Find the Life of Taste in Ancient Cultural Street in Tianjin

Chinese Spring Festival is coming soon. The Ancient Cultural Street at this time becomes the most popular attraction of Tianjin, combining perfectly the taste of Tianjin and the culture of Spring Festival. It is the best time now to enjoy the charm of traditional handicrafts and folk snacks of Tianjin.

Ancient Cultural Street is one of the top ten attractions of Tianjin. From south to north, row upon row of stores stand on both sides selling all kinds of local products. For example, there are cigarettes made from tea and traditional snuff with novel smell to soothe the nerves. These are all good options of souvenirs.

The most famous products of Ancient Cultural Street are those old handcrafts in which the most representative one is Clay Figure Zhang with quite an institution in Tianjin. Clay Figure Zhang mainly draws its materials from laboring people, manifesting excellent characters of common people. Thus, topics of it are more extensive and the cultural consciousness expression is more vivid. Clay Figure Zhang, as a nonesuch representative of folk arts of the Han nationality, is definitely your first option of new year gift. A small piece of Clay Figure Zhang sculpture is actually precious and profound because it is a quintessence of wisdom of generations of craftsmen and history of over 180 years.

Besides special products, buildings along the street are also artistic, looking delightful. In ancient cultural street, shopping is no longer simple purchase, but also a process of widening your knowledge.

Culture includes not only folk handicrafts, but also special delicacies, so is the Ancient Cultural Street. The most laudable delicacy in the street should be 18th Street Mahua, one of the Three Delicacies of Tianjin. Sweet fragrance comes with crisp taste. It is special because of assorted pastry stuffing which are mainly made from sweet-scented osmanthus, semen juglandis, peanut and sesame with some Qinghongsi (a kind of sugar curing seasoning in green and red) and rock candy.