San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest place in the western United States that can be compared with new york's Chinatown. It was formed at the intersection of Grant Avenue and California Street, where about 80,000 overseas Chinese live. Everything written and heard here is in Chinese, and everything you see is very traditional in China, just like a little China. Chinatown has all the goods from China, from groceries to precious jewelry, as well as traditional catering and architectural clothing, so visitors can enjoy the colorful China culture as much as possible. Good places in Chinatown are, for example, Tianhou Palace, fortune cookie factory in San Francisco and Portsmouth Square. Portsmouth Square, 1839, originally as a public gathering place in the town of Buena in Yerba, has now become a gathering place for Chinese. In the morning, you can see people practicing Tai Ji Chuan, and in the evening, you can see people playing poker and mahjong. The most striking place in Chinatown is the Chinatown gate on Grant Street. It was designed by Clayton Lee and built in 1970. Its materials were donated by the Cultural Development Committee of Taiwan Province Province and Chinatown. Besides, many traditional shops, restaurants and old houses can be seen in Chinatown Hutong between Grant Avenue and stockton Street. Chinatown is still very lively until around 10 in the evening, which is safer than other areas. Besides, you can walk a distance north from here to Broadway, which is the best nightlife area in San Francisco.

There are about100000 overseas Chinese living here, and there are rich and colorful China cultures everywhere. What they write and listen to is Chinese, and what they see is very traditional in China. Chinatown has all the goods from China, from daily groceries to precious jewels, and it also retains traditional restaurants and buildings, such as Tianhou Palace. This is a different place, but this is a small China.

The entrance to Chinatown is at the southern end of Bush Street and Grant Street. The gate is covered with blue tiles, and several lifelike dragons are very Chinese. Grant Street is the main street of the community, with many shops and restaurants, and its gorgeous facade attracts tourists and citizens. China Cultural Center holds various exhibitions of Chinese Americans, and also arranges a tour of Chinatown history and a tour of Chinatown cuisine. The China Historical Society tells the history of Chinatown and the hard times of Chinese in the United States, and various documents also prove the contribution of Chinese community to the history of San Francisco. The most interesting block in Chinatown is waverley Square. Many buildings here were donated by charitable organizations in China. Ross Lane is a typical narrow lane hidden deep in the block, from time to time, there will be the fragrance of dessert floating out of the lane. The Pacific Cultural Museum is also worth visiting.

Nothing can make people understand the complexity of Chinatown better than the story of Chinatown telephone exchange. The switchboard belongs to Guangdong Bank. This building, which looks like the top of Baota Town, was built in 1909 and has a unique foreign language telephone exchange. When the impersonal automated world 1949 came in, the exchange was closed. The China Cultural Center of Holiday Inn holds various exhibitions related to the national heritage of Chinese Americans. It also arranges historical tours and food tours in Chinatown. If you want to know Chinatown thoroughly, you might as well come here.

If you have the heart, you might as well have a big competition in Chinatown where you have been. You may find it very interesting.

The history of China people always takes sadness as the keynote and hardship as the pillar, creating a place to settle down. During this period, you can see, hear and eat Chinatown's hard work and dedication.

/kloc-At the end of 0/9, immigrants from China were transported to California like "selling pigs" to build the Pacific Railway and the gold rush, which made great contributions to the local economic construction. But like Italian immigrants, blacks, poor whites and sailors, they were regarded as "second-class citizens" by the government at that time and were required to live in certain areas to avoid "polluting" other places. They have to live in a small area centered on Grant Street. Later, new immigrants moved here. Today, it has become a "Chinatown" and the largest Chinese community outside Asia.

Chinatown * * * occupies 16 block and has 654,380+10,000 Chinese residents. The best way to visit is to enter the "World for the Public" archway at the intersection of Duban Street and Bust Street, and first pass the historic St. Mary's Ancient Church.