Introduction of scenic spots in Quanzhou West Street

Quanzhou West Street, located in Licheng District, Quanzhou, is the earliest developed street and area in Quanzhou.

As early as the Song Dynasty, it had already symbolized the prosperity of Quanzhou. It is also the best preserved ancient block in Quanzhou, with a large number of buildings with original historical features. There are more than 20 cultural relics protection units at all levels in Jessie District, which belong to ancient buildings, ancient sites, stone carvings and other categories, as well as 12 well-preserved ancient buildings and ancient dwellings, including Kaiyuan Temple, East West Tower and Qingqing.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, many colorful cultural relics, historical sites and ancient houses in Gu Xiang, an ancient street in Quanzhou, as well as anecdotes and folklore attached to them, run through them one by one. In addition to Kaiyuan Temple, Dongxi Tower, downtown tower, celebrities' residences and modern foreign buildings, there are a large number of charming ancient buildings and antique wooden buildings here. It is simply a living architectural museum, which not only contains the rich historical and cultural accumulation of the ancient city, but also tells the vicissitudes of the ancient city in the past 100 years.

Built for a specific purpose

If Jubao Street and Qinglong Lane in the south of the city are the most prosperous economic and trade circles in ancient Quanzhou, then West Street focuses on Quanzhou, a city of treasures, which has the largest treasures and the most dazzling crowds. West Street was the political, economic, cultural and religious center of Quanzhou in the early Tang and Song Dynasties. With extremely rich historical and cultural relics, it is the most authentic and complete historical block of Quanzhou ancient city.

In the West Street buildings, in addition to the ancient buildings and modern arcade buildings, there are many famous people's mansions shining in the depths of the alleys. According to statistics, there are twenty or thirty known former residences of historical celebrities in West Street. Since Ouyang Zhan in Tang Dynasty, almost every dynasty has great men attached to West Street.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Quanzhou West Street