After the reform and opening up, the bold adjustment and improvement of production relations, the introduction of the market competition mechanism to the labor enthusiasm and creativity of the full incentive and mobilization, coupled with modern science and technology advances, all of which make the social productive forces to obtain unprecedented development of vitality. In terms of GDP, which is the main indicator of the scale of development of socio-economic activities, in 1978 Nantong Nantong was only 2.94 billion yuan, in 2004 it exceeded 100 billion yuan (119.57 billion yuan), in 2008 it reached 251 billion yuan, and in 2012 it reached 455.9 billion yuan. Per capita GDP was 408 yuan in Nantong in 1978, exceeded one thousand yuan (1,055 yuan) in 1986, exceeded ten thousand yuan (10,078 yuan) in 2001, reached 35,040 yuan in 2008, and reached 65,222 yuan in 2012. Reform and opening up 30 years Nantong annual GDP and per capita GDP rocketed, both more than six times, the geometric trend of accelerated expansion. Over the past 30 years, Nantong has insisted on the two "engines" of domestic and export-oriented economy, and the economy has sufficient endogenous power. Nantong utilization of foreign capital growth in successive years, in 2007 began to rank among the top ten in the country. "During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the actual utilization of foreign capital exceeded 13 billion U.S. dollars, which is 1.8 times more than the total amount from the reform and opening up to the end of the 10th Five-Year Plan period.
In 2011, Nantong's GDP exceeded 400 billion yuan, with a per capita growth rate of 56,000 yuan, nearly double that of 2007. Total fiscal revenue exceeded 95 billion yuan, 3.2 times that of 2007; local public **** budget revenue exceeded 37 billion yuan, accounting for 3.3 percentage points higher than the proportion of GDP in 2007, entering the top ten prefecture-level cities in China. Fixed asset investment, total retail sales of consumer goods were nearly 240 billion yuan, 150 billion yuan, about double than in 2007. 2011, the three industrial structure adjustment to 7:54.5:38.5, the added value of the service sector accounted for the proportion of GDP than in 2007 increased by 3 percentage points.
In 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Nantong was 455.87 billion yuan. In 2013, Nantong realized a GDP of 503.89 billion yuan, which was 11.8% higher than that of the previous year in terms of comparable prices. Among them: the primary industry added value of 34.54 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%; the secondary industry added value of 262.35 billion yuan, an increase of 12.0%; the tertiary industry added value of 207 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9%. The GDP per capita reached 69,050 yuan, or 11,150 U.S. dollars based on the average exchange rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar in 2013.
In 2014, the city's GDP ②565.27 billion yuan, calculated at comparable prices, an increase of 10.5% over the previous year. Among them: the added value of primary industry was 36.71 billion yuan, up 3.5%; the added value of secondary industry was 287.38 billion yuan, up 10.3%; and the added value of tertiary industry was 241.18 billion yuan, up 11.9%. Per capita GDP reached 77,457 yuan. Since 1978, with the implementation of the rural lump sum in the early stage of reform and opening up, more than half of the labor force in the rural areas of Nantong City has been detached from cultivation, of which, except for a part of it flowing to the city, many are employed in rural enterprises and construction industry. During the 30 years of reform and opening up, the proportion of employees in the primary industry in Nantong has dropped by 60 percentage points. At the same time, the internal structure of agriculture has also seen a diversification trend. In the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, the proportion of plantation industry has been decreasing, and the proportion of forestry, animal husbandry and fishery has been increasing. In 2008, compared with 1978, the proportion of plantation industry in the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Nantong declined by 30.4 percentage points, the proportion of animal husbandry increased by 10.7 percentage points, and the proportion of fishery increased by 16 percentage points.
Since the reform and opening up, Nantong has explored a lot on the journey of modernization of agriculture with Chinese characteristics, and innovated in the strategic layout of Jiangsu's two "firsts". By the end of 2010, Nantong's basic agricultural modernization index achieved a total score of 67.3 points, ranking first in Jiangsu Province. On the one hand, Nantong is the most densely populated area in Jiangsu and even in the country, to break through the constraints of arable land resources, to achieve agricultural production and farmers to increase their income; on the other hand, Nantong "east of the Yellow Sea, south of the Yangtze River", in the development of agricultural industrialization process to take advantage of this geographical resource endowment and highlight. Therefore, after years of exploration, Nantong people made the answer: "to project agriculture as a hand, promote the development of efficient agriculture scale."
