In the past, Shanghainese always described Suzhou as the "back garden" of Shanghai, and the condescending intimacy was not necessarily accepted by Suzhou people. Now whoever casually pats the shoulder of "Little Suzhou" will not know each other, suzhou's total industrial output value has ranked among the best in the world. Of course, at the physical level and cultural level, Suzhou's century-old garden blossoms for four seasons, the fragrance is intoxicating, and the Kunqu opera "Six Memories of Floating Life" is performed at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, which is called the song across the mountain, and a live-action version in the Canglang Pavilion can be traced back to the roots.
Suzhou was founded 2500 years ago, Shanghai was only 700 years old, and the qualification is definitely Suzhou old. Suzhou humanities gathered, thousands of merchants gathered, the textbook said that the "bud of capitalism" broke ground here, the dignitaries and nobles in Suzhou to buy land to build houses, stacked stones to build gardens, open the door is a sea of flowers, closed door is nanshan. The little sun feet of the pillow river people also lived a meticulous and contented life, and the little lady who walked by the bridge was carrying an oil-paper umbrella, and the white bookkeeper who was cultivating in the field under the lattice window looked like a fool, and the old woman of Huansha crushed a pool of blue waves, and picked up the vendors to sell cooked sugar roots in the deep alley. Thousands of years of ink and ink dyeing have created a large number of readers, and since the Sui and Tang Dynasties opened the branch to take the scholars, 45 people have been awarded the title and 1,000 jinshi have hung zero. One year, Su Bo held a folding fan exhibition, more than a hundred fans gradually unfolded, and the champions, the eyes of the list, and the probing flowers lined up to come out of the folds of history!
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Shanghai opened its port, followed by the war that swept Suzhou into disaster, and hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into the Shanghai concession, which was a high-quality talent resource that Shanghai unexpectedly obtained. Suzhou immigrants came with capital and strategy, and they showed their skills in the fields of finance, insurance, jewelry, pigments, hotels, north-south goods, foreign goods, cotton, medicine, antiques, real estate, publishing, lawyers, culture and education, and drama. At one point, Suzhou people almost controlled the economic lifeblood of Shanghai.
Suzhou gardens have a long history, the Spring and Autumn Period Wu Wang Fu cha-made Gu Su Tai is the origin of Suzhou gardens, and then in the Jin and Tang Dynasties to form an aesthetic stereotype, the two Song Dynasty in prosperity, the Ming and Qing Dynasties reached the peak - there are more than 170 inside and outside the city. Among the existing half-hundred gardens, the Humble Administrator's Garden, the Lingering Garden, the Master of Nets Garden, the Canglang Pavilion, the Lion Forest, the Coupling Garden, the Art Garden and the Retreat Garden are all World Cultural Heritage Sites. Suzhou painter and scholar Ye Fang contacted his neighbors to use the courtyard of four ordinary apartments to create "Nanshi Piji" and "rebuild Qiankun within a few feet", composing a sequel to Suzhou Gardens. Last month, I went to admire the Jiayuantang Garden he rebuilt for a grandson in Shiquan Street, and the Pavilion pavilion of the Mountain Stone Pond Waterfall Pavilion, which inherits the context of the Suzhou Garden.
Yes, Shanghai also has gardens, it is said that the old city box once had more than thirty private homes, but there is no Suzhou people, this Piece of Taihu Stone does not know how to place. In old Shanghai, there was a Love Li Garden, commonly known as Hartung Garden, which was designed by the great housekeeper Ji Juemi from Changshu, who invited wumu mountain monks, and Changshu was under the jurisdiction of Suzhou. Jiading belonged to Jiangsu during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the oldest, largest and highest grade Yu Garden in Shanghai was invited by Pan Yunduan from Jiading to dig a pond in Zhang Nanyang. Today Shanghai can build a 632-meter Shanghai center, but some Chinese gardens are not the same. A real estate tycoon built a new garden on the west side of the old city box, borrowed the old name of the garden, and I glanced at the door: insulting the ancestors.
Kunqu opera originated from Kunshan in Suzhou and went to the whole country, and has dominated the opera circle for three hundred years since the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Now people say that Peking Opera is an elegant art, in fact, Peking Opera is "Huabu", popular art, Kunqu opera is elegant art, is "Yabu". Kunqu opera is known for its elegant lyrics, elegant lines and delicate performances, and is not a vain title of "the ancestor of a hundred plays". The rise of Peking Opera benefited from the Huiban, but Peking Opera actors could not perform Kunqu opera and could hardly be called masters.
