瘦西湖在历史进程中已成为演绎扬州种种特征文化的重要的景观载体。其文化内涵就是以瘦西湖景观为载体,融园林文化、运河文化、帝王文化、盐商文化、士大夫文化、市民文化、儒家文化、释道文化为一体的综合性文化。本辑承上辑继续论述瘦西湖所包含的市民文化、儒家文化、释道文化等内容。 Slender West Lake in the course of history has become an important landscape of Yangzhou interpretation of a variety of cultural characteristics of the carrier. Its cultural connotation is based on the landscape of the Slender West Lake as a carrier, and integrates landscape culture, canal culture, imperial culture, salt merchants culture, literati culture, citizen culture, Confucian culture and Buddhism culture. The series continues to discuss the cover of Sanshin contained civic culture, Confucianism, Buddhism culture and so on.