Huqiu Flower Fair, Temple Fair
In order to expand Chinese folk culture and support Suzhou International Silk Tour Festival, Huqiu Mountain Scene Area has innovatively hosted Golden Autumn Huqiu Temple Fair since'94. And in accordance with the Huqiu "33 Solar Terms" tradition, they resume antique ceremony, fair performance and launch a number of folk art programs with South-North combination and strong spirit of the times. Till now the Temple Fair has gone through 5 sessions. The Temple Fair has a strong flavor of folk custom and is very popular with tourists, and it has become the fist product in Suzhou tourist industry.
The annual Huqiu Art Flower Fair is a tour program with spring characteristics launched in every spring in the Huqiu Mountain Scene Zone. It has been held 4 times since '95. The Flower Fair exhibits the fascinating beauty of a great number of rare flowers. Such as peony, tulip, Belgium azalea, lily. It has a fall artistic taste and forms a contrast and echo between spring and autumn, activity and inertia, and refined and popular tastes. It has become a new folk custom of Suzhou people to attend the Flower Fair in spring and the Temple Fair in autumn.