What are the unique festivals in Suzhou?

What are the famous traditional festivals and customs in Suzhou? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao's sharing!

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first lunar month

Introduction: Near the New Year, people in Suzhou will go to the market to snap up all kinds of vegetarian food, which is called buying new year's goods. Because the shops are closed from New Year's Eve to the fifth day, you should buy them all. Business in shops is very hot, especially in delicatessens, where dolphin-hoofed chickens and ducks are very hot. On the second day after the stove arrived, that is, on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household in Suzhou would cook porridge with red beans and miscellaneous rice as a sacrifice to the gods. After the sacrifice, everyone in the whole family, old and young, should eat a bowl, even the infants, cats and dogs in the family should eat a little symbolically. If they go out and don't come back, their share must be ready. It's called counting porridge. It is said that eating more porridge can avoid disaster, and if you eat it with bean dregs, you can also avoid sin. Before New Year's Eve, Suzhou had the custom of sending New Year's dishes. According to Lu Gu, a scribe in Suzhou, people give pig's trotters, herring and fruits to each other between the doors and walls of alleys, which is called New Year's plates. In those days, there were crowds of servants, and the reward was a little rich.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Introduction: Lantern Festival is a traditional festival that Suzhou people attach great importance to. On this day, Suzhou became an ocean of joy. According to records, since the Southern Song Dynasty, there has been a tradition of trying lanterns for thirteen times and putting them on for eighteen times, and the most convenient lantern market is in Nagato. However, in addition to the custom of decorating lanterns and watching lanterns, there are some unique local customs and some little-known folk activities in Suzhou around the Lantern Festival, that is, offering sacrifices to brave soldiers and praying for a bumper harvest; Take three bridges to eliminate all diseases; Pick up the daughter-in-law, sacrifice to the silkworm god, etc.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Introduction: Tomb-Sweeping Day, Suzhou people should plant and wear willow branches, and the newlyweds should go to the grave together. Therefore, Suzhou people have their own unique connotations and activities to go to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Suzhou people dare not neglect their graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, especially those who have passed away for seven years but have not yet reached the anniversary. In the past, every family had to "celebrate festivals" to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. In ancient times, if the descendants of grave robbers could not come back from other places, they would take the way of "remote sacrifice" to their hometown. The newlyweds must arrive at the new grave within one year, which is called "Shanghua grave", which means to let the newlyweds know the location and situation of their ancestors' graves. Worship God, Suzhou people commonly call it "going out". Suzhou was once famous for its three festivals, namely, Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and October (the first day) three times a year, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day was the most prosperous.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the important traditional folk festivals of the Chinese nation, commemorating the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. But the Dragon Boat Festival in Suzhou is different from other places. It commemorates Wu Zixu, a famous warrior of the State of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Dragon Boat Festival in memory of Wu Zixu is the largest annual folk festival in Suzhou, with a set of folk activities adapted to local natural climate conditions, daily production and living habits and economic and cultural characteristics. Although some activities are not much different from the Dragon Boat Festival activities in other places, their details reflect Suzhou's unique water town customs.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Introduction: Dou Xiang, also known as Xiang Dou, is an important ritual instrument of the Mid-Autumn Festival in old Suzhou. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, seasonal fruits such as Hong Ling, raw lotus root, ginkgo, etc. And burn incense under the moon, offer sacrifices to the moon, and pray for yourself and your family. After burning incense, the whole family can share the offerings, which means family reunion. There is a thousand-year-old bridge in Suzhou Dan Tai Lake. According to legend, it was built because local officials took the lead in raising funds and the people responded, so it was called "baodai bridge". This bridge has 54 spans and is a famous bridge in the south of the Yangtze River. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is very bright. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many citizens went to baodai bridge to enjoy the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. In the early Qing Dynasty, the poet Shen Chaochu wrote a poem: Suzhou is good, and there is a long bridge on the string moon. The long bridge in the poem is the best place to enjoy the moon, which refers to a nine-ring cave bridge called Xingchun Bridge on the east side of Shihu Lake and on the right side of the bridge.

6. Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month

Introduction: On the Double Ninth Festival, Suzhou people will eat Double Ninth Cake. In addition to the delicious cake itself, it is more important because the Chongyang cake itself has a beautiful meaning. According to folklore, climbing on the Double Ninth Festival can avoid disaster. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, people have come up with a way to make a symbolic cake and put a small flag on it, which means that climbing high can eliminate disasters. In addition to the theory of disaster relief, Chongyang cake also has a beautiful meaning of wishing children "everything is high". Suzhou Chongyang Climbing Culture has a long history, and Fu Cha, the King of Wu, climbs and overlooks, praying for peace and prosperity. Scholars in Suzhou like to climb mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. Famous calligraphers and painters in Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, such as Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhiming, all went to Tiger Hill to climb mountains and drink. Modern Suzhou writers, such as Zhou Shoujuan, Fan Yanqiao and Cheng Xiaoqing, meet to climb Lingyan Mountain almost every year to remember the past. The Double Ninth Festival is the golden autumn season of the year, and chrysanthemums are in full bloom. On the Double Ninth Festival, Suzhou people will enjoy chrysanthemums.

7. mysterious scenery welcomes the god of wealth

Time: the fifth day of the first lunar month

Venue: pingjiang qu Xuanmiao Temple

According to folklore, the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the God of Wealth, so after the first day of the first month, the next most important activity is to greet the God of Wealth. On the night before God of Wealth's birthday, every family held a banquet to celebrate God of Wealth.

8. Go to God

Time: April 14th of the lunar calendar.

Venue: Suzhou Shenxian Temple.

Introduction: In Suzhou dialect, the word "Gungá fairy" means how crowded people are. Suzhou people say that this word originated from the birthday of Lv Chunyang, one of the Eight Immortals, on April 14. It is said that Lu Chunyang's birthday party will become a beggar and a peddler, helping others in the crowd. Therefore, everyone may be his incarnation on this day. If you climb over him, you will get the immortal spirit and have good luck, so you will squeeze each other.

9. Open the book and turn the page

Time: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

Venue: Suzhou Temple

Introduction: 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. 10, eat lei Zhai su

Time: June 24th of the lunar calendar.

Venue: Suzhou

According to legend, June 24th of the lunar calendar is Lei Zun's birthday. Eating "Zhai Lei Crisp" is to worship Lei Zun and become a vegetarian. It is said that it can eliminate disasters and avoid epidemics and ensure peace. In the past, Suzhou people ate "Zhai Leisu", which generally lasted for nearly a month from June 1 day to the end of Lei Zun's birthday. At the end of the meat season, Songhelou restaurant in Guanqian Street specially launched seasonal noodles and braised duck noodles. Therefore, there is a two-part allegorical saying in Suzhou: "Braised duck noodles with Suduan meat".

10 Taihu plum blossom festival

Time: February to March every year.

Venue: Xishan Linwudong Scenic Area

Introduction: Suzhou Wuzhong has been a famous plum viewing resort in China since ancient times, with a profound plum culture. It is famous for Xiangxuehai in Deng Wei and Xue Mei in the chicken coop in Xishan. Linwu Meihai has become the largest base for plum appreciation and plum cultural activities in China. The Plum Blossom Festival takes "Plum" as the theme, and holds various folk cultural activities with a wide range of contents, a peaceful atmosphere and a warm scene, so that you can appreciate the true mountains, waters and flowers of Taihu Lake.

1 1, Rhododendron Festival in Humble Administrator's Garden

Time: March to May every year.

Venue: Humble Administrator's Garden, pingjiang qu

The annual Spring Rhododendron Festival brings visitors to Humble Administrator's Garden from the depression in winter to the glory in spring. In the Humble Administrator's Garden, all kinds of azaleas are skillfully stacked by gardeners, forming seven garden scenes, such as bright red dew, fragrant clouds, tender and romantic flowers, spring back to the earth, brocade in the glow of the sun, and songs in the forest valley. Among them, at the gate, the original lake rock rockery is combined with selected rhododendrons to form a large rhododendron bonsai; With the rockery as the background, the rhododendrons in front of the mountain are patchwork, which constitutes a beautiful freehand painting; More than 4000 pots of azaleas were moved to the lawn, forming a vivid scene of spring returning to the earth and everything reviving. At the same time, in the Central Garden and the West Garden, azaleas of various colors, either near the water or leaning against trees, all add a lot of color to the scenic spot. In the halls of Furong Pavilion, Yuanxiangtang, Xiaocanglang, Xiangzhou, Jianshanlou and Liuting Pavilion, you can also enjoy more than 20 varieties of rhododendrons such as pink butterfly, crown, jade hanging brocade and pennant.

