Stone statue of the Five Sheep
Chen Clan Ancestral Hall
Yuexiu District, one of the old towns of Guangzhou, is the seat of the ancient city of Guangzhou. Yuexiu District has a history of more than 1,000 years, from ancient times to the present, Yuexiu District has witnessed the rise and fall of Guangzhou. Prosperity, we first walked into the Yuexiu District today, exploring the Yuexiu. Yuexiu District is the oldest central urban area in Guangzhou, since the Qin Dynasty set up Nanhai County in the territory of Yuexiu District, the Western Han Dynasty Nanyue King Zhao Tuo built the Nanyue State Palace Office, and the Southern Han State Liu Gong built the Guangying Palace. Since the establishment of Guangzhou in Eastern Wu, the military and administrative centers set up by successive dynasties have been in the Yuexiu area. Yuexiu District brings together cultural relics and monuments of 8 dynasties with more than 2,000 years of history, including the Five Sheep Stone Statue, Zhenhai Tower, Beijing Road of the Millennium Ancient Road, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Five Immortals Temple, Liurong Temple, Guangxiao Temple, Stone Chamber Sacred Heart Cathedral, and the Museum of the Southern Yue King of the Western Han Dynasty. As the administrative, commercial, financial and cultural center of Guangzhou, Yuexiu District has formed an industrial pattern with the tertiary industry as the main body, the characteristic economy as the driving force, and the commercial and trade service industry as the support. The area around Zhongshan 5th Road is the most prosperous commercial and trade center and ancient city cultural tourism area in Guangzhou, with a number of well-known commercial and trade zones such as Beijing Road, Haiyin Area, Hero Square, Yide Road, etc., as well as business districts such as East International Central Business, Dongfeng Road Modern Service, and Liuhua Exhibition. Yuexiu District is also a strong educational area, bringing together famous schools such as Zhixin Middle School, Guangdong Experimental Middle School, Peizheng Middle School, etc., which will create good results in the college entrance examination every year. What are some fun and delicious places in Yuexiu? Let's take a look.
1. Beijing Road
Beijing Road is a collection of culture, entertainment, business in one of the streets, is the historical commercial center of Guangzhou, Beijing Road has a total length of 1.5 kilometers, retaining some Republic of China architecture, the Republic of China architecture and modernization of a road, whether it is to buy low-end high-end goods, in Beijing Road has everything. Since 2002, Beijing Road has been a pedestrian-only pedestrian pedestrian street. On the ground of Beijing Road, there is the ruins of a thousand-year-old ancient road, which is now covered with glass and preserved for pedestrians to enjoy. Inside the negative floor of Guangming Square, there is the ruins of the Wooden Sluice Gate of the South Vietnamese State, which was discovered when guangming square was built in 2000, making guangming square at that time, whether it was built or demolished, became the focus of public opinion. Within Beijing Road, there are also Ming Dynasty Great Buddha Temple, City God Temple, Great South Gate Ruins, Lujiang Academy, Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall and other places of interest and historical sites, while large shopping malls such as New Daxin, Guangbai and Tianhe City Department Store are all on Beijing Road. Beijing Road is also rich in food, from low-priced snack bars, fast food restaurants to high-end restaurants, everything is available, and the variety of catering is also rich and diverse, including antique Guangzhou authentic Xiguan cuisine, flavor dishes from all over the country, Vietnamese, Italian, French and other special Western cuisine, Japanese cuisine such as rotary sushi and teppanyaki, as well as Korean, Indian and Southeast Asian cuisine. The new restaurants are mainly concentrated in Guangming Square, and the nearby Huifu East Road has also vigorously developed food and beverage since 2010, and there are many restaurants on the street. The long-established restaurants on Beijing Road include Jubao Milk Pigeon, Taipingguan Restaurant, Yinji Sausage Powder and so on. There are also many small food shops with relatively low consumption levels in the south of Beijing, which include wonton noodles, beef brisket powder, fish egg powder, and sausages, and there are barbecue restaurants on the street. Beijing Road also has a historic cinema, Yonghan Cinema, and the Lido Hotel. A Beijing road, set culture, entertainment, business, food in one, to Guangzhou, must go to Beijing Road!
2. Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium / Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery / Diwang Square
The Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium is the opposite of the Martyrs' Cemetery, and the Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium used to be called "DongbiChang" and was used as a military training ground during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In December 1916, the Guangdong Provincial Government allocated funds to build a stadium here. In the early years of the Republic of China, many of the times that would later change China's destiny began in the "Eastern Competition Field", and on May 2, 1922, the Northern Expedition Ceremony of the Second Army of the Cantonese Army was held in the Eastern Competition Field, and Sun Yat-sen personally presented the flag. On June 23, 1925, in order to protest the "May Thirtieth Massacre" created by imperialism in Shanghai, Zhou Enlai and the provincial and Hong Kong strikers and the masses from all walks of life gathered in Dongbiaochang to support the struggle of the Shanghai people, and organized an anti-imperialist march of 100,000 people. On New Year's Day 1926, after the opening of the Second Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang, a military parade was held in Dongjianchang, and 200,000 soldiers and civilians chanted the slogan of "Down with imperialism and warlords.". On July 9, 1926, the "Northern Expedition Oath Division Conference" was held in Dongbichang, which opened the curtain for the first Kuomintang-Communist Cooperation Northern Expedition War of great historical significance. At present, most of the Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium is used for football matches, such as the Provincial Hong Kong Cup football match between Hong Kong and Guangdong, and most of Guangdong uses "East Match" as the home game. Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery, as the name suggests, is a memorial park built to commemorate the martyrs of the Guangzhou Uprising led by the Communist Party of China on December 11, 1927, with an area of 260,000 square meters. The cemetery was built in 1954 and completed in 1957 on the 30th anniversary of the Guangzhou Uprising. The main body of the cemetery has the main entrance, square, mausoleum avenue, Guangzhou Uprising Monument and circular enclosure. There are 16 scenic spots and playgrounds, which are set in one park for commemoration and popular science. There are 20 large flower beds on both sides of the tomb, and the flowers are continuous in all seasons; the tomb is densely paved with grass and surrounded by pine and cypress evergreen; in the east of the cemetery, there is the Blood Friendship Pavilion of the Chinese and Korean People and the Blood Friendship Pavilion of the Chinese and Soviet People. There is also a memorial pavilion in the middle of the lake in the artificial lake in the garden, and the horizontal plaque reads "Blood Sacrifice Xuanyuan", which is inscribed by Dong Biwu. Every year during the Qingming Festival, primary and secondary schools in Guangzhou will organize students to visit the martyrs' cemetery and receive patriotic education while remembering the revolutionary martyrs. Between the Martyrs' Cemetery and the East Competition Field, the Diwang Square was also built. During the day, Diwang Square is a good place for everyone to exercise, there will be a group of football enthusiasts here to open, there are also a group of people who play fancy bicycles here to perform, and skateboarding to practice here, these entertainment activities are with a certain degree of danger, so they are careful when playing, safety first beautiful fancy second, there are also people playing badminton here and so on. Whenever people get tired of going to the pop front and China Plaza, they will sit down here and rest and watch their performances. It often attracts bursts of applause. At night, Diwang Square is a good place for couples to fall in love, because the lights here are relatively dark, whenever there are couples sitting and talking at night, some are dancing with music, they dance fast and slow with the rhythm of music, beautiful movements plus gorgeous skirts are rotating and fluttering, it feels as if the dancing butterflies are beating, and some are playing games chasing and playing. And there are often handsome guys playing guitar at night, and the sweet singing voice attracts a group of spectators to stop and cheer for him. Diwang Plaza has also built an underground shopping mall to provide shopping for nearby residents and tourists who come to visit.