"Eleventh Five-Year" since, around the "create the province's first city of efficient agriculture scale" goal, Nantong vigorously implement efficient agriculture "133" action plan and the "863 project" of facility agriculture. Facility agriculture "863 project", efficient agriculture scale development has achieved greater results. Nantong to account for 9.9% of the province's arable land, producing 11% of the province's grain, 17% of the oilseeds and 35% of the cocoons, the replanting index is 60 percentage points higher than the provincial average, mu average agricultural GDP of more than 3,000 yuan. It can be said that Nantong farmers have traditionally fine farming tradition, the development of efficient facilities for Nantong agriculture to create the prerequisites.
In 2012, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Nantong was 54.89 billion yuan; in 2013, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Nantong was 59.48 billion yuan. On the eve of the reform and opening up in 1978, Nantong City, the industry is basically state-owned, collective "domination". Since the reform and opening up, Nantong non-state-owned industry has made great progress, in 2008, compared with 1990, the number of non-public enterprises above designated size increased from 72 to 5,210; the number of employees increased from 21,000 to 621,000; the output value increased from 690 million yuan to 454.1 billion yuan; profits and taxes increased from 0.45 billion yuan to 41.26 billion yuan.
In 2008, the output value of state-owned and state-controlled enterprises in Nantong City accounted for the proportion of the city's industrial output value above designated size has fallen from 59.9% in 1978 to 5.3%, a decline of 54.6 percentage points. The decline in the proportion of output value of state-owned industrial enterprises and the substantial increase in the proportion of output value of non-state-owned industrial enterprises, so that the ownership structure of the industrial economy in Nantong has undergone a major adjustment. 2008 Nantong industrial output value above designated scale reached 516.24 billion yuan, 7.4 times that of 2000 (69.71 billion yuan) and 172 times that of 1978 (2.994 billion yuan, the townships and townships above the independently accounted for industrial enterprises). The statistical caliber of industrial enterprises above townships and townships was 172 times higher than that of 1978 (2.994 billion yuan). As for the efficiency index, the total profit and tax of Nantong industry above scale reached 47.05 billion yuan in 2008, which is 8.2 times as much as that of 2000 (5.728 billion yuan) and 93 times as much as that of 1978 (506 million yuan).
In 2012, the value added of industry above scale in Nantong was 227.32 billion yuan, and the total industrial output value above scale was 101.12 billion yuan. In 2013, the added value of industry above scale in Nantong City was 258.39 billion yuan, of which, light and heavy industries grew by 10.8% and 13.6% respectively. Among the industrial output value, the equipment manufacturing industry accounted for 522.23 billion yuan, an increase of 14.1%, and accounted for 46.0% of the city's total industrial output value above scale, an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the previous year. Nantong main city's major department stores and shopping places shopping places Address South Street shopping circle ★ Wenfeng World No. 3-21 South Street, Chongchuan District Suning Life Plaza No. 2 South Street, Chongchuan District Golden Eagle Special Discount Center Golden Tree Silver Flower Mansion, No. 28 South Street Nantong Yaohan Intersection of People's Road and South Street, Chongchuan District RT-Mart Supermarket, No. 27 People's Road, Bank of Communications Building, Workers' and Farmers' Road Shopping Circle ★ Rongrong Plaza&. amp; Golden Eagle Full Life Center Intersection of Gongnong Road and Youth Road ★ Nantong Impression City (2017) East of the intersection of South Gongnong Road and Hongjiang Road, Chongchuan District ★ Zhongnan City Shopping Center No. 12, Peach Orchard Road Tesco (Gongnong Road Store) No. 515, Gongnong Road Wenfeng City Plaza Gongnong Road, Hongqiao Road Exit (Tongqi Road Elevated) Starry Plaza Gongnong Road Intersection of Gongnong Road and Peach Orchard Road West Wushui Business Circle Auchan Supermarket (Gangzha Store) Shennan Road (Jianghai Avenue Elevated Exit) Decathlon (Gangzha Store) North of the Interchange of Jianghai Avenue Elevated and Shennan Road ★Gangzha Wanda Plaza South of the Interchange of Shennan Road and Jianghai Avenue Elevated ★IKEA IKEA (2017) North of the Interchange of Jianghai Avenue Elevated and Huanghai Road North Main Street Business Circle ★Yuanrong Ink Jiangnan (2017) Interchange of Tongning Avenue Elevated and Yongyi Road Vanke Golden Mile Plaza Gangzha District Yongyi Road and North Street Interchange ★ China Resources Vientiane City (2016) Junction of North Street and Yongyi Road, Gangzha District Major leisure and entertainment venues Feiyue Baidu Culture Square No. 44 Rengang Road Nantong Adventure Kingdom No. 1 North Street, Gangzha District (opposite Huaqiang City) Sanxian Street (local food street) Intersection of South Changjiang Road and Zilang Road Jianghai Style Street No. 99 North Gongnong Road (opposite Hongyun Decoration City) In 2013, Nantong's social consumer goods Retail sales totaled 192.71 billion yuan, an increase of 12.8%. Among them, urban retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 140.26 billion yuan, up 13.7%; rural retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 52.45 billion yuan, up 10.3%. By industry, the retail sales of consumer goods in wholesale and retail trade amounted to 177.53 billion yuan, an increase of 12.6%; the retail sales of consumer goods in accommodation and catering industry amounted to 15.18 billion yuan, an increase of 14.8%.
