曲江楼始建于清末,原为酒馆,后改为新交通旅馆。位于姜堰镇南大街、坝口运盐河畔,座东朝西。后楼敞轩,俯览滔滔东流的江水,张謇曾为之书“观涛处”。抱柱上写有楹联:“好一座危楼,谁是主人谁是客;只两间老屋,半宜明月半宜风。”1940年秋,新四军东进抗日解放姜堰后,这里成为新四军苏北指挥部。陈毅在曲江楼上运筹帷幄,与国民党江苏省主席、苏北顽固派的代表人物韩德勤,展开针锋相对的斗争。在此期间,韩曾借和谈之机,欲将新四军挤出苏北,抽调2万主力南下,节节向黄桥进逼,并企图勾结敌伪 Qujiang House was built in the late Qing Dynasty, the original tavern, later changed to the new transport hotel. Located in Jiangyan Town South Street, dam mouth salt River, the seat east west. Hou Hsuan Hin, overlooking the surging river, Zhang Kui for the book “Guan Tao Department ”. There is a couplet on the pillars: “It is a dangerous building, who is the host who is off; only two old houses, half the moon should be pleasant.” In the autumn of 1940, following the liberation of the New Fourth Army against the Japanese in Jiangyan, it became the New Fourth Army Northern command. Chen Yi upstairs in the Qujiang strategist, and the Kuomintang chairman of Jiangsu Province, North Jiangsu diehard representatives Han Deqin, launched a tit-for-tat fight. During this period, South Korea had borrowed the opportunity to peace talks, trying to squeeze the New Fourth Army out of North Jiangsu, pumping 20000 main force south, steadily pressed to the Yellow Bridge, and attempt to collude with the enemy