The Summer Palace Suzhou Street palace market has very long history. The Suzhou Street in Summer Palace is carried on since Qianlong period. It is the unique imperial court temple fair with imperial cultural deposits and south China river countries’ amorous feelings.
The Summer Palace temple fair combines various elements together with the festive festival. The elements include south China river street, gardens beautiful scenery, imperial family culture, unusually brilliant folk custom performance. They reappear the happy and flourishing scene in Qing Dynasty. The Summer Palace temple fair give Beijing people and tourists in Beijing a cultural banquet with Qing Dynasty flavor, Beijing flavor, south china flavor and Spring Festival flavor.

The performances in this year outstands the happiness character. The dragon drum modeling performance out of Beigongmen in Summer Palace pulls open the temple fair prelude. You can feel the ardent and happy festive atmosphere when you are out of the Summer Palace.
In the 2012 Spring Festival, there also blend the hundred years’ strains of music accompanied by drumbeats culture. The four-side auspicious drums, waist drums and Taiping drums were performed in the first day of the first Chinese lunar month. They deduce people’s happy mood and give good wishes to people.
On the Xumi Lingjing Square, there is the performance stage, free lion dances, acrobatic show and comic dialogue performances and so on. Tourists in summer Palace temple fair will have a feast for your eyes. There is Touhu game in Jiayin pavilion. Tourists can experience the throwing game played by ancient literati and officialdom in ancient time. Otherwise, the small ice wagon, art work made from powder and ferrule and so on interaction items add interesting to your Beijing trip in Summer Palace during the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, tourists can not only experience the court temple fair culture in Suzhou Street in Summer Palace, but also enjoy the winter sweet in Xiequ Garden.There are plum potted landscape art exhibition in Summer Palace. You will enjoy the hundred years’ history potted landscape culture here.
There are plum, winter sweet, winter jasmine, black pine, five-leaved pine and black bamboo and so on totally 13 kinds of potted landscapes.Summer Palace not only has beautiful scenery, long historic culture, but also gives you happy temple fair trip during the Spring Festival. It is a good spot can’t be missed in your Beijing trip.



