Changzhou is located in the center of the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Delta, in the south of Jiangsu Province, with the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, facing Shanghai and Nanjing. The following is the introduction of Changzhou tour guide words I compiled for you. I hope you like them.
Changzhou is a city with profound cultural accumulation, distinctive features, rich resources and many bright spots, and should be at the forefront of the whole province and the whole country in cultural construction. Among the five cities in southern Jiangsu, Nanjing and Suzhou became the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China, and Zhenjiang was the second batch. Wuxi was still on its high horse last year, and only Changzhou was still wandering among the famous historical and cultural cities in the province, which made us deeply reflect. So, is it possible to build Changzhou into a famous historical and cultural city in China? Where should Changzhou start to build a famous historical and cultural city? What are the highlights of Changzhou's cultural characteristics? At least in the following eight aspects:
First, star-studded celebrity culture.
The historical accumulation of more than 2,500 years in Changzhou has not only formed the humanistic spirit of Changzhou, such as modesty and perseverance, honesty and benevolence, tolerance and virtue, and respect for education, but also produced a large number of historical and cultural celebrities. Where is the history of Changzhou? Celebrities live in famous places. Among many celebrities, Ji Zha in the Spring and Autumn Period, Prince Xiao Tong of Zhaoming in the Selected Works of Zhaoming in the Qi and Liang Dynasties, Liu Xie who wrote Wen Xin Diao Long, Chen Ji, the editor-in-chief of Yongle Dadian in the Ming Dynasty, and Tang Shunzhi, the all-round scholar, are the most prominent. As for the Qing dynasty, Changzhou was full of talents. The "Five Schools" gave birth to many national first-class scholars and literati, such as Duan Yucai, Hong, Zhao Yi, Liu, and other literati known as "Li Bai in Qing Dynasty". Since the late Qing Dynasty, Changzhou cultural celebrities have emerged in large numbers: Sheng Xuanhuai, Liu Bannong, Qu Qiubai, Zhang, Yun, Shi Liang, Hua and Liu Haisu. It is precisely because there are many celebrities in Changzhou, Zhong Ling, that Gong Zizhen, a famous scholar and poet in the Qing Dynasty, lamented Changzhou that "celebrities in the world have tribes, but there is no such thing in the southeast"; Miao Jinhong, a famous contemporary scholar, made a statistical analysis of the geographical distribution of outstanding experts and scholars in more than 400 cities across the country since the pre-Qin period, and concluded that Changzhou ranked fourth in the country, second only to Suzhou, Hangzhou and Beijing. Numerous historical and cultural celebrities have left a considerable number of celebrity former residences for Changzhou, and there are more than 30 celebrity former residences in the urban area alone. The former residence of celebrities has become one of the most remarkable features of Changzhou culture. The saying of "going to Suzhou to see gardens, Wuxi to see Taihu Lake and Changzhou to see celebrities' former residences" has been recognized by the world. In order to show the long history of Changzhou, we should first start with the former residence of celebrities. In recent years, the construction of the former residence and memorial hall of new celebrities is becoming an important display window to publicize Changzhou and enhance the image of the city. In the next step, we should make great efforts to further strengthen the restoration and opening up of celebrities' former residences and string the famous houses scattered everywhere into necklaces, which has become the highlight of Changzhou's history and culture.
Second, rich and colorful cultural heritage.
