Taicang is one of the most economically developed counties (cities) in Jiangsu Province. Developed county (city) one. Since the reform and opening up, Taicang maintain a sustained growth in economic development momentum, the first in the country into a well-off city, economic strength for many years in the country's top 100 counties (cities) in the forefront.
Gross national product, industrial and agricultural output per capita, are ranked first in Jiangsu Province. Agriculture, mainly grain, cotton and oil, high-yield and high-efficiency, a variety of business varieties; industry, mainly textile, textile, light industry, machinery, electronics, chemicals, building materials, food and other categories.
Taicang attractions
Taicang, also known as Loudong. She has a long history, prosperous economy and bright culture, known as the "paradise on earth" in the south of the Yangtze River, enjoys the reputation of "Golden Taicang". Taicang is located in the east coast of China, at the mouth of Yangzi River. The intricately intertwined rivers, green and yellow fields, mild and humid climate are the cradle of ancient civilization in Taicang. According to historical records and archaeological relics found since the founding of the country, as early as 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, our ancestors worked, lived and reproduced here, creating a glorious fish and rice culture. Legend has it that during the spring and autumn and warring states period of the king of wu chu jun, here in the grain warehouse, for the court, this may be the origin of the name of taicang. Taicang is "the rich area in the southeast" and "the good harbor in the world". Lay this cornerstone, when pushed to the yuan dynasty. In the Yuan, Taicang not only set up guards base city, become China's southeastern coast of the sea defense outpost, more importantly, the Yuan rulers to develop shipping, strengthen the north and south of the economic exchanges, expanding the sea of foreign trade in the policy of the state, accelerated the Taicang agricultural and sideline products, aquatic products and handicrafts of the circulation and the opening up of the economy to the outside world, so that the Taicang in less than a hundred years in a short period of time, has become a " shipping In less than a hundred years, Taicang became a large port in the southeast with "ten thousand ships in the waterway, a thousand ships in the business, high masts and big masts, like a forest", and "the four directions called it the first dock in the world". With the economic prosperity and population growth, it has completed the leap from a coastal town to a port city with "large mansions with vermilion gates, which are too numerous to be remembered, and the Lin Palace and the Van Yu, which are listed as if they were scaled". The formation of the port city, Taicang planted the cultural genes of the sea and rivers, eclectic. To the Ming, Yongle Emperor for the world, the friendship, has seven times sent Zheng He from Taicang Liujiagang, sailed to the West, and for Taicang precipitation of the first, pioneering spirit of wealth. Located at the junction of the river and the sea of Taicang, it is through a number of large-scale continental culture and the collision of marine culture, so early in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, has formed a diversified economic pattern of farming and fishing, but also industrial and commercial, the commodity economy is more developed, the society has unprecedented prosperity, but also nurtured the human spirit of justice and profit, innovation and pragmatism. Taicang is not only a "canal boat of the Jin", "cargo area", or a place of humanities. Prosperous economy, generous and outward-looking people's style, attracted countless talents from all over the world gathered here. Ming and qing dynasties, taicang culture with the development of economic and active, by ancestry or guest in taicang of Confucian sages, kind-hearted people actively advocate, physically, in the history of science, literature, arts and crafts, science and technology, dozens of history has been recorded in the famous figures. For example, there were Wang Xiju and Wang Ix, the grandparents of the prime ministers, who were ambitious and devoted to serving their country; Lu Shiyi, a great thinker; Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society; Xiong Kuan and Ren Huanyuan, the famous generals who fought against Japanese invasion; Jia Dan, an expert in water conservancy in Wuzhong; Wang Shizhen, who was a brilliant and unique writer; Wu Meicun, a great poet; Qiu Ying, a great painter, one of the "Four Masters of the Ming Dynasty;" and Wang Wang Yu, the pioneer of the Loudong School, who was in charge of the Qing dynasty's painting scene for three hundred years. Loudong school of painting founder Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi; the founder of kunqu, opera musicologist Wei Liangfu; erudite and informed, moralization of people's economic historians Bi Yuan, Chen Hu; educator Lu Baozhong, Tang Wenzhi; democratic revolution pioneer Yu Jianhua; and skillful, famous in the dynasty and countryside of the master carver Lu Zigang, as well as smelting, manufacturing, navigation, geography, medicine, gardens, and other aspects of the masters of the great. So far, in this piece of ancient land in Taicang, there are still a lot of their precious cultural relics, circulating a lot of their anecdotes, and extending the excellent tradition they left behind.
