Zhou Village is a place where time takes care of it. It also has a nice name - Yu Ling, this name, like a twilight beauty, even if it has a gorgeous hair, add wrinkles, but the corners of the eyes and eyebrows still retain a moving style.
New Year's Day holiday, may wish to let us travel through time together, come to Zhou Village, to appreciate the charm of the ancient city that you have not known!
Zibo Zhoucun
A "living ancient mall"
Zhoucun is known as "Dry Wharf", "Jinzhou Village", "Silk Town" and "The First Village in the World", and Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Mall is also praised by experts of the China Ancient Architecture Protection Committee as "China's Living Ancient Commercial Architecture Museum Group"!
The street is lined with shops and monuments, which is a well-preserved Ming and Qing dynasty ancient commercial street in Jiangbei, which is still playing a commercial role today, known as "China's living ancient commercial street" and "China Commercial Street Museum".
The ancient shopping mall is composed of several more important old streets. A street is the soul of a city. Formed in the Song and Yuan dynasties, the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were its most prosperous period, with a total length of more than 500 meters, making it the largest and oldest commercial street in Zhoucun.
Silver City Street is 200 meters long, and most of the high-rise buildings in the style of Shaanxi are on both sides, because the ticket numbers of the ancient money house are gathered here, so it is named Silver City.
The 230-meter-long Silk Market Street can be said to be one of the symbols of the prosperity of the silk trade in Zhoucun, this street has a history of more than 400 years as a professional market for silk trading, when there were more than a dozen silk shops, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, and even Japanese and Russian customers are also gathered here, which is one of the most prosperous markets for silk trading in Shandong during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Although this historically famous "dry wharf" has been baptized by the years, there is still a part of the glory that has been "sealed" in the ancient shopping mall of Zhoucun today.
Located in the middle of Zhoucun District Street, The Hantec New Shoe Shop was founded in 1931 by Meng Xiangting, a Zhangqiu man, and the Gongsheng Hotel in the northern section of Zhoucun Street was founded by The Wang Clan of Qingzhou Gongsheng in the eleventh year of Qing Tongzhi (1872), and its former site is the current Dingjia Cooking Pot.
In addition, there are also the former site of Deqing Silver, the former site of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, the old site of Chunhe Xiangzhiji Tea House, etc., each century-old store maintains the original appearance and historical nature of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Strolling through the alleys of the streets, you can see the mottled and thick bluestone courtyard walls, the simple and atmospheric door courtyard holes, and the exquisitely carved eaves brick carvings, looking at these exquisitely structured and beautifully decorated buildings, closing your eyes, as if you can hear the distant shouting and shouting in the air, you can faintly feel the lively scene of that year.
Niche places: Sanyitang Printing Pavilion, Qian Xiangyi, Rui Xiangxiang, Today's Tax-Free Monument, Folklore Exhibition Hall, British American Tobacco Company Exhibition Hall, etc.
About the attractions of the ancient mall
Walking leisurely on the street, in addition to the gadgets and handicrafts that can be seen everywhere, the attractions scattered in the streets and alleys are naturally not to be missed!
▲Great Qing Post Office
In the past, time was very slow, the carriages and horses were very slow, and they could only rely on letters to convey thoughts and family affection, and came to the Qing Post Office to experience the slow communication of a hundred years ago.
▲ Rui Zhenxiang
Uncles and aunts in Shandong will definitely be very familiar with the century-old brand of Rui fengxiang, and walk into the old shop of Rui Feng xiang to see the evolution and development of century-old silk textiles.
▲Thousand Buddhas Temple
On the opposite side of Zhoucun Street, there is also a Buddhist holy place - Thousand Buddhas Temple, and it is also a good choice to worship the Buddha and pray for blessings here with the whole family on New Year's Day.
▲Big dye shop
In addition to some ancient skills and heritage, "Big Dye House" on the street is also the main shooting base for the famous TV series "Dry Dock", "Big Dye House", "Breaking into Kanto" and the famous director Zhang Yimou's film "Alive".
▲Zhuangyuan Province
You think that Zhoucun is only famous for handicrafts, in fact, there was also a Wu Zhuangyuan here, and in the ancient shopping mall, there are still Wu Zhuangyuan's training grounds, Zhuangyuan Mansion and other buildings.
▲There is no tax monument today
Of course, there are many attractions in the ancient shopping mall, such as the Yang Family Compound, Kuixing Pavilion, etc., and many interesting places depend on you to discover!
Recommended attractions: Thousand Buddha Temple Group, Zhuangyuan Mansion, Ticket Number Exhibition Hall, Yang Family Courtyard, Da DyeIng Workshop, Kuixingge Temple Group, etc
"Art" in the ancient shopping mall
Prosperous because of business, because of business and city, for thousands of years on the bluestone slab road carried countless passers-by... Every year on New Year's Day and Spring Festival, there are many wonderful folk performances in the ancient shopping mall, Sichuan opera changing face, gong opening, empty bamboo performance, acrobatic magic... All kinds of folk tricks will bring you great shock!
▲Rickshaws
Shaving heads, selling goods, throwing hydrangea balls, rickshaws... Only they still "survive" in the centuries of turmoil, and step by step they have metamorphosed into a kind of memory that continues to this day.
▲Intangible Cultural Heritage Folk Show
The loud shouting sound is still resounding in the streets of the ancient shopping mall, their figures are still shuttling through every street of the ancient shopping mall, quietly letting traditional culture enter the vision of tourists again, if you encounter, you may wish to take a photo with them to interact, in this vivid ancient city, watch folk activities play ancient and modern.
▲Seller
▲Gong opens
▲Sichuan drama changes face
"Food Shang" Zhou Village
Food makes the ancient city better
Zhoucun baked cake
Stroll through the streets of Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Mall, walk into the Zhoucun Baked Cake Museum, and learn about this Zhoucun Baked Cake with a history of more than 1,800 years. Witness the traditional process of making Zhoucun baked cakes.
When you really walk in the streets and alleys of the ancient city, you can realize that this thin, fragrant, crisp and crisp "Zhoucun Baked Cake" seems to be no longer just a cake, but also a kind of inheritance, a kind of trust, and a landmark.
Ding family cooking pot
As the embodiment of food culture in the "Eight Cultures" of Zhoucun, the boiling pot can be said to be the earliest meal sharing system in China. Meatballs, tofu, lion's head, fat sausage... Order everything you want, and then the hostess will cut it for you sharply.
Don't mention how comfortable it is to cook a hot pot in winter! Blanch the cut ingredients in the pot and pour the old soup made of beef bones to eat. There is water at the bottom of the bowl, the soup will not be cold, a cake, a bowl of dishes, is the most homely meal!
Flower dance feast
If the Ding family cooking pot is a simple home-cooked meal, then the Flower Dance Feast Light and Shadow Restaurant is a fancy restaurant full of rituals.
This is the largest art light and shadow food restaurant in Shandong, the antique architecture of the perfect integration of art, technology and food dream feast, this New Year's Day must be a good treat to yourself.
Zhou Village in the daytime is like a presence in time. The buildings on the street and the cornices on the corners seem to tell the bits and pieces of the past.
In Zhou Village at night, the lights are flashing, the crowds are surging and the ancient shopping mall with a different taste is not to be missed.
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It was getting late and the tourists were dispersing. The street side calmed down for a moment, and a different feeling was staged here...
Time passes slowly from here, taking away generations and generations of people, and leaving behind an inch and a trace of precious past. Walking down the old slate paved streets and passing by the old shops, you will find that this is a place worth everyone to come and savor!
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