The mordern
architecture, the post-mordern
theatre and the ancient palace
One heart, broken
into three pieces:
One
piece is machine;
One piece is art;
One piece is culture.
The Shadow of Suzhou
A Small Town in the
outskirts of Suzhou
A live
performce scene of Zhouzhuang
festival opening show on Friday
night
Zhouzhuang (周庄) is one of few best preserved
traditional waterfield townships (水乡小镇) in China, which used to
densenly dot the vast rural areas in the
regions south of the Yangtze River.
With Tourism Expo
2007 currently held in Suzhou, Zhouzhuang
takes this heaven sent international
gathering opportunity to host its twelfth
annual tourist festival. On Friday night, the
townsmen and townswomen let loose their
time-honoured fishing songs, in their
old-fashioned fisherman's and fisherwoman's
costume, under fishing lights while
performing their fishing shows.
It celebrates a life
that is highly sensitive to the rhythm of
seasonal change: the raining alleyways in
tender green in spring, the lotus blossom and
water lilies in flaming red in summer, the
golden coloured crops that are ready for
harvest in autumn, and the Chinese New Year
feast in snow white winter.
