苏州是著名的历史文化古城。在漫长的岁月中,苏州人民创造了灿烂的物质文现和精神文明,形成了独具特色的吴中文化及别有情趣的民间风俗。如果你想进一步了解苏州,那么请到民俗博物馆来吧。 这座以展览苏州民间传统风俗为主的专业博物馆设在古典名园狮子林东侧,建筑面积约500多平米,目前主要有“婚俗厅”、“食俗厅”、“节俗厅”三个陈列展览。跨进大门,就见张灯结彩的场面,犹如来到一个世纪前正在举行婚礼Marriage Ceremony的一户苏 州人家。花轿、喜堂、洞房,处处富丽堂皇,喜气洋洋,新郎新娘结婚拜天地,吹鼓手吹吹打打,洋溢着欢乐喜庆的气氛。苏州民间婚俗除了有汉族共有的习俗外,还有着自己的地方特色,其中不少礼仪沿袭至今。 苏州美食饮誉中外。有苏式茶肴、苏式糕点、苏式糖果、苏式蜜饯、苏州名茶、苏州特色调味品、苏州特色酱菜 等10大类1000余种。食俗厅里陈列的名点、名菜、炊具、餐器等。显示出苏州饮食很早就具有高文化层次的特征,它不仅给人以温饱,而且还能给人以 物质乃至精神上的享受。 节俗厅里,眼下再现的主要是苏州人过八月半的风俗。每逢中秋节 ,苏州人要“斋月宫”入夜,家家置供桌于开下,供上菱藕、石榴、栗子、白果等时令瓜果及月饼等。焚香点烛,以寄托对美好生活 的向往。 参观民俗博物馆,将会由衷地为苏州有如此丰富多彩的物质和精神文化生活而赞叹!Suzhou is a well known ancient city for its rich history and brilliant culture. Throughout its long history, People in Suzhou have created flourishing physical and psychological civilization and formed unique Wuzhong culture and characteristic folk customs. Welcome to Suzhou Folk Custom Museum if you are tending to know deeply about Suzhou.
Suzhou Folk Custom Museum, with an emphasis on the display of the folk custom of the ancient city, locates in north side of "Lion Forest Garden". The museum is covering the area of 500 square meters, including three basic exhibition halls of Custom of Marriage, Custom of Dietary, and Custom of Festivals currently. Entering the gate, the house is decorated with lanterns and streamers as a Su household which is holding a marriage ceremony in the last century. Marriage litter, ceremony hall, and bridal chamber are together created the magnificent and pleased environment and reach the peak as the couple is acting their ceremony with the performing of drummers. Besides the common customs of Han Nationality, Custom of Marriage in Suzhou has its own unique domestic features and some are handed down until now.
Suzhou diet has a highly reputation nationally and internationally for Su tea dishes, Su cake, Su candy, Su confect, Su tea, Su condiment and Su pickles, all together 10 classes and over 1000 species. The dishes, cakes, cookers and tableware displayed in the Custom of Dietary hall manifest the highly cultural level of Suzhou diet in an early time for both stomach satisfactory and material even spiritual satisfactory are devoted.
In Custom of Festivals hall, the custom that inhabitants in Suzhou celebrate the festival of the mid- August is reproduced currently. Whenever the Mid-autumn Day, inhabitants in Suzhou celebrate the Golden Autumn Huqiu Temple Fair, on which day every house serves osmanhus lotus fruits, guava, chestnut and white fruits as well as moon cakes on the table under moon, and then censes candles in the night to express the tendency towards happy life.
The sincere praise will be given to such a brilliant and colorful physical and psychological life of Suzhou inhabitant after the visiting of Suzhou Folk Custom Museum.
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