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Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Author: Wen Wu Bei Yu

Tell us about this trip

The hustle and bustle of the city, we always need a quiet place to house our souls. This time we came to Suzhou Wuzhong to feel the infinite scenery of Taihu Lake. There are 48 islands and 72 peaks in the lake, each with its own characteristics, taihu lake bridge from Yuyang Mountain in the east to West Dongting Mountain in the west, like a jade belt, straddling the top of Taihu Lake, stringing up the islands, quite beautiful and spectacular.

It is said that The beauty of Taihu Lake is beautiful, and in the water of Taihu Lake, this sentence is not false at all. This time, the trip to Wuzhong encountered excellent weather, and the photos taken came with their own filters, and the lake and mountains were beautiful. Taihu Lake is a 360-degree beauty without dead angles. No matter which angle you are in, you can see the beautiful Taihu Lake. Whether it is climbing the Yuyang Pavilion, overlooking Taihu Lake, or coming to Yuyang Wharf to watch an open-air movie, it is very fun for the family to sit around together, there are many ways to play in Taihu Lake, I want you to try it. Or sit idly by the shores of Taihu Lake and watch the clouds cirrus clouds. Or taste a cup of biluochun and let your thoughts fly. Time slows down here, the heart becomes soft here.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Taihu Lake is beautiful, there are more good things, the Taihu Lake in all seasons is different, spring can enjoy flowers, autumn can appreciate the moon, summer can taste hundreds of fruits, winter can listen to snow. Suzhou, which is famous as the "land of fish and rice", has come, how can it not be tasted.

For example, the white fish, silver fish and white shrimp in Taihu Lake are extremely tender. It is also rich in oranges, loquats, bayberry, lettuce, lotus root, lettuce, etc., which will only make you feel very blessed when you arrive here.

Water is the soul of Jiangnan, and the beauty of the water of Taihu Lake flashes with the spirit of Wu culture. There are many places of interest and historical sites, rich historical and cultural relics, and the literati and inkers have left poems and paintings. For the protection of intangible cultural heritage, excellent cultural and creative products also show Wuzhong's support and development of culture. Beautiful homestays and high-quality cafes are scattered around Taihu Lake, which adds a lot of fun and enjoyment to tourists who come to Taihu Lake.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Meet your friends, come to Wuzhong, Suzhou, start a three-day and two-night journey, and follow me to feel this wonderful trip.

Day1 Stay at Renaissance Suzhou Taihu Lake Hotel - Yuyang Bay - Renaissance Chinese Restaurant

Day2 Hotel Breakfast- Yuyangshan - Yuyangge - Xiangshan Taste Chinese Restaurant Lunch - Taihu Lake Lakeside National Wetland Park - Flower Season Coffee - International Convention Center Visit - Yuyang Wharf - Stay at Huyi Homestay

Day3 Visit Taimei Yi county hotel - Taihu Blue Marathon Track - Taimei Snow Green B&B to dine and visit - Zhoushan Nuclear Sculpture Village and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Day 1

Stay at Renaissance Taihu Hotel

Sleep in front of the lake, live in the Renaissance Suzhou Taihu Hotel, the color is natural and comfortable, like wandering in the comfort of nature, but without losing the modern sense, in the room can be a package of Taihu Lake water and mountains, if in the event of good weather, let people feel comfortable and open.

Featuring a beautiful view of the Mountains of Taihu Lake, modern décor is infused with local stone and colours, and the designer rooms, suites and villas are made of sparkling turquoise.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The lobby is elegant and simple, integrated into the greenery, becomes vibrant, adding bright leather sofas, can brighten the entire space, sit here, turn two or three pages of books, is very comfortable.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The rooms are naturally coloured and have large balconies overlooking the golf course and Taihu Lake. The bedding is comfortable, the quality of sleep is well guaranteed, the room provides comfortable bedding and spa bathroom toilet with wet and dry separation, and there is a large circular bathtub, spa bathroom, you can soak in the bath to relax, wash away the tiredness of the body.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Every morning, I was awakened by the natural sunshine and got up to breathe, there was absolutely nothing, and some just started the day with energy.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The hotel also has a 415 square meter kids' club, suitable for families with small children, which is a good place to discharge the dolls.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The Marriott Hotel is connected to the Renaissance Hotel. And some of the facilities are still communal. Marriott hotels make people feel a little more business, while Renaissance Hotels are sweeter and more suitable for vacations.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The lobby of the Marriott Hotel is like a fishing fire on Taihu Lake, which is the source of his creativity. The Lobby of the Marriott Hotel features floor-to-ceiling windows that bring natural light into the interior, which is flooded with light

