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I was born in Yangzhou, so my childhood memories are deeply engraved in my mind. Yangzhou is not only a scenic city with beautiful scenery, but also a cultural city with a gathering of people and a museum city with a long history. There are the oldest canals in China, the tombs of emperors of the Han and Sui Dynasties, the ruins of ancient cities in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and private gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Numerous cultural landscapes and beautiful natural scenery make Yangzhou even more beautiful. There is a place called Slender West Lake near my home. It has beautiful scenery and is a place where you can take a walk. Slender West Lake is located in the northwest of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Because the lake is long and thin, it is called "Slender West Lake". The road is winding and winding, like a saint's belt. There are scenic spots such as Xiaojin Mountain, Xu Garden, and White Pagoda on both sides of the strait. Emperors Qianlong and Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty 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". Near Slender West Lake, there are also two famous scenic spots, namely Geyuan and Heyuan. The owner of Geyuan spent a lot of money to build this garden, and its most famous one is the four-season rockery. What I like the most is Dongshan. The snow on Dongshan’s Xuanshi seems to have not disappeared. He Zhizhoudao, the owner of He Garden, built this garden during the Guangxu period. The layout of the park is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, combining accommodation and tourism, making it a good place for people to live and play. There are many folk snacks and special crafts in my hometown, but I won’t go into details here. My love for my hometown is like the bees and flowers, the grass and the soil. That kind of feeling cannot be expressed in words. Comments from famous teachers: "Yangzhou is not only a scenic city with beautiful scenery, but also a cultural city with a gathering of people and a museum city with a long history." The use of parallelism strengthens readers' deep impression of Yangzhou. The focus of Yangzhou is Slender West Lake and Geyuan Heyuan. "The Hu Road is winding and winding, like the belt of a saint" points out that the characteristic of Slender West Lake is that it is "thin"; the Ge Garden "the stone in the winter mountain seems to be covered with snow" is refreshing; the He Garden "is a combination of Chinese and Western, and the residence "It combines tourism and is a good place for people to live and play" which makes people yearn for it.
"With a hundred thousand coins tied around my waist, I rode a crane to Yangzhou." This short sentence inspired many people in later generations to yearn for this city. For Chinese literati who are romantic at heart, the existence of Yangzhou is more of a nostalgia for high-spiritedness. Even if you have never been there, there is no lack of touching imagination about her in the poems of the predecessors. Even now, it is no longer a Tongdu city in history, but the word "Yangzhou" still contains endless romance and will never lose its spiritual appeal as a "prosperous place". All this, I think, is largely due to the Grand Canal. Most Chinese cities thrive because of water, and Yangzhou is such a typical example. Before the construction of the Grand Canal, Yangzhou's appearance in history was very limited. The tyrant Emperor Sui Yang, whom everyone considers to be a coffin, still had merits if you think about it. Pi Rixiu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said in a poem that "if there was no dragon boat incident in the water palace, Emperor Yu would not have much merit." At least in my opinion, there are few wise saints like him who have built a project that can be used to this day regardless of his motives. China was cut across by a large east-west river, so there was communication between the north and the south, which also created the first prosperous period of Yangzhou - the Tang Dynasty.
Today, there is Zhuyuwan Park in the northeast of Yangzhou and next to the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the west. It was said to be a park, but when I got there, I found that it was deserted and deserted, with not many tourists. The quiet road leading to the depths of the park is lined with bushes and woods with overgrown branches. The wind beside the river is very strong, and the sagebrush that is almost half a person's height is blown trembling, showing desolation. It is almost unimaginable that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the first dock where the canal entered Yangzhou from north to south was here - Zhuyu Bay. Looking at the silent river, alone, it feels a bit like "an independent bridge with wind-filled sleeves". So there, I listened to "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty" by the Tang Dynasty Band again. When the music started, two cities came to mind again: Chang'an and Yangzhou. What is different from the past is that, standing at Zhuyu Bay, I am finally immersed in the scene - this is the most important port in the Tang Dynasty, with direct access to the Yangtze River and the sea to the south, and to the Huanghuai and Guanzhong to the north. Looking at the whole country, there is no such thing. connection point for inland shipping and sea shipping. Throughout the year, thousands of sailboats compete, and thousands of merchants gather, and with them there are inevitably shops of all kinds, people from the troupe, poets and poets... In the streets and squares, embroidered bead curtains are embroidered, and every time the lanterns are lit, people are drinking and drinking, chanting and singing. It was prosperous and was not allowed to the capital, and the people in the world called it "Yang Yi Yi Er" (Sichuan, the land of abundance, is not rich here). Even Li Bai, who was seeking Taoism and visiting immortals, heard that his friend Meng Haoran was going to Guangling. He was a little fascinated and left a poem "Fireworks descend to Yangzhou in March."
I have to lament the lack of imagination. As for the prosperity of Yangzhou in those days, I have never been able to fully describe it. It’s like trying to complete a painting. I vaguely feel that I have a general idea, but as soon as I start writing, what comes out is always a fragment of it. Maybe the time span is too big, and my imagination has to travel back to the source, and all it can rely on are some fragmented fragments, such as certain dialects.
I won’t talk about “Ma Beard”, there are other examples. For example, a sentence I learned since I was a child is called "Persian Offers Treasures", which is an authentic Yangzhou dialect. Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was a port city for foreign trade. Many foreigners came here from the sea. Among them, there were no less than hundreds of Persian merchants and monks who came to live in Yangzhou, most of whom were engaged in jewelry business. Over time, the term "Persian treasure offering" came into being, which refers to proudly showing off one's good things.
Another saying in Yangzhou dialect is "My son Lushan", which means a person who is unruly, careless and careless. The origin of this word is more dramatic: It is said that before the rebellion in Anlu Mountain, he deceived Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to appreciate him, and often went in and out of the palace. Later, he had an affair with Yang Yuhuan. One day the two were playing in the bathhouse. Emperor Hao came in and was in a hurry. Then, Concubine Yang shouted: "My son Lushan! Hand me something." An Lushan took the opportunity to crawl forward, not only covering up the scene, but also getting a godson. hehe. It's really interesting that these words I learned as a child can be peeled off some of the core of history when I grow up. I often can't help but think about how, in Yangzhou, the metropolis of the Tang Dynasty, some social phenomena and palace scandals, true or false, slowly changed from street talk to fixed vocabulary; and when the stories they produced That era was gradually lost in the dust, but they were passed down from generation to generation, full of vitality.