Tianmu Lake features folk customs:

1) Lantern Festival

Breakfast, families eat more rice dumplings. Small grains without stuffing are called "sugar balls", while large ones with stuffing such as hundred fruits, jujube paste and oil and water are called "Yuanxiao".

after the family dinner in the evening, go out to enjoy the moon and watch the lights. At night, the fire trees and silver flowers, the city gates are wide open, and the streets and alleys are full of colorful lights, which is dizzying; Everywhere, gongs and drums, cymbals and cymbals play Lantern Festival. Women travel in groups to "hang the street", which is exactly "inviting the moon guest to invite the moon guest, and watching the lantern people look at the lantern people", which is very lively.

At that time, there was a children's song describing the grand occasion of Changzhou Lantern Festival: "Gan Tang Bridge, opposite Drum Bridge, and Drum Tower facing the temple gate, boring boring! Lights are coming! Lights are coming! Grid lamp? A group of harmony lights, two dragons playing with beads, three yuan harmony lights, four-sided wishful lights, five-child champion lights, hexagonal wind ling lights, seven-child eight-husband lights, eight immortals crossing the sea lights, nine lotus lights, ten-sided hibiscus lights, boring boring boring, lights come! There was an old dragon lantern behind, and twenty-four little monkeys jumped out of it, scaring Miss Niangniang to stare. "

After the Taiping Army conquered Changzhou, during the Lantern Festival, "holy soldiers" played "Taiping Army gongs and drums" to celebrate the Spring Festival. On the theatres on both sides of Qingyun Square, the men and women "holy soldiers" of Taiping Army dressed up to sing beach springs, and the soldiers and civilians had fun together, often staying up all night. On this day, there are often five or seven people together in the streets and lanes, carrying gongs and drums and knocking while walking, commonly known as "Lantern Festival in Langjie". At night, women go to the suburbs or outside the village together to take three bridges, and the round-trip route cannot be repeated, which is called "taking three bridges"; Some people pick a handful of leafy vegetables on the way and wipe their collars, which is called "relieving boredom"; Country girls also tied bald brooms, bamboo branches and so on into a reed torch ten feet high with hemp stalks, and burned it in the field, which is called "according to the wealth of the field" to predict the drought and rain.

2) Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of August in the lunar calendar, commonly known as "celebrating August and a half". A few days before the festival, people often give moon cakes, ham, ling, lotus roots and other gifts to relatives and friends. Eat "sugar taro" in the morning, have family reunion in the evening, and enjoy the moon by drinking. Women often set up incense tables in the patio for lotus root and incense burning to celebrate Ramadan Palace. Literati and scholars meet to admire the moon and compose poems in the boat pavilion.

Tianmu Lake special cuisine;

Drinking Tianmu Lake Beer: Almost all tourists like to drink a glass of Tianmu Lake Beer, because it is made of pure Tianmu Lake water at a glance, which is comfortable and refreshing.

Tasting green tea in Xiuqiu Island: Sitting in the tea garden on the island, you can enjoy the beautiful figure of a woman picking tea outside the window, or you can pick it yourself, and enjoy the elegance of picking, making and tasting tea in the mountains and green waters of Tianmu Lake.

Drink "Tianmu Lake Fish Head in Casserole". All restaurants in the scenic area use the soup of fish head in Casserole as the finale. Only after drinking it can you feel trip worthwhile.

fish head in Tianmu Lake casserole

When I came to Tianmu Lake, three or five confidants made tea with the lake water rich in natural mountain spring minerals in the tea room, but I saw that the leaves in the cup were light yellow and light green, and the fragrance was elegant. While sipping tea, chatting, reading or playing chess, enjoying the picturesque and quiet lakes and mountains, just like being out of the world, just like a fairy.

Tianmu Lake is pure in water and rich in natural bait. It is rich in various freshwater fish such as bighead carp (commonly known as chubby head silver carp and chubby head fish), with an annual output of about 1 million kilograms. When you come to Tianmu Lake, you can't help but taste the famous fish head in casserole, which is the result of careful research and careful cooking by master Zhu Shuncai, just like when you come to Singapore, you can't help but taste the curry fish head. This casserole fish head is made of 4-5 kilograms of chubby fish with heavy work and fresh jumping. Scales, gills and viscera are removed, and the head is cut off three centimeters behind the head. After frying, it is taken out and put into a casserole, put into the sweet and clear Tianmu Lake, skim off the oil slick, and add eight seasonings to simmer for several hours. When served, the soup is milky, the fish is white and red, tender and like tofu pudding, and it has no smell of soil, fat but not greasy, and it is wonderful. In 1982, the diplomatic envoys of 75 countries to China, Mrs. Xie, came to Tianmu Lake and tasted the fish head in casserole, all of which were praised. In 1985, when Deng Xiaoping went to Nanjing, Tianmu Lake Hotel specially sent a chef to cook with the fish and water from Tianmu Lake. After tasting it, Deng Xiaoping praised: "This fish head is the best dish tonight." After eating it, an educator remembered its taste for three years and wrote a poem praising: "The head of silver carp is delicious, and it is fragrant for three years." Singapore friends who seldom eat freshwater fish say that the casserole stewed fish head in Tianmu Lake has the characteristics of water town, and the flavor is quite different from that of curry fish head. This delicacy can only be tasted in Tianmu Lake.

Fish head in casserole is the most memorable food in Tianmu Lake. The soup is milky, the fish is white and red, tender and like tofu pudding, with no fishy smell, fat but not greasy, and wonderful.