Zhongshan Road is1198m long and15m wide. It is located in the bustling downtown area of Siming District, Xiamen, with one end connected to the hotel building in Xiamen, and the other end connected to the blue sea with a tidal gate, far away from the sea garden "Gulangyu". The arcade street on Zhongshan Road is the representative of Xiamen's architectural culture. Most of these buildings were built by overseas Chinese in their hometown in the 1920s, and have been listed as the focus of old city protection in the overall urban planning of our city.
With the development of Xiamen's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, Zhongshan Road is constantly enriched and beautiful. People walk on Zhongshan Road, and shops are next to each other. Well-known domestic enterprises include Leya Department Store, Paris Spring Department Store, Hualian Department Store, Lujin Zhubao, Guanghua Pharmacy, Huangze and Peanut Store. There are also bookstores, teahouses, musical instruments, hotels, Nanyin, dramas, movies, dry goods from North and South, famous products from East and West, McDonald's, KFC and coffee bars. According to statistics, there are more than 300. In these places, you have everything you want. On Zhongshan Road, you can't finish shopping, see enough and buy enough.
In addition to the commercial atmosphere, Zhongshan Road is also full of artistic atmosphere, and the handwriting of the shop name signboard here is full of charm. Generations of great men and grandmasters, such as Xinhua Bookstore by Mao Zedong, Tianxian Hostel by Rodin, a famous calligraphy master, and Guanghua Pharmacy by Meixiang Chen, a calligrapher in this city, are really brilliant. For tourists at home and abroad, it is a unique cultural landscape in Xiamen, which is heading for the "city of art".
Strolling along Zhongshan Road, people can not only feel the pulse of fierce competition in the market economy, but also taste the fragrance of the new wind of socialist civilization. The activities of "Three Excellent Streets" and "No Fakes in 100 Cities" have created a good business environment for Zhongshan Road, and more and more merchants have gathered here, making Zhongshan Road a business center in our city and even in southern Fujian.
◆ Gucheng East Road "Fujian-Taiwan Special Food Street"
"Fujian-Taiwan Characteristic Food Street" brings together a number of well-known and long-standing characteristic foods in Fujian and Taiwan. Longyan Peanut, Fujian Pubao, Haicheng Shuangrun Cream, Taiwan Province Lanxiangzi, Mingxi Rongxing Dried Meat and Tingzhou Hakka Native Products are all well-known foods.
◆ Zhenbang Road
Today, Zhenbang Road is a gathering place for clothing stores. In addition to famous clothing brands such as Camel, Hengyuanxiang and Scarecrow, there are many characteristic clothing stores, such as Free Space and Qiqi. Avantgarde fashion style is very popular.
◆ Shuixian Road
The restaurant on Narcissus Road is unique. There are Nanyang Style, Jiayutang and Yonghe Soymilk King. Their dishes represent different food styles in Southeast Asia, southern Fujian and Taiwan Province Province.
◆ Dazhong Road
Dazhong Road has now become a street for children's products. Everything from babies to schoolbags to toys. In addition, there is a Baicheng Datong duck porridge on Dazhong Road (Dazhong Road 19). The duck meat sold is crisp but not greasy, with unique flavor, which is very popular in old Xiamen.
◆ Taiping Road
During the opening of the road in Xiamen, disputes were caused by the demolition of residential buildings, and the disputes were resolved after the completion of the road, because the name Taiping meant harmony and prosperity. In the early days, there were many foreign firms and department stores on Taiping Road, which was a prosperous place for foreign trade at Xiamen's local ports.
◆ Shengping Road
Fanzi Street, formerly known as Fanzi Street, was originally a concentration place for foreign firms nearby. Minnan people call westerners rice, hence the name of this street. After the five-port trade, foreign businessmen came to Xiamen to do business and set up foreign firms. As the stars move, Shengping Road becomes People's Lane. But the dusty history is engraved on the stone tablet.
◆ Jukou Street
Jukou Street is a veritable women's street, with dozens of specialty stores for women's products. In addition to fashionable women's clothing, there are also women's shoes, women's ornaments and women's hair design rooms. Many young women like shopping and leisure here.
◆ Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank
Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank, located at the western end of Zhongshan Road, sprouted in 1877 Xiamen's library approval. OCBC Bank moved out a long time ago, but the old OCBC Bank still looks like a arcade. The four scarlet letters of "OCBC Bank" are still striking. Through the closed door, you can see the empty counter, which used to be so busy and noisy here in the last century.
