Where is the most prosperous area in Chaozhou?

The ancient city of Chaozhou, the seat of the ancient Chaozhou government in Guangdong Province, is the commercial and cultural center of ancient Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has left a large number of places of interest and is now a well-known tourist city in the province. Although its popularity is not as good as that of Phoenix, Lijiang, Pingyao and Dali, it has a unique charm, and visitors who have been there can't help but like it.

Chaozhou Paifang Street is the largest and densest commercial pedestrian street in China. Together with Guangji Bridge and Kaiyuan Temple, it is also a famous Chaozhou scenic spot. There is no ticket gate, no tickets, and it is open to tourists all day.

Paifang Street is actually not a street, but the general name of Taiping Road and the streets with archways around it. What is special here is that the stone archway was in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the houses on both sides of the street are arcades with Nanyang characteristics. The mix and match of the two is not abrupt, but has a different aesthetic feeling.

Legend has it that the date of Chaozhou Paifang Street can be traced back to the Tang and Song Dynasties. At first, the archway was made of wood, and later it was changed from wood to stone. Legends are legends after all. Chaozhou Paifang Street is an ancient archway with historical records, which was mainly built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In many places, archways mainly praise chastity and filial piety, but Chaozhou archway street has a strong literati atmosphere.

Chaozhou, as the birthplace of Chaoshan culture and the original government city, has been rich in humanities and celebrities since ancient times. The archways in the city were built by some successful people, and each archway has a story. The more representative archways are Champion Square, Four Scholars Square, Zhu Shi Square, Shishan Shangshu Square and Four Dynasties Old Square, among which Champion Square is the most famous. The number one scholar here refers to Lin Daqin.