Hello, Yangzhou Bai Wen knows that the team will answer your questions! Yangzhou is one of the first 24 famous historical and cultural cities announced by the state/government/academic circles. It has a history of nearly 2500 years. It was once an important hub of land and water transportation in China, an important city in politics, economy and culture in southeast China, an important port for foreign trade and international exchange, and a commercial center with rich products in the world. It is a famous historical and cultural city. There are key cultural relics protection units 147 in the urban area. Yangzhou prospered several times, especially in Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties and Qing Dynasty. In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, agriculture, commerce and handicrafts were quite developed, and a large number of workshops and manual workshops appeared. Not only is it "rich in the world" between Jianghuai and China, but it is also the largest metropolis in the southeast of China, sometimes called "Yang Yi Er" (Yizhou is now Chengdu). Yangzhou is the transportation center of grain, grass, salt, money and iron in the north and south, and it is an important port for domestic and international transportation. He used to be an interview ambassador for Dudufu, Dudufu, Huainan Road and Huainan Province, and was in charge of Huainan and Jiangbei. Yangzhou has always played a pivotal role in the land and water transportation system centered on Chang 'an. As an important port for foreign traffic, Yangzhou has a special ship ambassador to manage foreign trade and friendly exchanges. In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, thousands of merchants from Silla, Korea, Japan, Persia (Iran),  (Arabia), Brahman and Kunlun lived and did business for a long time. At that time, Yangzhou Port was known as one of the "four major commercial ports in the East" and became a famous port on China's Maritime Silk Road. Japan sent Tang Dynasty envoys to Yangzhou and monk Jian Zhen to Japan, which promoted the political, economic, scientific, technological and cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Cui Zhiyuan, a Silla writer, came to Yangzhou in 880 AD. He worked in Huainan, was diligent in government affairs, joined the army, was in charge of the inn, worked hard, wrote a lot of poems, official documents and forms, and returned to Silla in 884 to spread Chinese culture. He was called "Oriental Confucianism" and became the most outstanding Silla writer. On the basis of absorbing and revising the achievements of predecessors, Shan Li, a native of Yangzhou, re-annotated the Selected Works, quoting a lot, and saved a lot of lost important documents for future generations. His son Li Yong is not only influential in writing and poetry, but also one of the great calligraphers after Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang. Zhang is one of the "four outstanding figures in Wuzhong". Only the poem "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" has the reputation of "being alone in the whole Tang Dynasty". In 684 AD, Xu Jingye and King Robin opposed the rule of Wu Zetian in Yangzhou. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled and Yangzhou was seriously damaged. Yang Xingmi established political power in Yangzhou, known as "Yang Wu" in history, and the economy recovered briefly. Soon, it fell into the destruction of war. In 960, the Northern Song Dynasty was established. With the rapid development of agriculture and handicrafts and the further prosperity of commerce, Yangzhou has once again become the economic and cultural center of southeast China, almost as famous as Kaifeng, the capital. The annual commercial tax revenue was about 80,000 yuan, ranking third in the country. In A.D. 1 127, Yangzhou was regarded as the "year of walking" in the process of moving the capital under the threat of Jin people, which further promoted the prosperity of Yangzhou. From 1275 to 1276, Li Tingzhi and Jiang Cai led the army in an unyielding struggle with Yangzhou people. Unfortunately, they are all dead, and there are only a few thousand people left in Yangzhou. 100 years, Yangzhou has been a battlefield for resisting gold and yuan. Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Yue Fei and other famous Southern Song Dynasty players fought bloody battles in this area. The war has caused serious damage to the economy and society, but under the relatively stable situation, Yangzhou's economy has been continuously restored and developed. Culturally, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Qin Guan and Jiang Kui left a large number of masterpieces in Yangzhou. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Yangzhou's economic development accelerated. More and more foreigners come to Yangzhou for business, missionary work, politics and settlement, among which Persians and Arabs are still the most. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Yangzhou section of the Canal was renovated several times, which basically formed today's trend, resumed the once interrupted grain transportation, and Yangzhou prospered rapidly again. At that time, Italian traveler Kyle Poirot served as an official in Yangzhou for three years and became a friendly envoy of the Chinese and Italian peoples. In the Ming Dynasty, with the development of commodity economy, the seeds of capitalist relations of production were born. Yangzhou's business is mainly salt monopoly and North-South goods trade. The income from salt tax is almost the same as that from grain tax, and the business has also expanded outside the old city. The lacquerware, jade articles, bronzes, bamboo and wood utensils, embroidery and cosmetics produced by hand workshops have reached a fairly high level. A number of zaju and novelists, such as Sui, all appeared in the cultural circle. After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the Qing army from going south, Shi Kefa, governor of Nanming, led his troops to stick to the isolated city, preferring death to surrender, showing unyielding national integrity. After the city fell, the Qing army slaughtered the city 10 day, and hundreds of thousands of people died. Kangxi and Qianlong visited Yangzhou many times in Qing Dynasty, which led to unprecedented prosperity in Yangzhou. The urban population exceeds 500,000. At that time, Yangzhou was a transportation hub, rich in salt and fishing, and salt tax had a great relationship with the fiscal revenue of the Qing government. Businessmen from all over the world have increased, and they have built guild halls in Yangzhou, each with its own business scope and local characteristics. Culturally, some salt merchants made friends with literati, loved collecting books, established official schools and county schools, and restored places of interest, which made certain contributions to the cultural development of Yangzhou. During this period, there appeared the Yangzhou School of Painting represented by Jin Nong, Shan Li, Gao Xiang, Zheng Xie and Ruan Yuan, Ren, Wang Niansun and Wang. Yangzhou drama has a long history and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. 1790, in order to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Qianlong, Sanqing Class, with Baoying Gaolangting as the class leader, performed in Beijing, which, together with other operas, had an important influence on the formation and development of Peking Opera. Yangzhou's storytelling, Qingqu, Yangju, puppet show, chess and piano all formed their own characteristics in the Qing Dynasty, which promoted the formation of Yangzhou as the cultural center of China at that time. The prosperous history of Yangzhou has accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations. A large number of Chinese and foreign scholars, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Zheng Xie, Zhu Ziqing, Kelpolo and Cui Zhiyuan, left their masterpieces in the ancient city of Yangzhou. Yangzhou Painting School and Yangzhou School, represented by "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", are unique in the cultural field of China. Yangzhou opera, Yangzhou storytelling, jade carving lacquerware, foreign bonsai, block printing, Huaiyang cuisine, etc. They are unique and have a long history, which has laid a solid foundation for the full implementation of today's "Cultural Yangzhou Development Strategy".