Strolling along Qianmen Commercial Street

Qianmen, in mouth of people, includes Zhengyang Gate, Pearl Market and Dashilan area. Qianmen is the most important place on axle wire of Beijing, also is the core area of protection of ancient capital features. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, Qianmen is the necessary road to Temple of Heaven and Altar of the God of Agriculture. Nowadays, Qianmen Street still keeps the style of history.

Panorama View of Qianmen Street

Eat in Qianmen. Walking in Qianmen Street every time, I have a feeling of pass through. Even through Qianmen Street is crowded with tourists and fashion music, the Dashilan is still old and restores ancient ways. In ancient time, Beijing was called as Peking, the Qianmen is the gathering place of cate including many characteristic restaurants. After hundred years, Quan Ju De shapes its own style of cooking including Quan Ju De Roast Duck and 400 dishes, which was loved by the governments, officials and social celebrities. The past Prime Zhou liked to select the Quanya Banquet as the state banquet.
Go shopping in Qianmen. Qianmen Street is the famous business street and old culture street, located at axle wire of Beijing, and starts from Moon Bay in north to Tianqiao Intersection in south. With 570 years history, Qianmen Street is also known as Heaven Street. It is 845 meters totally, is Pedestrian Business Street. Only both sides of Qianmen Street is covers an area of 66,000 square meters, contains about 180 shops. The long history of Qianmen Street shapes the old famous shops such as Liubiju Paste, Tongrentang Drugstore, Ruifuxiang Silk Store, Neiliansheng Shoes shop, etc.

Tramcar in Qianmen Street

Play in Qianmen. The world famous Laoshe Tea House created in 1988, is located at west of Qianmen Street, and close to Tiananmen Square. It is the representative gathering place of tea house culture of old Beijing, national demonstration base of the cultural industry and AAA tourist scenic spot. Here, you can enjoy the original characteristic performances, taste Chinese famous tea, buy top-level tea and eat the imperial characteristic snacks. Especially, you will see many celebrities in night shows. All these featured national art and programs attract travelersdeeply. Laoshe Tea House is called as the window of showing the essence of Chinese culture art and the bridge connects the friendship of home and abroad, and it is the human landmark of Beijing culture.
Qianmen Street is good place to eat, play and go shopping. Here, you have good chance to appreciate the most characteristics of Beijing.

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Where to Enjoy a Perfect Shopping in Beijing

Would you like to have some shopping during your Beijing tour? Famous as an international city, Beijing has lots of shopping areas to meet different requirement of different people. Here I want to recommend some fascinating places to shopping lovers.

Dashila Street

Located southwest to the Tiananmen Square, Dashila is a famous commercial street in Beijing and even in China. It is regarded as one of the perfect destinations fro Beijing shopping. With more than 300 years history, Ddashila Street occupies an area of 1.26 aquare kilometers.

As time moved on, the present Dashila Street still preserves its original layout and charm. Along the less-than-300-meter street, there are many time-honored stores. There you can find all sorts of goods and souvenirs from around the nation. Now municipal government of Beijing has cited it as a tourist pedestrian street.

Silk Street Market

Situated in "the first embassy district", Silk Street Market also called Embassy Street for the reason that there are many booths here run business of garment because there are lots of embassies seated in this area.

Today, the Silk Street Market has become one of the most famous business streets all around Beijing. Not only Chinese traditional silk products and exquisite handicrafts you can find here, but also many kinds of foreign well-known brands you can purchase here. There are large numbers of foreigners come here for shopping.

Most of the foreign costumes are sold here given prominence to culture connotation of the tour, including silk production and souvenirs, etc. In Silk Street Market, you will find some sellers tell the price on calculator that can be called one of Beijing’s famous scenes. 

Baoguosi Temple Culture Market

Well focused on ancient coins, old paper money and old books, Baoguosi Temple Culture Market is the most centralized and professional market for the age-old money. Baoguosi Temple Culture Market is located in Xuanwu district of Beijing, and you can find kinds of age-old money there. 

Gaobeidian Antique Furniture Street

During recent years, Gaobeidian Antique Furniture Steet has become a characteristic culture street offering classical furniture. And it is a good place for representing and trading Chinese traditional furniture. There are vendors and buyers from all China as well from many parts of the world. The main type of the furniture sold in Gaobeidian Antikque Furniture Street is of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Wish you have a nice shopping experience during your Beijing tour.

Shopping Centre in Beijing with Different Atmosphere

Beijing has more than enough shopping places that offer different characteristic in each place. And this is three favorite shopping centre areas in Beijing:

1. Xidan Shopping Centre

Xidan has known as the second favorite shopping centre after Wangfujing Street. There have more than complete various goods include clothes, electronics, foods, and many others. Locals or tourist could also find some big shopping malls where sell many various international brands. Inside the mall, visitors could find what that they want start from cosmetics, parfumes, electronics, clothes, etc. If visitors feel tired after their shopping time there also located food court where they could relax and rest a little bit. 
Not only that, there is also situated second largest book store called Xinhua Book Store. If you love reading books, then Xinhua Book Store will be the best place to visit when come to Xidan. More than that, around the area, there also located many clothing stores. The clothes can be said not less good than some clothes inside those shopping malls and certainly offer lower price than the malls one. Visitors also could bargain the clothes there and if they are lucky, they could get lower price. The area will be crowd at night, moreover in the holiday or weekend.

2. Qianmen Shopping Street

Qianmen Street has long history behind for about 570 years. It known as Zhengyangmen stands at the south end of the Tiananmen Square. In Qing Dynasty, Qianmen Shopping Street even become more prosperous because there built many famous theaters, tea houses and lanterns festival. There also located famous Quanjude roast duck restaurant that popular from long time ago.
With traditional architecture style and layout, Qianmen Street attracts so many locals and tourists to come visit. Moreover, there have many international brands such as, H&M, Haagen-Dazs, Sephora, ZARA, Starbucks, COSTA CAFÉ, SK Jewelry, and many others. Here is not only become a shopping centre but also become a cultural and historical site. Some visitors could also take some photos in front of many unique architectural buildings along the street.

3. Liulichang Antique Market

Liulichang Antique Market is an old and antique street with Ming and Qing dynasty architectural features. Built from a long time ago, in Ming and Qing Dynasty, the street was a famous street where gathered scholars, poets and artists. In total the street has 800 metres long, it offer many traditional antique Chinese goods including the writing brush, ink stick, paper and ink slab. Many foreign tourists are interested in antique hunting, arts, painting, calligraphic works, handicrafts and other traditional products of China. Liulichang is a recommended street for the Chinese antique lovers.  Visitors will find Chinese time-honored brands with long history along the street.