Yangzhou | The Pishi Street, which started in the Yuan Dynasty, has now become a popular street

🚗Leather goods have always been a symbol of fashion and elegance. In the historically prosperous Yangzhou, of course, there can be no lack of leather goods business, and finally formed a "leather goods street". This street is Pishi Street. In the Yuan Dynasty, Pishi Street was called Majunying Sipu South and Majunying Sipu North, and to equip the horse army, of course, there can be no lack of leather goods, thus, Pishi Street and leather goods have a source. Before the construction of the new city in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the location of Pishi Street was still "half village and half city outskirts". In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the place where Pishi Street was still a low-lying area. Yangzhou literati Lu Biyou recorded in a poem after visiting Xingjiao Temple (in May 1949, Xingjiao Temple and Wanshou Temple were changed to the new campus of Yangzhou Normal School, and in 1968 it was changed to Yangzhou No. 5 Middle School, now Tianjiabing Middle School): The ancient temple is desolate and the green water bay, the autumn flood enters the door and the moss is gone. It can be seen that at that time, Pishi Street was crisscrossed with ditches and canals. In the Qing Dynasty, Pishi Street developed into a leather goods market. Although they are all engaged in leather goods, Pishi Street has the distinction of South Pishi and North Pishi, with Zhenjun Lane as the boundary. South Pishi is the southern section of Pishi Street, selling soft leather goods such as leather coats and hats, horse hoof sleeves, leather blankets and mats; North Pishi is the northern section of Pishi Street, selling hard leather goods such as belts, boots, and whips. 🚗The entire street runs from south to north, about 700 meters long, connecting Guangling Road to the south and Wenchang Road to the north. The ancient buildings on both sides of the street with green bricks and black tiles, the tall wall towers, the grand gates, can vaguely see the shadow of the bustling Pishi in the past. It has also become an important place for tourists to take photos and leave memories. Friends who like to take pictures can take a few portraits with a travel shoot. 🚗The shops on both sides of the street are somewhat casual in their layout, and the decoration style is even more varied, almost covering all the styles we can know in the world. But the key point is that you look at these shops' decorations casually, but they have their own unique personality, full of creativity, which is most loved by fashionable and trendy young people. If you are going to Yangzhou, you might as well go to the Pishi Street area for a stroll, I believe you will also like it here.