“阴阳”最早见于《易经》，用来解释天地万物的源头。“五行”的概念最早见于《尚书》也就是大家所熟知的“金、木、水、火、土”。这两者到战国时才渐渐合流，成为了“阴阳五行学派”也就是我们现在看到的阴阳家。
阴阳家景区以一块巨大的黑色陨石山体为背景，以北斗七星、八卦符号等体现阴阳之学。山体前方这一位仰首向天的，是阴阳家的代表人物——齐国人邹衍，他学识渊博，运用阴阳五行学说来解释宇宙演变和历史兴衰，因此被人们称为“谈天衍”。邹衍是“稷下学宫”的著名学者。“稷下学宫”，是中国最早的最高学府、科学院（据学者推算，与柏拉图的“雅典学园”同时期，仅晚了20年）。相传邹衍为了推行自己的学说，曾到各国游历，并且受到了各国国君尊崇。据说他到北方的燕国时，燕王亲自抱着扫帚为他扫地开路并拜他为师，这是圣人孔子、孟子都没有享受过的礼遇。由此可见，他的学说在当时备受欢迎。
What pleases the eye to the left is a row of rustic dwellings, which imitate the ancient cottages of the Spring and Autumn Epoch. Owing to the heavy rainfall here, these folk houses, in fact wood structures, had deteriorated with great speed. Within the relics park, there is therefore no such dwelling unscathed till now. What stand the test of time are simply the cities along with moats and numerous antiquities excavated all these years.
In ancient China, this school points to doctors, in particular famous ones like Eastern Han’s Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo, Tang’s Sun Simiao the King of Medicine. Bian Que in the Spring and Autumn Period stood out of these doctors through the ages. Qin Yueren was called Bianque because his superb medicine, in the hearts of the people, matched well the magical doctor in the primeval past.
The sculpture in the center of the square shows how the wondrous doctor took his patient’s pulse. According to The Book of the Grand Historian, Bianque first applied pulse-based diagnosis in clinical treatment. The forefather of Chinese medicine was the first of his kind officially recorded in history. He initiated four diagnostic methods: watching, smelling, asking and pulse-taking. Such tremendous contributions have earned him a niche in history.
代表人物为许行。许行以神农氏的后人自居，在研究农业生产技术的同时，提出了“君民并耕”的政治主张，意在劳动者自食其力的平等思想。
许行带领他的弟子辛勤劳作，换来的是“五谷丰登，丰衣足食”。古代的五谷一般是指稻、黍、稷、麦、菽，即水稻、黄米、小米、小麦、黄豆。战国及秦汉时期，我国人民食用的主要蔬菜有葵、霍、韭、葱、蒜这五种。《诗经》里曾提到132种植物，其中作为蔬菜的就有20余种，随着时代变迁，其中部分品种已退出了我们的餐桌。
What we can see in the front left-hand side is the relic site where Yue Fei, a generalissimo of the Southern Song, ever appointed major generals. When Jurchen army invaded the frontier during Jianyan Period, the generalissimo along with his troops was stationed here to fight the enemies.
现在各位看到的是淹城的第二道护城河——内城河。淹城的护城河水平均水深4米，最深的地方有十几米；河宽30—50米，最宽的地方达60米。在内城河里先后出土过4条独木舟，其中一条长11米的独木舟被国家博物馆收藏，一条4.2米的被南京博物院收藏，还有两条收藏于武进淹城博物馆。科研人员对独木舟进行碳14测定以确认其制造年代。其中一条长7.45米的独木舟经测定，距今已有2800年的历史。这是我国迄今发现的年代最悠久、保存最完整的古独木舟，因而有“天下第一舟”的美称。
在古代，医家就是指医生。中国历代曾出现过许多名医，如东汉张仲景、神医华佗、药王孙思邈等。春秋时期的名医是神医扁鹊，扁鹊原名叫秦越人，由于他医术高超，人们便以上古时代神医“扁鹊”的名号来称呼他。
广场中心的这个雕塑是医生把脉的场景，据《史记》中记载，扁鹊是最早将脉诊应用于临床的医生。扁鹊是中医学的开山鼻祖，也是中国历史上第一个有正式传记的医学家，他创造了“望、闻、问、切”四诊法，为中国医学做出了巨大的贡献。
Now we can see the second moat of age-old Yancheng. The moat is 4 m deep on the average, but may be a dozen meters or so deep as well. The width, normally 30-50 meters, may be 60 meters at most. There have been 4 canoes unearthed from the moat thus far. The 11 meter-long canoe now belongs to the National Museum of China and the 4.2 meter-long lies in Nanjing Museum. The remaining two have been collected in Wujin District Yancheng Museum. Researchers had dated the old-time canoes using the carbon-14 isotope. In particular, the canoe as long as 7.45 meters has been 2800 years old. The oldest and best-preserved boat discovered ever in China has been dubbed the “First Boat under the Sun”.
这里可以看到三个高大的土墩。按照顺序，最前面的叫头墩，中间的是肚墩，后面是脚墩。考古学家1991年对头墩进行考古挖掘，在里面发现葬具和各种随葬品近300件。这座墓葬在外城，说明墓主人与淹城有着一种特殊的关系，其地位和身份在当时都比较显赫。值得注意的是在随葬品中还有陶纺轮、玉珠串等装饰物和用具，说明墓主人是一女性，相传三个墩为淹君女儿的墓葬。这里又有一个美丽的传说，话说淹君有个女儿叫百灵公主，长得如花似玉，是淹君夫妇的掌上明珠。公主心地善良，并且酷爱琴、棋、书、画，且能歌善舞，是个才貌双全的勤劳姑娘。淹城邻近有个留城，野心勃勃的留王子，骗取了淹王的信任被招为驸马。有一天，驸马乘淹王外出之际，盗用公主的名义，骗得了后花园的钥匙，偷走了淹国的护城之宝——白玉龟，淹君回城知道玉龟被盗，大发雷霆，不分青红皂白，便把百灵公主处死，后来弄清事实真相后，后悔莫及，将百灵公主重新安葬。后来淹城百姓将这三个土墩称为头墩、肚墩、脚墩。
早先在淹城内外，还散布着数百个土墩，最大的是磨盘墩，面积达90亩，以前认为与城防有关。1987年，考古学家对其中的干家墩进行挖掘，出土了40多件精致的陶器和青瓷器，以及部分骨骼，进一步证实这些土墩为古墓葬群。
This school points to politicians and diplomats in Warring States Period. The school mainly falls into two factions: Vertical Alliance and Horizontal Collaboration. The old man standing on the cave-mouth is Guiguzi, the forefather of this overawing school. The master had an outstanding command of astrology, geography, stratagems, martial arts, unique numerological arts and eight trigrams. He wrote a masterpiece consisting of 14 chapters, called Guiguzi. The master even established “Military Academy of Warring States”. He has been venerated as the Old Patriarch of Wang Chan. Indeed, he was a grandmaster of many ways.
Guiguzi boasted of having 500 disciples, including those political, diplomatic and military personages like Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin and Pang Juan. All these had almost made history or influenced the states they each served. It is alleged many other heroes such as Mao Sui, Xu Fu, Gan Mao, Yue Yi, Fan Ju and Zou Ji all took him as their master.