12, Tiger Hill Flower Show

Time: March to May every year.

Venue: Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area, gusu district, Suzhou.

Introduction: Tulips, daffodils, azaleas, peonies, peonies, poinsettias, Anthurium, Cyclamen, Guinea Impatiens, Begonia and hydrangea are the main flowers of the Tiger Hill Flower Festival, which have formed several flower viewing climaxes.

13, International Tourism Festival

Time: April every year

Venue: Suzhou

Introduction: Suzhou is a famous historical and cultural city and an important scenic tourist city in China, and is known as "paradise on earth". Since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, Suzhou has persisted in pioneering, scientific and harmonious development. The economic strength has greatly jumped, the development momentum has been continuously enhanced, the level of civilization has been significantly improved, people's lives have been stable and harmonious, and it has gradually developed into a city where traditional culture and modern civilization complement each other. Suzhou International Tourism Festival deeply digs into the cultural connotation of Wudi, and strives to make this tourism festival a warm, peaceful, passionate, energetic, image-displaying, safe and orderly fashion event, further expand exchanges and cooperation, promote the organic integration of tourism and industry, strive to enhance the international influence of "Paradise Suzhou and Oriental Water City", promote the sound and rapid development of Suzhou tourism, and accelerate the pace of building a famous cultural tourism city.

14, International Silk Tourism Festival

Time: once every two years (from September to 65438+ 10)

Venue: Suzhou

Introduction: China Suzhou International Silk Tourism Festival is a large-scale tourism festival jointly sponsored by China National Tourism Administration, China Textile Federation, Silk Corporation and Suzhou Municipal People's Government, and specifically undertaken by Suzhou Foreign Economic Commission and Suzhou Tourism Bureau. It is held every two years from September 25th to1October 20th, 10. China Suzhou International Silk Tourism Festival, through tourism, plays economic and trade operas, holds a series of festivals full of charm of local folk culture, such as large-scale economic and trade fair, Huqiu Temple Fair and Tian Ping Hongfeng Art Festival, and expands investment promotion and tourism promotion activities.

15, Huqiu Temple Fair

Time: September to 10 every year.

Venue: Tiger Mountain

Introduction: During the temple fair, there are two temple fairs on the Thousand People Stone every day. Among them, there are many kinds of folk art programs such as Muppets, folk tricks, flying axes, suona on the top, aerial swings, wrestling with two ghosts, and folk local products with the characteristics of Jiangnan water town can be purchased.

16, Wuzhong Tianping Hongfeng Art Festival

Time: June 10 to February 12 every year.

Venue: Tianping Mountain Scenic Area, Wuzhong District, Suzhou

Introduction: Tianping Mountain in Wuzhong District is famous for its red maple, strange rocks and clear springs. There is an ancient maple forest on the mountain. Every time in late autumn, the maple leaves are red, and the forest is dyed and brilliant. Jiangsu Wuzhong Tianping Hongfeng Art Festival was held in Wuzhong District. Festival activities include the opening ceremony, maple leaf viewing, opera, art and craft performances, as well as art, composition, poetry, prose, photography and calligraphy competitions related to red maple.

17, Hanshan Temple listens to the bell on New Year's Eve.

Time: the evening of 65438+February 3 1 every year.

Venue: Hanshan Temple in Suzhou

Introduction: "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the midnight bell goes to the passenger ship". The traditional New Year's Eve dinner in China kicked off the bell-listening activities, with cultural performances, lottery and other activities to entertain tourists. When tourists arrive at the scenic area of Qiao Feng, the activities of listening to the bell reach a climax. Hanshan Temple Lane and Qiao Feng Street show traditional folk activities, such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilts, boating on the lake and sedan chairs. Monks in the temple do the last homework of the year surrounded by cigarettes; On the eve of zero, tourists listen to the bells of Hanshan Temple 108. The bell is swaying to get rid of the troubles of the old year, and it is pious and auspicious. Firecrackers celebrate the arrival of the new year, which is very lively.