The city's fireworks are the thickest in the old streets. There are many century-old streets in Hangzhou, which can be closest to life, allowing you to feel the vitality of the Hongchen market in a second, and you can immerse yourself in the old streets of the Southern Song Dynasty life.
This "May Day" holiday, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Hangzhou, Xiaohe Park and Xiaohezhi Street, has a large wave of cultural tourism activities, which should not be missed.
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There are many old streets in Hangzhou. Hefang Street, which belonged to the CBD of the Southern Song Dynasty, was frequented by wealthy businessmen, and the Southern Song Dynasty Royal Street belonged to the main road for "civil servants" to go to work.
Only the small river street on the bank of the canal is a lively place for ordinary people.
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, the direct vicinity of Xiaohe was a material distribution center, a river and land transfer place, and a material reserve place. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the river port wharf was full of vitality. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, it began to develop again, and the catering industry, tea industry, and department store industry gradually rose. Liquor workshops, blacksmith shops, salt shops, rice milling shops, candle shops and other industries have taken root in the Xiaohe area.
It can be said that this is an indispensable market in the life of small families in Hangzhou, and it is also the place where the city's red dust and fireworks are most concentrated.
Walk north along Hushu North Road, cross Daguan Bridge, and see a two-story building with white walls and black tiles, wooden doors and windows, which is now Xiaohezhi Street.
The street is not long, about 1 kilometer, but it is full of market flavor, which is where the charm of Xiaohe Zhijie lies.
Coffee and tea, Hanfu and small dresses, hairpins and big waves, on Xiaohezhi Street, the traces of history are still clearly visible, but they can complement each other with modern elements, so that everyone who enters the old street can enjoy solitude and share life happily.
Xiaohezhi Street is not only a historic neighborhood, but also a vibrant and fashionable center. You can make tea around the stove here, and you can also sing rock 'n' roll here. And there are so many beautiful women and handsome guys here, for friends who like street photography, this is undoubtedly a treasure land for photography.
So, this May Day, this old street full of vitality and the most fireworks and dust, what kind of surprise will it bring to everyone?
Dream back to the Southern Song Dynasty
Immersive script bazaar
From May 1st to May 4th, the third season of Gongchen Xiaohe Market Hangzhou Outdoor Script Entertainment Creative Market will open in Xiaohe Park.
Xiaohe Park, closely connected with Xiaohe Straight Street, was originally the first oil depot in Zhejiang after the founding of New China, and now it has become a historical relic.
Xiaohe Park continues the fireworks market of Xiaohe Zhijie, and has a unique trend, it is a retro, empty, niche, and film-producing park, and it is designed by the architect Kengo Kuma himself.
If you want to travel back to the Southern Song Dynasty in one second and immerse yourself in the life of the people in the Southern Song Dynasty, then in Xiaoheji, there is your exclusive script.
If you know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, if you want to show your talent, this is your dream show.
From May 1st, the script interpretation of "Dream of Opera: Canal South" will be carried out in Xiaohe Park. During the event, there are 8 plot NPCs hidden in the Xiaohe Collection, you can try to find them in the Xiaohe Collection, interact with them, and clear one can collect 1 chapter, and after clearing all the customs, you can collect 8 chapters.
As long as you collect 4 chapters, you can enjoy the preferential benefits of 20 yuan to 5 yuan. It can be used at the stalls of the Little River Collection.
If you collect 8 chapters, you can enjoy the preferential benefits of 100 yuan to 20 yuan. Not only can it be used at the Xiaoheji booth, but you can also go to the reception desk of the main stage of the Flower Street Floating Pavilion with the game card full of 8 chapters, receive the lottery number plate, and participate in the ultimate prize lottery organized by the organizing committee at 8:30 every night on May 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
In particular, the 2 coupons can only be used separately and cannot be discounted, and will be invalid after expiration.
Encounter Song Yun culture
Find the most beautiful hairpins
Do you know hairpins? This custom did not start in the Song Dynasty, but it was popular in the Song Dynasty.
Hairpin flowers, also known as wearing flowers, flower arrangement. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a ritual called "hairpin wearing", that is, hairpin flowers on the head of Pu, where the Ming Hall, suburbs, holy festivals (the emperor's birthday), banquets, jinshi and the first wedding banquet and other occasions, as well as the emperor's travel, from the civil and military officials, and even the honor guards, guards, all must have hairpins, according to the level of officials, there are different specific regulations.
In the pursuit of life and elegance embodied in the love of flowers, the emperor and the commoners reflect the spiritual identity. The daily life of the Song people is accompanied by vases of flowers.
Hairpin people, regardless of gender, age, class, rich or poor, not only court nobles, literati and doctors, ordinary citizens also love hairpins, hermit masters love hairpins, even green forest heroes will also hairpins, the prodigal son Yanqing in "Water Margin" is like this, "the waist is obliquely inserted celebrity fan, sideburns often hairpin four seasons flowers".
Today's Xiaohezhi Street, hairpin girls and guys can be seen everywhere, which detonated the Song Yun national style elegance collection in Hangzhou.
This May Day holiday, let's come to the flower street floating pavilion of Xiaoheji and become the most beautiful hairpin!
1. Participants:
Customers who participated in the Gongchen Xiaohe Gathering and went to the two flower shops designated by the Xiaohe Park Organizing Committee (Qingwuban and Mengyu Makeup Research Institute) to make hairpins.
2. Game Rules:
Send a photo with the background of the main stage to the circle of friends, you can take a photo (1 polaroid), you can choose to go to the wall for selection, and leave contact information, every night at 7:30, the hairpin girl with the most stickers is today's champion.
3. Rights and Interests:
Won the honorary certificate issued by the organizing committee;
Receive exquisite limited gifts from the organizing committee;
They will also have the opportunity to be selected for new plot interpretations in the future and be invited to participate in script interpretations.
Exploring the aesthetics of life
New consumption by young people
Of course, a qualified fireworks market is inseparable from the feast of shopping, eating and punching in, and the hustle and bustle in the red dust can bring warmth to people.
In Xiaoheji, there are delicious food and innovative artworks, intangible cultural heritage of old foundations, and skillful hairpin shops.
After experiencing the products and services of various merchants, customers who participate in the Gongchen Xiaohe Market can also go to the check-in wall set up by the organizing committee to find "the luckiest merchant in Hangzhou" for stickers and select their favorite merchants.
So how can I get to Xiaohe Park and Xiaohe Straight Street?
Friends who arrive at Hangzhou East Railway Station/West Railway Station by high-speed rail:
1. Take Metro Line 19 to Wensan Road Subway Station, transfer to Line 10, exit D of Beidaqiao Station, and walk to Xiaohezhi Street.
You can also go to Exit D of Beidaqiao Station, and after leaving the station, transfer to bus No. 132 to Changzhengqiao Station, which is closer.
2. You can also take Line 1 at East Railway Station, transfer to Line 5 at Datieguan, exit at Exit D of Grand Canal Station, and walk there.
3. Tourists who drive by car can park in the underground parking garage of Xiaohe Park.
Orange Persimmon Interactive reporter Yue Yan