Yangzhou-The Legacy Song of Guangling San

Historically speaking, Yangzhou is "a flowing river, flowing in Surabaya and flowing to the ancient ferry in Guazhou, and Wu Shan is a little worried"; Folk say that Yangzhou is "Hangzhou is better than lakes and mountains, Suzhou is better than shops, and Yangzhou is better than gardens and pavilions"; The poet said that Yangzhou is "on the moonlit night of the Twenty-four Bridges, where can jade people teach flute playing"; The poet said that Yangzhou is ". Yangzhou, three-point poetry book, three-point ink painting, two-point riddles, two-point legends, gauze covering the face, the breeze blowing through the corners, let people see its true meaning. So I came to Yangzhou in March with a feeling of looking for answers.

Questions and answers about fishing and fire by the Slender West Lake

Walk through the lights of Wenchang Pavilion on Wenchang Road and taste the crab-yolk tofu on Huaihai Road, which is recommended by Yangzhou Historic Sites. First stop, I went to Slender West Lake. Sunny spring mornings always make people smile and rejoice. This brilliant mood was continued by Slender West Lake. Any beautiful idiom describing spring seems to be applicable here. The grass grows and the warblers fly, and the flowers are colorful and sparkling. If the West Lake in Hangzhou is a well-dressed beauty of the Tang Palace, then the slender West Lake is a enchanting China woman dressed in fine clothes. Looking back, it looks like a beautiful flower, which makes people walk around frequently and appreciate it more.

The landscape design of Slender West Lake is based on the flowing posture of Slender West Lake itself, and painting is also adopted as the landscape of Jiangnan garden. Blue waves are full of smoke, weeping willows are like shadows, flowers are like brocade, and waterfalls are green. If the landscape of Slender West Lake is transplanted to a real estate, it is certain that the value of this real estate will skyrocket because of its picturesque scenery.

When I visited Slender West Lake with a relaxed mood, I met a pair of old people who revisited their old place. In the year of Taoli, classmates * * * studied at Yangzhou University. They vowed to spend their lives together and returned to the Slender West Lake. In China people's dictionary, it is the most perfect and ideal love to hold your hand and grow old with your son when you are weak. This pair of old people, who love each other, let bygones be bygones. When they have nothing to do, they swim around a lake hand in hand, as if they are very comfortable, with graceful stringed instruments in their hands.

Meihua Sannong is in daming temple

Out of the Slender West Lake, daming temple is across the street. Walking up the shallow hills step by step along the stairs, the light brown wall outside the daming temple Scenic Area separates the simplicity of the temple from the beauty of the Slender West Lake.

Daming temple is half solemn and open, and half ancient trees are towering. It's a Buddhist garden, not a temple. You can cultivate your self and worship Buddha from spring to autumn. Walking in daming temple, you can climb the Lingta overlooking Yangzhou City, listen to the echoes in the Drum Tower, enjoy the pavilions of the West Garden, and find the Pingshan Hall where Ouyang Zuiwen lives in the forest. In the afternoon, you can dance lightly in this temple garden without touching the dust.

Of course, the most significant thing for daming temple is that he served as the host of daming temple before spending his holiday in Jian Zhen. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the culture was full and exported. Buddhism, medicine, humanities, art and architecture spread to East Asia, which planted a deep and thick soil for the spread of Chinese civilization in Asia, while Du Dong in Jian Zhen was the kindling that spread Chinese civilization to Japan. Jian Zhen, who became a monk in daming temple, spread Buddhism in daming temple after studying and reading the classics, and the prosperous culture was always bright and lingering, so Jian Zhen not only attracted good men and women in Jianghuai, but also attracted Japanese monks to seek wisdom. Jian Zhen made six voyages to the Western Seas and experienced hardships. The Tang Dynasty flourished on the east coast of China, just like plum blossoms in the cold wind. Seven strings and one plum blossom.

High mountains and flowing water in the garden

Suzhou has Humble Administrator's Garden and Lion Garden, while Yangzhou has Garden and Garden. Since people say that Yangzhou and Suzhou can't be compared, the next attraction after visiting the Buddhist gardens in Yangzhou must be the private gardens in Yangzhou. I hurried down the stairs outside daming temple and took a bus to the northeast of Yangzhou. From an obscure door on Yanfu East Road, I entered a garden.

Legend has it that there is an interesting garden, which is rich in bamboo and stacked stones, just like the scrolls of the four seasons. Bamboo and stones are famous symbols of a garden. However, when I entered Geyuan from Yuedongmen to enjoy the scenery, I was confused. Geyuan has many elements, such as building mountains, managing ponds, planting and building pavilions. The landscape is exquisite, elegant and beautiful. However, there is not much sense of freehand brushwork when Ge Yuan's poems enter the country, so why is Ge Yuan ranked among the four famous gardens? After all, the ancient gardens in China were based on paintings, and the landscape under poems and paintings should have the meaning of changing scenery and showing scenery through windows.

This question was answered after I opened the history of Yangzhou. Yangzhou is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. When the country is unified, it is rich and romantic. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was on a par with Chang 'an and Luoyang. When the country is divided, there are often wars. From the Three Kingdoms to the late Qing Dynasty, the city was destroyed and people died ten times. Geyuan is a garden that still exists in the war-torn Yangzhou after years of war. It stubbornly shows that "Yangzhou wins with gardens and pavilions" in the "Pictorial Records of Yangzhou". Reading gardens means reading 2500 years when Yangzhou was bright, gray and cold, and knowing gardens means knowing Yangzhou through high mountains and flowing water.

