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Rishengchang 日升昌票号旧址Rìshēngchāng Piàohào Jiùzhǐ
National heritage site · Jinzhong, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinzhong
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Rishengchang
The former headquarters of Rishengchang, regarded as China's first draft bank (piaohao), which grew out of a dye business and began issuing drafts cashable at branches in other cities in the early nineteenth century. The courtyards on West Street are now a museum, where displays include the coded marks once used to stop drafts being forged. Draft banks like this one made central Shanxi a financial centre of Qing China by the late nineteenth century.
How to get to Rishengchang
On West Street inside the walled old town of Pingyao.
Nearby
- Pingyao Ancient City 平遥古城 under 10 km
An intact Ming walled town of courtyard inns, where China's first draft banks were born - Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 under 10 km
Some 2,000 painted clay Buddhas, saints and guardians crowded into ten temple halls - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 30 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern - Mount Mian 绵山 40 km
Cliff temples, plank walkways and gorges on the mountain of the Cold Food legend - Wang Family Compound 王家大院 40 km
Fortified courtyard 'castles' of a Qing merchant and official clan on a loess hillside
Also within 20 km: Pingyao Market Tower (Shilou) 平遥市楼 (under 10 km), City God Temple, Pingyao 平遥城隍庙 (under 10 km), Qingxu Temple, Pingyao 清虚观 (under 10 km), Pingyao Confucian Temple 平遥文庙 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Lei Lütai 雷履泰旧居 (under 10 km), Huiji Bridge, Pingyao 平遥惠济桥 (under 10 km).
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