Tongzhou District, a municipal district of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, on the northeast wing of the Yangtze River Delta, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, with a coastline of 16.27 km.

Tongzhou District is adjacent to the Riverside with criss-crossing rivers, China "tongzhou bay River-Sea Linkage Development Demonstration Zone" in the east, Nantong Riverside New District in the west, the world-class Sutong Yangtze River Bridge in the south and the Hutong Railway Yangtze River Bridge in the north. 4D Nantong Xingdong International Airport is located in China.

Tongzhou is a famous "hometown of textiles", "hometown of architecture" and "hometown of education" in China. It has the third largest Nantong Home Textile City in the world, won 52 Luban Awards, the highest award in the national construction industry, and won the title of "National Advanced County (city, district) for scientific and technological progress" for six consecutive years.

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Tongzhou human geography

I. Religion

1. There are 22 sites for religious activities registered with the approval of the government in Tongzhou District.

Buddhist sites 14: Xiangguang Temple, Nanshan Temple, Guanghui Temple, Sanyu Yuji Temple, Jiang Zao Baiyi Temple, Jinsha Jie Zhen Temple, Xishe Temple, Dongshe Buddhist Activity Point, Tang Hong Buddhist Activity Point, Pingchao Kannonji, Xinlian Buddhist Activity Point, Qiao Liu Buddhist Temple, Wu Jie Buddhist Activity Point and Henggang Buddhist Activity Point.

2. Taoism

There is only one Taoism: the Tong Ming Palace in the flat tide.

3. Christianity

There are 7 Christian sites: Jinsha Christian Church, zhangzhishan Christian Shengguang Church, Gil, Yuanzao, Jiangzao and Xianfeng, and more than 3 places for Christian activities.

Second, dialects.

1. Nantong dialect is mainly used in the western region and does not belong to Wu dialect or Jianghuai dialect. It has some characteristics of Wu dialect and Huai dialect, but it also has many unique features.

2. Jinsha, where the district government is located, uses Jinsha dialect, which belongs to a small piece of piling in Taihu Lake in Wuyu dialect. Jinsha dialect and southern telephone can talk to each other, and some people call Nantong dialect and Jinsha dialect Nantong dialect area.

3. Two other Wu dialects are used in the east. One is Tongdong dialect, which belongs to Piling small piece of Wu dialect in Taihu Lake, distributed in the east of Jinsha, and connected with Tongdong dialect in Haimen, Qidong. Qihai people are called Jiangbei dialect.

4. To the east of Tongzhou, there is another Qihai dialect, which belongs to Wu dialect, Taihu Lake, Su Hu Jia, and is distributed on the north and south sides of Tongdongfang dialect, and is connected with Qihai dialect area east of Rudong and Qihai dialect area in Haimen, Qidong respectively.

Third, characteristic art

Copper opera is a local opera in Nantong. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Tongzi abandoned the superstitious content of worshipping gods and exorcising ghosts, and performed modern drama in the form of rap, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, and gradually transformed into ordinary drama, which improved in choreography, performance, music and dance beauty. Since 2 1 century, Nantong Tongzi has not only been listed as a key research topic, but also attracted more and more attention and interest from scholars at home and abroad.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Tongzhou district