Tianjin Ancient Culture Street

Tianjin Ancient Culture Street, located at the east gate of northeast corner of Nankai District and the West Bank of Haihe River, is a commercial pedestrian street and a national AAAAA tourist attraction. As one of the ten scenic spots in Tianjin, Tianjin Ancient Culture Street has always adhered to the business characteristics of "Chinese flavor, Tianjin flavor, cultural flavor and ancient flavor", focusing on the management of cultural goods. There are nearly 100 shops in the ancient culture street. It is the center of the time-honored shops and folk handicraft shops in Tianjin. There are authentic delicacies: Goubuli steamed bun, ear eye fried cake, pancake fruit, Laozhai medicine sugar, zhangjiashuipu, Tianjin Mahua, etc. Tourist attractions include Tianhou palace, "kite Wei" kite, clay figurine Zhang Caisu, etc.

North South archway

Ancient street effect

The renovated ancient culture street still maintains the architectural style and basic line shape of that year. Its architectural style imitates the small buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the story height is one or two stories. The block is naturally curved and straight, with scattered rhymes. The building scale of the outer eaves is moderate, and the length of shops is orderly, showing the ancient street effect of row upon row. The ancient culture street is full of ancient, cultural, Chinese and Tianjin flavors.

In the South and north entrance of the ancient culture street, there is a archway, and its color painting is in the form of "smoke, ink, stone and jade". The characters on the heart of Nankou archway are "hometown of Jinmen" (facing south) and "Qingxue" (facing north); the characters on the heart of Beikou archway are "Gushang art garden" (facing north) and "jin'ao" (facing south). 　　

Explanation of archway text

"Jinmen hometown" explains: "Jinmen" is another name for Tianjin, "Hometown" means the old place, "Jinmen hometown" is the old place of Tianjin Wei, which means the birthplace of Tianjin Wei.

"Clear snow" explains: "clear" means good weather, "Snow" means "wash". "Clear snow" is just after the snow scenery, clear sky thousands of miles, visitors like weaving street, metaphor people's mood is very pure, as if washed, to here for Empress Dowager incense, for the future good day blessing.

"Gushang art garden" explanation: Tianjin is located in the lower reaches of the Jiuhe river. Since ancient times, Tianjin has abundant water resources and dense water network. Tianjin is also known as "Jingu", "Zhigu" and "Gushang". There are "72 Gu" in Tianjin. "Gushang art garden" means the birthplace of Tianjin Wei culture.

"Jin Ao" explains: "gold" means gold and precious, gold is the most valuable metal; "Ao": the biggest fish is called "Ao" after jumping over the dragon's gate, which is the embodiment of the dragon. The metaphor of "jin'ao" is to gather the best, the highest and the most noble things together. Chinese idiom has the word "take the lead", which means: take the lead, and occupy the best position and things.

Goddess' Palace

Tianhou palace is the center of the ancient culture street. In Tianjin, it has been said for a long time that "Tianhou palace comes first, then Tianjing Wei". In Tianhou palace, there are two big sailpoles erected for more than 600 years. On the east side of the square, near the Haihe River, there is a theater building. Tianhou Palace Square forms a relatively independent space.

The two sailpoles standing high in the square of Tianhou palace have a history of more than 600 years. It is said that within a few years after the completion of Tianhou palace, in order to protect the people who go to sea forever, this sailpole was built outside the gate of Tianhou palace. On the day of the Emperor's meeting and the birthday of Tianhou every year, there are 24 big red lanterns on each of these two tall sailpoles to pray for the people who go to sea to return safely At night, the people who return to Dagukou can see the sails of their hometown from a distance. The people who return to Dagukou are eager to return home and always return to their families overnight.

There are mainly 14 Tianhou palaces, which are: front hall, main hall, Yaowang hall, Taiwan hall, Fengwei hall, cangjing Pavilion, Guandi hall, Yuanchen hall, Qisheng temple, God of wealth hall, Bixia Yuanjun hall, Wang sangrandma hall and Liangyuan Pavilion.

Tianyan square

Yan Fu's former residence

Yan Fu's former residence is located in the big lion Hutong of ancient culture street. In order to excavate the history and culture, I visited Yan Fu's descendants and historical experts, combined with landscape design, built Tianyan square in Yan Fu's former residence, set up Yan Fu bronze statue and tianyanlun stone carving.

Yan Fu (1854-1921), a Marquis of Fujian (now Marquis of Fujian), was renamed song Guang. His name was Youling and Jiji. In his later years, his name was Yuye Yuye old man. Huxley's tianyanlun is famous in modern Chinese ideological circles for its translation. He is a representative of the reformists in modern China. He uses evolutionism as a weapon to awaken people to "strive for self-improvement and protect their species" and save the nation from danger. Chairman Mao Zedong named him as "a group of people who seek truth from the west before the birth of the Communist Party of China" (Mao Zedong's on the people's democratic dictatorship) ）They are as famous as Hong Xiuquan, Kang Youwei and Sun Yat Sen. Yan Fu also founded Guowen Bao in Tianjin, actively promoting reform and strengthening, leaving a brilliant page in modern Chinese history.

