摘要
AMERICAN Sinologist Philip Alden Kuhn described 17th-century South China thus, ＂The people＇s virtue is corrupted by extravagance like teeth are rotted by candy.＂ As a matter of fact. the South China culture is the most exquisite and beautiful part of a culture known for countless forms of loveliness. In the 18th century; Emperor Qianlong （1711-1799） made six tours to South China, even ordering the construction of Suzhou Street in Beijing, a near-replica of a 300-meter-long waterside street in South ChinaJiangsu, located mid-way down the east coast and cradled by the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is one of the centers of South China culture. In the surrounding province, a plain covers 69 percent of the total territory, and water takes up 17 percent.
