South back street

Nanhou Street starts from Yangqiao intersection in the north and ends at Jibi road in the south to Macao Bridge. The total length of nanhou street is about 1000 meters. It gets its name because it is located behind the South Street on the central axis of Fuzhou City. Nanhoujie memorial archway is the central axis of "three lanes and Seven Alleys" in Fuzhou City. It has seven alleys (Yangqiao lane, Langguan lane, Anmin lane, Huangxiang lane, Ta lane, Gong lane and Jibi Lane) in the East and three alleys (Yijin lane, Wenru lane and Guanglu Lane) in the West. It is the main commercial street from the rise of three lanes and seven alleys in Fuzhou to the period of the people's Republic.

South back street

Fuzhou nanhou Street starts from Yangqiao intersection in the West and ends at the intersection of Jibi lane and Macao Road in the south. It is about 1000 meters long and is the central axis of "three lanes and Seven Alleys" in Fuzhou City. It has seven lanes in the East and three lanes in the West. It is the main commercial street from the rise of three lanes and Seven Lanes in Fuzhou to the period of the Republic of China. From north to south, merchants gathered on the road. The renovated South back street is full of antique charm. The width of the road is up to 12 meters, including a pedestrian street with a width of 7 meters in the middle. Starting from Yangqiao East Road and ending at Jibi lane, nanhou street is only 634 meters long. It is a leisure and cultural commercial street combining traditional and modern culture. Unfortunately, the old South back street and some of its surrounding buildings were demolished in 2007-2009, and most of the existing buildings are imitations. With the construction of New South back street, many modern businesses have entered this ancient area.

Street profile

It is the center of the old city of Fuzhou with all kinds of daily necessities. There are also bookstores, old bookstores and mounting shops for cultural people, as well as lantern markets for the Lantern Festival and the Mid Autumn Festival. "The Liulichang outside Zhengyang gate, the front South back street of yijinfang. When I go to the book market, I'm not happy to see many of them. " In Wang Guorui's poem at the end of Qing Dynasty, nanhoujie is compared to the Liulichang outside zhengyangmenwai in Beijing, which reflects the cultural features of nanhoujie before. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, nanhoujie was still a busy market with "pink walls, Daiwa and slate roads" and many pavements on both sides. To the Republic of China, the road will be widened to asphalt road. After the renovation, the road surface was changed to slate road again, which restored a certain historical style.

In history, there were many traditional craft industries in Fuzhou, such as lantern, mounting, bookshop and so on. Nanhoujie is a traditional cultural commercial street. According to the current business situation of time-honored brands, some of them will be restored, such as "Mi Jia Chuan" mounting shop, "Ju Cheng Tang" bookshop, lantern and other century old brands. The traditional lamp market, which is popular with the public, is also planned to be held regularly every year. In addition, the relevant departments also intend to invite Shoushan stone carvings, bodiless lacquerware, cork paintings and other Fuzhou traditional arts and crafts masters to set up arts and crafts masters exhibition shop in nanhoujie to increase the traditional business atmosphere.

In the planning of business formats of South back street, there are "new faces" such as bars, coffee and top luxury goods. The emergence of these new faces will inject modern factors into the traditional South back street.

The protective restoration project along the South back street was completed in January 2009, and the street was opened in the Spring Festival of 2009, which reproduces the historical style of "glass factory outside Zhengyang gate, South back street in front of yijinfang".

Lantern culture

It is said that the lanterns in nanhoujie began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Lantern has the function of watching, praying for good luck and adding happiness, which is popular among people

Love and pass on for thousands of years. As early as the Song Dynasty, Fuzhou's lanterns were very famous. According to the Song Dynasty's "old stories of Wulin", the lanterns inlaid with pure white jade in Fuzhou were "dazzling, such as a clear ice jade pot, refreshing to the mind", and were listed as the top grade among the lanterns in Beijing. At that time, lanterns were made all over the country. Suzhou and Fuzhou were the best, and Fuzhou was even better than Suzhou. It shows that Fuzhou has a high level of lamp making technology.

