Yangshuo West Street is an important tourist attraction in Yangshuo.

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Yangshuo West Street

Yangshuo West Street is located in the center of Yangshuo County, Guangxi, with a total length of 5 17 meters and a width of 8 meters. It has a curved S-shaped, marble pavement, antique buildings and strong local characteristics. It is paved with local betel nut marble, dark and shiny, with low brick houses left over from the Qing Dynasty on both sides, revealing the simplicity and elegance of Lingnan architecture. Most of the buildings in West Street are old houses 60 or 70 years ago, and some of them are from Ming and Qing Dynasties, so they have a long history. The streets of West Street are paved with large stone slabs, which also has a historical charm. 1984, a quaint and elegant tourist cultural street has been built after preliminary transformation. 1999 to 2004, Yangshuo County completed the protective transformation, making the whole street building highlight the residential characteristics of "small blue tiles, sloping roofs, horse-headed walls, wooden doors and windows, hanging balconies" in northern Guangxi; The pedestrian street parallel to Guihua Street is quite distinctive. Gather all kinds of tourist souvenirs and snacks in the market. Its exotic night scenes are varied and full of amorous feelings.

Yangshuo West Street, also known as Foreigners Street, has a history of 1400 years. Up to now, West Street is still the building scale of southern villages and towns with a small family and jade, but it shows a humanistic landscape with international sentiment. The decoration styles of bars, restaurants, Internet cafes and arts and crafts calligraphy and painting shops here are mostly a combination of Chinese and western styles, with foreign language signs. Waiters in arts and crafts shops, restaurants and bars, ordinary residents and even old ladies selling fruits on the street can speak fluent English, which makes West Street exotic. In every corner of West Street, you will often see three or five groups of tourists of different colors sitting around the street drinking beer, coffee, playing and chatting, as well as people from China and Western Europe, leading mixed-race children to play in the street. At the eastern end of West Street is an important port of Lijiang River-Lijiang Wharf, from which all passengers go ashore after swimming the Lijiang River.

Characteristic culture

Combination of Chinese and western cultures

This is the place where foreigners gather most. By 1998, more than 1000 people stay here every day. Among them, more than 20 foreigners set up shop here, so West Street is also called "Foreigner Street". Because all men, women and children in West Street can speak foreign languages, it is also called "Global Village", which receives 6.5438+0.5 million Chinese and foreign tourists every year.

Thick history and culture.

The integration of Chinese and western cultures has a historical origin in Yangshuo. West Street is the earliest place where Chinese and Western cultures contacted and merged in Yangshuo. 19 17 years ago, Christianity was introduced to Yangshuo, and Li Shaogeng and his wife presided over the missionary work. The place was rented in a private house in the east of West Street, and dozens of people joined the church.

During the Anti-Japanese War, some institutions of the Academia Sinica of Nanjing National Government also moved south to Yangshuo, and most of them settled in Zhongshan Memorial Hall behind the gymnasium at the end of West Street to continue their research work.

Yangshuo West Street is an ancient street with strong historical and cultural flavor. This is also the place where Sun Yat-sen gave a speech. Clinton, Nixon, Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk and many other celebrities have left footprints here.

Simple national culture

"Pengze Wuliu, a county flower, river, Yang River. How can two places be as good as Yangshuo, and people live in Lian Bi Peak? " As early as 1000 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, the poet Shen Bin envied the residents who lived at the top of Lian Bi.

In the history of West Street, except for a few shops, most residents were farmers. For a long time, they have maintained a semi-commercial and semi-agricultural state of "semi-rural and semi-shops, which can be traded and cultivated", making Xijie people form the dual characters of enlightened city people and loyal village people. West Street has become the main tourist service street in Yangshuo. There are many handicraft shops, calligraphy and painting shops, hotels, cafes, bars and China Kung Fu Museum. However, people in West Street still maintain their simple character. West Street still maintains an unpretentious and charming antique, with dark blue stone roads, two rows of low brick houses left over from the Qing Dynasty, and Jiangxi Guild Hall with cornices and carved beams and painted buildings, which exudes a faint antique and a strong antique. Walking into West Street is like walking into a neat farmhouse.