3. Gaudi Street
It is the birthplace of the famous Xu family and is the former residence of The First Salt Merchant Xu Baiting. It is also the place where Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping lived in her childhood, and Xu Di is the place where the Xu family lives. "Brother Huanxi" Xu Shaoxiong was born in the Xu family in Guangzhou, and he was also the nephew of Xu Guangping, Lu Xun's wife. Regarding the origin of the name of Gaudi Street, legend has it that once upon a time there was a rich man's daughter who fell in love with a young man named Gao Di, was exposed by the rich man's servants, and the two eloped. Later, the elder brother and his wife returned here in the outer development, and saw that the rich man had fallen in the middle of the road, so they bought the whole street. The name of the street was thus called Gaodi Street. Later, there was a Xiucai who passed through this place and thought that the name of Gaodi Street was too vulgar, so he changed a word, taking the meaning of high school keju and Gaojiafudi, and "Gaodi Street" has been passed down to this day. During the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty, the Guangzhou government office was located on Gaodi Street. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Salt Office was also located on Gaodi Street. Since the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there have been many shops selling Guangdong native cloth, Xiangyun yarn, Western clothes and suits. Guangzhou's traditional famous Jiutongzhang silk satin shop, Sanduo Xuan Fanzhuang, Liang Su Ji YangSha, "a dime" Liang Xin Ji toothbrush and other famous shops, are prosperous here, after the reform and opening up, Gaodi Street took the lead in becoming the earliest private clothing commercial street in Guangzhou famous Chinese mainland. In October 1980, Gaodi Street was officially opened as the first industrial products market in Guangzhou, and it also became the first individual clothing street in Chinese mainland. In the mid-1990s, Guangzhou successively opened clothing wholesale commercial buildings, and the status of Gaodi Street as a fashion market gradually declined. At present, Gaudi Street has become a street for lingerie swimwear.
4. Guangdong International Hotel / Garden Hotel / China Hotel
Guangdong International Building, commonly known as 63 floors, is a set of high-end hotels, office buildings, apartments in one of the business buildings, Guangdong International Building covers an area of 19,500 square meters, construction area of 184,000 square meters. It is composed of a 5-storey podium connecting 1 main building and 2 auxiliary buildings, the main building has 63 floors and 3 basements, the main building is 200.18 meters high, the auxiliary building is a 30-storey apartment building with 109.8 meters and a 33-storey office building with 117.6 meters. The 63-storey was once the tallest building in China, witnessing the rapid development of Guangzhou, and there is also the first McDonald's in Guangzhou, and now the Guangdong International Building is still indispensable in Guangzhou. The attractions in Yuexiu District also include Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Zhenhai Tower (five floors), Stone Chamber Sacred Heart Cathedral, Agricultural Lecture Center, Liurong Temple, Yuexiu Mountain, Yuexiu Park, etc., which will be explained in detail next time. After visiting Yuexiu District, we came to Lai Chi Wan and visited Li Wan District. Liwan, commonly known as "Xiguan", because there is a "bay of green water, lychee red on both sides of the strait" reputation of "Lychee Bay" and named, known as "Xiguan", "Lychee Bay" and "water show flowers" famous, has "taste of Lingnan culture to Guangzhou, less than Liwan is not counted to Guangzhou" reputation, is one of the old three districts of Guangzhou. During the Ming Dynasty, it was already an important port for China's foreign trade and cultural exchanges; during the Qing Dynasty, for more than a hundred years, it was China's only foreign trade window, and the famous foreign trade port was the location of the Thirteen Lines. Liwan District is the core area of Guangzhou's central urban area and Guangzhou-Foshan Metropolitan Circle, with three important commercial zones: "First Street, Second Road", Shangxiajiu Commercial Pedestrian Street, Kangwang Road and Zhongshan 7th and 8th Road. Liwan not only has excellent cultural heritage, rich history and culture, but also has many cuisines, the famous Tao Tao Ju, Chen Tim Kee fish skin, boat boy porridge, and brother porridge are all derived from Liwan, let's explore Liwan together.
