He Fang Street was opened in 2002 10. The reformed Hefang Street reflects the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, pays attention to highlighting cultural values, builds a market culture with commerce, medicine and architecture as the main body, maintains its historical authenticity, cultural continuity and integrity, and determines Hefang Street as a pedestrian street. Hefang Street is one of the streets that can best reflect the historical and cultural features of Hangzhou at present, and it is also an organic part of West Lake's application for world historical and cultural heritage. Its restoration and transformation reappeared the historical context of Hang Cheng and left a precious historical and cultural heritage for Hang Cheng.
He Fang Street was opened in 2002 10. The reformed Hefang Street reflects the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, pays attention to highlighting cultural values, builds a market culture with commerce, medicine and architecture as the main body, maintains its historical authenticity, cultural continuity and integrity, and determines Hefang Street as a pedestrian street. Hefang Street is one of the streets that can best reflect the historical and cultural features of Hangzhou at present, and it is also an organic part of West Lake's application for world historical and cultural heritage. Its restoration and transformation reappeared the historical context of Hang Cheng and left a precious historical and cultural heritage for Hang Cheng.
Hefang Street is an ancient street with a long history and profound cultural heritage. It used to be the "imperial city root" of the ancient capital Hangzhou, and it was also the cultural center and economic and trade center of the Southern Song Dynasty. The "time-honored" shops on the street, such as Kongxiang Powder Shop, Wanlong Ham Shop, Midachang Dry Cigarette Shop, Ye Zhongde Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall, Wang Shunxing Noodle Shop and Weng Longsheng Tea House, are still familiar to Hangzhou people today. As the only old street in Hangzhou that maintains the historical features of the ancient city, Hefang Street embodies the most representative historical culture, commercial culture, street culture and architectural culture in Hangzhou, thus avoiding the fate of being demolished as a whole in the transformation of the old city of Hangzhou. 1999, the Hangzhou municipal government decided to take this piece of land 13.6 hectares, next to Wu Shan.
The Gourmet (16) (Town God Temple) Cultural Square block on Hefang Street has been redeveloped to build an antique commercial and tourist pedestrian street. Hefang ancient street is a concentrated expression of the customs of the ancient capital Hangzhou, because it can maintain the antique style of Ming and Qing dynasties, like an antique shop dealing in jade, Ming and Qing porcelain and celebrity calligraphy and painting; A "tea doctor" wearing a robe and carrying a long-billed copper teapot to pour tea for the guests; The "wuyue Renjia" cloth shop where wooden spinning wheels are rocked to spin yarn for customers ... Even the men selling maltose blocks in the shop are wearing gowns and shaking rattles to attract customers. With orange tiles, blue and white gables and bright arches, the Qinghefang Historic District last night became more and more charming under proper lighting. This is the lighting engineering experiment of He Fang Street. Tourists stop to watch from time to time and are amazed. The lighting is so exquisite that people wander in the lines of ancient buildings outlined, as if they had returned to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. When the tile lamps installed in Jingyanggang restaurant and Qinghefang archway illuminate the eaves, almost all the citizens who are playing in the streets cheered. The shouts of joy attracted a large number of foreign tourists, who gathered around the tour guide to ask about the origin of these lights. The street stalls renting Qing dynasty costumes suddenly became lively, and many people rented a set of Gege costumes to stand in the light and take pictures. The lighting of the whole block, according to the principle of "seeing the light but not seeing the light", adopts the way of combining ancient and modern, and customizes the "non-standard" lamps that are unified with the building. The color temperature of lamps and lanterns is also very particular, debugging different effects. It's late at night, but attracted by the exquisite night view, more people visit Where Street ... The lights on Where Street outline the map of Hang Cheng's well customs.