Is Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan interesting?

Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan is an old street with a large number of ancient buildings preserved completely. It represents the commercial culture and living atmosphere of Huizhou merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is of great historical research value. The following is a detailed overview of Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan.

Tunxi Old Street is a well-preserved Huizhou (commercial) old street.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Huizhou merchants were rich and famous all over the country, which created an era of profound Huizhou culture.

Tunxi Old Street in Huangshan City still retains its quaint and elegant features in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is the best preserved Huizhou Old Street in China.

Tunxi Old Street is a national key cultural relic protection unit. In 2009, Tunxi Old Street, together with Guozijian Street in Beijing and Pingjiang Road in Suzhou, was selected as "China Famous Historical and Cultural Street".

Tunxi Old Street is located in the center of Tunxi District, Huangshan City, with a total length of 1 272m, including straight street1,three horizontal streets and alleys 18. The whole street consists of more than 300 Huizhou-style buildings built in different ages, which are distributed in a fish skeleton shape, narrow in the west and wide in the east.

Tunxi Old Street is located at the intersection of Hengjiang, Lvshui and Xin 'anjiang, so it is also called "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".

The famous smelly mandarin fish in Anhui

The formation and development of old streets are closely related to the relocation of the capital to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty. Huizhou merchants who went out for business successfully returned home, imitated the architectural style of Song Cheng and built many buildings in their hometown, so the old street was called Song Cheng.

Walking into Tunxi Old Street, I saw small blue tiles, white walls and horse head walls, and antique Huizhou architecture came into view.

Most of the storefronts in the old street are single rooms, usually two floors, and a few are three floors. There is a horse head wall between shops and a small blue tile on the roof.

The old street is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the terrain is naturally formed. The street is slightly curved, and the road surface on the street is maroon slate; The shops on both sides of the street are stacked in an orderly way, all of which are brick and wood structures with white walls and tiles;

There are brick carvings on the lintel of the window lattice, which are exquisite in skill; There is a high horse head wall between houses, which constitutes the beauty of Huizhou architectural group.

Laojiedian mainly deals in Anhui famous local products, Anhui cuisine and Four Treasures of the Study.

Including: Huangshan sesame seed cake, hairy tofu, snakehead, tremella, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, pickles, Xiusaotai and so on. And national intangible cultural heritage handicrafts such as Huimo, She Yan and Huiqi;

Qimen Black Tea, Tunxi Green Tea, Huangshan Mao Feng, Taiping Monkey Kui and other famous teas at home and abroad.

Huangshan sesame seed cake in Tunxi street

There are many museums in the old street, among which Tunxi Museum is the only national museum, which was transformed into Tunxi Old Street Community Museum on 20 12.

"。 Wancuilou, another museum in the old street, is the first private museum in China, covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters, integrating Huizhou folk houses, gardens, houses and shops.

If you want to know more about Huizhou culture, you can visit Huizhou Culture Museum in China.

In the museum, you can see the beautiful landscapes of Xin 'an, Huizhou and Huizhou people, Huizhou merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou women, southeast Zou Lu, Queli in Zhu Cheng, Huizhou clans, Xin 'an medicine, science and technology stars, treasures of the study, Xin 'an painting school, Huizhou printmaking, Huizhou seal cutting, Huizhou villages, Huizhou folk houses and Huizhou three sculptures.

The famous Huimo and She Yan.

The preservation of Tunxi old street is not complete, only that the overall framework is relatively complete. The existing historical buildings are one third of the original.

In the last century, it experienced many difficulties and twists and turns. After liberation, some buildings were demolished for the development and construction of the city. Tourists visit the remaining third.

Tunxi old street used to have three streets. A main street, a river street and a back street.

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River Street is now Binjiang West Road, which once played an important role as a water port pier. The old people said that there used to be many small cargo sailboats with masts in the river (different from the cargo ships in Shexian County), including deep water, shallow water and trackers.

At that time, there was no Xin 'anjiang dam downstream (that is, artificial lake: Qiandao Lake). Huizhou merchants only transported tea, wood, Four Treasures of the Study and other materials to various places by water, and the living materials from various places were also transported back to the local area by water.

There are many households in "Backstreet" and many luxury houses in Huizhou merchants. Which is now Yan 'an Road.

"Main Street" is a part of the existing street, which is full of shops of various firms, such as pawn shops, tea shops, pharmacies, restaurants, ink shops, Four Treasures of the Study and so on.

Various trade associations have been established one after another (the aid activities for the May 30th tragedy were held in 1925), including tea and lacquer industry, cloth industry, Chinese medicine industry, department store industry, jewelry industry, tobacco industry, clothing appraisal industry, vegetable noodle restaurant industry and so on.

19 15 won the Panamanian gold medal, 1922 Yongming electric company opened, 1929 Fuan fire protection association was established, 1932 Dacong telephone company opened, 1934 the new building of China Bank in Tunxi Old Street was completed.

1937 the first open-air cinema opened.

Yima Road, Ermayina Road and Sanma Road also have different names. The recent names are: Shangzhong Road, which was called Minsheng Street, Minzu Street and Quan Min Street during the Republic of China. There is an earlier name.

Historical event

1929, Zhulaowu burned Tunxi Street. The ballad' On the first day of Qingming Festival, bandits came to Tunxi, and the suffering of burning Tunxi met Zhu Laowu, and the poverty of burning Tunxi hurt Wang Zhongrong'

1939 Japanese planes bombed and dropped bombs.

1949, Liu Ruming belongs to Huoshaohe Street. After liberation, River Street and Back Street were built.

So only the existing parts are left, and the overall framework is still intact. The archway in the old street was originally a painted wooden archway in the Ming Dynasty, but it was changed to a brick archway in the early 1990s. Great changes have taken place around the archway.

Existing parts

On the main street, the shops in the shops have changed a lot. Used to be a full range of time-honored brands; The seventies and eighties were a street in Four Treasures of the Study; Now it is a street of tourist goods (like all parts of the country, the homogenization is too heavy). That is to say, tourists say that the modern atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, lacking a unique temperament.

The decoration design of 123 road is very problematic, especially the lampposts and floor tiles.

Recent planning

The modern building of Binjiang West Road has been demolished (residents are placed on the left bank of Evergrande Riverside), and the river street will be restored soon (that is, the antique building integrating ancient and modern). It will make people feel that Tunxi Old Street is a modern building.

Resume display

In the Xin 'anjiang Waterfront Scenic Area of Huangshan City, there is a scenic spot (that is, three large zhaobi) with a relief on the back, which is called "Xin 'an Landscape Scenic Area". On the first zhaobi in the east, you can find the historical restoration map of Tunxi Old Street.

Huangshan Urban Planning Exhibition Hall (located in the Huizhou Cultural Corridor Museum Group on Yingbin Avenue) has a large screen with banners, which restores the colorful historical street culture of Tunxi Old Street. Although incomplete and incorrect, it is at least a patchwork of people's memories of a certain era. The scene of burning incense in the early morning and night on the video and the Tunxi dialect that keeps selling have so far made my eyes shine.