Every city has a characteristic neighborhood, such as Beijing’s “Nanluogu Lane”, Shanghai’s “Xintiandi”, and Chengdu’s “Kuanzhai Alley”. There is also such a folk culture and commercial street with Anhui characteristics in Hefei, Anhui. It is located in

The Dashu Mountain Huanshan Road in the west of Hefei City (the north gate of the Forest Park) is called "Banbian Street", which is known as the "Utopia at the foot of Dashu Mountain".

A mountain affects a city, and a mountain can also represent a city.

In Hefei, Dashu Mountain, which has a history of nearly 2,000 years, is not as majestic as Huangshan nor as beautiful as Mount Emei, but it is the beginning of ancient Luzhou and has become a symbol of the city of Hefei.

Banbian Street, located at the foot of Dashu Mountain, is a characteristic block built alongside the mountain. Although it is only a few hundred meters long, the buildings are decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and are antique in style, fully displaying the Huizhou cultural characteristics of southern Anhui.

The area where "Half Street" is located was the Shushan Gallery, which was first built in 1993. Later, the northernmost building of the gallery became the old Anhui Hall of Fame.

Since the new Anhui Hall of Fame in Binhu New District was officially opened to the public, the old Anhui Hall of Fame at the foot of Shushan Mountain has become much deserted.

In 2016, in order to enhance the historical and cultural atmosphere of this area, Hefei City launched a project to create a characteristic neighborhood, turning it into a new district with leisure and cultural characteristics at the foot of Dashu Mountain.

"Half Street", as the name suggests, means half of the street has been built. Many people will wonder, how can only half of the street be built?

In fact, half of it is a street, and the other half is beautiful scenery. The entire block is integrated into the mountains and forests.

When walking in it, the cornices, horse-head walls, archways, screen walls, small bridges, flowing water, and the hot spring clouds and mist of Huangshan Mountain create a landscape effect of one scene at a time. In a trance, it makes people feel like they have traveled through time and space, and they can't help but slow down.

The benevolent enjoy mountains, and the wise enjoy water. The half-side street with mountains and rivers also cleverly introduces running water into the block, using the construction of rocks and uniquely shaped pools to form corridors and pavilions with different heights and different waterscape forms.

Create a landscape effect of one step at a time, just like a rich and colorful landscape painting. As the saying goes: "One city, one mountain, one earth, one lake, one pavilion, one world. Half of the street is accompanied by mountains and water, and half day and half moon accompany time." Half of the Street

Every architectural detail of the hotel is very particular, especially the large-scale iron painting "Huiyun of Shushan" full of landscape and cultural customs, the panoramic sand table of "Land of Shushan", and the waterscape sculpture of "Shu Monk Kaiyuan" with Zen meaning, showing the beauty of Shushan poetry.

Garden landscapes such as the poetry wall can awaken the literary and artistic feelings deep in the hearts of tourists. After climbing Dashu Mountain, it is the most perfect arrangement to take a few photos at the foot of the mountain with the ancient scenery.

The ancient street also takes Hefei culture, Shushan memory and folk culture as the guide, bringing together a variety of special snacks and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, allowing you to taste not only Anhui cuisine, but also famous dishes from all over the country.

.

When you walk into the tall and majestic north gate, the first thing you see is the "Lei+ Village" that "foodies" long for.

This Hui-style building, rarely seen in the urban area, has the style of ancient Luzhou.

"Lei + Village" is not only a village, nor a restaurant, but a concentration of folk snacks rich in Anhui characteristics and Hefei village culture.

Each shop here is only more than 20 square meters, but they almost focus on famous snacks from all over the country such as Huainan beef soup, Luzhou steamed buns, Huizhou hairy tofu, lotus leaf beggar's chicken, vermicelli dumplings... etc.

The prices of the dishes here are also relatively close to the people, making people addicted to it.

In "Lei + Village", there are memories of our parents and our childhood. Going up the wooden stairs, you can see the lanterns hanging under the eaves, peanuts and red peppers drying outside the window, as well as old-fashioned farm tools and

Every part of the retro furniture is full of deep feelings, recreating the family scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, allowing you to experience the local customs of old Hefei from the perspective of food and folk customs.

As a famous internet celebrity street in Hefei, it is obviously more popular in the evening than during the day.

Whenever night falls, all kinds of neon lights on the antique half of the street light up, and the light and shadow change alternately, just like a fairy tale castle in a dream, and lingering pedestrians walk through it, as if they are swimming in a painting.

How pleasant it is to eat delicious food with friends while enjoying the night view in such a secluded place in the mountains and forests.

Today, Banbian Street has not only become an exquisite neighborhood for eating, drinking and having fun, but also a popular check-in place for tourists visiting Hefei.

The scenic spot extends from the north entrance of Shushan Scenic Area to Changjiang West Road, and is close to Dashushan Station of Metro Line 2. There are many bus lines in the surrounding area, such as No. 85, Express 4, and 651. There is free parking at the entrance of Huanshan Road Banbian Street when driving from Yulan Avenue.

The traffic is very convenient. If you have the chance, you might as well come here and take a walk.