Where is the most prosperous area in Chaozhou?
The ancient city of Chaozhou, the seat of Chaozhou Prefecture in ancient Guangdong, was the commercial and cultural center of the three cities of Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou in ancient times. It has left a large number of places of interest since the Tang Dynasty. Today it is Although it is a well-known tourist city in the province, it is not as well-known as Fenghuang, Lijiang, Pingyao, Dali and other ancient cities, but it has a unique charm and tourists who have been here can't help but fall in love with it.
Chaozhou Archway Street is the commercial pedestrian street with the largest number of archways and the densest concentration of archways in China. It is also a Chaozhou tourist attraction as famous as Guangji Bridge and Kaiyuan Temple. There are no ticket gates and no admission fees here, and it is open to tourists all day long.
Paifang Street is actually not a street, but a collective name for Taiping Road and surrounding streets with archways. What’s special here is that the stone archway is in Ming and Qing style, but the houses on both sides of the street are arcades with Nanyang characteristics. The mix of the two is not abrupt, but has an alternative beauty.
It is said that Chaozhou Archway Street can be traced back to the Tang and Song Dynasties. The archway was originally a wooden structure, and later it was changed from wood to stone. Legends are just legends after all. The ancient archways with historical records in Chaozhou Archway Street were mainly built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The archways in many places mainly praise chastity and filial piety, but Chaozhou Archway Street has a strong literati atmosphere.
As the birthplace of Chaoshan culture and the original capital city, Chaozhou has been a gathering of people and celebrities since ancient times. The archways in the city were built by some successful people. Each archway has a story, and the more representative ones are. The archways include Zhuangyuanfang, Sijinshifang, Zhushifang, Third Minister, Four Dynasties Dalaofang, etc. Among them, Zhuangyuanfang is the most famous one. Here, the word "number one scholar" refers to Lin Daqin.