AmoiYatSenRoad, located in the southwest of Xiamen Island, is an east-west road of Zhonghua Street in Siming District, Xiamen. During the Japanese occupation, it was called Dahan Road (1933-1945), and Zhongshan Road was about 1.2 kilometers long. It started from Lujiang Road, a ferry in the west, crossed the boundary point between Siming South Road and Siming North Road in the middle, and reached Xinhua Road in the east (now Xiamen Public Security Bureau, the former location of Xiamen Workers' Cultural Palace) and connected with Gongyuan South Road. Since the opening of the street, it has been the commercial leader and economic center of Xiamen.
Zhongshan Road, with a total length of 1,198 meters and a width of 15 meters, is located in the bustling downtown area of Siming District, Xiamen City, with one end connected to the hotel building of Xiamen, the other end connected to the blue sea with a gate full of waves, facing the sea garden "Gulangyu Island" far away. The Qilou Street on Zhongshan Road is the representative of Xiamen's architectural culture. Most of these buildings were built by overseas Chinese in their hometowns in the 192s, and they have been listed as the focus of old city protection in the overall urban planning of our city.
With the development of Xiamen's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, Zhongshan Road is constantly becoming rich and beautiful. People are walking on Zhongshan Road, and shops are next to each other. Well-known domestic enterprises are Laiya Department Store, Paris Spring Department Store, Hualian Department Store, Jinlu Jewelry, China's time-honored Guanghua Pharmacy, Huangze and Peanut Store; There are also book stores, tea houses, musical instruments, hotels, Nanyin, dramas, movies, dry goods from North and South, famous products from East and West, McDonald's, KFC, and coffee bars. According to statistics, there are more than 3. In these places, everything you want is available. On Zhongshan Road, you can't finish shopping, see enough and buy enough.
In addition to the commercial atmosphere, Zhongshan Road is also full of artistic atmosphere, and the handwriting of the shop name signs here is full of charm. The handwriting of a generation of great men and masters, such as "Xinhua Bookstore" by Mao Zedong, "Tianxian Hostel" by Rodin, a famous calligraphy master, and "Guanghua Pharmacy" by Meixiang Chen, a calligrapher in this city, are really brilliant and brilliant. For tourists from home and abroad, it is a unique cultural landscape of Xiamen, which is heading for the "art city".
Walking along Zhongshan Road, people can not only feel the pulse of fierce competition in the market economy, but also taste the fragrance of the new wind of socialist civilization. The activities of creating "Three Excellent Streets" and "No Fakes in 1 Cities" have created a good business environment for Zhongshan Road, and more and more merchants have gathered here, making Zhongshan Road a trade center in our city and even in southern Fujian.
◆ "Fujian-Taiwan Special Food Street" on Gucheng East Road
"Fujian-Taiwan Special Food Street" brings together a number of well-known and time-honored special foods in Fujian and Taiwan Province. Longyan Peanut, Fujian Pubao, Haicheng Shuangrun Cream, Taiwan Province Lanxiangzi, Mingxi Rongxing Dried Meat and Tingzhou Hakka Native Products are all well-known foods.
◆ Zhenbang Road
Today, Zhenbang Road is a gathering place for clothing stores. Besides famous clothing brands such as Camel, Hengyuanxiang and Scarecrow, there are also many characteristic clothing stores, such as Free Space and Qiqi. The avant-garde fashion style is very popular.
◆ Narcissus Road
The restaurants in Narcissus Road are unique. There are Nanyang Style, Jiayutang and Yonghe Soymilk King. Their cuisines represent different food styles in Southeast Asia, South Fujian and Taiwan Province.
◆ Dazhong Road
Dazhong Road has become a street for children's products. Everything from babies to schoolbags to toys is available. In addition, there is a Baicheng Datong duck porridge in Dazhong Road (No.19 Dazhong Road). The duck meat sold is crispy but not greasy, and it has a unique flavor, which is very popular in old Xiamen.
◆ Taiping Road
During the opening of the road in Xiamen, disputes were constantly caused by the demolition of residential buildings, and the disputes were settled after the road was completed, because it was named Taiping, which meant harmony and prosperity. In the early days, there were many foreign shops and department stores on Taiping Road, which was a bustling place for Xiamen's local port to trade with foreign countries.
◆ Shengping Road
The ancient name is Fanzai Street, which used to be a foreign firm concentration nearby. People in southern Fujian called westerners Fanzai, hence the name. After the five-port trade, foreign businessmen came to Xiamen one after another to trade and set up foreign firms. As the stars move, Shengping Road has become a people's lane. But the dusty history is engraved on a stone tablet.
◆ Jukou Street
Jukou Street is a veritable women's street, with dozens of large and small specialty stores for women's products. Besides fashionable women's clothes, there are also women's shoes, women's ornaments and women's hair design houses. Many young women like to shop here for leisure.
