When the Manchu armies of the Qing invaded China they laid waste to Yangzhou, that city of wealth and culture of which a Tang poet had said, "If there were three bright moons in the night sky, two would shine on Yangzhou."
滿清入關，血洗揚州，把唐人眼中「天下三分明月夜，二分無賴在揚州」的繁華世界，夷為荒城。