"Most Jiangnan" tells new stories

Today's Suzhou people are trying

Extract their spiritual roots from the depths of time

Plasticize the power of Jiangnan culture, start again

The "Gusu Burst Picture" of Calligraphy and Calligraphy

Suzhou panorama Xu Zhiqiang Photo

Once, it was Gusu, which was "selling diamonds in the night market, spring boats carrying Qiluo". Later, it was "a few pieces of Taihu Lake piles, a new rising to the sand, and the landscape from the clear spirit." There is always no shortage of praise in this city, and maybe there is never one more, and it can get so many poems.

The CCTV Mid -Autumn Festival stage just passed in the past 2022, accompanied by the breeze of ten miles of lotus ponds in Suzhou, as if entering the poems. The "Jiangnan Culture and Art · International Tourism Festival" just opened on August 30 created a festival brand with Jiangnan quality and Suzhou characteristics. This city that has almost become the dreams and complexes of every Chinese literati's hearts is never the imagination of the yellowing old paper pile, but today it has a clearer elegant temperament and the anger that is active in contemporary.

Huang Ximing, Executive Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, told China News Weekly that in January 2021, Suzhou issued the "Jiangnan Culture" brand three -year action plan ", which has launched ten major projects such as Jiangnan cultural research and Jiangnan cultural relics protection. Essence Suzhou adheres to the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture, and blooms Jiangnan's cultural vitality in inheriting and innovation.

If it is said that Suzhou, one of the regional cities in Jiangnan, was only part of the Jiangnan culture. Now, Suzhou is highlighting the cultural characteristics of the "most Jiangnan". When it comes to Jiangnan, people think of Suzhou. The city is creating a "new posture" that is reflected in traditional culture and modern civilization.

The "non -heritage" ingenuity of the new era

The design inspiration of the "Autumn Evening" stage of the "Autumn Festival" was inspired by the "Autumn Festival". "Gusu's Furious Map", the beginning is in Mu Dudu. "In the millennium ancient town Mudu, which is full of market wine restaurants, north -south shipping, and garden opera, the most impressed by audiences at home and abroad is to replace the pen and line ink with the line. Su Xiu.

Su Xiu, listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in 2006, originated in Wu County, Suzhou. The "Gusu Zhi" compiled by the Ministry of Households of the Ministry of Households during the Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty said: "Exquisite, fine, elegant, and clean, called Suzhou embroidery." According to the Western Han Dynasty Liu Xiang "Talking Garden", as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Guo has already been. Su Xiu is used for clothing. In the Three Kingdoms period, Su Xiu, as an appreciation of art, has appeared. As of the Song Dynasty, the art of Su Xiu has reached a considerable level of art. Suzhou person Zhang Yingwen's book "The Secret of the Qing Dynasty" said: "The embroidery of the Song people, the needle thread is fine, the pills stop one or two silk, and the needle is used as a hair.

On the "autumn night", Su Xiu appeared in Yao Jianping, known as Su Xiu's representative inheritor. In the early Qing Dynasty painter Shi Tao said in a painting post: "When the pen and ink are with the times, the essays of the poems are turned." In Yao Jianping's eyes, Su Xiu cannot also be limited to traditional cats and dogs, combined with the contemporary context. There is a bigger way out. She began to integrate oil painting, photography, sculpture, Chinese paintings, calligraphy lines, structures, colors and light and shadow changes. In terms of subject matter, she embroidered the "Belt and Road" theme "Silk Road -West Explosion -West Out of the" Belt and Road "theme full of grand narrative tension. "Chang'an" "" "Return to the full load", Olympic theme work "Harmony -Centennial Olympic China Dream". In 2018, Yao Jianping and the team made a huge Su embroidered screen "Magnolia Fragrance" customized by the first expo. The cumulative embroidered about 120 million stitches was placed in the welcoming hall of the main venue. Su Xiu is no longer beautiful and elegant, but also gradually shows a magnificent momentum.

