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China News Service, Yangzhou, April 7th: "Three Bays Section of the Ancient Canal in Yangzhou, Jiangsu: The "cluttered" butterfly turns into a beautiful park in the past
China News Service reporter Cui Jiaming
Right now, the most beautiful season in Yangzhou has come quietly. In the Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park along the ancient canal, the local people are enjoying the spring time of "the grass grows and the warbler flies and the willows blow the dike".
No one would have thought that in the past this was a messy urban village.
Yangzhou Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park is located in the Sanwan section of Yangzhou Ancient Canal, covering a total area of 3,300 mu, of which the core area covers an area of about 1,520 mu.
"In the 25th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in order to solve the problem of water transportation and transportation, according to the idea of 'three bays to one dam', the original 100-meter-long river was turned into a 1.7-kilometer bend, forming the three bays of the canal." Yangzhou Canal The docent of Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park tells about the historical changes of Sanwan.
With the passage of time, the water transport function of the canal gradually deteriorated.
Under the wave of industrialization, the Sanwan Section of the Ancient Canal used to be an industrial zone in the south of Yangzhou City. At that time, more than 80 enterprises including pesticide factories, leather factories, and cement factories gathered on both sides of the canal. to serious damage.
In the impression of nearby residents, this was once a dirty and messy urban village in the south of Yangzhou City.
"Originally, the terrain here was remote. There was a dirt road along the ancient canal. Many vehicles dumped garbage along the road, and this place became a garbage place."
Overlooking from the air, the Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum adopts the shape of a giant ship as a whole, incorporates sail elements, and is "stationed" on the banks of the Sanwan Ancient Canal in Yangzhou.
Photo by Meng Delong
Since 2014, Yangzhou City has carried out projects such as river dredging and revetment reconstruction for the Sanwan section of the ancient canal in accordance with the concept of ecological restoration and urban repair.
After more than three years of governance, in September 2017, the three bays of the Canal were newly unveiled, and the stinky and "chaotic" place was transformed into a beautiful ecological and cultural park, which is open to citizens and tourists free of charge.
In December 2018, the Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park was rated as a national 4A-level tourist attraction.
The ecologically restored Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park is like a dazzling green pearl inlaid on the canal, and has become an Internet celebrity check-in place in Yangzhou.
Strolling in the Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park, the meticulous embellishment of mountains and rocks, pavilions and pavilions, trail corridors, and couplets with columns and couplets reproduces the classical garden charm of "the green mountains are hidden by the water".
The reeds, cedar forests, and waterways in the garden constitute a poetic picture that unfolds between the clear water and blue sky, making people feel the comfort of "people in the city, the city in the garden, and the garden in the scenery".
Looking around, a red landscape bridge like a paper-cut pull flower spans the ancient canal.
This is a landscape bridge across the ancient canal - Silhouette Bridge, which draws on the intangible cultural heritage - Yangzhou's paper-cut art and lacquer craftsmanship, and ingeniously adopts modern materials and techniques to express the beauty of intangible cultural heritage.
The ecologically restored Yangzhou Canal Sanwan Ecological Culture Park is like a dazzling green pearl inlaid on the canal.
Photo by Meng Delong
The thousand-year-old canal sounds and lights have left a rich cultural heritage for Yangzhou.
The canal culture and legends, from ancient times to the present, have never been cut off.
Walking down from the Silhouette Bridge, you can reach a new landmark of the canal - the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou.
Overlooking from the air, the Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum adopts the shape of a giant ship as a whole, incorporates sail elements, and is "stationed" on the banks of the Sanwan Ancient Canal in Yangzhou.
This is the first modern comprehensive canal-themed museum in China that integrates cultural relics protection, scientific research exhibition and social education. Metal utensils, etc., vividly display the "past and present" of the Millennium Canal.
Since its official opening in June last year, it has received more than 600,000 citizens and tourists.
Walking into this new Tang-style museum is like flipping through an "encyclopedia", with a panoramic view of the past and present of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Sui-Tang Canal, and the East Zhejiang Canal.
Different from the traditional museums where exhibits are piled up, the museum focuses on the living inheritance of historical and cultural heritage, and uses technology to let the cultural relics "speak" and make the ancient canal seem "new".
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