March 24,2023 Post by :Ruoshui Chen
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Tunxi Ancient street, located in the center of Tunxi district, Huangshan city, is 1,272 meters in total length with 853 meters long of the essence section, and 5 to 8 meters in width. With the mountain in the north and a river in the south, it consists of 1 straight street, 3 bystreets and 18 alleys. The whole street composed of over 300 hui-style buildings constructed in different ages, and it is distributed in the shape of a fish skeleton. The west part is narrow while the east part is wide. In 2009, Tunxi ancient street, Guozijian street of Beijing and Pingjiang road of Suzhou were elected as the “Chinese historical and cultural street”.
Basic Facts about the Tunxi Ancient Street:
Tunxi old street, is developed from a wharf located at the confluence of Xin’an river, Heng river and Shuaishui river. Since Ming dynasty, there have had related recordation about Tunxi Street. The west end of the old street is the birthplace of Tunxi, which was called “Bajia zhai”. The formation and development of the old street was closely related to capital relocation to Hangzhou in the Song dynasty. The old street was also called “Song City”, because local people started to build a lot of architectures similar to the new capital after relocation.During the period of the republic of China, Tunxi old street was named as Zhongshan main street. After the founding of new China, it was renamed as People road. And in 1985, it gained the current name — Tunxi old street.
With the springing up of the Huizhou merchants in Ming and Qing dynasties, Tunxi old street had become the important transportation hub of the waterway due to its advantageous location and famous trade market here. In the 1930s and 1940s, a large number of people moved into the city to avoid wars, which promoted the development of business here and made it become a significant commercial hub in Southern Anhui. It was also enjoyed the reputation of “small Shanghai” at that time because of its prosperity and bustling.Since 1949, with the rapid expansion of the city scale and construction of numerous modern buildings, Tunxi has undergone tremendous changes, but Tunxi ancient street has been well protected, which allows the profound trade culture be passed on from generation to generation.
The architecture of ancient street still maintains the traditional style of Huizhou ancient architecture. Along the street, there are 280 shops, most of them are two-storey buildings. The first floor is the place for business, and the second floor is the place to live. The architectural complex of the ancient street inherits the traditional architectural style of Huizhou folk houses, itslayout and architectural form have distinct architectural features of Anhui style. The buildings on the old street, though destroyed several times by wars and fires, they retain the original structure and style such as small green tiles, white walls, matou walls after reconstructing.
Nowadays, Tunxi ancient street is also a famous snack street and commercial street. The block is paved with bluestoneroad and lined with Hui-style buildings on both sides, and various kinds of Huizhou specialties sold in shops. Visiting it during the day time, you could immerse yourself in the beauty of Hui style architectures, and appreciate all kinds of exquisite carvings,such as brick carving, wood carving and stone carving. Visiting popular attractions like Tunxi museum, Wancui tower is a good choice as well. During the night time, there is more lively and prosperous than the day time. The string of red lanterns and busy shops on the street make it a great place to shoot the night scene.
How to Buy Entrance Tickets:
Price of ticket: Free
Price of ticket: Free Opening time: whole day
When is the best time to visit?
As a famous commercial street, Tunxi street is a desirable tourist destination all year around. If you want to take photos of the prosperous night view, it is best for you to visit at night.
Tips: Visitors had better avoid the official holiday in China, because many Chinese citizens choose to travel on official holidays to ease the pressure of their work. As a result, many Chinese tourist attractions are overcrowded and traffic jams are common. Therefore, visiting China at this time will bring tourists a less pleasant travel experience.
Official Holidays in China
Chinese New Year Around January or February Winter vacation January-February Labor Day May1st -3rd Summer vacation(for students) July-August31st Mid-Autumn Festival Around mid-September National Day October 1st-7th
How to get to the Tunxi Ancient Street?
Visitors can take Bus No.3, 5, 11, 12 or 15, and get off at Yuzhong Huyuan Station, then walk to the Tunxi Ancient Street.
