The Spring Festival is here. Suzhou will hang Spring Festival couplets when the Spring Festival is approaching. Now the editor will tell you about the time to hang Spring Festival couplets, as well as related matters about Suzhou City Gate. You can also learn about it. Let’s go and see the story about the city gate.

Spring Festival Couplets hanging on the city gate (Suzhou)

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Time: 10:58 am on January 29th

Address: Xumen West Square (Main Venue

City Gate Hanging Spring Festival Couplets Activity Process: (Main Venue Ceremony

1. Launching Ceremony of Hanging Spring Festival Couplets.

2. Release of the Ancient City to Protect Citizens Proposal.

3. Establish a volunteer alliance for the protection of the ancient city.

5. Sign a blessing. , Suzhou Cultural and Creative Market.

This year’s Spring Festival couplets are not ordinary. They are all written and written by famous artists. It is worth noting that there will be more Spring Festival couplets on the day of the event. Dragon and lion dances, magnolia fans, Spring Festival couplet writing, etc. Wudi folk activities connect you with traditional New Year life, so you can’t miss it. Don’t miss it!

Nine City Gates

How much do you know about the nine major city gates in Suzhou? In the hearts of Chinese people, the city is home, and home is the wall. The thick and vicissitudes of the city wall represent the long and broad culture and history. It is a symbol of traditional family and country culture. The hope of our ancestors to live and work in peace and contentment. In the new era, the city wall culture embodies the spirit of a new era that keeps pace with the times. It is not only a historical heritage, but also a current cultural landmark.

1. Xumen

Xumen, also known as Laoxumen, is located in the west of Suzhou City and south of Wannian Bridge. It got its name. It was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Suzhou in 1982.

2. Changmen

Changmen is located in the northwest of the city. "Chang" means reaching the sky, which means the general of Wu State. With the blessing of the gods, it became stronger and stronger day by day. Because Wu wanted to destroy Chu, the gate was facing the Chu State, so it was also named Po Chu Gate because people with the surname Chang lived here.

3. Panmen

Suzhou City was originally built as the capital of the Spring and Autumn Period Wu Kingdom by King Helu of Wu in 514 BC. Panmen is one of the eight gates of the Wu capital. In ancient times, it was called Panmen. There was a wooden dragon hanging on the door to show the deterrence of the Yue Kingdom. Because it is "half water and land, and it bends along the water", it is the only intact Panmen Shuicheng Gate at home and abroad.

4. The Snake Gate

The Snake Gate is located in the south of Suzhou City, to the east of Panmen. It is also because Helu wanted to suppress the Yue Kingdom. The snake gate in the house is a dragon. On the south gate of Guzicheng, the reverse feathers are two salamanders wrapped around dragon horns. Yue is a snake in the already position. On the snake gate, a water snake is painted with the north head facing inward, which means that the more the snake is, the more it is. It belongs to Wu.

5. Golden Gate

The Golden Gate was built in 1922 and is a Roman-style gate. It is now a cultural relic of Suzhou. Protected unit.

6. Loumen

Loumen is located in the northeast of the city. "Wudi Ji" records: Loumen, originally named _men, was in the southeast of Qin Dynasty. Later, it was renamed as Lou County in Han Dynasty. The city gate was divided into three levels: outer city, middle city and inner city. The inner city has towers, and there are open spaces and gate devices between the three land gates, which are very strong. There are three water gates to the south of the city gate, which are also equipped with gate devices. The city and the outside of the city are bounded by the Waicheng River, which is connected to the outside of the city through a suspension bridge. There is also a water and land connection to the Loujiang River, extending outward across the pond.

7. Xiangmen

Xiangmen, formerly known as Jiangmen, is located in the east of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is named because it was once a place where various craftsmen gathered. It is said that King Helu of Wu once ordered Ganjiang, a master swordsmith, to set up a furnace to make swords here, so it is also called Qianjiang Gate. Later called "Xiangmen" is the change of sound. The gate was filled up in the early Song Dynasty. It was rebuilt in 23-25 ??years of the Republic of China and demolished after liberation. Rebuilt in 2012.

8. Qimen

It is located in the north of Suzhou City. Because the gate faced the Qi State at that time, it was named. According to legend, in the tenth year of Helu (505 BC), Wu defeated Qi, and Qi took a female hostage to marry Wu Shizibo.

Qi's daughter was homesick and became ill from crying day and night. Helu built this gate and named it "Wang Qi Gate" and asked Qi's daughter to swim on top of it. It was later called Qi Gate.

9. Pingmen

Place name, located in the north of Suzhou City, is the north gate of Suzhou City. At that time, Wu Zixu led the Qi army out of this gate, defeated the Qi State, returned to the court with his troops, and entered through this gate again, hence the name. The original city gate and wall were demolished in 1958 and rebuilt in 2012.