Suzhou City Space And City Imagination In Modern Times

Suzhou can be described as the city which pillows river and leans on the lake.In addition,the people enjoy great resources,rich culture,and beautiful scenery there.It has been the premier economic and cultural center in the south of the Yangtze River and a must-see place for Jiangnan tourism from Tang Dynasty.Since modern times,Suzhou tourism has been hit by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war,but after the war,tourism has been revived gradually,with the rise of the tourism industry during the period of the Republic of China,to the 20-30 years of twentieth Century,Suzhou tourism appeared to a considerable degree of prosperity.The rise of tourism activities and the rise of tourism industry in modern times have led to the emergence of many tourist texts in Suzhou.These tourism texts can be roughly divided into two types:Travel Guides and travel notes.These tourist texts describe the changes in Suzhou's urban space in different degrees,and also reveal the changes in the imagination of Suzhou City,and become a good point for peeking the urban space and city imagination of modern Suzhou.This paper taking tourism text as the center,discusses the changes in the urban space of modern Suzhou,and based on the tourism records of the specific urban space,discusses the changes of the city imagination in Suzhou.From the relevant records of the Suzhou tourism text,we can see that the gradual popularization of modern transportation means that the original road system in Suzhou can not adapt to the needs of modern life,which leads to the emergence of a large scale,road building and bridge demolition and construction activities in the period of the Republic of China in the Republic of China.These changes bring the convenience of transportation,make the links between different regions of the city more closely,and strengthen the integrity of the city.At the same time,the popularization of new means of transportation greatly shortens the time of interregional movement,makes the urban space be compressed,makes the residents'daily activity space and tourism space expand,and the imagination space of the city also expands..The change of spatial structure and the rise of view tourism in Guanqian Street District reflect the changes of urban space and urban imagination in modern Suzhou.The renovation of the surrounding roads,the appearance of the new architecture and the convenience of traffic led to the change of the tourist routes in Suzhou,which made the "Guanqian Street" become the center of the modern tourism in Suzhou."Guanqian Street " has become an important place for foreign tourists to feel the impression of "paradise," in Suzhou.The Guanqian Street district's tea house wine shop,the restaurant snack and the new theatre make the tourists feel the "paradise"side of Suzhou's entertainment consumption,and the masses of folk entertainment and flowing mixed crowds before the view show the atmosphere of the "heaven".The Hanshan Temple outside the city of Suzhou and the Hanshan Temple on the Bank of maple river is another important bearer of the modern city imagination.If "Guanqian Street" is a place for tourists to feel Suzhou's amusement and consumption paradise,Hanshan Temple is a place for tourists to feel the vicissitudes of history and the feelings of home country;if" Guanqian Street”shows more of the daily nature of Suzhou City,Hanshan Temple is full of political nature.The dilapidated Hanshan Temple continues to be imagined in modern times with Zhang Ji's ancient famous sentences.The Chinese tourists who come to China often have the feeling of"touching the ancient",and the Japanese tourists who have come to disdain the disappointment.The city is not only a matter of existence,but also a kind of concept.The image of the city exists in the interaction between the urban entity space and the experience of the residents and tourists.Different entity spaces of the city give different imagination meanings to residents and tourists.The changes of modern Suzhou city include not only the change of urban entity space,but also the change of urban imagination.