One of the landmark buildings in old Guangzhou with a history of hundreds of years, the ‘Dongping Pawnshop’ (also known as the site of the pawnshop tower in the Qing Dynasty at the Great East Gate), an ancient pawnshop tower in the Qing Dynasty located at the intersection of Zhongshan Fourth Road and Yuexiu Middle Road in Guangzhou, has now been transformed into a museum. The ancient tower of ‘Dongping Pawnshop’ is located at No. 1 Zhongshan Fourth Road, close to the gate tower of the east city gate in the Ming Dynasty. The pawnshop site in the shape of a tower was built in the Qing Dynasty and is commonly known as the ‘pawnshop at the Great East Gate’. The plane of the ancient building is square. The north side is five stories high and the south side is four stories high. The facade of the building is in the shape of a tower. Only the warehouse building of the pawnshop remains today. There are windows on all four sides. The windows are large inside and small outside. There are granite window casings. There is a parapet on the roof, making the whole building look like a bunker. It was designated as a municipal-level cultural relic in Guangzhou in 1999. The first floor of the pawn museum is the main exhibition hall, restoring the high counter and pawn scenes of pawnshops in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The second floor displays historical and cultural materials, pictures and physical objects of modern pawnshops. The third floor shows the development and innovation of the modern pawn industry. At the same time, it is also used to hold appreciation and knowledge lectures on various pawn items. Considering the protection of buildings and cultural relics, this museum with a construction area of about 400 square meters can accommodate about 15 to 30 visitors at a time. In the pawn museum, you can buy retro stamps and postcards, as well as pawn tickets.
Dongping Pawnshop
One of the landmark buildings in old Guangzhou with a history of hundreds of years, the ‘Dongping Pawnshop’ (also known […]
