Because of the name of the temple, because it is in the west of the city, it is called the West Tower. According to the Records of Gaoyou Prefecture (Qianlong), "Zhenguo Temple is located in the southwest corner of the city, and there is a broken tower outside the temple. Built by Zen master Tang Juzhi, Shen Bing Temple in Shunzhi, Zhouchao was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt by Jia Guowei, a layman in the second year of Yongzheng (according to: Zhenguo Temple, formerly known as Guangxiao Temple, now corrected according to the biography of Master Zhichan and the existing temple name). " Then he said, "Broken pagoda, now called West Pagoda, is outside Zhenguo Temple in the southwest corner of Zhouzhi. This ancient pagoda has nine floors, half of which were removed by the dragon's claws, leaving only six floors, with an odd height of eight feet and an odd circumference of ten feet. Li, a citizen's city, has added seven floors. After forty-three years of Qianlong, the fire broke out and all levels were destroyed, becoming an empty tower. " It also said: "Zen master Tang Juzhi, Yi Zongzi and Xi Zongdi also went to Gaoyou, and it was too late to close the base. I urgently asked the DPRK. Zhao took his land as the town temple and lived there. He still gave the title to support the Zen master. " This tower is square, like a pavilion, with seven floors. Due to the maintenance of the past dynasties, the same tower has left architectural traces of different times, which has also caused some scholars' controversy about the age of building the tower. 1956, the Grand Canal was widened, and the tower was retained on the island in the middle of the river. 1957, the tower is listed as the second batch of cultural relics protection units in the province. On March 25th, 1982, the provincial people's government re-announced the Zhenguo Temple Tower as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Yuchengyi
Yucheng Post Station is located in the post lane outside the south gate of Gaoyou City. Ming Hongwu opened a post station in 8 years. It is one of the well-preserved remains of the ancient post station in China. After the restoration, it became the only post-station museum in China. Now it is a state-level cultural relics protection unit.
Ancient saying becomes art
China is one of the first countries in the world to establish organized missionary information. The post station is an ancient government-run organization, reporting military information, transporting guests and transporting military supplies by air. All previous dynasties attached great importance to postal service, calling it "the blood of the country".
In the twenty-fourth year of the King of Qin (223 BC), a high platform was built here, a postal kiosk was set up, and a county was built in the Han Dynasty. History solemnly named this land Gaoyou. Gaoyou is the only county in China that associates its name with postal delivery. Since then, Gaoyou was born and prospered because of "post", and a song of "post" has been sung since ancient times.
Yucheng Post was opened in the eighth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1375), and it was the garden mouth of drinking water in ancient times. Yucheng, another name of Gaoyou, comes from a poem by Qin Shaoyou, a poet in the Song Dynasty, which describes his hometown as "My hometown is like a bowl". Located in Guan Yi Lane, south of the city, Yucheng Post is an important post card with both permanent and post-horse functions on the north-south artery (Beijing-Hangzhou Canal) in the Ming Dynasty. The original scale is magnificent, including halls, warehouses, cloisters, horse temples, the original drum tower and other ancient buildings. Although it has experienced Cang Sang, its ancient style still exists, which many experts and scholars call "rare and precious". With the strong support of Jiangsu Provincial Government of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, all levels of posts and telecommunications, culture, urban construction, departments and all walks of life in the province, Gaoyou Municipal People's Government insisted on restoring Yucheng Post Station during the period of 1993+0995, and on this basis, established the only post station museum in China, making the ancient post station regain its glory. The China Ming History Society, the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences and the Literature and History Center of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications jointly held the' 95 International Symposium on Postal Culture in Gaoyou on August 17, 2007. On August 17, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued the postal service "Ancient Post Station Yucheng Post" and held a premiere ceremony at the opposite station. Yucheng Post Station is a national cultural relic protection unit.
gaoyou lake
Gaoyou lake is the third largest lake in Jiangsu Province. Gaoyou lake is called Hanging Lake because its water level is higher than the canal, and West Lake because it is located in the west of Gaoyou. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, several small lakes appeared, among which Zhuhu Lake, Fushe Lake, Ping 'an Lake, etc. 12 Lake was the largest, and the lakes were connected. Qin Shaoyou described gaoyou lake as follows: "There are many huge lakes in the northwest of Gaoyou, which are connected together like pearls."