The original Lantern Festival was just a Folk Lantern Exhibition held by the government to express "sharing happiness with the people". Wang Yingshan, a scholar of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, recorded that "hanging lamps along the door and enjoying all night is called the lamp market". However, it has become the traditional culture of today's folk festivals that people's hearts and passions are aroused by lantern. There are also some exciting stories. For example, in the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to whitewash peace, the government ordered the people of Fuzhou City, rich or poor, to donate several lanterns for the Lantern Festival. It aroused great indignation of Chen lie, a scholar and poet living in Langguan lane of nanhoujie. Chen lie was upright and knowledgeable. He was known as "the fourth Mr. Haibin" together with the famous Neo Confucianist Chen Xiang, Guozijian sacrificial wine Zheng Mu and the famous Confucian Zhou Ximeng. Chen lie thought that the government ignored the people's livelihood and wasted money, so he went to the tower of the "mighty army gate" (Drum Tower) and wrote: "a lamp for the rich family, a grain of millet for Taicang family, a lamp for the poor family, father and son get together to cry, and the romantic Taishou knows? I hate Sheng song for no wonderful song. " It expressed the common people's wishes and made Liu Jin, the prefect of Fuzhou, recognize his mistakes and take back his life. Chen lie's move was recorded in the annals of the three mountains by Liang Kejia, Prime Minister of chunxijian in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Fuzhou has always had the custom of sending lights. Because "Deng" and "Ding" are homophonic in Fuzhou dialect, sending lantern means "Tian Ding". With demand, there is a market. Nanhoujie is the biggest market for making and selling spring festival lanterns. In the early years, when a daughter married in Fuzhou, whether she had children or not, her mother had to send a lamp. If she didn't have children, she would send a "Guanyin send a child" lamp or a "Tianci liner" lamp. When the child was born, she would send a "child sitting basin" lamp in the second year, an "orange" lamp in the third year, and several lamps for several children until the child was 16 years old. Some give three to two students, and the other one is called "Spotlight", hoping that the child will be outstanding. There is a vivid description of this in Zhuzhi Ci of Rongcheng New Year's Eve written by Qing Jiaqing Juren, who lives in Gongxiang, and Yang Qingchen, a good friend of Lin Zexu. The poem said: "Heaven gives lin'er a colorful painting, and the bride's room is full of sunshine. Night deep want to unload the gold hairpin, and report to her mother's home to send the lamp Fuzhou nursery rhyme has: "the Lantern Festival lantern in the first month, grandma love nephew (sun), send red orange lamp, auspicious and add Ding."

The old custom of the Lantern Market in nanhoujie began on the third day of the first lunar month and ended on the fifteenth day. Among them, the eighth to the twelfth day of the first lunar month is the most lively. There is a folk saying that "the Lantern Festival is only for the eighth day of the first lunar month". Because the thirteenth night of the first lunar month is "paper blind" (meaning "lantern"), the mother's family must send the lantern before the thirteenth. On the night of the Lantern Festival, adults light lanterns for their children and join the lantern welcoming procession of the children in the neighborhood. Every year, the Lantern Festival becomes a happy night for children.

There used to be several authoritarian lantern shops in nanhoujie, most of which were family handicrafts. As the sales of lanterns were only in the first few days of the first month, they usually only made big ball lanterns hung by big families, big lanterns hung in temples or "Gaozhao" used to welcome gods, hundreds of children and thousands of grandchildren used for funerals, small lanterns for lighting, and dragon dance lanterns used for festivals. Generally, there are few signboards in shops, which are often called so and so lantern shops. The materials for making lanterns include paper, cloth, bamboo and wood. There are watermelon lanterns, lotus lanterns, vegetable lanterns, orange lanterns, sheep lanterns, monkey lanterns, Guan Dao lanterns, Qilin lanterns, Zhuangyuan riding lanterns, yinsongzi lanterns, etc., which are held in the Spring Festival. Modern also has "airplane light" and so on. According to their needs, the lantern makers also make some exquisite lanterns, such as palace lanterns, horse lanterns, wall lanterns and all kinds of hanging lanterns made of yarn, silk, satin, silk and glass. All kinds of lanterns add happiness and auspiciousness to people. During the "Cultural Revolution", lanterns were regarded as the product of feudalism. There were no colorful lanterns in nanhou street. After the "Cultural Revolution", although the lanterns were restored, they were only used during the first month of the first lunar month. In order to support their families, the lantern makers changed to a more profitable wreath, which affected the atmosphere of traditional culture in nanhou street. In 2007, the party and government leaders of Gulou District of Fuzhou City held the first "nanhoujie Lantern Festival" in order to strengthen the protection of the traditional folk craft of lanterns, which attracted the attention of the superior leaders.

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Folk sculpture

Fuzhou folk sculpture is a new landscape in nanhou street. These works are placed in the open space of the street and under the newly planted trees. The characters are slightly larger than the real people, and the scene is very beautiful

It has the characteristics of Fuzhou traditional industry.

Engraving printing depicts an old master sitting at a desk carving a book printing template. The words on the board are clearly visible, and a young man reading a book stands on the side.

In the production of lanterns, a teacher Fu is making lanterns while a child is riding a bamboo horse and carrying a lantern. There are all kinds of paper lanterns on the wooden door behind them.

For the production of ancient furniture, two carpenters are carving window patterns and making Taishi chairs.

Pawnbroker, after shaping the counter, a pawnbroker wearing fancy glasses, holding an abacus in his hand, stands high above; under the counter, a poor man pawns.

Historically, most of the residents in the three lanes and seven alleys were gentry officials and wealthy businessmen, so there were a large number of bookstores and mounting shops in the South back street, and the traditional cultural atmosphere was very strong.

Old shops and famous shops

Tongli yanlao shop

"Taipingyan" is a famous local snack in Fuzhou, and also a famous festive dish in Fuzhou Customs.

People in Fuzhou must eat "Taiping swallow" when they celebrate New Year's holidays, weddings and funerals, relatives and friends get together. That is to say, they are lucky for "Taiping" and "Ping'an". Therefore, "no swallow is a feast, no swallow is an adult". As a result, the meat swallow has become a good gift for Fuzhou people, including overseas villagers.

It's a small street in Fuzhou

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