Shushan South Street, Jiangsu Province

South St

Shushan South Street is located in Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. It is adjacent to Lihe River in the South and Shushan mountain in the north.

Brief overview

If you have heard of a very common living utensil and a famous art appreciation product - purple sand teapot, you will know Yixing. If you come to Yixing, you must go to Dingshu to have a look. When you come to Dingshu, you will surely visit the South Street near the mountain and the river, because it is the birthplace of modern purple sand production and many works of purple sand masters From there to the world.

geographical position

Shushan South Street is adjacent to Lihe in the south, Shushan in the north and Dongpo Academy in the East. Less than a hundred Li, Shiban old street is rich in purple sand culture. Once upon a time, it was a busy and noisy "Zisha Street". Most of the residents on the street were engaged in Zisha production and management. The residence is the production and trading place, the front shop and the back workshop. There are more than 20 or 30 purple clay pottery shops in the whole street. The prosperity of purple sand industry has led to the prosperity of other businesses in the small streets, such as teapots, pottery, tea shops, department stores, pharmacies, clinics, opera parks and ticket agencies. In the early period of the Republic of China, the first school to cultivate purple sand talents was founded here, which was called "Pottery Workshop", and a dragon kiln was built. A provincial pottery factory and a purple sand industry office were established, forming a gathering place for modern purple sand industry's training and development, production and trade, and industry management.

Protection status

Today, when we step on the South Street, the old style and skeleton are still there. "It's just the change of Zhu Yan". The past prosperity has been precipitated in the passing years, only filtering the desolation and desolation of the next street. At the foot of the stone road in the last century was covered with cement, after the reform and opening up, the rise of thinking about the root, and pried open the cement layer, the edge of the stone slab left traces of the changes of the times; the Longyao site at the bottom of the slope of Shushan mountain is covered with shrubs and weeds, which can hardly be identified. Under the guidance of the old people on the street, we can feel the shape of the "dragon" winding to the hillside.

Over the past two years, Yixing City has invested nearly 200 million yuan in the maintenance of historical and cultural blocks, cultural relics protection units at all levels and historical buildings. The city's cultural heritage has been comprehensively and systematically excavated, sorted and protected. Let "Shushan South Street - Zisha Street" live inheritance, this is just a silhouette of Yixing historical and cultural heritage protection. Through the protection of historical and cultural blocks, Yixing was officially approved as "national historical and cultural city" by the State Council in 2011.

Chinese PinYin : Jiang Su Sheng Shu Shan Nan Jie