Houcheng Tourism Culture Street

Houcheng Tourism Culture Street

Houcheng tourism and Culture Street is located in Houcheng street between Tumen street and Jiuyi Road, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. It is connected with Qiaoxiang commodity street in the East, Baiyuan road in the west, and mosques and Guandi temple in the south. Houcheng tourism and Culture Street is a professional market of Arts and crafts tourism commodities, which integrates cultural landscape, tourism services and professional market, and mainly features folk traditional products. It also has the functions of exhibition, reception and other tourism services.

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In the north of Houcheng tourism and Culture Street, there are well preserved ancient dwellings, the small commodity street of Qiaoxiang in the East, Baiyuan road in the west, and Qingjing temple and Guandi temple in the south. With unique architectural style and strong characteristics of Southern Fujian, Houcheng tourism and Culture Street is a good place for tourism, business and home. Chinese and foreign tourists, men and women come in an endless stream. The back city is famous for its outstanding people, famous artists and celebrities. It is recognized as a treasure land of geomantic omen.

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The main buildings of Houcheng tourism and Culture Street are designed by Professor Lu Junhua of Tsinghua University, one of the top ten architects in China. The whole building complex is arranged along both sides of baguagou, with 6-meter green belt in the middle, willow trees, small bridges and running water, and architectural sketches beside the walkways. The scenery is pleasant. There are four storeys at the top of the complex, two to four storeys of office and residential buildings, and underground parking lots. There are green space, square and parking lots between Guandi temple and Qingjing temple. The north and South roads are Baiyuan Road, hermit Bridge Lane and Xiaocai Lane respectively; the East and West roads are Jiuyi Road, Houcheng lane and Tumen Street respectively, with convenient transportation.

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Houcheng tourism and Culture Street is a professional market of Arts and crafts tourism commodities, which integrates cultural landscape, tourism services and professional market, with folk traditional products as the main characteristics. It also has the functions of exhibition, reception and other tourism services. The main business items are: wood carving, gold wood carving, Buddha statue, stone carving, shadow carving, embroidery, jade, ceramics, bronze, tin ware, purple sand craft, bamboo weaving, Teng weaving, bodiless, resin craft, art clothing, religious embroidery, clock and watch craft, four treasures of the study, art books and periodicals, audio-visual equipment, electronic products, art gallery, tea ceremony, lantern products, sports equipment, decoration Advertising, art photography, etc.

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There are 114 stores and 35 enterprises in the first batch. We sincerely welcome people of insight from the traditional arts and crafts circles of all counties and cities (districts) to join the ranks of management, introduce new crafts, new technologies, and introduce advanced cultural and technological projects.

Cultural details

Tea culture: the fragrance of tea in ancient houses

China has a long tea culture. Although Quanzhou is small, its tea culture can not be underestimated. The hometown of Tieguanyin is Anxi, Quanzhou.

On the cultural street, several tea houses collect all kinds of tea series produced in Anxi. Here, as if in the world of tea, a variety of tea. "Tieguanyin" is a well deserved leader in the fine products, which has won a lot of preference from tourists.

Tea drinking has become an elegant fashion in Quanzhou, and also an important way to cultivate sentiment and friendship. On the cultural street, there are several antique teahouses. The ancient folk houses with unique Minnan style, such as redwood rafters, red floor tiles, several famous paintings, Pipa and erhu, together with elegant tea sets and flowing classical folk music, create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere. Here, you will be influenced by Chinese tea culture, and you will be proud of China's broad and profound tea culture.

Porcelain: crystal clear

Dehua porcelain is well known at home and abroad. Dehua ceramics entered the international porcelain world as far back as the song and Yuan Dynasties, and became famous at home and abroad. Together with Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province and Liling in Hunan Province, Dehua ceramics was once known as China's "three major porcelain capitals".

In the cultural street, there are traces of Dehua porcelain everywhere. The display samples in the ceramic shop are very attractive. They are as exquisite as white jade. The glaze is bright and shining. Jianbai porcelain, in particular, is more attractive. It is white with a slight yellowish color. Under sunlight, it can be translucent, almost like carved from ivory.

Here, whether it is tableware, daily utensils, or display porcelain, art porcelain, have a new and wonderful shape, do not have a flavor. The traditional porcelain carving has achieved the effect of "vivid and freehand brushwork". The figures in the porcelain carving have both shape and spirit, and the colors are bright and clear, and full of changes.

Stone root carving: unique craftsmanship

Stone carving and root carving are unique folk crafts in Quanzhou, most famous in Huian County.

On the cultural street, stone and root carvings can be seen everywhere. Every piece of stone carving is full of artistic brilliance, which gives people the enjoyment of beauty: strange birds and animals, simple taxi ladies, flying dragon, exquisite lanterns

Root carving began to be popular in the middle of Qing Dynasty. At that time, the literati displayed a root carving in a corner of the study or on the desk to show their purity and lack of desire by praising the natural style. The root carving basically retains the natural form of the tree root. In the design, it pays more attention to imagination than to carving, showing the natural interest, which makes people sigh for the subtlety of nature's creation.

Antique Market: yesterday reappears

The cultural street contains Quanzhou's antique market. Many Quanzhou people like to visit it. They savor and ponder over many dazzling porcelains, calligraphy, paintings and other antiques that can't tell the true from the false.

Those who visit the antique market in Houcheng are well-dressed "tycoons" with cars, civil servants and people going to the countryside, bald monks and even "foreigners" who visit the ancient city of Quanzhou. You can often see customers looking at antiques with a magnifying glass, and they can't put it down.

There are a lot of antiques in Houcheng ancient street. Walking into these shops, it's like going back to the old world. Here, people's nostalgic complex is revived. Kerosene lamp, hairpin, clocks, embroidered shoes, gramophone, mahogany furniture, constitute another world, a disappearing world.

Address: Houcheng street between Tumen street and Jiuyi Road, Licheng District, Quanzhou City

Longitude: 118.59112548828

Latitude: 24.903680801392

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