Culture of YangzhouChildren's Library building, on the premises of Yangzhou Public Library The Yangzhou Dialect (Chinese: 扬州话, Yangzhou Hua) is moderately understandable by an outsider as it does differ a lot from today's standard M The Yangzhou Dialect is considered to be the representative dialect of Jiang-huai dialect group 江淮话 within the Mandarin language It is regarded by linguists to be very close to the official Mandarin (based on Nanjing dialect) spoken during Ming dynasty and early Qing During a period of prosperity and Imperial favour, the arts of storytelling and painting flourished in Y The innovative painter-calligrapher Shitao lived in Yangzhou during the 1680s and again from 1697 until his death in A later group of painters from that time called the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou are famous throughout CFormer President of China Jiang Zemin was born and raised in Y His middle school is located right across from the public notary's office in YYangzhou is famous for its carved lacquerware and jade Poet Li Bai (700-762) wrote in Seeing Meng Haoran off to Yangzhou from Yellow Crane Pavilion:At Yellow Crane Pavilion in the west My old friend says farewell; In the mist and flowers of spring He goes down to Yangzhou; Lonely sail, distant shadow, Vanish in blue emptiness; All I see is the great river Flowing into the far Some of China’s most creative and eye catching dishes come from the Yangzhou school of cuisine called Huaiyang (also commonly known as the Weiyang school) Along with Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, and Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine (淮扬菜) is a distinctive and masterful skill that locals are quite proud The city is famous for its public bath houses, lacquerware, jadeware, embroidery, paper-cut, art & crafts velvet The city was awarded Habitat Scroll of Honour in Yangzhou is also very famous for its toy industry (especially stuffed animals) Many tourists from neighboring cities travel to the city for its good-quality and low-priced It is worth mentioning that the city is also famous for an ancient folk art called Yangzhou storytelling (扬州评话), which is like Xiangsheng - the traditional Chinese comedic It rose as a performing act during the Ming D In the performance, the artist details an interesting historical story to audiences, using Yangzhou These stories have been edited by artists, so they sound very soul-stirring and The most well-know artist of Yangzhou storytelling was Wang His most famous works are The 10 chapters of Wu Song (武十回), The 10 chapters of Song Jiang (宋十回), The 10 chapters of Lu Junyi (卢十回), and The 10 chapters of Shi Xiu (石十回)希望帮到你啦~