Guo se Tian Xiang afternoon tour composition

Yangzhou was once known as the "Lane City". This is to describe her ancient streets and deep alleys, which are dense, narrow and long. The whole city seems to be woven from countless alleys. After the ups and downs of history, many of the streets and lanes in the past have disappeared, while others have survived to this day, which has become a valuable witness to the past features of the ancient city of Yangzhou. Walking on the road paved with these slabs and bricks, there are old gatehouses or uneven horse-head walls on both sides, and you seem to have returned to Yangzhou's past through time and space.

For the ancient city scenery of Yangzhou, Zheng Banqiao once described it with the words "Green Yang deep alley, people lean on Zhumen". The swaying willows, winding alleys, gentle and graceful beauties and vermilion's gate constitute an ancient Guangling amorous feelings map.

Today, great changes have taken place in Yangzhou, but it is not difficult to find traces of the old days in the ancient city, which is especially valuable when many cities in China are carrying out disorderly, short-sighted and even barbaric so-called "construction". In recent years, Yangzhou is planning to develop the tour line of historical blocks, and the area around Dongguan Street and Donghuanmen was developed in advance. There are a garden, an escape garden, a pot garden, Zhunti Temple, Wudang Palace, Qingxi old house, Wang's small garden and so on, which can be visited by people. However, in addition, there are many ancient streets and deep alleys worth visiting in Yangzhou. They are scattered in the corners of Yangzhou ancient city, which makes people feel "bred in an inner chamber, with no one knowing her".

If you visit Yangzhou in ancient times, you can't help going to Nanhe Xiagu Street. Under the South River, in the south of Yangzhou and on the north bank of the canal, it is an east-west ancient street. Hundreds of years ago, because salt merchants lived in compact communities, the popularity here was strong, and there were rows of Zhumen Huawu. Although we have lost the noise of the past, we still have many magnificent old houses. If you walk from west to east, you will see a series of ancient buildings that have experienced many vicissitudes. At the westernmost end, there is the Hubei Guild Hall, whose hall is famous for its thick beams and columns. Now it stands silently in the north of the street and has become a place where residents live together. The east of Hubei Guild Hall is the mansion of Wang Lumen, a big salt merchant in Yangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. This luxurious mansion is the largest existing former residence of salt merchants in Yangzhou. Wang's mansion is beautifully carved, with corridors connected, which is completely Huizhou style. Wang, a salt merchant, was originally from Anhui, so the layout and decoration in the building are all Huizhou school. Further east is the former residence of Liao's salt merchants. The tall gatehouse with water mill bricks stands tall, and you can know the wealth of that year at a glance. The old house in Liao Jia consists of several rooms. Not long ago, several plaques from the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China were found on the ceiling of the old house, and they were still hanging on the beams completely, adding a bit of mystery to this old house. Hunan Guild Hall is located in the east of Liao Jia's old house, and the carved gate house with a figure of eight stands on the street, with extraordinary style. At that time, Hunan merchants came and went here, carried Sanxiang fenglei to the south of the Yangtze River, and spread Guangling's swan song to Dongting. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, Zeng Guofan, the governor of the two rivers, made a military parade in Yangzhou and stayed in this Hunan Hall under the South River. Later, Yangzhou people built a "Zeng Gong Temple" to worship him, which is still there today. Further eastward, there are also the ruins of Anhui Hall and Jiangxi Hall along the street. Although there are only some broken walls left, it can also make people imagine the busy scene of getting on the bus in Ma Rulong and getting dressed one after another in this ancient street.

to the east of the south river, there is a broken old street, which is famous in history. This is Kangshan Street. Street was named after Kang Hai, the top scholar in the Ming Dynasty, who once lived here. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the home of Jiang Chun, a giant salt merchant in Yangzhou, who gave clothes to the emperor. When Emperor Qianlong visited Yangzhou in the south, he visited Kangshan Caotang several times and wrote several "Imperial Poems". Now there is only one section of Kangshan Street, but there are still historical sites such as Lushi Salt Merchant Mansion, Yanzong Temple and Zenggong Temple, which are enough for tourists to mourn. Lushi Mansion, Yanzong Temple and Zenggong Temple have all been perfectly restored and become shining pearls on Kangshan Street.