Foreign Economy
Nantong's foreign trade exports were almost insignificant in 1984, and exports rocketed after the 1990s, with an average annual export value of $724 million from 1984-1999, and an average annual export value of $5.34 billion from 2000-2008, and an average annual export value of 7.4 times that of the previous 14 years in the latter nine years. In 2008, the total import and export of Nantong reached 16.688 billion dollars, of which 11.75 billion dollars were exported. Now the export trade has expanded to more than 90 countries and regions all over the world. The structure of export commodities has basically realized a major transformation from mainly exporting primary products to mainly exporting industrial manufactured products. Some export products with high capital and technology content and high value-added have formed a certain production scale, which has enhanced the competitiveness of Nantong's export products in the international market and promoted the upgrading and optimization of Nantong's industrial structure and product structure.
In 2012, the total import and export value of Nantong was 26.30 billion dollars. In 2013, Nantong's annual import and export value was US$29.81 billion, an increase of 13.4% over 2012, of which, the total value of exports was US$21.28 billion, an increase of 13.3%; the total value of imports was US$8.54 billion, an increase of 13.6%.At the end of 2013, 196 countries and regions had established import and export trade relations with Nantong, and the city's 4,639 enterprises with import and export performance. An increase of 6.5%. In 1978, Nantong's annual revenue was only 550 million yuan, in 1988 it exceeded one billion yuan (1.11 billion yuan), in 2003 it exceeded ten billion yuan (11.7 billion yuan), and in 2008 it reached 39.02 billion yuan. In the 30 years of reform and opening up, Nantong's annual revenue has more than doubled six times, with a geometric progression synchronized with the gross regional product.
In 1978, Nantong's annual financial expenditure was only 160 million yuan, which was basically only able to maintain the office and salary of public officials and other basic expenditures, and it was difficult to have the remaining financial resources to consider the development of social and public **** cause. After the reform and opening up, the government's financial constraints on the situation has been fundamentally reversed, the annual financial expenditures continue to show high growth. In 1993, the city's financial expenditure exceeded 1 billion yuan (1.086 billion yuan) for the first time, in 2004 it exceeded 10 billion yuan (10.146 billion yuan), and in 2008 Nantong's financial expenditure amounted to 29.253 billion yuan. In the 30 years of reform and opening up, Nantong's annual financial expenditure has more than doubled seven times.
In 2012, Nantong's total fiscal revenue was 105.59 billion yuan, of which 56.78 billion yuan was from various taxes. Local public **** budget revenue of 41.97 billion yuan, of which, business tax increased by 56.5%, value-added tax fell by 0.1%. Total fiscal expenditure for the year amounted to 93.76 billion yuan.
