Yancheng city wall was originally an earth wall, which was built after the founding of the Tang Dynasty. In the 16th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (14 18), brick city was rebuilt to prevent Japanese invasion. Its south is wide and north is narrow, and it looks like a gourd ladle, so it was called "gourd ladle city" in ancient times.
Since the Yellow River captured the Huaihe River in 1 128, this area has experienced floods.
At the beginning of Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the rise of coastal cotton reclamation and salt industry, merchants gathered and the market flourished, and Yancheng gradually flourished, once becoming the center of He Lixia and the distribution center of grain, cotton and salt.
In the forty-first year of Yuan Jiajing (1562), the population of Yancheng increased to nearly 100,000, and the construction at that time was also spectacular. There are many ancestral temples and pagodas, and Confucianism and schools have been established.
There are many places of interest around the suburbs. People say that Yancheng has eight scenic spots, such as "Guajing Fairy Tale", "Autumn Moon in Pinghu" and "Yang Lou Qinglan".
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