Suzhou dialect is famous for its elegance, from which the so-called soft language of Wu Nong comes. Whether a dialect is good or not depends mainly on intonation, speech speed, rhythm, pronunciation and vocabulary. Wu dialect is one of the earliest dialects in the Chinese language system. The ancient Wu dialect merged with the ancient Central Plains to form a modern Wu dialect, so Wu dialect has preserved quite a lot of ancient sounds so far. A major feature of Wu dialect is that it retains all voiced initials and all entering tones. Therefore, it has eight tones (up into the yin and yang), which is the most accurate flat tone. Suzhou dialect has a peaceful tone without cadence, and its speech speed is moderate without cadence. The pronunciation of Suzhou dialect has a feeling of crooning.
Wu dialect has a history of 3200 years, and Wu dialect area has a history of 1000 years as an economic and cultural center. Wu dialect retains many orthodox Chinese factors, and Suzhou dialect is the core of Wu dialect. There are five major religions in Suzhou: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity.
The main religious sites are: Taoist Temple of the Mysterious Temple (located in Guanqian Street), Jade Palace (Park), Town God Temple (located in Jingde Road), Zhenguan on the dome, etc. Buddhism includes saionji, Hanshan Temple, North Tower Hongji (located in Renmin Road), Wenshan Temple, Lingyanshan Temple (Mudu Town), Baoshan Temple (Xishan Island in Wuzhong District) Park Chongyuan Temple, Laifeng Temple, Changshu Yushan Guangfu Temple, Zhangjiagang Phoenix Mountain Yongqing Temple, Xiangshan Temple, Shuangxing Temple, Wujiang Wang Ping Town Xiaojiuhua Scenic Scenic Temple, Kunshan Haicang Temple, etc. Other religions include St. John's Church, Apostolic Church, Yangjiaqiao Catholic Church and Shilu Taiping Square Mosque. Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Suzhou has the custom of drying books. On this day, the album is exposed in the court, which is particularly effective in preventing moth-eaten corrosion. All the temples moved the Tibetan scriptures out to dry, and the monks took the opportunity to call the old rural women to hold a "sutra turning meeting", where they turned the scriptures and exposed them in the hot sun, claiming that "turning the scriptures ten times can turn over a man's body." There is also a folk saying: "June 6, dog rot bath." (Suzhou dialect calls bathing rotten) Just to avoid lice and fleas, take dogs and cats to the river to take a bath.
Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the Beggar's Day, also called Daughter's Day. Legend has it that on this night, magpies flew to the Milky Way in droves and built a magpie bridge where the cowherd and the weaver girl met. Folk custom, offering sacrifices to ancestors and weaver girls on Qixi night, begging her for wisdom and skillful skills, is called "begging for cleverness". On Chinese Valentine's Day, every household mixes flour and sugar, cuts them into strips of about 2 inches, and twists them into a knot shape. After frying, they are crisp and sweet, which is called a proper fruit. It is an essential offering for Qiao Qi festivals. In Wudi, Yuanyang water (a mixture of well water and river water) is put in a teacup and stirred with dew in the yard. After sunrise, the sun is allowed, and when the water is covered with film, the girls put their small needles into the water, so that the needles float on the water, relying on the shadow of the underwater needles. If the flowers look like Yunlong, it is "clever", if the vertebrae are like pestles, it is "clumsy". It is also useful to distinguish between good eyesight and bad eyesight with line pinholes. Suzhou, with a history of more than 2,500 years, is undoubtedly the main body of Wu culture. Wu's painting has a long history. From the decorative patterns carved on jade articles and utensils in Liangzhu culture for five or six thousand years to the "Wu Pai" named after Wumen in the Ming Dynasty, all of them exude artistic brilliance.
Wu Di painting made great achievements in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and great painters such as Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengyou and Cao Buxing appeared. Wu Di's paintings in this period left a dazzling brilliance in the history of China painting. The most outstanding painters in the Tang Dynasty were Zhang Yun, Zhu and Zhu Shen. In Song Dynasty, Suzhou flower-and-bird painters made remarkable achievements, and landscape painting reached a new height. In the Yuan Dynasty, Suzhou painters responded to Zhao Mengfu's idea of "literati painting" and used brush strokes to express their temperament. At this time, Huang's "learning from nature, learning from nature" has a far-reaching impact on future generations. His masterpiece Fuchun Shan Jutu is a rare masterpiece in the world art history. With the development of literati painting, flower-and-bird painting in Yuan Dynasty began to develop in the direction of ink painting.
Suzhou painting in the Ming Dynasty formed an artistic atmosphere combining cultural accomplishment with elegant life, emphasizing elements such as character, knowledge, talent and thought. Most of the works are improvisational lyric works, advocating fresh and elegant artistic style, which tends to be plain and naive. These almost professional literati painters actively promoted the spread of literati painting. In the years of Zheng De and Jiajing, through the efforts of Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming, Tang Yin, Chou Ying and others, the widely influential "Wu Pai" was finally formed and became the mainstream form. In the late Ming Dynasty, Wu Pai painters attached great importance to inheriting the tradition of pen and ink of the ancients, and regarded the pursuit of style as an important purpose of art. Moreover, because of their profound cultural accomplishment and their own aesthetic pursuit, they were also very creative. During this period, a group of outstanding painters who learned from nature and attached importance to sketching emerged, and Zhang Hong was one of them. Suzhou painters' exquisite pen and ink techniques and natural painting ideas in Ming Dynasty had a far-reaching influence on later painting circles. Over the past 600 years, Wu Pai has been leading the painting world, and talented people have come forth in large numbers. Suzhou is the hometown of Kunqu Opera and Su Ju.
