Dozaimen Street in the old city of Jinan is a unique flavor of the old streets and lanes, and its outstanding features are: it is a mixed business and residential old street, but also an old street with cultural connotations.

The geographic location of Houzaimen Street is very favorable. It is east of the old Lixing County Yamen, west to Qu Shui Ting Street and the Temple, Furong Street, south of the Pearl Spring De Wang Fu, north of Baihua Zhou, Daming Lake, so the Ming and Qing dynasties, mainly as a commercial street, stores, shoulder to shoulder, a bustling. Among them are those small hotels, small restaurants, small stationery stores, small groceries and other small stores, but also well-known old, the most famous of which is not the Jiuhua House Restaurant, with the Yuan House Restaurant, Yuan Xing Zhai Sauce Garden and Qingyu Pharmacy four famous stores.

Jiuhua House Restaurant is located at the east end of the street and the junction of Xianxi Lane, south of the road is a brick and stone structure of the two-storey building, for the rich merchant Du's in the early years of the Qing Guangxu opened to cook Lu cuisine "nine-turned sausage," known as Jinan. It is said that once the owner of the restaurant, Du Mou, hosted a banquet for guests, with "burnt large intestine" on the table, and the guests tasted it and praised it: the Taoists are good at refining pills, and there is the name of "Nine Turns of Elixir"; eating this dish is comparable to the elixir. In order to cater to the owner's fondness for "nine" and to praise the chef's excellent cooking skills, the guests then used the Taoist term "Nine Turns" to give the name "Nine Turns Large Intestine", meaning that the "Roasted Large Intestine" cooked at Jiu Hua House is a good example of a Taoist dish. Meaning that the "burnt large intestine" cooked by Jiuhua House, its kung fu is like the Taoist alchemy of the art as elaborate. From then on, Jiuhualou's creation of "nine-turn large intestine" became famous, as Jinan's representative dishes among the ranks of famous Lu cuisine dishes, spreading throughout the country Lu cuisine halls. The production method of the nine-turn large intestine is very delicate. When cooking, the chef should be under the material hard, with the material all, seasoning should have valuable Chinese medicine (such as sand nuts, cinnamon, cardamom, etc.). After burnt, the large intestine red and shiny, fat but not greasy, both sour, sweet, fragrant, spicy, salty five flavors, after eating, people have a long memory. Jiu Hua Lou later gradually declined, and after a few changes of hands became the residence of the Dai family.

The Tongyuanlou Restaurant is located on the north side of Houzaimen Street, which was founded by Lv Zhengxing of Dongjia Town, Richeng City, in 1912. It was not only the largest restaurant on Houzaimen Street at that time, but also one of the leading restaurants in Jinan. In addition to traditional Lu dishes such as sweet and sour carp, steamed pork with lotus flower, and canned hooves, Tongyuanlou won the customers' appetites by serving a variety of noodle dishes such as pork dumplings, golden silk rolls, and silver silk rolls. In particular, the refined bushels of pork dumplings, using fresh bushels of Daming Lake and knife-cut meat filling, with good ingredients "feed" well, and creatively added to the soup meat jelly, out of the cage after the fragrance, bite a fat but not greasy. There is a pool in the backyard, which brings in pearl spring water to keep carp. Customers who choose the fish in the pool can cook it immediately, which is why it is more popular among old Jinan diners, and business is booming. In addition, the store also has a famous dish that old Jinan called "big piece" at the banquet --- Ice Sugar Elbow, which is a big piece of elbow with skin washed, plus sauce and rock sugar, put into the pot to stew, meat rotten, strong flavor, banquet! When the guests and hosts hold up a stick to each other, the skin will come off as long as they use chopsticks to gently scratch it. The restaurant quietly closed in 1950.

Qingyu Pharmacy is located in the middle of the street, north of the road, by the Yin family founded in the Qing dynasty Tongzhi Guangxu years. In addition to regular medicines, the pharmacy was especially famous for its pediatric medicine, "Sacred Conservation Dan". At that time, when a child in the old city area was sick, "if you didn't take the medicine, you would eat partridge vegetables". In the 1950s, Qingyu Pharmacy went out of business. Today, when the Chinese medicine workshop has become residential. Now its old site still has three rooms, the door on the drugstore name ink is still preserved.

