There are 147 important cultural relics protection units in the urban area.
Yangzhou prospered several times, especially in Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties and Qing Dynasty.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called Han near Yangzhou City today.
In 486 BC, Wu destroyed the Hanshui River, built the Hanshui City, and ditched the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.
The more you destroy Wu, the more you belong to your own land; Chu is destroyed, and the land belongs to Chu.
In 3 19 BC, the state of Chu built a city on the site of Seoul, named Guangling.
After Qin unified China, Guangling County was established, belonging to Jiujiang County.
Yangzhou in the Han Dynasty, now called Guangling and Jiangdu, has long been a vassal fief.
Liu Ying, the King of Wu, opened the Salt River (the predecessor of the Toarey Yang Canal), which promoted economic development.
In order to improve and consolidate ethnic relations, in the sixth year of Yuanfeng (BC 105), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty married Liu Xijun, the daughter of Jiangdu King, to Wusunguo, more than 80 years before Wang Zhaojun married Xiongnu.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the wars between Wei and Wu continued, and Guangling was a military stronghold in the Jianghuai area.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangling was transformed into "Wuhu City" after several wars. However, due to the hard development of the working people for hundreds of years, their economic status has been continuously improved in the recovery.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty changed Guangling to Wu Zhou.
Immigrants from Qingzhou and Yanzhou in Shandong moved south to Guangling, which promoted the economic development of Yangzhou.
In 589, Chen was destroyed and a unified Sui regime was established.
The Sui Dynasty changed Wu Zhou to Yangzhou and set up the general manager's office.
When Emperor Yang Di was in power, the Grand Canal was opened to connect the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River, and Mazhou was recruited as a water transport hub, which not only facilitated transportation and irrigation, but also played an important role in promoting the economic and cultural development and exchanges of the three major river basins, laying the foundation for the unprecedented prosperity of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty.
From 605 to 6 16, Yang Di visited Jiangdu (now Yangzhou).
In 6 18, he was killed by his subordinate Yu Wenhuaji and buried in Tang Lei.
In 6 19, Li Zitong, a peasant uprising army, established Yangzhou as its capital, with the title of Wu.
It was renamed Yangzhou in 626 AD and has ruled Yangzhou ever since.
In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, agriculture, commerce and handicrafts were quite developed, and a large number of workshops and manual workshops appeared.
Not only is it "rich in the world" between Jianghuai and China, but it is also the largest metropolis in the southeast of China, sometimes called "Yang Yi Er" (Yizhou is now Chengdu).
Yangzhou is the transportation center of grain, grass, salt, money and iron in the north and south, and it is an important port for domestic and international transportation. He was the Governor's Office, the Governor's Office, the Governor of Huainan Road and the Governor of Huainan, and was in charge of Huainan and Jiangbei.
Yangzhou has always played a pivotal role in the land and water transportation centered on Chang 'an.
As an important port for foreign traffic, Yangzhou has a special ship ambassador to manage foreign trade and friendly exchanges.
In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, thousands of businessmen from Silla (Korea), Korea (South Korea), Japan, Persia (Iran), Dashi (* * *), Brahman, Kunlun and other countries lived and did business for a long time.
At that time, Yangzhou Port was known as one of the "four major commercial ports in the East" and became a famous port on China's Maritime Silk Road.
Japan sent Tang Dynasty envoys to Yangzhou and monk Jian Zhen to Japan, which promoted the political, economic, scientific, technological and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.
Cui Zhiyuan, a Silla writer, came to Yangzhou in 880 AD. He worked in Huainan, was diligent in government affairs, joined the army, was in charge of the inn, worked hard, wrote a lot of poems, official documents and forms, and returned to Silla in 884 to spread Chinese culture. He was called "Oriental Confucianism" and became the most outstanding Silla writer.
On the basis of absorbing predecessors' achievements, Shan Li, a native of Yangzhou, re-annotated the Selected Works and quoted a lot, which saved a lot of lost important documents for future generations.
His son Li Yong is not only influential in writing and poetry, but also one of the great calligraphers after Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang.
Zhang, one of the "four outstanding people in Wuzhong", has the reputation of "a lonely piece overwhelms the whole Tang Dynasty" with only one song "Moonlit Night on a Spring River".
In 684 AD, Xu Jingye and King Robin opposed the rule of Wu Zetian in Yangzhou.
In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled and Yangzhou was seriously damaged.
Yang Xingmi established political power in Yangzhou, known as "Yang Wu" in history, and the economy recovered briefly.