◆ Huangzehe Peanut Soup Store
Huangzehe Peanut Soup Shop is a century-old shop renowned at home and abroad. The peanut soup here is thick but not astringent, sweet but not greasy, and it tastes excellent. With the development of the times, Huangzehe has continuously expanded its product range, and its business varieties have expanded to famous flavor snacks in Xiamen and even the whole country, such as satay noodles, moon cakes, pies and rice cakes, which has almost become synonymous with Xiamen's characteristic snack culture.
◆ Paris Spring Department Store
Paris Spring Department Store is a leader in Xiamen chain industry and a shopping paradise for high-end consumption on Zhongshan Road. Many first-line clothing brands at home and abroad gather here, with a complete range and novel styles, bringing many top international brands to Zhongshan Road, and its "Iris" logo has become synonymous with top shopping experience.
◆ Xiaozouma Road
Xiaomao Road used to be an unknown mountain road. When Zheng Chenggong was training here, he often ran on the road, so people called it Xiaomao Road. The archway of "Zebei Gan Tang" and the Lian Fang of "Gulang River patrol is longevity, Lujiangdu is pentagonal" can verify the majestic charm of national heroes. Today, there is a stage in front of Ma Xiao Road, where various themed activities and cultural performances are held every weekend and holiday.
◆ Gu Jiang pt
Jianggujiao is located at the corner of Jukou Street, surrounded by a big banyan tree, and behind it stands an antique screen engraved with ancient folk artists walking on stilts and playing the city. This is a window to spread the traditional culture and art of Fujian and Taiwan, and regularly holds a variety of Fujian and Taiwan opera art programs. These opera programs include Nanyin, Taiwanese opera, Gaojia opera and response drum.
◆ Tianxian Hotel
Tianxian Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Xiamen. Founded by overseas Chinese Lu Tianbao in Singapore on 1933. When the famous poet Yu Dafu 1936 came to Xiamen on February 30th, he stayed in Room 432 of Tianxian Hotel. He prefaced the special issue of Xiamen Tianxian Hostel, took photos with Lv Tianbao and cultural figures at that time, and included the photos in the first volume of Complete Works of Yu Dafu.
◆ Lujiang Hotel
Lujiang Hotel is located along the Lujiang River in the bustling downtown area of Lujiang Road, Xiamen, adjacent to the customs, foreign trade, commerce and financial center, far away from Gulangyu Island, a "sea garden", with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. It is the first foreign-related hotel in Fujian Province. It has won more than 20 social honors, including national advanced foreign-invested hotels, national outstanding foreign-invested enterprises and winners of national tourism quality service competition.
◆ Haihua Road Haoqingxiang Restaurant
"Good Fragrance" has been established for more than 60 years, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad for operating Minnan specialty dishes and Xiamen flavor snacks. Constantly strive to create a "good fragrance" feature, constantly bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and form a series of famous dishes, famous dishes and famous snacks with the local flavor of southern Fujian as the mainstream, which are deeply welcomed and trusted by consumers.
◆ Ding 'an Road Tiger City Food Plaza
Tiger City, a fashionable and popular shopping center in Milan style, is the largest shopping center dealing in popular goods on Zhongshan Road. There are many popular brands here, such as Iger, Change Her, Blue Fireworks, Music Kitchen and so on. Based on the belief of "bringing more and better to Xiamen", the fashionable business model of Taiwan Province Province is introduced to fully meet the shopping needs of young people.
◆ Former Residence of Chen Huacheng
There is a typical civil bungalow in Caopu Lane, which is the former residence of national hero Chen Huacheng. The building area is only 1.34 square meters, with two brick and wood structures and a saddle ridge roof. The two flagpole stones with a height of 1.8 meters left at that time are still preserved by the fence, which shows that the identity of the owner of this house is unusual. In this humble hut, a generation of national heroes was born.
◆ The first temple in China
Xiamen Christian New Street Chapel, located in Guang Tai Street, is a Romanesque building with a white dome. It was built in 1848 and is the "First Temple in China". There are six pillars in front of the main hall, and there is a hexagonal bell tower on the red sloping roof. 1982, the church was included in the second batch of municipal cultural relics protection units.
◆ Jiangxia Club
Huang Peisong, the last martial arts champion in the history of China, established the Huang Ancestral Hall. The existing ancestral temple, covering an area of about 300 square meters, not only has beautiful algae wells, but also has a shrine called "the first niche in China". The woodcarving craft of this hall is extremely fine, and all kinds of golden paintings are used to emphasize the overall decorative effect. It is an ancient ancestral temple with distinctive artistic features in Xiamen.