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The frosted glass partition ensures the privacy of the customer, but it is not completely covered, and there is enough space during the meal

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The hotel is also equipped with a swimming pool and gym, so you can still work out even when you go out.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

There are also bowling alleys, chess and card rooms, etc., and the entertainment can be arranged to be full, and there is no need to worry about the project without pastime.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Indoor entertainment areas and outdoor gardens, as well as over 500-square meters of outdoor lawns, create a happy hour for guests. The two hotels have a total of 8 unique restaurants and bars, as well as 4 swimming pools, one of which is a children's pool.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Camping in Yuyang Bay for stargazing

A niche destination for the new discovery is Yuyang Bay, where a small wooden gate can be entered, but after entering, it is like another village of willow dark flowers. Don't have a world. There are many white tents on the large lawn where you can camp. Facing the tent is a lake with abundant water and grass, and some water play facilities are suspended.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Great place to get close to nature with little ones, with communal toilets and showers.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Nowadays, more and more people in the city like to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and get close to nature. Camping is a great way to do it. If it happens to be the Lobster Festival, it's even better, and three or five friends get together. Drinking draft beer and peeling crayfish, it was a wonderful day. There is also a wealth of water play, CS Field. So in addition to watching the scenery in front of the tent, there are still many projects to play. Whether it is a family trip, a family trip, or a gathering of friends, it is a good choice.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

A refined dinner at Renaissance

If you come to the Renaissance Hotel, Black Pearl 1 Wan Li Xuan Restaurant is a feast, with local ingredients and creative cooking techniques, which is worth your special trip for the food.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Lettuce is unique to this place, so be sure to try the Taihu Lettuce Fish and Rice Soup.

It looks like a cherry, but it actually tastes like foie gras, like a mousse, and has a silky taste. The pickled tomatoes are sweet and sour.

Stir-fried idyllic seasonal vegetables: The seemingly inconspicuous dish is actually a surprise, and the pickled small silver fish is very fresh.

Squirrel cinnamon fish naturally needless to say, crispy and tender.

The gold medal buckle meat has won from the shape alone, there is a certain way to eat this buckle meat, you need to clip up one of the pieces, and then pull out a whole piece of meat, and then wrap it into the steamed bun next to it to add some vegetables, the taste is better.

Silver fish water wave eggs, eggs with tender silver fish is very fresh.

The quicksand bag is delicate, take a bite, and the mouth is full of quicksand, flowing out like gold.

Coconut fruit stewed peach gum dessert after the meal refreshing and delicious. The coconut nuts are chewy and the peach gum is soft and smooth. With a slight sweetness.

Sea urchin chives stewed tofu is also a fresh and fragrant dish.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

02

Awakened by the sound of nature, come to the Food Studio cafeteria for breakfast, Both Chinese and Western breakfasts, choose according to your preferences! Eating at a restaurant surrounded by trees will make you feel good!

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

After breakfast, we started the day.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Climb the Fishing Pavilion and look out into the distance

Yuyang Pavilion is located in Yuyang Mountain Scenic Area, surrounded by water on three sides, with beautiful scenery. Yuyang Mountain got its name because when Wu Zixu abandoned Chu Ben Wu, he was once rescued by an old fisherman, and after he became famous, he placed his descendants here, and the meaning of the mountain name is that the old fisherman's fishing grace is like the ocean of the ocean.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Climb the Yuyang Pavilion, climb high and look far, if the weather is good, you can see the Taihu Lake Bridge connecting the Taihu Lake islands, as well as the West Mountain East Mountain, the lake is blue, only feel comfortable.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The second floor of The Yuyang Pavilion is themed on the vast Taihu Lake of poetry and painting, bringing together poets and painters of past generations to praise the poems and paintings of Taihu Lake, and the main hall is the jade lacquer carved wall hanging of the poetry painting of Su Dongpo's "Dongting Spring Color Endowment". Dongting spring color is 9 meters long, 2.2 meters wide is currently the world's largest jade carving lacquer carving, wall hanging after three years of creative design, to the Song Dynasty literary scholar Su Shi spring tour, Taihu Lake intoxicated in the lake smoke and rain to look back at history, sigh the spring color of Dongting Lake made in life as a god, and refer to some of the paintings of the Wumen School and the grand scene of the Taihu Lake Fishing Festival, jointly completed by the Suzhou Seven Carving Masters and the Liaoning Jade Carving Masters.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The third floor of Yuyang Pavilion displays the representative figures of the Wumen School, paintings with the theme of Taihu Lake, and one of the largest lacquer carvings in the country is Shen Zhou's "Two Mountains of Dongting".

