The Essence of Jiangnan Culture

The essence of Jiangnan culture is poetic culture, not only traditional culture, but also the culture of 'living in the present'.

As the head of the study, Prof. Liu Shilin, dean of the Institute of Urban Science at Shanghai Jiaotong University and director of the advisory board of the Suzhou Shihu Think Tank, said that in terms of psychological feelings, Chinese people generally feel good about Jiangnan, representing people's pursuit of beauty and poetic life. In terms of content, he believes, the contemporary Jiangnan culture with the Yangtze River Delta as the spatial carrier.

It mainly consists of four regional cultural minor traditions in the historical Jiangnan area, namely, Wu culture with Southern Jiangsu as the core area, Yue culture centered on Hangzhou, Hui culture centered on ancient Huizhou, and Haiyang culture with modern Shanghai as the base camp.