Introducing Changzhou City Guide

Changzhou is located in the center of the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Delta, located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, with the Yangtze River in the north, the Taihu Lake in the south, and Shanghai, Nanjing and other distances away from each other. Here is my help to organize the introduction of Changzhou city guide, I hope you like it.

Changzhou is a city with deep cultural deposits, distinctive features, rich resources, and many highlights, and deserves to be at the forefront of the province and the country in cultural construction. However, in the five cities in southern Jiangsu, Nanjing, Suzhou became the country's first batch of Chinese historical and cultural cities, Zhenjiang, the second batch of shortlisted, Wuxi last year, also head across, only Changzhou is still in the province of historical and cultural cities in the wandering, which can not help but make us y reflective. So, Changzhou has the possibility of building into China's famous historical and cultural city? Changzhou to create a famous historical and cultural city should start from where? Changzhou cultural characteristics of the highlights in where? At least in the following eight aspects:

A starry celebrity culture

Changzhou more than 2,500 years of historical precipitation, not only the formation of a modest and perseverance, honesty and benevolence, virtue and compatibility, respect for the human spirit of Changzhou, the more valuable is to produce a large number of historical and cultural celebrities. Where to find the history of Changzhou, celebrities and famous residences make articles. In many celebrities, the most prominent are the Spring and Autumn great sage Ji Zha, Qi and Liang years to write "Zhaoming Wenxuan" Zhaoming Prince Xiao Tong and write "Wenxin Diao Long" of Liu Innocenti, the Ming Dynasty as "Yongle Grand Dictionary" the chief compiler Chen Ji and martial arts and martial arts of the anti-Japanese general Tang Shunzhi, and so on. As for the Qing Dynasty, Changzhou was full of talents, and the "five schools" gave birth to many first-class scholars and literati, such as Duan Yucai, Sun Xingyan, Hong Liangji, Zhao Yi and Liu Fenglu, and literati such as Huang Jingren, who was called "Li Bai of the Qing Dynasty". Late Qing Dynasty to the present, Changzhou is still a lot of cultural celebrities: Sheng Xuanhuai, Lu Simian, Liu Bannong, Qu Qiubai, Zhang Tailei, Yun Daiying, Shi Liang, Zhao Yuanren, Hua Luogeng, Liu Haisu, and so on. It is because of the spirit of the Changzhou celebrities Jijiduoshi, the famous scholar and poet Gong Zizhen in the Qing Dynasty lamented Changzhou, "the world's celebrities have tribes, the Southeast has no friends with the Chang"; the famous contemporary scholars Miu Jinhong on the pre-Qin Dynasty, since the nation's more than 400 cities of the geographic distribution of outstanding experts and scholars to conduct a statistical analysis of Changzhou in the first Qin Dynasty, came to the rank of The famous contemporary scholar Miao Jinhong analyzed the geographical distribution of more than 400 cities in China since the pre-Qin Dynasty and came to the conclusion that Changzhou ranked fourth in China after Suzhou, Hangzhou and Beijing. The star-studded historical and cultural celebrities have left a considerable number of former residences of celebrities in Changzhou, and there are more than 30 former residences of celebrities in the urban area alone. Famous people's residences have become one of the most significant features of Changzhou's culture, and the saying "to Suzhou to see the gardens, to Wuxi to see the Taihu Lake, and to Changzhou to see the famous people's residences" has been recognized by the world. Changzhou to highlight its long history, should be the first from the celebrity residence to do. In recent years, the construction of a new celebrity residence, memorial hall is becoming an important display window to publicize Changzhou and enhance the city image. Next, we should make great efforts to further strengthen the restoration and opening of the former residence of celebrities, scattered everywhere in the celebrity residence hall pick up a necklace, to create a highlight of Changzhou's history and culture features.

Second, the colorful cultural heritage

Splendid history of civilization for Changzhou has left a large number of various types of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The city's existing national key cultural relics protection unit 4, 27 provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, city and county-level cultural relics protection unit 87, of which, there are the Neolithic cultural relics represented by the Weidun, Temple Dun, three-star village, there are rare at home and abroad the oldest ground of the Spring and Autumn period - the ruins of the drowning city, there are called "Southeast

