Is the ancient city of Zhangzhou worth visiting?

The ancient city of Zhangzhou is still good and worth visiting.

Located in "Zou Lu by the Sea", the ancient city of Zhangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city in Zhangzhou. The ancient city is the most valuable core area in Zhangzhou, and it is also an important part of Minnan cultural and ecological protection experimental zone, the first national cultural and ecological protection zone in China.

Zhangzhou ancient city is located in the bustling commercial and trade city, and it is also an ancient city with concentrated historical buildings and traditional culture. The five characteristics of "old street sentiment, slow life, southern Fujian flavor, Republic of China flavor and overseas Chinese sentiment in Taiwan Province" are very distinctive, and the cultural tourism resources are very rich.

In 2004, it won the honorary prize of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Protection Project and was selected as one of the first batch of "China Historical and Cultural Blocks". In recent years, a number of film and television dramas, such as Taiwan's Past, The Story of the Cloud, The Straits and Theater, have all taken the ancient city of Zhangzhou as an important location and filmed in historical blocks. "The ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasties, the blocks of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the customs of the Republic of China, the charm of southern Fujian and the prosperity of overseas Chinese and Taiwan" is the best summary.

The ancient city of Zhangzhou is located on the north bank of Xixi, Jiulong River. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been ruled by three levels: state, county, road and government. The existing old city covers an area of about 0.86 square kilometers, and still completely retains the natural features of "three pillows and two rivers", the fortification system of "taking the river as the city and the bridge as the door" and the street pattern of nine streets and thirteen lanes since the Tang and Song Dynasties.

In terms of development layout, Zhangzhou ancient city will highlight the building of "three cities", clarify the general idea of "protective development first, protection during development", adhere to the core characteristics of "old street love, slow life, southern Fujian flavor, Republic of China style, Taiwan overseas Chinese love", and build an international cultural tourism complex integrating culture, tourism, life and entrepreneurship.

First, the "Hot Spring City" focusing on Beijing Road Block, covering an area of more than 300 mu, mainly relies on the geothermal field resources with high temperature and large reserves in the ancient city of Beijing Road Block, and combines the landscape belt and commercial street construction in East Song He, focusing on the development of hot spring resort hotels, hot spring homestays, hot spring leisure and other special formats.

Second, it is a "cultural city" focusing on famous historical and cultural streets such as Taiwan Road and Hong Kong Road. Covering an area of more than 500 mu, it highlights the national-level cultural relics protection units such as the Confucian Temple, Bigan Temple, the stone archway in the Ming Dynasty and Zhenshi 'an, and integrates national-level intangible cultural heritages such as traditional puppet head carving, puppet show, woodblock New Year pictures, traditional drum art of Cai, and eight treasures inkpad to create a cultural industrial park with ancient city characteristics.

3. "Leisure City" focusing on the old villas in Huaqiao New Village: covering an area of more than 100 mu, 48 old villas in Huaqiao New Village with obvious architectural style in South Asia were built mainly on 1956, and combined with the renovation of houses such as Longyanying, Wandaobian and Fanghuali, they were implanted into creative leisure industries such as cafes, bars and artists' studios to create new fashions.