Fengqiao Street and Hanshan Temple are cultural tourist commerce streets with strong local characteristics in Fengqiao Scenery Resort Area. Ming-Qing buildings there have primitive and simple style and features. The forest of shops assembly exhibit almost all of Jiangnan art and craft products, such as silk, Su Embroidery, calligraphy and paintings, four treasures in the study, pad auk cuttings, and sandalwood fans, etc. In addition, there are all kinds of antique shops, pearl shops, teakettle shops and calligraphers and painters' art galleries for them to sell their own works. You can also appreciate "Long-brush Calligraphy" performances recorded in Shanghai Guinness Book of Record. The beautiful things are too many for your eyes to take them all in.
Fengqiao Commerce Street has a history as long as Hanshan Temple and Feng Bridge. Described as Tang poem "Night-anchoring at Feng Bridge", famous writers in the past and at present one after another came here for a stay to seek historic interests and nature beauties and Fengqiao Ancient Town gradually prospered. Today, with the development of tourist industry, the pink-wall and black-tile buildings, signboards in ancient style and art and craft products with Wu Culture characteristics, altogether form a humanistic scene with rich inner meanings, which is worthy for you to wander unhurriedly and appreciate in details.
