In the city - The old street

Though it's not a very successful try of local food, we got the energy needed to carry on sighting in the ancient city. Since this is a city with long history, the best place to know about the history of the city is to pay the inner city (old district) a visit. In Beijing, hutong is just a right place and in Luoyang we found the Laocheng District (means old district) is the counterpart. And the Xida Street (West Broad Road) may be the representative of the old district. So we took a tricycle and headed there.

The entrance of the Xida Str. is a magnificent city gate called Lijing Gate. A lion's head is hung up the gate like a guard of a city. In the gate, it's a prosperous archaic business street. Shops are open cheek by chaw along both the sides and in each of the shop gate there's flag reads the name of the business. Restraunts, dress shops, groceries and hardware store. The streets gave me a view of a prosperous street in ancient Luoyang when it was a capital. But I feel the street is more for the local people rather than the visitors, I should say, for there's no business are specially for the visitors but for the needs of daily life. You even can see kids playing on the street.