Moonlight on the Chunjiang River of the Ancient Canal

From the south gate of Geyuan to the east along Guandong Street, it is the Yangzhou section of the famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It was already evening when I boarded the boat at the cheap gate pier by the canal. It happened that the light was on and I sat by the window. With the cruise, I listened to the sound of water, looked at the city scenery on both sides of the strait, and imagined the grand occasion of royal travel when Yang Di built canals and visited Jiangnan. The cruise ship went all the way from the Gudu site in Dongguan in the Tang Dynasty to the Wudao Taifu site in the late Qing Dynasty, then to the Buddhist manjuji Pavilion site, and finally docked at the dock of Kangshan Cultural Park, where the 500-year-old Yanzong Temple was hidden.

The boat tour of this canal, all the lights, all the years, has crossed 1000 years. When Emperor Yang-ti dug the canal, he didn't expect that the change of China's water transport brought the prosperity of Yangzhou's Maritime Silk Road, and also brought Yangzhou a battleground for military strategists. Therefore, Xin Qiji sighed when he said that Yangzhou was reduced to the front line of Song and Jin Dynasties in Song Dynasty: "Forty-three years are still remembered, and Yangzhou Road is on fire."

And this time, taking a boat trip to the canal and seeing the scenery of Youshi city in Yangzhou, the greater feeling is that we have not found the beauty of Yangzhou in the "Moonlit Night on the Twenty-four Bridges". Fanfan's historical relics, such as long scrolls, show the green willows and surging clouds of Yangzhou city wall, but they are connected with the cities on both sides of Yangzhou under the light, just like a step. Hairpins are twisted with silk, plated with gold and decorated with jade, but they are cast with silver. The historical relics and legends of Yangzhou are decorated with jade, and the real scene of Yangzhou is cast with silver. Probably a city, like a civilization, has its ups and downs. Before the rise of shipping, the world only knew Yangzhou, not Shanghai. Now Jinling is lined with Shanghai and Yangzhou with Jinling. In front of such a canal that opens the history of Yangzhou's ups and downs, the spring breeze smells the flowers and willows in spring, just like listening to the silk and bamboo ensemble spring flowers and moonlight, which is dense and dense, slowly stating the clouds and shadows of Yangzhou's history.

Chun Xue in Heyuan

I left the ancient canal in the evening and ate Yangzhou fried rice in Huaihai Road Food Street. The next morning I arrived at Heyuan, the first garden in the late Qing Dynasty, and the last stop of my trip to Yangzhou. Heyuan is located in Xuningmen Street, and there is no specially built landscape road outside the scenic spot. Looking for a while in the residential alley, I saw Heyuan accompanied by residential houses.

Heyuan East Garden is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the West Garden is surrounded by water. Connected by corridors, the scenery is relaxed, extending in all directions, connecting residence and tourism, and geometric thinking has been added to the design of covered bridges in ancient buildings. At the same time, the western-style design in Yu Xiu's architecture also added a trace to the intersection of eastern and western cultures in the late Qing Dynasty. Leaning against the corridor, watching the stones and flowers piled up in the garden, watching the scenic guides wearing Chinese tunic suits frequently walk in front of pavilions, telling tourists a little about the humanities of Heyuan and thinking about the last pride that Heyuan brought to Yangzhou gardens.

After the Taiping Army entered and exited Yangzhou three times in the late Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou, devastated by war, picked up the construction of private gardens again and began to build the last batch of gardens belonging to Yangzhou. It was at this time that Heyuan was rebuilt and renovated. However, after the burning of war, the center of Jiangnan gardens has gradually moved to Suzhou, and Suzhou, which won by the city, also won by the garden pavilion. In this case, Heyuan took off the wreath of "the first garden in the late Qing Dynasty" for Yangzhou with its unique architecture. The pipa is sonorous, and it is still the Chun Xue displayed in Yangzhou Garden Pavilion.

A song "Guangling San", the ending sound curled up.

After going to Heyuan, the trip to Yangzhou came to an end temporarily. Before I left, the dichotomy riddle and the dichotomy legend about Yangzhou seemed to have been solved. Dichotomy riddle is the historical interweaving of Yangzhou, which has created the ups and downs of Yangzhou's history with half joy and half sigh. The legend of dichotomy was destroyed by years of war in Yangzhou. With the development of shipping, it lost its charm in its heyday.

When Bai Juyi was swimming in Yangzhou, there was a poem that said, "Wu Shan is a little sad when Bianshui Surabaya flows to Guazhou Gudu." This city surrounded by canals is one of Dayu's plans for Kyushu, which is called Guangling in Chinese. Ji Kang in Wei and Jin Dynasties wrote Guangling San according to an ancient song circulated in Guangling. On his deathbed, he played this song and sighed: "Guangling is now unique!" Yangzhou, a prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty, is still as prosperous as a pearl, but Yangzhou is located in an ordinary city in the south of the Yangtze River. Yangzhou is the land of Guangling and the lost Guangling powder. At the end of the song, people don't leave, and the sound is lingering, but the song is lost in the world.