Fuzhou's famous "Antai House" restaurant is also located at the entrance of Jipi Lane. Fuzhou's Three Lanes and Seven Alleys is not just three "lanes" and seven "alleys", but also a famous South Back Street.
Fuzhou Nanhou Street starts from the intersection of Yangqiao Road in the west and ends at Jipi Road in the south to Macau Bridge. It is about 1,000 meters long and is the central axis of the "Three Lanes and Seven Alleys" in Fuzhou City. It has seven lanes on the east side and three lanes on the west side. It was the main commercial street from the rise of Three Lanes and Seven Lanes in Fuzhou to the Republic of China. Merchants gathered on the road from north to south. It is also because of commerce that this street was able to survive the construction wave.
Here are all the firewood, rice, oil, salt and daily necessities of thirty-six shops (from all walks of life). There are also book engraving workshops, second-hand book stalls, and framed paper shops dedicated to serving cultural people, as well as lantern markets during the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. "Outside the Liulichang of Zhengyangmen, there is the south and back street in front of Yijinfang. Guests take a break to go to the book market, but they are not happy enough to see many things." In the poem of Wang Guorui, a Juren in the late Qing Dynasty, the South Back Street was compared to the Liulichang outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing. Factory, reflecting the former cultural features of South Back Street. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nanhou Street was still a lively market with "white walls and black tiles and stone pavements" lined with pavements on both sides. During the Republic of China, the road surface was widened and converted into asphalt roads.
South Back Street is the central axis of the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys. After renovation, the South Back Street will be full of antique charm. The width of the road will reach 12 meters, including a 7-meter wide pedestrian street in the middle and 2 meters wide on both sides. ~2.5 meters of roadside strip. The total length of South Back Street, which starts from Yangqiao Road and ends at Jipi Road, is only 634 meters. It is positioned as a leisure, cultural and commercial street that combines tradition and modernity.
Historically, Nanhou Street once gathered many traditional craft industries in Fuzhou, such as lanterns, paper-making, and bookshops. Relevant people said that according to relevant plans, Nanhou Street is positioned as a traditional cultural and commercial street. It is initially planned to protect and inherit time-honored brands based on their current operating conditions, such as the "Mijia Chuan" framed clothing store, "Juchentang" bookshop, Huadeng and other century-old brands. , the traditional lantern market loved by citizens is also initially planned to be held regularly every year. In addition, relevant departments also intend to invite Fuzhou traditional arts and crafts masters such as Shoushan stone carvings, bodiless lacquerware, cork paintings, etc. to set up arts and crafts master exhibition stores in South Back Street to increase the traditional business atmosphere.
In the planning of commercial business formats in South Back Street, "new faces" such as bars, cafes, and top luxury goods have appeared. The emergence of these new faces will inject modern factors into the traditional South Back Street, but there is no guarantee whether the modern factors will affect the traditional culture.
The protective restoration project along Nanhou Street was fully completed in January 2009, and the street has been opened to reproduce its historical appearance of "Liulichang outside Zhengyangmen, Nanhou Street in front of Yijinfang".