Writing spring couplets for good luck, pickling bacon to welcome Spring Festival and hosting a Hundred-Family Banquet to enhance relations between neighbors are the Spring Festival traditions in Taicang.
There's only one cake store in Shaxi town of Taicang selling eight-treasure glutinous rice cakes.
Liuhe ancient town, a typical Chinese southern water town in Taicang, is named after the town's main river, Liuhe.
As everything comes back to life in the vibrant spring, people's longing for fishes in the Yangtze River also revives.
There's a saying in Taicang that one can't really taste the flavor of fish without eating globefish and after eating globefish, one will ignore other fishes.
Speaking of spring's delicacies in Taicang, green rice balls is definitely the first thing that pops into the minds of the local residents.
