"Baisha Food Street" extends northward along the Baisha River at the end of Baishaqiao at the West Avenue until Erheshan Industrial Zone. This food street includes Victory, Fat Boy Diligence, Double Flying Horse, Mong Kok, Lin Ji, Ronghua, Jiabin, Fun Pavilion, Fat Lun, Food Happiness, New Town Pavilion, Mount Kumgang Barbecue Restaurant, Golden Rice Porridge, and so on.
The cuisines in "Baisha Food Street" have different characteristics and tastes, and the North and South are compatible, and Chinese and Western cuisines gather together. They highlight their own characteristics with prominent signs to attract diners: "Fat Boy Qin" is his initiative, so the signs are particularly eye-catching; "Victory" takes "Enping Special Cuisine" as its selling point, and mountain farm dishes such as "Luocai", "rice congee with Fish", "Snail in Mountain Pit" and "Clam Rice" attract people to stop. "Double Flying Horse" is "Taishan Huangli Rice"; "Food is blessed" attracts business with "Sichuan hot pot", and patrons are naturally mostly from other provinces; "Xincheng Pavilion" is a "Chaoshan special hot pot"; "Mount Kumgang" specializes in Korean-style "barbecue"; "Hechang Restaurant" attracts customers with high-grade food and produces "rare bird shark's fin"; "Weiji" flashed the slogan of "Yangjiang zhapo Port Seafood Direct Sale" to induce customers' appetite with cheap seafood. 8 yuan per catty of Setaria shrimp, 25 yuan per catty of flower crab and special shellfish such as "Long-tailed snail" were colorful and sold at a fair price. The "Zhanjiang flavor" of "Jingteng" attracts the villagers in western Guangdong. The "Anpu White Chopped Dog" was originally placed on the chopping board, and the dog's head opened its mouth to you, showing its sharp teeth. It takes considerable courage to taste it. ..... Customers with different tastes can find their favorite delicacies here.
"Baisha Food Street" is also popular only after supper and midnight snack. The dining table is also laid out along the river for 1 kilometer, with bright lights, crowds of diners and queues, which is very spectacular. People who eat midnight snack are mainly porridge and noodles, rarely order big fish and big meat, and the food is more affordable. One example of fried noodles only needs 6 yuan, a salted vegetable 6-8 yuan, plus porridge or a bottle or two of beer, and the consumption of two or three people is generally more than ten or twenty yuan. At midnight, people are most popular, and it's noisy until one or two in the morning, and some shops haven't even cleaned up the venue until the next morning. Chen Baisha, formerly known as Chen Xianzhang, was a famous Neo-Confucianism, educator, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty. Ming Xuande was born on October 21st (November 27th, 1428) in Guangdong Xinhui County, and his family moved to Baisha Township when he was a child. Chen Baisha specializes in Neo-Confucianism, and his achievements inherit from Zhu Neo-Confucianism and enlighten Confucianism, which occupies an important position in the history of China's philosophy. He was honored as a "true Confucian", "sage" and "living Mencius" before his death, and he was given a tribute to the Confucius Temple after his death. Only Chen Baisha in Guangdong has won this honor, so it has the reputation of "one person in Lingnan". Mao Long Pen and Mao Long Calligraphy, which he created, are unique in Guangdong calligraphy circles and occupy an important position in the history of China calligraphy.
Chen Baisha Memorial Hall is located in Renxianli, Baisha Township, Jiangmen City (No.44 Baisha Avenue), covering an area of 18, square meters. The museum is centered on Chen Baisha Temple and Zhenjie Archway, with Baisha bronze statue square in front and book galleries on both sides of the square, which is a place for tourists to enjoy tea. On the east side of Baisha Temple is "Little lu shan Academy", which is now set as "Mr. Chen Baisha's Deeds Exhibition Hall" to display the life information of Mr. Chen Baisha and Mo Bao's rubbings; On the west side of Baisha Temple is an old folk house, called "the hometown of Baisha"; Behind the Baisha Temple is Xiaolushan Garden, which preserves the burial tomb of Mr. Chen Baisha's parents.