Kunqu Opera is the first world intangible cultural heritage in China, which rose in Kunshan and Taicang in Suzhou at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. From the turn of Qin Long and Wanli in Ming Dynasty to Kangxi and Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, Kunqu Opera flourished rapidly because of its innovation. At that time, in the towns and villages of Suzhou, people were fascinated by Kunqu Opera, organized amateur clubs, held singing activities and held the annual Tiger Hill Qu Hui. In the heyday of Kunqu Opera, with Suzhou as the center, it almost spread all over the major cities in China and dominated the opera for more than 200 years. With the prosperity of Kunqu opera, a large number of outstanding actors and famous screenwriters emerged, leaving a large number of famous legendary scripts for future generations. For example, the famous writer Bai Xianyong's remake of the Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion and Dou Eyuan in April 2004, and the "Youth Edition" Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion jointly created by artists from three places across the Taiwan Strait, have toured around the world 100, and sold out in the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria.
Su Ju has Drunk Home, Gong Du Send His Son, Peking Opera Li Huiniang, Humorous Play, Proud, Not Proud, etc. Suzhou is the center of oriental food culture and one of the three major food cultures (Beijing-style, Soviet-style and Cantonese-style)-the development place of Soviet-style food culture.
Suzhou snacks are one of the four major snacks in China (Nanjing Confucius Temple snacks, Shanghai Chenghuang Temple snacks, Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks and Hunan Changsha Huogong snacks are also called the four major snacks in China). "Songhelou" is an old-fashioned Soviet-style restaurant; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for its traditional Subang cuisine. "Zhu Hongxing Noodle Restaurant" and "Green Poplar Wonton" are inexpensive and suitable for mass consumption. Noodle shops all over Suzhou show that Su-style noodles with more toppings and more attention to soup are popular snacks. Food Street: Eunuch Lane, Shiquan Street, Shi Xue Street, Gong Li Dam, Fenghuang Street, etc. Bifengfang and Gong Li Dam are famous food and beverage cultural streets in China. Suzhou-style signature dishes: sweet and sour mandarin fish, sesame oil eel paste, crab powder tendon, clear shrimp, fermented grains, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, snow crab bucket, cherry meat, sauce meat, smoked fish, (fish bar) lung soup, three-piece set, secret sauce fire formula, warm pot, jujube paste cake and so on. Su-style candy: light sugar pine nuts, zongzi candy, sliced, tricolor pine nut soft candy, pine nut crisp candy, pine nut south jujube candy, etc. Suzhou preserves: The history of Suzhou preserves can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period. The Qing Dynasty is the heyday of Soviet-style candied fruit, among which "Zhang Xiangfeng" is the most famous and has always been "court food". There are more than 60 varieties of Soviet-style candied fruit/kloc-0, among which the most famous ones are Zizyphus jujuba, buttered plum, kumquat, white bayberry and nine-system dried tangerine peel. Su-style snack fried steamed bread, semi-fermented, semi-fermented, semi-fermented, crab powder, steamed bread crepe soup, crab powder soup, mushrooms and vegetables, fresh meat, meat, bean paste steamed bread, lotus steamed bread, peach blossom steamed bread, autumn leaf vegetable, phoenix tail, crab powder, shrimp, goldfish, steamed dumplings, steamed dumplings, vegetables and butterfly dumplings. Quejiao cocktail triangle dumpling Zhihu jiaozi Shen Yongxing steamed bread osmanthus sugar oil sweet potato sweet potato sweet potato taro crisp bean sugar porridge sweet potato chicken head meat eight treasures chicken head meat sweet potato stir-fry cooked lotus fresh meat brown ash soup brown white sand brown mung bean lard with sand brown triangle foot brown pen brown jujube paste sesame seed cake honey bean curd dried shrimp soy sauce clear soup shark fin mother oil whole chicken Taihu Lake shepherd soup emerald shrimp barrel sweet and sour mandarin fish tourism festival (April-May every year, Suzhou International Tourism Festival, China,
China Suzhou International Silk Tourism Festival (September 20-25) is a custom festival, and the mysterious view welcomes the god of wealth (in early February, on the fifth day of the first lunar month).
Luzhi Water Town Clothing Culture Festival (April) Flower Tree Festival Xishan Taihu Plum Blossom Festival (March 1- 10)
Tiger Hill Flower Show (March to May)
Humble Administrator's Garden Rhododendron Club (March-June)
Lotus Festival in Humble Administrator's Garden (July-August)
Suzhou Tianping Hongfeng Festival (one of the three major scenic spots in China, 165438+ 10) Temple Fair Nanhao Street Fairy Temple Fair (May) Huqiu Temple Fair (September -65438+ 10).