A significant barometer of this flourishing climate are two villages, Yang Liu Ch'ing near T'ien Chin in the north and T'ao Hua Wu in the Soochow area of the south.
楊柳青邊楊柳青，桃花塢裡桃花開「其實製造歡樂的真正動力，是當時富庶繁榮的社會背景。」