Why does Fireworks Go to Yangzhou in March go to Yangzhou instead of going or not going? Rhyme?

Li Bai is a very playful person. His footprints have been left in all parts of the motherland. For example, he wrote "Five Old Peaks in Lushan Mountain" and "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" in Lushan Mountain. There is a poem in Li Bai's "Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou", "An old friend stayed in the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March." It can be said that it has been told through the ages. My friend waved goodbye to me at the Yellow Crane Tower, and he will go to Yangzhou in sunny March. So in Li Bai's poem "Fireworks Down in Yangzhou in March", why go down to Yangzhou instead of going or going? Rhyme?

In my opinion, this is actually a cultural tradition of China for thousands of years, that is, going north and going south. In March of the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling, which is now Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, so he asked Meng Haoran to meet in Jiangxia, which is now Wuchang District, Wuhan City, and personally sent Meng Haoran away. At that time, Jiangxia where they were located was in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Guangling was in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, so Jiangxia to Guangling was naturally called south.

In fact, Yangzhou in this poem is not our present Yangzhou. The area south of the Yangtze River in ancient times, including Yangzhou now, has long been called Yangzhou. Yangzhou, which we are talking about now, is located in the middle of Jiangsu Province and is a famous historical and cultural city in China. Yangzhou, located on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is known as "the best place in the west of Zhu and the famous place in the left of Huai". The history of Yangzhou city can be traced back to 486 BC.

Therefore, the phrase "fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March" is not going up to Yangzhou, but down to Yangzhou. This sentence was not written for rhyme, but according to the geographical location of the two places.