Rongcheng Old Street: Experience the ancient city's thousand-year cultural context and the worldly atmosphere

In the eastern part of Guangdong, there is an ancient city called Rongcheng, which is now Jieyang City. It has always had a developed water system, with rivers crisscrossing. In the past, Rongcheng's one canal, two rivers, three cellars, thirteen pools, and eighteen bends added infinite scenery to Jieyang's water town, earning it the reputation of "water gourd" and "water lily". Today's Rongcheng District is also the political, economic, and cultural center of Jieyang City, with a profound cultural heritage and flourishing humanities. Since the tenth year of Song Shaoxing (1140), it has been set up as Jieyang County, with a long history of over 800 years. The old city has more than 20 provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units such as Jieyang Xuegong, Jinxian Gate, Ding Richang Memorial Hall, and is a provincial historical and cultural city in Guangdong. Jieyang Zhongshan Road is located in front of the old county yamen, running from south to north, with a total length of 705 meters. In the 44th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1779), it was called Xuanhua Street. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was called Dajie, and it was renamed Zhongshan Road in 1926. In 1926, Zhongshan Road was expanded to ten meters and covered with asphalt. The houses on both sides were rebuilt into 2 to 3-story buildings, with the exterior being European-style arcade buildings, forming a unique blend of Chinese and Western architecture. Jieyang Xuegong was built in the tenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1140). The existing architectural complex is composed of 21 individual buildings. It is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved historical architectural complex of its kind in the Lingnan region. It is also the only cultural relic protection unit in the province named after the "old site of Comrade Zhou Enlai's revolutionary activities". Walking east along the Shishiqiao, passing the Mingxian Ancestral Hall, and winding a little in the alley, you will come to the old Forbidden City. This is the only remaining Yuan Dynasty stone wall in the country, and it is also a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province - known as the Jieyang County Government Wall. From the year the city was built to the present, through the changes of dynasties, this ancient city wall on the south side of Yongge Community, Zhongshan Street, Rongcheng District, has experienced several vicissitudes, but still stands tall, like a calm and composed guard, reading the years, awakening people's many memories of the old city. Rongcheng District·Jieyang