"Yangzhou is good, the first is the hongqiao. Young willow green, three feet of rain, cherry red broken a shaw, in LanRao everywhere." Here is the yangzhou history of the famous hongqiao. Hongqiao scenery, has attracted many scholars opine on this play, left many precious ink and moving story. Kangxi years Wang Yuyang has a song: "fly across the water of the red bridge, a railing jiuqu red; perfect day painting ship under the bridge, the fragrance of people should be too in a hurry." Is more popular, even emperor qianlong had poetry appreciation GuoHongQiao scenery.
If compared the lake is a classical beauty, hongqiao is revealed her LIDS; If the lake is sometimes compared to a play, it is hongqiao opened for her. Let us start from hongqiao, enjoy the "two dike flower in accordance with the water, gazebo all the way until the mountain" of beauty.