Suzhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province, is a newly-built central city at the intersection of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan provinces, adjacent to regional central cities in other provinces. It is located in the north of Anhui Province, in the Yangtze River Delta, bordering the coast, bordering Suqian and Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province in the northeast, Bengbu City in the south, Huaibei City, Shangqiu City in Henan Province and Heze City in Shandong Province in the northwest and west.

Suzhou city belongs to a dome of Huaibei basin in China-Korea paraplatform area in structural unit. The bedrock in hilly area is exposed locally, and the lithology is mainly Cambrian, Ordovician and Sinian dolomitic limestone. It contains some shale, sandstone and quartzite. Due to the influence of many crustal movements, rocks are broken, fissures and caves are developed, and water permeability is strong.

Suzhou's diet

The custom in Suzhou is the same as that in the north. The staple food is pasta, and the lunch is steamed bread and cakes. Only a few hills in Jiagou area produce rice, which is called "fragrant rice". It used to be Gong Mi. Rice products generally only have zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Almost only pasta is eaten during the Spring Festival. Yuanxiao is a kind of miscellaneous oil lamp, which is placed in front of the door and in the henhouse to ward off evil spirits.

On the morning of New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month), people are busy cooking and cooking. Dinner for family reunion is lunch, usually 12 o'clock. From the evening to the first day of New Year's Day, jiaozi is usually the main place. On the first day of New Year's Day, the first pot of jiaozi will be brought to the grave early in the morning to worship the ancestors. Moreover, this jiaozi rice must be vegetarian, and all kinds of food should be put in jiaozi soup, which means that the grain is abundant and the six animals are prosperous.

Snacks include fried meatballs, burnt leaves (noodles, locally called "cat ears") and grasshopper legs (short flour products like grasshopper bent legs, with sugar and Jiang Mo). These snacks should be ready before the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. The New Year's Eve dinner is not a dinner, it is usually jiaozi, and dinner is also a dinner. It is rich to prepare all kinds of dishes, and of course jiaozi is essential.

The above content is referenced from Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou