The Yangzhou section of the ancient canal is the oldest section of the entire canal. The current canal in Yangzhou is mostly consistent with the ancient Hangou route more than 2,000 years ago. It is completely consistent with the canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. It is 125 kilometers long from Guazhou to Baoying. Among them, the Yangzhou city section of the ancient canal is about 30 kilometers long from Guazhou to Wantou, forming the famous "Yangzhou Three Bays". This section of the canal is the oldest, with numerous historical sites and cultural landscapes. ? Along this section of the canal, there are the famous places for the world's four major religious activities: Qionghua Temple (Taoism in the Western Han Dynasty); Gao? Temple (Buddhism in the Sui Dynasty), Puhatin Cemetery (Islam in the Song Dynasty) and the Catholic Church (Qing Dynasty? Catholicism); there are ruins reflecting the ancient port, water conservancy and city architecture of Yangzhou: Shuidoumen, Longshou Pass (Chaoguan), Dongguan Ancient Ferry (Double Urn City) and Ancient Wantou Gate; there are leftovers from ancient emperors who visited Yangzhou Relics: Guazhou Ancient Ferry Jinchun Garden, Gaoji Temple Palace Garden and Longyi Temple; Yangzhou salt merchants’ residential community that embodies the “rich princes”—Ge Yuan, a national key cultural relics protection unit, and Wang’s Xiaoyuan; There is the Wenfeng Pagoda where the great monk Jianzhen from Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty set sail for his eastward journey to Japan. ? On this canal line, a large number of famous poems and essays by famous literati in the past dynasties have been left: "The old friend left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March" (Li Bai); "Crimson trees see Yangzhou" (Li Shen); "The spring breeze is ten miles away from Yangzhou, and it is better to roll up the bead curtains" (Du Mu); "The world is three parts bright and moonlit, and two parts are rogues in Yangzhou" (Xu Ning); "Thousands of sails beside the sinking boat Pass, thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased trees" (Liu Yuxi); "The building boat crosses Guazhou in the snow at night, and the iron horse disperses in the autumn wind" (Lu You); "The spring breeze turns green again on the south bank of the river, when will the bright moon shine back to me?" (Wang Anshi)... …etc. These famous sentences through the ages describe the glorious era of "singing and singing" and extremely prosperous and prosperous times that Yangzhou once had, and all of these are in the same vein as the canal. Along the thousands-mile stretch of coastline of the canal, Yangzhou is closely related to the rise and fall of the canal! ? The cultural connotation of Yangzhou Ancient Canal is recognized and appreciated by more and more knowledgeable people. Recently, the Yangzhou Municipal Tourism Bureau launched the idea and planning of the Yangzhou Ancient Canal Golden Tourism Line. Industry insiders believe that the Yangzhou section of the ancient canal is 30 kilometers long from Guazhou to Wantou, with dozens of scenic spots along the coast. Its tourism value is extremely high. It integrates the Yangtze River and the canal, natural and artificial, history and reality, economy and culture, The new line and the old line, the city and the countryside are integrated into one, forming a tourist route with colorful colors, various styles, different scenery and rich connotations. What’s even more amazing is that as a newly developed tourist route, it echoes and connects with the Yangtze River-style tourist route. You board the boat from Guazhou, an ancient town at the junction of the Yangtze River and the canal, and go through the ancient canal to Dongguan Ancient Ferry to change boats. It can be very naturally connected with the Qianlong Water Tour Line that has been formed in our city for many years. This completely completes the "water" article and highlights the characteristics of the ancient city of Yangzhou in the history of "cars and horses less than boats", allowing tourists to experience "water". "Water" economy, "water" culture, and "water" lifestyle. An ancient saying goes: A wise man enjoys water. Water is the source of human life. It nurtures everything in the world, enriches the history of human civilization, enriches the tradition and realistic culture of human society, and affects the ideology of human society. This tourist route is a complete combination of history, culture and water, which further demonstrates its unique value. If you travel from south to north, from the white-capped Yangtze River to the wide and calm Grand Canal, what you will see are the shadows of ancient temples and towers on the west bank of the canal, the graceful and charming willows, and the small bridges and wild ferries full of water town characteristics. Farmhouses nestled in the shade of metasequoia and green bamboos, towpaths as thin as sheep intestines, windmills circling in the wind, fleets plowing through the waves, you may also see small fishing boats bumping in the river, and diving up and down from time to time. Osprey catching fish. For example, in the morning, when facing the scenery of the water town in front of you, who would not think of the beautiful words of Liu Yong, a poet from the Song Dynasty: "The willow bank, the dawn wind and the waning moon", it is really unique and interesting. In this historical corridor, people slowly look and taste, walk into Yangzhou, read about Yangzhou, and feel Yangzhou. When we arrived at the "Dongguan Ancient Ferry", we changed into a boat and swung leisurely along the "Qianlong Water Tourist Line" to the Slender West Lake Scenic Area in Shugang to appreciate the spring scenery of Weiyang.

