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Suzhou Jie (Suzhou Street)
蘇州街
Originally called Merchants Street, it was built in the style of South China towns during Emperor Qianlong’s reign (1736-1795). It was a street where emperors and empresses could pretend to go shopping as ordinary people and it was burned to the ground by the Anglo-French Allied Forces in 1860 and restored in 1990. The 300-meter street is built over water with shops and stands on the bank. More than 60 businesses, including a teahouse, a restaurant, a pharmacy, a bank, a hat store, a jewelry store and a grocery store, operate on the bank, presenting a concentrated illustration of the commercialism in South China towns in the 18th century.
原稱買賣街，乾隆時仿江南水鄉而建，是專供清代帝后逛市游覽的的一條水街，一八六零被英法聯軍焚毀，一九九零年在遺址上復建。街全長三百余米，以水當街，以岸作市，沿岸設有茶館、酒樓、藥房、錢莊、帽店、手飾鋪、點心鋪等六十多個鋪面，集中展現了十八世紀中國江南的商業文化氛圍。
