Interpretation of South Street of Pingyao Ancient City
A street in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the South Street of Pingyao Ancient City, which is one of the essences of the cultural heritage of the ancient city and can clearly reflect the glory of the ancient city culture. It is an important tourist landscape in Pingyao. Taking the south street of Pingyao ancient city as the central axis and the tallest building in the ancient city as the central axis, a symmetrical layout of "Zuo Zu You She", "Wen Zuo You Wu", "Wu Wen Township Kiln" and "orderly up and down" is formed. A street in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was particularly prominent in the ancient city. On the 750-meter-long ancient street, there are as many as 100 large and small ancient shops. On both sides of the street that is not wide, there are quaint doorframes. There are two deep rut marks on the granite threshold of every decent door, which can prove the glory of Pingyao-merchants from all over the country drove carriages, carrying goods and money, and rolled down deep ruts on the land of the ancient city. In the dialect of South-to-North accent, the sound of hooves runs through a famous financial avenue in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancient buildings on both sides of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Street are all-encompassing, including money houses, money houses, pawn shops, medicine shops, meat shops, cigarette shops, grocery stores and silk shops. , covering almost all businesses at that time. Although it has become obsolete after a hundred years of infiltration, the character that once dominated the world still exists. This small old commercial street has created a large number of business talents. At that time, the romantic figures of Shanxi merchants made waves in the bustling "morning, afternoon, evening, street and three cities", depicting the golden age of China finance. Visiting the streets of Ming and Qing Dynasties, you will deeply understand UNESCO's evaluation of Pingyao: "The ancient capital of China condensed history into palaces, while the ancient city of Pingyao dissolved history into dwellings."