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu
Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

The four floors of Yuyang Mountain are the largest porcelain prints fired in Jingdezhen so far, "Yuyang Poetry Rhymes" and nine traditional stone carvings "Legend of Yuyang Mountain".

On the fifth floor of Yuyang Pavilion, that is, on the top floor is the bell tower of the golden jade liangyuan, with a bronze gilded "Taifu Auspicious Bell" and a zodiac jade bell.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Take the cable car from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, all the way to the beautiful scenery and amazing scenery. In particular, you can see the beauty of Taihu Lake and look back at the greenery of Yuyang Mountain.

Spend three days and two nights to get close to Drunken Lake Taihu

Climbing high to look far, in Yuyang Mountain overlooking Taihu Lake and the islands, is a good choice, the view is wide, the air is clear, full of comfort and ease.

The taste of fragrant hills

Located in the International Convention Center, Xiangshan Taste Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant.

A bowl of refreshing mung bean soup opens this gourmet feast, roasted outdoors in the scorching sun, mung bean soup is really a relief from heat and thirst.

Brine seed shrimp, fresh in season, is now an almost must-have dish in restaurants.

Lotus flour tamales, soft and tender ribs contain the aroma of lotus leaves, glutinous rice wrapped in meat, soft and sticky.

Hand-grabbed black pork chops, crispy and crispy. Asparagus lily beef grains, beef is very tender, asparagus crisp and refreshing.

There are many seasonal vegetables, high-quality meats, and gourmet feasts worthy of the name.

Close to nature, Taihu Lakeside National Wetland

If you want to get up close and personal with the beauty of Taihu Lake, welcome to Taihu Lakeside National Wetland Park. Take a yacht boat ride on the lake. Travel among the reeds of aquatic plants and swim with birds, ducks and fish. Once again, there was beautiful weather, cloudless and windless air. The water surface is calm. Although the sun is scorching, the scenery is infinitely better! The blue sky is reflected in the water, and the lake is also dyed blue.

Come here, breathe in the new oxygen, cruise above the boat, and enjoy the light of the lake.

Today, there is no wind, the water surface is calm, like a mirror, and the scenery and figures are reflected clearly.

The iconic wooden windmill stands out on the water, walking along the wooden platform and looking down into the water, where the water is clear and fish are swimming freely. Although the weather is hot, it still can't stop tourists from wanting to swim in the heart of Taihu Lake. Wave after wave aboard the cruise ship for a scenic view of Taihu Lake.

It is said that there are 132 species of birds here, belonging to 9 orders and 32 families. There are 8 orders of fish, 33 species in 14 families. There are also reptiles as well as mammals. It can be seen that the ecological environment here is good, which is very suitable for animals to live.

The fiery summer gives this stretch of water a blue sky and a blue reflection, and if it's winter, with snow fluttering, it's a different kind of tranquil scenery.

The big windmill is the symbol of the Lakeside Wetland Park, and this "wheel of life" can be seen from any angle.

Following the cruise ship, following the yacht in the water, the six-masted boat resting at the water's edge, like a still picture.

There are many multi-masted boats here, dotted on the water, adding a lot of mystery.

The good ecological environment attracts birds to settle here. Multiplication. As the yacht passed, a group of egrets resting by the water and grass seemed to be disturbed, and they all spread their wings and flew high, and in an instant, they flew up, and their posture was very beautiful, turning into a dynamic and beautiful ink painting. They are the elves of this quiet place, which has injected a lot of aura into this place.

Yi di Xuan is a tea room near the wetland park, with a beautiful environment, mostly wooden furniture, new Chinese style. Sitting here to taste a cup of one of the 10 famous teas in Dongting Biluochun, accompanied by the beauty of Taihu Lake, the water ripples, to say that it is leisurely and comfortable, infinitely beautiful.

