black and white patterns, also known as "cauliflower bass". The fish head has overlapping gills, which looks like four gills. The meat is tender and the fish soup is delicious, which can be compared with chicken juice. It used to be a tribute in the old days.

Yancheng sugar twist, also known as oil rope, has a history of more than 2, years. Features: fragrant, sweet, crisp, crisp, oily but not greasy, delicious. It is listed in the Guide of China Flavor Specialty.

Yangwu sausage has a long history. It was first produced and operated by Yangwu Smoked Roast Shop in Taicheng, Dongtai, hence the name. Yangwu sausage, with bright color and delicious taste, was listed in China Famous Food Guide.

Funing cake has a history of more than 2, years. The cake slices are as white as snow, soft as clouds, and sweet and moist. Mainly refined from glutinous rice flour.

Wuyou drunken snail, also known as sugar mud snail, began in the reign of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. Its characteristics are fragrant, sweet, crisp and tender, and it is a delicacy to accompany meals and wine.

drunken crabs in Dazong Lake. There are many rhubarb crabs in Dazong Lake. After washing, it is drunk with Yancheng Qu liquor, rice wine, Huai salt, pepper and other raw materials. This product has eight characteristics, such as vivid appearance, tender meat, rich flavor, intoxicating, fresh wine, rich nutrition, no need to cook and convenient to carry. It is a good product for banquets, tourism and gifts.

Longgang Pear is produced in Shagang area in the north of Longgang Town, Yandu County. The pear looks like a spindle and tastes like tender ling. The average fruit weight is 2 grams, and the maximum is 8 grams. The pulp is thick and the sugar content is above 15. It won the championship three times in the relevant provincial competitions.

Gewunen ginger slices are produced by Gewu sauce products factory in Yandu County, which is characterized by being fresh, sweet, crisp and tender, shaped like tissue paper, and delicious. Its preparation method is to select fresh and tender ginger harvested three days before cold dew and make it through 13 processes.

Tourism culture

Yancheng and Salt

There is an area near the Yellow Sea, which is not far from Huanghuai in the north and close to the Yangtze River in the south. The terrain here is flat, the climate is mild, the rivers and lakes are densely covered, and the vegetation is fragrant. This 15,-square-kilometer place is called Yancheng. Yancheng has been dependent on salt for thousands of years since ancient times. The history of Yancheng is a history of salt culture as crystal clear as salt. Yancheng is also a salt museum with the same rich connotation as salt, which is very intriguing and interesting.

salt history

Yancheng was born to produce salt. In ancient times, the Huaihe River went to sea in the north of Yancheng, which was called "the land of Huai Yi" in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Before the Han Dynasty, some people boiled seawater for salt on the seashore north and south of Huaihe River. There are north and south areas in Huai River, and Yancheng, Yangzhou and Nantong are in Huainan. The salt produced in these places is called Huainan salt. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, it was part of the fief of Liu Bi, the nephew of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang. He made a fortune by cooking salt, so he rose up and rebelled for the throne. The Han court realized that salt was an indispensable and irreplaceable material in people's lives, and it was also a material closely related to the security of the country. The minister Sang Hongyang published "On Salt and Iron", which made it necessary for salt and iron to be controlled by the court. Therefore, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, salt and iron were "caged in the world", and salt and iron were administered by officials. The government raised people to benefit from salt, and the officials collected, transported and sold it. Later, the officials in charge were called salt and iron officials. Not long ago, an ancient iron plate for making salt was unearthed in Yancheng, on which were cast the words cast by salt officials, indicating that ancient salt making was tightly controlled by salt officials. Since then, all dynasties have been ruled by the Han Dynasty, and the salt affairs were directly managed by the central ruling body. In the Han Dynasty, the department of agriculture was in charge of the central government, and in the Tang Dynasty, the department of salt affairs was specially promoted to take charge of salt. In the Yuan Dynasty, the department of salt affairs was in charge of the province, and in the Qing Dynasty, a patrol of salt was set up. There is a special and strict management system below, and local officials are not allowed to intervene. Sales are handled by salt merchants selected and approved by the salt administration. Ordinary people will be severely punished if they are forbidden to make, transport and sell salt.

At first, salt was boiled directly with seawater; After the Song Dynasty, seawater was first made into brine with high salt content, and then salt was fried with brine in pots and pans. From the end of Qing dynasty, it gradually developed into using the heat of the sun to dry salt. With the improvement of technology, the salt production has been increasing, and the court has benefited more and more from it. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, salt revenue accounted for one-third to two-thirds of the country's total fiscal revenue. People in the Yuan Dynasty said, "The national wealth is enriched by salt.". Salt tax accounted for 8% of the total national income at that time. Yancheng is the concentrated producing area of Huai salt, and the tax revenue of Huai salt accounts for one-third to two-thirds of the total tax revenue of the whole country.

due to the vicissitudes of life, the coastline of the Yellow Sea has been continuously silted and extended eastward, and the salt producing areas have been continuously moved to the north. However, the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea in the middle and north of Yancheng are still important salt producing bases in the country.