a jungle" of the Tianning Zen Temple, there is Su Dongpo mooring boat and the name of the mooring Pavilion, there are built in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Wen Pen Tower and built in the Tang Dynasty Zhaozong years of red plum Pavilion and so on. The gardens of Changzhou have a long history and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the best preserved ones are the Garden of the Nearby, the Garden of the Approximate, the Garden of the Unknown and the Garden of the Intentional, etc. In 2006, 25 intangible cultural heritages, including the Changzhou comb, the Buddhist music of the Temple of the Tianning, the Tin Opera, the Changzhou Taoist sentiment, the Changzhou recitation, the Legend of Dong Yong, and the music of the Taoist religion of Mount Maoshan, etc., were included in the first batch of the protection list of the intangible cultural heritages of the provincial level. Recently, the Ministry of Culture announced the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list of recommended projects, the city has 9 items on the list, respectively: Changzhou chanting, Tianning Temple chanting, tin opera, Changzhou comb, Jintan sealing jar wine brewing techniques, Jintan lifting the pavilion, Jintan Dong Yong Legend, Jintan paper carving, Changzhou Liuching Bamboo carving, the province's largest city at a time to be included in the number of cities. With distinctive Jiangnan local characteristics of traditional arts and crafts is the city's intangible cultural heritage in a wonder, there are more than 20 major categories: copper carving, stone carving, glass carving, comb, tooth carving, needle embroidery, stay in the green bamboo carving, mahogany carving, carving, jade carving, cloisonné pinch painting, paper-cutting, paper-cutting, color velvet painting, branding, ceramics, copper molding, craft clock, clay sculpture, cloth painting, root carving, and so on. In the face of colorful cultural heritage, we are to increase the protection and development of historical relics, and constantly enrich its connotation; secondly, we should plan to repair and open up the historical and cultural parks; thirdly, we should actively rescue and inherit the intangible cultural heritage, and complete the vast project of organizing the legacy of the pioneers as soon as possible; fourthly, we should start to establish a set of display, creation, production and sales as a one-stop form of cultural industry cluster, so that the arts and crafts products of Changzhou as early as possible, and the cultural and arts products of Changzhou as early as possible. Changzhou's arts and crafts products into the market as soon as possible to form a scale, and produce its value to match the economic and social benefits.

Third, the long history of industrial and commercial civilization

As one of the most famous industrial and commercial cities in China with a long history, Changzhou has written a colorful chapter in China's economic history. In the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, comb production appeared in Changzhou. During the Tang Dynasty, Changzhou was one of the 15 paper-producing regions in China, and Changzhou's "Turbolines" were popular all over the world. "The new make-up is skillfully painted with two kinds of moths, wrapped in Changzhou Turbolines," two lines of a poem by Yuan Zhen, a great poet, portrayed the popularity of Changzhou's silk satin. In the Song Dynasty, "Jinling silk" was famous for a long time, Changzhou and Su, Hangzhou, Lake, Song and known as the five major silk production areas in Jiangnan. During the Ming Dynasty, Changzhou was one of the 33 larger commercial and handicraft cities in China. Qing Dynasty, Changzhou has become an important area of the national tax sources, "Jiangnan wealth A world, Su Song Changzhen crown Jiangnan". Modern times, is changzhou industrial and commercial rise for "industrial and commercial city" period, China's national industry sprouted in the foreign affairs movement period, but, as early as 1859 before the foreign affairs movement, changzhou, the first modern industrial enterprise and the first commercial enterprise was born. Changzhou has also seen the emergence of Sheng Xuanhuai and Liu Guojun, two famous industrial and commercial giants both at home and abroad. Sheng Xuanhuai physically created ten firsts in modern Chinese history, and Liu Guojun was a famous patriotic businessman. In the 1980s, Changzhou became a nationally recognized industrial star city, known for its well-developed township industry, creating the famous "Southern Jiangsu Model". Today, Changzhou is vigorously building a modern equipment manufacturing city, and was selected as one of China's twelve brand-name economic cities in 2006, and one of China's top ten strongest market cities (counties) in 20

07. Called Changzhou for the "century-old store", can be said to be worthy of the name. The city's existing Dacheng factory, comb factory, Hou Sheng machine factory, Linqing wood industry public office, Chi machine factory, Chi power plant, Dacheng three factory, four factory, Changchai factory and many other modern national industrial and commercial heritage, together with China's national industrial and commercial giants Sheng Xuanhuai family of information and physical objects, constitutes the history of industrial and commercial development of Changzhou indispensable and important part of the history of the Changzhou, Changzhou culture and another special feature. We in urban planning and construction, especially the old canal Changzhou section of the landscape transformation, to pay great attention to the protection of these industrial and commercial heritage, development and utilization.