Nan Yuan
Nan Yuan was built in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, and it was built by the prime minister Wang Wensu (Xiju), covering an area of more than thirty acres. Mainly built "XiuXueTang", "TanYingXuan", "XiangTaoGe" all wins, is the chancellor of Wang deal with political affairs and planting plums and chrysanthemums, Taicang folk also called the south garden for the The people of Taicang also called the South Garden as "the master's mansion". In the early qing dynasty, wen su's grandson painter wang shi min and stacked mountain master zhang nan yuan cooperation increase, there are two peaks name "hairpin cloud", "service child", is from the "trap garden" to move, qianlong time deserted, jiaqing, dao guang years rebuilt, the same time and repaired, and then gradually dilapidated, the Japanese invasion of china and once again by the destruction. 1998, in the province of culture management, suzhou city garden bureau With the help of Provincial Cultural Management Committee and Suzhou Garden Bureau, the design and planning were carried out according to the original photographs and drawings, and the restoration was made step by step. So far, it has restored "Gate Tower", "Xiuxue Hall", "Xiangtao Pavilion", "Dajiangu Pavilion", "Crane and Plum Immortal Hall", "Cold Bi Boat", "Tan Ying Xuan" and "Long Corridor" and other eighteen attractions. The city's mountains and forests, green leaves and red flowers, springs and clear streams have transcended the self and materialistic desires - the harmony between man and nature. The ideal living environment pursued by the ancients is the eternal subject of human development, and the eternal is the most valuable.
The East China Sea dilemma
According to Taicang local records: the old South Park there was a "East China Sea dilemma" monument, is the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Wang Zhideng inscription. One said for wang shi zhen, wang shi mao inscription; also said for zhang pu, zhang cai inscription. Check Wang Zhideng is living in the Ming Jiajing to Wanli years of the literati, calligrapher, and Wang Shizhen, Wang Shimao age, but longer than both of them. Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai were later than Wang Zhideng, so it can be concluded that the "two difficulties" in "Two Difficulties in the East China Sea" refers to Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimao. The phrase "two dilemmas" is derived from the phrase "virtue" in Liu Yiqing's Shishu Xinyan (New Sayings on Virtue). The term "two difficult brothers" was used in Liu Yiqing's "Shishu Xinyan" (New Words on Virtue). The original meaning is that the two brothers are both excellent in talent and virtue, and it is difficult to distinguish between them. The phrase "two difficult brothers in the East China Sea" praises and glorifies Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimao for their respective literary talents, achievements and accomplishments.
DaRaigakuqinGuan and XuShangYing
XuShangYing (birth and death date unknown), alias QingShan. He was a famous guqin player in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Xu Shangying was a martial arts practitioner when he was young, and he had the ambition to help the world and serve the country since he was a child, but his fate was not good, and he failed to be recognized by the examiners when he took the martial arts exams twice, so he had no choice but to give up. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the qin playing style in Taicang became very popular, in order to get rid of boredom, Xu Shangying gave up martial arts to learn the qin, and firstly, he worshiped Chen Xingyuan, the son of Chen Aitong, a famous qin player in Taicang, and later, he learned the qin from Zhang Weichuan, the disciple of Chen Aitong. In order to go one step further, he studied with Yan Zheng, a native of Changshu. As a result of the guidance of famous teachers, he made great progress in his qin skills. Later, he formed a qin society with Chen Xingyuan, Yan Zheng, Chen Yudao, and Zhuang Le, known as the "Yushan School". Xu Shangying was the author of "The Qin Records of the Grand Pavilion", "The Qin Condition of the Xishan Mountain", and "The Secret Notes of the Fingering Method of the Wanfeng Pavilion". On the basis of summarizing Yan Zheng's "clear, subtle, light and distant", he took the strengths of various schools and created a unique style, proposing "harmony, quietness, clarity, distance, antiquity, tranquility, serenity, ease, elegance, brightness, lightness, colorfulness, cleanliness, moistness, roundness, firmness, magnificence, finesse, slipperiness, robustness, lightness, heaviness, lateness and speed". The twenty-four words of the "Essential Tips" have had a considerable impact on the later development of zither theory and have a high status in the history of ancient music aesthetics in China. In order to honor this Ming master of the guqin, the Taicang municipal government, in the process of restoring the South Garden, constructed the Dazhuangge Qin Museum, which is currently the first guqin museum in China. The building area of more than 800 square meters, the main building for the two-storey building, in addition to the main hall, there are four rooms, along the traditional "five know Zhai", "with the ancient Zhai", "Xilu Hall", "spring grass hall" and other names. Upstairs in the main hall is displayed in the Qing dynasty during the Kangxi period Cai carved Xu Shangying "big still pavilion qin spectrum" and valuable ancient qin, as well as not long ago found in the city of Li Wang Temple site of the eight chime stones, and so on.
