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Address : Pingyao City, Shanxi Province, China |
Open Hours : Daily ( 24 hours) |
Time for Visit: All Day |
Ticket Price : Free |
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| Introduction of The Ming and Qing Street: |
| The famous street in Pingyao City of Shanxi Province. the three-storey Market Tower is the center and joint point of the city streets. The buildings such as Ancient City Government seat, Town God's Temple, Confucius Temple, Military God Temple, Wealth God Temple and Lucky Fortune Temple are arranged symmetrically. There are altogether four main streets, eight branch streets and 72 lanes in the old city area. Having stood a long time weather- wearing, all these buildings show no sign of dilapidation. In front of the gates of magnificent buildings and grand shops, deep ruts on the ground are still there to be seen, reminding visitors of its ancient busy traffic and commercial situation. |
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The Ming and Qing Dynasty Streets in this ancient of Pingyao town are broad & very well arranged. Dotted with memorial archways and decorated gateways, as stretching one after another and high and low, the old houses and courtyards flanking the streets and lanes remind the visitors of the long past and their ancestral places. Walking along the Pingyao Ming and Qing Dynasty streets, you seem to have landed in a world beyond the present one. |
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About 18.5 meters in height, and situated in the town centre, the Market Tower is the highest building within the main street from the south to the north running through it. it is said the marketing was going on around the Tower all day long, thus it was named the Market Tower. Belonging now to the historical sites protected by the provincial government, it was renovated in 1688 during the Emperor Kangxi Period of Qing Dynasty, but people still don't know when it was first built. |
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