If the tea room is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, then the coffee shop must be a favorite of young people. Come to the flower season coffee by the Taihu Lake, here is like a fairy of oz. Flowers and trees flourish. The aroma of coffee wafts in. It's a great place to relax in the afternoon. It is said that the pastry chef here is a French Le Cordon Bleu graduate. I thought that the dessert he made should be very delicious.

Flower season coffee afternoon tea, cozy and comfortable

By the shore of Taihu Lake, under the shade of green trees. Leisurely afternoon tea is today's small luck, the decoration style here is also very distinctive, the outdoor platform for more diners to enjoy, the indoor environment of American retro, the outdoor dense jungle of the small yard, with a modern sense of black and white plaid tables and chairs, is a mix, but let people feel very comfortable. Sit around here. Taste three or two bites of dessert and coffee. The fairy days are nothing more than that.

Chiffon black tea cake, the taste of the cream is very good, the powdered sugar is not put too much, so it will not be too sweet.

The qifeng cake has just the right taste, soft and fluffy. Cream and chiffon are a good match.

Raspberry raw chocolate, raw and clever. Smooth and melts in the mouth, with raspberry on a sweeter and fresher texture.

Hazelnut matcha cheese mousse, this dessert is a little sweeter, the mousse is delicate and sweet, but because of the crispness of hazelnuts. The taste is even better.

Flower season coffee, coffee is somewhat bitter, naturally the best partner to accompany dessert.

The Taihu International Convention Center in the beautiful scenery

Even in the serious Suzhou Taihu International Convention Center, it also has an excellent viewing location, climbing on the platform of the conference center, overlooking Taihu Lake, the scenery is beautiful, the blue waves are thousands of acres, which can make every guest participating in the conference temporarily forget the troubles of work, and only feel comfortable and comfortable.

Outside, there are nearly 5 lakeside lawns, which is a good place to hold outdoor weddings.

It feels like a wedding is also very romantic, unlike traditional weddings.

The conference center has 4 large venues, namely Taihu Hall, Hehe Hall, Gusu Hall and Miaojiao Hall, and is also equipped with more than 20 multi-functional halls of different sizes, all of which are flexible and column-free, and the layout of the conference hall can be changed according to the actual situation.

Taihu Lake Hall covers an area of 2,500 square meters, with a height of 10 meters, and can accommodate 1,500 people for meals or 3,000 people for meetings at the same time.

The 1400-square-meter hall can accommodate 800 people for meals or 1800 people for meetings.

Yuyang Wharf, enjoy the comfortable evening by Taihu Lake

On the first floor is a music dining bar with a large outdoor terrace close to the marina. Coinciding with the Crayfish Festival, there are a lot of diners on the huge platform, and you can also watch open-air movies, when you are playing fast and furious, crayfish with beer into an open-air movie, it is really too matched, it is the feeling of summer is not wrong.

It is also a good place for team building, and the music restaurant on the 1st floor can sing K directly. There are also many fun facilities at the entrance, such as billiards. It is also equipped with a homestay, called Lake Station, which should be the meaning of the station by Taihu Lake. Come here and take a night off at a caravanserai by the Taihu Lake. The room was simple and clean and economical. Breakfast was served in bowls of vegetarian noodles. The refreshingness of the day begins with this bowl of vegetarian noodles.

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Secluded in the mountains, Tai Mei Yi County Hotel

Taihu Lake by the beauty of the accommodation is too much, too beautiful Yi County, is a high-end light luxury hotel, located in the middle of the mountainside, backed by the mountain Taihu Lake, the location and scenery are excellent, all are single-family villas, the style is also different, the villa, is, Guangyao are Chinese Southeast Asian style and Japanese style villas, stay here, is really a secluded mountain forest of the immortal days ah.

Surrounded by mountains and water, full of life, quiet at night and not disturbed.

Entering the lobby is in a strong Zen style. Landscape screens, large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, quiet and mysterious, and the etiquette at the door are very enthusiastic, but they form a sharp contrast.

The lobby can drink tea, watch the stars, be free and spontaneous, and absorb the green of the mountains as much as energy, enough to support the crawling and rolling in the city. That's why we need to empty ourselves regularly, to come to picturesque places on a regular basis and empty ourselves.

If you stay in the Japanese-style courtyard Mitsuyao, there are two rooms in the courtyard, a tea room, and a separate terrace, you can rent yukata robes at the hotel to take photos. Travel to ancient Kyoto in a second.

The wooden structure of the room, every decorative painting, the lamps are carefully selected, visible enough care.

