Guazhou： an indelible historical and cultural symbol.

　　With its unique geographical location, beautiful river scenery and heavy cultural accumulation, Guazhou, which has a thousand years of ancient crossing, has many reputations of "crossing scenery", "crossing commerce", "crossing military affairs" and "crossing culture", and occupies an important historical position in Yangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city, and even the whole country.

　　Today, Guazhou, whose role as a canal hub is still important, is considered to be the leader of the "Grand Canal Cultural Belt Construction Project".

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　　Guduguazhou

　　There are 28 volumes of Guazhou Xuzhi. The first volume was compiled by Yu Shuzi (1856-1938), a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, and was written in the sixteenth year of the Republic of China. Wu Zhi of Jiaqing in Guazhou was reprinted and published by Yu’s family. Later, with reference to the style of Jiaqing’s old records, a variety of items were added to continue this record. The narrative time ended in the third year of Xuantong (1911). Read "The Continuation of Guazhou" and know a little about Guazhou.

　　There is a "Guazhoudu" in the river.

　　The Yangtze River, which has been flowing down for ages, flows to the sea through various sections. Among them, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and the following river sections in Jiangsu are called "Yangtze River". In ancient times, there was an important Tianjin mouth from the southern section of the northern bank of the Yangtze River to Jingkou (now Zhenjiang), which was called "Yangtze Tianjin". Folk songs sing: "Against the waves, you are invited, and the boat is not afraid of being far away. When my concubine lives in Yangzi, she will make the Guangling tide. " During the Jin Dynasty, the Yangtze River Estuary gradually extended eastward, and the sediment continued to accumulate, forming a "Shazhu" above the water surface, which looked like a "melon" and was called "Guazhou". It has been more than 1,700 years. In the Tang Dynasty, the river sand silted up over the years, and Guazhou was connected with the north shore. Ships crossing the north of the river at Jingkou had to bypass the western end of Guazhou and detour 60 miles, which brought inconvenience to water transportation. At that time, Qi Huan, the secretariat of Runzhou, invited the imperial court to dig a 25-mile-long Yilou River (also known as "Guazhou Canal" and "Yangzhou New River"), which saved the pains of land and water transport and detours and made great achievements. Li Bai said in a poem titled Ben, Uncle of the New River Family in Guazhou: "Qi Gong chisels a new river, and it will last forever. Rich utilitarianism gives birth to people, and heaven and earth perish together. "

　　Due to the excavation of the Guazhou Canal and the navigation of the ferry, Guazhou has become increasingly prosperous, and it has become the "No.1 Xiongzhen in the North of the Yangtze River" with "merchants gathering, a constant stream of crowns, residents in Yinfu, and their first houses being reelected."

　　Guazhou is a beautiful place.

　　Guazhou people are proud to say that Zhang Ruoxu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, chanted in A Moonlit Night on a Spring River directly refers to Guazhou area, because the poetic beauty in the poem is consistent with the scenery of Guazhou before the excavation of the Yilou River.

　　Guazhou is a place with beautiful scenery. According to the Records of Jiaqing Guazhou in Qing Dynasty, there were "ten sights" in Guazhou in the old days: stepping on the moon by stone bridge, raining at night in Tianchi, reading martial arts in Jianglou, riding on the wind by a boat in the water, rising in the morning in Liuan, Dongcheng, rising in the morning in Taowu, Luting Xinyan, fishing boats in Xuejiang, tower lights in Jinshan, and qinglan in Yinling.

　　According to historical records, Guazhou Town was formed in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. In order to guard against the Japanese pirates, the government at that time built a wall of 1,543 feet high and 2 feet thick along the east-west dam, and later built a city around it in successive dynasties. There are landmark buildings in the city, such as Daguanlou, Wenchang Bridge, Tuoqiao and Chenghe.

　　Some experts in literature and history have verified that Guazhou’s Grand View Tower is actually the "Snowstorm Grand View Tower" in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of Red Mansions, and it is also called "the Four Famous Buildings of the Yangtze River" with Tengwangge, Yellow Crane Tower and Yueyang Tower.

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　　Shidu Guazhou

　　Throughout the ages, Guazhou is the only place to travel from south to north, recording the tracks of many historical figures, including many famous literati and poets, and leaving countless magnificent poems.

　　Among them, the poem "Sauvignon Blanc" by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is still well known and familiar to women and children:

　　Bianshui flow, Surabaya flow, flows to Guazhou ancient ferry. Wu Shan is a little sad.

　　Think long and hate long, and hate it until it is time to return. Yueming people lean on the building.

　　Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, famous poets of past dynasties, left hundreds of excellent works. In contemporary Guazhou, there is a stele gallery engraved with more than 100 poems related to Guazhou made by the ancients. Visitors are here, reading the stele and lingering.

　　at nanjing ferry

　　Tang Zhang Hu

　　Overnight at the hill on the Jinling ferry, trouble sleeping was filled with Dreaming Of Home And Mother.

　　In the ebb of the tide and the slanting moon, two or three fires are Guazhou.

　　Berthing Guazhou

　　Song Wang Anshi

　　Kyoguchi and guazhou are just a water away, Zhongshan also only a few heavy castle peak.

　　Gentle spring breeze blowing green again, but, the moon in the sky, when you can take me home?

　　Five books of indignation, the first one

　　Song luyou

　　When I was young, I knew that the world was difficult, and the Central Plains looked like a mountain.

　　It snows overnight in the building, and the autumn wind is scattered in the iron horse.

　　Stuffed on the Great Wall, I made an empty promise, and the temples in the mirror have already faded.

　　When you start your career, you can tell your true name, but you can’t compete for a thousand years.

　　After crossing the river, the book was sent to juzhu.