In 2013, total fiscal revenue amounted to 121.67 billion yuan, an increase of 15.2% over 2012, of which 65.37 billion yuan was from various taxes. Local public **** budget revenue of 48.59 billion yuan, of which, sales tax increased by 12.6%, value-added tax increased by 8.3%. The total fiscal expenditure for the year amounted to 106.07 billion yuan, of which 57.64 billion yuan was budgeted for local public ****. In 2013, Nantong's local public **** fiscal budget revenue completed 48.588 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8%, with tax accounting for 82.3%. The total amount of fiscal revenue, growth rate and tax share ratio are in the 4th, 5th and 4th place respectively in Jiangsu Province. In 1983, the reform of local and municipal administrative institutions to the end of the eighties, farmers' economic income gradually increased, a part of the initial wealth of farmers renovated housing built a modest building, farmers building a slow growth trend, the per capita floor space increased from 17 square meters in 1983 to 23 square meters in 1990. Into the nineties, governments at all levels to further emphasize the construction of villages and towns, pay more attention to the construction of small towns and rural infrastructure. In the past ten years, 10,788,300 square meters of new houses (buildings) have been built, with an investment of 4.548 billion yuan. In 1997 alone, 1,917,700 square meters of new houses were built, with an investment of 809 million yuan. The per capita floor space in rural areas increased from 23 square meters in 1990 to 32.34 square meters in 2000, and the living conditions of farmers have improved greatly.
"Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, Nantong effectively grasped the planning of small towns, focusing on the planning of 10 national key towns and 24 provincial key towns, accelerating the construction of infrastructure under the guidance of the plan, and actively implement the comprehensive development, take the road of centralized and unified construction. "During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the construction of a new socialist countryside made a good start. The number of cities and towns has been gradually reduced, and the scale of cities and towns has tended to be rationalized. Regional water supply was pushed forward at full steam, and the popularization rate of running water in rural areas increased rapidly, with the popularization rate of running water in the built-up areas of 60 established towns reaching 100 per cent. It has strengthened the management of the rural construction market and reinforced the construction (management) service stations in townships.
In 2013, the urban area of Nantong (including Tongzhou District) added 780.1 hectares of green space, with an urban green coverage rate of 42.2%; the daily water supply capacity reached 1.6 million cubic meters, with a 100% pass rate of the comprehensive water quality indicators; the urban gas penetration rate, water penetration rate, and the rate of harmless treatment of domestic garbage all reached 100%. Annual urban new street lights, landscape lights 24,180, the city road lighting rate reached 99%. (Source of Atlas)
October 15-22, 2006, the 16th Jiangsu Provincial Games was held in Nantong, Jiangsu Province.
In 2008, at the Beijing Olympics, 10 athletes from the city competed in 7 sports, winning 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, ****6 medals.
In 2012, Nantong athletes won five world championships in world competitions. At the London Olympics, Nantong athletes won three medals, including two gold medals; the London Paralympics, Nantong athletes won a silver medal. Ancient Chinese legend of the five emperors era, Suzhong (North Jiangsu) within the territory of the tribes often fight with the tribes in the Central Plains, living in the Huai, Yi region of the Dongyi tribe had been defeated for the Central Plains tribes, in order to avoid the war, the Dongyi tribes had to migrate, the ancient Qingdun people is a branch of them, they are the earliest ancestors of Nantong, but also the earliest immigrants, who are in the Nantong this piece of earth first sown the seed of the northern culture, and branding imprint of northern culture.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Fu-chai of Wu annihilated Xing (the western part of Hai'an and the northwestern part of Rugao belonged to Xing), dominated the Central Plains in the north, and "sealed his people in the middle of Jiangsu and Huaihuai". In 506 B.C., Wu and Chu were at war, and Wu broke Zheng Cheng (northeast of Jiangling County, Hubei Province), and the remnants of Utopia participated in the struggle for the restoration of the country under the mobilization of Wu. Soon after the defeat of Wu by Chu, the Utopians withdrew eastward with the Wu army, and later settled in the area of Lifa Township, Haian County. In 473 years ago, Yue destroyed Wu, the capital city moved north to Langya (now in the realm of Jiaonan County, Shandong Province), and immigrated to the north in a big way. At the beginning of Han Dynasty, the king of Dong'ou moved his country between Jianghuai. Several immigrants are part of the dispersion to the Hailing (then called Haiyang today Taizhou City) area, they brought the Wu-Yue culture here, forming a trend of southern culture to the north.
Jin war, the northern population moved south, to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern Dynasties three hundred years moved to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the immigrant population of the Hailing area at that time soared dozens of times, the northern culture and the southern culture met here.
