Suzhou, Center of Wu territory, inlaid in the land of Jiangnan. 10,000 years ago, the footprint of human activities in Suzhou Sanshan Island opened the curtain of Suzhou’s human history; the establishment of Wu Dadu 2,500 years ago, took the pace of Suzhou’s urban civilization.

Suzhou, China’s first batch of historical and cultural cities, the land is beautiful, the humanities are gathered, has always been known as the “land of fish and rice”, “state of cultural relics”, “paradise on earth”.

Suzhou, Wuhu with the river, the east to the sea, the river swaying, the ground Wohejia, the victory of the mountains and rivers, the richness of the fish and the rice, our ancestors, Yusi, grew up in the creation of a long and splendid history and culture, formed Unique and unique customs.

Cultural relics are a testimony to history. When a piece of cultural relics unearthed in Suzhou is displayed in front of your eyes, you may be praised for its exquisite beauty; when a group of cultural relics unearthed in Suzhou is displayed in front of your eyes, you may admire the harmony of heaven and earth; When a series of artifacts unearthed in Suzhou are displayed in front of your eyes, you may sing for their beautiful appearance. If you live in Suzhou’s historical art gallery, the vitality of the oriental civilization will surely make you linger, and think…

This is Suzhou. It has a long history, a splendid culture, the crystallization and symbol of Wudi, and the pride and pride of Wudi.

Morning light
Suzhou, the Neolithic culture concentrated area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Majiatun culture, Zhangze culture, Liangzhu culture, for thousands of years, mature rice farming, advanced pottery, jade treatment, especially developed The “Jade Ceremony” system has always been a dazzling and beautiful scene in the course of Chinese civilization.

Controversy
The hegemony of the great powers is the main theme of the Spring and Autumn Period. Wu’s competition in the Central Plains, the Northward hegemony, the Huangchi League and the Wuyue hegemony have written a moving historical chapter for the magnificent Spring and Autumn stage. Wu Guo’s bronze weapons are well-known in the country, and his exquisite jade and exquisite bronze rituals are also favored by the world. The tomb of Wushan, the tomb of Emperor Wu’s tomb, and the unearthed Wu’s royal house in the foothills of the Huqiu Spring and Autumn Tomb, A number of cultural relics, such as Chu Tuyu, unearthed from Dinghe Heshan Zhou Tomb, represent the outstanding achievements of Wu Guoyu and bronze making.

Jinxiu Jiangnan
At the time of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (140 to 87 before), Suzhou, which has the benefits of salt, copper, and Sanjiang, was already a “Jiangdong City” and became the political and economic center of the Southeast. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the northern scholars moved south, and Suzhou got another big development. “Chen Shu Xuan Di Ji” uses the “good domain, beautiful, sorrowful, sturdy, and sturdy” to describe the farmland scene of Wudi in the Six Dynasties, and the development of agriculture has driven the progress of the handicraft industry. The sericulture, silk weaving, smelting, shipbuilding, and porcelain industries are rapidly emerging, leading the time. Among them, celadon production is especially representative. As for the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the opening of the Jiangnan Canal, Suzhou has become the mainstay of the water and land transportation inside and outside the southeast coast. In the process of the national economic center of gravity moving from the Yellow River Basin to the south of the Yangtze River Basin, it has become a national distribution, transshipment and information exchange. center. This can be obtained from the northern ceramics such as Tang Sancai, which was unearthed.

Will rhyme
Suzhou, which was descended from the Tang and Song Dynasties, has an increasingly rising economic status. The ancient sayings of “there are heavens, there are Suzhou and Hangzhou” and “Suhu is ripe, the world is full” are reflected in “Marco Polo’s Travels”. . As for the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the further development of the urban and rural commodity economy has promoted the continued prosperity of urban industry and commerce, promoted the social progress and the extreme prosperity of culture. Suzhou has developed into a famous economic center and cultural center in the country, and is known as the “Southeastern Metropolis”. . At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng’s mother Cao’s tomb (commonly known as the Niangniang Tomb) and the tombs of the royal tombs of Wang Xijue in the late Ming Dynasty, such as crown costumes, jewelry, accessories, embroidery, furniture, and daily necessities, reflect the advanced technological level at that time. It also reflected the political, economic and cultural conditions of the time.

Wu Tower treasure
“Wuta National Treasure” highlights the national treasure-level Buddhist relics found in the two iconic Buddhist pagodas, the Huqiu Yunyan Temple Tower and the Panmen Ruiguang Temple, which are divided into “Treasure Tiger Hill Tiger Hill Yunyan Temple Tower Buddhist Relics” and “Tafang Ruiguang” The two museums in the north and south of the Buddhist relics of the Ruiguang Temple Tower, the layout of the octagonal brick tower and the layout of the main and the subordinates visually reproduce the original appearance of the cultural relics, full of solemn and holy religious feelings.

