West Street has been completely subverted, replaced by a street of antiquity. There are more foreigners and expatriates, and they have a satisfied look on their faces - this may be the ancient city they imagined. The once-familiar Dalmaxi Street, Sweet Water Garden and crumbling city walls are nowhere to be seen. Everything has changed. Xi'an has become modern, civilized and clean, but its flavor has faded. For hundreds of years, this was where commerce flourished. Chenghuangmiao once had a famous small commodity wholesale market, in the past circulated this ballad: "Chenghuangmiao, nine miles three, all kinds of trade in the inside, from damask and silk satin, down to the cattle cage and whip, the five provinces of the Northwest known as the crown." Another ballad says more vividly and figuratively: "The commodities are more than stars, set up a river bank. If you don't go to the City God Temple, you can't finish the things." It attracted attention from all over the country and became one of the main channels for the circulation of folk goods. With the growing popularity of the whole society's awareness of heritage protection, in the rising calls for refurbishment of the City God Temple, in March 2003, this "surrounded" the City God Temple of the small commodity market was closed, the vendors withdrew as much as possible. In the 1930s, Xi'an's commercial center for the South Academy Gate and West Street, there is a folk ballad for proof: "South Academy Gate lively and prosperous, West Street, hundreds of stores, the East Street, dumping slag, Zhongzheng Road (now Jiefang Road), the wolves can take the baby."

The ballad about West Main Street:

1. There is a drum tower in the east of West Main Street, and half of the street is hidden in the clouds. "The Drum Tower is a golden light that shines in the land of civilization and martial arts, and the sound of its voice is heard in the sky, illuminating the nine states. I love it day and night, just like the sun and the Big Dipper.

2. The water well at the west gate is big, the water well at the west gate is sweet, and the water carts are as numerous as ants, and they can't be finished day and night.

3. In those days, there was an endless stream of trolleys and carts carrying sweet water, and the road surface was uneven, and when it rained, it was even more muddy: the road on West Main Street was paved with stone and sand, and there was no wind, but three feet of soil, and the cars flew through the smoke; and the streets were full of mud on rainy days, and the mud was sticky as glue, and it was hard to get out of the street.

4. In the 1930s and 1940s, Xi'an had only a few worn-out buses traveling on West Street, one of which had no doors: one went two or three miles, broke down four or five times, repaired six or seven times, eight or nine dozen people pushed.

5. stores hundred of West Street, when in Xi'an food catering industry, the old occupies an important position: the west side of the ancient city floating colorful, eat fragrant and fresh no mada, West Street, a race, like a festival high sesame flower.

5. Quarto de Maogong: de Maogong, crystal cake, white, soft, sweet, beautiful and melting.

6. Said cannabis wonton hall: cannabis wontons, eat fragrant, taste the last meal, but also want the next meal.

7. about the same Shengxiang beef and mutton steamed buns Museum: West Street, wide and long, the east end of the same Shengxiang, beef bubbles, fresh and fragrant, parboiled all the strength.

8. said DeFaChang Dumpling Museum: winter solstice not end of the dumpling bowl, freezing off the ear no one care. If you go to eat dumplings, you will be able to get rid of the cold and warm up your body.