Yao Jianping's work "Silk Road-West Explosion Chang'an"

Yao Jianping's eldest daughter Yao Lan emotion "China News Weekly": "In the past, Su Xiu was always a small work. When placing with many artworks, it was easy to be ignored and said that the carving was small. There are major breakthroughs in the scale, so that they may enter the public cultural space. "

The Non -Heritage itself has been called "heritage", but also shows that although its craftsmanship and skills are precious, it is far from the current life. If they cannot provide a stable and growth prospect for the inheritance, even if there are government investment and protection, it is easy to wither. When Su Xiu passed to the generation of Yao Lan, she was devoted to the ultimate pursuit of skills with her mother Yao Jianping. She never commercialized Su Xiu's art as a post -90s and very familiar to the young people's consumer market. Link to life. "Su Xiu inherited for more than 2,000 years, and should not only stay in the museum. Only by integrating life can we truly" live "."

In early 2018, Yao Lan and his college classmate Li Wenbo and sister Yao Zhuo set up a new brand "Yao Xiu". Unlike the high -end positioning of "Yao Jianping Embroidery Art", "Yao Xiu" focuses on youthful and living, and launched products such as mobile phone cases, laptops, card bags, jewelry, etc. The price of a pair of earrings is only more than 200 yuan. In the Qixi Festival of 2021, the King of Glory Mobile Games launched the new skin of Wang Zhaojun's new skin "Qiao Qiao Weaving" designed by Yao Jianping and Yao Lan's mother and daughter. On the first day of the shelves, the sales volume exceeded 8 digits. The same proportion is restored, and the same garment is produced. The exquisite and elegant Su Xiu jumped out of the picture frame and walked into the daily life of the younger generation.

The innovation of Su Xiu's inheritance is a drop in Suzhou's "Jiangnan Traditional Crafts Heritage Revitalization Project". In recent years, Suzhou's non -heritage protection management legal system has become increasingly perfect. In September 2013, Suzhou City issued the "Regulations on the Protection of the Innovation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Suzhou", becoming the first prefecture -level city in China to issue non -heritage protection regulations. According to the "Jiangnan Culture" brand shaping plan, Suzhou is strengthening the brand of "handicraft and folk art capital", focusing on digging and extracting the contemporary value of Jiangnan's traditional craftsmanship, brightening the golden signboard of "Su Gong Su Zuo", and building Jiangnan cultural inheritance and development New advantage. Promote the performance of arts and crafts products, craft carrier, and creative innovation, promote the organic integration of arts and crafts and emerging technologies, and improve industrial chains such as design, production, production, and sales. Support the construction of a digital resource library, an appraisal and evaluation system, and the construction of a trading platform. In May last year, Suzhou launched the "Su Schant Museum" at the National Convention and Exhibition Center of the China International Import Expo one by one, bringing together 12 Sucu categories such as Su Xiu, Silk, Jade Carving, Nuclear Carving, and Su Fan to develop non -heritage production vitality And continuing ecology.

In order to lead the modern development of Jiangnan's traditional craftsmanship, Suzhou has strengthened the selection and selection of high -level talent training, supports funding to fund high -level art and craft projects, and promotes measures such as "famous teachers and apprentices" and "famous teacher studios into campuses". The construction of the echelon to attract high -end creative talents with an international perspective in various ways.

Today, six world -class intangible cultural heritages such as Kunqu, Guqin, Song Jin, and Silk in Suzhou, as well as many national intangible cultural heritages such as Su Xiu, Jade Carving, Jiangnan Silk Bamboo are attracting young generation practitioners. For example, since ancient times, the town of the town of Zhenhu Su Embroidery Town, which is "boudoir family embroidery, and the woman and auntie is ingenious", released the survey data in 2018. There are 1397 embroidery practitioners in the town, and the "post -90s" embroidery 906 employees, accounting for about 25%of the total number of practitioners. The joining of young people not only allowed the traditional craftsmanship, but also closer the distance between traditional non -heritage and contemporary life.

"Rotating the corner"

Cao Xueqin said: "The most rich and rich places in the red dust." What he said was the gate. Jiang Tang said: "Monk windows are worried about the winter, and the mountains of temple roads are also underworld." This is Huqiu. The connection of the gate and Huqiu is the "Qili Mountain Pond" of Suzhou Famous Street, which has a history of nearly 1180 years. Walking on Qingshen Road, there are always leisurely vocals from the depths of the alleys. It comes from the distance from a distant time. After lunch, the large and small malls and Kunqu Square in Shantang Street are ready to open.

