济南潇洒似江南

Jinan Has a Similar Elegance of That in Southern China

“江南好，风景旧曾谙；日出江花红胜火，春来江水绿如蓝。能不忆江南？”唐代诗人自居易的《忆江南三首》，把江南的水光春色，描绘得如诗以画，跃然眼前。江南美，美在江南的水。江南是水乡，水的故乡就是我的故乡。美不美，家乡的水。我大学毕业离开长江口的故乡，来到黄河边的济南，已近半个世纪了，江南的水依然使我思念绵绵。

Water in the lower reaches of the Changjiang River has nurtured a characteristic watery scenery. In the upper reaches of the Changjiang River, Jinan is a city that has a similar kind of beautiful scenery. Yuan Haowen and Huang Tingjian, renowned poets in the Jin and Norther Song dynasties, praised that the scenery here looked like or even surpassed that of the lower reaches of the Changjiang River.