Chunxi Road Pedestrian Street
Pedestrianized shopping district of over seven hundred stores around a century-old commercial street.
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This guide to Chunxi Road in Chengdu opens at the bronze statue in Zhongshan Square with the story of a monument that failed. In 1924, warlord Yang Sen tore down the old district to cut a new street through the city and wanted it named after himself, only for residents to reject it in favor of a name a retired scholar drew from the Tao Te Ching. Yang Sen still raised his own stone marker in the street's central garden, his name carved into it, right as the road he built opened to the public.
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