Fourth, the charm of the tourism culture

As far as tourism resources are concerned, Changzhou is relatively scarce in southern Jiangsu. In view of this, the city actively implement the government-led large tourism development strategy, pay attention to complement the shortcomings, good at innovation and creativity, dare to make something out of nothing, by tapping the potential advantages of differential competition. By prioritizing the development of six key tourist attractions and planning the launch of six new tourist zones (belts), the city strives to transform Changzhou from a tourist transit city to a tourist destination city. With "China's first water city" reputation of the drowning city, is the spring and autumn period has preserved the most complete ground of the ancient city, is the world's only remaining three city three river form of the ancient city ruins, can be called the civilization of the remains of the exposed on the fertile land, the blue water countryside to make the masterpiece of the human world. Tianning Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, is known as "the first jungle in Southeast China", and Tianning Pagoda, the first tallest pagoda in China, contains Rulai Buddha's blood-bearing relics, which is the "Pagoda of Shengshi", "Pagoda of Transmission" and "Pagoda of Culture" of Changzhou. It is the "Pagoda of Shengshi", "Pagoda of Heirloom", "Pagoda of Culture" and "Pagoda of Tourism" in Changzhou. China Dinosaur Park is a comprehensive theme amusement park that perfectly combines museum display, movie and television special effects, modern sound and light technology and multimedia network, etc. It is full of the mysterious atmosphere of the ancient times, and is the new symbol of Changzhou's dragon culture. Trees grow by the water, water flows in the forest, mountains and water reflect each other, forest and water are close to each other, thousands of acres of tea gardens, ten thousand acres of bamboo forests, the vast blue waves of the Tianmu Lake is famous for its sweet water, tea, fish head fresh features and full of the south of the Yangtze River, ecological recreation of the green wonderland. Has the Chinese dinosaur park, tianmu lake, tianning temple, maoshan, nanshan bamboo sea and Asia film city and so on 6 4A level tourist attractions in changzhou, is more and more highlights the "good mountains, good water, good scenery, ancient temples and pagodas ancient canals, celebrities and famous buildings, dragon city dragon garden dragon culture" cultural tourism characteristics. In the next few years, the city's tourism culture should focus on enriching the connotation, enhance the level, focusing on creating: 1, to the drowning city ruins as a representative of the "Spring and Autumn Culture"; 2, to the Tianning Pagoda as a representative of the "Buddhist culture"; 3, to the dinosaur park as a representative of the "Dragon Culture". "Dragon Culture";

4, "celebrity culture" represented by the famous residence.

Fifth, the emergence of catering culture

"Eight major cuisines" did not originate in Changzhou, but Changzhou catering can be renowned Shanghai and Ningbo line, "Gourmet City" prototype. What is the reason? The reason is that Changzhou restaurant has formed its own characteristics: First, eclectic, ocean. Changzhou catering industry to adhere to the premise of Huaiyang cuisine, the introduction of Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Halal cuisine, etc., diversification, fusion has become a notable feature of Changzhou catering, "sitting in Changzhou can eat the world," is not a false name. Secondly, inheriting history and promoting innovation. Deep cultural heritage gives Changzhou catering rich cultural connotations, Changzhou catering sector is determined to inherit the history, and continue to introduce new ideas, such as the "Dongpo Banquet", "Tianmu Lake fish head", "Golden Scallop Soup Third, the flagship navigation, a hundred boats. The city's catering industry to speed up the group, large-scale, chain operation development, emerged Changxing floor, Fu Ji, Damiang dumplings, Li-Hua fast food, vegetables and other leading catering enterprises, the formation of "three streets and two plates," the layout of the food and beverage, presenting a mutually tolerant, cooperative **** win a good situation. Fourth, the shape and quality of unity, quality first. Architecture, decoration, appearance and quality of the organic unity of the Changzhou restaurant culture is another major feature, whether the building exterior or interior decoration, waiter's clothes and costumes, the style of the dishes, and even contain food utensils, are reflected in the rich ` China's classical traditional cultural characteristics. With the existing foundation of Changzhou, it is entirely possible to build Changzhou into a "Jiangnan food hall, food capital" through a number of years of hard work, so that Changzhou has become a veritable "Jiangnan banquet hall". This requires us to a new concept, a new pattern, a new action, from the "whole, big, famous, excellent, small" and other aspects of the food culture, to ubiquitous, printed out a full of Changzhou flavor of the dining card.

