Dangkou refers to the mouth of a shallow lake formed by a depression with long grass and long water, which is connected with the river. Shallow lakes with dense aquatic plants and reeds, such as reeds; Swing the ground; Lotus swing; Jingle.

Fengmen is located in the east of Suzhou, Jiangsu, south of Xiangmen. Formerly known as Fengmen, it was named after Feng Yushan. Because there are finless porpoises in the nearby river, it is also called the country gate. There are many ponds around, rich in fennel (Zizania latifolia), so it was changed to fennel. This gate has been rebuilt for generations. In the early Qing Dynasty, the gatehouse was rebuilt with the title of "Clearing the Inverted Stream" and the Watergate was added. In 25 years, the gatehouse was demolished. Demolition of the city gate in the 1950s.

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February 12 of the lunar calendar is the Flower Festival, also known as Baihua Birthday. The reason why this festival is set in February is because its month is "spring solstice, when flowers are competing for hope, it is the most pleasant". However, not all flowers grow and open in spring. Lotus, known as the "gentleman in flowers" since ancient times, is open in summer. Therefore, according to folk custom, June 24th of the lunar calendar is the "Lotus Birthday" every year. Because lotus is planted in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, this festival folk custom is mainly popular in Wudi, especially in Suzhou. Located about 20 miles outside Fenmen, Suzhou, the Lotus Pond is a famous lotus viewing resort. This is an ancient custom. Every year on June 24th, men and women gather here to have a good time, and then buy some lotus or lotus.

Vae's "Zhuzhici" wrote: "Fengmen surrounds the lake, and the lake light is white and fuzzy. Lotus birthday goes every year, if you ask about half a lotus flower. " Isn't today Lotus's birthday? Why are there no lotus flowers? Is his record accurate? It should be true and accurate, because Shu Wei (1765- 18 15), a poet who was born in Suzhou at the same time as Vae, also described it in "Lotus boating on June 24th": "The flute is full of jade and swaying gently outside the Wumen Bridge. It should be that the flower god avoids birthdays, and thousands of people are like sea flowers. "

Since there are no lotus flowers, why do Suzhou people send the whole city to the lotus flowers to swing to celebrate their birthdays? This is a fun mood, not a lotus flower. Lotus birthday party, lotus swinging, a sea of people, unprecedented grand occasion. Zhang Dai, a famous writer in the late Ming Dynasty, recorded this in Tao Anmeng:

Lu Gu, a native of Wuxian County during Jiaqing and Daoguang years in Qing Dynasty, is also recorded in Jia Qinglu (Volume 6) and Lotus Dang:

Vae's "Zhuzhici" also recorded the lively scenes of lotus swinging, dragon boat racing, boat merging and people watching people under the scorching sun on June 24:

At this point, I suddenly remembered the modern poet Bian's famous new poem "Out of Chapter":

Yes, people are relative in society, between people, between some people and those people. People seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they are interdependent. Oriental women, western women, people on the bridge, people under the bridge, you see that I am a landscape, and I think you are also a landscape. How nice it would be for everyone to live in harmony and form a landscape together. Unfortunately, in real life, this can only be a dream.