The first stop of the New Year is to visit Mudu and climb the dome, and folk customs pray for blessings and welcome the auspicious tiger
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2024-07-19 01:37:31
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Who will be lucky enough to receive a New Year's gift from the City God when carrying the city god in a lively manner?

The lively dragon dance performance was held at the entrance of the north gate of Qionglong Mountain. When you looked carefully, it was all aunties and mothers. Indeed, women did not care about men and women.

Various little tigers in the ancient town of Mudu are filled with a lively New Year atmosphere

The New Year is a good day for the whole family to go out, bringing the children to Qionglong Mountain to watch tricks to celebrate the New Year.

In the ancient town of Mudu, carry the city god and visit the gardens

Mudu Ancient Town can be said to be a Soviet-style ancient town very close to Shanghai. It was called Xiangxi in ancient times. It is a famous scenic spot in Jiangnan and is known as "the No. 1 Town in Wuzhong" and "the best in Jiangnan". In addition to enjoying the customs of Jiangnan water towns, there is also a traditional and festive city god carrying performance.

Red lanterns hang on both sides of Shantang Street in Mudu Ancient Town. The strong flavor of the New Year fills the old streets and alleys. The auspicious tiger celebrates the New Year. The lively atmosphere fills the ancient town. Many tourists come here to experience the tradition during the New Year. Happy Mudu Year.

And Mudu's annual New Year drama-carrying the City God, the City God Parade also set off a festive atmosphere in the ancient town. The City God "sat" in a sedan chair
Under the leadership of the opening gong, he met with tourists, and led a parade team of lake boats, clam shell essence, flower basket girls and other parade teams to deliver local food and New Year blessings along Shantang Street.

The parade team performed along Shantang Street, and tourists also chased the parade team, making the scene very lively. It is said that this gold ingot contains many gifts and local specialties. Let's see who the city god will give them to ~

On the ancient stage in Hongyin Mountain Room, ancient music named Mudu Hall is performed repeatedly. Listen to Su music, welcome the God of Wealth, and celebrate a authentic Wudi Folk Year in Mudu Ancient Town.

During the Spring Festival, a variety of folk activities appear in the ancient town of Mudu. The golden gong of good luck is sounded and New Year's prayer cards are hung, allowing people from afar to feel a different New Year atmosphere in the ancient town.

In addition to these folk activities, Mudu Ancient Town itself is an ancient town that is worth tasting slowly. Mudu Ancient Town is a cultural ancient town of the Han nationality water town of the same age as Suzhou City. It has a history of more than 2500 years. Today, this street is still very retro. You can see a dazzling array of gadgets and specialty snacks.

Jiangnan specialty black rice can be smelled from afar. Black rice is boiled with black rice leaves, which is soft and tender.

A river divides the ancient town into two sides. Walk along the river and enjoy the comfortable slow pace of Jiangnan.

The main road of the ancient town is covered with colorful lanterns, decorating the original ink painting of Mudu into a colorful appearance, showing the lively atmosphere of the New Year.

Or take a rowing boat and rafting on the river in the ancient town of Mudu to admire the ancient streets and buildings on both sides.

Mudu Ancient Town had more than 30 private gardens in the town during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, enjoying the reputation of "Garden Town". The most famous one passed down to this day is Yanjia Garden. Yanjia Garden was originally the residence of Shen Deqian, a famous celebrity in Suzhou during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. 200 years ago, descendants of the Shen family gave this courtyard to Mudu poet Qian Duanxi.

After the efforts of three generations of owners, Yanjia Garden has lasted for more than 200 years. Whether it is the vicissitudes of time or the cultural accumulation, it has given Yanjia Garden a cultural atmosphere and a famous garden style. It is called "Jiangnan Garden Classic" by the famous modern architect Professor Liu Dunzhen.

Red lanterns were also hung in the garden to accommodate the scenery. About a hundred years ago, when the ancients celebrated the Spring Festival, they would also hang lanterns like this to add a festive atmosphere and celebrate the Spring Festival reunion.

In winter, although many trees in the garden have withered, only wintersweet is blooming warmly. The yellow wintersweet brings a different kind of vitality to the garden, and the black tiles and white walls are embellished with yellow wintersweet, more like a painting.

Suzhou's ancient Jiangnan towns, Mudu Ancient Town, Wuzhong No. 1 Town, all kinds of luxury houses back gardens, rockery, pavilions, and ponds. If you want to know which one is the richest and the back garden, you will know.

