Famous snack streets in Suzhou: Guanqian Street, Pingjiang Road, Fenghuang Street and Shilu Road.
Traditional folk songs of Suzhou snacks
Gusu snacks are famous for their sweetness, softness and crispness. Fried steamed bread with crab shell yellow and Tiger Claw twisted stick. Melaleuca cake, egg stone skin, pancake fritters and tofu paddles. Scallion oil rolls and scallion oil cakes are affordable and appreciated. Bean paste mushroom vegetable bag, meat steamed bread. Go to the 61st floor to buy compact yeast. Be careful when you immerse it in oil. Tea eggs, fried lotus roots, large and small wonton, soup packets. Steamed buns with gingerbread are cheap and full. Sesame sauce, sugar taro, oil sugar dumplings. Chicken and duck blood soup with bean curd, spring rolls with eight-treasure rice. Glutinous rice has sandwiches, so you can choose your own toppings. Pot stickers jiaozi delicious, sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root five-color begonia cake. Stinky tofu rice ball, radish cake triangle bag. Honey cake, square cake, long cake, lard rice cake, sugar rice cake. Tang Tuan Ma Tuan Mao Tuan, double stuffing jiaozi pumpkin Tuan. Brew the garden with sweet wine and win the cake with plum blossom cake. I sell sugar porridge, but I don't want to run away after eating it. Jiaozi with red beans is rich in nutrition, and jiaozi with meat stuffing is salty and delicious. Chicken head rice, lotus seed soup, sugar fried chestnuts, osmanthus fragrance. Jujube mud sesame seed cake is a special dish, and braised tofu is very famous.
Famous scenic spots in Suzhou: Suzhou Garden (No.Park Road 12, Canglang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province)
As the saying goes, "Jiangnan garden is the best in the world, and Suzhou garden is the first in Jiangnan." Generally speaking, Suzhou gardens have three characteristics. First, the landscape of the garden imitates nature: take natural landscape as the theme, adjust measures to local conditions, artificially imitate natural scenery, build ponds along Fulei Mountain, skillfully build pavilions, decorate trees, and emphasize poetry and painting. Second, the garden pays attention to elegance and tranquility: the landscape of the garden is small and big, and it is borrowed from the inside and outside, with pictures in the paintings, natural layout, beautiful and solemn. Third, the national style should be highlighted in the construction of the park: the ancient buildings in the park should be integrated by artistic means such as painting, calligraphy and poetry. There are poems in the scenery and paintings in the poems, which are the crystallization of ancient culture and art in China. Suzhou Garden is a typical representative of the southern classical gardens in China. The gardens are famous for Humble Administrator's Garden, Canglang Pavilion, Lion Forest and Lingering Garden, and are also called the four famous gardens in Suzhou.
Humble Administrator's Garden, located at Loumen in the northeast corner of Suzhou City, is one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou. Humble Administrator's Garden was originally the residence of Lu Guimeng, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was converted into Dahong Temple in the Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, Wang resigned and returned to his hometown, bought the former site of Dahong Temple and converted it into a house garden, named "Humble Administrator's Garden". At the beginning of large-scale construction, there were many landscapes in the park, including not only the main residence, but also more than 30 landscapes such as Dongyuan (returning home) and Xiyuan. Humble Administrator's Garden covers an area of more than 60 mu, with water as the main part, and many buildings are built near the water. The landscape of the whole park is divided into three parts: east, west and east. After liberation, the east entrance of Guiyuan Garden (East Garden) was re-expanded on the abandoned site, mainly including Lan Xuetang, Furong Pavilion, Tian Quan Pavilion, Kuangjian Pavilion and Xiangxiang Pavilion.
In the middle of the Humble Administrator's Garden are pools, rocks, trees, pavilions and other scenery; Yuanxiangtang is located in the center of the garden, with doors in the north and south and windows in the east and west. It is a unique hall with four sides, standing on a low bluestone platform. There is a rockery in the front hall, and the platform in the back hall is built by water. Taipei Lake is divided into two small islands by heaped-up mountains. There are pavilions on the island, just opposite the hall. There are lush trees and snowy pavilions on the mountain, which stand high above a garden; Planting willows along the lake, surrounded by plums, blooming in winter and spring, Leng Xiang overflowing. There is also the loquat garden in the east of Yuanxiangtang, the frost pavilion on the island and the green pavilion on the north wall. , all have their own unique ways; The pavilion is like a wing, surrounded by cloisters, reflecting each other and echoing each other. The Jianshan Building in the north of the promenade stands in the lotus pond, which is a two-story low-rise water pavilion surrounded by water on three sides and rockery on one side, creating an artistic effect of landscape pavilions, harmony and tranquility against still water. What is most worth mentioning is the Xiaocanglang Water House in the southwest of Yuanxiangtang, which is a three-room water pavilion above the lake. There is a still water pavilion outside the south window, where you can see the clear water passing through the pavilion and the bamboo stones in front of the south wall. In the north, you can pass the pavilions around the lotus pond, and from a distance, you can see the Jianshan Building in the lotus pond with beautiful scenery.
