In the eyes of Taiyuan people, can represent Taiyuan City, the most loved, love for a long time is the Bell Tower Street.
"Lao Xiang Village, Enlightened Photo Studio, Hendry, Hua Tai Hou, Heng Yi Cheng, Kaihua Temple..." These well-known long-established brands are located in Taiyuan Bell Tower Street.
With so many big names gathering in the commercial gathering place, who wouldn't want to go?
In memory, Zhonglou Street is a place where outsiders must punch in Taiyuan.
When it comes to Zhonglou Street, some people will also say nostalgically, "If you don't visit Liuxiang Bell Tower Street, you won't be counted as Taiyuan City", which shows that the fame of Zhonglou Street is also leveraged.
Walking in the crowded, Chinese and Western combination, the Republic of China style of Gulou Street, the feeling of cordial calm and aftertaste comes to the face.
The origin of the thousand-year-old street
Bell Tower Street got its name from the ancient Clock Tower.
According to the data, the Zhonglou Street Commercial District was born at the same time as the Song Taiyuan City, and has a history of more than a thousand years.
Today's Bell Tower Street was founded in 1015 AD, and its geographical location is just between the two east gates connecting the inner city and the outer city.
Therefore, it is also called Dongmen Main Street.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to expansion, the Chasi Division, which was in charge of the power of judicial adjudication, was located on Dongmen Zhengjie Street, and officials renamed Dongmen Zhengjie Street and Baosi Street.
It is said that the birthplace of the famous story of "Su Sanqi Xie", which has been sung for hundreds of years, is here.
Imagine that out of Yamen is a bustling commercial street, compared with this bustle, I don't know what kind of mood the protagonist of the story will have.
There are Kaihua Temple, Dazhong Temple, Taishan Temple, Guandi Temple and the bell tower on the south side of the street, forming a pattern of "one courtyard, one floor, two temples, two temples".
Every morning at dusk, the drum sound of the bell is heard far away, reaching more than ten miles, which is the timekeeping support of the people of the whole city.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, with the influx of Western architecture, the fashion of Bell Tower Street was not inferior to that of the beach.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, He withdrew from the stage of history according to Chasi.
Dazhong Temple, Kaihua Temple, and Taishan Temple became Dazhong Market, Kaihua Market, and Zhonghe Market, and changed to Dongyang City, Accordingsi Street and Zhonglou Street.
According to records, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the former Zhonglou Street, Baosi Street and Dongyang City have gradually developed into the main commercial markets of the "Three Jins". To the Zhengtai Railway opened to traffic, traffic development, Tianjin-Beijing-Shanghai Sui merchants came one after another, and merchants from all over the province flocked to the city. Commodity trading, rapid expansion. Located in Zhonglou Street, according to The Famous Temple Baofan, Buddhist Temple Zen Forest "Kaihua Temple" and "Great Bell Temple", also by the merchants sitting on jia jia as a treasure land for business to make a fortune, converted into a shopping mall, becoming the first two major commercial areas on Zhonglou Street.
After liberation, Dongyang City, Baosi Street and Zhonglou Street were merged to form Zhonglou Street.
After thousands of years of inheritance, it has long become a gathering place for time-honored brands such as enlightened photo studios, HengyiCheng (rat cave), and Shanghai Hotel.
The past of Bell Tower Street
"Hey, where are you going?"
"Go into town, buy clothes and go!"
When I was a child, the most proud words I heard when I greeted people after adults were this sentence when I entered the city.
In the 1970s and 1980s, people called visiting Bell Tower Street and Liu Lane "into the city", because for the older generation of Taiyuan people, only by visiting Bell Tower Street could they keep up with the trend, and only by wearing the things bought here would they have face. Especially in the hearts of children, "going to the city", that is, to go to the tooth sacrifice and see the world, which has also become a place where countless post-80s and post-90s have too many childhood memories.
At that time, every holiday, Zhonglou Street was crowded, crowded, and bustling, and people shopping blocked the entire street.
Even so, people think that they have been to Bell Tower Street and bought things here as the most beautiful memory.
In particular, the old Taiyuan people, who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, are mostly "loyal fans" of Zhonglou Street.
They said in a fascinating and humorous way that when they were young, the most fashionable women's standard outfit was to wear Huatai thick cheongsam, wear Hendry watches, go to the Enlightened Photo Studio to take pictures, if you can eat at a Shanghai restaurant, it feels like two words: perfect.
If you buy a Taishi cake in the old Xiangcun village of Zhonglou Street, you will be excited to sleep at night when you return home.
With the passage of time, these beautiful pasts have long become the most beautiful memories that people cannot give up in their hearts.
Fashion punch card place
In the first month, if you don't visit Bell Tower Street once, you feel that the New Year is not tasteful enough.
And it is, and indeed it is.
During the new month, there is a lot of activity here.
There are themed light signs, bell tower light shows, colorful lantern corridors, and crowds of people, gradually letting the human body taste a strong New Year's flavor.
The charm of the old street is in this step and scene, slowly tasting and growing.
Especially all kinds of snacks on both sides of the street, sugar fried chestnuts, crispy pork belly, sugar paintings, lotus porridge, dipped slices... These untidy delicacies tempt people.
Delicious scenery, unconsciously, people from day to night will not feel tired, accompanied by the sound of bells, but also inexplicably into the memory, well, carrying the memory of generations of bell tower street, is so vibrant.
Named after a bell, bustling with a bell tower street, the charm of our Taiyuan millennium old street is so irresistible.