On Qionglong Mountain, dragons and tigers leap, climb high and pray

Do you know which is the highest mountain in Suzhou? Although Suzhou is a plain land, there are many mountains. The highest mountain is Qionglong Mountain located in Wuzhong. Although it is only about 350 meters above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Suzhou. Since it has the highest mountain in Suzhou. Chinese people have a custom during the New Year, which is to climb high to pray, so they naturally come to Qionglong Mountain, the crown of the mountains on the east bank of Taihu Lake. During the New Year, New Year activities are endless.

As soon as we arrived at the gate of the mountain, we felt the strong flavor of the New Year. On the lively North Gate Square, dragons leaped and tigers leaped, and gongs and drums resounded. The folk dragon dance team from Qionglong Mountain brought us wonderful dragon dance folk performances in the cold wind.

The aunts danced the dragon's head and dragon body very vigorously. As the colored balls rose and fell up, the dragon body also swung gracefully. Tourists watching the scene also gathered around the dragon dance performance to the sound of gongs and drums.

Among the performing team, there were also old grandmothers who were over sixty years old, but they were not afraid of the severe cold and passionately played the New Year's drum music for everyone in the cold wind. They were really strong and old.

The dragon dance performance can be enjoyed for free, just at the north gate of Qionglong Mountain. In addition to the dragon dance, there are also many Qionglong delicacies waiting for everyone.

Qionglong Mountain, which is full of New Year flavor, is also indispensable for delicious food, such as crabapple cake, plum blossom cake, sugar painting, black rice... all kinds of Jiangnan snacks are dazzling, filling our stomachs with the New Year flavor on the banks of Qionglong Mountain and allowing us to regain memories of childhood food.

There were children in front of the sugar painting shop. As expected, this was the most popular shop, and the children were clamoring for sugar.

There are also a variety of kebabs that suit the tastes of adults. The food here can be said to be suitable for all ages.

There are also ancient colorful tricks for celebrating the New Year in the Sunwu Cultural Garden in the South Gate. Children surrounded the magician and marveled at various magical tricks. These folk activities will last until the sixth day of the lunar new day.

The small magic table is surrounded by tourists on three floors inside and outside. Sorcerers often find children to interact and perform tricks. If you want to guess what secrets are hidden in these tricks, you should hurry to Qionglong Mountain. Find out.

After watching the tricks, come and visit Qionglong Mountain, which is the seat of Taoist culture. The 12-kilometer-long Qionglong Panshan Highway winds and turns straight to the top of the mountain and runs through various scenic spots. Famous scenic spots include: Sun Wuyuan, Zhu Maichen Reading Platform, Wanghu Garden, Shangzhen Temple, Ningbang Temple, Wandering Platform, etc.

I entered from the south gate, which is also the Qionglong Mountain Sunwu Cultural Park. There are many innocent "tiger tigers" in it. You can take a photo with them and enjoy the joy and vitality of the New Year.

In addition to its beautiful natural scenery, Qionglong Mountain also has a rich historical color. Under Qionglong Mountain is a military art cultural theme park that integrates functions such as interpretation of the art of war, cultural experience, leisure and health preservation. It is also a tourist attraction for study and education tours, parent-child family tours. There are leisure spots such as Jingyou Pavilion, Sun Wu's Study Room, and Herb Hall. Make an appointment with three or five friends and sip tea at Jingyou Pavilion next to the lake. It's a unique taste.

The most famous thing about Qionglong Mountain is that Sun Wu once lived in seclusion here and wrote thirteen chapters of the Art of War. Those thirteen chapters of the Art of War are the "Art of War" passed down to later generations. Therefore, a museum of the Art of War of Sun Tzu has been specially built here to learn the story behind the creation.

The solemn museum is surrounded by the mountains of Qionglong Mountain, like a secret land in the mountains and forests, waiting for us to explore.

The lake in front is like a big pearl, dotted in the mountains very dazzling.

You can choose to walk or take a sightseeing bus up the mountain and shuttle through the forest. Isn't this a good way to escape the city's reinforced concrete and take a natural mountain trip.

New Year activities in Qionglong Mountain and Mudu Ancient Town are in full swing. If you want to experience a traditional and authentic Soviet-style New Year, come to Qionglong Mountain and Mudu in Wuzhong to celebrate the Year of the Tiger with your family and friends.


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