Ciping Tianjie

Ciping Tianjie

Tianjie (a tourism, commercial, and cultural pedestrian street) is located in the central urban area of Ciping, Jinggangshan, covering an area of 50,000 square meters. It is the largest and most bustling commercial hub in the central scenic area of Ciping. The architectural design adopts modern concepts while incorporating classic elements of Huizhou-style and Luling-style architecture. Come evening, the place becomes packed with people, bustling and lively, making it a great destination for tourists to relax, shop, and enjoy entertainment.

The entire Tianjie is divided into three main functional areas: shopping, dining, and leisure. The shopping area offers a wide range of goods including handicrafts, local specialties, antiques, and daily necessities—colorful and abundant. The dining area features specialty foods and local snacks, with mouthwatering aromas that are highly enticing. The leisure area includes hotels, teahouses, dance halls, and bars, offering a variety of entertaining activities full of fun and excitement.

The architectural design of Tianjie adopts modern concepts while incorporating classic elements of Huizhou-style and Luling-style architecture. Come evening, the place becomes packed with people, bustling and lively, making it a great destination for tourists to relax, shop, and enjoy entertainment. Some of the items displayed in the market must surely be rare treasures not found elsewhere in the world. Guo Moruo’s poem “The Street of Heaven” fills us with endless imagination and longing. I think such a heavenly realm can’t be found on earth, but if you’ve been to Tianjie in Jinggangshan, you’ll definitely feel a sense of déjà vu.

The buildings along Tianjie feature white walls and black tiles, with upturned eaves reaching toward the clouds. Though classic in style, they are enlivened by bright red lanterns. The cool, solid stone-paved path doesn’t feel heavy at all; instead, it complements the cool breeze, the inner peace, and the serene atmosphere. It lacks the hustle and bustle of Wuhan’s pedestrian streets or the crowdedness of Guangzhou’s.

Tianjie is just a street—a street deep in the clouds and shrouded in mist, a street without haste, flowing naturally. The shops lining the street display dried goods such as mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and plums. Though clearly merchandise, there’s no sense of vulgarity about them. It’s as if these are the foods of immortals, all specialties of this heavenly realm, and being able to enjoy them is a blessing for us mortals.

The central area of Ciping was originally a vast expanse of rice paddies. It wasn’t until around the year 2000 that a modern commercial pedestrian street was built here. At the heart of the pedestrian street lies a wide, cross-shaped main road, flanked on both sides by rows of tourism shops with various signs. In the center of the main street, there are three sets of bronze sculptures with themes of farming culture, as if they are still telling stories of the past. At the end of the street stands a large archway inscribed with two golden characters: “Tianjie” (Street of Heaven). On the pillars on either side of the archway are couplets that read: “A lofty endeavor shines across the land—a tourist paradise of lush greenery and an idyllic haven; a cradle of revolution, a hallowed revolutionary land, with outstanding achievements that illuminate the sun and moon.”