Gaoyou lake is a beautiful lake. She has both natural beauty and many beautiful legends, such as "the pearl of society" and "the magic lamp of Geng Temple". Gaoyou lake is the third largest freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province, with a total area of 780 square kilometers. Pu Songling's poems describe his "boundless sea of clouds". Looking around, the smoke is vast and the sky is level. Autumn, sunset, sails on the horizon, ducks on the water, birds in the air and reeds on the shore constitute a beautiful scenery, which makes you crazy and reluctant to leave for a long time.
Gaoyou lake is not only a beautiful lake, but also a rich lake. Its vast waters and good water quality provide a unique ecological environment for the growth of various fish, birds and aquatic plants. Rich in green, white, black, bream, carp, eel and other fish, especially Qinghe shrimp, whitebait and crab. Aquatic plants include Euryale ferox, water chestnut, lotus root, water shield and so on; Seagulls, herons, cranes and wild ducks often haunt the water island on the lake. Beautiful gaoyou lake is a world of fish, a paradise for birds and a museum of aquatic plants.
Shenjushan Han Tomb
Shenjushan Han Tomb is located in Tianshan Township, West Lake, Gaoyou City. During the quarrying of 1979, it was found that four wooden tombs of the Western Han Dynasty were unearthed, among which 1 No.2 and No.2 both adopted the highest burial system in the Han Dynasty-"Huangchang", and the owners of the two tombs were the first generation of Guangling Xu and Empress respectively, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Han Tomb No.1 is the largest in China, with complete structure. A large number of cultural relics and rich figures have been unearthed from the mausoleum. The structure of Huangchang puzzle is fine, just like Fangcheng, which vividly reflects the local economy, architecture, technology and living standards at that time. It provides valuable physical data for the study of funeral etiquette, official system, woodworking technology and calligraphy art in Guangling country of Han Dynasty.
The No.1 and No.2 Han tombs unearthed are all vertical holes and vertical pits. -There are ten pieces on Tomb No.200, with a circumference of 200 meters and a height of 3 meters. The tomb pit is a man-made rock pit. The pit mouth is 28 meters long from north to south, 23 meters long from east to west, and the pit depth is 18 meters, reaching 60 meters. Nearly 20,000 cubic meters of rocks have been dug in graves and tombs, and 25,000 cubic meters of soil have been filled and sealed. Its huge engineering and labor consumption are really rare. The wooden coffin structure, the main building of the funeral, is a "yellow intestine puzzle" made by the high-rise building in Rem, Jin Sinan. The whole tomb covers an area of 22 1 m2 and uses 545 cubic meters of wood. It looks like an underground palace, with large scale, magnificent momentum, exquisite structure, solemn shape and pure wood structure. Although two tombs were stolen, nearly a thousand pieces of jade, silver, bronze, iron, lacquer, pottery, wooden figurines, opera figurines, silk and cars were unearthed.
Reed field
Reed field is located in the northeast of gaoyou lake, with 52,000 mu of tidal flat resources, including 20,000 mu of reed. The rivers in the swing area crisscross, forming a dense water network of "one mile and one pond, two miles and one pond". At the turn of spring and summer, Ye Wei is green and blue; In midsummer, the lotus in the pond is full of water chestnuts, the reeds rustle and the fragrance is overflowing; On the Double Ninth Festival, fish are fat and crabs are strong, and hundreds of fishing boats come and go. In late autumn, the reed flowers are white and the sea of clouds is boundless. For a long time, the ecological environment here has been well protected, with clear and transparent water quality, beautiful scenery, pleasant climate and rich biodiversity. Known as the "Water Town Zeguo".
Longqiuzhuang site
The site of Longqiuzhuang, which represents the prehistoric culture in the eastern part of Jianghuai, shows that Gaoyou had a splendid lantern civilization 7000 years ago. Longqiuzhuang site is located in the northeast of Gaoyou city, about 9 Li. It is really 2.4 meters high, low-lying, surrounded by water, with a total area of 43,000 square meters.
