Shops and daily life on Tunxi Old Street
A historic street makes commerce visible at the scale of doors, counters, and the narrow lane between them.
Tunxi Old Street
A commercial street where shopfronts and the everyday business of an old town share one narrow route.
Tunxi Old Street is best approached as a street of exchange rather than as a row of façades. Its built character comes from shopfronts opening onto a pedestrian route, with upper floors and courtyards behind them. The street is a useful counterpoint to the villages: here Huizhou’s commercial life gathers into a linear public space, where the threshold between shop and lane is part of the architecture.
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A shopkeeper stands at the threshold of a traditional storefront on Tunxi Old Street as pedestrians pass along the stone-paved lane.Emitchan · Public domain dedication by the copyright holder Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Emitchan, taken in 2008 and released into the public domain on the Wikimedia Commons file page. The saved file is the platform standard 1280px thumbnail, not the 3008×2000 upstream original; no enlargement, crop or retouching was applied.