Tunxi Ancient Street was located in the center of Tunxi District, where the municipality of Huangshan is based in. Starting in the west from Zhenhai Bridge, a stone arch bridge crossing the river which was built in Ming Dynasty, and ending up in the east with the tablet of memorial archways, and it added up to 1,500 meters long and the sides of the street are laid with slab stones. Being well preserved, there are shops row upon row, with buildings simple and elegant. It is a commercial street only for pedestrians, with the building style of Ming and Qing dynasties. The merchants from the Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces jostle each other in a crowd that resembles the picture “Upper River during Qingming Festival”.      

Built in Song Dynasty, about 700 years ago, Tunxi Ancient Street, became a distribution center for goods and materials to Huizhou during Ming and Qing dynasties. With shops, it looks densely and compactly. The shops, workshops and residences form an organic whole, keeping the characteristic and operation layout of ancient store such as "front shop and back workshop" or "front shop and back house". The building is only 3-stoery-high, usually of tenon structure, stones based, bricks laid, wall built like a horse's head, small green tiles, wood carvings of Hui style, ancient shop signs, red-lacquered building with double-eaved roofs. They are simple and elegant, magnificent and clean. The pavement is 5 to 8 meters wide, laid by red flagstones of large size. With clear grain after a rain, it is as clean as a picture. Whether you are wandering along the old bridge, visiting the fish beside the river, finding shoots of bamboo on the slope, or standing under a tree and listening to the birds whistle, it is easy to rest and attain mental tranquility by getting back to the nature.