Tourism has become the main leisure and entertainment project for young people now. After 90, I had money in my hand. Now I am an adult, and my parents' constraints are getting weaker and weaker. So everyone likes to go out to play, one is to feel the magnificence of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, the other is to find friends on the way, and the third is to taste the food of other cities. Today we will talk about Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, which used to be called Guangzhou Bay. There is also a seaside city in the southernmost inland area of China. There has been a saying among the people that "if you come to Zhanjiang to travel, you won't come to Zhanjiang if you don't come to Leizhou". Today, we will tell the story of Leizhou.
Leizhou has a long history of more than 2,000 years. Its position in ancient Leizhou is far more prominent than it is now, because Leizhou was an important military fortress and political center at that time, and it was also called the important town of the South China. Even Leizhou Peninsula is named after Leizhou. Until the early years of the Republic of China, Leizhou has been the center of various administrative regions, and until now, Leizhou is also a veritable cultural and economic center.
Friends who come to Leizhou may see many old buildings, which are actually the only county-level national historical and cultural ancient city in Guangdong Province. Among them, Leizhou Qilou Old Street is the most distinctive place in Leizhou. When you come to Qilou Old Street, you will find that you are like a foreigner, where they speak Leizhou dialect that you don't understand, but this is also the place where you can understand Leizhou culture best. Most of the people here have lived here for generations, and they look at their faces when chatting.
Most of the buildings of the old arcade were built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and there was not much thorough repair and transformation behind them, so most of them kept their original appearance. In the long river of history, most of them have been repaired, so the overall style has not changed. Most of the houses in the arcade are distributed in pieces, and different buildings are compatible with historical traces. Here, the architectural styles of the East and the West are combined with those of ancient times, giving people a feeling of returning to the prosperity of that year.
As the so-called arcade old street, most of the buildings here are arcade-style buildings. This kind of building appears in Southeast Asian countries most of the time. Its main function is to keep out the sun and rain, and there is a special aisle under the arcade for the surrounding residents to walk, which is very suitable for the hot and humid season in the south. This kind of building was basically imported from abroad at home, which shows that Leizhou's foreign trade was quite frequent at that time.
This is the unique scenery of Leizhou. You can see the imprint of history here. You can see different colors in the old street. There is a unique culture and history waiting for you to discover!
Another city in Guangdong has become popular, not Guangzhou, but this little-known county-level historical city.
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