West Street is the earliest developed street and area in Quanzhou. As early as the Song Dynasty, it had already symbolized the prosperity of Quanzhou. It is also the most intact ancient block in Quanzhou, with a large number of buildings with historical original appearance.
For more than a thousand years, this ancient block is like a dazzling pearl chain, which runs through many colorful cultural relics and ancient houses in Quanzhou since the Tang and Song Dynasties, as well as celebrity anecdotes and folklore attached to it. In addition to Kaiyuan Temple, East West Tower, downtown tower, celebrity residence and modern foreign buildings, there are a large number of ancient buildings and antique wooden buildings with unique charm. It is simply a living architectural museum, which not only contains the rich historical and cultural accumulation of the ancient city, but also tells the vicissitudes of the ancient city in the past 100 years.
Liaozhai, No.35 Wuta Lane, with two floors and five bays, is well preserved. There are cloisters on both sides of the tree, and the wooden windows are circular in structure, which is quite distinctive; No.58, Huitong Lane, Yanzhai, with three floors and three bays, a brick wall map on the eaves, a courtyard with three bays, a brick-and-mortar vestibule building, and a leaky window on each side of the brick wall, which is well preserved.