The Royal Pier was the place where the Qing emperor boarded the ship during his southern tour, but today, it has almost no royal style. When you walk from these stone steps to the river, you may not feel that you are walking on the royal avenue dedicated to the king of Wancheng at all, but you feel as if you have come to a village from the noisy city. But when you lift your left foot and put down your right foot, you have actually crossed the time and space of history. How heartless time is, it washes away the royal powder and turns the heavily guarded Royal Pier into a country road where ordinary people walk at will.
To visit Slender West Lake, you must take a boat, which is the characteristic of Slender West Lake. When you board the original ship, the tour begins.
On the original boat, you will see several thatched cottages and waterside pavilions on the shore, and the attractive fragrance of delicious dim sum such as steamed dumplings, dried silk, crab roe steamed buns and three-dimensional steamed buns floats through the window. This is the prestigious Ye Chun Teahouse, where Mr. Zhu Ziqing once praised Weiyang Tea.
You will also see countless rare birds contending among promenades, pavilions and pavilions on the shore, among green trees and red flowers, and three or five tourists stopping to watch. This is the prestigious "Lvyang Village". For people who have lived in the city for a long time, you will feel a rare relaxation and leisure, a closeness and harmony with nature.
And this is the prelude to Slender West Lake.
With the progress of cruise ships, there are more and more trees on the shore, the lake is more and more open and the air is more and more fresh. In the breeze floating on the water, the smell of some aquatic plants or small fish will make you feel depressed instantly. In the shade, you seem to see the shadow of the city wall. Perhaps you can't help singing Wang Yuyang's famous sentence: "Qingyang Building is Yangzhou".
Suddenly, on the rippling sea, a rainbow-like arch bridge flew across the banks.
Can you imagine that this is the place where the Qing literati held the "Red Bridge Repair"? According to historical records, Wang Shizhen, Kong, Lu Jianzeng and others met with poets here respectively, leaving countless gorgeous poems. Eight eccentrics, such as Jin Nong, Zheng Xie and Huang Shen, often make poems and paintings here, and they linger.
If time permits, you really should abandon the boat and land here, and carefully look for traces of Kong Dongtang, Lu, Jin Dongxin, Huang Yingpu.
Liu Yiyi's "Long Beach Spring Willow" is said to be named after the beautiful love of a young man and woman named Long Beach and Spring Willow. In the spring season, the willows and peach blossoms here are full of warm affection. The catkins flying on the lake are confusing. Maybe we can make a comment on the "fireworks" in Li Bai's poem "Fireworks in Yangzhou in March"?
Walking out of Xu Yuan, I saw a small red bridge-Little Red Bridge. It may be a taboo for painters to use such bright colors between green mountains and green waters. However, above the blue waves of the Slender West Lake, such a small red bridge spans it, which not only makes people feel tacky, but also makes people feel particularly charming and moving. Perhaps this is the bold and unique of Yangzhou garden people in those days.
When you walk across the small red bridge with light steps, you come to a place surrounded by water-"Xiaojinshan". Xiaojin Mountain is named because it is very similar to the Jinshan Mountain in Zhenjiang, but its size is too small. The name "Xiaojinshan" is just like the name "Slender West Lake", which makes people deeply feel the beautiful scenery of Yangzhou gardens.
Looking eastward from Xiaojinshan, you can see an antique balcony standing among the lush flowers and trees. That's misty rain on four bridges.
Siqiao, formerly known as Huangyuan, is one of the villas built by the Huang brothers of salt merchants in Qing Dynasty. The Huang brothers are very rich, and they especially like to build gardens. The gardens they built in Yangzhou are called Yiyuan Garden, Ten-room Garden, Rongyuan Garden and Bieyuan Garden. The second child alone has built several gardens, and the misty rain on the Fourth Bridge is one of them. It was named "misty rain four bridges" because four bridges can be seen vaguely in the misty rain: Dahongqiao, Changchun Bridge, Chunbo Bridge and lianhua bridge. Some people say that you can see Yupan Bridge and Xiaohongqiao. In a word, climbing the first floor and seeing the wonderful ideas of several bridges can be said to have brought the art of borrowing scenery to the extreme. Yangzhou salt merchants are rich, but there are many scholars among them. They love money, gardens and pavilions, poetry and elegance, which is exactly what they deserve to be remembered today.
Looking west from Xiaojinshan, I saw a long dam extending into the lake. At the end of the long dike, there is an ancient pavilion-"Blowing Table".
Twenty-four Bridge Scenic Area is located in the west section of Slender West Lake, at the turning point of the waterway from lianhua bridge to Pingshantang. The scenery between Qianlong and Qingjiang is called "Spring Moon", which was destroyed after Jiaqing. However, the topography, river bend and harbor branch still exist.
1986, the state and local governments allocated 2.46 million yuan, and according to the records of Yangzhou Ship, which was painted by Yao Yuan, a famous Yangzhou painter and kept in the Palace Museum, and related historical materials such as Eight Scenes of the Yangtze River, Moon in Spring, and Grand Ceremony of Qianlong's Southern Tour, a restoration scheme was designed. Covering an area of about 7 hectares, the scenic spot is a group of classical garden buildings, including the newly-built Twenty-four Bridges, Linglong Flower Border, Xichun Terrace, Cross Pavilion, Double-eaved Pavilion and Jiuqu Bridge, as well as the later-built Wangchunlou, Trestle and Jingxiang Bookstore. Its layout is zigzag screen array, with wide and spacious structure and ups and downs. All the corners are a landscape painting, which has become a scenic spot of "Ganlong Water Tourism Line". The promenade on both sides of the lake extends along the cloud wall, and the land and water are parallel. The whole scenic spot plays a connecting role in the artistic conception of "two dikes with flowers and willows close to the water and mountains along the way". The bus goes directly to Slender West Lake-Jiangdu No.5 Tangwang Township Government-Bus Company No.3 No.6 Hongfu Jiayuan-Li Anyun Community 17 Friendship Square-Jianghai College No.27 Friendship Square-International Jewelry City No.29 Friendship Square-Chahe Town No.29 (evening) Friendship Square-Slender West Lake-Gaocha Town East Garden-Friendship New Village 6/.