After four large-scale archaeological excavations from 1993 to 1995 by the archaeological team composed of Nanjing Museum, Yangzhou Museum and Gaoyou Cultural Management Association, 4 Neolithic houses were cleared, 35 ash pits were found, 402 tombs were found, and more than 2,000 artifacts such as stone tools, jade articles, pottery and bone horns were unearthed. Production tools such as horn hoes and bone trowels made from the bone horns of animals such as elk, and daily necessities such as bone needles, bone cones, bone pendants and bone rings; There are tubes, rings, jewelry, pendants, and other jade articles; Pottery with a large number of daily necessities. A wide variety, different shapes, well-made. There are more than 100 pieces of complete and repairable pottery, among which pig-shaped pottery pots 10 pieces are both similar and exaggerated, and their production level and aesthetic taste are convincing. Especially, more than 4,000 carbonized rice grains were found in the same place at different depths, which advanced the rice planting history in China to 5,500 years ago.
At the same time, it is very rare to find carved symbols with the characteristics of written symbols on unearthed pottery pieces and antlers. The excavation of Longqiuzhuang site confirmed that there was a primitive culture with unique cultural features and complete cultural series in Jianghuai Basin from 7000 to 5000 years ago. This is also the "Longqiuzhuang Culture" confirmed by experts at "1997 Longqiuzhuang Site and Seminar on Ancient Culture in Jianghuai Area". Nowadays, as a national key cultural relics protection unit, the ecological museum of Longqiuzhuang site is under construction, which will reproduce the original life style of Longqiuzhuang tribe.
Kuilou
Kuilou, also known as Kuixinglou. Located in the southeast corner of Gaoyou Song Cheng, it was built in the third year of Ming Dynasty (1623), with brick and wood structure, octagonal structure, three floors and pavilion-style building. 1984, the county people's government at that time allocated funds for repairs, and restored the double-eaved cloister on the first floor according to the paintings of the Qing Dynasty. Visitors can climb the stairs to overlook. It used to be the villa of Wang Yongji, a university student in the early Qing Dynasty, where Wang Chang and Sun Chongyi recited scriptures. During Guangxu period, butterfly garden was built, and later it was abandoned. Later, to commemorate, a north-south road west of Kuilou was named Butterfly Garden Road.
Located on a hillside, between the Jingtu Temple Tower and the Zhenguo Temple Tower, it is almost in a straight line and becomes a link connecting the two towers. There are touching love legends about the three in ancient times! The main idea is to tell the story of Kuilou as a matchmaker, building a bridge between the two towers and promoting a beautiful marriage. Because of its beautiful appearance and beautiful environment, Kuilou is built on the mountain, and people around it like to come here for leisure and fitness. In the 1990s, in order to better protect Kuilou, the government repaired Kuilou for many times, repaired and strengthened the fence, and built a citizen leisure square in the original disc park, making it a good leisure place for tourists. Kuilou is a key cultural relic protection unit in Gaoyou City.
Ancient canal
The ancient canal connecting the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, excavated from 486 BC to 484 BC. It starts from the Yangtze River south of Hancheng (now Yangzhou) in the south, turns to the northeast through Liangfan Lake (now near Gaoyou) in the north, enters Sheyang Lake, and then enters the Huaihe River in the northwest through Huai 'an. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, it diverted to the west and went straight from Liangfan Lake to the north, passing through Jinhu Lake and Baima Lake, and entering the Huaihe River to the north. During the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the canal could not be introduced into the southern section of the river, and water was diverted from Yizheng. In the first year of the Great Cause of Sui Dynasty (605), Yang Di dug the Tongji Canal as well as the Han Canal, which went from Yangshan No.1 to Jiangdu, entered the Yangtze River and connected the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and became an important part of the Grand Canal in Sui Dynasty.
The stone pillars at the corner of the ancient canal are covered with deep traces left by past voyages. Yan Liu in Hangou is one of the eight scenic spots in Qin Yi. The scenery in Gaoyou section of Guhangou is charming, with weeping willows on both sides and ten thousand weeping willows swaying in the wind, like smoke and fog.
