Ancient Culture Street

The Ancient Culture Street (古文化街) is a pedestrian shopping street of Qing-style small shops in Nankai District, running from Tongbei Road to Shuige Street for 687 metres at a width of five metres. It grew out of Gongnan Street and Gongbei Street, the two lanes centred on the Tianhou Palace, which the sources call the earliest place in Tianjin where culture, religion and trade gathered. On New Year's Day 1986 the municipal government rebuilt the two streets with more than a hundred Qing-style buildings, and on 8 May 2007 the tourist area was approved as a 5A-rated scenic area. More than a hundred shops line it now, among them Yangliuqing prints, Clay Figurine Zhang and Kite Wei.