What culture does Tunxi Old Street contain?

The pavement of the old street is paved with ochre kenaf, and the slabs are spliced in an orderly manner, with clear and beautiful gaps. The whole street is simple in Gu Zhuo, and there are rows of shops on both sides of the street, each with its own style and characteristics, which gives people a deep impression of pleasing to the eye and beautiful shape.

The architecture of Tunxi Old Street maintains the traditional Huizhou ancient architecture style. All the buildings are of different sizes, and the colors are elegant and simple. Although it has been rebuilt for a hundred years, its original features have not changed. Small blue tiles, white walls and horse head walls are antique.

These buildings are all brick-wood structures, with beams and columns as the skeleton, and bricks are laid from the outside to the top. Under the eaves and purlins, the goose neck porch plays the role of support, firmness and decoration. The street upstairs is decorated with wooden fences and skirts, and there are all kinds of flower windows, which are very elegant.

The buildings in the old street are open along the street and have the style of inner patio. The building structure has two compartments and three compartments, paying attention to depth and emphasizing "front street and back river". This deep and continuous housing structure has also led to the management mode and lifestyle of Tunxi Old Street, including front store and back workshop, front store and back warehouse, front store and back residence or downstairs store and upstairs residence.

From a distance, the old street complex looks like a pile of jagged and uneven city walls. When you look at every building from the front, it looks like an eagerly anticipated arch.

According to statistics, there are 280 shops along Tunxi Old Street, generally with two floors, which belong to the typical architectural form of "lower berth, upper berth, front berth and back berth". Most of these stores are single-bay, with a horse head wall in the middle and wooden doors on the first floor. When the door is removed, all the storefronts can be displayed to show the start of business. In particular, the gold-lettered signs on the lintels of shops on both sides of the old street are colorful and antique.

Zhu Pengshou, a poet in A Qing, wrote a poem with seven rhythms. The font size in the poem is:

Shunyu Xinglong Ruiyongchang, Fufengxiang, Wan Li, Yuan Heng.

Taihe Xingde, Qian Ji Gongren helped Ding Guang.

Juyizhong's communication is full of righteousness, and Daqing is healthy for a long time.

The new year is just a large area, and it is rich and magnificent.

So hundreds of shops on both sides of the old street choose one or two words from the poems to form their own shop numbers, such as Tonghe, Huaxing, Hongda, Yi Tong, Great Luck, Tongde People and Hutchison Spring, which deeply embodies the operators' yearning and pursuit for auspicious commercial artistic conception.

There are also some store numbers that clearly reflect the contents of the goods they handle, giving people a clear feeling. For example, the agricultural store is called "Gu Fengyuan"; The name of the local specialty shop is "Fulongzhuang"; The children's shop is named "Jackie Chan"; The women's clothing store was named "Yifeng"; The joint venture department store is called "Hualian" and the porcelain store is called "Qingyu"; Chinese and western pharmacies are "Yishoutang"; Shoe store name "Buyunxuan"; The hotel is called "Ruan Xiaoer".

In the middle and western section of the old street, Four Treasures of the Study, calligraphy and painting works of art are concentrated. The signs of these shops give people the impression that calligraphy and literati are all filled with strong national cultural charm. Such as Zuimo, Wendiao Garden, Yipin Zhai, Ge, Jiyazhai, Xuan, Tang and Modu Gallery. Such as "Poetic Heart Pavilion", "Dream Pen Art Studio", "Tiandu" and "Lotus Bookstore" are the fusion and reappearance of the beautiful scenery of Huangshan Mountain and brilliant Huizhou culture.

Many gold-lettered signboards in the old street reflect the "Confucian merchants" management thought of Huizhou merchants' valuing benevolence. On the counter of Tongderen Chinese medicine shop, there is a vertical board with four golden characters written on it to show people the business purpose of this shop.

The name of "Cheng Dexin" sauce garden immediately reminds people of the famous sentence "Only I am fragrant" in the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Humble Room Ming". At the same time, there are two main strokes in the store, which read "Plum leaves, strong fragrance". Meige is the legendary originator of sauce making, and "fragrance" refers to the fragrance of Hunan sauce.

Walking slowly along Tunxi Old Street, looking at the antique wooden buildings on both sides, looking at all kinds of mountain products specialties from mountainous areas, and listening to the thick Huizhou accent, it seems that you are in an ancient custom picture similar to the riverside scene at Qingming Festival.