Suzhou Travel Guide Best One-Day Tour Routes

The best routes for independent travel in Suzhou are as follows: the charm of humanity and the beauty of fashion.

1. The Charm of Humanity

Route: Pingjiang Road (Love Tree/Hua Sangzhai/Old Boat/Haner Garden)-Suzhou Museum (Ieoh Ming Pei’s "The Closing of the Mountain") (The Humble Administrator's Garden)

Route: Pingjiang Road (Fuxi Qin Pavilion/Pipa Pingtan Pavilion) - Couple Garden (the only love-themed garden in Suzhou) - Jinguli Art Museum (appreciate art exhibitions) - Seclusion Hotel (stay in a Republican-style hotel) ).

Route: Lingering Garden (one of the four famous gardens in China) - Xiyuan Temple (eating vegetarian noodles/playing cats) - Tiger Hill (Flower Festival) - Shantang Street (Shantang Pingtan Book Garden/ Shantang Kunqu Opera Hall/Water Upstream/Hai Shi Shantang).

2. The beauty of fashion

Route: Eslite Bookstore (literary resort/iconic grand staircase) - Suzhou Central Shopping Mall (Jinji Lake Biennale) - Gate of the East - Lakeside Avenue -Jinji Lake Musical Fountain/Harmonious Sky Curtain (feel the visual shock brought by naked-eye 3D).

Route: Moonlight Pier - Upstream of Jinji Lake (visit the largest inner-city lake in China, a 5A tourist attraction) - Suzhou Culture and Art Center (watch a good drama) - Li Gongdi (experience national-level tourism and leisure The neighborhood has a new look integrating culture, business and tourism).

Local specialties

1. Su embroidery

The history of Su embroidery can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,600 years ago. Su embroidery is closely related to Hunan embroidery, Sichuan embroidery, and Guangdong embroidery. Cantonese embroidery is also known as "China's Four Famous Embroideries". And it is the first of the four famous embroideries. The themes of Su embroidery are mainly figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and animals, and there are embroidery pieces, album surfaces, screen strips, screens, etc.

2. Silk

Suzhou is the hometown of silk. There are ruins from the New and Paleolithic Ages in the Taihu Lake Basin, which bear witness to the long history of silk. Fragments of textiles dating back 6,000 years were unearthed from Caoxie Mountain in Weiting Town, and silk fabrics dating back 4,700 years were unearthed from Qianshanyang in Wuxing.

3. Song Brocade

"Brocade" is a high-grade silk fabric. Song Brocade produced in Suzhou, Yun Brocade in Nanjing and Shu Brocade in Sichuan are known as "China's Three Famous Brocades". Its weaving technology is exquisite, and the warp wire has two layers: surface warp and bottom warp, so it is also called "heavy brocade".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou City