Yangzhou Overview,Yangzhou Tour

Yangzhou is a prefecture——level city in central Jiangsu province, People’s Republic of China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the southwest, Huai’an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south.

The prefecture——level city of Yangzhou administers 7 county——level divisions. There are 3 districts, 3 county——level cities and 1 county:
Yangzhou has a history of almost 2,500 years, being founded in the Spring and Autumn Period when it was called Guangling ( Kuang——Ling). In 590 AD, Guangling began to be called Yangzhou, which was the traditional name of what was then the entire southeastern part of China.

Located by the Yangtze river and Jinghang (Grand) Canal, it has been a leading economic and cultural center and major port of foreign trade and external exchange since the Tang Dynasty (618——907).
The city, still known as Guangling, was briefly made the capital of the Wu Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
Marco Polo served there under the Mongol emperor Kubilai Khan in the period around 1282——1287. Although some versions of Polo’s memoirs imply that he was the governor of Yangzhou, it is more likely that he was an official in the salt industry.
Until the 19th century Yangzhou acted as a major trade exchange center for salt, (a government regulated commodity), rice and silk. The Mings (1368——1644) are largely responsible for building the city as it now stands and surrounding it with 9 km of walls.
 
YangzhouRivers: the Yangtze River, Jinghang Canal, Baoshe River, Datong River, Beichengzi River, Tongyang Canal, Xintongyang Canal, Baima Lake, Baoying Lake, Gaoyou Lake, Shaobo Lake.
Local landscape: Slender west lake, Ge garden, He garden, Da ming temple, Phoenix island, etc.
Subtropical monsoon climate with humid changeable wind; longer winters for about 4 months, summers 3 months and shorter springs and autumns, 2 months respectively; frost——free period of 222 days and annual average sunshine of 2177 hours.
 Average temperature: 15 °C annually; the hottest in July of 27.6 °C and the coldest in January of 1.7 °C; maximum temperature of 39.8 °C and minimum −19 °C Rainfall: annual average of 1030 mm; rainy season from the middle of June to July
Yangzhou dialect is classified as Lower Yangtze Mandarin.

During a period of prosperity and Imperial favour, the arts of storytelling and painting flourished in Yangzhou. The innovative painter——calligrapher Shitao lived in Yangzhou during the 1680s and again from 1697 until his death in 1707. A later group of painters from that time called the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou are famous throughout China.
 
Former President of China Jiang Zemin was born and raised in Yangzhou. His middle school is located right across from the public notary’s office in Yangzhou.
Yangzhou is famous for its carved lacquerware and jade carvings