China Suzhou International Silk Tourist Festival
China Suzhou International Silk Tourist Festival is a large celebration activity, sponsored by the National Tourism Administration, the Textile Federation of the Trade Unions, the Silk Head Office and the Suzhou Municipal Government, and undertaken by Suzhou Foreign Trade and Economy Committee and Suzhou Tourism Management Bureau. Held biyearly from Sept. 25 to Oct 20, it provides various opportunities through tourism for the trade and economy of this city. A series of celebration activities with local cultural charm are being held, including large economy and trade talks, the Tiger Hill Temple Fair and the Tianping Red Maple Art Festival, to attract foreign investments and to promote sales.
Tianping Mountain in Western Suzhou is famous for its red maple, rare stone and clear spring Due to the openness of new highways; Tianping is 10km nearer from the downtown. At the south foot of Tianping, over 170 maple planted in Ming Wanli years and those planted recent years congregate into a forest. Late in autumn, the maples are red as rosy clouds, which makes a peculiar natural scene in Tianping. It has become a popular tourist project to go to Tianping to sightsee maples in late autumn.
Red Maple Art Festival organizes performances with local characteristics, such as Chinese opera, art and craft, and meanwhile hosts contests related to Tianping Red Maple, such as fine arts, writing poem, essay, photography and calligraphy, etc.
Tianping Mountain in Western Suzhou is famous for its red maple, rare stone and clear spring Due to the openness of new highways, Tianping is 10km nearer from the downtown. At the south foot of Tianping, over 170 maple planted in Ming Wanli years and those planted recent years congregate into a forest. Late in autumn, the maples are red as rosy clouds, which makes a peculiar natural scene in Tianping. It has become a popular tourist project to go to Tianping to sightsee maples in late autumn.
Red Maple Art Festival organizes performances with local characteristics, such as Chinese opera, art and craft, and meanwhile hosts contests related to Tianping Red Maple, such as fine arts, writing poem, essay, photography and calligraphy, etc.
Tongli Spring Tourist Culture Festival
Tongli Spring Tourist Culture Festival is jointly hosted by 8 units, including Association of China Film Experts, Jiangsu Province Tourism Bureau, Suzhou City Tourism Bureau and Government of Wujiang City, etc. It is held in the ancient town of Tongli from the 18th to 19th of April each year. During the Culture Festival, there are activities such as Opening Ceremony with the River Village folk characteristics, Retrospective of Film and TV works from Tongli Film and TV Base, Union of China Famous Film and TV Directors and Actors Actresses, Seminar of Tongli Film and TV works, etc. Meanwhile, there are exhibitions of folk customs, local opera and folk art in the ancient town of Tongli. With large scale high level, mass participants and good publicity, Tongli Spring Tourist Culture Festival Wins praise from tourists.
Hosting of Tongli Spring Tourist Culture Festival greatly promotes the development of Tongli's tourist industry. The amount of tourists to Tongli increases year by year, tourism receipt in foreign exchange and tourism income are increasing steadily and tourist industry rises up to be a backbone industry in the development of the ancient town's economy.
Luzhi River Village Clothing Ornament Culture Festival
The ancient town of Luzhi, located 15km away from the Eastern Outskirts of Suzhou, is famous as "China No.1 Bridge Village", with a history of 2500 years. It is designated as the focal scenery zone in Taihu Lake scenery area by the State Council. The longtime nourishing of River Village Culture not only created the peculiar "bridges, rivers and homes" scene in Luzhi, but also formed the River Clothing Ornament Culture of distinctive characteristics. The ancient town of Luzhi makes great efforts not only to develop industrial economy, but also to develop and protect tourist resources, investing a great amount of money to restore scenery spots in the ancient town. It restores the old appearance of the ancient town, establishes "River Village Clothing Ornament Exhibition" and sets up a River Village Clothing Ornament Showing Team. In order to make known "River Village Clothing Ornament Culture", the tourist brand peculiar to the ancient town, the ancient town of Luzhi sets to host "Luzhi River Village Clothing Ornament Culture and Tourism Festival" on the 28th of April each year, and use refined tourist product in the ancient town to attract tourists.
During the festival, a clothing ornament showing team of 1000 women exhibits the River Village Clothing Ornament. There are performances of strong flavor of river village folk customs, such as steaming pie, embroidering cloth shoes and knitting. Folk customs performances are scattered everywhere.
In order to support the Clothing Ornament Culture Festival, Luzhi also hosts activities of "Emotions for River Village" Writing Fair and "Luzhi Cup" International Photography Contest, etc. at the same time, which attracts a lot of fans of literature and art to come for creation.
Huqiu Flower Fair
The annual Huqiu Art Flower Fair is a tour program with spring characteristics launched by Huqiu Mountain Scene Area. It has been hosted for 4 sessions 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 fair 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 Flower Fair in spring and Temple Fair in autumn.
Suzhou Tourist Festival
Sponsored by the Suzhou Municipal Government, and undertaken by the Suzhou Tourism Management Bureau and the other concerned bureaus, the Suzhou Tourist Festival takes place annually from April to May, which spans 2 months and covers the whole Suzhou City.
Focused on gardens, ancient cities and ecological tour of the region of hills and waters, Suzhou Tourist Festival holds all kinds of colorful activities, such as the "Spring of Jiangnan" (South of the River) Famous Flowers Display, the Famous Historical City-Wu Culture Show and Local Operas Joint Performances, "the Spring of Jiangnan" Celebration of the Ancient Town Tourist Festival, "the Spring of Jiangnan" Delicious Food Week, "the Spring of Jiangnan" Popular Sports Activities; "the Spring of Jiangnan" Exhibition of the Suzhou Specialties, the Ecological Tour Photograph-taking Competition and the evening activities during the Tourist Festival.
Timetable of Main Festival Activities in Suzhou
Names |
Place |
Time |
Sponsor |
The West Hill Plum Blossom Festival |
Linwudong, West Hill, Wuxian |
Late February |
The Suzhou Tourism Bureau and the Wuxian government |
Suzhou Tourist Festival Series |
Suzhou City |
April May |
Suzhou Municipal Government |
1) Tiger Hill Flower Fair |
The Tiger Hill |
The middle of March to early June |
The Suzhou Garden Bureau |
2) Suzhou Zhouzhuang International Tourist Festival |
The Zhouzhuang town of Kunshan city |
April 12 |
The National Tourism Administration The Jiangsu Province Tourism Bureau The Suzhou Municipal Tourism Bureau Kunshan Municipal Government |
3) The “Tongli Spring” Tourism Cultural Festival |
The Tongli town of Wujiang |
April.18 |
Suzhou Tourism Bureau Wujiang Municipal Government |
4) Luzhi Apparel Cultural Tourist Festival |
Luzhi Town of Wuxian |
April.25 |
Suzhou Tourism Bureau Wuxian Municipal Government |
The Lotus Festival in Zhuozhengyuan |
Zhuozhengyuan |
June to August |
Suzhou Garden Bureau |
China Suzhou International Silk Tourist Festival |
In front of the building of the Suzhou Municipal Government |
Sept.20 |
The National Tourism Administration China Textile Federation China Silk Corporation Suzhou Municipal Government |
Tianping Mountain Red Maple Art Festival |
Tianping Mountain |
Late October to late November |
Suzhou Garden Bureau |