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烟花扬州
窦玉生 想必,没有一个中国人不知道扬州。
但凡一个读过书的中国人,都学习过中国散文大家朱自清的《荷塘月色》。那近乎被“写绝”了的月色,也是扬州的景致。“天下三分明月夜,二分无奈是扬州”。从古到今,扬州的月色都是很l had studied the article―Moonlight over the Lotus Pond―written by Zhu Ziqing, a famous Chinese prose master (1898-1948). The perfectly described “moonlight” in Qinghua Park in Beijing can also be found with the same view in Yangzhou. And Zhu Ziqing grew up bathed in Yangzhou’s watery moonlight.
Every Chinese who attended school must have learnt the famous poem―“Thou went southward to Yangzhou in the beautiful spring of lunar March”―which was written by Li Bai, a great Chinese poet (701-.). This famous poem was written to express Li Bai’s passion for the beautiful spring scene of Yangzhou when he saw off his friend Meng Haoran (another famous poet in 689-740 .) at the Yellow Crane Tower of Wuchang(a city of Hubei Province).
With a history of more than 2500 years, this ancient city has an extremely deep cultural foundation. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, almost every famous poet had been in Yangzhou at some time. It was Yangzhou that was the hometown of Zhang Ruoxu (a famous poet in about 660-720 .) whose masterpiece―A Moonlit River on Night in Spring―was praised as “one piece surpasses all the poems of the whole Tang Dynasty”. And Du Mu (a famous poet in about 803-.) who had written a famous poem “Did you play the flute with beauties