Jade Emperor Pavilion
Jade Emperor Pavilion was formerly known as Pufu Palace, also known as Yuzhi Pavilion, now located in Shuangfeng Town, Taicang City. Yuan to Yuan twenty-two (1285), by the imperial sealing of Taoism leader Zhang Tianshi Zhang Zongyin's disciple Zhou Jingqing was ordered to build, approved in 1994 to rebuild. Covering an area of more than 30 acres, it mainly has Jade Emperor Pavilion, Ci Shun Hall and Ah Huang Temple. According to legend, Emperor Jianwen of Ming Dynasty had taken refuge here with his ministers. Jade Emperor Pavilion is a Taoist temple in the history books. China's Taoist Jade Emperor Pavilion in the country has a number of places.
Haitian Zen Temple
Haitian Zen Temple, located in the eastern Panchiao Town, is located in the suburbs of Shanghai-Jiaxing Expressway, Taicang, north of the section of the nineties, the creation of the temple, the temple name originated from the sea water shaking the air margins, smallpox whisking shake to come, Zen side of the wind is good, the temple next to the Panchiao open ", the architectural grandeur, can be described as "Jiangdong a great", covering an area of more than 100 acres, within the gate hall, the Emperor's Hall, the Maharajah's Hall, Guanyin Pavilion, the Earth's hidden Pavilion, and so on.
The ancient temple is the first of its kind in Jiangdong.
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According to the record: "the town can be several miles long, more than rich families with huge rooms, the red gentry bachelor when a state of half, for the good articles, Yi Guan, Jizi look at each other, and the people of the cultivation in the wild, but also diligently crop Boom respect for the financial use of the crickets on behalf of sandalwood wind, known as the happy land." To the Republic of China years, is still a huge town, commonly known as "Southeast eighteen townships, Shaxi first township." The most distinctive feature of the ancient town is the well-preserved waterfront residential complex built along the Chi Pu River. Residents living here, in order to facilitate the waterfront life, every family has a river shed, every family has a stone water bridge, a waterfront, wooden bridges and openwork windows, not only can look out over the river, but also can draw water for shopping, forming a unique flavor of the landscape. The residential houses are undulating and scattered. House to house waterfront buildings, almost half of them reach the river, above the water pavilion in the air, supported by stone pillars below, river ports, docks are located in the water below the pavilion, ingenious, this is the real "pillow water home". Ancient town of many ancient monuments, Yinxi Shushu She, South Savage Jaiju, Lianxin Building and other ancient homes, full of humanistic atmosphere. Qing dynasty rich merchant Gong's mansion in the Qianlong period, full of carved beams and painted beams, cloud pattern covered beams, entwined flowers around the beams full of wood, relief carvings beautifully modeled, fine carving, known as the best in Jiangnan, well-preserved to this day. Modern celebrities in the former Chinese Dancers Association Chairman Wu Xiaobang's former residence, built in the early years of the Republic of China, the Department of European-style double-storey building, you can watch the ancient town style. In addition to architecture, gardens are also a sight to behold. By a generation of national painting master Zhu Qizhan inscribed the name of the garden Leyin Garden, the garden ripples, flowers and trees in full bloom, pavilions, galleries and pavilions are covered with the best of the Jiangnan garden of the exquisite. From Wu Xiaobang's former residence, stroll along the vertical line of the three-star ancient street, "the world's first ancient alley" sign in plain sight. Ancient colorful old stores stand along the street, a small yellow flag waving in the wind, from time to time flashed before the eyes of the Ming and Qing dynasty bridge doorway, people are like a dream. Walking, then on the olive island. This is a Jiangnan ancient town in the unique artificial island, three Ming and Qing dynasty bridge across the island, between the town. The island is surrounded by green trees and bamboos, which makes you feel like returning to nature in a moment. Shaxi Town's flavorful specialties: Shaxi soup dumplings, crab shells and other snacks are fresh and delicious. Lanterns and crickets are the historical specialties of Shaxi. The ancient town is beautiful, simple and elegant, with a street length of three miles, deep gardens, carved flower halls, Le Yin Yuan, Olive Island, Wu Xiaobang's former residence and other humanistic landscapes of different styles. Chic waterfront buildings, old houses dense old streets and simple and majestic stone bridges, is the three major features of the existing cultural heritage of Shaxi. Attractions in the town are: Gong's carving hall, "the world's first ancient alley", Anqiao Bridge, the ruins of Wuyunhui, Leyinyuan, Wu Xiaobang's former residence, waterfront buildings, Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient bridges, Olive Island, three miles of ancient streets, Shaxi Old Town Plaques, Xingyi Bridge, Puji Temple, Small City Temple, the former residence of the Nationalist Party dignitary Lu Jingshi, etc., town of the Heavenly Princess Palace is the year when Zheng He went to sea before the place of worship, has now been the first time that the town of the Tianfei Palace is Zheng He before the sea The Tianfei Palace in the town is the place where Zheng He visited before he sailed to the sea, and it has been reconstructed into Zheng He Memorial Hall.
