travel in china Old street of Tunxi

Old Street of Tunxi is located in the downtown area of the Huangshan City in the southern Anhui Province.It is one of the most integral commercial pedestrian street with the preservation of Song, Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural .As the only "national historic preservation district," each year Old Street of Tunxi attracted nearly 600 million domestic and foreign tourists.Street buildings not only carry on the Song Dynasty style, but also inherited the traditional residential Huizhou architecture,it's planning has a distinctive architectural features of Anhui style.Old Street has a total length of 1270 meters with the best part of 853meters.Most of the street construction have the shops in front Square, warehouse or living patterns,showing the grace of ancient southern town.Ancient Huizhou culture show its fascinating presence in this Old Street, it can be seen as the art gallery of excellent traditional.Old Street has dozens of old shop,tourists can buy different kinds of chinese specialities such as Hui Ink,She Inkstone,varieties of famous tea, printmaking, rubbing from a stone inscription, carving of stone or root and so on.