Xiamen Zhongshan Road (AmoiYatSenRoad) is located in the southwest of Xiamen Island. It is an east-west road in Zhonghua Street, Siming District, Xiamen City. During the Japanese occupation, it was called Dahan Road (1933-1945). Zhongshan Road was about 1.2 kilometers long. It started from the ferry Lujiang Road in the west, crossed the dividing point of Siming South Road and Siming North Road in the middle, and reached Xinhua Road (now Xiamen City) in the east. Public Security Bureau, formerly the site of the Xiamen Workers’ Cultural Palace) is connected to Gongyuan South Road. Since its opening, it has been the commercial leader and economic center of Xiamen.
Zhongshan Road is 1198 meters long and 15 meters wide. It is located in the bustling downtown of Siming District, Xiamen City. It is far away from the sea garden "Gulangyu". The Qilou Street on Zhongshan Road is a representative of Xiamen's architectural culture. Most of these buildings were built by overseas Chinese who returned to their hometowns in the 1920s. They have been listed as the focus of old city protection in the city's overall urban planning.
With the development of Xiamen’s economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, Zhongshan Road continues to become rich and beautiful. People walk on Zhongshan Road, and the shops are close to each other. Domestic well-known enterprises such as Laiya Department Store, Printemps Department Store, Hualian Department Store, and Jinlu Jewelry, the time-honored Chinese Guanghua Drug Store, and Huang Zehe Peanut Store; there are also bookstores, teahouses, piano shops, hotels, Nanyin, theater, movies, dry goods from the north and the south, According to statistics, there are more than 300 famous restaurants, McDonald's, KFC, and coffee bars. In these places, everything you want is available. On Zhongshan Road, you can’t run out of things to do, see or buy.
In addition to the commercial atmosphere, Zhongshan Road is also filled with artistic atmosphere, and the store names here are full of charm. There are handwritings of great men and masters of the generation, such as the "Xinhua Bookstore" inscribed by Mao Zedong, the "Tianxian Hotel" by the famous calligraphy master Luo Dan, and the "Guanghua Pharmacy" by the city's calligrapher Chen Meixiang, etc., which are really wonderful and talented. For people traveling at home and abroad, it is a unique cultural landscape leading to Xiamen, the "art city".
Walking on Zhongshan Road, people can not only feel the pulse of fierce competition in the market economy, but also taste the fragrance of the new trend of socialist civilization. The activities of creating "Three Excellent Streets" and "No Counterfeit Products in One Hundred Cities and Ten Thousand Stores" have created a good business environment on Zhongshan Road. More and more merchants gather here, and Zhongshan Road has become the trade center of our city and even the southern Fujian region.
◆"Fujian and Taiwan Specialty Food Street" on Gucheng East Road
"Fujian and Taiwan Specialty Food Street" brings together a group of well-known and "time-honored" various restaurants in Fujian and Taiwan. Specialty food. Longyan peanuts, Minzhong Pubao, Haicheng Shuangyangpao, Taiwan orchid seeds, Mingxi Rongxing dried meat and Tingzhou Hakka native products are all well-known foods.
◆Zhenbang Road
Today’s Zhenbang Road is a gathering place for clothing stores. In addition to well-known clothing brands such as Western Camel, Hengyuanxiang, and Scarecrow, there are also many specialty clothing stores. , such as Free Space and Qiqi, whose avant-garde and fashionable styles are very popular.
◆Dhuixian Road
The restaurants on Shuixian Road are unique. There are Nanyang Style, Jiayu Tang, and Yonghe Soy Milk King. Their delicacies represent the different food styles of Southeast Asia, Southern Fujian, and Taiwan.
◆Dazhong Road
Dazhong Road has now become a children’s products street. From baby clothes to elementary school bags to toys, we have them all. In addition, there is a Baicheng Datong duck porridge (No. 19, Dazhong Road) on Dazhong Road. The duck meat sold is crispy but not greasy, and has a unique flavor. Old Xiamen people like it very much.
◆Taiping Road
During the opening of the road in Xiamen, disputes arose constantly due to the demolition of residential buildings. The disputes were settled after the road was completed. The name Taiping means peace and prosperity. In the early days, Taiping Road was home to many foreign-owned shops, department stores, and large crowds. It was a prosperous place for trade between Xiamen and foreign countries.
◆Shengping Road
In ancient times, it was called Fanzi Street. The neighborhood was originally a gathering place for foreign companies. The people in southern Fujian called Westerners Fanzi, hence the name of this street. After the Wukou trade, foreign businessmen came to Xiamen one after another to trade and open foreign companies. Over time, Shengping Road has turned into a civilian lane. But the dusty history is engraved on a stone tablet.
◆Jukou Street
Jukou Street is a veritable women’s street. There are dozens of large and small women’s products stores. In addition to fashionable women’s clothing, there are also women’s shoes. , women's accessories, women's hair design house, many young women like to shop here for leisure.
◆Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank
Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank is located at the west end of Zhongshan Road. It was established in Xiamen in 1877. Oversea-Chinese Bank has moved out long ago, but the old Oversea-Chinese Bank still maintains the arcade appearance. The four red letters "OCBC" are still eye-catching. Through the closed door, you can see the empty counter. This place used to be so busy a century ago. The busyness and hustle and bustle.