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Le Yin Yuan
Le Yin Yuan was originally the Song Dynasty hermit Qu Xiaozhen's study. Located in Shaxi Town, has the reputation of Jiangnan famous garden, covers an area of 22.5 acres, 5 acres of water, the building is built near the pool. The whole garden is divided into three parts: center, east and west. Pool in the center, surrounded by rockery, promenade, water parlor, flower hall, hexagonal pavilion, Tongjin Road. The gate and wall are modeled after the entrance of Suzhou's Humble Administrator's Garden; there is a small flower hall on the north side, and the western part is a carved flower hall with delicate carvings on the beams.
Three bridges in the Yuan Dynasty (Zhou Bridge, Zhou Jing Bridge, Gao Bridge)
Taicang in the Yuan Dynasty was known as the "dock of the six countries" due to the development of shipping, economic prosperity, and well-developed transportation. Now the city still exists in the Yuan Dynasty arched stone bridge three, which is across the Zhihe pond on the state bridge, Zhoujing Bridge, Gao Bridge. Three bridges are initiated by local officials and Buddhist monasteries *** with the private donations and construction, more than six hundred years of history; bridge body and arches are made of bluestone masonry, arches are divided into sections side by side arrangement, and both sides are not set up the bridge joint columns, these are typical of the Yuan Dynasty style of bridges and construction methods. State Bridge, located in the town of the south end of the South Street, across the Chi and Tang, built in the Yuan Tianli two years (1329), is a three-hole stone arch bridge, is a provincial heritage conservation units. The bridge is 16.2 meters long, 4.27 meters high in the hole, spanning 8.05 meters wide, the arch stone with relief, and engraved with "Dayuan Tianli two years" and other words. In the center of the stone is engraved on the side of the stone, "Anfu" two words.
Zhou Bridge, Zhoujing Bridge, Yuan Xingfu Bridge, Gao Bridge
Zheng He Memorial Hall
Zheng He Memorial Hall is an ancient brick and wood structure house, located in Liuhe Town, Taicang, the red door is very grand, the cypresses in the courtyard, quiet and serene. Inside the house, there are important historical artifacts introducing the sea deeds of Zheng He. Zheng He was a great seafarer of the Ming Dynasty in China, who had anchored from Liu Jia Harbor in Taicang and sailed to the West for seven times, making outstanding contributions to the foreign exchange of economy and culture in ancient China.
Tianfei Palace
Tianfei Palace, located in Liuhe Town, East City, Temple Street, for China's Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He went to the West, an important historical site. First built in the Yuan Zhiyuan twenty-third year (1268). During the Ming Yongle years, Zheng He went to the West from Liu Jiagang before sailing, must first incense in this pray for the goddess of the sea to bless the peace of navigation, and after the end of the seven West in this personally set up the "Tongfan deeds monument".
Nangguang Temple
Nangguang Temple is located in the southern suburbs of the town, built in the Song Shaoxing two years ago, more than 800 years of history, approved the reconstruction of the 1993, covers an area of 97 acres, the main gate hall, vajra treasure Hall, Guanyin Hall, the Hall of the Earth Zang, Dharma Hall, Abbot Building, and so on.
Mo Miao Pavilion
Mo Miao Pavilion is located in Taicang Park. It houses the handwriting of Zhao Mengfu, a great calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty, the Preface of Sending Li Wish to Return to Pangu and the stone carving of the Rhetoric of Returning to China.
Recreation Garden
Recreation Garden, also known as the People's Park, was built in 1130, located in the park to get, more than 600 years ago, there are the tomb of 郏亶, a famous expert in water conservancy of the Northern Song Dynasty, a large-scale "Iron Cauldron" of the Yuan Dynasty, the "Tong Hai Quan" of the Ming Dynasty, and the relics of Huashi Gang of the Song Dynasty, as well as the "Iron Kettle" of the Yuan Dynasty. In the garden, there are the tomb of the famous water conservancy expert of Northern Song Dynasty, Jia Dan, a large "iron kettle" of Yuan Dynasty, "Tonghai Spring" of Ming Dynasty, "Wanghai Feng", a relic of Hanashizang of Song Dynasty. The most famous one is "Mo Miao Pavilion". In addition, there are many valuable monuments and stones such as Shuxuanzhai and Wall Embedded. In addition, there are lotus ponds, three curved bridges and other scenic views.
