Malacca Jichang Street Cultural Square is an ancient street located in Malacca, Malacca, Malaysia, which integrates historic sites, culture and leisure.
The original meaning of Jichang Street is taken from the Minnan word "Jiechang Street", which means to describe it as a busy street. However, the Minnan word "Jiechang" is homonymous with "Jichang", so it gradually evolved to be called Jichang Street. In addition, because Malacca was once colonized by the Netherlands, the chicken farm street was also called Jonker Walk, mainly referring to the Dutch aristocratic street.
Jichang Street is now built into a famous and prosperous cultural tourist attraction. The reason is that more than 600 years ago, when Zheng He, a famous diplomatic envoy of the Ming Dynasty, made seven ocean voyages and six visits to Malacca, an "official factory" was set up here, which also made more than 20 surrounding streets and alleys with Jichang Street as the backbone the first concentrated settlement area for Chinese to move to Nanyang at that time. However, Jichang Street began to decline in the 1990s. Many local residents moved to the new area, leaving the old street empty and losing its original prosperity. At that time, the Malacca government was aware of the crisis, and in 2000 proposed the establishment of the Jichang Street Cultural House. At the same time, it appointed a working committee headed by the senior executive of Malacca, Datuk Weila Yan Wenlong, a gentleman of the Taiping Bureau, to lead the development and construction of Jichang Street.
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Every weekend night market in Jichang Street sells all kinds of food, arts and local products. [3] After 18 years of planning and operation, the century old houses in Jichang Street and surrounding streets and alleys have been successfully preserved and injected with new elements, including the establishment of night markets from Friday to Sunday and from evening to early morning for three days in a row, so as to set up stalls to sell authentic food, fine arts, famous local products, etc., creating numerous business opportunities and indirectly restoring the past prosperity. In addition, Jichang Street is still full of many ancient buildings combining Chinese style Nanyang architecture, including centennial Chinese fellow townspeople's guild halls and even temples. In addition, it is also full of wonderful activities on the weekend night and during the Chinese festival, such as counting down on New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival gala [4] , Dragon and Lion Celebrate the Lantern Festival [3] And so on, forming a strong flavor of Chinese culture.
The Spring Festival decoration event injects Chinese culture into Jichang Street. [5]
Jichang Street holds the Lantern Festival Gala of Dragon and Lion Festival every year.
Nanjing Municipal People's Government presented a pair of white marble lions to Malacca.
The old street area of Jichang Street was successfully included in the World Cultural Heritage List in 2008. [6]
