Suzhou local festivals

Xishan Taihu Plum Blossom Festival March 1- 10

Tiger Hill Flower Show from March to May

March-June Humble Administrator's Garden Rhododendron Club

? April Zhishui Town Clothing Culture Festival

Fairy Temple Fair in Nanhao Street in May

July-August Humble Administrator's Garden Lotus Festival

Huqiu Temple Fair September-10

China Silk Tourism Festival September 20th-25th.

Suzhou Tianping Hongfeng Festival 165438+ October

Hanshan Temple listens to the bell on New Year's Eve from 23: 00 on February 3 1 Sunday.

Traditional Folk Festivals in Suzhou Area

On the fourteenth day of the fourth lunar month, the gods roll.

April14th of the lunar calendar is Lv Dongbin's immortal birthday, commonly known as "immortal birthday". On this day, many pilgrims went to Nagato Shenxian Temple. It is said that Lv Dongbin strolled among the bustling crowd on this day. Anyone who has a strange disease and is difficult to recover is often arranged by fate. Everyone wants to take a chance and get the favor of fairies, commonly known as "rolling fairies". Now it has become a folk temple fair.

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, the book was opened and the classics were turned.

Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Suzhou has the custom of drying books. The temple 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 themselves in the hot sun, claiming that "turning the scriptures ten times can turn the man's body in the afterlife."

Another folk proverb says, "On June 6th, the dog took a bath." (Suzhou dialect calls bathing a shower) It is once a day to take a bath with cats and dogs to the river to avoid lice and fleas.

Eating Su is on June 24th of the lunar calendar.

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. Songhelou Restaurant in Guanqian Street specially introduced seasonal noodles-braised duck noodles on the day when meat was finished. Therefore, there is a two-part allegorical saying in Suzhou: "The meat made in Suzhou-braised duck noodles."

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Also known as 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. The folk custom of offering sacrifices to the weaver girl on the night of Qixi, begging for her wisdom and skillful skills, is called "begging for cleverness".