At the time of Emperor Yuan of Liang (552) in the Sixth Dynasty, salt was boiled on the island of Hu Doushou (also known as Hu Tuanzhou) at the mouth of the Yangtze River by exiles, mostly exiled prisoners and unemployed vagabonds, who came mainly from Changzhou in the south of the Yangtze River (the areas of present-day Changzhou, Wujin, Yixing, Wuxi, Xishan, and Jiangyin), and who basically preserved the identity of the culture of the Wu-Yue ethnic group. During the Sui Dynasty, Hu Tezhou belonged to Hailing, and during the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, due to military necessity, Wolf Mountain became a military stronghold under the jurisdiction of the Western Province of Zhejiang, and Hu Tezhou became the jurisdiction of Changzhou in the Western Province of Zhejiang. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords, Wuxing (now Huzhou, Zhejiang Province) people Yao family three generations (Yao Cun system, Yao Ting, Yao Yan Hong) ruled Hu Tuanzhou (then known as the Jinghai), the East Bushu up to half a century long, its army and family members of tens of thousands of people, most of them Wuxing people, when the southern culture dominated.
The latter Zhou Xiande three years (956 years), the Zhou division of the Huainan, take the area north of the Yangtze River in the South Tang Dynasty, ascending Jinghai Du Town for the Jinghai Navy, belonging to Yangzhou, soon changed to the Tongzhou, set up the Jinghai, Haimen two counties, due to the island of the Jinghai and the mainland rose and changed to the jurisdiction of the county of Hailings, the people of the Jinghai people and the inhabitants of Rugao, etc., interacting more frequently, and at the same time a large number of Hailings people to and from the two places or settled. To the beginning of the Yuan, the north and prisoners exiled to Tongzhou, the influence of southern culture seems to be gradually weakened. However, Zhang Shicheng's uprising in Jiangnan at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the rebellion of Yan Bing at the beginning of the Ming Yongle Dynasty caused a large number of Jiangnan residents to move to Rugao. Opium War, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, many Jiangnan merchants and craftsmen have come to settle in Rugao.
Haimen Island, formed by the East Buzhou, was also the place of exile prisoners, streaming from Changzhou, due to the cultural isolation caused by more than 130 years before rising with Jinghai County, so that the Haimen people have always maintained the characteristics of the Wu culture. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a part of the Jiangnan scholars who had embraced Zhang Shicheng were punitively forced to migrate to the area around Lvshihang. They gathered in Changshu Bairu Harbor and crossed the river to Lvsi, which is known as the "Bairu Drawing", and they also retained the local customs of the Jiangnan culture. To the early 18th century, Chongming Chen Chaoyu (1688-1761) rate his wife came to Haimen, along the river bank settlement, and led a large number of Chongming people moved to the north of the river. They worked hard to settle, so that the newly reclaimed land along the river gradually became villages. At that time, more than 10,000 people in the territory of Haimen, Chongming nearly 3,000 people, the next 200 years constantly Chongming people moved to Haimen. The formation and rise of the textile industry in modern times attracted more and more industrialists and businessmen from Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhenjiang and other places to settle in Nantong, do business and carry out cultural exchanges. The influence of southern culture has almost always continued.
Southern culture has a strong influence on Nantong, which has the largest number of speakers of the Wu dialect, a southern style of Peking Opera, and the common people's worship of "Guanyin". People in the north often regard Nantong people as Jiangnan people, while people in the south often regard Nantong people as northerners (Jiangbei people), this mismatch precisely shows the cultural characteristics of Nantong as a transitional zone between the north and the south, both north and south cultures - south wind and north rhyme. Tong Opera: Tong Opera is a local opera genre in Nantong. It was originally a boy's play, which originated from the upper boy's. The so-called "boy's play" is a kind of opera in Nantong. The so-called "boyzi" is a folk professional wizard, which originated from the wizard of Chu and Yue "to dance to subdue the gods" and the local dialect, culture, customs and folklore, and assimilated and gradually formed another branch of the ancient wizard with distinctive Nantong local color. --Nantong Boys. After the founding of the country, the boyzai abandoned its superstitious content of sacrificing to gods and exorcising ghosts, and utilized its rap form to perform modern dramas, pushing the boundaries of the genre and gradually transforming it into a Tongju opera with improvements in choreography, performance, music and choreography, and so on. Now Nantong Boys is not only listed as a special topic focus on research, and more and more scholars at home and abroad to pay attention to and interest.
