Detailed introduction of scenic spots in Harbin Central Street

Harbin Central Street is the longest and most prosperous commercial pedestrian street in Asia. This commercial street with a history of 100 years is a must-see in Harbin.

The square stone slab road width of Central Street is10.8m.. The whole street is paved with stones. Each of these paving stones is 65,438+08 cm long and 65,438+00 cm wide. Their shape and size are like Russian buns. The round, delicate, dense, bright and round stone surface is extremely rare in the history of roads at home and abroad. It is said that a square stone was worth a silver dollar at that time, which was equivalent to a poor man's living expenses for one month at that time. The whole street used about 870,000 cubic meters of stone, and the cost was amazing.

Matsuura foreign firm is located at No.0/20, Central Street, Daoli District. It used to be a Matsuura foreign firm operated on water by a businessman. After liberation, it was a foreign language bookstore, and now it is an education bookstore. Brick-concrete structure, five floors above ground. The corner is the main entrance, and a marble portrait column of a man and a woman stands above the second floor.

The third and fourth floors run through Corinthian pilaster, the windows are decorated with exquisite reliefs, the pilaster is decorated with free spiral curves, and an arc-shaped calyx balcony protrudes under the window; The top floor is a semi-attic, with a tiger window on the Sha Meng-style roof and a compound dome with a hemispherical onion roof.