Gaoyou jingtu temple
Jingtu Temple Pagoda was built in the 40th to 43rd year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1612 ~15) and renovated in the 32nd to 34th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1906 ~ 1908). In 34 years of the Republic of China, a corner was damaged by artillery fire because of the war, and it was repaired the following year. 1963, Zhu Guangrong, a student from Gaoyou Middle School, climbed to the top of the tower and took some cultural relics out of the temple and handed them over to the cultural center. Among them, more than 40 volumes, such as the Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo and the Paramita Sutra of King Kong, are now in the Nanjing Museum. The original floors and escalators in the tower can be climbed and then gradually destroyed. 1957, the provincial people's government announced this tower as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Wang memorial hall
Gaoyou Wang Memorial Hall is located in the middle of an old street named Xihou Street in the southwest of Gaoyou City, with the east-west gate, covering an area of 1000 square meters. The Wangs are all officials for three generations, and their family is famous for its great cause. Their former residence is very large, with nearly 100 houses. Later, due to the vicissitudes of time, descendants moved out and wars were frequent. Some houses were destroyed and collapsed, some moved to ordinary people, and some were converted into factory workshops. 1983, shortly after the reform and opening-up, the local Party committee and government moved some workshops and residents in the factory, restored three east rooms, three north study rooms and an ancient well, and built three halls and part of the courtyard walls of the former residence to commemorate the masters of phonology and exegetics in Qing Dynasty, Wang Niansun and Wang and his son. 1994 build five halls and six wings, re-establish "one flag, one pole" and create a portrait of Wang and his son. The Qing-style architecture with clear bricks and tiles is simple, with several bamboo poles and several clusters of plum blossoms, which makes the courtyard environment of the former residence particularly elegant.
From north to south, along the West Back Street, both sides of which are residential styles in the late Qing Dynasty, you come to Gaoyou Wang Memorial Hall. Outside this mansion-style hall, the signboard of "Gaoyou Wang Memorial Hall" inscribed by famous contemporary calligraphers hangs. Raised white marble doors and high thresholds will take you into the memorial hall. Above the entrance hall, there is a golden plaque with a black background, and a brick carving of "Goo Goo" (kindness and auspiciousness) is engraved on the simple zhaobi. Turning to the north, through the round door hollowed out by gray bricks, a small courtyard jumped into view. The bamboo poles of Wang Niansun and Wang stand against the wall, and the bronze statues are particularly eye-catching. Sitting on a stone bench, Wang Niansun's gown is knee-high, his eyes are straight up, and his spirit is calm. He holds a wooden cane in his left hand and an open book in his right hand. Wang stood on the right side behind him, with his hands hanging down and his eyes slightly closed, as if thinking about something. The root of the wall in the southwest of the statue is an ancient well once used by the Wangs. It seems that you can still see the faint traces left by the rope drawing water on the white and smooth stone well fence. Looking down at the wellhead, the well water is still clear. There is a side door to the east of the statue, and there is a small yard in the door. There are holly, osmanthus trees and a leafy pomegranate tree in the yard, full of bright red flowers, like a starry sky.
Parallel to the courtyard are three north wing rooms facing south, displaying Wang's former residence, Gaoyou Wang Shuzhai and many paintings and calligraphy works of later generations. According to legend, this is the place where Wang and his son study. There are five main halls and a bucket arcade on the west side of the north side of the round door hollowed out by gray bricks. According to reports, the main hall is intended to reproduce the original appearance of the Wang family's books. At present, there are only some old tables and chairs for tourists to rest and enjoy. Above the main hall is a plaque inscribed by calligrapher Sha Menghai, and the portrait of Wang and his son carefully drawn by the late famous painter Cheng Shifa hangs on the back wall due north.
