The national AAAA-level tourist attraction is a high-level tourist attraction with Yancheng ruins as the core, traditional culture as the feature, urban entertainment and leisure as the basis, and a high-level tourist attraction integrating tourism/sightseeing/popular science/leisure/shopping/catering

Changzhou Spring and Autumn Paradise Tourism Development Co., Ltd. is a national high-level tourist attraction based on Yancheng ruins, Chinese traditional culture as the feature, and urban entertainment and leisure, and was rated as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction in August 2010, receiving 2.68 million tourists in 2011. The total planning area of the scenic spot is 7.6 square kilometers, with a total investment of about 3 billion yuan, including eight key areas, including the heritage protection area, the Spring and Autumn Paradise area, the wildlife area, the tourist shopping area, the cultural residential area, the leisure resort area, the commercial recreation area and the Buddhist cultural area. With the continuous improvement of popularity and the continuous improvement of scenic service facilities, Changzhou Spring and Autumn Yancheng Tourism Area has gradually become a bright and dazzling tourism star in the Yangtze River Delta region.

(1) The location advantage of Yancheng tourist area in spring and autumn

Changzhou City is located in the south of Jiangsu Province, the center of the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Delta, with the Yangtze River in the north, Taihu Lake in the south, Shanghai and the provincial capital Nanjing at equal distances, and Suzhou and Wuxi together to form a metropolitan area. Now it has jurisdiction over two county-level cities of Jintan and Liyang and five municipal districts of Tianning, Zhonglou, Qishuyan, Xinbei and Wujin. Changzhou is an ancient city with a history and culture of about 3,200 years. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (547 BC), the fourth son of King Shoumeng of Wu, Ji Zha, Fengyi Yanling, began a history of more than 2,500 years with accurate dates and exact place names. There are many scenic spots and historic sites in the territory, and there are many historical and cultural celebrities, which is a modern tourism new city full of cultural creativity. The Spring and Autumn Yancheng Tourist Area is located in the central urban area of Wujin District in the southern suburbs of Changzhou, 8 kilometers away from the downtown area of Changzhou, connecting 312 National Highway and Shanghai-Nanjing, Nanjing-Hangzhou, Changning, Yanjiang (Changsu), Changcheng, Xiyi and other expressways, 4E-level civil aviation Changzhou Benniu Airport, BRT rapid transit and other important transportation resources; It forms a 2-hour self-driving tour metropolitan area with more than 10 surrounding cities. The surrounding facilities of the scenic spot are complete, including Sheraton Yancheng Hotel, quasi-five-star Ramada Forest Park Hotel, Changzhou Wujin Holiday Hotel, Golden Nandu International Hotel, Xinyuan Hotel and Super 8 and other high-end hotels, Xincheng Shangjie Commercial Pedestrian Street, Yancheng Golf Driving Range and Red Star Macalline Urban Complex under construction, China Huantaihu Art City, Baolin Temple Tourist Area. These will complement each other with the Yancheng Tourism Area in the future and build a modern comprehensive tourism and leisure destination in the Yangtze River Delta.

(2) Introduction to the scenic spots in the Yancheng Tourist Area in Spring and Autumn

The cultural origin of the Yancheng tourist area in the Spring and Autumn Period is the site of Yancheng with a history of more than 2,000 years.

The Yancheng site is located in the dam administrative village of Hutang Town, the central urban area of Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, covering an area of 1,000 acres, and the archaeological confirmation is that it was built in the Spring and Autumn Period. Yancheng was called "Xiang" country in ancient times, built in the late Spring and Autumn Period, has a history of more than 2,500 years from now, the more authoritative statement in the academic circles is that the ancient Xiangguo is established by a descendant of Yin Shang in Qufu, Shandong, after the water source is sufficient, the local county chronicle is changed to "flooded". In 1988, Yancheng was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In 2004, at the Suzhou World Heritage Conference, Yancheng was praised as "the specimen of urban defense in the era of cold weapons, and the military fortress of Wuyue hegemony". In 2007, Yancheng was rated as the first water city in the south of the Yangtze River in China by the Red Tourism Network.

Yancheng is the most well-preserved ancient city site in the late Spring and Autumn period in China. From the inside to the outside, it is composed of three cities, three rivers, including the sub-city, the sub-city river, the inner city, the inner city river, the outer city and the outer city river. This form of city construction is unique in the history of urban architecture in China. Because most of the cities at that time were one city and one river, and a few were two cities and one river or two cities and two rivers, and three cities and three rivers were the only ones in China. The sub-city, which is square in shape and has a circumference of 500 meters; the inner city, square in shape, with a circumference of 1,500 meters; The outer city, in the shape of an irregular oval, has a circumference of 2,500 meters. In addition, there is an outer city outline on the outer side of the Yancheng Outer City River, with a circumference of 3,500 meters. Yancheng is 850 meters long from east to west and 750 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of about 650,000 square meters. The size of the flooded city area is consistent with the record of "Mencius" "the city of three miles, the outline of seven miles". The three walls of the flooded city were all built with the soil from the excavation of the city river. The method is to build from the flat ground, make full use of the local soil sticky point, do not dig the foundation groove, do not rammed, only layer by layer to pile up, a layer of dry soil in individual places, spread a layer of wet soil, in turn, in order to strengthen the wall. Because it is not built according to the plate, the wall is wider. The three city walls of Yancheng are all trapezoidal, now 3-5 meters high, 30-40 meters wide at the base of the wall, the average depth of the three moats is about 4 meters, the width is 30-50 meters, and the widest point reaches more than 60 meters.

In the spring and autumn, there was no land route in and out of Yancheng, only a waterway. In the past, there was an earthen dam between the three cities of Yancheng, which was built by local villagers in the 50s of the 20th century in order to facilitate production and life. Now approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, a wooden bridge is erected on the Sandaocheng River to facilitate the passage of tourists and fire protection needs

Within one kilometer of Yancheng City and the periphery, there are hundreds of large and small mounds, and now there are only more than 70 left, the mound is 1.5-7 meters high, and the diameter is mostly between 25-30 meters. Archaeological excavations have confirmed that most of these mounds are mound tombs in the Spring and Autumn period. There are a mound and a tomb in the city, all of which are noble tombs; Outside the city are more than one tomb, all of which are family tombs of commoners. These mounds are an important part of the Yancheng site.

Yancheng has experienced more than 2,500 spring and autumn periods, although it has been continuously described since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the real study of Yancheng has only a history of nearly 70 years. In 1935, Wei Juxian, Chen Zhiliang and other archaeologists from Central University conducted the first field investigation of Yancheng, confirmed that Yancheng was a relic of an ancient city, and published the article "Visiting the Ancient Records of Xiancheng", which attracted the attention of the academic community. In the late 50s and early 60s of the 20th century, 4 canoes and a batch of bronze and geometric pottery were unearthed in the inner city of Yancheng, and the unearthing of this group of cultural relics showed the unique cultural appearance and cultural connotation of Yancheng for the first time, which further attracted the general attention of the academic community; In the early 80s of the 20th century, with the continuous revelation of the Neolithic and Shang and Zhou cultural features in southern Jiangsu and the in-depth study of Wu culture, Yancheng has once again become a hot spot in the academic circles, many scholars have surveyed Yancheng, and published a lot of works, especially from May 1986 to August 1991, presided over by the Nanjing Museum, the archaeological excavation of the Yancheng site for 6 years, solved the shape of the Yancheng, the age of the city, A series of major academic issues, such as the method of building the city and the nature of a large number of mounds inside and outside the city, have laid a good foundation for the comprehensive study of the historical and cultural connotations of the flooded city.