Tianjin Ancient Culture Street with 600 years history, standing in the areaof key section in upstream of the Haihe River, is located in Nankai district ofTianjin. Covering an area of 224,200 sq meters, it used to be one of earliestwater transport docklands in Tianjin where is one of the busiest cities ofcommerce and trade in history. As a cultural precinct, Tianjin Ancient CultureStreet is well known by the local and overseas tourists. The two attractions,Yuan Huang Ge and Tian Hou Temple are two historic cultural relics in the listof city level ones reversed.
Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street rebuilt in 1980's is one of the greatsuccesses in the renovation and redevelopment. The whole block is stillconserved the existing urban pattern and tissue of traditional Chinese layout.The lanes and houses in the Street are almost preserved in a good condition withTianjin local feathers. In past time, whenever the day of 23th of March in lunarcalendar was coming, a great ceremony would be held here, which it is said thatit is the birthday of heaven Mother. On the ceremony, many Chinese traditionalperformances would be seen, such as Shiziwu (dancing play as a lion),Huahanchuan (dancing with a ship 杔ike dressing), Caigaoqiao (dancing standing ona high stick) and so on.
As the result of expanding Tian Hou Temple, renovating Yu Huang Ge buildingand renewing the Haihe Lou, this street with fine landscape and distinctivearchitectural style has been a flourish, cultural and tourist area. The newplanning and design for the Street had paid more attention to the waterfront andconnecting with surrounding around, especially the Old City in the west.