Plum Blossom Hall (Zhu Qizhan's young studio)
The Plum Blossom Hall is located in Liuhe Park, and is the young studio of Mr. Zhu Qizhan, a renowned contemporary master of painting at the age of 100. Mr. Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996), known as Zengjun, No. Qiya, also known as Erya Laomin, and known as Plum Blossom Cao Tang, Fetish Residence, etc., was a famous birthday painter in China, and a generation of masters in the painting world. He was the executive director of the Chinese Artists Association, the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the Shanghai Artists Association, and the advisor of the Xiling Printing Society. Zhu Qizhan has been practicing painting since his childhood, and has twice traveled to Japan to study oil painting and investigate art education. At the age of 27, his oil paintings participated in the first Suzhou Fine Arts Painting Competition. After the establishment of New China, Zhu Qizhan was appointed as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Museum of Literature and History, and later as a painter of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. Since then, he has gone abroad many times for sketching and creation, and held personal exhibitions, and has become a famous master of Chinese painting in China. Zhu Qizhan's painting style is old-fashioned and self-contained. Zhu Qizhan's works have been collected by many museums and art galleries at home and abroad, and in 1995, the Shanghai Municipal Government built the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in the Hongkou Public Office. Zhu Qizhan loved plum blossoms all his life. During the war, his old house in Liuhe was burned down by the Japanese, and his new house was full of bullet holes, so he tore down the remaining houses of the old house, repaired the new house, and dug the bomb crater of the Japanese invaders into the "Iron Egg Pond", planted plum blossoms all over the soil slope beside the pond, and inscribed his residence as the "Plum Blossom Cottage", and called himself the "Master of the Plum Blossom Cottage". "In 1936, Zhu Qizhan invited Pan Tianshou, Jiang Danshu, Jin Weijian, Wu 茀之, and Zhang Zhenduo to the Plum Blossom Cottage in Liuhe to gather, recite poems and paintings, and discuss artistic matters. Later, they collected the plum blossom paintings made by famous artists such as Wang Yiting, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Wu Hufan, He Tianjian, Ding Fuzhi, etc., and assembled them into a huge volume. 1991, when Zhu Qizhan was 100 years old, his hometown government rebuilt the "Plum Blossom Cottage" in his former residence, which consisted of one courtyard and five rooms, divided into an exhibition hall, a painting room, and a meeting hall, etc. For this reason, Zhu Qizhan paid a visit to the Plum Blossom Cottage in Liuhe. In this regard, Zhu Qizhan presented six masterpieces to the Plum Blossom Hall, such as "Spring Breeze Newly Grown Purple Orchid Buds", "Old Dryness as Iron" and "Stream and Mountain after Rain".
Caoxi Pavilion
Caoxi Pavilion is located in the east of Taicang city center, two-story classical building. Inside the collection of antiques and paintings, jade and stones and other treasures, as well as all kinds of sculpture and high-grade craft wheat straw paintings.
Zhang Pu's former residence
Zhang Pu's former residence is located in Taicang City, Chenggang Town, Ximen Street, No. 8, was built in the Ming Dynasty during the Tianqi, Chongzhen years. Unfortunately, the main gate and the backyard have been abandoned for a long time, and there are only three combinations of through-turned horse building houses. The whole building arch complete, exquisite craftsmanship, the layout is exquisite, with the corridor room, a few like a maze, is a typical complete Ming Dynasty buildings. Inside the county museum and Tang Wenzhi, Yu Qingtang deeds showroom. There is also a memorial hall of Fushe, cultural relics exhibition hall, Taicang celebrity hall and "four kings" memorial hall. Zhang Pu (1602-1641 years), Ming Chongzhen years, late Ming literati, "Restoration Society" leader, "five tombstones" author. Loudong two Zhang refers to Zhang Pu and his friend Zhang Cai. Zhang Cai, the word receive the first, the literary scholar, historian, had organized with Zhang Pu should be social, the restoration of social, is one of the important backbone of the restoration of social. He was one of the important backbones of the Fuxing Society. He was the author of Zhi Da Tang Collection and Taicang Prefecture Record. Because Zhang Pu lived in the western suburb, Zhang Cai lived in the southern suburb, so people called West Zhang South Zhang, and known as "Mr. Two Zhang".
Wang Xijue's former residence
Wang Xijue (1534-1610), Taicang, Ming Dynasty Wanli years, the first minister, his residence is commonly known as the master of the first, the residence for the middle of the Ming Dynasty building, carved beams and painted buildings, arch complete, strict rank, imposing. Its descendants of the Qing dynasty painter Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi also lived in this, the existing gatehouse a, the face of five rooms, foyer around the upper and lower two levels. This kind of gatehouse type foyer, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang - the belt is unique. Loudong painting display and Taicang historical monument gallery. In the early years in the eastern suburb of Taicang, there are "two Dingjia, four generations of a product" a plaque. The "two generations of the Dingjia" is a indication of the 21st year of the Wanli reign of the Wanyuan Pavilion, the first minister Wang Xijue, and his great-grandson, Ix Wang, the cabinet minister during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, who is known as the "ancestor and grandson of the prime ministers". The term "four generations of prime ministers" refers to the fact that Wang Xiju, his son Wang Heng, his grandson Wang Shimin, and his great-grandson Wang Ix were all prime ministers of the imperial court.
