Thirty-six shops (from all walks of life) with firewood, rice, oil, salt, and daily necessities are all available here. It was the central area of ??the old Fuzhou City in the past.

There are also book engraving workshops, second-hand book stalls, and framed paper shops that serve cultural people, as well as lantern markets during the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Outside the Liulichang of Zhengyangmen, there is the south and back street in front of Yijinfang. Guests take a break to go to the book market, but they are not happy enough to see many things." In the poem of Wang Guorui, a Juren in the late Qing Dynasty, the South Back Street was compared to the Liulichang outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing.

Factory, reflecting the former cultural features of South Back Street.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nanhou Street was still a lively market with "white walls and black tiles and stone roads" lined with pavements on both sides.

During the Republic of China, the road surface was widened and converted into asphalt roads.

Now it has been changed to a stone road.

South Back Street is the central axis of the three lanes and seven lanes. The renovated South Back Street will be full of antique charm. The width of the road will reach 12 meters, including a 7-meter-wide pedestrian street in the middle and 2 to 2.5-meter roadside strips on both sides.

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The total length of South Back Street, which starts from Yangqiao Road and ends at Jipi Road, is only 634 meters. It is positioned as a leisure, cultural and commercial street that combines tradition and modernity.

Historically, Nanhou Street was home to many traditional Fuzhou craft industries such as lanterns, paper-making, and bookshops.

Nanhou Street is positioned as a traditional cultural and commercial street. According to the current operating conditions of time-honored brands, some of them are selected to be restored, such as the "Mijia Chuan" casing shop, "Juchentang" bookstore, lanterns and other century-old brands. The traditional lantern market loved by the citizens has also begun.

It is planned to be held regularly every year.

In addition, relevant departments also intend to invite Fuzhou traditional arts and crafts masters such as Shoushan stone carvings, bodiless lacquerware, and cork paintings to set up arts and crafts master exhibition stores in Nanhou Street to increase the traditional business atmosphere.

In the business planning of South Back Street, "new faces" such as bar coffee and top luxury goods have appeared.

The emergence of these new faces will inject modern elements into the traditional South Back Street.

The protective restoration project along Nanhou Street was fully completed in January 2009. The street was opened during the Spring Festival of 2009, recreating its historical appearance of "Liulichang outside Zhengyangmen, Nanhou Street in front of Yijinfang".

It is said that the lanterns on Nanhou Street began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Lanterns have the functions of viewing, praying for good luck and adding joy. They are loved by people and have been passed down for thousands of years.

As early as the Song Dynasty, Fuzhou's lanterns were very famous. According to "Old Wulin Stories" of the Song Dynasty, Fuzhou's lanterns inlaid with pure white jade "dazzled the eyes, like clear ice jade pots, refreshing the mind." They were listed among the lanterns exhibited in Beijing.

For the top grade.

At that time, lanterns were made all over the country, Suzhou and Fuzhou were the best, and Fuzhou was even better than Suzhou.

This shows the high level of lamp-making technology in Fuzhou.

The original Lantern Festival lanterns were just a folk lantern show held by the government to express "having fun with the people."

Wang Yingshan, a Wanli scholar in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in "Fujian Daji" that "Lamps were hung along the door and people visited all night long, which was called the Lantern Market".

However, lanterns triggering people's hearts and passions have become the traditional culture of today's folk festivals.

There are also some exciting stories. For example, during the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to whitewash peace, the government ordered people in Fuzhou City, regardless of rich or poor, to donate several lanterns to each household during the Lantern Festival.

This caused great indignation among scholar and poet Chen Lie who lived in Langguan Lane, Nanhou Street.

Chen Lie was an upright man and knowledgeable. Together with Chen Xiang, a famous Neo-Confucian at that time, Zheng Mu, the Imperial Confucian priest, and Zhou Ximeng, a famous Confucian, they were collectively known as the "Four Seaside Gentlemen".

Chen Lie believed that the government did not care about people's livelihood and wasted money and money, so he ran to the tower of the "Mighty Military Gate" (Drum Tower) and wrote with a pen: "A lamp for a rich family, a grain of millet for Taicang, and a lamp for a poor family. Father and son gather together to cry.

Does the romantic governor know that he still hates that the Sheng song has no good music? "It expressed the aspirations of the people, which made Liu Jin, the governor of Fuzhou, realize his mistake and withdraw his orders.

Chen Lie's move was recorded in the "Three Mountains Chronicles" by Liang Kejia, the prime minister during the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was praised throughout the ages.

Fuzhou has always had the custom of sending lanterns.

Because "deng" and "ding" have the same pronunciation in Fuzhou dialect, sending lanterns means "adding a child".

When there is demand, there is a market. South Back Street is the largest market for making and selling Spring Festival lanterns.

In the early years, when a daughter in Fuzhou got married, regardless of whether she had given birth or not, her mother's family had to give her a lamp. If she had not given birth, she would give a "Guanyin Sends a Child" lamp or a "God-given Lin'er" lamp. In the second year after the child was born, she would give a "Child Sitting Basin" lamp.

After three years, "orange" lanterns will be given, as many as there are children, until the children are 16 years old.

Some children are given three lamps for every two children, and the extra lamp is called a "head lamp", hoping that the child will succeed in life.

This is vividly described in the bamboo branch poem "Rongcheng Yuanxi" written by Yang Qingchen, a Juren of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty and a good friend of Lin Zexu who lived in Gongxiang.

The poem says: "God gave Lin'er to paint colorful silk ribbons, and the glow in the bride's room increased. It was late at night and I wanted to take off the golden hairpin, and I reported to my parents' family to send lanterns." Fuzhou nursery rhymes include: "The Lantern Festival lanterns in the first month, grandma loves her nephew (grandson), and sends them to her."

The lantern market on Nanhou Street starts on the third day of the first lunar month and closes on the 15th day of the lunar month. The most lively period is from the eighth to the twelfth day of the lunar month. There is a folk proverb that says, "Only watch the lanterns on the eighth day of the Lantern Festival."

It is said that because the 13th night of the first lunar month is "paper blind" (meaning "lantern"), the mother's family must send lanterns before the 13th.

On Lantern Festival night, adults light lanterns for their children and join the procession of neighborhood children welcoming the lanterns. The annual Lantern Festival night becomes a night of joy for children.

There used to be several shops specializing in lanterns on Nanhou Street, most of which were handcrafted by family members. Since lanterns were only sold during the first few days of the first lunar month, they usually only made large ball lanterns for wealthy families, large lanterns for hanging in temples, or wedding lanterns.

"Gaozhao" for gods, "hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren" for funerals, small lanterns for lighting, and dragon dance lanterns for festivals.

Generally, shops rarely have signboards and are often called so-and-so lantern shops.