The Southeast Asian-style rooms are like a second-by-second journey to Bali. The interior is warm and simple, and the outdoor balcony is large, which can still take in the beautiful scenery of the mountains and Taihu Lake.

The rooms are equipped with a free-standing bathtub, and the soaking shower is the most comfortable.

Chinese-style rooms with outdoor pools and a wide view of Taihu Lake. It is very suitable for three or five friends to get together, or a family trip, have absolute privacy, and can enjoy quality service.

This villa is called The Villa, there is an outdoor pool, while enjoying the view, swimming at the same time, it is also too comfortable! In such a beautiful scenery, I want to swim a few more laps.

This half-mountainside hotel is simply a treasure hotel by the Taihu Lake, and if you want to cultivate yourself and get away from the hustle and bustle, you can stay here.

Beautiful track, Taihu Blue Marathon Track

The Taihu Lake Ring Road is the best way to see the beauty of Taihu Lake by car, and there is such a blue color on the Taihu Lake Avenue.

What does blue represent? Mysterious tranquility or tolerance?

Blue is the sea? Is it the sky? Or the jeans you're wearing? Or the color of Taihu Lake? Blue is given a lot of meaning. Here there is a set of blues, a blue runway. Sports enthusiasts will come here, whether professional or non-professional, will come here to start a marathon on the shore of the beautiful Taihu Lake.

Taihu Lake blue, left hand lake light, right hand mountain color, come here to ride, start a high-value journey.

Running a marathon in such an environment feels like you will give yourself more strength.

It was as if I had forgotten my fatigue on the way to the run, but was just enjoying the scenery. When we drive on the Taihu Lake Avenue, we can still encounter bicycles or motorcycle riding teams, and presumably they are also attracted by the beauty of Taihu Lake.

A beautiful homestay by Taihu Lake, Taihu Snow Green Homestay

There are countless beautiful accommodations in Taihu Lake, and I would like to recommend a homestay by Taihu Lake to you, called Taimei Snow Green Snow. Just listening to the name makes it beautiful. It is the comfort of hiding between the mountains and the lake, blending with nature, whether you want to sit in a sunken lobby or in a green courtyard, it makes people feel that the years are quiet.

White walls and black tiles, a combination of classical and modern.

The lounge area in the lobby is a long table made of wood, and the stools are also very distinctive, like the shape of a wine cup.

There is a small study, there is a lazy sofa, you can read a book here, you should still be able to watch the projection and watch movies.

The most impressive thing is the super high loft lobby, the sunken book bar. Bringing natural light into the room is lighting and transparent, very advanced.

Leaning on the mountain and the lake, sitting on a line of Taihu Lake, vast and beautiful, it is a perfect place to watch the sunset, and the private mountain forest behind it is quiet and private. Careful observation can be found that the owner of the homestay is very exquisite, and the aesthetic is also very good. This homestay can't help but be heartwarming. The eyes are full of refreshing green and clean white, just right to embellish a variety of green plants.

The small outdoor courtyard is clean and pure, full of white and green. The small white hammock is very comfortable, and lying on it makes people feel lazy and lazy unconsciously. If you are not careful, you will fall asleep. It's a great place to take pictures, and it's a sight to behold.

Any window is a beautiful painting. There is no noise, no hustle and bustle, only the tranquility that belongs to the lake and the tranquility of nature.

The middle of summer is coming, the trees are green, and it is the summer when the cicadas are constantly chirping in the memory.

You can bring your favorite people to see the turquoise waters of Taihu Lake and the most romantic sunsets. The objects in the room are very good looking and of good quality, such as Dyson's hair dryer, mini J's small ji refrigerator custom bath towel umbrella.

Comfortable soft and clean beds, complete set of ahava toiletries.

Each room has its own scenery, for example, from this window, full of green, green bamboo forest, the eyes have become comfortable, sitting here, even if you do nothing, you feel very at ease.

The hotel has farmhouse dishes that can be ordered in advance, and more than 100 per capita is already very generous. Although the restaurant is a farmhouse dish, but it is still very delicate and very distinctive, for example, this very straightforward signature dish is a miscellaneous fish, which has crucian carp and thorn fish, such as the combination of Northeast cuisine and Su cuisine, in the Taihu Lake is definitely not missed white shrimp, a fresh shrimp is tender and delicious, can fresh off the eyebrows and now is the time when the seed shrimp is on the market, and it is a different taste, chicken soup is very fresh, two bowls of belly is no problem, chicken head rice fried lily, and some beans refreshing nutrition, white soup noodles clean and refreshing and full, Thin noodles, which I like. The potato braised pork is tender and delicious.

