Art:
Suzhou Pingtan came into being, popular in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and sung in Suzhou dialect. Pingtan has a long history, and it was quite popular during the Qing Qianlong period. The most famous artist is Wang, who once sang songs for Emperor Qianlong. During Jiaqing and Daoguang years, there were four famous artists: Chen Yugan, Mao Changpei, Yu Xiushan and Lu Ruiting. During Xianfeng and Tongzhi years, there were Ma Rufei, Zhao Xiangzhou and Wang Shiquan, and then there were many famous schools, which made Suzhou Pingtan art last for more than 200 years. Suzhou Pingtan, with its light and flexible form, beautiful music, vivid expression and fascinating content, has won the love of the masses, and its audience is almost all over the country, and it also has a certain influence among overseas Chinese. Yu Gang, a famous master of Chinese studies in Taiwan Province Province, praised him as "the most beautiful voice in China".