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 km long. The ferry starts from Lujiang Road in the west, crosses the boundary between Siming South Road and Siming North Road in the middle, and reaches Xinhua Road in the east (that is, the public security unit in Xiamen today and the former site of Xiamen Workers' Cultural Palace), which is connected with Park South Road. Since the opening of the street, it has been the commercial leader and economic center of Xiamen.
Zhongshan Road is1198m long and15m wide. It is located in the bustling downtown area of Siming District, Xiamen, with one end connected to the hotel building in Xiamen, and the other end connected to the blue sea with a tidal gate, far away from the sea garden "Gulangyu". The arcade street on Zhongshan Road is the representative of Xiamen's architectural culture. Most of these buildings were built by overseas Chinese in their hometown in the 1920s, and 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 enriched and beautiful. People walk on Zhongshan Road, and shops are next to each other. Well-known domestic enterprises include Laiya Department Store, Paris Spring Department Store, Hualian Department Store, Lujin Zhubao, Guanghua Pharmacy, Huangze, Peanut Store and so on. There are also bookstores, teahouses, 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 300. In these places, you have everything you want. 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 signboard here is full of charm. Generations of great men and masters, such as Xinhua Bookstore written by Mao Leader, Tianxian Hostel written by Rodin, a famous calligraphy master, and Guanghua Pharmacy written by Meixiang Chen, a calligrapher in this city, are really brilliant and talented. For tourists at home and abroad, it is a unique cultural landscape in Xiamen, which is heading for the "city of art".
Strolling 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 "Three Excellent Streets" and "No Fakes in 100 Cities" have created a good business environment for Zhongshan Road, and more and more merchants have gathered here, making Zhongshan Road a business center in our city and even in southern Fujian.
The historical and cultural sites of Qilou Street and the southern Fujian market style preserved on Zhongshan Road witnessed the historical development of Xiamen and preserved the precious cultural memory of the city. Today's Zhongshan Road, after nearly a hundred years of cultivation and construction, has become a historical and cultural block with profound historical accumulation, complete commercial categories, famous shops and famous products, and concentrated people flow and logistics.
Cultural advantage: Yu Dafu once stayed in Tianxian Hotel.
Xiamen City Wall, Xinjie Chapel, Jiangxia Hall ... Zhongshan Road area has preserved many cultural relics and nurtured many Xiamen cultural celebrities, which can be called the context of Xiamen. There are also the former residences of famous national hero Chen Huacheng, famous calligrapher Ouyang Zhen, poet Yu Yu and famous calligrapher Lu Shiyi. Li Gongpu, an early leader of the famous NLD, and Yu Dafu, a writer, stayed in Tianxian Hotel. Lu Jiaxi, former president of China Academy of Sciences, spent his childhood here.
Zhongshan Road is not only rich in cultural relics and historic sites, but also rich in intangible cultural heritage. Nanyin, Taiwanese opera and Mid-Autumn Festival cake have a long and continuous inheritance on Zhongshan Road.
Architectural advantages: the arcade building shows the Nanyang style.
Zhongshan Road is mainly invested by overseas Chinese and consists of arcades. The arcade building with strong Nanyang style on both sides sets off the nickname of "Nanyang style commercial street" on Zhongshan Road.
The Overseas Chinese Bank, located at Zhongshan Road Ferry, is a historical witness to the close ties between Xiamen people and overseas Chinese in Nanyang. The southeast style arcade, the traditional southern Fujian blue glazed gatehouse roof and the moire decoration with China characteristics on the gatepost of the arcade add Chinese style and southern Fujian color to the arcade on Zhongshan Road. The combination of Chinese and western cultures is open and inclusive. Some people say that this is the most distinctive historical and cultural feature of Zhongshan Road.
Conclusion Zhongshan Road is also the only commercial street in China that leads directly to the sea. Its unique style is composed of pieces of Nanyang arcade buildings, colorful LED night scenes, colorful Fujian-Taiwan snacks, and ancient Nanyin echoing between alleys and neighborhoods. There are 3 provincial-level cultural relics protection units, 5 municipal-level cultural relics protection units, municipal-level Taiwan-related cultural relics 1, more than1places of interest, Nanyin and other intangible cultural heritages.