in the north of the south river, there is an ancient street called yinshi street. In the era of developed salt affairs in Yangzhou, it used to be a place where businessmen from all over the world bought and sold "salt coupons" (salt bills), just like today's financial street or stock market. The trading situation here all the time affects the ups and downs of salt prices in Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. In Yinshi Street, there are two places to see. First, there is a lane called "Bazongmen", which is the place where the famous Huizhou family lived in the Qing Dynasty. Babbitt's management of salt industry in Yangzhou was one of the richest people at that time, and at the same time he was deeply familiar with Confucianism. Ba Weizu, a famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, became famous in Bazhongmen, Yangzhou. Now there is also the former residence of Pasteur in Yuliang Street, Shexian County, Huizhou, so art historians can look for the trace of a famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. In a deep lane of Yinshi Street, there is an ancient temple called Youtuo Lin, and you can't help but visit it. This is a small-scale buddhist nun, where Sun Langxian, Mrs. Xu Baofu, the governor of Yangzhou, was killed in Xu Baoshan in the early years of the Republic of China. Xu Baoshan was assassinated by the revolutionary party because he was a bureaucrat and a overseer, and his family fled into an empty net. The dramatic changes here seem to imply some kind of fate and mystery in life.

Dingjiawan area is also a well-preserved street in Yangzhou. The blue brick wall, the black painted door, the ground paved with white stones, the small courtyard decorated with red flowers, the house covered with green trees and the well surrounded by gray bars all make people vaguely return to the past. The "Four Shores Salt Office" here, although the square bricks on the gate have peeled off, the cornices are still spectacular. In the surrounding deep alleys, you can meet history at any time. There is a tallest ancient building complex in Xincang Lane, which is Lingnan Guild Hall, and it has been renovated recently. Not far away, there is an unnamed alley, but it is the ruins of the Garden, the former residence of Wei Yuan, a famous thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. It was here that his masterpiece "Atlas of the Sea" was drafted. In this great book, Wei Yuan put forward the slogan of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners" for the first time, and became the first person in China to look around the world. There are only a few old houses and some rocks left in the garden, but its historical value is many times more than the luxury mansion of salt merchants!

There are well-preserved private gardens in this area, including the small valley of Zhou Fu's family, the governor of the two rivers in the late Qing Dynasty, and the Er Ming Yue Lou, the salt merchant Jia's. Small Pan Valley is located in Dashu Lane, with high rockery and deep pool water, which is a good place to visit the ancient times. Second, the moon building is located in Wucheng Lane, and the buildings, pavilions, bridges and windows are all in the shape of a moon, which reminds people of the eternal swan song that "there is a moonlit night in the world, and a rogue in the world is Yangzhou". In the nearby Qinglian Lane, there is also a decaying old house, which is the former residence of Zhou Fujiu, the richest man in Jiangxi. Zhou Fujiu worked as a salt merchant in Yangzhou before he became the land king of modern Shanghai, which can be said to be the place where he first made his fortune. Although the house of Zhou's former residence is damaged, the gatehouse is still intact.

Compared with other cities, the old streets and lanes in Yangzhou have been preserved. The fishbone-shaped ancient neighborhood pattern in Renfengli, the Ruan Taifu temple and former residence in Yuxian Street, the old house where Cao Xueqin lived in Yunsi Gongyi, the former residence of Zhu Ziqing in Anle Lane, the former residence of Wang Shaotang in Sanduo Lane, the brick-carved gatehouse in Caiyi Street, especially the traditional houses in Dongguan Street and Donghuanmen, all contain rich historical value, artistic value and scientific value, which are worth further restoration, integration and excavation.

The charm of Yangzhou, besides the Slender West Lake, the ancient canal and other famous classical gardens, may be contained in these little-known ancient streets and deep lanes, waiting for people with a heart to discover, plan, repair, publicize, visit and enjoy. Walking in Yangzhou Gu Xiang, we can hear the echo of history, wash away the noise of the world and relive the purity of childhood.