"It's started, the immortals are here! The costumes of the Eight Immortals are all very beautiful today!" A live blogger squeezed through the crowd, raised the selfie stick high above his head, and extended it to the front row. At two o'clock in the afternoon, beads of sweat had already covered his forehead, and he ignored them. A heartfelt excited smile bloomed on his face. On both sides of the road, the crowd has squeezed into three levels, with each person holding their mobile phones. A little sister is broadcasting outdoors on the side, promoting Suzhou specialties. The security personnel on duty were on standby, pointing to the second floor of a temporary pop-up store across the road and shouting, "Don't go up, it's not safe!" Several photography "masters" had already taken the lead and occupied the best photo spot there. On the afternoon of May 21st, the "Rolling Immortals" parade, known as the Suzhou Folk Carnival, began in Gusu District, the old city of Suzhou. A group of actors dressed in ancient costumes played the role of the Eight Immortals, with flags fluttering in the front and gongs and drums opening the way, while the dragon and lion dance team in the back was majestic. The following parade team consists of 22 civilian performance teams, including stilts, flower drums, Jiangnan boat boxing, and Da Lianxiang. The city walk is two kilometers long and magnificent. On a yellow flag, there are four words written: Continuation of context. The rolling immortal has been in Suzhou for eight hundred years. "Ji" is pronounced as "ga" in Suzhou dialect, meaning to squeeze. According to legend, the 14th day of the fourth lunar month is the birthday of Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism. He will transform into a beggar and a vendor, wandering in the Fuji Temple at Changmen in Suzhou, saving all living beings. On this day, people gathered at the Fuji Temple, pushing and pushing, hoping to get close to him and gain immortality and good luck. Over time, gradually, the ritual of grinding immortals has transformed into a temple fair activity that integrates religion, medicine, folk customs, flower markets, and commerce. Entering the new China, the rolling of immortals has never ceased. When Gong Ping, born in "Old Suzhou" in 1956, was young, his father carried him on his shoulders to watch the rolling gods. Later, he had a son and also carried him on his shoulders to watch the rolling gods. "The culture of rolling gods has been passed down from generation to generation.". In Gong Ping's memory, as the scale of the Rolling Immortal expanded, it gradually shifted from Fuji Temple to Wu Xifang and Zhongjie Road. After the 1990s, it finally broke through Changmen and transformed into a larger scale folk temple fair. Eight hundred years of customs, different this year. Rolling Immortals is a key event of the 6th Jiangnan Culture and Art International Tourism Festival. Along with the temple fair, activities such as "Rolling Friends" blind dates and "Cloud Rolling Immortals" live streaming sales have been held. The nearby Canal Theater has become the permanent theater of the Happy Fried Dough Twists Theater this year. This time, it adapted the special play "The Immortals" for God Rolling. The square outside the Canal Theater has a fairy flower market. In ancient times, the flower market was also a preserved project for rolling immortals. In spring, the flowers on Huqiu Mountain are in full bloom, and people always bring some flowers and plants home after visiting the temple fair. Behind these activities, there is active promotion from the local government. The supervisor hopes that the Rolling Immortal can attract young people and continue the carnival in a way they like. The old soul is striving to become trendy. Will the next popular internet celebrity city be Suzhou? How can one know the night is like this without entering the garden? In the evening, a gentle breeze comes. In a garden in Gusu District, around twenty people sat in the hollow space of the garden, reading poetry, each holding a collection of poems and a round fan. Suzhou poet Xiaohai recited one of his works, and then, amidst the melodious sound of the concerto, the excerpt from Benjamin's "One Way Street", the beacon letter from "The Giant River", and the dialogue between Jane Eyre and Rochester about love and soul echoed in the garden. The sunset slowly sets in the west, the shadows of trees flow on people's faces, and the poetic charm spreads throughout this century old garden. This is the first episode of the Park Garden Cultural Salon, where only spring knows the place. Park Garden, one of the 108 Suzhou gardens, is also the youngest one, built in 1932 during the 21st year of the Republic of China. In the garden, there are classic Suzhou gardens with pools, rockeries, winding paths, water pavilions, and pavilions. The Western architectural style has also spread to the east, leaving a mark of the times, such as European painted glass embedded in flower windows. Due to repairs, this garden has not been open for nearly a decade until it is nearing completion this year and is about to be fully opened. The people carrying poetry collections that evening were among the first to revisit Park Garden. Nowadays, in addition to using one building as an exhibition room for the Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Painting Museum, all other buildings in Puyuan will also play a social role, with one building serving as the editorial department for the "Art Wave" series. Yilang was originally an art magazine founded in 1928. After Yan Wenliang, an art educator and painter, founded Suzhou Art College and Suzhou Art Museum, teachers and students of Suzhou Art College printed the school magazine Yilang, which became an important publication in the art industry during the Republic of China period. Yilang ceased publication in 1947 and will be reissued more than seventy years later. After this recitation, Park Yuen plans to hold a literary salon for a long time, which will be reborn like a classical collection in the four seasons. The world-renowned Suzhou gardens have been infused with new vitality. Behind them are a group of young people with contemporary perspectives and communication thinking. A few years ago, Li Wenle, a girl from Jiangnan, returned from studying in the United States and walked into the Humble Administrator's Garden, which she had been familiar with since childhood. Suddenly, she had a new idea. People have never seen the appearance of the Humble Administrator's Garden at night. How did ancient people live in the Humble Administrator's Garden at night? What will the Humble Administrator's Garden look like under the moonlight lights? At that time, Suzhou also intended to enrich the cultural and tourism industry. With a two-way rush, Li Wenle began planning to "renovate" the Humble Administrator's Garden, introducing lighting projection and multimedia technology into it. In 2021, the Humble Administrator's Garden opened its doors at night and, following the guides, people cautiously explored the garden at night. The moonlight and the shadows of the lights from five hundred years ago returned to their sight. At 7 o'clock in the evening, as the sky had just darkened, on the walls of the Humble Administrator's Garden, the vast bright moon had risen; Under the grape trellis, butterflies and fireflies fly and play; On the hillside among the trees, the spotted deer leisurely roams; On the walls of the inner hall, the landscape paintings of the Ming family unexpectedly moved, with the moon rising from the east mountain and birds returning to the forest... With the blessing of sound and light, not only were the corners of the garden illuminated, but some overlooked scenery even "reborn". Like a "Yingxiang" stone carving embedded in a wall, it has faded and dimmed over time. Now that the lights are shining, the two characters shine brightly in the night. How can one know the night is like this without entering the garden? At night, on the Xiangzhou on the opposite bank of the lotus pond, a beam of lights illuminated the square inch stage. Du Liniang and her maid Chunxiang appeared among the flowers, babbling and singing a Kunqu opera called "Peony Pavilion". The singing fell silent, and the sound of frogs gradually sounded as they probed. Three years have passed, and the "Humble Administrator Asks for Elegance" night tour project has been included in the new garden check-in strategy, making it difficult to obtain a ticket during this year's Spring Festival. "This is a very challenging topic. On one hand, there is the Humble Administrator's Garden with pink walls and black tiles, and on the other hand, there is a breakthrough in traditional cross media art. They undergo fusion, recombination, and reconstruction, producing wonderful chemical reactions," said Li Wenle. The equipment used in the exhibition is arranged and dismantled on the same day, and the safety of cultural relics and ancient buildings always comes first. In 2023, "Humble Governance and Elegance" became the first and only world cultural heritage protection and revitalization project in China to undergo a full process evaluation by the China World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Center. Li Wenle, born in the 1990s, graduated from Hampshire College in the United States in 2015 with a major in Art History and East Asian Cultural Studies. She worked in public education for feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and returned to China to participate in curation and art education for art museums and galleries. "Suzhou is a treasure city with extremely rich historical and cultural resources. I feel that I have a glorious mission to tell the story of Suzhou gardens through digital dissemination, using digital scenes, exhibitions, and art.". "Innovation must rely on young people, and traditional culture cannot be conservative." Gong Ping said. He once served as the director of the Suzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Office and participated in the protection of Suzhou's intangible cultural heritage from scratch. His understanding of