To be honest, this homestay is really a treasure homestay by the lake.

Zhoushan Nuclear Sculpture Village

This Zhoushan is not another Zhoushan, this is not Zhoushan in Zhejiang, this is Zhoushan Village on the edge of Taihu Lake in Suzhou. It is famous for its nuclear sculptures for hundreds of generations.

Zhoushan is located at the foot of Qionglong Mountain, south of the shore of Taihu Lake. Zhoushan is the birthplace of modern nuclear carving, and the number of people currently engaged in nuclear carving is about 3,000. 80% of the nuclear carving products in the domestic market are from Zhoushan Village.

From olive core acquisition and processing to carving to sales, including the production of carving tools, forming a complete industrial chain, nuclear carving has become the pillar industry of Zhoushan Village.

Entering from the magnificent antique gatehouse, you come to the Zhoushan Nuclear Sculpture Village. The word "Zhoushan" is impressively printed on the gatehouse.

I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Zhou Jianming, a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage. He was born in The Village of GuangfuZhoushan and entered the Arts and Crafts Factory at a young age to learn nuclear carving. One is decades, repeatedly won awards, but also with apprentices to benefit, so far more than 100 people, spare no effort to publicize and promote nuclear carving culture, leading Zhoushan nuclear carving to the whole country.

Doing only one thing in a lifetime, and doing this thing to the extreme, this is probably the best interpretation of the craftsman's spirit.

Seeing his on-site carving core carving, focusing on meticulousness, there are nearly thirty lithography knives, the more delicate the works use the more engraving knives, can be skillful, the ordinary olive core carving into a work of art, is the accumulation and perseverance of many years. A work can be as short as two or three days, and as long as dozens of days.

The process of nuclear carving is 1 material selection, 2 composition, 3 files core, 4 le lines, 5 rough carving, 6 fine carving, 7 open phases, 8 modifications, 9, polishing, 10 polishing, 11 eyelets, 12 beads, 13 configuration bases, 14 packaging. It took such a complex step to obtain a beautiful nuclear sculpture.

Next, we came to visit the Suzhou Nuclear Sculpture Art Museum.

The development and current situation of the source of nuclear sculpture are described in detail. Nuclear carving is also divided into olive core carving, peach core carving, apricot core carving, bayberry core carving. Among them, olive core carving is an important category in nuclear carving, and it is also a pastry of nuclear carving art, and the materials used in olive core carving need to meet the basic requirements of nuclear type, nuclear color, nuclear solid and so on.

The birth of nuclear sculpture is related to the accessories and objects that ancient Chinese men and women liked to hang with. Nuclear sculpture is unique in China's folk crafts, unique, in 2008 was selected as a national intangible cultural heritage. See the macro in the micro, in the small in the beauty, into the painting, micro-carving wood carving of other artistic disciplines of artistic characteristics. China's nuclear carving art is roughly divided into two major schools, the northern school is commonly known as beigong, and the walnut and walnut carvings in Shandong Province and Hebei Province are the mainstays, and the southern school is dominated by the olive core carving commonly known as the southern gong sugong in Suzhou, Jiangsu.

The two schools of the north and the south, each with its own strengths, the north school of nuclear carving, the change of liberal arts and sciences is irregular, in the creation of the first is the southern school and carving, on the whole with Su Zuo other craft categories, in the overall artistic style is similar, with fine and elegant artistic characteristics. Everywhere is particularly delicate and flexible and full of charm, with the characteristics of gentle temperament unique to the southern regional culture.

Old and new craftsmen collide with each other, and the nuclear carving culture is colorful.

Three days of travel, hurriedly passed, the beauty of Taihu Lake in Wuzhong to appreciate one thousandth of it, the waves of the lake, the blue of the water, the colorful life of the stirring, whether it is to climb high and look far, or to camp and watch the stars at close range, or simply live by the Taihu Lake, choose a good hotel or a beautiful homestay, enjoy the Suzhou-style slow life, are very good ways to play. Wudi culture is colorful and unforgettable, and the intangible cultural heritage is amazing. Seasonal cuisine, traditional ingredients and creative methods are the ultimate pleasures of the tip of the tongue. Wuzhong in your heart is beautiful and worth going again.

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