作者： 笨.龍 ༽

It is the symbol of boundary between Yancheng Tourism Area and the outside world. “Lord-Worshipping Tower”, as the name suggests, is the attic to look up at Yan territory.

The huge vessel in center of the square is called Double Beast Three Wheels Plate Bronze Plate. It is presented by China cultural relics Association and is magnified in the proportion of 1:10 to the original bronze plate unearthed in Yancheng in 1957.

The origin of bronze three disc plate is now collected in Chinese History Museum. The plate has a unique shape, with a height of 15.6 cm, a diameter of 26 cm and a bottom diameter of 14.5 cm. The plate has open mouth, shallow belly and encircled feet. Three rotatable wheels with six spokes are installed under the bottom of the plate, with two beasts with long necks protruding from both sides of the front wheel looking back. Beast heads have crowns, and big eyes open, with snout extending forward. Beast bodies are decorated with scale patterns, triangular patterns, Qiequ patterns (curved and hooked patterns derived from animal elements), etc., and the beast is like drinking water. There are braids around the plate. It should be a very exquisite dinner plate or fruit plate in the Spring and Autumn period, which can move back and forth in front of guests to meet their needs. This bronze three wheel plate has reasonable structure, integrating practical utensils and works of art through production processes of casting, welding, tenon and mortise assembly and other processes, showing superb level of bronze technology. There is only one such three wheel plate ancient bronze ware at now. It is an artifact with strong regional style and era characteristics in Wu and Yue bronze ware.

The four stone carvings embedded around the bronze plate are Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Rosefinch and Xuanwu, protecting the east, west, north and south. On the left and right are Bell Tower and Drum Tower. The four Cong columns at the four corners of the square are made of multicolored stones, each weighing 30 tons.

It is the tremendous and sublime Yancheng tower. The “Spring and Autumn Yancheng Relics Park” on it is inscribed by calligrapher Shen Peng. The font has profound artistic conception, elegant style, ink with spirit, and overwhelming power.

Bread is the staff of life. Chinese people have a long history of enjoying palatable food. The Food Street pays attention to local characteristics, takes Wujin’s specialty as the classic, absorbs characteristic delicacies from all over the country, and creates Chinese People’s Food Street. The Food Street always has endless flows of people waiting to be served as sumptuous lights glitter.

Wujin is the birthplace of Menghe Medical School that has cultivated generations of famous doctors since ancient times. Wujin has profound cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine famous all over the world in late Qing Dynasty. It is known as “Wuzhong famous doctors are the best in the world and Menghe famous doctors are the best in Wuzhong”. Relying on profound precipitation of Wujin Medical School, Yancheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Street has born various characteristic traditional Chinese medicine centers and health centers. Traditional Chinese Medicine Street has played a positive role in inheriting and prospering traditional Chinese medicine culture just like what is written on stone archway at the entrance of the street, “Good Virtues Cherished by Doctors”.

Yancheng Cultural Street is adjacent to Traditional Chinese Medicine Street and Food Street. The neighborhoods are connected by rivers and small bridges, and pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions are arranged in a staggered manner, showing the charm of Wu and Yue. With Yancheng Museum and Wujin Cultural Museum as the core, the cultural street gathers a number of cultural experience projects such as intangible cultural heritage crafts, antique appreciation, calligraphy and painting art, and intensively displays unique and profound cultural heritage of Changwu Area to tourists.