Located at the center of Tunxi District, the downtown area of Huangshan City, Tunxi Ancient Street is the must-see place during the tour in Mt. Huangshan. With the history of more than 1000 years, it is one of the best-preserved old streets in China and has developed into a historic and commercial street nowadays.

The street was originally built during the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279), but there were not many buildings remained from that period. The most famous architectures today were built from the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911). During Ming and Qing Dynasty, Tunxi Ancient Street was regarded as a distribution center for goods and materials to Huizhou. Once an ancient Western-European architect visited this old street and he praised it as "The Eastern Ancient Rome".

Tunxi Ancient Street is one of the famous tourist destinations because of its antiquity. Similar to other old streets in China, local architecture style, the rich folk custom and delicate traditional handiworks are all worth seeing. The street is 1,273 meters long totally, 895 meters of which is the pedestrian commercial street. On both sides of the commercial street, visitors could fine a lot of shops with two or three floors. With stone base, brick body and tile roof, all the buildings show the typical ancient architecture style. There are 4 streets mainly selling jades and "scholar's four treasures" (writing-brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper). So if you are interested in Chinese calligraphy or Chinese painting, here is excellent for you.

On such an old street there has two museums: Tunxi Museum and Wancuilou. The Tunxi Museum is a two-storey building. On the first floor, visitors could see a display of furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties and on the second floor there is an exhibition of Chines calligraphy and paintings. Wancuilou is a four-storey building where visitors could see famous ink stones and the four treasures of study, writing brushes, ink sticks, ink slabs and paper, cultural relics and other artworks. The highlight of this museum is the biggest inkstone weighing more than 12,500 kilograms. Wancuilou is the first private museum of ancient architectural style in China.

Nowadays it is also used as a natural studio for films and TV series. Would you like to step into the old street and discover its real charm?