Sunwen West Road Pedestrian Street

Sunwen West Road Pedestrian Street

In 1925, it was renamed sun Wenlu in memory of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. At the beginning of 1995, Zhongshan municipal government made a new plan and completed it on September 19, 1998.

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Dozens of meters away from Qijiang bridge, there is a lifelike statue of rickshaw, coachman and passenger. This is the entrance of Sunwen West Road Cultural Tourism pedestrian street. It's as if you were in Shiqi street more than half a century ago. This street has a history of more than 100 years. In the past, it was the commercial center of the old city, with numerous shops and prosperity. There is a time-honored herbal medicine shop, FushouTang, which was founded in 1862 in the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and a branch of the old Yong'an company, which was built in 1929.

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Today's pedestrian street not only retains the style of the past, but also adds modern color. The national traditional architectural style and Nanyang architectural features are integrated, with unique charm. Arcade is a major feature of pedestrian street. The arcade, which can block the southern hot sun and rainstorm, runs through the shops on both sides of the whole pedestrian street. All the fences on the upper floors retain the carved patterns of the past. The arched round doors and wall reliefs reappear their elegant demeanor after being painted. The facade of the buildings have different shapes and are painted with soft and bright colors, which are both self-contained and harmonious with the surrounding environment. The black-and-white nostalgic photos inlaid on the columns of the arcade tell the vicissitudes of the old street to every passer-by, which makes people feel nostalgic.

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Sunwen West Road Pedestrian Street starts from Zhongshan Department store at Yuelai intersection in the East and ends at Fengming intersection in the west, with a total length of 529 meters and a width of 15 meters. The low-rise architecture on both sides of the road is a mixture of European colonial style architecture and Lingnan arcade architecture at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It is an important manifestation of Eurasian hybrid "Nanyang" culture. Up to now, there are exquisite wood carvings, gray sculptures, Nanyang Arcade and other Chinese and western buildings. "Bronze carvings of rickshaw" are set in the pedestrian street, reflecting a small scene of Zhongshan street in the 1920s and 1930s, which is an important symbol of the pedestrian street; "relief of small town story" shows all kinds of life of all social strata in that year; "Zhongshan commercial culture museum" shows Zhongshan commercial history and traditional culture; "Sihao Hotel" was originally Xiangshan bank, and later transformed into Sihao hotel with five floors It was the most luxurious hotel at that time.

Sunwen West Road Cultural Tourism pedestrian street takes the urban context as the main line, reflecting the urban culture of Zhongshan in history, architecture, diet, customs, commerce and other aspects. After years of development, there are more than 140 shops. Every holiday, there are rich and colorful cultural activities in the youth culture square, making it a prosperous commercial center.

Address: West Gate of Shiqi Iron City, Zhongshan City, west of Jindu (Shiqi River), south of Yandun mountain, east of Daren mountain (now Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall)

Longitude: 113.370146

Latitude: 22.521546

Tel: 0760-88845557

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