Who Knew Street Lamps Could Be This Way • Suzhou Xibei Street
In winter, Suzhou takes on an elegant, romantic hue against the backdrop of plane trees, quietly biding its time as it awaits the arrival of the Spring Festival. For this thousand-year-old city, the description "A city of pink charm, half a city of gardens" is the most apt commentary on Suzhou’s culture. If one asks which places best embody and encapsulate the cultural vibe of a city, the answer invariably lies in its authentic ancient streets and alleys—even more so for Suzhou, a blessed land where Jiangnan culture converges. With its whitewashed walls and black-tiled roofs, and crisscrossing deep lanes, the well-proportioned Jiangnan architecture and garden art fully exude an implicit and elegant oriental charm. This is Suzhou’s Xibei Street.
Linking a cluster of "must-visit spots"—including the Humble Administrator’s Garden, Lion Grove Garden, North Temple Pagoda, Suzhou Museum, and Taohuawu Street—Xibei Street buzzes with vibrancy and color every single day. As the seasons cycle, it unfolds unique and enchanting scenery in the scorching summer, crisp autumn, and serene winter alike.
Strolling along Xibei Street, you will see people in small groups or walking unhurriedly, some hurrying and others lingering, some being tourists and others local residents. Various Suzhou-style pastries and small shops, blessed by the fame of Xibei Street, have also become minor internet sensations with a steady stream of visitors. There are also fan shops, coffee shops, embroidery stores, and tarot card reading stalls... Amidst the dazzling array of sights, a familiar-looking figure always flickers in and out of sight, elusive, as if you have overlooked something important.
The unique upturned eave corners of Suzhou’s ancient architecture, the extended patterns of window lattice designs, plus the sandalwood fans made at the former site of the Sandalwood Fan Factory—these vibrant cultural elements interweave constantly against the backdrop of white walls and overhanging eaves. The exquisite cultural motifs echo perfectly with the Suzhou-style aesthetics of the ancient street. This is none other than Su Feng Ya Yun (Elegant Su Flair), the landscape street lamp custom-built by our company (Sanxing Lighting) exclusively for Xibei Street. If we combine the ancient street’s tourists, shops, vegetation, Suzhou-style architecture and these street lamps into a Wes Anderson-style short film, it will surely be quite dramatic. And our protagonist, the Su Feng Ya Yun landscape street lamp, would even run the risk of stealing the show.
The landscape street lamp Su Feng Ya Yun (Elegant Su Flair) integrates the historical and cultural elements of Suzhou into its design. With a modern and minimalist industrial style, complemented by the ambiance created by nighttime mood lighting, it subtly highlights the city’s cultural core. It adds a new calling card to the city’s cultural output, boosts the prosperity of urban cultural tourism, and injects fresh vitality into the city.
The application of our company’s integrated road poles combines traffic lights, signboards and other facilities onto a single pole. This practice has greatly optimized the road environment, reduced the installation of redundant poles, and saved road space. As an optimal solution for the renewal and renovation of old urban streets, it enhances the travel experience of both tourists and residents, and opens up more possibilities for the sustainable development and innovative transformation of ancient streets.
The light source of the luminaire adopts our company’s high-efficiency LED glass module, which features higher light transmittance, less susceptibility to dust accumulation, easy maintenance and a higher protection rating. Equipped with a breather to maintain internal and external pressure balance, it ensures the service life of the luminaire. Compared with traditional sodium lamps, it not only fully meets the nighttime road lighting requirements, but also achieves greater low-carbon energy conservation and creates a high-quality, healthy lighting environment.
Moving forward, our company will keep driving the innovation and upgrading of product R&D and design, roll out lighting products tailored to varied demands, deepen the development of smart products and low-carbon energy-saving lighting technologies, build a healthy and intelligent urban lighting environment, elevate user experience of our products, and illuminate a beautiful China with the brilliance of technology.
