Opening hours of Tongli ancient town at night

Tongli ancient town is open all year round: 08:00- 17: 15. Tongli Ancient Town belongs to Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is located on the bank of Taihu Lake and close to the seat of the municipal government. The ancient town has won the reputation of "Little Venice of the East" with its small bridges and flowing water. There are gardens and ancient buildings such as Tuisi Garden, Gengletang and Huancui Mountain Villa, which were rated as national 5A-level tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration on 20 10.

folk custom

Take the third bridge.

It is a prayer activity for people to avoid disasters and pray for blessings. The "Three Bridges" in the custom of taking three bridges in Tongli refers to three ancient stone bridges: Taiping Bridge, Geely Bridge and cheung tsing bridge, which are all standing, less than 50 meters apart. It is the treasure of the bridge in Tongli, an ancient town.

20 1 1 Wujiang Municipal People's Government (now Wujiang District) announced that Tongli Third Bridge was the fourth batch of Wujiang Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage List Project.

Dalian lane

Lotus box is a folk self-made instrumental music that spreads in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Generally, bamboo with a length of one meter and an inner diameter of about two centimeters is used as raw material. The artist made a through hole on the bamboo tube at intervals of about 10 cm from both ends, embedded two copper coins in the hole (the hole is slightly larger than the copper coins and can be shaken), fixed it with screws and nuts, and tied a red, green and yellow ribbon here. Generally, three holes are punched at each end, and three pairs of ribbons are tied.

Playing the lotus box refers to the artist holding the lotus box and beating his hands, feet, arms, shoulders and legs with the lotus box in various ways according to music. When dancing, the copper coins in the lotus box will make a pleasant sound, and colorful ribbons will fly up and down, which is really beautiful. The original lotus box artists were generally men, dressed in white clothes and trousers, and performed at temple fairs and major events. Later, the woman also played with the lotus box. Women often wear blue printed clothes and blue floral headscarves and dance in various festive places and festivals.