◆Huang Zehe Peanut Soup Shop
Huang Zehe Peanut Soup Shop is a century-old shop that is famous both at home and abroad. The peanut soup here is thick but not astringent, sweet but not greasy, and has an excellent taste. With the development of the times, Huang Zehe continues to expand his product range, and his business varieties have expanded to Haili Jian, Shacha noodles, moon cakes, pies, rice cakes and other snacks that are familiar to Xiamen and even the whole country. They have almost become synonymous with Xiamen's specialty snack culture.
◆Print Department Store
Print Department Store is a leader in the Xiamen chain industry and can be called a high-end shopping paradise on Zhongshan Road. It gathers many domestic and foreign first-line clothing brands with complete categories and novel styles. It has brought many top international brands to Zhongshan Road. Its "fleur-de-lis" logo has become synonymous with top-notch shopping experience.
◆Xiaozumalu
Xiaozumalu was originally an unknown mountain road. Zheng Chenggong often galloped on the road when he was training troops here, so the people called it Xiaozumalu. The memorial archway of "Ze Bei Gantang" and the couplet of "Gulang Patrolling the River Merits Longevity, and Car Crossing the Lujiang River Proving Five Fate" can verify the majestic demeanor of the national hero. Nowadays, there is a stage in front of the small road. Every weekend and holiday, various theme activities and artistic performances will be held here.
◆Jiaogu Corner
Jiaogu Corner is located at the intersection of Jukou Street and is shaded by a large banyan tree. Behind it stands an antique screen with carvings of ancient folk artists walking on stilts and playing City drama and other content. This is a window for spreading the traditional culture and art of Fujian and Taiwan, and a variety of Fujian and Taiwan opera art programs are held regularly. These opera programs include Nanyin, Gezixi, Gaojia Opera and Dazuigu, etc.
◆Tianxian Hotel
Tianxian Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Xiamen. It was founded in 1933 by Singaporean overseas Chinese Lu Tianbao. On December 30, 1936, the famous poet Yu Dafu came to Xiamen. , and stayed in Room 432 of Tianxian Hotel. He wrote a preface to the special issue of Xiamen Tianxian Hotel, took photos with Lu Tianbao and people in the cultural circles at that time, and included the photos in the first volume of the fourth volume of "The Complete Works of Yu Dafu".
◆Lujiang Hotel
Lujiang Hotel is located on the bank of Lujiang River in the bustling center of Lujiang Road, Xiamen, adjacent to the customs, foreign trade, commercial and financial centers, and the "Garden on the Sea" Gulangyu Island Facing each other across the sea, with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation, it is the first foreign-related tourist hotel in Fujian Province. It has won more than 20 social honors such as the National Advanced Hotel with Foreign Investment, the National Double Excellent Enterprise with Foreign Investment, and the Winning Unit of the National Tourism Quality Service Competition.
◆Hao Qing Xiang Restaurant on Haihou Road
“Hao Qing Xiang” has been established for more than 60 years and is well-known at home and abroad for its specialty dishes of southern Fujian and Xiamen-style snacks. It continuously strives to create the characteristics of "good fragrance" and constantly introduces new ones, forming a series of "good fragrance" special dishes, snacks and snacks with the local flavor of southern Fujian as the mainstream, which are deeply welcomed and trusted by consumers.
◆Ding'an Road Tiger City Food Court
Tiger City, a Milan-style fashion shopping mall, is the shopping center with the largest area of ??popular products on Zhongshan Road. There are many popular brands gathered here, such as Egger, CHANGE SHE, Blue Fireworks, Music Kitchen, etc. With the belief of "bringing more and better to Xiamen", Taiwan's fashion business model has been introduced to fully meet the shopping needs of young people. .
◆Chen Huacheng’s former residence
There is a typical southern Fujian style earthen bungalow in Caopu Lane. This is the former residence of the national hero Chen Huacheng.
The building area is only 134 square meters, facing southeast and northwest, with a masonry and wood structure on two sides and a saddle-ridge roof. There are still two flagpole stones with a height of 1.8 meters left from that time beside the wall, indicating the unusual identity of the owner of this house. In this simple and simple hut, a generation of national heroes were born.
◆The First Holy Church in China
Xiamen Christian New Street Chapel is a white domed Roman-style building located on Taiguang Street. It was built in 1848 and is the "No. 1 Church in China". Temple". There are six columns in front of the main lobby and a hexagonal bell tower on the red two-sloping roof. In 1982, the church was included in the second batch of municipal cultural relics protection units.
◆Jiangxia Hall
This is the main ancestral hall of the Huang clan established by Huang Peisong, the last imperial scholar in Chinese history. The existing ancestral hall covers an area of ??more than 300 square meters. It not only has a beautiful caisson, but also a shrine that can be called "the first shrine in China". The wood carvings in this hall are made with extremely fine craftsmanship, and a variety of paintings, mainly gold, are used to emphasize the overall decorative effect. It is an ancient ancestral building with distinctive artistic features in Xiamen.