　　Yuan Sadula

　　Yangzhou has a drinking power of 40 miles, and it is only when you sleep in Guazhou that you cross the river.

　　Suddenly, I was awakened by the river wind, and the flying geese in Haimen did not make it.

　　I am happy to see the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River.

　　Ming Guo Di

　　Boat Huainan Road, after infinite love. Poor Yangzi crossing, no tide.

　　The water breaks Guazhou Post, and the river connects the north to Gucheng. The sand rises three miles, and the trees are scattered and the mountains are horizontal.

　　Guazhoudeng Daguanlou (two songs)

　　Qing Wu Xiqi

　　Vibration clothes in the hundred feet, alone on the floor. The vegetation is connected by three mountains, and the wind and smoke are collected by six.

　　The steep sails fight for the width, the sunset and stay for a long time. The reflection is boundless, and the ichthyosaur is on it.

　　The natural barrier is in danger, and the past is over. The mountains and rivers wash the horses, and the boat will set the storm.

　　Do you have a sense of boarding, which only hurts your temples? Zen habitat attracts seclusion, and dreams hold cigarettes.

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　　Legend Guazhou

　　Guazhou is full of legend. In the Tang dynasty, the great monk Jianzhen traveled eastward from here to help mulberry, spreading religious laws and Chinese culture; Kyle Poirot once roamed "Guazhou City" and wrote four directions of travel notes. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kang Gan made six southern tours, stationed in Guazhou and built a palace in Jinchunyuan. Passers-by from south to north have not only left footprints in Guazhou, but also interpreted many wonderful people and events in the world.

　　Cast mirror in the heart of Yangtze River

　　Because there is a copper mine (Tongshan) in Yizheng, Yangzhou produces copper, Liu Ying, the king of Wu in the Western Han Dynasty, began to develop its economy by "rewarding farming, chiseling mountains to cast copper and boiling salt around the sea", which made Yangzhou rich in the world and dominated the southeast. "Han Guangling National Bronze Mirror" contains: Yangzhou has been an important mirror casting center in China since the Tang Dynasty, and it has become one of the four major bronze mirror producing areas in China: Yangzhou Mirror, Shaoxing Mirror, Xuzhou Mirror and Nanyang Mirror. The "Jiangxin Mirror (also known as Shui Xin Mirror)" dedicated by Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty is world-famous, and this mirror was cast in the middle of the Yangtze River in Guazhou.

　　Guazhou tanjiang river

　　At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Jiang Xinzhou, such as Beixinzhou, Lijizhou, Huilongzhou and Shamanzhou, rose from Yizheng Qingshan to Shierxu, and gradually merged, known as Beixinzhou (that is, the current business continent), and the great river was divided into two branches, with the mainstream in Beicha. The northward movement of the river and the continuous siltation caused the runoff to change direction, which laid a hidden danger for Guazhou to collapse into the river and was also the main reason for Guazhou to collapse and sink into the river later.

　　During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Guazhou began to collapse the river, and by the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), the riverbank in Garden Port was gradually collapsing, approaching the city wall. In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), the river flooded, and Yinjiazhuang, below Chazi Port outside Guazhou City, broke into the river one after another, with a length of more than 100 feet and a width of more than 40 feet, and the southwest wall collapsed to more than 40 feet. In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792), the riverbank below Guazhou Huilan Dam collapsed by more than 100 feet. Although the dynasties tried their best to remedy it, there was nothing they could do. In the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), Guazhou City collapsed into the river, leaving no historical sites.

　　Due to the collapse of Guazhou into the great river, the excavation of the Yilou River in the Tang Dynasty was shortened. Today, only a section of the canal from Sancha River to Guazhou exists, which is the southernmost section of the Li Canal. However, the Silipu in the north of Guguazhou Town still exists, and its function is not reduced at the beginning, but it has been gradually restored to prosperity through the construction of later generations.

　　tenth madam to sinks her treasure chest in anger

　　Du Shiniang’s angry sinking of the treasure chest was a real event that happened at Guazhou Ferry during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, "the boat people and passers-by who heard the news from the shore denounced Li Jia’s fickleness and Sun Fu’s unkindness", which gave rise to many local stories.

　　Due to Guazhou’s special position, the story of Du Shiniang jumping into the river quickly spread all over the country. Song Maocheng heard Du Shiniang’s heroic act in Beijing, so he wrote the story as "The Biography of Negative Feelings". Later, many scholars quoted and copied one after another.

　　Later, Feng Menglong synthesized real events and folklore, and based on the biography of negative feelings, he perfumed it into Du Shiniang’s Angry Treasure Box, which was collected in Volume 32 of Warning Words. Du Shiniang’s Furious Treasure Box reveals the ruthlessness of feudal ethics and shapes Du Shiniang into an eternal woman. In order to get rid of the inhuman situation, she urgently needs to be good, believes in Li Jia’s love, launches various struggles with the greedy madam, and jumps out of the fire pit with her own wit. When she learned that Li Jia betrayed her, she was filled with resentment and jumped into the rolling waves with her treasure chest. She used her youth and life to accuse the evil society and safeguard her ideal of love. In the way of expression, Feng attaches great importance to the characterization and detail description of characters, and adds Liu Yuchun as a chivalrous figure. Compared with the Song family, the Feng family has made great progress, both in thought and art.

　　Many versions of the History of China Literature have highly appraised the legend of Du Shiniang, and contemporary scholars have also made a detailed textual research on the origin of Feng Ben from folklore and the biography of negative feelings, and his script has also been included in middle school Chinese textbooks.

　　Modern Guazhou New Town is presented to the world with its brand-new look and tourism environment. Here, ancient culture and modern civilization complement each other and become a star ancient town shining at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Canal.