Revisiting Ancient Huangpu Port, Guangzhou, China

After one and a half years, Flying is revisiting the Ancient Huangpu Port at Shiji Village, Pazhou. Since the last visit, farmhouse restaurants along the river and boat restaurants around the fishery pond have all been banned for their polution to the waters. With the village market still thriving, those banned have transformed into fruit and vegetable farms and in-house restaurants spread around the village, respectively.

Shiji Village is enjoying a steady influx of visitors, many are elderlies (public transport is free in Guangzhou for those above 65 years old), from all around the city every day. There is no wonder that the business of the village market, the fruit and vegetable farms, as well as the village restaurants, is just getting ever better.

As the “No.1 Port of Guangdong,” Ancient Huangpu Port was one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Routes. Despite the name of “silk route”, shiploads of merchandise, not just silk, but also many other Chinese products, had been shipped from here to all over the world throughout the Chinese history.

Following is a brief introduction of major exports that were shipped from here in the old days (in Simplied Chinese):