Kunqu opera allowed the skinny bamboo fat bananas in suzhou gardens to understand what is natural, so that the ugly stone koi also witnessed the love of the world, and the number of actors, audiences and staged plays reached its peak during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. In the old days, Peking Opera actors sang in Beijing and Tianjin did not count, and only when they went to the Shanghai Wharf to get the recognition of the pear garden industry. Similarly, Kunqu opera has also profoundly affected Shanghai. Without Su Kun, there would be no ShangKun, and this statement may cause a rebuttal. But first there was Su Kun, then there was Shang Kun, this is a fact.
Suzhou people also sent a bomb to Shanghai. More than a hundred years ago, the class of citizens was formed, leisure increased, tea houses flourished, five parties were mixed, fish and dragons competed, and it was necessary to take care of each other's concerns and establish public order and good customs. In the old era, when most of them were illiterate, the commentators could be good teachers and friends of the citizens, and in the stunt and singing, they taught the audience to treat people and things, be courteous and honest, heroic and heroic, and have children's feelings. Shanghai is the big stage of many local operas, Yue opera, Huai opera, tin opera, Yong opera, Cantonese opera, Shanghai opera and so on, the strings are endless, but the number of bookstores is more than the theater.
Suzhou people also run schools in Shanghai, run tabloids, run bookstores, I admire Fan Yanqiao, Lu Zhan'an, Zhou Shuangjuan, novels, movies, poetry, bullet words, novel studies, folk literature, etc. are all involved, calligraphy and painting gardening is also handy. Talented, exemplary for future generations. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, most of the novelists who were active in Shencheng also came from Suzhou, and the Mandarin Duck Butterfly Sect alone included Bao Tianxiao, Zhou Shuangjuan, Xu Qiuya, Wu Shuangre and so on. Yes, there are a lot of Subai in the Shanghai dialect.
Suzhou people are also fashion pioneers, bong help tailors to make suits, Su help tailors specialize in qipao. The modified cheongsam highlights the beauty of the human body with a high collar, a high corset waist, and a high slit, liberating the body and consciousness of Women in Shanghai. Su XiGuanzi used to be in Shencheng and Chuanguan, Yueguan, Zhenyangguan and beauty, and the Eight Treasure Duck, Fried Shrimp, Squirrel Mandarin Fish, Shrimp White Meat, Braised Paddling, etc. in the Benbang Restaurant were all taken from SuGuan. Today's young foodies eat all over Suzhou's noodle restaurants. Shanghai's cake dumpling shop is the oldest in Wufangzhai and is also opened by Suzhou people.
Suzhou people are skillful, in the arts and crafts of the leafy, flowers like brocade, jade carving, wood carving, nuclear carving, ivory carving, bamboo carving, New Year painting, furniture, etc., are the model of Shanghai craftsmen, "Xiangshan Gang" three words are still shining, Shanghai museum displayed in the Huanghuali furniture, basically Suzhou carpenter's handmade. Today, even a blank folding fan, if marked with the word "Su Gong", the price will be more expensive. The Wumen School, with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying as the four heavenly kings, led the painting world for hundreds of years and provided rich nourishment for the formation of the Maritime School.
In the past, in the Shikumen Alley, there were two kinds of people who had a profound impact on the growth of our children, one was Ningbo A-Niang, with heavy rules, a big temper, a throat that was loud, and three houses could be heard from afar; one was a good wife in Suzhou, with a good temper, a temperament, wearing green mountains and water, a pair of white orchids on the placket, Wu Nong's soft language, a thousand turns, making people's bones crisp. A piece of drunken square milk rotten chopsticks head tuk tuk tuk eat three meals, this is Ningbo A Niang. A piece of pork cut into matchsticks so thick, the length is consistent, lean meat and fat meat separately stir-fried, this is a good wife in Suzhou.
A hundred years of ups and downs, the ebb and flow, Suzhou Creek connects you and me, Suzhou people have made outstanding contributions to the growth of Greater Shanghai, of course, Greater Shanghai has never failed Suzhounese. Today, the Yangtze River Delta is integrated and developed, and the two families in Suzhou and Shanghai should move around a lot! (Shen Jialu)