In the west of Humble Administrator's Garden is a unique Yuanyang Hall, which is a square and unique architectural hall, divided into north and south parts under the roof. In the north of the temple is the "Thirty-six Yuan Yang Pavilion" and in the south is the "Eighteen Datura Flower Pavilion"; The north pavilion is close to the pool, suitable for living in summer, and the south pavilion is close to the flower garden, suitable for living in winter; There is a small wing in every corner of the hall, forming a pattern of four small ears in a hall, which is a strange example of ancient architecture in China. Humble Administrator's Garden also includes Tingyuxuan, Loquat Garden and Liuting Pavilion, all of which add a lot of artistic brilliance to the garden. The pool in the park has a large area, with gathering points, mountain paths, water corridors, ups and downs, ancient trees, flowers and natural colors. This method of dividing space, using nature and contrasting scenery, creating scenery according to the place and following the steps has become a model with the characteristics of Jiangnan gardens and ancient garden styles.
Canglang Pavilion, located near Sanyuanfang in the south of Suzhou, is one of the oldest ancient gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. It turned out to be the villa of our time in Wujun at the end of the Five Dynasties. After several ups and downs, it was turned into the residence of Han Shizhong, a famous anti-gold star, in the early years of Southern Song Dynasty, and it was expanded. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was renovated and became the main foundation and scale of Canglang Pavilion, with a total park area of about 16 mu. The biggest feature of Canglang Pavilion is that you can see the scenery before entering the park. A Qingxi passes around the park and faces each other across the river. The pavilions are undulating and sparkling. After crossing the small bridge, you can step into Canglang Pavilion Garden. The structure of the garden is a rockery, and buildings are built around hills. The path up the mountain is winding, and the road is covered with bamboo forests. Canglang Pavilion stands among the trees at the top of the mountain with natural scenery. There are Ming Dow Hall, 500 Sages Temple and Kanshan Building in Shannan. There are lotus flowers, fragrant rooms, Hua Yao, and courtyards with different styles in the park.
Suzhou Garden Road Lion Forest is one of the four classical gardens in Suzhou. In memory of Zhong Feng, the Zen master of Tian Ru, a monk in the Yuan Dynasty, an authentic Bodaiji was built here, which was later renamed Lion Forest. In the 12th year of Qianlong (1747), it was renamed as the Painting Hall, and the Lion Forest became the big garden behind the Hall. Because Zen master Zhongfeng once lived in Lion Mountain in Tianmu Mountain, there are many strange stones in the middle of the Xuan that look like lions, hence the name Lion Forest. The park was abandoned several times, and later it was the Bay Garden in Qing Dynasty, and then it was renovated to its present scale.
Lion forest is famous for its rockery, but there are holes at the foot of the mountain, and the caves and valleys are circuitous like a maze, which is known as the eighteen scenic spots in Taoyuan. Although the height of the ceiling is not too high, there are many strange peaks, some like lions and beasts, and some like tigers and leopards, among which the lion peak is the first among the peaks. The whole park has a natural layout, with mountains in the southeast and water in the northwest; Surrounded by mountains and waters, the promenade is circuitous, and the balcony is hidden from time to time, which is not funny at all. Many buildings in the park are surrounded by mountains and water. Uneven, such as Zhenqu Pavilion, Baizhixuan, Meiwen Pavilion, Huxin Pavilion, Wusong Garden, Woyun Room, Yanyutang, etc., have unique landscape.
Lingering Garden outside Nagato, Suzhou is also one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou. It was the Hanbi Building built on the site of Taitung Garden in the Ming Dynasty. Because the manor was named Liu, it was named Liu Yuan, which was homophonic with Liu and later became "Liu Yuan". The park has a large area of about 50 mu, which can be divided into four parts according to the scenery in the park: east, west, north and south. The east of the park is dominated by pavilions, which are magnificent; For example, Wu Fengxian Mountain Pavilion is not only magnificent in architecture, but also simple and exquisite in interior decoration. There are three famous peaks in Lingering Garden, of which Yunfeng Peak is about 9 meters high, which is the highest and largest lake stone in Jiangnan gardens. To the west of the park, the rockery is strange, with rocks and stones alternating with each other, which is natural. There are maple trees on the mountain, and the mountains are red in late autumn and early winter, which is beautiful. The central region is dominated by mountains and rivers, with lakes and marshes at the center, rockeries and pavilions around it, and winding corridors. There are more than 300 calligraphy and stone carvings in the past dynasties on the gallery wall, which is called "Fa Tie" and attracts people's attention. The northern region is dominated by small bamboo forests, peaches, apricots and willows, as well as wisteria forests and vineyards, which are quite idyllic. The small peach garden in the north is called "Momowu", with a stream in front of the mountain and willows on both sides of the river, and the scenery is elegant.