Jiangsu Suzhou: Tan Jintu Old Photo Collection Museum on Shantang Street.

Tan Jintu opened an old photo collection museum on Shantang Street in Suzhou, with more than 50,000 collections, which has become a cultural window for citizens and tourists to look back on the history of Suzhou. This is a popular check-in place in the hearts of tourists, and he is also affectionately called "Old Tan" by netizens; Mo Yan once wrote an inscription for his collection museum, and many cultural scholars wrote articles for him; last year, the museum also became a shared party building base for retired cadres of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee. Tan Jintu himself is more diligent in research outside of the collection, especially in the interpretation and textual research of old photos of Suzhou gardens, which makes many garden people feel cordial, "like an old friend coming." The story of Old Tan and the garden continues. In 2010, the Garden Archives received another "gift" from Tan Jintu, who donated a bamboo chip with the words "Lingering Garden" in regular script, which he accidentally found, to the archives, which attracted widespread attention from society. The bamboo chip should have originated in the 1950s, and whether it was a ticket used by the Lingering Garden or a "noodle chip" or "water chip" used by the Lingering Garden Hotel has aroused heated discussions among experts and citizens, and Suzhou media have continued to follow up and report, which has also brought popularity and attention to the Suzhou Garden Archives. For a time, citizens have been looking for old photos and old objects around them to send to the Garden Archives to enrich the collection. Now, looking through the old garden photos donated by Old Tan again, it is like walking into a long corridor of time, where tourists from different eras take group photos in the garden, freezing beautiful memories in the mountains, forests, springs, and stones, and freezing vivid historical moments.