Shandong literature has Confucius, martial arts has grandchildren, and merchants now have Zhoucun. Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Mall bears the ancient commercial culture of Zhoucun and is a representative aspect of Shandong merchant culture. Zhoucun Ancient Mall is the source of China Silk Road. The significance of developing Zhoucun ancient shopping mall lies in that it is a living fossil of ancient town development and ancient commercial development. There are few dry docks in China, which are not only rare resources in the north, but also rare resources in the country, and have comprehensive development value.
Introduction to the tourist attractions and features of Zhoucun Ancient Street;
1, guanda dyehouse
It is the former site of Donglaisheng Silk Cloth Village, and its business model is similar to the TV series Big Dyeing Workshop. Visitors can experience the dyeing process on the spot. Its main business is to sort out, dye and then wholesale the purchased silk and grey cloth.
2. Visit Qianfo Temple
This is the most complete and largest religious ancient building complex in Zhoucun, and it has been announced as a key cultural relic protection unit at the municipal level in Zibo, which is of great value for visiting. Qianfo Temple was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and has been continuously expanded in later dynasties. It has been renovated many times since the middle of Qing Dynasty. At present, there are six halls, including Thousand Buddha Pavilion, Guandi Temple, Sanyitang, Luohan Hall, Maitreya Hall and guanyin temple. Thousand Buddha Pavilion is the main building of the ancient temple. The reason for its name is that there are many Buddha statues with different shapes in the many niches on the pavilion wall, which is called "Thousand Buddha Pavilion" because of its large number.
3. You Kuixing Pavilion
Kuixing Pavilion is a temple building that retains the architectural style of Qing Dynasty, and it is also one of the most complete temple ancient buildings in Zhoucun. 1997 was announced as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit in Zibo. Kuixing Pavilion consists of three halls of different religions and cultures, namely Bi Xia Yuanjun Hall, Kuixing Pavilion and Guanyin Hall. It is a unique building, integrating Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Kuixing Pavilion, a three-story pavilion, was rated as the best brick carving handicraft in the province by ancient architecture experts.
4. Main street
The largest and oldest commercial street in Zhoucun was built in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and the embryonic form of the street was laid in Chongzhen nine years of Ming Dynasty. It starts from the intersection of Xiushui Street and Yinzi Street in the south, ends at Shuoyimen in the north, and passes through the center by the Arctic Pavilion, dividing the street into two sections. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Eight Great Facies" of the old army of Zhangqiu came here to do business, and the giants from far and near competed to gather, and the street gradually became the commercial center of cloth shops and grocery stores. After the opening of Zhoucun in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, the scale of commercial trade was further expanded, and businessmen from nearby Qingdao and Jinan to as far away as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai had frequent commercial exchanges with Zhoucun.
5. Ancient shopping centers
It is a national 4A scenic spot, and the ancient shopping mall is mainly composed of main street, Yinzi street, Xiushui street, Furong street, Xiushui street and other ancient streets. There are many blocks of shopping malls and shops, and all kinds of buildings have different personalities. Known as "Living Museum of Ancient Commercial Buildings in China" by China Ancient Buildings Maintenance Committee, it has extremely high tourism value. Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Mall remains intact after a hundred years of crumbling, and it is the only well-preserved ancient architectural complex of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Shandong Province.
6, film and television base
Due to the antique preservation of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the reasonable deep house compound, Zhoucun attracted many film and television crews to take pictures. Wandering banners, jagged streets and lanes, Qingshi Road in Gu Zhuo, ancient buildings with different personalities, and courtyards with three entrances and four exits all provide excellent photo locations for film and television inventions. The enduring century-old shop is the best indoor shed: guest rooms, workshops, warehouses, offices, stables, yards, square tables, plush chairs and other symbols of our daily habits and decorative personality in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are fully laid out.
7. There is no tax monument today.
It is a hexagonal stone tablet standing on the north side of the street, recording the legendary story of Li Huaxi, a former historical figure who made extraordinary contributions to the commercial and economic development of Zhoucun. Li Huaxi was a scholar in Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty for seven years, and served as an official in the Ming Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the customs, it surrendered to the Qing dynasty and served as the minister of punishments; Qing Shunzhi eleven years, leaving home. Li Huaxi, a former historian, made outstanding contributions to the economic development of his hometown: after he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown, he took on all the city taxes alone, and set up a monument on the north side of the street, making Zhoucun the first tax-free zone in the ancient history of China.
8. Ticket number exhibition hall
During Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Shanxi merchants began to buy land and set up shop in Zhoucun. 192 1 year, Zhoucun Bank has 108 schemes with a total capital of nearly 6 million taels of silver, which shows the prosperity of Zhoucun's business. The ticket number exhibition hall located at Yinzishi Street 13 1 is the original site of the Dadetong ticket number opened by Qiao Zhiyong, a famous Shanxi businessman, in Zhoucun on 1884. There are nearly a thousand kinds of coins from Shang Dynasty to the Republic of China, including shells, knives, coins, copper coins and paper money. During this period, there were many kinds of coins, such as half a tael, five baht and Kaiyuan Bao Tong. There are rare and hard-to-find "Tonghe Yuanbao" in Liao Dynasty, "Fuchang Yuanbao" in Jin Dynasty and "Zhiyuan Bao Tong" in Yuan Dynasty. Extra large "half Liang" money and "Ce Tian Fu Bao" can be described as treasures in history.