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Song Dynasty Imperial Street
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
The Song Dynasty Imperial Street has been renamed Zhongshanlu Beiduan, but still leads to the Palace of the Northern Song dynasty. The road that stretches 400 meters or 1,310 feet is lined with snack bars that offer local delicacies and shops that sell antiques, embroidered items and silks among others.
Following the architecture of the Song Dynasty the Imperial Street of the Song Capital was painstakingly designed and constructed in 1985. The street, 40 meters wide and 400 meters long, is flanked by a variety of classic storied buildings, pavilions and other constructions, typical of the style of the Song Dynasty. But most of these ancient style buildings now serve as clothing stores, provisions shops, local flavor snack shops, restaurants, department stores, etc.
The majority of which are named after the corresponding names used in the Song Dynasty, and the salesmen, saleswomen, waiters and waitresses working in these places are all wearing ancient Song Dynasty costumes. On the west side at the north end of the street sits the Fanluo or Gonglu Hotel is a modern day imitation of one of the best restaurants of the Northern Song dynasty, which is a complex structure composed of 5 ancient storied buildings or pavilions on the south, north, east and west and in the center, forming the pattern of a rose that are interconnected.
Opposite to the Fanluo Hotel is the Dragon Pavilion Lake which is decorated by petite pavilions and bridges on it, really a resort for tourists. In this unique environment you can savor imperial dishes and also learn about the customs of the period.
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