First, sand noodles
Don't look at the small area of sand noodles, but he has witnessed the history of modern China. Around the Time of the Second Opium War in 1860, Britain and France established concessions for the first time in Guangzhou and Henan. In Guangzhou in 1843, the British originally planned to lease dozens of acres of land on the other side of the thirteen lines in Henan, but the Qing court had no objections, and the local squires "will gather forty-eight townships and gather about 2,000 people" to vigorously oppose land acquisition, and the British side agreed to give up the choice. It was not until July 1859 that Shamian was officially leased by the Qing government together with France. After re-choosing this small sandbar in the Pearl River (quite close to the only foreign trade area in China during the Qing Dynasty's closed country, "Guangdong Thirteen Lines") as the address of the concession, it was filled in as an island and signed a lease in 1861. 4/5 of the western part of the island is designated as the British Concession of Guangzhou, about 264 acres, and the eastern part is designated as the French Concession of Guangzhou, about 66 acres. Each bridge is connected to Guangzhou Hebei (Huajie). In the following half a century, Britain and France gained many privileges on Shamian Island, with a large number of government agencies and enterprises moving in, major consulates and political and financial organizations established here, and giving unfair treatment to nearby Chinese for a long time, so that Shamian Island became the target of protests and attacks by national liberation movements in China and even nearby countries. For example, in the 1920s, the citizens of Guangzhou repeatedly marched against colonialism, and the Vietnamese revolutionary Pham Hung Tai assassinated Ma Lan, the governor of French Indochina, in Shamian. In 1942, the Empire of Japan handed over the Shamian British Concession occupied after the declaration of war against Britain to the puppet Wang Jingwei. In 1943, the French Vichy regime withdrew from the French Concession and handed over to the Wang Jingwei regime. In the same year, the Nationalist government of Chongqing, which insisted on resisting Japan, made a separate agreement with the British to reclaim the British Concession. After the end of World War II, the newly established French Provisional Government officially announced the return of the Shamian French Concession to the Government of the Republic of China. In 1996, the Shamian building complex was designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In 1997, the State Council listed Shamian as a national cultural relics protection area. Now Shamian is one of the "punch card holy places" for foreign tourists to come to Guangzhou, because it retains a lot of modern Western architecture, from the west side of Shamian to the east, you can feel the feeling of walking in Europe, and Shamian faces the south of the Pearl River, called White Goose Pond, its right hand side is one of the first five-star hotels in China, the White Swan Hotel, the two shine together, is also one of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng. Christian friends can also go to the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Shamian to pray. Near Shamian is the famous Huangsha Seafood Market, but this market will be moved to Fang village.
2. Chen Clan Ancestral Hall / Nylon Hall
Chen Clan Ancestral Hall is located on Zhongshan 7th Road, Guangzhou. Chen's College was built in the fourteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1888) and completed in 1894, and is a "Hezu Ancestral Hall" jointly donated by the Chen clans in Guangdong Province. Its establishment mainly provides temporary residence for the children of the Chen clan who participated in the donation to prepare for examinations, wait for office, pay taxes, litigation and other matters in the provincial city. In return for their donations, these Chen clans can place their ancestral tablets in the shrine of the Chen Academy. Chen's College is the largest, richly decorated and well-preserved traditional Lingnan ancestral hall style building in Guangdong, covering an area of 15,000 square meters, with a main construction area of 6,400 square meters, and consisting of 19 single buildings of various sizes. Chen's Academy concentrates on the decorative arts of Guangdong folk architecture, and skillfully uses decorative arts such as wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, gray sculpture, ceramic sculpture, copper and iron casting and painting. With a wide range of themes, vivid shapes, rich colors and exquisite skills, it is a brilliant temple of folk decorative arts. Since the 21st century, Chen's College has been twice selected as the "Eight Views of Yangcheng in the New Century" under the name of "Ancient Ancestral Temple Liufang", known as "Guangzhou Cultural Business Card", and has become the most cultural and artistic museum and famous tourist attraction in Lingnan.
