Long Street Banquet

In the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, the stove is bustling with fire, and the streets are filled with fragrance. It is stunning winter scenery and a feast of delicious food.

In ancient times, Jiangnan small towns called "hundreds of households as a square and tens of thousands of households as a market". "Square" was the residential unit of Wuzhen and also formed a special social group of Wuzhen people. They walked through neighborhoods on the ordinary days to strengthen their relationships with each other. During the Chinese New Year holiday, wealthy families always held banquets in the neighborhoods, invited neighbors' friends and passersby to share the New Year's blessings. The neighbors also set up tables and chairs along the street, with wooden tables connected, to form a lively long street banquet, also known as the "Square Banquet" by the locals.

During the Spring Festival in Gengyin year, Weat Gate Scenic Spot reappeared the grand occasion of the old "Long Street Banquet". There were hundred tables on the hundred meters long street. With the local traditional dishes, the fresh seasonal vegetables are the big meal in winter, so that the stomach can have a traditional Chinese New Year with you.

The religious culture of Wuzhen has been very prosperous since ancient times. There are indigenous religions such as Taoism, and there are also foreign religions such as Buddhism and Christianity. During the Nanliang period, a certain scale of temple buildings had already appeared in Wuzhen, with a peak of 53. The architectural forms included temples, temple towers, pagodas, nunneries, halls, grand halls, and ancestral halls, worshipping numerous Bodhisattvas, local gods, and industry gods. Nowadays, there are multiple religious sites within the Wea Gate Scenic Spot alone, and there are also Shifo Temple and Ciyun Temple nearby, indicating the prosperity of incense.