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Huangshan Tours 2023&2024, The Best Private or Small Group Tours of Huangshan
Our China tour started at the end of December. We began our trip in Beijing, which was a bracing -12C when we arrived. We were met at the airport and would add that all pick-ups were on time each morning for tours, and at all stations or airports as well. Our first day was free in Beijing, so we explored, following the tip to visit the National Museum which has amazing stuff on display (as did the Xi'an Shaanxi museum and Shanghai museum later in the trip). We found a great Peking Duck restaurant which was a short walk from the hotel. The queuing system was a case of organised chaos in such a small space, but the meal was well worth waiting for. Best duck ever!
William was our guide in Beijing, and our tour comprised 5 people including us. All the guides were very good, but William takes the star prize. He was interesting and informative, but also a laugh. The usual sights in Beijing were awesome and splendid, but the highlight was the Great Wall, as we expected. When we saw the Temple of Heaven, there is an area where people – or their mothers – have their CVs to find a marriage partner. One of the mothers took a shine to one of our party on behalf of her daughter, and when she discovered he was a lawyer, became very interested. The rest of us found this more amusing than he did!
The bullet train was a nice relaxing journey to Xi'an. Our party of 5 split on the second day as we went to different locations next, but we all saw the Terracotta Army, which is another “must see”. The wall at Xi'an is big enough and was getting decorated for the coming spring festival (year of the Rat), but after the Great Wall, was less impressive. We all enjoyed the market and had a lunch in the Muslim area which was great fun, followed by a ridiculously cheap group hotpot that evening involving much use of online translation on our phones!
The next day, Sally took over from Helen, and despite spending only part of a day with her, she was great. Having only two of us going around the Shaanxi museum, she was able to help us with anything we found interesting, going at our pace. We left on another bullet train to Chengdu.
The journey was shorter than before, and we met David, our guide. The next day was an early start to go to the Panda Base. What an amazing day! It was fabulous feeding pandas by hand and cleaning out their enclosures. The park has been designed brilliantly, so we also wandered to see other pandas (including cute red pandas). We were struck how lovely it was to be in a less built up space after our largely city based tours before. David had been to the Panda Base before, so knew what to do, and was a fantastic guide there.
Beijing had had clear blue skies and not at all polluted, contrary to what we had expected, but Xi'an and Chengdu were more polluted. This was the trade off going in winter, although this also meant that the tourist attractions were far less busy.
The next morning in Chengdu David took us to the Pavilion Park, where we sat drinking tea (green obviously) and learning Mahjong. We also managed to have our ears massaged and shoes cleaned, although the locals were most interested in our newly taught Mahjong prowess. It was a lovely way to while away a couple of hours and contributed to our stay in Chengdu being fondly very remembered. We went to the airport to fly to Shanghai.
Shanghai was about as different as anything could be to Xi'an, and even much of Beijing. It is as blingy and modern as Xi'an reflects the ancient part of the country. Our guide Hugo showed us parts of the different concessions in the city as well as the museum, but the Yuyuan Garden was lovely. Later we met up with two of our original tour group for cocktails at the rooftop bar of the Hyatt on the Bund, seeing the spectacular lights. We managed a return trip on the Maglev train which was a marvellous way to bring our China tour to an end.
In summary, the organisation was fantastic. Everything went as planned, and the guides were all very helpful and easy to talk to. The hotels were fine throughout, although in our case, we found the Chengdu hotel – which was the swankiest we stayed in – was less well placed to explore too much for places to eat, particularly as we arrived later in the day and had a long day at the Panda Base. Transportation was fine throughout, too. Bus, car, train and plane were all good.
We originally considered a private tour but went for a small group one at a lower price. This is well worth it in winter, as the group is unlikely to be even close to the 12 maximum. The mix of locations and sights was perfect for us. Prices of meals were similar or lower than we expected, so we spent less than we took with us.
There were so many highlights, so it is difficult to choose which pictures to show, but the attached is a very small sample from what was a truly wonderful holiday.
