Changzhou South Street, which starts from Yanling West Road in the north and ends at Yiqiao in the south, is 55 meters long. It was called "Avenue" in Ming and Qing Dynasties and was the earliest commercial street in Changzhou. Xiyingli, Qingguo Lane and Shuangguifang are connected with it, and there are many shops on the east and west sides of the street, which was called "South Street" after the 192s.

in the Tang dynasty, Changzhou's commercial market took shape, and there were shops in the city. In the Song Dynasty, commerce flourished day by day, and shops or workshops were all over the banks of the Houhe River (now in front of Xiaoyingqian and the Cultural Palace), which was the downtown area at that time. During the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (143-1424), Changzhou had become one of the 33 large commercial and handicraft developed commercial ports in China. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Changzhou homespun industry flourished day by day, not only as a cloth-producing area, but also as an operating place for distributing and breathing. In the early years of the Republic of China, Changzhou's modern industry rose, which promoted the prosperity of commerce and trade, and produced more than 4 industries and more than 3 shops, such as grain, wooden goods, silks and satins, department stores, five oceans, chemical paints, Chinese medicine, western medicine, northern goods, southern goods, wine sauce, tea, restaurants, hotels and inns, and haircuts. After the Opium War, shipping was banned, and foreign goods flooded into Changzhou. Therefore, the "Beijing-Guangzhou goods industry" was renamed as "Beijing-Guangzhou foreign goods industry", and "Beijing goods" referred to foreign goods from the big cities in the capital, while "Guangzhou goods" referred to foreign goods transferred by the people in the border areas and Guangdong. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China that the channel of goods purchase gradually changed from Beijing-Guangzhou to Shanghai. In the middle of the Republic of China, it was mostly replaced by Shanghai goods. At that time, retail shops were mainly concentrated in the area of South Street and County Lane, especially large and medium-sized department stores. From South Street to Xiyinglikou, there were almost countless shops, all of which were storefront merchants. During the Republic of China, South Street was a 3-4 meter stone road, which was widened to 9 meters in 1937. In November of the same year, the Japanese invaders bombed Changzhou, and the houses in South Street were destroyed. The Japanese Puppet Army widened the road surface to 14 meters for the needs of military transportation, and built a 6 cm square brick ditch sewer. In 1947, it was paved with marble roads. In 1952, concrete pavement was poured on the sidewalk. In August, 1959, for the first time, boulders were removed from the street surface and poured asphalt pavement with a thickness of 4~5 cm was paved, which changed the road structure from ordinary to secondary. In 1989, it was repaired, and a 6 cm black asphalt surface was added. South Street has bred many experienced "time-honored" shops. Among them, the most famous one is Tong Ningyuan Pharmacy, which was founded by Zhejiang native Tong Haoshan in 1622. The shop mainly deals in traditional Chinese medicine and homemade Chinese patent medicines. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tong followed the trend and developed "Lin Wenzhong Gong (Lin Zexu) Pill Paste", which was a pill to stop opium smoking. Because of its remarkable curative effect, it was popular in urban and rural areas. Because of its rich profits, it became one of the four famous pharmacies in Changzhou, along with Lao Fengyu, Dong Fengyu and Cunrenshe. Chinese medicine shops were destroyed during the Anti-Japanese War. Rebuilt in 1939, the facade was expanded from two to three. In 1946, the brothers split up and were called the North-South Pharmacy. The plaque of Tongningyuan Store was written by Sun Shenxing, a famous calligrapher and minister of rites in Ming Dynasty. Shops such as Qingyu brand "refined decoction pieces", "pill powder plaster" and "Tongningyuan medicine number" are hung under the eaves. There is a tall Hehe varnish counter in the shop, with a decoction piece cabinet in the south and a pill powder cabinet in the north. At the end of the counter, there are two gold-lettered Qinglong cards on a white background, with the words "Authentic in Golden Chamber" and "Exquisite in Qing Dynasty". Put a piece of paint on the side corner of the counter, with the history of the store and the logo of "Liu Hai" on it, and set up a hundred-eye cupboard and a pill cabinet against the wall. It presents an atmosphere of antique and authentic medicinal materials. Unfortunately, during the ten years of turmoil, all these were burned. Different from the traditional Chinese medicine shops in Tongningyuan, the western medicine shops, which reflected the "Shanghai style" format after the opening of the Opium War, were Chinese and English pharmacies founded in 1896. Shopkeeper Ge bought western medicine, pill powder and liquid medicine wholesale from major pharmacies or pharmaceutical factories in Shanghai and resold them to small pharmacies or drug dealers. Glass counters are set up in the shop, advertisements of western paintings are posted, various medicines are recommended, and doctors are sometimes invited to sit in the clinic, thus winning customers day by day. In the old days, people who were engaged in haircuts were generally mobile door-to-door services, which were divided into two types: shoulder-loading and double-packing. Changzhou's earliest barber shop with a storefront was a barber named Zhu, who opened a star barber shop in Sunfu Lane, South Street in 192. Three years later, it was bought and destroyed in the Anti-Japanese War. In 1938, it was rebuilt on the original site by Zhou Guangming. In 1945, it was expanded into a three-story building, which attracted people with status and status to have their hair cut and became one of the more influential barbershops in Changzhou. The earliest and largest washing and dyeing shop in Changzhou was the Philippine washing and dyeing shop founded by Zhou Yusheng and Hu Yaochu in South Street in 1938. The shop has abundant funds, exquisite layout and strong technical force. The shop has two floors, the first floor is the facade, the second floor is the sitting room, the gate is made of glass turnstiles, the street is a glass window, and there are three large glass cabinets and a floor-to-floor dressing mirror in the entrance of the hall. Shanghai style is full, and it can be regarded as the most striking storefront on the whole street of South Street. Later, Zhou Yusheng bought the shares of other shareholders and operated solely. The shop has been renamed as Verdun, Zhengzhang and People's Washing and Dyeing Shop. In 1961, it merged with Wellcome laundry and restored the name of Zhengzhang laundry. Until 1949, there were Dehe Yizhuang, Renhe Silk Shop, Yida Silk Shop, Nanyang Department Store, Zhangyuji Department Store, Rixin Department Store, as well as various kinds of leather shoes, shoes and hats, daily groceries, mirror boxes, cosmetics stores, Times Food Store, Triumph Cinema, Daguanyuan Bookstore, etc. It was a bustling scene. Since 21, the century-old street has undergone a large-scale transformation. In January 25, the commercial pedestrian street of South Street, which was built with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan, was completed and opened. This project is covered by four roads, namely Park Road, South Street, Qingguo Lane and Yanling West Road, with a width of 12 meters from east to west and a length of 6 meters from north to south. The whole plot is connected by an S-shaped pedestrian street. Commercial street integrates leisure, shopping, catering, tourism, office, entertainment and other functions to provide consumers with one-stop service. Among them, the first and second floors are boutique shops, the third floor is a amorous feelings food street, and the first floor is a large supermarket of 2, square meters.