Treasure Tiger Hill
At the time of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (140 to 87 before), Suzhou, which has the benefits of salt, copper, and Sanjiang, was already a “Jiangdong City” and became the political and economic center of the Southeast. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the northern scholars moved south, and Suzhou got another big development. “Chen Shu-Yi Di Ji” describes the farmland scene of Wudi in the Six Dynasties with “good domain, beautiful, sorrowful, and sturdy”, and the development of agriculture has promoted the progress of handicraft industry. The sericulture, silk weaving, smelting, shipbuilding, and porcelain industries are rapidly emerging, leading the time. Among them, celadon production is especially representative. As for the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the opening of the Jiangnan Canal, Suzhou has become the mainstay of the water and land transportation inside and outside the southeast coast. In the process of the national economic center of gravity moving from the Yellow River Basin to the south of the Yangtze River Basin, it has become a national distribution, transshipment and information exchange. center. This can be obtained from the northern ceramics such as Tang Sancai, which was unearthed.

Tower Rayong
Ruiguang Tower is also known as “Ruiguang Temple Tower” or “Ruiguang Temple Tower”. Ruiguang Temple, the first name of the “Puji Temple”, according to the book, in the four years of the Three Kingdoms, Wuwu, four years (241 years), Kang Juguo’s humanity came to Suzhou, and Wu’s Sun Quanquan created this Buddhist temple for him. One of the famous Buddhist temples in Suzhou. In the tenth year of Chiwu (247 years), Sun Quan built a thirteen-level stupa in this temple in order to repay her mother. After the Five Dynasties, Jin Tianfu rebuilt in the second year (937) and gave a bronze medal to the top of the tower. During the re-construction of Song Xuanhe (1119—1125), he was changed to seven grades, and the amount was “Ruiguang Temple”. It was said that the tower often had five colors of Xiangguang, so it was renamed “Ruiguang Tower”. The existing Ruiguang Tower is a brick tower. It is a relic of the early Northern Song Dynasty. The wood structure was rebuilt in Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Its tower history is second only to the Huqiu Yunyan Temple Tower in Suzhou. The tower is 7-level and 8-sided, and is composed of an outer wall, a cloister, and a tower heart. The tower is 43.2 meters high and shrinks from bottom to top. The contour is slightly curved and the system is simple. It preserves the style and structural characteristics of the Tang and Song multi-layer towers. In April 1978, the Suzhou Cultural Management Department discovered many precious cultural relics in the bricks of the third floor of the tower. After the identification and research, these cultural relics were written in hard yellow paper. Ni”, one hundred and five volumes, “Buddha said the heavens and the earth, eight Yangjing”, a volume of the paper, “Buddha said Amitabha”, a volume of paper, “The Magical Lotus”, seven volumes (the Tang and the Five Dynasties) ); the six volumes of the “Fahua Sutra” engraved by the engraving, the volume of the “Da Zhan Daluo’s Mantra”, the volume of the “Sanskrit Begonia”, the Northern Song Dynasty; the black lacquered Luodian box (Tang, Five Dynasties); Zhenzhu Sulibao Building (Northern Song Dynasty); painted four kings like the letter (North Song); copper gold-coated tower two (five generations); earth, Guanyin, Rulai Buddha like Jiu Zun (Song) Painted gold-painted clay statues of Guanyin 2 (Song) and Lama Xiaomu Tower and Amber Turtle Button Fang (Song), etc. It is interesting to note that most of these artifacts are related to the Tantric Buddhism, for the study of Tantric in the Southern Five Dynasties The spread and its impact on the early Northern Song Dynasty have important reference value.

Suzhou Museum
The Suzhou Museum has more than 40,000 pieces of collections. It features excavated cultural relics, Ming and Qing paintings and ancient handicrafts as collections, and has won many “Wu Di Yao Zhen”. It is a collection that best reflects Wudi culture.

Founded in New Year’s Day in 1960, Suzhou Museum is a comprehensive local museum and a collection of cultural relics, conservation, research, exhibitions and education in Suzhou. There are 18,234 pieces of cultural relics in the Suzhou Museum, including 222 pieces/sets of first-class products, 829 pieces/sets of second-class products, and 8,957 pieces/sets of third-class products, especially the archaeological unearthed cultural relics, Ming and Qing paintings and calligraphy, and crafts. In addition, the Suzhou Museum also houses 3,128 volumes of 725 species of ancient books, and 32,155 species of 102,156 books, which are the key protection units for ancient books in China.

The Suzhou Museum site is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It is the most complete set of historical buildings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1999, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government invited the world-renowned Chinese architect Bei Yuming to design the new museum of Suzhou Museum. On October 6, 2006, the new museum of Suzhou Museum was completed and officially opened to the public. The new building covers an area of ​​about 10,700 square meters and a building area of ​​over 19,000 square meters. Together with the newly renovated Taiping Tianguo Zhongwang Palace, the total construction area is 26,500 square meters, which constitutes a scenic spot with the adjacent Humble Administrator’s Garden and Lion Forest. A colorful cultural corridor.

For nearly half a century, the Suzhou Museum has been rated as a provincial and municipal civilized unit model and a municipal civilized service demonstration window. The basic work of various businesses is standardized and academic research is fruitful. After opening to the public free of charge in 2008, the Suzhou Museum is committed to promoting excellent culture and serving the public. It strives for all work to “contribute to the inheritance of traditional civilization and regional civilization, to promote the image of the city and the improvement of the city’s taste, and to benefit the people. Cultural enjoyment and the needs of the community residents’ livelihoods, more than 100 special exhibitions were held. In 2018, there were more than 3.18 million audiences at home and abroad, and a total of 556 social education activities were held. The overall satisfaction rate of the audience was 95.27%.