Nylon Guild Hall, founded in the first year of Qing Yongzheng (1723), is a meeting place for the bosses of the old Guangzhou textile industry (that is, nylon line), witnessing the germ of Chinese capitalism, and is the only surviving industry hall in Guangzhou. In 1920, when the Nationalist government wanted to bring the museum into public property, Dr. Sun Yat-sen immediately issued an instruction to "keep it forever" when he learned of it. In 2001, Guangzhou built kangwang road, the main road between the north and the south, but the nylon hall became the "roadblock" of the project. After several demonstrations, Guangzhou creatively carried out the world's first case of complete translation of cultural relics with foundations, with a moving area of 668 square meters and a weight of 2,000 tons.
3. Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street/Tao Tao Ju/Lianxiang Building
Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street is the collective name of Shangjiu Road, Xiajiu Road and Tenth Fu Road Pedestrian Street in Xiguan, Liwan District, Guangzhou, China. On September 30, 1995, it officially became a commercial pedestrian street. Its actual coverage includes Shangjiu Road, Xiajiu Road, Tenth Fu Road, Baohua Road, Kangwang Road and other sections. Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street is the famous "Xiguan Commercial Corridor" and one of the most prosperous areas in the old city. There are countless delicacies in Shangxiajiu, and Tao TaoJu and Lianxiang Lou are both located in Shangxiajiu. Tao Tao Ju (commonly known as Xiao Tao) is a well-established tea house in Guangzhou, located in Guangzhou Xiguan Tenth Fu Road (Shangxia Jiu Pedestrian Street), founded by Huang Chengbo in 1880 (the sixth year of Qing Guangxu), Tao Tao Ju has an elegant pattern, and its long history, so that the tea house in Guangzhou tea house has a hall-level status, over the years has been a place where literati and scholars from all walks of life are happy to gather. Tao Tao Ju can cook a variety of Cantonese cuisine, among which the famous dishes are pig brain fish cloud soup, colorful fresh shrimp, ginger and shallot fried meat crab, West Lake chrysanthemum fish, hand-torn salt baked chicken and other 10 kinds. Pork brain fish cloud soup is made of raw materials such as pig brain, fresh shrimp, fish cloud, ham, meat grains, lean char siu grains, fresh mushroom grains and other raw materials, and the soup is golden brown, which is a famous traditional dish. There are also award-winning dishes of previous food festivals, such as gold medal hemp skin suckling pig, tonic salt stewed chicken, Zhejiang flavor chicken, clay pot Zhenjiang chicken, secret milk pigeon emperor, flower gum ginseng stewed water fish, Yaozhu mung bean buckle field chicken, golden millet gui fish pieces, flower branch autumn chrysanthemum, double fruit seaweed pills, Yaozhu mung bean buckle field chicken, hundred flowers Qi Zhanyan, Hami crystal pills, etc. Tao Tao Ju is also most famous for its exquisite dim sum with a long history, which serves no less than 100 kinds of dim sum every day, such as wind and waves, tao tao shrimp dumplings, crab yellow steamed buns, honey sauce char siu buns, Mandarin duck egg tarts, tao tao corn cakes, Hainan crystal balls, Wuren white aya crisp, mounted cakes, mini elephant raw, olive lotus shampoo, fragrant mandarin duck rolls, chicken grain mille-feuille boxes, etc. Lian Xiang Lou is an old tea house with a history of more than 100 years, with the reputation of "the first lotus rong", guangzhou store is now located in The Tenth Fu Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou, China, it and Tao Tao Ju are the only two remaining old tea houses in Guangzhou with a history of more than 100 years. From the rise of these old tea houses, Guangdong's unique tea drinking culture has gradually taken shape. Lotus Xiang Lou is famous for its excellent lotus food, Lotus Rong bun is only served in the morning market and lunch market, but its lotus seed fragrance is fragrant, lotus rong entrance is smooth, and Lian Xiang Lou has always used Hunan Xianglian as a filling, Xiang Lotus is brownish red, so that the filling of the lotus rong bun made is also brown red, so that diners greatly appreciate. There are also some special side dishes with lotus roots as the theme, such as double lotus root cakes: (special side dishes mixed with lotus paste and fried in lotus root segments). Lotus Mooncake is one of the well-known brands of Guangzhou Mooncake. Shangxiajiu's famous specialty foods include "Ronghua Ma Xiang Crisp" in Ronghua Restaurant, "Nanxin Double Skin Milk" and "Nanxin Ginger Bumping Milk" in Nanxin, "Shangtang Fresh Shrimp Wonton" of Ou Chengji Noodles, "Wu Zhanji and Di Congee" of Wu Zhanji Congee, "Ginger Milk Tart" of Qingping Hotel, "Wife Cake" of Lianxianglou, Soy Sauce Beef Sausage of Yinji, Duck Dumplings of Admiralty Pavilion, etc. [4]. In addition, there is a special food street in an alley next to ACN Plaza, where there are a variety of cheap special snacks for tourists to taste. Because of its simplicity, the most common snacks in Shangxiajiu are stinky tofu and radish beef offal. The famous Chen Tim Kee fish skin is also on the fifteenth road near Shangxiajiu.
4. Enning Road
Enning Road is a road with xiguan characteristics, and the xiguan houses are concentrated here, and the famous miss Xiguan is also concentrated here. Enning Road starts from Baohua Road in the east and Connects to Duobao Road and Longjin West Road in the northwest, with a length of 1115 meters, a width of 18 meters, two lanes in both directions, and the current direction of vehicle traffic is two-way driving. In 1931, it was expanded into a road, because the original from east to west were 11 Fu, Enning East Road, Enning Bell Lane, Enning North Road and Enning City, so "Enning" was used as the road name [1]. It is connected with Longjin West Road, Tenth Fu Road, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street Arcade, becoming the most complete and longest Arcade Street in Guangzhou, and there are contiguous Pieces of Xiguan House and Bamboo Tube House on both sides of the inner street, the famous ones are Taihua Building, Guangdong Bahe Guild Hall, Bruce Lee Ancestral Residence, Zhan Tianyou Former Residence, Zhang Huoyou Former Residence, Jinsheng Cinema, Baoqing Dabao, Luan Youtang and so on. Enning Road has the Daguan River passing through, which used to be the most prosperous place in Xiguan, and the eight bridges that surged on it were named "Eight Bridges of Prosperity" in the Qing Dynasty. On the north side of Enning Road, on the west side of the Twelve Fu, the two branches of the Lower Xiguan Chung Shangyuan converge on the north of Huiyuan Bridge. On the south side of Enning Road, on the west side of The Twelve Fu, there is a Penglai Bridge at the mouth of Fenglai Zheng Street. But now affected by land development, the current Enning Road is facing the crisis of demolition.
5. Boat porridge
The boat porridge was created by the former water tourists of the Pearl River Delta, the Yan people (also known as the water people's home), and later carried forward in Guangzhou. In old Guangzhou, around The West Hao, Sha Ji Chung and Lychee Bay of the Pearl River, at night, rows of flower boats leaned towards the shore or large cruise ships, and a yellow flag was inserted at the tail of each boat, with a big "porridge" word on it, that is, the boat that sold the boat boy porridge. Boaters are mostly women of the Yan family, who will sell boat porridge to tourists on the shore or on the boat. Authentic boat porridge, is the water people with freshly caught fish, shrimp, crab clams and snails, miscellaneous, into a pot of porridge boiled out, because of the freshness, porridge water is fresh and sweet. The original boat porridge used different materials every day, and what you hit was put in whatever material, which was very delicious. Later, the onshore shop also imitated the boat porridge, slowly fixed its ingredients, there are fish fillets, roasted duck shreds, jellyfish shreds, fried peanuts, egg shreds, shredded squid, fried ghosts, etc., and later added floating skin, fried thin and crispy and other condiments. Now selling boat porridge on the boat has disappeared, but you can try its flavor in old tea houses such as Tao Tao Ju and Lian Xiang Lou.
Liwan also has attractions: Hualin Temple, Guangzhou Cultural Park, Liuhua Lake Park, Liwan Lake Park and so on.
The time of this yuexiu & Liwan chapter is similar, and in the next issue we will talk about Huangpu & Baiyun District.