Historic MingYi yangzhou is located in the eastern end of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river plain, in central jiangsu province, east near the yellow sea, and nantong, yancheng border; West nanjing, and -, lasting county border; In the south of the Yangtze river, and zhenjiang, wuxi across the river; Huai water in the north, adjacent to HuaiYin; In the beijing-hangzhou grand canal from north and south. Grain transportation has always been the amphibious transportation hub, north and south of the throat, subei important gateway. Yangzhou is the hometown - total -, is a city with a history of more than 2480 years, the state council released the first one of the 24 famous historical and cultural city. West suburb of yangzhou city since the six dynasties, which is a scenic resort, formerly known as cannon was, a river, qing qianlong, because around the ridge north of changchun, changchun, also known as lake. Qing dynasty poet wang kang hang has did: "chueiyang constantly meet the residual weeds, wild goose tooth hongqiao yanyan drawing, also pin a pot of gold, reason should be called slim." Hence the name of west lake.
In the near west lake shu gang mountain, the mountain temple throughout, is called "jiangnan first lingshan".
Other famous places in yangzhou has the reputation of "urban forest" he garden, a garden is famous for its four seasons rockery. It faces in the Ming dynasty "radiance JieQu". Yangzhou and the world famous grand canal, across on the west lake of hongqiao, emperor yangdi, kangxi, qianlong emperor palace ruins left by the and so on, the beauty of the yangzhou, is the treasure of jiangnan.