The splendid history of civilization has left a large number of various material and intangible cultural heritages for Changzhou. There are 4 national key cultural relics protection units, 27 provincial cultural relics protection units and 87 city and county cultural relics protection units in our city. Among them, there are Neolithic cultural sites represented by Weidun, Sidun and Sanxing Village, Yancheng site, the oldest ground city in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is rare at home and abroad, and the so-called "Southeast No.1"
Tianning Temple in the jungle includes Zhouting Pavilion named after Su Dongpo's rowing, Wenbi Pagoda built in the Northern Song Dynasty and Hongmei Pavilion built in Tang Zhaozong. Changzhou gardens have a long history and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now there are some well-preserved gardens, such as nearby gardens, enclosed gardens, unfinished gardens and Italian gardens. In 2006, there were 25 intangible cultural heritages such as Changzhou Comb, Tianning Temple Buddha Music, Western Drama, Changzhou Daoqing, Changzhou chanting, Dong Yong Legend and Maoshan Daole. , was included in the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list. Recently, the Ministry of Culture announced the list of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage recommended projects, with a total of nine projects on the list, namely: Changzhou chanting, Tianning Temple chanting, tin opera, Changzhou comb, Jintan wine-sealing brewing technology, Jintan pavilion, Jintan winter swimming legend, Jintan paper carving and Changzhou Liu Qing bamboo carving, making it the city with the largest number of projects selected at one time. Jiangnan traditional arts and crafts with distinctive local characteristics is a wonderful work in the intangible cultural heritage of our city. There are mainly more than 20 categories: bronze carving, stone carving, glass carving, comb carving, tooth carving, needle embroidery, bamboo carving, mahogany shallow carving, micro carving, jade carving, cloisonne silk cutting painting, paper cutting, colorful velvet painting, pyrography, pottery, bronze sculpture, craft clock and so on. Facing the rich and colorful cultural heritage, we should first strengthen the protection and development of historical relics and constantly enrich their connotations; Second, it is necessary to restore and open famous historical and cultural gardens in a planned way; Third, actively rescue and inherit intangible cultural heritage, and complete the huge project of sorting out sages' suicide notes as soon as possible; The fourth is to set up a cultural industry gathering place integrating exhibition, creation, production and sales, so that Changzhou arts and crafts products can enter the market as soon as possible, form a scale, and produce economic and social benefits that match their values.
Third, a long history of industrial and commercial civilization.
As one of the few famous industrial and commercial cities with a long history in China, Changzhou has made great contributions to the economic history of China. Comb production appeared in Changzhou in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty, Changzhou was one of the 15 papermaking producing areas in China. Moreover, Changzhou's "Touluo" is popular all over the world. "The new makeup paints two moths skillfully and covers Changzhou Touluo". Two poems by Yuan Zhen, a great poet, vividly describe the popularity of Changzhou silks and satins. In the Song Dynasty, "Jinling Silk" was once very famous, and it was also called the five silk producing areas in the south of the Yangtze River with Changzhou, Hangzhou, Hunan and Song in Jiangsu. In Ming Dynasty, Changzhou was one of 33 large commercial and handicraft cities in China. In the Qing Dynasty, Changzhou has become an important area of national tax sources. "Jiangnan is the crown of wealth, Susong is the crown of Zhenjiang South". In modern times, Changzhou's industry and commerce rose to "industrial and commercial city", and China's national industry sprouted during the Westernization Movement. However, as early as 1859 before the Westernization Movement, the first modern industrial enterprise and the first commercial enterprise in Changzhou were born. Changzhou has also emerged from Sheng Xuanhuai and Liu Guojun, two famous industrial and commercial giants at home and abroad. Sheng Xuanhuai set ten firsts in the modern history of China, and Liu Guo was a famous patriotic businessman. In 1980s, Changzhou became a famous industrial star city in China, famous for its developed township industries, and created the famous "Southern Jiangsu Model". Today, Changzhou is making great efforts to build a famous city of modern equipment manufacturing. In 2006, Changzhou was selected as one of China 12 brand economy cities, with 20 cities.
In 2007, it was selected as one of the top ten cities (counties) in China. Calling Changzhou a "century-old shop" is worthy of the name. There are many modern national industrial and commercial relics in our city, such as Dacheng Factory, Comb Factory, Housheng Machine Factory, Linqing Wood Department, Seventh Factory, Seventh Power Plant, Third Factory, Fourth Factory and Chang Chai Factory. Together with the materials and objects of China national industrial and commercial tycoon Sheng Xuanhuai's family, it constitutes an indispensable part of Changzhou's industrial and commercial development history and becomes another feature of Changzhou culture. In urban planning and construction, especially in the landscape reconstruction of Changzhou section of the ancient canal, we should attach great importance to the protection, development and utilization of these industrial and commercial remains.
Fourthly, the charming tourism culture.
