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The Spring Festival of the people of Gusu, or what can be taken as a representative of the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, is humid and sweet. On the second day of the first month, when I passed through Taohuayu Street, I saw a woodblock print of Gusu Wannianqiao (Gusu Wannian Bridge) on a wrinkled pearwood door, and a cake store on the west side selling "reunion" and "step-by-step" cakes.
The whole Gusu City are nostalgic, after two years of renovation, most of the bus stops in the city "whitewashed" into a carved beams and painted corridors, along the streets of the horse head wall is also much more, the river with the sound of commentaries and the boat, the rainy alleys at the end of the dingxiang umbrellas, the Cold Mountain Temple, New Year's Eve bells, is still the same as the year when Zhang Jie hear The one hundred single eight sound ......
For the Gusu City New Year's Eve flavor, the most feelings or nostalgia two words, Shantang Temple Fair is considered one of the extreme.
"Hangzhou has a West Lake, Suzhou has a mountain pond." Seven miles of the pond is a famous ancient street in Gusu, from the Gate of Heaven straight to the front gate of Huqiu, rumor has it that Tang Pak Fu point of autumn incense will be here. After a large-scale renovation and reconstruction of ancient buildings, today's Shantang Street basic reproduction of the Ming and Qing Dynasty style, along the street Guild Hall, the ancient theater, the ancient bridge, Kunqu Museum, wine flag restaurants are "both God and form". The reporter on the fifth day of the meeting, coinciding with the worship of the God of Fortune's honor guard, the God of Fortune carried to where, the crowd will follow where, more eager to try to get into the lion dance formation, in the style of two heel, attracted the laughter of the crowd.
The ceremonial "tide" of the God of Fortune gradually dispersed, revealing the traditional handicrafts "stalls" (Suzhou word stalls) that stood along the street. The "stalls" on the old artists on-site performance, Peach Blossom Woodblock New Year's Paintings, Su School paper-cutting, olive kernel carving, grass weaving, embroidery scented pouches, pearl jewelry, and so on a full range of old artists Fang Granny specially for the reporter to make a symbol of "many children, many blessings," the needle and thread bag, just to see the She threaded the needle like a swimming dragon playing in the water, wonderful. In addition, eyebrow pastry, wife cake, sugar yam, sugar taro, sugar rice cake and other Gusu flavor snacks are also available, many visitors are not forgetting to "capture" in the hands of a plum cake, or a bowl of glutinous rice cake.
The most popular, or the open-air inverted ladder-shaped ancient theater, the temple regularly presented during the festival Jiangnan silk and bamboo, Kunqu opera, guzheng, chimes and court dance performances. The stage is still babbling non-stop singing, under the stage, "Duk Duk Duk, selling sugar porridge" of the Wu Nong soft language yelling has been wrapped in the flavor; this scene, is really a Gusu customs of the "Qingming Riverside", although there is a packaged suspicion of hypocrisy, the bones are the people of Suzhou's most desired.
■ "year" ballad
about eating and drinking
white water chestnuts, dig Yuanbao; green olives, drink Yuanbao.
Comment: Suzhou people like to eat New Year's Eve dinner put a few cooked water chestnuts in the rice, digging out when eating, called "digging Yuanbao"; the first day of the first two days of friends and relatives to come and go, the tea should be placed in two or three green olives, said to drink "Yuanbao tea", congratulations on wealth.
The tea should be made with two or three green olives.
About New Year's greetings
The rats from a sinking ship go to a special place, and the chickens come to the place, and they are happy to get it.
Every year on the 14th day of the 4th month of the lunar calendar is the day when the people of Suzhou begin to "roll the gods". This year's "rolling fairy" will start on May 10, lasting three days (today is the last day), in Nanhao Street, Shilu pedestrian street, Shilu old neighborhoods and Shantang Street, four areas of the full swing.
"Rolling immortals" is the largest folk festival in Suzhou, the earliest folk festival in honor of Lu Dongbin, now in the Gate of Heaven in Suzhou, the East Middle City of Xiandang Fuji Guan is still enshrined in Lu Zu, commonly known as the "Temple of the Immortals". Legend has it that on Lv Zu's birthday, he would disguise himself as a beggar and mix with the crowd in the temple to help the world. Suzhou people want to burn incense in the temple on this day, and try their luck. Everyone you meet on this day may be his incarnation, roll to his side, you will get the immortal energy. This is called "rolling fairy".
According to reports, this "rolling fairy" activities in each area of the focus is different. Nanhao Street to the traditional Taoist culture, specialty goods exhibition and sale of the main line, Stone Road Pedestrian Street to Suzhou and around the folk culture display, modern business culture display of the main line; Stone Road, the old neighborhood to Suzhou food culture and around the flavor of snacks display of the main line; Shantang Street to the authentic Wu culture and traditional folk crafts, Shantang Tourism main line. the evening of May 10, the Eight Immortals dedication as a prelude to the folklore of the evening will be in the Shilu Square, as well as the Wu song "love song duet", folklore display "hawking", etc.; in the evening of the 11th and 12th, there will also be local ethnic song and dance cultural evening and youth fashion song and dance evening. From 1 p.m. on May 10 to 12, an opera concert will be staged in front of the ancient theater on Shantang Street.