Since Yang Di dug the Grand Canal, Yangzhou has prospered several times in ancient times. It is the land and water transportation hub and salt transportation center of China, the largest metropolis in southeast China and a famous scenic tourist city, and is known as "the richest man in the world".
There are many places of interest here, such as Hangou in the Spring and Autumn Period (the oldest canal section in China), Guangling King's Tomb in the Han Dynasty, Yangling Mausoleum in the Sui Dynasty, daming temple Ancient Temple in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the ruins of the ancient city in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Tang Jianzhen Memorial Hall, Puhading Tomb in the Song Dynasty, Xianhe Temple, private gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (famous for its four-season stacked stones), Heyuan (famous for its architectural style of combining Chinese and Western styles) and many other places of interest. 1982, the State Council announced Yangzhou as a national historical and cultural city.
Yangzhou is also a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad. It has always been a gathering place for people, and it is a prosperous city with many places of interest and elegant gardens. Yangzhou's "Slender West Lake" has a long history and is favored by landscape experts in past dynasties. On both sides of Shili Lake District, a holy land of "two dikes, flowers and willows all depend on the water and mountains all the way" has been created. There are many temples on Guanyin Mountain, which is known as "the first Lingshan in the south of the Yangtze River". "Twenty-four Bridges on a Moonlit Night, Jade River teaches flute playing" has been a good place to enjoy the moon since ancient times.
Yangzhou also has the ancient temple daming temple with a long history, Heyuan with the reputation of "urban mountain forest", gardens famous for rockeries in four seasons, palaces left by emperors such as Yang Di, Kangxi and Qianlong, and so on. There are countless beautiful scenery, which is really a must in Jiangnan.
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Yangzhou, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, is one of the 27 cities in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta. It is a world heritage city, a world food capital, a world canal capital, an East Asian cultural capital, the first batch of national historical and cultural cities and a scenic tourist city with traditional characteristics.
Yangzhou is located in the middle of Jiangsu Province, at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Because of its special geographical position, it has experienced almost historical prosperity in ancient China, and together with cultural prosperity, it is known as the center of land geography and geometry in Jiangsu Province (Gaoyou City, Yangzhou), as well as "the famous land in Huaizuo, the beautiful land in the west of Zhuhe River" and "the first city of China Canal". Known as Yang Yi Yi Er and Moon City. ?