Chen Baisha Ancestral Temple, formerly known as Chen Baisha Ancestral Temple, was built in the 12th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1584). He Weibai, a former minister of rites in Nanjing, and yuan kui, the magistrate of Xinhui County, proposed to donate money to build it in memory of Chen Xianzhang. The plane layout of Baisha Temple is quadrangular, with its seat facing northwest to southeast, covering an area of 96 square meters. Its main buildings are arranged on the longitudinal axis, with four depths, which are: Chunyang Hall, Zhenjie Hall, Chongzheng Hall and Biyu Building from the entrance of the temple. They are all three rooms in width and depth, with gables, sandalwood, hard peaks and green glass trim. The buildings between the front and rear are connected by symmetrical corridors.
Chunyang Hall was named in memory of Chen Xianzhang's "Spring Balcony", where he studied and gave lectures before his death. The hall is 15.46 meters wide and 7.28 meters deep, with a building area of 112.55 square meters. The roof beams are engraved with figures, flowers and fruits, dragons and phoenixes and other patterns. The whole eaves gallery is a unique ancient building in Jiangmen with strict structure, harmonious layout, fine decoration, solemn style and elegant art. The door of the hall is 4.1 meters wide and 3 meters high, with 4 flat doors. There is a plaque on the door, and the book reads "True Confucianism in the Holy Generation".
Chastity Hall, named after Chen Xianzhang's mother's chastity, is a place to worship Chen Xianzhang's parents. The main ridge of the house is decorated with pottery sculptures supporting flame-shaped pearls, and the kissing animals with pottery sculptures of fish are decorated at both ends. The hall is 13.83 meters wide and 9.27 meters deep, with a building area of 128.2 square meters. There are two rolling doors at the back of the hall: the left door says "main silence" and the right door says "causing emptiness" There are six rear middle doors with plastering shapes behind the bright room. The column foundation and gold column of Zhenjietang preserve the shape of Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the structure is the architectural decoration during the maintenance of Qing Dynasty. The wooden tablet of "Chastity Hall" was written by Chen Baisha's teacher Wu Kangzhai.
Chongzheng Hall is a place to worship Chen Xianzhang. The overall structure of the hall is basically the same as that of the chastity hall. All the columns of the hall are made of wood, and the beam frame is a two-step beam structure. There is a shrine in the back of the hall, which is made of wood and carved with flower patterns in front. The shrine has sumeru, which is of masonry structure. There is a clay statue of Chen Xianzhang in the niche, which is 1.5 meters high; Like the front spirit tablet, engraved with yangwen. "Ming Zheng granted the Hanlin Academy a review of the famous officials of Neo-Confucianism from the temple of worship of Confucian scholars, who were afraid to offer the official position of Chen Gong in Wengong Shizhai". On each side of the statue, there is a spirit tablet engraved in Yangwen. On the left, the spirit tablet reads "Mingru Wengong was given the position of Lady Zhang in the AD", and on the right, the spirit tablet reads "Mingru Wengong was given the position of Lady Roche". The main entrance of the hall is hung with the plaque "Chongzheng Hall". Why was this plaque written by Webber? There are woodcut couplets in the hall: "Taoism has spread Confucius and Mencius for three thousand years, and it is the first one to learn from Cheng and Zhu", all of which were given by the court in the second year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1574).
The Jasper House used to be Chen Xianzhang's former residence, and it was built to celebrate the restoration of the ancestral jasper that year. It is the place where Chen Xianzhang treasures the ancestral jasper and supports his mother. After Chen Xianzhang's death, due to disrepair, it was rebuilt and expanded in the 12th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1584), and Chen Baisha Temple was built in front of the building, which became an integral part of it. The building is two stories high, with a total width of 14.34 meters and a depth of 12.24 meters, covering an area of 175.52 square meters and a construction area of 351.4 square meters. The columns and foundation of the first floor of the building are granite. The floor door consists of six single doors with six plasters. There is a shrine in the bright room, and the flower pattern is carved in front of the shrine; Inside the niche is the spirit tablet of Chen Xianzhang's ancestors and his eldest brother. The second floor, eaves gallery and stairs were originally wooden structures, which were changed to concrete in 1983. The structure of the building is renovated in the Qing Dynasty, except that the golden column foundation on the second floor retains the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty. The plaque of "Biyulou" is said to have been written by Zhan Ruoshui, a descendant of Chen Baisha.
There are woodcuts and inscriptions written by Chen Baisha in Baisha Temple, as well as other inscriptions related to Baisha Temple.