traditional culture comes from personal practice, grounded, and not empty talk. Once, an elderly Kunqu opera performer emphasized to him that Kunqu opera should not use microphones or modern stage design. Gong Ping advised him that Kunqu opera has always developed with the times, and the Kunqu opera he insisted on is only what he saw when he was young. "You can't just treat a certain segment in history as a fixed one." More than twenty years ago, Bai Xianyong recruited young actors, modified the script and stage design, and created a youth version of Kunqu Opera called "Peony Pavilion", which became popular around the world and almost revived a genre. The vitality of traditional culture after innovation is so evident. Gong Ping has a firm viewpoint that we should not lament or accuse young people of not loving traditional culture. People do not love it because it is indeed not used in production and life, and has lost its connection with contemporary life. Gong Ping still remembers that decades ago, traditional handicrafts were ubiquitous in daily life, and many Suzhou people embroidered Su embroidery patterns on their handkerchiefs. Even the wooden bucket used for washing feet varies in different regions, and carpenters in Zhenjiang will make three feet under the bucket. "Just a wooden bucket for washing feet, you can tell at a glance that this is from Zhenjiang and that is from Suzhou.". Later, these skills were all incorporated into intangible cultural heritage. After the barrel broke, the iron hoop on the outer ring became a toy for children. It is called a rolling iron hoop in other places and a rolling iron hoop in Suzhou. Later on, wooden barrels were replaced by plastic pots and there were no iron hoops left, so iron rings were tied with wire for children to play with. But now, no one rolls the iron rings anymore. Rolling iron rings are also an intangible cultural heritage, classified as traditional sports and traditional games. However, intangible cultural heritage such as making wooden barrels and rolling iron rings does not necessarily require protection. Gong Ping said that Suzhou has surveyed over 2900 intangible cultural heritage sites, and over 600 of them have been listed for protection at all levels. Those listed must be protected, while those outside the list may not necessarily have contemporary value. Just record them down. The disappearance of smoke and clouds is also a law in the world. The intangible cultural heritage with protective value also needs to be reconnected with contemporary life in order to be revitalized. Now Gong Ping is not only good friends with many inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, but also frequently interacts with many "second generation creators". Some children of intangible cultural heritage inheritors who have returned from their studies are willing to return to traditional industries. They have brought new ideas, such as turning Su embroidery into the skin of a hero character in the mobile game "King of Glory", and their sales exceeded 10 million yuan on the first day of listing. Many years ago, a leader asked Gong Ping what is the difference between protecting cultural relics and protecting intangible cultural heritage. Gong Ping answered eight words, for the former it was "they are still there", and for the latter it was "they will still be there". At that time, he believed that protecting intangible cultural heritage, protecting people, technology, and objects, was the most important thing. Now, his perspective has changed, he feels that things are more important. In the current communication environment, young people need to first see good things in order to attract attention and generate interest. For example, this year's popular horse face skirt, who knows who made it? But is this important? As the fantasy of movies and dramas approaches the shores of Jinji Lake, a new program is being announced on the roadside advertising screen: the original play "No One Survives", the dance play "Du Fu", and the play "Spring Passes" from the West End Theater in the UK will take turns appearing on the Suzhou stage. On the evening of "No One Survives", it premiered in Suzhou at the Grand Theater of Suzhou Cultural and Art Center (referred to as "Su Yi"). The 6th Jiangnan Culture and Art · International Tourism Festival is currently underway, and Su Yi's new plays are all included in it. The 6th Jiangnan Culture and Art International Tourism Festival was held in Suzhou from late spring to early summer this year, from April to June. The six sections of Elegant South of the Yangtze River, Happy Tour South of the Yangtze River, Intangible Cultural Heritage South of the Yangtze River, Light and Shadow South of the Yangtze River, Literary Theory South of the Yangtze River, and Brilliant South of the Yangtze River make people dizzy. The essence version of the youth version of Peony Pavilion, the Kun Opera "The West Chamber", the dance drama "The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting", the ballet "The Legend of White Snake", and the Cantonese drama《