Soon, it fell into the destruction of war.
In 960, the Northern Song Dynasty was established.
With the rapid development of agriculture and handicrafts and the further prosperity of commerce, Yangzhou has once again become the economic and cultural center of southeast China, almost as famous as Kaifeng, the capital.
The annual commercial tax revenue was about 80,000 yuan, ranking third in the country.
In A.D. 1 127, in the process of moving the capital under the pressure of Jin people, Yangzhou was regarded as the "year of walking", which further promoted the prosperity of Yangzhou.
From 1275 to 1276, Li Tingzhi and Jiang Cai led the army in an unyielding struggle with Yangzhou people. Unfortunately, they are all dead, and there are only a few thousand people left in Yangzhou.
For more than 0/00 years, Yangzhou was a battlefield against Jin and Yuan Dynasties.
Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Yue Fei and other famous Southern Song Dynasty players fought bloody battles in this area.
The war has caused serious damage to the economy and society, but under the relatively stable situation, Yangzhou's economy has been continuously restored and developed.
Culturally, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Qin Guan, Jiang Kui, Wang Ling, etc. left a large number of masterpieces handed down from generation to generation in Yangzhou.
During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Yangzhou's economic development accelerated.
More and more foreigners come to Yangzhou for business, missionary work, politics and settlement, among which Persians and * * * people are still the most.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the Yangzhou section of the Canal was renovated several times, which basically formed today's trend, resumed the once interrupted grain transportation, and Yangzhou prospered rapidly again.
At that time, Italian traveler Kyle? Polo served as an official in Yangzhou for three years and became a friendly envoy of the Chinese and Italian peoples.
In the Ming Dynasty, with the development of commodity economy, the seeds of capitalist relations of production were born.
Yangzhou's business is mainly the monopoly of Huaibei salt industry and the trade of goods between North and South.
The income from salt tax is almost equal to that from grain tax.
Commercial expansion expires outside the old city.
The lacquerware, jade articles, bronzes, bamboo and wood utensils, embroidery and cosmetics produced by hand workshops have reached a fairly high level.
In order to prevent the Japanese invaders from invading again, Yangzhou built a "new town" in AD 1556.
A number of zaju and novelists, such as Sui, all appeared in the cultural circle.
In the peasant uprising at the end of Yuan Dynasty, the peasant uprising led by Zhang Shicheng lasted 16 years.
After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the Qing army from going south, Shi Kefa, governor of Nanming, led his troops to stick to the isolated city, preferring death to surrender, showing unyielding national integrity.
After the city fell, the Qing army slaughtered the city 10 day, and hundreds of thousands of people died.
Kangxi and Qianlong visited Yangzhou many times in Qing Dynasty, which led to unprecedented prosperity in Yangzhou.
The urban population exceeds 500,000.
Yangzhou, which was located at the transportation hub at that time, was rich in salt fish, and the salt tax had a great relationship with the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty.
Businessmen from all over the world have increased, and they have built guild halls in Yangzhou, each with its own business scope and local characteristics.
At the same time, there is also a conference ticket-point redemption.
Culturally, some salt merchants made friends with literati, loved collecting books, established official schools and county schools, and restored places of interest, which made certain contributions to the cultural development of Yangzhou.
During this period, there appeared the Yangzhou School of Painting represented by Jin Nong, Li, Gao Xiang, Zheng Xie and Ruan Yuan, Ren and Wang.
Yangzhou drama has a long history and flourished in the Qing Dynasty.
1790, in order to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Qianlong, Sanqing Class, with Baoying Gaolangting as the class leader, performed in Beijing, which, together with other operas, had an important influence on the formation and development of Peking Opera.
Yangzhou's storytelling, Qingqu, Yangju, puppet show, chess and piano all formed their own characteristics in the Qing Dynasty, which promoted the formation of Yangzhou as the cultural center of China at that time.
The prosperous history of Yangzhou has accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations. Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Zheng Xie, Zhu Ziqing, Kyle? A large number of Chinese and foreign scholars such as Polo and Cui Zhiyuan left their masterpieces in the ancient city of Yangzhou.
Yangzhou Painting School and Yangzhou School, represented by the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, are unique in the cultural field of China.
Yangzhou opera, Yangzhou storytelling, jade carving lacquerware, foreign bonsai, block printing, Huaiyang cuisine, etc. They are unique and have a long history, which has laid a solid foundation for the full implementation of today's "Cultural Yangzhou Development Strategy".