Sail south and land north! What do you mean?

The south is dominated by boats, and the north is dominated by horses. Abandon the ship and land.

Stone Wharf, a famous historical and cultural monument in Huai 'an, is located in the southeast of Huai 'an Grand Canal Cultural Square, in front of the monument of "South Ship Landing in North Mashe Ship". In the sixth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1728), a stone pier was built, hence its name. In the old society, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal north of Qingjiangpu was not only slow, difficult to drive, but also very dangerous. Broken cables and sunken ships often happen.

Therefore, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants traveled from south to north, usually taking a boat ashore at the dock of Qingjiangpu City, crossing the Yellow River in the north, and changing to horses and chariots in Wang Jiaying; From north to south, they abandoned their horses and chariots and crossed the Yellow River in Wang Jiaying, and boarded the boat at the stone pier.

Extended data:

The origin of south ship and north horse:

Liu An, King of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, co-wrote "Huainan Custom Training" with his guests: "Hu people are convenient for horses, while Yue people are convenient for boats".

It is convenient for Hu people to ride horses, and it is convenient for Yue people to take boats.

Reason:

In ancient China, boats were the main modes of transportation in the south and horses in the north. The reason is that the climate in the south is humid, the precipitation is abundant, and the surface river network is densely covered, so the ship transportation adapted to the "water town" came into being. In the north, however, the climate is arid and semi-arid, grasslands are widely distributed and animal husbandry is developed. In addition to providing milk and meat products, horses have been domesticated as vehicles by the people in the north and become vehicles on the land in the north because of their good endurance and high speed.

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