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unusual facts about Weiyang District, Yangzhou


Weiyang

Weiyang District, Yangzhou (维扬区), former district of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China


Bathing culture in Yangzhou

According to the three knives Yangzhou written by Mr. Wang Xianxin, public bathhouses appeared in Yangzhou as early as the beginning of the 11th century, the Northern Song Yuanfeng era.

Huaiyang

Huaiyang cuisine, centered upon Yangzhou and Huai'an in Jiangsu, China

Jiang Ziwen

Originally from Guangling, now a district of Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province, he became addicted to wine and women, but was nonetheless recognized for his unusual phrenology.

Katarina Vilioni

She is known through a tombstone which was discovered among the ramparts of Yangzhou in 1951 by the People's Liberation Army.

Li Mian

As part of the preparation for war, Emperor Dezong divided Yongping, making three of its seven prefectures — Song (宋州, in modern Shangqiu, Henan), Bo (亳州, in modern Bozhou, Anhui), and Ying Prefectures — into a new Xuanwu Circuit, giving Si Prefecture (泗州, in modern Huai'an, Jiangsu) to Huainan Circuit (淮南, headquartered in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu), and adding Zheng Prefecture (鄭州, in modern Zhengzhou, Henan) to Yongping.

Li Tai

In 628, Li Tai's title was changed to Prince of Yue (Taizong made another royal member Li Baoding (李保定) heir to Li Xuanba instead of him), and he was made the commandant at Yang Prefecture (揚州, roughly modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu), but was not sent to Yang Prefecture, remaining at the capital Chang'an instead.

Nanjing–Qidong Railway

The railway serves several cities located between Nanjing and Nantong, in particular Yangzhou, Taizhou, and Hai'an.

Shuren School of Yangzhou Middle School Education Group

Shuren School of Yangzhou Middle School Education Group is a private school in Yangzhou, China, founded with the approval from Yangzhou Municipal Government in June 1999.

Wang Xiuchu

Wang's most significant accomplishment is his writing of the "Yangzhou shiri ji" (Account of Ten Days of Yangzhou) an account that details his survival of the notorious Massacre of Yangzhou that was perpetrated by the Manchu prince Dodo.

Wang's account is also used as verification to the death of the Ming viceroy in Yangzhou, Shi Kefa.

Yangzhou

Dialect has also been used as a tool for regional identity and politics in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan regions.

There are several bus stations on the city's outskirts; most of the buses from Nanjing (Nanjing West Bus Station) and Zhenjiang (where the bus station is adjacent to the Zhenjiang Railway Station) arrive to Yangzhou South Bus Station, located a few kilometers southwest from downtown.


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