The Wang's father and son in the portrait, one is old and thin, and the other is over 500 years old. Although both of them have become masters of Confucian classics, they are full of energy and thin, and their Qing robes look wide and big. There are couplets inscribed by Li Yimang on the columns outside the main hall, which read "Father and son are dry and noble, exegetical achievements are beyond Song and Ming Dynasties". There are three east wing rooms and three west wing rooms in the courtyard in front of the main hall. On the pillar in front of the East Wing, there is a couplet inscribed by the late Zhou Zumo, a famous professor of Peking University, which reads, "Learn the ancient teachings of Ming Dynasty from generation to generation, with beautiful mountains and rivers, and cultivate saints". On the pillar in front of the West Chamber door, there is a couplet inscribed by Wang Zengqi, a famous writer in Gaoyou, expressing his ardent hope for his hometown Chongwen and his successors. On both sides of the wing are exhibition rooms, displaying various versions of Wang and his son's works, as well as articles and monographs of modern scholars and experts studying Wang and his son's exegesis. Ye Shengtao, Wang Li, Liao, Gu and other late experts, scholars, painters and painters all wrote in their own handwriting. There are three small anterooms on the south side of the east and west wing, displaying the life and anecdotes of Wang and his son. The story of "Wang Niansun defected to He Kun" and the story of "Wang Fu's flagpole alone" are particularly interesting and reverie with the passage of time. Out of the front hall is a long and narrow courtyard, strewn with flowers and trees, surrounded by tunnels paved with gray bricks, extending to the hollow round door on the south side of the zhaobi. Donghu eco-tourism resort
Donghu Resort is located in Mapeng Town, Gaoyou City, with a land and water forest area of 400 hectares. The stable, named after the galloping post horses on the ancient post road, changed horses here, and there was a page in the history of East Lake drinking horses. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was a lush water town scenic spot. When Emperor Kangxi inspected the stables in the south, Jia Guowei, a rural sage, said in "New Willow on the Royal River Bank": "The most fascinating thing is Luan Banner, and some people shake it in the deep forest." The scenery of that year can be seen. Donghu Resort opened its doors to welcome guests and received the first batch of tourists from 1998. Now it has become a well-known ecological resort. With the pristine, natural and harmonious beauty of the original scenery of "wild ducks flying, wild migratory birds, wild lotus flowers and wild vegetation", it ranks among the 20 eco-tourism products in Jiangsu Province.
East Lake has four seasons, charming four seasons. In spring, the lake is green. The sound of oars stirred the green halo of the circle. Sleeping in a wooden house in the forest at night is like returning to the embrace of nature. In summer, slender Taxodium ascendens, vigorous poplars and graceful willows support the sky of East Lake. Whenever the autumn wind is bleak, the yellow leaves will pave the East Lake in a quiet and pleasant way. Fishermen who hold their breath, brave people who play in heaven, and spectators who fly wild ducks all find curiosity to return to nature here. In the cold winter, the lake is covered with snow and covered with thin ice. Country clubs and wooden houses in the forest are still full of spring. When you see wild ducks sliding on the ice, you will feel much younger. Qin, a former ambassador of China to the United Nations and a native of Gaoyou, visited the East Lake with great interest and wrote a poem: "The water is clear and the forest is lush. Birds and birds, everyone is happy. " Nowadays, the tourism and leisure projects in the resort are gradually matched: quaint dragon boats, dexterous speedboats, winding bridges, rooms covered with green vines, wooden houses deep in the forest, as well as forest mazes, pigeon squares, folk gardens, rare birds gardens, fish ponds, music stations, brave paradise, country clubs and so on. , to meet the broad interests and various needs of tourists.
The most attractive tourist attraction of Donghu Resort is "Wild Duck Flying". The feature film "Duck Raising Wonder-Lu High School" broadcast by CCTV and American Chinese Channel called Lu High School's stunt of releasing wild ducks "Chinese Wonder". Lu high school is really a strange move. He can make wild ducks obey. Every time he opens his mouth, he makes a special cry, calling out hundreds of wild ducks from the Woods and reeds, flying around in the water in front of him, chasing, foraging, playing and dancing in the air, or doing "water ballet". Wild ducks fly out for food in the morning and fly back to the duck pen at dusk even if they fly dozens of miles. The harmony between man and wild ducks gives the most appropriate interpretation of eco-tourism in the stable resort.