“Along the thousands of miles of fertile fields on the shores of Taihu Lake, the town scenery is beautiful, with water flowing under the shade of willows and boats passing through stone arch bridges. In spring, peach blossoms bloom everywhere like clouds; in summer, the fragrance of lotus lakes fills the water; in autumn, The fragrance of red osmanthus, golden osmanthus and white osmanthus is everywhere.
“It is this colorful town and water town, inlaid with the pearl-like Taihu Lake.
"Inlaid in the corner of this pearl are: Meiyuan, Liyuan and Yuantouzhu.
"These three famous gardens, created by heaven and earth, are all located in Wuxi. Wuxi is the darling of nature and is uniquely endowed with natural resources.
“Wuxi-Xishan has been opened up, but under the Longguang Tower of Xishan, Wuxi’s long streets are straight, with numerous buildings, cars like flowing water, and people like tides. How prosperous and gorgeous it is! Taihu Lake is like The mirror reflects the beautiful appearance of Wuxi, especially the three famous gardens, each of which resembles golden carvings and jade carvings, each of which is filled with beautiful flowers and new scenery..." This is a beautiful prose "Spring in Taihu Lake" written by the writer Bi Ye. A description of Wuxi in the book.
Wuxi, my beautiful hometown, I am proud to have such a hometown!
Wuxi, also known as Liangxi, is an ancient city with a history of more than 3,000 years. It is located in the Yangtze River Delta, in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, in the middle section of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, with the ancient canal passing right through it, at the foot of Huishan Mountain and on the shore of Taihu Lake. It borders Shanghai to the east and Nanjing to the west. It is a good place with developed transportation, large population and prosperous economy, and is known as "Little Shanghai". What a treasure and a place of outstanding people! (Suileng Education Information Network www.suilengea.com)
Wuxi has many cultural relics and historic sites. It is a place frequented by many ancient celebrities. According to local records, Lu Yu, Zhang Ji, Li Yangbing, Xu Hun... of the Tang Dynasty, and Fan Zhongyan, Su Dongpo, Han Shizhong, Wen Tianxiang... of the Song Dynasty... all came to Wuxi and left behind many precious calligraphy treasures. Wuxi is also the hometown of many famous figures, such as Gu Kaizhi, Li Shen, Li Gang, Shao Bao, Gu Xiancheng, Xue Fucheng... all from Wuxi in ancient times. Famous modern figures include: national industrialists Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng, revolutionaries Qin Bangxian (Bogu), Yan Pu and Lu Dingyi, writer Qian Zhongshu, scientist Qian Weichang, musician Wang Xin, the cartoonist Hua Junwu, and the blind A Bing, a world-class folk musician despite his poor background...
Famous places of interest in Wuxi, There are also many cultural landscapes. There are the 88-meter-high Lingshan Giant Buddha, the world-famous second spring in the world, Huishan, the highest mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, Longguang Pagoda that has experienced vicissitudes of life, Xihui Park where people come and go, Yuantouzhu at the end of Taihu Lake, and the four seasons. The fragrant plum garden, the rare and delicate Li garden. ...
Donglin Academy built by Yang Shi, a famous scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, is located in Sujia Alley, East Gate, Wuxi City. In 1604, famous scholars Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong were deposed and returned to their hometowns for offending the treacherous minister Wei Zhongxian. They made peace talks and donated funds to rebuild Donglin Academy.
Gu Xiancheng's famous couplet written by Donglin Academy, "The sound of wind and rain can be heard by the sound of reading, and the family and state affairs are concerned about everything in the world" will be forever recited by future generations. Later, when Gao Panlong learned that Wei Zhongxian had sent people to arrest him, he looked up to the sky and laughed and said, "I have been waiting for death for a long time." He committed suicide by throwing himself into the pond that night. Today, there are statues of the "Eight Gentlemen" such as Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong in Donglin Square. There are countless former residences of famous people in Wuxi.
Wuxi’s Huishan clay figurines, oily gluten and sauced pork ribs are prestigious traditional handicrafts and traditional specialties. Huishan clay figurines have a history of more than 400 years, with various shapes and exquisite shapes. The pork ribs with oily gluten and sauce are delicious
. Oily gluten is known as the "delicacy of mountains and seas" in vegetarian cuisine. Sauce spareribs are famous and are a famous specialty in Wuxi. And the thin-skinned, juicy, sweet peach is mouth-watering.
Wuxi's economy has been developed. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, the canal, the main artery that connects the north and the south, has gradually developed into a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wuxi's social economy became more prosperous and gradually developed into a trade center for grain, cotton cloth, cocoons and raw silk in southern Jiangsu. Wuxi, Wuhu, Jiujiang and Changsha have become the four famous rice markets at home and abroad. With the development of handicraft production, homespun cloth has become "one of the bulk products in Wuxi", and Wuxi's reputation as "cloth dock" has spread all over the country. Subsequently, the sericulture industry emerged, and Wuxi became the silk cocoon market "best in the southeast". In 1895, brothers Yang Zonglian and Yang Zonghan founded the first national capital enterprise, Yeqin Cotton Mill.
In 1900, brothers Rong Zongjing, Rong Desheng and Zhu Zhongfu jointly founded Baoxing Flour Mill.
In 1933, Wuxi had 323 large and small factories, ranking fifth in the country. Wuxi's national economy and social undertakings have developed rapidly. Wu
The social changes and development over the past fifty years since the liberation of Wuxi have made rapid progress in reform and opening up, economic construction and social development. In 1981, Wuxi was listed as one of the 15 economic center cities in the country. Now Wuxi has become one of the four megacities in Jiangsu Province. The city of Wuxi is changing with each passing day, and there are rows of high-rise buildings.
Wuxi is full of warmth and water, and the investment environment is excellent. The moving "Taihu Lake Beauty" and the blind man A Bing's "Two Springs Reflect the Moon" attracted a large number of businessmen to invest in Wuxi, especially Japanese businessmen who were particularly fond of this hot land. Today, the people of Wuxi are high-spirited and striving to implement a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. As a Wuxi person, I am proud of all aspects of Wuxi