Attractions:

1. Slender West Lake.

Slender West Lake is located in the northwest of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is called "Slender West Lake" because of its elongated surface. The graceful and winding lake road is connected by the Long Causeway of Spring Willows, Four Bridges of Misty Rain, Xu Garden, Xiaojin Mountain, Chuitai, Wuting Bridge, White Tower, Twenty-four Bridges, Exquisite Flower World, Xichuntai, Wangchun Tower, The scenic spots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, such as the Yin Yue Teahouse, the Lakeside Promenade, the Shibi Liugong, and the Jingxiang Bookstore, are like a natural and beautiful scroll of traditional Chinese painting.

The lake is winding and stretching, like the belt of a goddess, charming and charming. During the Qing Dynasty, Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong visited Yangzhou several times in the south. The local gentry rushed to build gardens, which led to the saying that "the prosperity of gardens is the best in the world."

The Slender West Lake in Yangzhou has a total length of 4.3 kilometers and a tourist area of ??more than 30 hectares. It includes Changdi, Xuyuan, Xiaojinshan, Chuitai, Moon View, Wuting Bridge, Fu Village, White Pagoda and other scenic spots. The lake area is divided into bridges, islands, embankments, and banks to form a long and narrow lake surface with distinct layers and twists and turns.

On both sides of the delicate and graceful Slender West Lake, there are Yangzhou classical gardens that combine the beauty of the south and the beauty of the north, forming a long axis of landscape that changes scenery and borrows from each other; famous temples and ancient temples The city walls stretch along each other, and places of interest and historical relics are scattered among them. The unique natural scenery and rich cultural landscape complement each other, making it a shining pearl embedded in a famous historical and cultural city.

2. Daming Temple.

Daming Temple is located in the middle peak of Shugang Scenic Area in the northwest suburb of Yangzhou City. It is a tourist attraction integrating Buddhist temples, cultural relics and garden scenery. Daming Temple was said to be the first scenic spot in Yangzhou in ancient times. It was built in the early Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Song Dynasty (457-464), so it was called "Daming Temple".

In the first year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (601), on the sixtieth birthday of Emperor Wen Yang Jian, he ordered the erection of thirty pagodas in thirty states across the country to enshrine the relics (Buddha bones). One of them was built in Damingduo. , called "Lingqi Pagoda". The pagoda is nine stories high. Because the temple is named after the pagoda, it is called "Daming Temple" and "Qiling Temple" together; and because Daming Temple is located to the west of Sui Palace and Tang City, it is also called "West Temple".

3. He Yuan.

The owner of He Garden, He Zhishuan, was a Yangzhou gentry who was married to Li Hongzhang, an important minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and Sun Jia Nai, the disciple of Emperor Guangxu. He built this private garden in the ninth year of Guangxu (AD 1883). He Garden has the reputation of "the first garden in the late Qing Dynasty". The buildings in the garden are a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and are connected by multiple corridors and corridors. The layout is rich in layers.

In addition, there are Zhuyu Bay Scenic Area, Ge Garden, Shi Kefa Temple and Tomb, etc.

Snacks:

1. Braised tiger tail.

Boiled tiger tail is a traditional famous dish in Yangzhou and Huaiyin areas. It is made from a piece of clean meat from the back of eel tail, slightly simmered in boiling water and thickened with seasoning. It is named because it looks like a tiger tail. Eel, commonly known as eel, has been listed as a top-quality fish in my country since ancient times. Because it is rich in nutrients and has the effect of nourishing the five internal organs and curing deficiency, some famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the past have often used it to treat diseases and replenish the body.

The effect of eating it in summer is more significant. There was once a saying that "slow heat eel is better than ginseng". Preparing dishes with eel is said to have started in the Han Dynasty and became more popular after the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Huaiyang area of ??Jiangsu Province started making eel dishes earlier and has rich cooking experience. Many Chinese and foreign customers tasted this historical dish locally and praised its delicious taste.

2. Jade Shaomai.

Jade Shaomai is a famous Yangzhou food. Its skin is as thin as paper, its filling is green, its color is like jade, its mouth is filled with sugar and oil, and it is sweet and fragrant. It has good color, texture and taste and is deeply loved by local people. It is made with various green vegetable leaves as fillings. It tastes sweet or salty. After steaming, the filling color looks like jasper through the thin skin, hence the name. The filling of shaomai is usually made from cooked glutinous rice. It is brownish red in color and has distinct grains, like wheat grains. People in the north call it "shaomai". Because the mouth of the pastry is facing upward, and it is gathered together to make it loose, people in the south of the Yangtze River call it "shaomai". "Ghost Pengtou".

3. Yangzhou fried rice.

Yangzhou fried rice, also known as Yangzhou egg fried rice, is a classic Han snack in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. Originally spread among the local people, it is said that it originated from the broken gold rice that Yang Su, the Duke of Yue in the Sui Dynasty, loved to eat, that is, egg fried rice.

When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty inspected Jiangdu (today's Yangzhou), he also introduced egg fried rice to Yangzhou. Later, through generations of cooking masters, he gradually innovated and incorporated the "rigorous selection of ingredients and production" of Huaiyang cuisine. The characteristics of "fine, exquisite processing, attention to color matching, and original flavor" have finally developed into one of the famous staple foods of Huaiyang flavor. Yangzhou-style restaurants in Europe, America, Japan, Hong Kong and other places also sell this delicacy, which is very popular.

In addition, there are honey juice fire recipe, thousand layer oil cake, osmanthus sugar lotus root porridge and so on.