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Turtlehead Islet Park,

Wuxi is a major tourist spot in the Lower Yangtze Delta. It has both natural and man-made places of interest.

The nine peaks of Huishan, in Xihui Park on the western outskirts of Wuxi, are said to be the sleeping sons of the legendary Dragon King.
The wittiness of Wuxi natives is legendary. A popular joke is that "they can sell you meat that is really bones and they sell you dumplings that are just air inside", i.e. Wuxi pork ribs and Wuxi fried tofu dumplings, which are hollow. Some consider this trait untrustworthy.

One of the most famous folklores is about the Wuxi traditional pork ribs. It was said that the ribs were created by a peasent Lu Xiaosheng. His wife was ill but he was poor. One day she wanted to eat pork. Lu went to buy some ribs and cooked with wrapping in a "Po Gao Jian"(lit. damaged haulm cushion). Amazingly the taste of libs was so good that his wife immediately recovered from the illness. Folks say that the cushion was used by a begger who happened to be a god. Lu then began to sell the pork libs, and became rich and famous for the brand "Old Lu's Gao Jian".