East West Lane

East West Lane

East West Street, located in front of Zhengyang gate of Jingjiang City, is also known as "Zhengyang East Lane" and "Zhengyang West Lane" respectively. It is the only historical street left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Guilin. With pleasant spatial scale, it is the viewing area of Guilin's ancient historical landscape, including the East Lane of Zhengyang Street, Jiangnan lane, Lanjing lane and other traditional streets and lanes in Guilin. It is also the viewing area of Guilin's ancient historical features, reflecting the historical context of Guilin.

Dongxixiang is a historical and Cultural District in Guilin, which witnessed the rise and fall of Guilin City in nearly 1400 years since it was built in Wude period of Tang Dynasty. Dongxixiang flourished as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At its peak, it was also known as "green dragon and white tiger". So far, it is a landmark of Guilin International Tourist Resort.

Historical evolution

According to historical records, Zhengyang gate in Wangcheng was first called Duanli gate. Outside the gate of the city, there used to be a ancestral temple and an altar for the country. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, ancestral temples and state altar were destroyed in the war. In the Qing Dynasty, the royal city was changed into a tribute court, and Duanli gate was renamed Zhenggong gate. From then on, some dignitaries began to build their own homes on both sides of the Zhenggong gate, and the common people also built houses close to the city wall. The names of "East Lane" and "West Lane" began to appear in Lingui county annals in 1880.

Dongxi lane was opened on June 6, 2016. The reconstructed Dongxi Lane reflects the style and features of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The emphasis is to highlight the cultural value, create the market culture with commerce, pharmaceutical industry and architecture as the main body, maintain the historical authenticity, cultural continuity and the integrity of the style and features, repair the precious historical buildings, protect the original style and features of the ancient lane, and comprehensively improve the living conditions of the surrounding citizens Living environment has successfully created a new landmark of cultural tourism in Guilin City, which has endowed "Guilin International Tourist Resort" with a richer cultural atmosphere and business environment.

Special food

There are many Guilin traditional snacks on the streets, such as Guilin rice noodles, Camellia oleifera, Songhua sugar, osmanthus cake, nun plain noodles and horseshoe cake.

Regional advantage

Guilin, a world famous scenic city and one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China, enjoys the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". Permanent venue of the International Forum on tourism trends and prospects of the United Nations World Tourism Organization / Asia Pacific Tourism Association. It is the first national tourism comprehensive reform pilot zone in China. Guilin, located in the northeast of Guangxi, is the political, economic, cultural, scientific and technological center of Northeast Guangxi. After the completion of Hunan Guangxi railway and Guiyang Guangzhou high-speed railway, it will become a transportation hub connecting Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Guangdong provinces and even southwest, Central South and South China with two and a half hour economic circle equidistant from Changsha, Nanning, Guiyang and Guangzhou. Guilin Liangjiang International Airport has 52 international and domestic routes, 21 airlines fly Guilin airport, which can reach 45 domestic cities, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Fukuoka of Japan, Seoul of Korea, Bangkok of Thailand and Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia. There are Xiangjiang River and Lijiang River by water, which are connected with the Pearl River through Wuzhou, and can directly reach Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.

Landscape features

Dongxixiang flourished as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At its peak, it was also known as "green dragon and white tiger". Here not only Hongru business contacts, but also dignitaries live here. Especially since modern times, there have been many celebrities and gentlemen living here, such as Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty; long Chaoyan and long Chaoyi, the brothers of Hanlin; Wei Jichang, vice mayor of Guilin after the liberation of the scholar of the former Qing Dynasty; Xie Hegeng, the confidential secretary of Bai Chongxi, the famous underground Party of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, dongxixiang is also the birthplace of many time-honored brands with unique local characteristics in Guilin, such as "youyixuan" rice noodles; "Zhang Yongfa" dyeing cloth; "Cao Baoyuan" Baodan pill powder; "Xiong Tonghe" Drugstore; "jufengtai" business firm; "Youxin" business firm; "huangchangdian" brush; "Hongqinglong" moon cake, etc.

Traditional culture street

In view of this, Guilin Xiufeng District government has listed Zhengyang East West Lane as a key construction project in the 12th Five Year Plan. It is planned to become a land for commercial services, cultural entertainment, Museum exhibition and other tourism services, and add new public green space, rest and distribution square, so as to comprehensively improve the living and sightseeing environment of citizens. After completion, it will become a major landmark for Guilin to build "international tourist resort" city tourism consumption and brand.

Dongxi lane is the only historical street left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Guilin. It has a pleasant spatial scale and is the viewing area of Guilin's ancient historical landscape, including the East Lane of Zhengyang Street, Jiangnan lane, Lanjing lane and other traditional streets and lanes in Guilin. It reflects the historical context of Guilin. Therefore, dongxixiang historical and cultural business street, as an important part of Guilin Historical and cultural city, is a multi-cultural and complex historical area based on the main functions of traditional residence, traditional commerce, cultural experience, leisure tourism, integrating scenic spots and sightseeing, with the characteristics of "street, celebrity residence" and reflecting the development of the times. It aims to build the most distinctive historical and Cultural District in Guilin.

Fashion street

Positioning planning

Dongxixiang commercial street is positioned as the first multi-functional three-dimensional commercial city in Guilin. The main reason is that Guilin does not have a large-scale comprehensive commercial district integrating tourism, folk custom, culture, shopping, catering, leisure and entertainment, and lacks a multi-functional business entity, so that consumers can meet a variety of consumption and enjoyment of tourism, shopping, catering, leisure and entertainment in a commercial area. The planning pattern and architectural form of dongxixiang business street can just meet the requirements of the above types of business.

Based on the idea of target customer positioning and theme positioning, the grade of dongxixiang commercial street should be higher than that of the surrounding commercial buildings. At the same time, it also needs to meet the needs of local consumers and ensure that dongxixiang commercial street has a considerable turnover. Therefore, dongxixiang commercial street is positioned as a high-end commercial body dominated by Guangxi characteristic commodities. Adhering to the cultural essence of the history of fanwangmingcheng in Guilin and Heyuan in northern Guangxi, it is a comprehensive fashion and leisure commercial district with diversified high-end services such as leisure and entertainment, cultural tourism, exquisite catering services, fashion shopping and boutique retail stores.

Traditional culture street, fashion street

Format distribution

Dongxixiang commercial street, as a regional commercial center integrating shopping, catering, entertainment, leisure, culture and other functions, gathers luxury goods, cinemas, inns, video game city, KTV, bar street, snack street, food Square, specialty restaurants, coffee, drinks, popular department stores, clothing boutiques, beauty salons, cultural works of art, national characteristic goods , food street, time-honored shops and other comprehensive formats. The project has superior location and strong development potential, which will have a significant positive impact on Guilin's tourism business economy.

Traffic information

Take No. 10, No. 11, No. 14, No. 18, No. 21, No. 24, No. 25, No. 30, No. 91, No. 203, No. 206 bus in the urban area and get off at jiefangqiao station. The west side of the station is East-West lane, and the east side is xiaoyaolou scenic spot

Address: Dongxi lane, Xiufeng District, Guilin City, including xihuali, Zhengyang Street East Lane, Jiangnan lane, Lanjing lane, etc

Longitude: 110.299214

Latitude: 25.278372

Tel: 0773-2886666; 0773-28

Ticket information: no ticket required.

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