Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi, who has filmed the documentary "Long Time Gone, Wuhan" during the epidemic period, has recently released a new work. A "Encounter with Xiangcheng" made Suzhou Xiangcheng completely out of the circle. It is said that this film successfully hit the first place in the Weibo tourism list and was released on platforms such as B Station, iQiyi, Youku, Tencent and overseas YouTube, attracting many viewers.
In the film, Ryo Takeuchi invites 7 Japanese friends who work and live in China to see the lake, taste food, and talk about life in this picturesque ink Jiangnan and the ever-changing city of science and technology... It is both beautiful and real to present a more three-dimensional xiangcheng in front of everyone. Many people sighed that this treasure town could not be hidden!
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1 minute to get to know Xiangcheng
On February 28, 2001, with the approval of the State Council, the former Wuxian City was separated into Xiangcheng District and Wuzhong District. Xiangcheng, named after Wu Zixu, the minister of the State of Wu in the Spring and Autumn of 2500 years ago, "tasted the water in the soil, like heaven and earth, and built a big city" on the shore of Yangcheng Lake, located in the geographical center of Suzhou City, with an area of 489.96 square kilometers and a water area accounting for nearly 40%, under the jurisdiction of 4 towns, 7 streets, 1 national economic development zone, 1 provincial high-tech zone, 1 high-speed rail new city and 1 provincial tourist resort, with a permanent population of more than 737,000 people and a registered population of 448,000 people.
"Speeding high-speed rails whistle through the city's skyscrapers, not far away, ancient villages are full of cooking smoke. Through thousands of years of accumulation, Xiangcheng has come from history, the modern and the ancient are intertwined, the pink wall is between the tiles, and the city is bustling and noisy. Some netizens described the xiangcheng in his eyes. It is hard to imagine that in suzhou, which is highly developed economically, time can be so skillfully integrated in the same space.
Follow the big V around Xiangcheng
In "Encounter with Xiangcheng", director Ryo Takeuchi chooses a dialogue location full of characteristics, seemingly about the different dialogues of Chinese and Japanese life, but secretly poking cue into a lot of Xiangcheng's beautiful food and history and culture, making the film a travel guide alive. Follow his lens and come to see Xiangcheng.
Stroll through the Private Su-style Gardens
The dialogue began in the Su-style garden of Xiangcheng.
Suzhou is already the "City of a Hundred Gardens", and garden life has long been deeply imprinted in the daily life of Suzhou people. And what is so special about this garden?
Named Korakuen Garden, this Suzhou-style garden was included in the third batch of Suzhou Garden Directory in August 2017. It is located in Yangcheng Lake Town, Xiangcheng District, and the name of the garden comes from Fan Zhongyan's famous sentence "The worries of the world before the world, and the happiness of the world after the world". The garden draws water from Yangcheng Lake into the park, and enters the Dragon Pond around the four-sided hall, and the lake water is clear. Korakuen Garden consists of the East Garden, the West Garden, and the South Garden, with a promenade of 100 meters, more than 70 windows of various types, and two huge mountain stone hollow walls. Although it belongs to the modern garden, Korakuen Garden shows the characteristics of Jiangnan in terms of architectural design, which is very beautiful.
During the dialogue, the guests had a plate of local snacks in their hands, which was the "Suzhou time-honored brand" Xiangcheng Ma Cake. Xiangcheng, in YangchengHu Town, Xiangcheng District, is the hometown of Shen Zhou. The specialty here is Xiangcheng Hemp Cake. Shaped like a full moon, the color is like ivory; from the middle along the diameter of the longitudinal section, the profile is clearly layered, the crystal clear sugar lard is like white jade embedded in the middle; the entrance taste, the skin is thin and crispy, the filling is delicious, sweet but not greasy, the oil is not fat, and the aftertaste is timeless. It is said that this small hemp cake must go through more than 30 processes to be able to be baked and incense without scorching spots.
Xiangcheng's silk reeling technique also appears in the lens and becomes a beautiful work of art in the skillful hands of Suzhou embroidery girls. Because of its appearance, it has the "image of the carved wisp of the bearing view", like the silk carved out of the knife, so it is also called carved silk, which is on a par with Song Jin. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the glory days of Suzhou silk, in which the level of Yuan and silk reeling technology was unique in the country, the pattern was exquisite, and the process was complex, so it was said that "an inch of silk and an inch of gold". Exquisite silk works have been given to foreign heads of state many times as a state gift.
Boating on Yangcheng Lake
After boating in Yangcheng Lake, the director and guests also tasted the hairy crabs of Yangcheng Lake, which solved the misunderstanding of "Shanghai crabs" in the Japanese people's minds: it turned out that hairy crabs were not crabs caught from the sea, but from Yangcheng Lake.
Xiangcheng has two-thirds of the water surface of Yangcheng Lake, rich in aquatic resources, and is the hometown of Hairy Crab Cuisine in China and the hometown of Eight Fresh Foods of Yangcheng Lake in China. In the abundant aquatic Yangcheng Lake, there is a delicious "Lake Eight Fresh"!
Tongue tip, upper phase, city
Yangcheng Lake Ecological Leisure Tourism Resort is the choice of many people when they are on vacation, walking on the lakeside boardwalk, embracing nature, feeling the surging lake, listening to the endless blue sky, and enjoying the beauty of the heart, it is a very pleasant thing.
Previously, the Yangcheng Lake Tourism Distribution Center also received an award from Paris - "the world's most beautiful passenger station". In addition to realizing a variety of comprehensive functions such as ticketing, distribution, consultation, and medical services, it is also a new cultural window and innovation and entrepreneurship base on the shore of Yangcheng Lake.
Visit the Royal Kiln Brics Museum
In the director's lens, the figure of the Suzhou Royal Kiln Golden Brick Museum also appeared. As a well-known Internet celebrity punch card in Suzhou, it ranked 2nd among the top 10 museums in Suzhou in 2020. Here you can see 1439 precious gold brick cultural relics and ancient kilns that produce gold bricks from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty to the Xuanzong period of the Qing Dynasty, from the yellow clay on the shore of Yangcheng Lake to the components of the highest hall of the dynasty, and the refining process of the gold bricks is at a glance.
According to the "Golden Brick Land", there are three reasons why it is called "Golden Brick": one is because of its fine and solid quality, and there is a sound of gold and stone when knocked; second, because the gold brick process is complicated and the cost is as expensive as gold; the third is because the gold bricks can only be transported to the "Beijing Warehouse" in the capital for the exclusive use of the imperial palace in ancient times, so it is called "Beijing Brick", which is later called "Golden Brick".
When the quiet beauty and the thickness, the modern and the ancient intersect in the same space, Xiangcheng shows another face.
The ginkgo trees that have been swaying for thousands of years have long become the business card of Taiping Old Street, full of golden yellow, and every drop is crushed in time.
The advanced intelligent minibus allows people to cross back to the high-tech modern, Suzhou Robo-BusQ1 Road is the first line opened by the Suzhou Robo-Bus project, and it is currently the longest Robo-Bus experience line in China.
Every day, people arrive at the Suzhou North Railway Station of the high-speed rail, intersect with the city, and let the dream take root.
Foreign big V eyes of Xiangcheng, have you been circled?!