Wu Jianxiong's Cemetery
Wu Jianxiong's Cemetery is located next to the Wisteria Pavilion of the Mingde Senior High School in Liuhe Township.
Wu Jianxiong's Cemetery was built at the end of May 1998 in the Mingde Senior High School in accordance with the wishes of Wu Jianxiong, who passed away on February 17th 1997, and was designed by the Architectural Design Institute of the Southeast University and validated by the world's master of architectural design, Mr. Pei I.M. The tomb was inscribed by Yang Zhenning in the name of the Cemetery. Yang Zhenning inscribed "Wu Jianxiong's Cemetery" for the cemetery, and Li Zhengdao gave a speech for the cemetery. Wu Jianxiong is a contemporary world-famous physicist, born on May 31, 1912 in Liuhe Town, Taicang County, Jiangsu Province; in 1923, he studied in Liuhe Mingde School; later he was admitted to Suzhou Jiangsu Provincial Women's Normal School; in 1934, he graduated from Nanjing Central University; in 1936, he traveled to the United States to study at the University of California; in 1940, he received a doctorate degree in physics; in 1942, he married Yuan Jiayao in the United States; in 1952, he was appointed to Columbia University, and was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees. In 1952, he became an associate professor at Columbia University and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1958. In 1963, a series of experiments on β-decay by Wu Jianxiong proved the law of conservation of vector flow in nuclear β-decay, which was the first time in the history of physics to confirm experimentally that the electromagnetic interaction is closely related to the weak interaction, and it played an important role in the later development of the theory of the electroweak unification; in 1972, he became the Purpin In 1975, she was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Ford, and in the same year, she was elected as the first woman president of the American Physical Society; in 1978, she was also awarded the first prize by the international Wolf Foundation; she retired in 1980; and in 1981, the President of Italy awarded her the "Outstanding Woman of the Year Award"; In 1991, she was awarded the Pupin Memorial Medal, which represents the highest honor in the field of science and technology. In October 1984, she returned to her hometown of Liuhe, where she participated in the restoration of the name of the Mingde School and the inauguration of the Mingde Building in memory of her father, as well as the establishment of the Mr. Wu Zhixi Scholarship Foundation, of which she was the honorary president.
Gao Renqi oil painting gallery
Gao Renqi oil painting gallery is located in the new district of Liuzhou Road, the gallery contains more than 60 pieces of oil painting masterpieces created by Gao Renqi. Gao Renqi, a native of Shisi Town, Taicang, is a famous military painter and is currently a professional painter at the deputy division level in Jinan Military Region. His works have won gold medals in the All-Army Art Works Competition and have been selected for many national art exhibitions.
Wu Xiaobang Dance Art Museum
Wu Xiaobang Dance Art Museum is located in Taicang New District, with two exhibition halls of 400 square meters in floor area and one multi-function hall of 150 square meters in floor area. Born in 1906 in Shaxi Town, Taicang, Wu Xiaobang was the pioneer, pioneer and practitioner of the new dance art in China, an outstanding dancer, theorist and educator, who served as the chairman of the Chinese Dance Association and a member of the Second, Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), among other positions. Wu Xiaobang (1906-1995), born in a poor farming family, was later adopted by a rich family of the surname Wu in Shaxi Town and named Jinrong. Influenced by the May 4th New Culture, Wu Xiaobang was full of revolutionary enthusiasm in his youth and joined the military, serving as a trainee platoon leader of Ye Ting's regiment during the Northern Expeditionary War. After the failure of the Revolution, he went to Japan to study music in 1929 and changed his name to Xiaobang because of his admiration for the Polish musician Chopin. After being infected by the dances performed by the students of Waseda University in Japan, he began to be interested in modern dance and studied ballet and modern dance at the Takao Takada Dance Institute, Takaya Eguchi and Miyako Miyagi Modern Dance Institute in Japan successively. "After the September 18th Incident, he returned to China and founded the "Wu Xiaobang Dance School" and "Xiaobang Dance Institute" in Shanghai, where he held the first dance performance. 1937 onwards After 1937, he joined the Anti-Japanese Salvation Drama Team and created a number of anti-Japanese dance programs such as "March of the Volunteers", "Dance of the Big Sword", "Song of the Partisans", etc. He arrived in Yan'an in 1945, and taught at "Lu Yi". After the founding of New China, he was elected as the vice-chairman of the National Dance Association, and successively served as the director of the dance troupe of the China Youth Art Theater, the director of the Central National Song and Dance Troupe, and the chairman of the China Dance Art Research Association, etc. In 1956, he founded the "Pegasus Dance Art Studio". In 1956, Wu Xiaobang founded the Tianma Dance Studio, and in 1956, Wu Xiaobang was sent down during the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution, Wu Xiaobang resurfaced and became the president of the China Dance Association, the editor-in-chief of Dance Art Magazine, and the editor-in-chief of the Integration of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dances. Wu Xiaobang dances to express his will, dances to warn the world, dances for life, and is determined to adhere to the trinity of dance education, creation, and theory, and has cultivated a large number of dance successors. In his lifetime, he created 18 popular new dance programs such as "Hungry Fire", "Sifan", "Ugly Tableau", "Flat Sand and Falling Geese", "Welcoming Spring", "Autumn Grievance", "Master Tiger", "Pagoda Pavilion", etc. He is also the author of "Introduction to New Dance Art". He is the author of monographs such as Introduction to the Art of New Dance, New Theory of Dance, Talking about Art, Sequel to Dance, and Study of Dance. Wu Xiaobang is the founder, pioneer and practitioner of China's new dance, an outstanding generation of dance masters. In order to commemorate the pioneer of China's new dance, in 1999 in his hometown of Taicang completed China's first dance memorial hall named after an individual - Wu Xiaobang Dance Art Museum.