Nantong Dongzi Hui: Once upon a time, after the autumn ripening of Nantong suburban townships every year, there was always a "Dongzi Hui", also known as the "Wei Tong Hui", presided over by the respected elders in Wei Tong, selected the day of the moon, inviting the Dongzi to perform with the help of the "heavenly lantern". "sky lanterns", to seek pleasure. After the founding of the country, "Dongzi will" custom no longer exists, Dongzi also turned into a theater artists.
Hai'an Flower Drum: It was popular in the Jianghuai land during the Jiajing period 400 years ago. After generations of folk workers in Haian several excavation, several finishing, constantly rubbing into the spirit of the times, deliberate artistic innovation, in 1978 to "welcome the spring flower drums" as the title to participate in the Jiangsu Song and Dance Festival, in 1987 to "flower drums love" as the title to Beijing to dedicate art, and in 1998 to "welcome the spring" as the title to participate in the Jiangsu Qunlun Cultural Performance, melting into the characteristics of the Jiangsu "fishing baskets flower drums," "Huayang Flower Drums," "Taixing Flower Drums", with 320 female drummers, and the "flower drums", the "Flower Drums" is the most important and most popular dance in Jiangsu. The characteristics of the 320 female dancers in the lineup, once again choreographed into a square dance, into the first 50th anniversary of the first National Day Gala, the first plate "He Shenzhou universal celebration".
Haimen Mountain Song: mainly circulated in Haimen area and Qidong and Tongzhou part of the region, and Jiangnan Wu song lineage, is a branch of the Wu song to the north of Jiangsu Province. 1955 developed into a stage play. Haimen Shan Songs are roughly divided into two categories: one is improvised Shan Songs, mostly composed and sung by peasants during or after labor, with lyrics of four, six or eight lines, most of which reflect the labor life and love between men and women; the other is narrative Shan Songs, with lyrics of dozens of lines or hundreds of lines, with a complete storyline, vivid characters, and rich thoughts and feelings. The folk music "Haimen Mountain Song" was listed in June 2008 in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage. The dialects of Nantong's western and northern regions: Hai'an County, Rugao City, and most of Rudong County - belonging to the JAC official Tongtai piece/Taeru piece - can be subdivided into two small dialect pieces: the Rudong accent in the eastern part of Rudong, and two Ruhai accents in the rest of the country, which can be called Rudong dialect and Ruhai dialect, respectively.
Nantong dialect, a dialect spoken in the area around Nantong City: Gangzha District, northwestern Chongchuan District, and west-central Tongzhou District. Nantong dialect is a transitional dialect from the Wu language of the Vilings slice to the Tongtai slice of the JAC official language/Taeru dialect.
The southeastern part of Nantong: the southeastern part of Chongchuan District, the southwestern part of Tongzhou District, the southern part of Haimen City, the southern part of Qidong City, the southeastern part of Rudong County, and the eastern coastal area of Tongzhou District speak Shadishanese (Chongmingese, Haimenese, and also known as Qihaiese), which is a part of the Wu language.
The eastern part of Nantong: the eastern part of Tongzhou District, the northern part of Haimen City, and the northern part of Qidong City, the dialects of the Lvshi branch of Tongdong dialect and the Dongsha branch of Tongdong dialect (also called Ancient Changzhou dialect, or Jiangbei dialect) belong to the Wu language.
Area around Tongzhou City: the central dialect of Tongzhou District, Jinsha dialect, belongs to the Wu language.
Rudong dialect is a transitional accent from Ruhai dialect to Tongdong dialect, Nantong dialect is a transitional area from the ancient Wu dialect area to Jianghuai official dialect, and Jinsha dialect is a transitional area from Tongdong dialect to Nantong dialect.
Rudong and Ruhai dialects are interchangeable, Jinsha and Nantong dialects are communicable, Nantong and other dialects (except Jinsha) are difficult to communicate, Jinsha and other dialects (except Nantong) are difficult to communicate, Tongdong and Shadi dialects are difficult to communicate with other dialects, and Rudong and Ruhai dialects (except interchangeable) are difficult to communicate with other dialects. Festival of Lights: On the 13th day of the first month of the old calendar, "the lights go up", and on the 18th day, "the lights go down", which is called the Festival of Lights for six days. During the Festival of Lights, there are a lot of temples in Nantong city and outside of the city with lights. Fifteen, sixteen two nights, there are a lot of stores in front of the store fireworks, to see a lot of people. Since the first day of the first month, the cross-street area, there are many lamp sellers. Sell is a horse lamp, lion lamp, rabbit lamp, toad lamp, horse lamp, ball lamp, etc., are to scorn for the bone, with colored paper paste, sold until the end of the fifteenth and sixteenth. Folk hung by the gods, some people fall on the eighteenth day of the first month, there is also the first day of February fall.
