Nansongyu Street Zhongshan Road Pedestrian Street
Stone-paved former imperial road split into lanes, once reserved for the emperor's seasonal processions.
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This guide to Nansongyu Street in Hangzhou follows a stone-paved road once split into lanes reserved for Southern Song emperors, who alone could walk its center strip on quarterly processions to a palace of ancestral statues. It traces how the road vanished under centuries of rebuilding, until archaeologists uncovered its buried stones in 2003 among China's most notable finds that year. The team that rebuilt the street in 2008 mixed old stone with new rather than faking a full replica.
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