Travelogue of Wudian City in Jinjiang, Quanzhou

Wudian City traditional district During the Spring Festival, we drove to the traditional cultural street of Wudian City in Quanzhou, where the sunshine sprinkled on the bluestone roads of Jinjiang's Wudian City, and the air was filled with a faint ancient charm. Taking advantage of the holiday, we came to this place full of historical and cultural atmosphere. Wudian City traditional cultural street, a place that blends Minnan style and ancient charm, where every brick and tile seems to tell an ancient story. The popular Orange Tea House's dipping flowers are very hot🔥, probably because of the holiday, the queue was too long, so we decisively gave up. There are many activities during the Spring Festival, and you can find dragons in every corner, and there are opera performances on the stage of the Zhuangyuan Archway, with a strong festive atmosphere. It's just that the main drawback is the crowd; holidays are really not suitable for squeezing in, although it's lively, the experience is not good. The Minnan architectural complex in Wudian City is very concentrated, different from the courtyard buildings in Fuzhou's lanes, Minnan's buildings are more brightly colored, with a unique flavor. The Liqing New Residence where Starbucks is located is one of the carefully preserved buildings. The Liqing New Residence was built in 1935 by Chong Ming'an's son Chong Qingliang, who returned to his hometown from the Philippines. The building covers an area of 918 square meters, faces north to south, and is a five-bay, two-entry, three-chuan ridge-top brick, stone, and wood structure, using both the penetrating and lifting beam frameworks. The brick carving, stone carving, and wood carving skills are exquisite, making it a typical Minnan mansion of the Republican period. There is also the Cai family ancestral hall on Zhuangyuan Street in Wudian City, Minnan traditional culture and folk customs exploration four: ancestral halls In the Minnan region, the most exquisite and magnificent traditional folk buildings are ancestral halls, which have a distinct regional architectural style. In towns and villages, almost every surname has its own ancestral hall, recording the family's historical changes, promoting the glory of the ancestors, educating the clan on ancestral teachings and family rules, inheriting social moral norms, and enhancing family cohesion and pride. The ancestral hall architecture combines various art forms such as Chinese history, architecture, carving, painting, calligraphy, and literature, with profound traditional cultural connotations. Ancestral halls are not only symbols of the family but also carriers of culture, treasures of China's ancient traditional culture that have been precipitated in the torrent of history. Quanzhou has a profound cultural heritage, worth savoring slowly