February 2: the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, there are families with daughters of the custom, the proverb: "February 2, families with daughters, not with daughters are poor children, daughters do not come to rotten legs, son-in-law is not permitted to come to her home is meat turtle." Rich family with a daughter to run up a sumptuous family feast, even if the family is in dire straits of the mother's family, but also have to symbolically drink a little bit, no biological daughters have to please "dry women". This custom has been carried on to this day.
Lunar New Year's Eve: also known as the Festival of the New Year, commonly known as the first half of the month. Nantong in the old days from the thirteenth day of the first month on the lamp, the eighteenth day of the first month on the lamp, there are "thirteen, fourteen God to see the lamp, fifteen, sixteen people to see the lamp, seventeen, eighteen ghosts to see the lamp," said, and "on the lamp on the face of the lamp round son drop lamp.
Lunar New Year's Eve gongs and drums: the old folk convention, daily gongs as an alarm, so children are usually not allowed to knock on the gongs to tease, but to the Spring Festival period can be fun to play, darkness is not prevented, especially in the first month of the Lantern Festival period, and even more unrestricted by the time. Every Lantern Festival, the city's East Street, small Guandi Temple (near the Nantong Cinema, now has been built for the securities building), spontaneously held a gong competition. In the old days, the sound of gongs and drums in the Lantern Festival shook the night sky of Tongcheng, and the whole city was filled with the exciting atmosphere of hope for the new year, which was the most enjoyable festival for children and adults.
"Setting fire to the fire": The custom of "setting fire to the fire" in Nantong has its origin in the ancient worship of fire and the god of fire. A little farther you can turn over the "Poetry": "Go to its borer, and its vermin, harmless to my field of ya. There is a god in the field ancestor, and he gives the fire back to the fire." It is said that the countryside and the road farmers holding torches to drive away insects and beasts, to protect the fields and harvests of the situation. Closer to home, we can look at our old-timers, the early Qing Daoguang Nantong poet Li Qi's "Chongchuan Bamboo Branch Lyrics": "The village is good for the evening breeze, burning fire even the sky is not as good as the brocade, but I wish that the hemp bugs can light up the end of the return to the popular wine and pool fish." The original note at the end of the poem reads, "The burning fire on New Year's Eve is called the illumination of hemp worms." This poem tells us that the folk song body, when the Nantong folk "fire" scene is very grand and spectacular, even the city's red men and women, the poet are going to rush to compete to see the fun. "Burning fire" time there are a variety of ways of saying, the proverb has a cloud: "thirty night son to send a hundred bugs, a send never trace", farmers recalled the day of the first half of the first month, the first eighteen months, February 2, February 13, February 19, and so on. In 2003, CCTV and Nantong Municipal Government jointly organized the filming of the "Great Variety Show" column "Festival Colorful" to put it on the screen, so that more people understand Nantong, understand this strange custom. City Flower: Chrysanthemum is the city flower of Nantong. Every fall, chrysanthemum exhibitions are held in Wenfeng Park and People's Park.
City Tree: Magnolia is the city tree of Nantong. Magnolia belongs to Magnoliaceae, also known as Lotus Magnolia, Magnolia. It is a large evergreen tree, up to 30 meters high, with an ovate-conical crown. Branchlets and buds are rust-colored pilose. Leaves leathery, long elliptic, 10-20 cm long, surface glossy, abaxially rust-colored pilose, margin slightly revolute. Flowers white, flowers up to 20-30 cm in diameter, flowers usually 6-merous, sometimes more 9-merous, flowers as large as lotus, so also known as lotus magnolia, fragrant. Flowering period May-July. The seeds are red in color, and the fruits are ripe in September-October. Magnolia tree posture majestic and magnificent, thick shiny leaves, large fragrant flowers, an important ornamental tree species for the greening of cities and towns.