Yuanxingzhai sauce garden is located east of the same yuan building, is the past Jinan's largest sauce garden, its store from the back of Zaimen Street has been extended to the middle of Zhenchi Street Zhenchi (commonly known as "Duck Bay"), occupying the back of Zaimen Street north and south of the compound, its front room **** there are seven. The store was opened in the late Qing Dynasty, the owner of the Zhangqiu people surnamed Li. The Sauce Garden is famous for its homemade pickles and Rose Pond Shochu, while its manufactured products are pickled or burnt using the spring water around Pearl Spring, and thus are quite popular with the old Jinan customers. At the height of its business, the sauce garden had more than 300 vats capable of holding more than 250 kilograms of pickles.

The strong cultural and religious atmosphere on Houzaimen Street made this old street become a temple and market in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and a collection of churches and temples in one street.

When it comes to churches and temples on this street, the first one that should be mentioned is the Christ Church at the western end of Houzaimen Street, located on the shore of Baihuazhou Island, which adds a strong exotic flavor to the old street.

The Houzaimen Church is a small building of green bricks and gray tiles, which is simple and elegant, mirroring the Baihuazhou Island on the north side. The church was built around the 1920s. U.S. South Baptist Church in 1921 in the purchase of this church site, a clinic belonging to the church. 1937 Japanese invasion of Jinan, in the old city of Christian believers to the church outside the city to worship out of the city, according to the provisions of the Japanese army to the Japanese guarding the city of salute, the believers find it psychologically difficult to accept, so the congregation to discuss the old city to build a church. At that time in the United States believers in Ji May contributed 10,000 yuan, in the church clinic on the basis of the two homes bought, the construction of the chapel, when the chapel east-west width of 10 meters, north-south length of 15 meters. After the church was built, the American Southern Baptist clergyman John Na presided over the church affairs. After the founding of New China, the American clergyman withdrew and the Chinese pastor took over the affairs of the church. "During the Cultural Revolution, the church was forced to close and became a dormitory for an organization. 1985, the government returned the church's property, and on Easter Day in April 1986, the church resumed its religious activities. 1993, the church remodeled its chapel into this two-story chapel. As the church is located in the eastern cultural district of Quancheng, it often receives foreign Christian groups visiting Jinan, and foreign believers residing in Jinan often come here for meetings.

There are three main temples on Houzaimen Street: Bixia Palace, Fuhui Zenlin Temple, and Guandi Temple.

Bixia Palace is located in the north of Houzaimen Street Road (today's Dai Zong Street), commonly known as the "Niangniang Temple", was founded in the eleventh year of the Ming Zhengde (1563), Jiajing forty-two years (1563), the Qing Dynasty Qianlong thirty-nine years (1774) and Jiaqing sixteen years (1811) to rebuild. The temple is dedicated to Bixia Yuanjun, the god of Taishan. This temple in the "Republic of China" years that became a police station, after the founding of New China was changed to Dai Zong Street Primary School. 1975 by the Jinan sixty-six high school use, and then changed to residential.

Fu Hui Zen Lin Yuan is located at No. 11 Hou Zai Men Street. It is said to have been built in the Tang Dynasty, and has been rebuilt many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The original covers an area of about 700 square meters. The temple after the establishment of new China for the occupation of Houzaimen sub-food stores, demolition of the original gate, East and West Hall, converted into a store building. Now only exists three open three into the room of the main hall. This hall east-west length of 14 meters, about 10 meters deep, beams and frames are basically well-preserved, but most of the painted industry has fallen off, but still visible when the scale.

Guandi Temple is located in the back of Zaimen Street, north of the eastern end of the road, in the coordinates with the Jinan Municipal School Temple of literature echoed, constituting the "a text a military" symmetrical distribution pattern. Dazaimen Street Guandi Temple was built in the Song Dynasty, the first name of the Han Shouting Hou Temple, later renamed Guanyue Temple, Guandi Temple, the largest and earliest construction of the Guandi Temple in Jinan. Jinan Municipal School Temple was also built in the Song Dynasty, the same scale and time of construction in Jinan's most.

In addition, it should also be mentioned is that the first Jinan stone printing museum is also located in this street, it is the 1905 craft bureau chief Shen Jingshen founded the Dagong stone printing museum. When Shen Jingshen to Shandong Craft Bureau as the identity of the Office of the Chief to Japan to buy machinery, from Shanghai to hire technicians, and industrialists with Wu Bichen each funded 50 two incense silver joint Dagong Shiyin Hall, more than 20 employees to issue "briefings" as the main business, so also known as Briefing House. Briefing" was initially "yuanyuanmen copy" nature, mainly published at the time of the promotion of officials, endowments, etc., but also excerpts from the north and south of the newspaper news, published commercial advertisements.