Zhongying Street｜Touch the pulse of history

My parents came to Shenzhen for a trip during Christmas, but my dad couldn’t get a Hong Kong Pass. But I wanted him to experience the cultural characteristics of Hong Kong, so we went to Zhongying Street to check in! 🕰️Business hours: 09:00 - 16:30. 📍Address: No. 9, Neihuancheng Road, Shatoujiao Town, Yantian District, Shenzhen. 🚇Transportation: 🔸Bus: Take bus No. 68 or 84 and get off at Zhongying Street Station. 🔸Metro: Take Line 2/8 to Sha Tau Kok Station, exit from Exit A1 and take bus B619/B662 directly to the Chung Ying Street Checkpoint. 🎫Tickets and Passes 💰Tickets are free. 💻Reservation: You need to make an appointment in advance through the "Sha Tau Kok Border Special Management Area Pass Application" applet, follow the instructions, and after the appointment is successful, you can enter by swiping your mainland ID card 🪪. 🟥Exhibition content The permanent exhibition "A Century of Sino-British Street" in the museum is divided into four floors of exhibition halls, which comprehensively records and displays the century-long history of the formation and changes of Sino-British Street, and vividly tells the audience the wonderful historical stories that happened on Sino-British Street. Among them: 1️⃣ The first exhibition hall: mainly displays "Shatou Cape", "Hakka Migration to the South", "Ten Covenants of the Rural Alliance" and "Donghe Market". 2️⃣The second and third floor exhibition halls are the "History of Sino-British Street" exhibition halls. The permanent exhibition is divided into six parts, namely: Hot Land, Occupation, Resistance, Change, Development, and Return. The third floor also has a cinema, which can play various historical films. 3️⃣The fourth floor exhibition hall: It is a temporary exhibition hall, where "Sun Yat-sen and the Sanzhoutian Uprising" was exhibited. Highlights 4️⃣Restored display: The prosperous and peaceful market scene of Donghe Market in the late Qing Dynasty is restored, which truly reflects the process of the local people's development from traditional agricultural economy to commodity economy. 5️⃣Warning bell: It is set in the museum square and complements the boundary monument of Zhongying Street. It is a new scene of Zhongying Street, reminding people to remember history at all times. 6️⃣Observation Deck: The top floor is an observation deck, where you can have a bird's eye view of Dapeng Bay and the natural scenery of Hong Kong's New Territories. 🟤Nearby recommendations 🔹Boundary monuments: There are eight boundary monuments in Zhongying Street, which witness the history of Zhongying Street. 🔹Ancient Well: Located at the back street after entering Zhongying Street, it was built by Hakka people who moved to Sha Tau Kok to open up wasteland during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 300 years and is the source of drinking water for local people. 🔹Ancient Banyan Tree: Located next to the No. 4 boundary marker on Zhongying Street, it has a history of more than 100 years. 🔹Tianhou Temple: Located in Zhongying Street, hidden in the alley, it is not large in area, but it has everything. 🔹Yantian Seaside Boardwalk: After exiting Zhongying Street, it takes about seven or eight minutes to walk from the Zhongying Street Joint Inspection Building to the Yantian Seaside Boardwalk. 💡Notes 🔸To enter the Chung Ying Street, you need to apply for a Border Special Management Area Pass issued by the Provincial Public Security Department. It cannot be replaced by a Hong Kong and Macau Pass. Student groups organized by the school to visit can be exempted from the above-mentioned complicated procedures and can be organized to visit in a unified manner with a certificate issued by the school. 🔸To enter Chung Ying Street from Hong Kong, you need to apply for a Frontier Closed Area Pass with an endorsement allowing entry into Chung Ying Street. #RegisterJanuaryHotelTestSleeper2025 #Zhongying StreetHistoryMuseum #GoodPlacesForParents #ShenzhenAttractions