Jinli Ancient Street

　　Chengdu Jinli Ancient Street was set up and opened for public in 2004. Walking in this street, historic lanes, old official residences, vernacular dwelling, inns and shops will bring you back to the ancient China. The elegant style of the architectures tells you what Sichuan looks like during the Qing Dynasty. Sichuan Culture isin this ancient street.

　　Recovery by Chengdu  Temple Museum, Jinli as a part of(the Three Kingdom historic, Jinli folk custom area, west side), the total length of 550 meters, the street is now Chengdu famous pedestrian street, so-called " first street of west Sichuan ", is known as the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival Chengdu Version ".

　　in 2005 was named as one of the "national top ten city commercial Pedestrian Streets", and as famous as Beijing Wangfujing, Wuhan Jianghan Road, Chongqing Jiangfangbei Pedestrian Street, Tianjin Heping Road and other famous old streets.

　　Within the area, there are also hotels, restaurants, teahouses, bars and cafés. The street is very popular with both locals and tourists, especially at night.

　　Food

　　In Jinli, you can not miss snack. More famous and delicious foods are buckwheat noodle, Sandapao, Chinese crispy bread with beef, yellow fermented glutinous rice, fried sugar pastry ball, and so on. Sweet noodle, cold noodles with sesame sauce, and pot-stewed meat or fowl. And Fried stinky tofu, fried yam are also the famous snack of Sichuan snacks.

　　There are a lot of snacks of nearby county that are difficult to buy in downtown Chengdu, but you can find it in Jinli. Zhangfei beef produced in Sichuan Langzhou, appearance is black, not good-looking, and it use first-class beef mixed with special flavoring, unique flavor. And there are snacks such as juicy beef balls, oil tea, and hot and sour rice noodle. In general, the snacks in Jinli street taste original, affordable, you certainly don't forget to taste them when you come to Jinli Street. Sichuan snack has a long history and a wide range of each flavor. Jinli Snack Street collects many Sichuan famous snacks.

　　The fried sugar pastry ball here is a little sour and rolled with white sesame seed, exterior covered with brown and crisp batter, which locks the flavor right in for your enjoyment. And it has another name, called glutinous rice sesame balls.

　　Chinese Crispy Breed with Beef

　　Chinese Crispy Breed with Beef also called Chinese Crispy Cake with Beef, Chinese Crispy Pie with Beef. What's best about the snack is its fatty-but-not-greasy taste and fragrant tender, it is really delicious.

　　Sweet Noodle

　　Sweet Noodle is using the elastic and thick noodle, cooking in a large saucepan of boiling water until elastic chewy.

　　Steamed Rice Cake

　　It is a rice cake steamed with the rice of big stickiness, white rice cake is made by rice and yellow rice cake is made by coarse rice, which is delicious.

　　How to get to Jinli Street

　　By bus

　　Taking Bus No.1, 57, 82 to Wuhou Temple stop, or taking bus No.82, 109 to Nanjiao Road stop.

　　By subway

　　Taking subway line No.1 to Huaxiba station.

　　Consisting of Wide Alley (Kuan Xiangzi), Narrow Alley (Zhai Xiangzi), Well Alley (Jing Xiangzi) three parallel ancient city alleys and 45 courtyards along them, Wide and Narrow Alley is one of Chengdu’s historical and cultural reserves, together with Daci Temple reserve and Wenshu Monastery reserve. It is a microcosm of the city’s history as well as a deep mark in local people’s memory.

　　The history of Wide and Narrow Alley can be dated back to the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 AD). At that time, the area was a city within the Chengdu city called Mancheng City or Shaocheng City, where the court quartered troops. As time passed by, the city decayed and only the Wide Alley and Narrow Alley were left. In 2003, renovation work of the two alleys began, aiming to build a complex cultural and business street with the functions of tourism and recreation. On June 14, 2008, the newly renovated Wide, Narrow and Well Alley were opened to the public, located in nowadays Qingyang District, to the east of Tongren Road and west of Changshun Street. Nowadays, Wide and Narrow Alley is a popular entertainment and nightlife block as well as a famous tourism site, with lots of restaurants, pubs, teahouses, and stores selling featured souvenirs.

　　Wide Alley

　　This alley exhibits the leisurely life of natives and represents the most typical forms of Chengdu folk culture. The unique attractive elements include the natives, old lodges, and ancient teahouses, etc, show the modern Chengdu people’s memories about the city’s past. Inside the alley, there is an Experiencing House of Old Chengdu Life, which is also the cover and tourism center of Wide and Narrow Alley. Comprising of a kitchen, study, living room, and bedroom, it mainly exhibits the daily life of a common family during the period of the Republic of China (1912 – 1949 AD). Visitors can also appreciate Sichuan embroidery, shadow play, and puppet show, similar attractions here.

　　Narrow Alley

　　The feature of this alley is the typical slow life of Chengdu natives. It mainly shows the courtyard culture of the city and courtyard dreams of Chinese people. There is a garden in a residence, a house in the garden, a yard in the house, trees in the yard, sky over the trees, moon in the sky. After renovation, the alley was decorated with bamboos, vines and traditional wall lamps. Other facilities and services within this alley include western and fast food restaurants, cafe, and healthy life experiencing hall, to name but a few.

　　Well Alley

　　Applying a theme as the new life of Chengdu people, Well Alley is the modern side of Wide and Narrow Ally, as well as the most open, most diverse, and most dynamic zone in the area. In this most beautiful historical block of Chengdu, one can taste the delicious food; among the most delicate traditional buildings of the city, one can entertain oneself in the colorful night; in the most typical alley of the city, one can enjoy the happiness of free thinking. The facilities here include pubs, nightclubs, dessert shops, wedding site, and retail shops. The most featured building here is a western villa. Originally a private residence and later a church, it is now a site for love and marriage consumption, and representative of sweetness and fashion.