had already made Huai’an a wealthy trading port. And when the Yellow River changed its course in the 1100s, the fourth largest freshwater lake in China, Lake Hongze, formed almost overnight on ...
Jiangsu refers to the part of Jiangsu south of the Yangtze River, namely Suzhou and Wuxi ... If the catering trade in Huai'an and Yangzhou chiefly met the needs of important, rich traders ...
It gradually spread to north China, Beijing ... Zhenjiang, and Huai’an in Jiangsu Province along the Grand Canal north of the Yangtze River. Yangzhou was a military fort and a cultural center ...