salt name

Yancheng was born with the surname salt. In the fourth year of Emperor Wudi's inaugural ceremony (119 BC), the imperial court divided the eastern part of ancient Sheyang County, near the Yellow Sea, into another county, called Yandu County. Blasphemy means ditch or waterway, so salt blasphemy means salt river. This is the first time that the emperor officially gave Yancheng the surname "salt". In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yandu was renamed Yancheng because of "salt fields around the city", and this name has been extended to the present. Many other place names in the county are also related to salt. In order to manage the salt administration, the imperial courts of past dynasties set up strict management institutions from top to bottom. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, the highest management institution of salt administration was Zhongshu Province, that is, the central government, and the management institutions at all levels below were Zhongshu Province-Salt Transportation Department-Division-Field-Regiment-Salt Household (some dynasties called Pavilion Household). In ancient times, the Salt Transportation Department, the full-time management organization of salt administration in Huainan and Huaibei, was located in Yangzhou and Huai 'an, and Yancheng was a salt production base and transit distribution center. Therefore, the local place names were mostly related to the surnames of fields, warehouses, regiments and salt households. On a map of salt fields in Huainan and Huaibei drawn during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, there were 3 salt fields, of which 13 were located in Yancheng now. The famous saltworks are: Baijuchang, the hometown of Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin, and Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the salt people's uprising, and Caoyanchang, the writing place of Li Ruzhen, the author of Jing Hua Yuan. In addition, there are unique places where dead branch peonies are produced, such as Wuyouchang, Dingxichang, Liu Zhuang Chang, Xituan and Biancang ... There are many places in Yancheng that are related to ancient salt-making methods and tools. Boiling seawater requires a lot of firewood, which must be cut in advance to dry and stacked for later use, hence the names Caoyan, Heduo and Liangduo. Cooking salt requires stoves, pots and pans, so there are many small villages called stoves and pans. In ancient Yancheng, there were many rivers transporting salt, which transported salt from the waterway to the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal to the south and to Huai 'an, the intersection of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River to the north. The most important river transporting salt was called Chuanchang River, which was an artificial canal excavated in the Qing Dynasty. From south to north, it ran through more than ten salt fields in Yancheng on the Yellow Sea, and it was a big channel for salt transportation in Yancheng. The place name "surname" is salt, which was the case in ancient times, and it is still the case now. In the 199s, the suburb of Yancheng was removed from the district to build a county, and people gave it the name Yandu, and it is still "surname" salt. According to the statistics of Yancheng, there are hundreds of place names in Yancheng, two thirds of which are related to salt, and all of them are "surnames" of salt.

there are many salt officials in Yancheng. In ancient times, because salt was an economic lifeline of the imperial court, emperors in previous dynasties were very careful in choosing and appointing salt officials. They were either talented people or cronies of the emperor, so there were many celebrities in salt officials. There are also some lower-level salt officials who have achieved good results in managing salt administration and have been promoted to court officials. Yan Shu, Lv Yijian and Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty were all sent to serve as low-level salt officials in Yancheng-Xixi Salt Warehouse Supervisor. This salt warehouse supervisor only supervises the production, storage and transportation affairs of five salt fields, such as Baiju and Dingxi, which is about equivalent to the director of today's salt management office. Xixi, located in Dongtai, Yancheng, is the seat of Yancang supervisor. Yan Shu is the one who wrote a new word, "Let's have a drink. Last year, the weather was old. When will the sun set?"? There is no choice but to let the flowers fall, and it seems familiar to me that Yan returns and Xiao Yuan Xiang Path wanders alone. This is a very famous word, the epigraph is Huanxisha. According to research, this word was written in Xixi. Yan Shu's loneliness and sense of loss are revealed in the words. He is a talented scholar, and he is somewhat dissatisfied with being a small official like the salt warehouse supervisor. However, when he was in office, he still made some achievements, not only managing salt affairs, but also running schools in Xixi to train talents. In Xixi area, either salt merchants or salt people trained talents for them. It is also a good thing. For thousands of years, the local people have not forgotten him, and they also called a nearby stream Yanxi. Later, he went to the imperial court to participate in politics, that is, the prime minister.

The successor supervisor of Yancang is Lv Yijian. He wrote a poem about peony flowers in Xixi Ren, "What's the matter of cultivating offshore cliffs?" "You should hate driving to the east wind, and move into the house of the Five Emperors with Huai?" He is dissatisfied with being a small official like a salt warehouse supervisor to the point of complaining, and his heart is very painful. However, according to the local people, he was still a good salt warehouse supervisor, so he later became prime minister. In Xixi, Fan Zhongyan wrote a five-character poem entitled "Feeling Fu to Xixi": "Whoever teaches Xixi small, Xixi makes great talents. "I learned that the two prime ministers came here. "Knowing the two prime ministers" refers to his predecessors Yan Shu and Lv Yijian. In Xixi, Fan Zhongyan not only supervised the salt warehouse seriously and excellently, but also volunteered, endured humiliation and worked hard to do an extraordinary thing: led the public to build a pass.