What are the places of interest and historical sites in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province?

Dongtai City is a coastal city in East China and one of the top 100 counties in China. Dongtai is located in the middle of the coast of Jiangsu, at the intersection of the three cities of Nantong, Taizhou, and Yancheng. It reaches the Yellow Sea in the east, fertile fields in the west, the Yangtze River in the south, and Xuhuai in the north. It is at the intersection of the river and the sea and strangles the north and south. It belongs to the economic development zone along the Yangtze River Delta. , known as "Golden Dongtai, the Pearl of the Yellow Sea". Dongtai also has a profound modern urban cultural heritage and numerous scenic spots and historic sites. Xixi Ancient Town is the birthplace of the myth and legend "The Immortal Couple".

Shibali River

Shibali River is the river that historically transported salt from Liangduo Salt Farm to the west. It is 10.67 kilometers long from the Chuanchang River to the west to Dongyong Temple in Tainan Town and into the Taidong Canal. Because the distance from Liangduo to the mouth of the Taidong Canal and from the mouth to Dongtai City are both 18 miles (approximately), it is named "Eighteen Miles River".

He Duo River

He Duo River is the salt transport river of He Duo Salt Farm, also known as He Duo Changzao River. It starts from the Tongyu Canal on the east side of Taicheng in the west, ends at Chuandong Gate in the east and enters the sea. The entire journey spans Dongtai and Dafeng. It flows through the towns of Taitung (office), Haifeng and Touzao in Dongtai, with a length of 26.6 kilometers.

Dongtai River is the salt transport river of Dongtai Salt Farm, also known as Dongtai Changzao River, also known as Jianyan River. There is no research on the time of excavation. According to the illustration in "Huainan Middle Ten Fields", Dongtai River in the early Qing Dynasty The river starts from the Chuanchang River in Taicheng in the west and reaches the Zhangjiatuan River in the east. After the coast moves eastward, the river extends eastward. However, there is no channel to the sea in the east. In addition, the terrain along the coast is high on both sides and low in the middle, so the accumulated water cannot be drained. In the 29th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1396), the river was dredged. Dredging was carried out twice in the fifth year of Qianlong's reign (1740) and again in the twentieth year of the Qing Dynasty. In the sixth year of Jiaqing (1801), two longitudinal branches, Meijiazao and Panjiazao, were opened on the north bank of Dongtai River.

Laoliang Duo River

Historically, it was the salt transport river of Liang Duo Salt Farm, also known as Liang Duo Hai River and Liang Duo Chang Zao River. Today's Liangduo River is a new east-west river dug south of the river in the early 1970s on the basis of the old Liangduo River.

Chuanchang River

The artificial river channel in the coastal plain in eastern Jiangsu Province is an accumulation river formed when Fan Zhongyan excavated the sea-shaking weir. It is the southern shipping channel for agricultural products in the eastern coastal plain. It is located between the Lixiahe low plain and the eastern coastal plain. It starts from Funing County in the north and goes south along Fanggongdi, passing through Yancheng City and Dongtai County to Haian County to meet the Tongyang Canal. It is 130 kilometers long (some say: from Haian Xu in the south Jiaba, from Funing Miaowan in the north, with a total length of more than 200 kilometers). It was first built in the first year of Dali in the Tang Dynasty (766), and was dredged and rebuilt during the fifth year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1269) and the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty (1567-1572). It is named after the salt field that runs through ten salt fields in Huainan. After 1958, a new (South) Tong (Gan) Yu Canal was dug along the east side of the Chuanchang River parallel to it, which was also used for water transportation and shipping.

Sancang River

The original name was Anfeng River. It was renamed to its current name in the early 1950s. Historically, it was the salt river of Anfeng Salt Farm, also known as Anfeng Changzao River. The Chuanchang River in Fengchang extends eastward to Nan Shenjiazao, with a length of 15 kilometers. In the fifth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1666), it extended eastward from Nan Shenjiazao. In the forty-seventh year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the fifth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign (1740), the twentieth year of his reign, and the third year of Jiaqing's third year (1798), the river was dredged several times.

Dongtai has a northern subtropical oceanic climate with four distinct seasons, sufficient sunshine and abundant rainfall. The average annual rainfall is 1044 mm, the annual average temperature is 15.6°C, the annual sunshine is 2209 hours, and the annual average frost-free period is 237 days. The alluvial plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have sandy soil and a soil organic matter content of 1.4%.

Tourism resources are mainly ecological resources. Its coastline stretches for 85 kilometers and its tidal flat resources of more than 1.5 million acres rank first in Yancheng. Dongtai is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea. The coastal area is the confluence of the East China Sea's forward wave and the Yellow Sea's rotating wave. Under the action of the tide, the offshore sediment gradually settles with the confluence point as the root to form a radial sandbar, with an annual area of ??6,000-10,000 acres. The land area grows towards the sea, and there are inexhaustible land resources.

The existing tidal flat area outside the city's seawall is more than 1.55 million acres, including more than 1.16 million acres in the intertidal zone and 0.39 million acres in the tidal zone. It accounts for about 22% of the tidal flat area in Jiangsu Province and 37% of the tidal flat area in Yancheng City. The rich land resources and product resources are new economic growth points for cultivating and developing "Ocean Dongtai". The plant and animal resources are mainly reeds, cogongrass, apocynum, rice grass, metasequoia, cypress, and bamboo; the animals include shrimps, swimming crabs, clams, mud snails, razor clams, yellow croaker, pomfret, eel fry, and rare birds. Red-crowned crane, black-billed gull, etc.