Following the "咿咿” ”", embarked on the second floor of "White Wall Daiwa", and Leng Guijun, the founder of the Suzhou Shantang Reliable Kunqu Pavilion and associate professor of Suzhou Vocational University, was watching two 9 or 10 years old in the training class. Elementary school practitioners practice singing section. Leng Guijun has founded the Kunqu Pavilion of Yamitang for 11 years. As the founder of Suzhou's first private theater troupe, it is not easy to rely on cultural tourism and commercial markets to operate a traditional opera on the traditional opera. The venue was excluded, the troupe gathered, scattered and gathered. In the early days of the start of the business, 400,000 tourists received every year Shantang Street. They passed by the door, but almost no one came in. Until recent years, the performance market of the small theater has gradually matured, and Suzhou has also focused on building the "Jiangnan Small Theater" project, which has produced a certain influence among the audience. The whole process of the patch is completely open to the audience, and the seat rate is getting higher and higher. The highest peak performed the total number of daily performances of the daily performance, reaching 200 people.

In May 2021, Suzhou announced the first batch of 33 "Jiangnan Small theater" list, of which Yamitang Reluted Kunqu Pavilion. Leng Guijun told "China News Weekly" that after entering the list, the "Rating Kunqu Pavilion" has received the attention of investors and managers. Now the house is being renovated and rectified. In the future, there will be a more comfortable hardware environment for the audience. The official public account of the "Jiangnan Small Theater" also promoted and drained these small theaters who entered the list. The "Jiangnan Small Theater" project gave the audience ticket purchase subsidies, adding more attractiveness and popularity to these small theater.

Sitting on the stage of the Kunqu Pavilion in Yamitang, a few steps away, the actor who introduced the tracks he wanted to sing and chatted with the viewer with a smile. When you say a word, you are sometimes interesting, and sometimes shake a "burden", and use Suzhou dialects to tell the story of those historical golden iron horses and heroes. A young man who looks like a college student in the audience said to his friends: "Hey, this seems to be a talk show of the opera version."

Jiangnan Small Theater's Xiaqiu Performance Season launched Ni Lixiang Photo

In Suzhou, regardless of the evaluation or Kunqu, the "small theater" is their classical original ecology. In the past, they never performed in the Grand Theater as they are now. The evaluation was that 3 or 50 people sat in the tea house and listened to the book to drink tea. Kunqu is often performed in the home courtyard, garden, and hall. The plot, characters in the play are integrated with the surrounding environment and architecture. To some extent, the small theater is the characteristics and historical heritage of Suzhou. This is Jiangnan life that cannot be separated by life and art.

Since 2020, the "Jiangnan Small Theater" has launched the performance season each year. In addition to the "hometown sound performances" and the kunqu drama, it also covers more diverse art forms such as talk shows, drama, cross talk, dance, Peking Opera. This year's "Jiangnan Small Theater" Xiaqiu performance season covers the "Jiangnan Culture and Art · International Tourism Festival" and "Yayun Jiangnan" section. In the next month, the Gulou West Theater, Beijing Intermediate Theater, Hangzhou Orange The drama clubs, Suzhou Hip -Hop One Laughing Hall, and other troupes across the country performed in Suzhou. If it happened to have taken the subway at the Suzhou Passage Paris Station in July this year, people would be pleasantly surprised to find that the "Jiangnan Little Theater" actually walked to the rail transit. This is exactly the ideal that "Jiangnan Small Theater" gives himself the future -go to the street corner, shopping malls, and subway station airports. In the place where people may stop, there is a corner of the corner to make Suzhou a "hundred dramas of the hundred dramas. "City", people in the city will encounter play.

"Small theater is a measure of drama and even artistic and cultural ecology in a place. The small theater is prosperous. The theater art and theater culture in this area also have the foundation of development." It is believed that the third wave of the development of small theater in China may be in Suzhou. The art of small theater is not just a drama. Suzhou has very good song art resources. As long as the soil of art is paved and the cultural foundation is cultivated, the "Jiangnan Small Theater" will always usher in the day when flowering.

The source of "why is Jiangnan"

The cultural root nourishes one person, and Wu Di culture and archeology naturally become an important topic for Suzhou scholars. They are constantly tracing, why is it Jiangnan? How does it develop? Today, Suzhou has completed the upgrade of the environmental remediation and exhibition hall of the Sanshan Island Paleolithic Site. Since 2021, the grass shoes mountain site has continued to carry out active archeological excavations. In June this year, the archeological site of the straw shoes mountain was officially opened.