◆ Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank
Located at the western end of Zhongshan Road, Xiamen Overseas Chinese Bank sprouted in 1877. OCBC Bank has already moved out, but the old OCBC Bank has maintained its arcade appearance so far. The four scarlet letters "OCBC Bank" are still eye-catching. Through the closed door, you can see the empty counters, which used to be so busy and noisy here last century.
◆ Huangzehe Peanut Soup Shop
Huangzehe Peanut Soup Shop is a century-old shop well-known at home and abroad. The peanut soup here is thick but not astringent, sweet but not greasy, and tastes excellent. With the development of the times, Huang Zehe has continuously expanded the product range, and its business varieties have expanded to Satay Noodles, moon cakes, pies, rice cakes and other well-known flavor snacks in Xiamen and even the whole country, which has almost become synonymous with Xiamen's characteristic snack culture.
◆ Paris Spring Department Store
Paris Spring Department Store is a leader in Xiamen chain industry and a shopping paradise for high-end consumption on Zhongshan Road. Many first-line clothing brands at home and abroad have gathered here, with a complete range and novel styles, bringing many top international brands into Zhongshan Road, and its "fleur-de-lis" logo has become synonymous with top shopping experience.
◆ Xiaozouma Road
Xiaozouma Road used to be an unknown mountain road. When Zheng Chenggong was training here, he often galloped on the road, so the people called it Xiaozouma Road. The archway of "Zebei Gan Tang" and the Fang Lian of "Gulang River Patrol is a long life, and Lujiang Car Crossing is a five-edge card" can verify the majestic charm of national heroes. Nowadays, there is a stage in front of Xiaoma Road, where various themed activities and cultural performances will be held every weekend and holiday.
◆ Jianggu Corner
Jianggu Corner is located at the corner of Jukou Street, shaded by a big banyan tree, and behind it stands an antique screen engraved with ancient folk artists' stilts, city play and so on. This is a window to spread 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, Taiwanese Opera, Gaojia Opera and Answering Drum.
◆ Tianxian Hotel
Tianxian Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Xiamen. It was founded in 1933 by Lu Tianbao, an overseas Chinese in Singapore. When Yu Dafu, a famous poet, came to Xiamen on December 3, 1936, he stayed in Room 432 of Tianxian Hotel. He prefaced the special issue of Xiamen Tianxian Hostel, took photos with Lv Tianbao and people in the cultural circles at that time, and included the photos in the first volume of Complete Works of Yu Dafu.
◆ Lujiang Hotel
Lujiang Hotel is located on the bank of Lujiang River in the bustling downtown area of Lujiang Road, Xiamen, adjacent to the customs, foreign trade, business and financial centers, facing Gulangyu Island, a "sea garden", with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. It is the first foreign-related hotel in Fujian Province. It has won more than 2 kinds of social honors, such as national advanced hotels with foreign investment, national enterprises with excellent foreign investment, and winners of national tourism quality service competition.
◆ Haoqingxiang Restaurant on Haihou Road
"Haoqingxiang" has been established for more than 6 years, and is well-known at home and abroad for its dishes with southern Fujian characteristics and snacks with Xiamen flavor. It is constantly striving to create the characteristics of "good fragrance" and constantly bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, forming a series of famous dishes, famous dishes and famous snacks with the local flavor of southern Fujian as the mainstream, which are deeply welcomed and trusted by consumers.
◆ Tiger Town Food Plaza in Ding 'an Road
Tiger Town, a fashionable and popular shopping mall with Milan style, is the largest shopping mall in Zhongshan Road. There are many popular brands here, such as Iger, CHANGE SHE, Blue Fireworks, Music Kitchen, etc. With the belief of "bringing more and better to Xiamen", Taiwan Province'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 civil bungalow in Caopu Lane, which is the former residence of national hero Chen Huacheng. The building area is only 134 square meters, sitting in the southeast facing the northwest, with two brick and wood structures and a saddle ridge roof. There are two flagpole stones with a height of 1.8 meters left at that time, which shows the unusual identity of the owner of this house. In this simple hut, a generation of national heroes have been born.
◆ The First Temple of China
The Christian New Street Chapel in Xiamen is a Romanesque building with a white dome on Taiguang Street. It was built in 1848 and is the "First Temple of China". There are six columns in front of the main lobby, and there is a hexagonal bell tower on the red sloping roof. In 1982, the church was included in the second batch of municipal cultural relics protection units.
◆ Jiangxia Hall
The Huang clan ancestral hall was established by Huang Peisong, the last martial arts champion in China history. The existing ancestral hall, covering an area of about 3 square meters, not only has beautiful algae wells, but also has a shrine called "the first niche in China". The woodcarving process of this hall is extremely fine, and various colored paintings with golden colors are used to emphasize the overall decorative effect. It is an ancient ancestral temple with distinctive artistic characteristics in Xiamen.