Six, the booming creative culture

Through the policy of strong support and strong government to promote, the city's animation industry has been a super-conventional leapfrog development, built a "venture", "Changxin", "Paona" three distinctive animation industry park, built a public **** technical services, personnel training, international cooperation, derivative product development, product property rights trading, project evaluation and consulting six platforms. China (Changzhou) International Animation Art Week has become one of the most internationalized and specialized international exchange platforms for animation industry in China. Relying on this platform, Changzhou National Animation Industry Base has made great progress, and it has initially possessed the "depression effect" of animation industry entrepreneurship, forming a huge centripetal force for the rapid gathering of capital, creativity, talents and logistics. Huge centripetal force, a number of indicators in the country's 15 animation base ranked first. At present, the base has gathered more than 100 animation enterprises of various types, with a registered capital of 400 million yuan, and has the capacity of producing 4,500 episodes and more than 50,000 minutes of animation works annually. 2007, Changzhou was officially named "National Digital Entertainment Industry Demonstration Base" by the Ministry of Culture, taking this as an opportunity, from 2008 to 2010, our city will Strive to build five animation industry clusters, including animation original production cluster, animation derivatives R&D and production cluster, animation tourism and leisure cluster, animation derivatives trading cluster and animation talents training cluster. To accelerate the development of creative culture in Changzhou, we should play the three cards of regional economy, cultural resources and higher education. We should make good use of the cultural resources of Changzhou, vigorously build a diversified cultural industry system led by creative industry, transform the concept of Changzhou into the concept of Changzhou products, and finally form the concept of Changzhou product chain, so that Changzhou can become the first-class animation industry base and animation city in the country.

Seven, spring full of performing arts culture

In recent years, the city seized the cultural consumption of the natural combination of performing arts and the market, in line with the development of consumer attitudes, consumption, consumption trends, the introduction of a variety of subjects, a variety of brands of the program, the reform and development of the comprehensive promotion of performing arts undertakings, to achieve the rapid and healthy development of the performing arts industry. Hangzhou Gold Coast 9 chain of performing arts stage, one of the Changzhou Asia Gold Coast performing arts stage with its elegant and popular **** appreciation, participation in interactive performance qualities attracted the Changzhou audience, quickly occupied the city's performing arts market, and gradually be built into a well-known cultural brand, in 2006 was included in the second batch of the Ministry of Culture of the National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base. The city also adhere to the modern performing arts and tourism work together with the planning, deployment, the formation of industrial consortium, promote tourism and performing arts industry complement each other, *** with prosperity. Founded in 2005, China Dinosaur Park Art Troupe, ingenuity highlights the theme park "theme performance" this element, the life of art rooted in dinosaur culture, through the creation of the "Rubbra Tribe" this ecological wonders, the use of sound, light, By creating the original wonders of "Rubbra Tribe", using sound, light, electricity and other modern innovative arts to be fully demonstrated, the large-scale performing arts program "Rubbra Myth" and "Rubbra Ceremony" was launched, which won the enthusiastic pursuit of tourists. Xiyu opera is an opera with local characteristics of Changzhou, carry forward, inheritance and revitalization of Xiyu opera has become the city of all walks of life **** knowledge. The revitalization of tin opera, depends on as soon as possible to develop a detailed plan for the tin opera in Changzhou, strengthen the protection of the inheritors, strengthen the construction of troupes, strengthen the cultivation of the tin opera soil, strengthen the market guide, increase cooperation with the media, for the performers to provide a relatively fixed platform for performances, as well as pioneering and innovative in the field of thought. In addition, will be completed this year, the opening of the Changzhou Grand Theater, with first-class hardware facilities, is to carry out the cultural life of the important stage, through the competent management, we are fully capable of attracting first-class performance groups, to organize a variety of large-scale performances, so that the Grand Theater has become the people of Changzhou's temple of the arts.

VIII, improving cultural facilities

In the past few years, the city continues to increase investment in cultural infrastructure projects, the past five years, the city's general budget expenditure on cultural undertakings increased by more than 20% per year. In the construction of large-scale cultural facilities, the city follows the requirements of moderately ahead of the times, reflecting the characteristics of the times and local features, unified planning, rational layout, to meet the medium- and long-term needs of cultural development. Among the 60 key cultural construction projects in Jiangsu Province during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, Changzhou occupied seven. Following the Asia Cinema, the city library, the city cultural center and other landmark cultural facilities have been completed, the city museum, painting and calligraphy institute, the new campus of the school of literature and art, the New Fourth Army Jiangnan Command Memorial Hall and other large-scale cultural facilities construction projects have been completed and put into operation, Changzhou Grand Theatre, sports exhibition center, Changzhou News Building, modern media center, the Workers' Palace of Culture new theater, Changzhou Youth Science and Culture Palace and other projects are also underway. The projects are also being pushed forward. As Changzhou City, "Eleventh Five-Year" cultural development projects, one of the key Changzhou Culture City has been opened last year, a variety of appreciation of the Museum, interactive entertainment museum, sharing of famous food museum, art gallery, mass culture museum, cultural lectures in one of the six functional museums in the second phase of the project will be put into full use this year. At the same time, the city in the free opening of public **** cultural facilities on this cultural benefit work step is also very fast.