Daohe Ancient Block，located in the Hailing District, is the most important historical and cultural block in Taizhou, which the municipal government took the lead in protecting and rejuvenating.
Formed in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, the Daohe Ancient Block has a history of over 600 years. It is the largest Tai-style residential complex in Taizhou. To its east and west are respectively Hanxi and Wuxiang, north and south-ward run the Rice River and the Grass River. Near here also meet the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. The Tai-style residences are uniquely rich in history and culture, and the relics are a lot.
Daohe Ancient Block prospers with cultures, blending the ancient and the modern. As a part of the old town, it used to control the city’s north pass, where salt and grain were transfered. Here boats flocked, oars splashed, bridges shadowed, and streets crowded along., The block was laid out unique and the fabrication of streets rare, as the old saying goes: “Once into the five alleys, one’s lost in a maze.”
The district has many famous historic and cultural sites: a provincial-level cultural protection unit, Zhou’s (Wu’s) Residence, Taizhou’s most luxurious mansion known as “ninety-nine and a half rooms”; the ancient well gathering that had continuously functioned from Han and Tang Dynasties until the Ming and Qing Dynasties for well over two thousand years. Here is also where Taizhou’s Scientific Outlook on Development Exposition Hall stands, the three-starred green architect, which was designed by Mr. He Jingtang, Chief Architect of the China Pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo Wu Xiang Primary School that was founded in 1909… …
They are like pearls distributed in neighborhoods, attracting people to explore and experience.