Song Wenzhi Art Museum
Song Wenzhi Art Museum, built in 1989, is located in Taicang City, the county government of the East Street, No. 12, the museum has Mr. Song Wenzhi in the forties to the eighties of the 60 pieces of masterpieces and his collection of more than 30 pieces of painting and calligraphy of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, and has a high value of 30 pieces of ancient colored pottery and so on. Mr. Song Wenzhi, a native of Xijiao, Taicang, studied under the famous painters Mr. Zhang Shiyuan and Mr. Wu Hufan. He has been a director of the Chinese Artists Association, vice-chairman of the Jiangsu Art Association, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice-president of the Provincial Painting and Calligraphy Academy and a professor at Nanjing University.
Kunqu
Kunqu originated from Taicang South Dock (also known as Nanguan, i.e., today's Nanjiao Town). Kunqu is the oddball in the art world, the white snow in the opera, and has always been favored by the literati and elegant people. According to local records, during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Taicang South Wharf was a flourishing live wharf, where people from the south and the north lived together, and the southern accent and the northern accent influenced each other. Ming Dynasty Jiajing, Longqing years, a long time living in the South Pier Wei Liangfu improved the soil cavity, created a very elegant and gorgeous new sound, the world called Kunqiang, Kunqu. Kunqu has been moving from the folk to the stage since Liang Bo Long's "The Story of Raccoon Sage" in Kunshan. Wu Meicun, a great poet of Taicang in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem: "Wei Liangfu, a high priest, fills in the lyrics of Liang Bolong", which refers to this incident. Due to the success of the performance of "The Story of Raccoon Sash", the reputation of kunqu was growing. Scholars to listen to kunqu, learning kunqu for elegant things. Taicang in the Ming and Qing dynasties have a lot of kunqu classes, also appeared a lot of kunqu artists. In modern times, Taicang has also appeared in the kunqu Chuanzhi generation of artists Zhu Chuanming, kunqu musician, kunqu flute master Gao Buyun, etc. To date, Taicang folk can still collect kunqu Gongshi sheet music, which to a certain extent also reflects the popularity of the kunqu in Taicang, as well as Taicang people's contribution to the kunqu and feelings.
Wei Liangfu
Wei Liangfu (date of birth and death unknown), Ming opera musician, the founder of the Kunqu opera (Nanqu). The word Shangquan, originally from Jiangxi Yuzhang (now Nanchang City), later moved to Taicang South Pier (now Nanjiao Town). Wei Liangfu was familiar with music and rhythm, and at first he studied the Northern Quartet, but since he was not as good as Wang Youshan, a northern musician, he studied the Southern Quartet. In order to change the artistic environment in which he lived, he came to Taicang, where southern opera and northern opera were very active at that time, and lived in the Taicang South Pier (present-day Nanjiao Town) during the Jiajing period (1522--1565). In the local garrison, there were many people who knew music, and Wei Liangfu often practiced with them and discussed music theory. At this time, he became acquainted with the resident of a southern music expert, Taicang Wei hundred households over the Yunshi, often ask him for advice, every time the degree of music have to wait until the over think satisfied before giving up. He also asked for advice from the Anhui Shouzhou (now Shouxian) sent to Taicang good strings, the northern song of the dramatist Zhang Yutang. At that time Zhang was serving in the army, Wei's request for advice was readily accepted, and the two became close friends. The two became close friends. Later, Wei Liangfu betrothed his daughter to Zhang Yutang. Afterwards, Wei Liangfu, with the assistance of over Yunshi and Zhang Yutang, absorbed certain features of the then popular Haiyan accent, Yuyao accent, and Jiangnan folk songs and ditties, and processed and organized the operatic cantatas circulating in the Kunshan area, fusing the northern and southern tunes into a single piece, which not only made the southern tunes "pure and fine in sound" but also named the northern tunes "turn without northern air". "Turning no north gas", thus changing the previous kind of flat and uninteresting rhyme of the dull singing, forming a new style, delicate singing, Shu Xu euphemistic "water mill accent" (Kunqiang). It appeared in the form of clear singing, which finally made the kunqiang clear and distant and more melodious in the atmosphere without big gongs and drums. At the same time, Wei Liangfu reformed the accompanying instruments. Originally, the accompaniment of the southern opera was xiao and pipe as the main instruments, in order to make the singing of the Kunqiang more infectious, he put the flute, pipe, sheng, qin, pipa, strings and other instruments together in one hall, used to accompany the singing of the Kunqiang, which was a success. From then on, Wei Liangfu's reputation grew, and he was known as the "National Worker", the "Sage of Qu", and even the "originator" of the Kunqiang (Southern Song). He was the author of the book "Qu Lu" (a "Southern Songs Citation"), which is an important work discussing the singing style of the Kunqu Opera and the genres of northern and southern operas.
Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo
Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo, as an independent music genre, was only named in the early 1950s. However, the prototype of Jiangnan Silk Bamboo - "strings" - was created by Zhang Yutang, a sergeant of the Taicang guards, during the Jiajing and Longqing periods of the Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than four hundred years. It is reported that the vegetarian workers strings Zhang Yutang sent to Taicang because of the crime, and the opera singer Wei Liangfu for *** with the good, and soon became friends, Wei because of the love of Zhang's talent, and then his daughter was promised to him. Zhang Nortang and Wei Liangfu cooperation, began to learn the southern song, more fixed string Suoyin, so that it is similar to the southern sound, and change the three-stringed style, the name of the strings. Formed a stringed music, wind music, drums and boards of three types of instruments together with a complete scale of silk and bamboo orchestra, created a "quite harmonized, very listenable" Wuzhong new music "strings and cords". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the strings were mainly used to accompany the Kunqu Opera, and after the mid-16th century, the Kunqu Opera gradually became the main type of Chinese opera, so the strings evolved into an independent silk and bamboo orchestra in addition to accompanying the Kunqu Opera. Ming Wanli years, Wen Yuange University doctor, the first minister Wang Xijue music, opera and other favorites, often invited Zhang Yutang, Zhao Zhan Yun, etc. to perform, teach art, which has contributed to the role of Jiangnan silk and bamboo circulation. Qing Yongzheng, Qianlong years, many playing Jiangnan Silk Bamboo family music class turned into a folk professional music class, often in and out of folk temples, lanterns and other festive places. At this time, Jiangnan silk and bamboo playing is not only a kind of entertainment, or a means of livelihood. Extended to the Republic of China, Taicang has more than 100 Jiangnan silk and bamboo classes. The main music is widely circulated in the folk "street", "three six", "Yun Qing", "happy song" and other eight famous songs.
The Yangtze River four fresh
Taicang is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, where the river and the sea, many varieties of fish, more famously known as the "Yangtze River four fresh" silverfish, swordfish, catfish, anchovies. Silverfish: the ancient name "chopped fish". This fish is slender, transparent body, smooth body, about a finger. Like inhabiting the mouth of the Yangtze River near the sea, the formal name is called between the silverfish, the local people called "face stick fish". Because of this fish fine bone without scales, color bright as silver, its taste and extremely delicious, so favored by diners. Knife fish: so the fish is shaped like a knife, commonly known as knife fish. The knife fish is "narrow and thin with a long head", similar to the crabs, but larger than the crabs, also known as river crabs. It is also known as river crabs. The largest one is about one foot long. This fish is characterized by its delicate and tender meat, which melts in your mouth, but it has many hairy bones, so you should be careful when eating it. It is available in large quantities before the Ching Ming Festival. After the Qingming, its silk hair bone is hard, the price began to fall. Catfish: also known as shad, commonly known as white halibut. This fish is characterized by its kiss round protruding, mouth abdomen, body without scales, the big ones up to a meter or more. Now the production has been sharply reduced, large catfish is not easy to catch. Catfish meat fat meat fresh, fine stewed braised, are fish in the famous products. Its swim bladder is fat, can make fish belly, has always been a superior edible fish. Yellowtail: the ancient name "魱". The shape of the show and flat, like bream and long, about 70 centimeters long, silver-white, with ribbed scales on the abdomen. Generally three or four years old mature, the turn of spring and summer, up the river, mainly produced in Taicang, the Yangtze River estuary to Nanjing Yanziji downstream section of the area. Its flavor is extremely delicious, it is more appropriate not to scrape the scales stew, for the Yangtze River fish in the best. Unfortunately, in recent years, it has been on the verge of extinction, and its price has become more and more expensive.