Suzhou and Hangzhou refer to the current Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province and Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province.
1, Suzhou
Suzhou
Su for short, the ancient name of Gusu, Pingjiang, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China's Yangtze River Delta, one of the important center of the city, the National High-tech Industrial Base and the scenic tourist city. Suzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, with a history of nearly 2,500 years, is the important birthplace of Wu culture, has the reputation of "paradise on earth". The representative of China's private gardens: Suzhou Classical Gardens and the Suzhou section of the Grand Canal of China have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
2, Hangzhou
Hangzhou
Hangzhou for short, the ancient name of Lin'an, Qiantang, is the capital of Zhejiang Province, a sub-provincial city, Hangzhou Metropolitan Area core city, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China and the province's economic, cultural, scientific and educational centers, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta. Hangzhou is located in East China, the lower reaches of the Qiantang River, the southeast coast, the northern part of Zhejiang Province, the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is the core city of the Great Bay Area around Hangzhou Bay, the center of the Shanghai-Jiaxing-Hangzhou G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, and an internationally important e-commerce center.
Paradise above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below the reason for the circulation:
"Paradise above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below" has apparently had a fairly long history. The more familiar ones are from the "Qixiu Class Draft" and the "Ancient and Modern Novels", both of which date back to the Ming Dynasty.
Sunan folk song "Gusu scenery" sings at the beginning: "There is a paradise above, under the Suzhou and Hangzhou," but the song is also known as "the big nine consecutive rings," is by a number of folk songs linked together, and the back of the song is indeed the scenery of the two places: "Hangzhou West Lake, Suzhou no pond, aiya two good places. places." Obviously it does not have an ancient origin like another famous folk song, "The Moon Bends to Shine on the Nine States". The latter has been in circulation since the Southern Song Dynasty.
In fact, it was a Tang poet who set the precedent for the phrase "Heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". The Tang poet Ren Hua once chanted in his "Song of Cursive Script by Master Huaisu", "People say that you come from Jiangnan, but I say that you come from the sky!" This should be the origin of comparing Jiangnan to heaven.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou City