There is a lively scene under Xingshan Gate and in front of Ziyang Street. At the beginning of the National Day holiday, the Fucheng Cultural Tourism Zone in Taizhou, Linhai City, Zhejiang Province, which is a new national 5A-level tourist attraction this year, attracted a large number of tourists to experience the blend of the cultural charm of the Millennium ancient city and the smell of fireworks.
The lively scene of Ziyang Street in Linhai, Zhejiang Province. The pictures were all taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Weng Xin.
Millennium old street embraces the new trend.
In front of Wynn Centennial Wooden Scale Store, all kinds of small scales attracted many tourists to stop. Cai Xuezhen, a 60-year-old shopkeeper, took a small hammer and knocked on the old mottled wooden table to make a wooden steelyard on the spot.
“Many tourists are interested in old crafts and will watch me make scales and listen to me talk about crafts.” As the fifth generation descendant of the store, Cai Xuezhen stayed in Ziyang Street, and passed on the store and scale-making technology that had been opened for more than 160 years.
Ziyang Street in Linhai, which was built in the Three Kingdoms period, is about 1080 meters long and is the central axis of Taizhou Fucheng. Strolling along Ziyang Street, Qingshiban Road is as old as before, and brick walls, wooden rafters and mud tiles complement the surrounding lively scenes.
Millennium Taizhou prefecture, full of cultural people. As a national historical and cultural city, Linhai, a thousand-year-old city, shows great vitality in the natural blend of bookish and fireworks.
At Xingshan Gate, a group of young people were attracted by the guitarist’s impromptu singing and sat around to listen. Tourists passing by are also attracted by the melodious melody in this ancient city, and hold up their mobile phones to take photos and videos from time to time.
There was a long queue in front of the century-old seaweed cake shop. This local specialty snack has thin skin and many fillings, crisp taste and rich aroma. The freshly baked seaweed cake can smell the fragrance at the street corner.
Every few steps forward, you can meet various historical museums such as Zhang Xiujuan Paper-cutting, Clock Science Museum, etc. The owner of the shop opens a shop downstairs, and the upstairs is the residence, which together with tourists constitutes a part of the scenic spot; Residents of the ancient street moved a chair and sat in front of their house, chatting with tourists …
Ancient streets embrace new trends. Between the old shops in Ziyang Street, there is a “18R” coffee shop that introduces the traditional snack elements of Taizhou Fucheng, and introduces creative coffees such as egg white lamb tail latte, grass paste coffee, Baishuiyang tofu latte, which is popular among consumers.
“The integration of the old and the new is not to throw away the old things, but to enlarge their respective characteristics and let more people accept them.” Lin Yueyang, the founder of this coffee brand, said that creative coffee accounts for 60% of the total turnover in the store, and it can sell about 2,000 cups a day at most during the peak holiday period, far exceeding the well-known coffee brands across the street.
According to the introduction of Linhai Wenlv Group, Ziyang Street is rich in formats. At present, 60% of them are economic formats, of which 25% are traditional cultural shops and 35% are newly introduced young formats.