As far as tourism resources are concerned, Changzhou is relatively scarce in southern Jiangsu. In view of this, our city actively implements the government-led grand tourism development strategy, pays attention to complementary advantages, is good at innovation and creation, dares to make something out of nothing, and conducts differentiated competition by tapping potential advantages. By giving priority to the development of six key tourist attractions, we plan to start six new tourist areas (belts) and strive to transform Changzhou from a tourist transit city into a tourist destination city. Yancheng, with the reputation of "the first water city in China", is by far the most complete preserved ancient city pool on the ground in the Spring and Autumn Period, the only remaining ancient city site in the world in the shape of three cities and three rivers, and it can be called the exposed remains of civilization on the lying leaves and the masterpiece created by the land of green water. Tianning Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, is known as "the first jungle in Southeast China", with the highest tower in China-Tianning Tower, which contains the Buddha's blood relic. It is Changzhou's "Tower of Prosperity", "Tower handed down from generation to generation", "Tower of Culture" and "Tower of Tourism". China Dinosaur Park is a comprehensive theme amusement park that combines natural history exhibition, film and television special effects, modern sound and photoelectric technology and multimedia network perfectly, and is full of ancient mystery. It is a new symbol of Changzhou dragon culture. Trees grow by the water, flowing water in the forest, mountains and rivers set each other off, forests and water set each other off, thousands of acres of tea gardens and ten thousand acres of bamboo forests. The vast Tianmu Lake is famous for its sweet water, fragrant tea and fresh fish heads. It's really a green fairyland for ecological leisure. Changzhou, which has six 4A-level scenic spots, such as China Dinosaur Park, Tianmu Lake, Tianning Temple, Maoshan Mountain, Nanshan Bamboo Sea, and Asia Film and Television City, is increasingly showing the cultural tourism characteristics of "Dragon City with good mountains, good water and good scenery, ancient temples, ancient canals, famous buildings and Longyuan Dragon Culture". In the next few years, the tourism culture of our city should focus on enriching its connotation and improving its level, and focus on building it: 1 2. "Buddha culture" represented by Tianning stupa; 3. "Dragon Culture" represented by dinosaur park;
4. Celebrity culture represented by celebrity residence.
V. The sudden emergence of catering culture
None of the "eight major cuisines" originated in Changzhou, but Changzhou catering can enjoy a high reputation on the Shanghai-Nanjing line, and the prototype of "gourmet capital" is emerging. What is the reason? Investigate its reason, Changzhou catering has formed its own characteristics: First, it is eclectic and all rivers run into the sea. On the premise of adhering to Huaiyang cuisine, Changzhou catering industry vigorously introduces Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Beijing cuisine and Muslim cuisine. Diversification and great integration have become the remarkable characteristics of Changzhou catering. "Sitting in Changzhou can eat all over the world" is by no means a hollow name. The second is to inherit history and bring forth the new. The profound cultural background endows Changzhou catering industry with rich cultural connotations. Changzhou catering industry is determined to inherit the history and constantly bring forth the new, and has launched Dongpo Banquet, Tianmu Lake Fish Head, Golden Yao Zhu Soup, Pot Cabbage and other dishes.
Banquets and famous dishes loved by many diners. The third is the flagship pilot, who has won every battle. The catering industry in our city has accelerated to group, scale and chain development, and leading catering enterprises such as Changxing Tower, Fuji, Daniang Dumpling, Lihua Fast Food and Caigenxiang have emerged, forming a "three streets and two plates" catering layout, showing a good situation of mutual tolerance and win-win cooperation. Fourth, form and quality are unified, and quality comes first. The organic unity of architecture, decoration, appearance and quality is another major feature of Changzhou catering culture. No matter the appearance or interior decoration of the building, the clothes of waiters, the style of dishes, and even the utensils for holding dishes, all reflect the rich characteristics of China's classical traditional culture. Based on the existing foundation of Changzhou, it is entirely possible to turn Changzhou into a "Jiangnan Restaurant Food Capital" and a veritable "Jiangnan Ballroom" through several years of efforts. This requires us to print a business card full of Changzhou flavor from the aspects of "all-round, big, famous, excellent and small" and ubiquitous food culture with a brand-new concept, brand-new pattern and brand-new actions.
Creative culture in which intransitive verbs flourish.