Scenes of beautiful scenery appear in front of tourists from time to time, winning their heartfelt praises, "Beautiful Yangzhou", "Beautiful Yangzhou"; and walking from north to south, it is another realm, beautiful scenery, beautiful ancient city, Gradually disappearing on the increasingly wider water, facing the rolling eastward river and the meandering green mountains, who can't feel the power of nature and the vicissitudes of history, and what remains in people's memories is the legendary culture and unique beauty. ? Yangzhou Sanwan has a winding river. In order to eliminate the height difference on the ground and keep the water surface of the canal gentle, the canal excavators adopted the method of extending the river to reduce the slope, so they excavated this section of the canal in a winding way. . This method is an outstanding creation of ancient Chinese river workers. It is wrong to say that the twists and turns are done in order not to damage the Feng Shui of Yangzhou. From the perspective of tourism aesthetics, the three-bay section of the ancient canal will be a major selling point on the ancient canal tourist route because its curves give people a special and unpredictable perspective space of far and near. ? The Yangzhou Ancient Canal Tour Line should launch the Guazhou Ancient Ferry Scenic Area as soon as possible in the near future. Guazhou is located at the intersection of the ancient canal and the Yangtze River, in the southwest of Yangzhou, across the water from Zhenjiang, "between the mouth of Jingkou and Guazhou" (Song Dynasty? Wang Anshi). Guazhou was first located in the river, surrounded by water, and then silted up and connected to the land. It was named because it was shaped like a melon. Guazhou has always been the gateway to Yangzhou. It began in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Its popularity in history is second only to Yangzhou. The ancients believed: "Although Guazhou is small, it overlooks the entrance of Jingkou, connects Jiankang, borders the sea, borders the river, and is actually the throat of seven provinces..." It is known as "the most powerful town on the Yangtze River and Huaihe River" and "the ancient ferry for thousands of years". Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Guazhou gradually had city fortresses. In the fourth year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty, Guazhou began to build a city. In the Ming Dynasty, Guazhou City had a circumference of 1,543 feet and nine feet and a height of two feet and one foot. There is another "Ghost Willow City" built outside the east gate of Guazhou City. In the Yuan Dynasty, the province was established here, in the Ming Dynasty, the Tongzhi Office was set up, and in the Qing Dynasty, the Inspection and Inspection Office, Water Transport Office, and Dudu Office were set up here. Guazhou has been a gathering place for literati from the Tang Dynasty to modern times. Li Bai and Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Anshi and Lu You in the Song Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty, etc. all explored Guazhou and left a large number of chapters praising Guazhou. Guazhou is also a must-stop place for many politicians and Chinese and foreign travelers in the past. Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited Guazhou during their six southern tours and had a palace in Jinchun Garden. In the past, Emperor Qianlong praised Jinzhou. The imperial stele inscribed with poems in Spring Garden is still well preserved. Master Jianzhen, the friendly envoy of the people of China and Japan and the eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty, traveled eastward to Japan. He built, bought, boarded and stored grain in this place. The outstanding Italian traveler Marco Polo also visited Guazhou and described the geographical location of Guazhou in the first chapter of the second volume of the famous "Marco Polo's Travels" titled "Guazhou City" and historical role are described in detail. The legend that Du Shiniang sank the treasure chest in anger has cast a magical veil on this ancient town. In ancient times, Guazhou served as a transportation hub between the north and the south. It had a strong flow of people and logistics, and the place was prosperous. There were dozens of large buildings, private gardens, nunneries, buildings, pavilions, halls, and halls in the city. For example, the pavilion includes the Grand View Tower built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, which is the building described in Cao Xueqin's "A Dream of Red Mansions"; the Jianghuai Shenggai Tower built during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty; the Chao Guan Pavilion, Jiang Feng Shan Yue Pavilion, Qujiangting et al. In addition, there are ten famous scenic spots in Guazhou in ancient times, namely, Stone Bridge Stepping on the Moon, Tianchi Night Rain, Jianglou Military Parade, Cao Ship Riding the Wind, Dongcheng Willow Bank, Taowu Early Warbler, Luting New Wild Goose, and Snow Fishing Boat , Jinshan Tower Light, Yinling Qinglan. In April 1949, our People's Liberation Army marched from here to the south of the Yangtze River; the north bridgehead of the Runyang Yangtze River Highway Bridge under construction settled in Guazhou. The extremely distinctive landscape makes Guazhou a tourist attraction in history. ? The construction of the Guazhou Ancient Ferry Scenic Area should take the ancient canal as the main line, the reappearance of Guazhou ancient culture as the entry point, and the natural scenery of the Yangtze River and the pastoral scenery of the riverside as the backdrop to form a unique landscape with the intersection of rivers. All people and things related to Guazhou should be engraved with stone tablets at the original site to explain, including the legendary "Du Shiniang sank the treasure chest in anger" and the real-life "where the People's Liberation Army crossed the river" to highlight the history of Guazhou culture.

? The Yangtze River Style Tourist Line mainly takes the spectacular river, bridge style and river culture as its themes. It connects Jiangdu Sanjiangying Ecological Nature Reserve, Guazhou Historical and Cultural Scenic Area, Bridge Theme Park and Yizheng Longshan Scenic Tourist Area from east to west. rise to form a new flagship product of Yangzhou tourism. Among them, Sanjiangying Ecological Nature Reserve is the water source of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. It is a natural scenery of rivers, rivers and lakes. The environment is similar to that of Boao, Hainan. Yangzhou City plans to build the Chinese Water Park Scenic Area here, taking the history of China's water conservancy development as the context, using modern technology to show the history of human water control, water utilization, water use, and water-loving and the splendid culture of the ancient canal, introducing world-famous water conservancy projects and various It is a comprehensive water culture and ecological tourism park integrating viewing, entertainment, leisure and education. Longshan Scenic Tourist Area is located in Qingshan, Yizheng City, bordering the Yangtze River in the south. It has pine mountains and bamboo seas, peach groves and hundreds of flowers, water and sky are connected, and the mountains are beautiful. It is a rare eco-tourism resort for leisure and vacation in the north of the Yangtze River. Of course, the ancient canal tourist route can also go south to Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and north to Huai'an, Xuzhou and Shandong, forming a tourist route for the East China section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, linking the scenic spots along the canal into a necklace, making it bigger and stronger, making "tourism" "" and "tour" are integrated in time and space, thereby activating and driving the development of the tourism industry in small areas along the river, and ultimately forming a new pattern of large-scale tourism in East China.