Warm Lights, Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall
Wang Zengqi is a contemporary Chinese novelist, essayist, and dramatist. He is known as a representative figure of Beijing school writers. Born in Gaoyou, Yangzhou in 1920. Many of Wang Lao’s works are about the local customs and daily life of Gaoyou. Gaoyou is full of his memories and dreams of life. The architecture of the memorial hall pays attention to the cooperation of light and shadow and indoor space. It is very photogenic. There are two floors in total with 11 exhibition halls and five major themes, providing a space for all Wang Zengqi fans to have a dialogue with Wang Lao.
Address: No. 9, Zhu Jiaxiang, Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province.
Time: Open from 09:00 to 17:00 (no entry after 16:30).
Ticket: Free.
The Ancient Imperial Tomb – Hanlingyuan
Yangzhou Hanlingyuan is also called the Guangling King’s Tomb Museum. It is a scenic area that combines garden architecture. The original site of the tomb is actually in Gaoyou. The museum is relocated and replicated according to the original proportion. Currently, it mainly features the tombs of Liu Xu, the king of Guangling in the Han Dynasty, and his queen. Beside it, there is also a coffin chamber of the queen’s tomb.
It is a wooden coffin tomb of the ‘Huangchang Ticou’ style. This is the prominent feature of the Han tombs in Hanlingyuan. Huangchang is the heart of cypress. The heart of cypress is yellow, so it is called Huangchangzi. ‘Ticou’ is a burial style that began in ancient times and was more common in the Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. Huangchang Ticou is the coffin chamber of the imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty. It is a frame structure piled up with cypress wood around. Hanlingyuan is grand in scale and exquisitely made, becoming a typical representative of the wooden coffin tomb of the ‘Huangchang Ticou’ style and a great miracle in architectural history.
Address: No. 98, Pingshantang East Road, Weiyang District, Yangzhou City.
Time: Open from 08:30 to 17:00 (no entry after 17:00).