Antique color painting

In the construction of the ancient culture business district, Tianjin real estate company has renovated the ancient culture street based on the principle of "repair the old as before". The renovated ancient culture street not only pays attention to improving the fire prevention and earthquake resistance level, but also adds supporting facilities such as heating, refrigeration, communication, public health equipment and parking lot. The overall supporting functions of the whole block have been comprehensively improved.

In order to improve the cultural taste of the block, Tianjin real estate corporation adopts the way of public bidding, employs a number of professional design units, carries out strict screening, selects the best from the best, and implements the unified layout and careful design of the block floor pavement, sculpture, lighting decoration, door and window modeling. In order to continue Tianjin's historical context and display Tianjin's folk customs, tongqingli, a century old folk house, Yuhuangge, a 600 year old ancient building, and Liu's courtyard, a traditional Chinese and Western style folk house, are preserved; the archways at both ends of the block have been restored, and the "xuanzi dianjin" style painting has made the "hometown of Jinmen", "Qingxue" in Nankou and "Gushang art garden" and "jin'ao" in Beikou more than ten years The stone tablet of "Tianjin Ancient Culture Street" located at the north entrance of the street is engraved with the inscription of Comrade Li Ruihuan on the fossil from Jixian County of Tianjin, which is more harmonious with the street view after renovation. The most distinctive is the antique culture street. The square in front of the palace displays the painted pictures with Tianjin Folk Customs as the content, depicting the market folk customs of tianjinwei in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China; the antique colored paintings unfold from the south to the north of the street, with the four famous Chinese works "Romance of the three Kingdoms", "outlaws of the marsh", "journey to the west" and "dream of Red Mansions" as the theme in the west, and Chinese historical stories, ancient legends and drama names as the theme in the East According to the historical sequence of Han, Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it makes tourists feel as if they are in the vast river of history

Tianjin ancient culture street was built and opened on New Year's day in 1986. The overall building is in the style of folk architecture in the Qing Dynasty. Tianhou Palace (Mazu Temple) is located in the center of the street. There are nearly 100 shops in the street, including the Yangliuqing painting club, which manages the Yangliuqing youth paintings with local characteristics in Tianjin, the clay figurine Zhang colored sculpture handicraft business department, the four treasures of the study, the four treasures of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, the spring in the hall, the cultural relic company cuiwenzhai's sales department, and the cloisonne, double-sided embroidery, tooth jade carving, art ceramics, etc Western musical instruments, gold and silver ornaments and other tens of thousands of kinds of famous Crafts of dozens of stores, all kinds of goods are genuine, good and cheap, business quality and reputation to attract Chinese and foreign tourists.

The ancient culture street adheres to the business characteristics of "Chinese flavor, Tianjin flavor, cultural flavor and ancient flavor". It has worked hard for 12 years, with a total turnover of 690 million yuan, a profit tax of 58 million yuan, and a total of 12 million Chinese and foreign tourists. Party and state leaders have visited here first and later.

When inspecting the ancient culture street, Comrade Deng Xiaoping said: "the ancient culture street has its own characteristics and is certainly attractive to foreigners." Ancient culture street with strong folk customs, warm Zhou Dao's high-quality service welcomes tourists from all over the world to visit and shop. At the same time, it also hopes to go abroad to participate in various commodity exhibitions and exchanges all over the world

"Huanghui" in Tianjin Ancient Culture Street

The "Huanghui" in ancient culture street is also a well-known traditional activity. "Huanghui" was originally called "Niangniang Hui". It is said that the 23rd day of March in the lunar calendar is the birthday of the goddess of the sea. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, she went out for 4 days before the birth of the goddess of the sea. At this time, folk FA Gu Hui, Da Le Hui, Heling Hui, Chongge Hui, Zhongfan Hui, stilt Hui, etc. perform various kinds of skills along the street, presenting a grand occasion. After the restoration of the ancient cultural street, the "Huanghui" was restored every year on March 23 of the lunar calendar. On this day, performances such as dragon lantern, stilt, dry boat, Yangko, FA Gu, Zhongfan, lion dance and martial arts are given priority to. The streets are bustling and lively. It has become a grand event to enrich people's cultural life. It is necessary to leave the ancient cultural street "connected with the market", although there are all kinds of handicrafts from all over the country and Tianjin. Among them, Yangliu youth painting, "clay figurine Zhang" and "kite Wei" kites with strong local characteristics of Tianjin are the most famous.

On May 8, 2007, Tianjin Ancient Culture Street Tourist Area (Jinmen hometown) was officially approved as a national 5A tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.

The whole building imitates the folk architectural style of the Qing Dynasty. On both sides of the South and the north of the palace, there are painted archways, which are respectively "Jinmen's hometown" and "Gushang art garden". Nearly 100 shops in the street are Qing style buildings, and the doors and windows are decorated with painted patterns, with the contents of history, divine words, figures, flowers and birds

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