Through the strong support of policies and the strong promotion of the government, the animation industry in our city has developed by leaps and bounds, and three animation industrial parks with their own characteristics have been built, including technical services, personnel training, international cooperation, derivative product research and development, product property rights transaction and project evaluation and consultation. China (Changzhou) International Animation Art Week has become one of the most international and professional international exchange platforms for animation industry in China. Relying on this platform, Changzhou National Animation Industry Base has made great progress, and has initially possessed the "depression effect" of animation industry entrepreneurship, forming a huge centripetal force of rapid gathering of capital, creativity, talents and logistics, and many indicators are among the best in the national 15 animation base. At present, the base has gathered more than 100 animation enterprises with a registered capital of 400 million yuan, and has the ability to produce 4,500 episodes and more than 50,000 minutes of animation works every year. In 2007, Changzhou was officially named "National Digital Entertainment Industry Demonstration Base" by the Ministry of Culture. Taking this opportunity, in 2008-20 10, our city will focus on building five animation industry clusters: original animation production cluster, animation derivative product R&D production cluster, animation tourism and leisure cluster, animation derivative product trading cluster and animation talent training cluster. To speed up the development of Changzhou's creative culture, we should play a good role in regional economy, cultural resources and universities, make good use of Changzhou's cultural resources, vigorously build a multicultural industrial system led by creative industries, transform Changzhou concepts into Changzhou concept products, and finally form a Changzhou concept product chain, making Changzhou a first-class animation industry base and a famous animation city in China.
Seven, the performing arts culture in spring.
In recent years, our city has grasped the natural combination of cultural consumption, performing arts and market, followed closely the development and changes of consumption concepts, consumption patterns and consumption trends, and launched programs with diverse themes and brands to comprehensively promote the reform and development of performing arts and realize the rapid and healthy development of performing arts. Changzhou Asian Gold Coast Performing Arts Stage, one of the nine chain performing arts stages in Hangzhou Gold Coast, attracts Changzhou audience with its artistic features of appealing to both refined and popular tastes and participating in interaction, quickly occupies the performing arts market in our city and gradually becomes a well-known cultural brand. In 2006, it was included in the second batch of national cultural industry demonstration bases by the Ministry of Culture. Our city also insists on planning and deploying modern performing arts and tourism together, forming an industrial complex, and promoting tourism and performing arts to complement each other and prosper together. China Dinosaur Garden Art Troupe was established in 2005, which ingeniously highlighted the elements of "theme performance" in the theme park, rooted the life of art in dinosaur culture, created the original ecological wonders of "Rubbra tribe", and fully displayed them by using modern innovative arts such as sound, light and electricity, and launched large-scale performing arts programs "Rubbra Myth" and "Rubbra Festival", which won the enthusiastic pursuit of tourists. Tin opera is a traditional opera with local characteristics in Changzhou, and it has become the consensus of all walks of life in our city to carry forward, inherit and revitalize it. The revitalization of tin opera depends on making detailed Changzhou tin opera planning as soon as possible, strengthening the protection of inheritors, strengthening the construction of troupe, strengthening the cultivation of tin opera soil, strengthening market guidance, increasing cooperation with the media, providing artists with a relatively fixed performance platform, and pioneering and innovating in the ideological field. In addition, the Changzhou Grand Theatre, which will be completed and opened this year, has first-class hardware facilities and is an important stage for cultural life. Through effective management, we are fully capable of attracting first-class performance groups and holding various large-scale performances, making the Grand Theatre an art palace for Changzhou people.
VIII. Improving cultural facilities
In recent years, the city has continuously increased its investment in cultural infrastructure projects. In the past five years, the general budget expenditure of cultural undertakings in the city has increased by more than 20% annually. In the construction of large-scale cultural facilities, our city follows the requirements of being moderately advanced, reflecting the characteristics of the times and local characteristics, and makes unified planning and rational layout to meet the medium and long-term needs of cultural development. Changzhou accounted for 7 of the 60 key cultural construction projects in Jiangsu Province during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. Following the completion of landmark cultural facilities such as Asian Studios, the Municipal Library and the Municipal Cultural Center, large-scale cultural facilities such as the Municipal Museum, the Painting and Calligraphy Institute, the new campus of the Literature and Art School and the memorial hall of the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army have been completed and put into operation one after another, and projects such as Changzhou Grand Theatre, Sports Exhibition Center, Changzhou News Building, Modern Media Center, Workers' Cultural Palace New Theater and Changzhou Youth Science and Culture Palace are also under construction. Changzhou Cultural City is one of the key cultural development projects in Changzhou during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, which opened last year. The second phase of the project will be fully put into use this year, integrating six functional halls, namely, variety appreciation hall, interactive entertainment hall, famous food sharing hall, art exhibition hall, mass cultural center and cultural lecture hall. At the same time, our city has made rapid progress in opening public cultural facilities free of charge.
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