Historic Chengdu street

Because of the dramatic development going on in China, many cities work to preserve a small portion of some historic streets or neighborhoods. In Chengdu, there are at least three of these streets but we have to use the word "historic" generously. Some of the aspects in the streets are very old but other parts have been renovated or reconstructed. In any case, the goal is to create some of the atmosphere and appearance of a street in the Ming Dynasty or earlier. These are photographs from one such street in central Chengdu.Kuanzhaixiangzi All
ey. If you click on the photos, you can read a description of the street. At the bottom, when I got into the sidecar to have my photo taken a crowd gathered for the Chinese to take photos of the Westerner...