Grass shoes mountain site is located on the south bank of Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou Industrial Park. It was discovered during the first cultural relic survey in 1956. From the first archeological excavation in 1972, as of 2021, 239 tombs and rice fields were found in the New Stone Times discovered in the grass shoes mountain site. 115 yuan and multiple locations, cultural relics, archeological judgments, the straw shoes mountain site provides ten different levels of cultural accumulation. The top layer belongs to the Wuyue culture of the Spring and Autumn Period. The "three stacks", that is, Majiabang Culture, Songze Culture, and Liangzhu Culture continuously overlap.

"Three -layer layer" is the concept of Liang Siyong, the founder of Chinese archeological strata. When Liang Siyong was excavated, he adopted the method of natural stacking layers to correctly compare the thickness and represent the three different periods of Yangshao, Longshan and Yinxu, respectively. The cultural layers are distinguished, so as to establish the three -kind of culture in the morning and evening order. This method is a key to understand the relationship between prehistoric culture and history and culture. There is no broken connection in Jiangnan's "three stacks" to establish the development sequence of prehistoric culture in Taihu Lake Basin. The straw shoes mountain site is therefore called "Jiangnan History Cultural Rules".

From 1972-1973, one of the most important findings of the archeological excavation of the straw shoes was M198 tomb-a typical Liangzhu cultural tomb. At that time, when the tomb was revealed, a jade was first found, the internal circle of the outside, and the beast facial decoration. This jade was known as "the first jade in China". The discovery of the pottery was determined in the real era of Yu Yugu, and further inspired and promoted Zhejiang archeological workers to carry out a series of archeological work on Liangzhu sites. Important examples.

Sun Mingli, deputy director of the Suzhou Institute of Archeology, told China News Weekly that the discovery of the grass shoes mountain site has promoted the depth of early culture of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, especially Liangzhu culture research, and then opened the social structure and religion of the Liangzhu culture period. The prelude to the research of etiquette and civilization.

Photo by Chen Yuhe Sites of Grass Shoes Mountain

The earliest artificial irrigation system in the "Grass Shoes Mountain" ancient rice fields and the physical objects of Ge Textiles, pottery spinning wheels, and bone shutters revealed that the ancestors of the straw shoe mountain have mastered textile technology more than 6,000 years ago, and they have mastered textile technology. Started rice agriculture and move towards civilization. Sun Mingli believes that rice work is a fine agriculture. The cultures of rice work have cultivated the character of Jiangnan people. It has an important impact on people's diet, living habits, and even moral value systems, and promoted the development of handicraft industry and business.

Li Dongjun, a professor at the School of History of Nankai University, once conceived three stages of the origin of the Chinese country: grass shoes mountain culture or small test stage at the origin of the country, Liangzhu culture or the middle test stage for the origin of the country, and Liangzhu culture formed in the migration of large migrations in migration Liangzhu's world is the stage of formation and popularity of culture China.

After the autumn of this year, the Suzhou Institute of Archeology plans to continue excavation at the straw shoes mountain site. They want to study the complete "land book" of the historical development of this Yangtze River Delta region, verify that the survival and living conditions of human beings in the Jiangnan region in the history of history, and think about those rice is the rice. How to bred the rich and rich fish and rice hometown, a simple jade, how to carve out the beautiful Su Gong Su work of the future generations, and how they have a profound impact on the aesthetic of Jiangnan culture. The source of Jiangnan Culture ".

The development and flow of Jiangnan's culture and flowing to this day, from Shangwu to Chongwen, from heavy farmers to re -business, constantly absorbing, integrated, and sublimation, it has lost some unique cultural characteristics in the historical mid -history, but it has never really changed.Suzhou writer Ye Mi once said: "Suzhou is very strange. Its non -disappearing urban power, part of the unattended things that are stored in this place, is the stubbornness of people's pursuit of happiness.It turns into its own spiritual and soul, and it has not disappeared. "This may be one of the most important contributions in the history of the city in the history of the Chinese people -poetic and highly aesthetic Jiangnan life.EssenceThis is the cultural root left by the ancestors. Today's Suzhou people are trying to extract their spiritual roots from the depths of time, polish the power of Jiangnan culture, and write again, and the current "Gusu Fusong Pictures".Photo by Tao Yuan, the night scene of Suzhou Ancient City

Author: Li Jing

Operation editor: Xiao Ran

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