Chengdu Luoma City, a number of past, wonderful and unlimited (Part 1)
In the area of today's Renmin Middle Road in Chengdu, there was originally a Luomashi Street. In the records of the data, this street is like a crutch, the southern end intersects with Yangshi Street and West Yulong Street, and the northern section winds west to meet Qinglong Street, with a length of less than 300 meters (passing by here today, you can still see the traces of the bending of the street in those years).
Luomashi neighborhood
The name of LuomaShi originated from the early Qing Dynasty, where markets such as Luomashi and Yangshi were set up (similar markets, at that time, the major cities where the Eight Banners were stationed in the country, such as Beijing and Xi'an, all had Luomashi Street), in addition to meeting the military needs of the garrison officers and soldiers, they also provided "teaching and auxiliary teaching materials" for the martial arts examinations at that time, such as saddles, horse whips, and armed decorations. Nowadays, the big Fujian Camp Lane and the small Fujian Camp Lane on the north side of West Yulong Street can still faintly see the shadow of the troops stationed in that year.
Chengdu West Yulong Street and Great Fujian Ying Lane
In the late Qing Dynasty, with the social stability, the area around Luomashi and Yangshi Street gradually became the commercial districts in the center of Chengdu, and the market that served as a mule and horse trading was moved out of the city together with the adjacent Yangshi in the south, and the place names and street names were retained to this day. According to the data, until the early years of the Republic of China, Chengdu people still retain such a custom, every year on the sixth day of the first month of the first month (the ancients believed that this day is the birthday of the horse), some horseback riders or horse lovers always have to ride horses to the mule and horse market to walk.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to build renmin roads that run from north to south, the original Luomashi Street was merged into the second section of Renmin Middle Road, and the section that turned west from the north section (bank of China to xifu south street entrance) was merged into Qinglong Street. Since then, the Mule Anda City as a street has disappeared, and the Mule Anda City as a precinct has been preserved forever.
1. Ancient Temple of Yaoguang Temple
In the place of the Bank of China Building in the second section of today's Renmin Middle Road, there was originally a famous Buddhist temple built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the 16th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1667) - Yaoguang Temple. The Jizo Iron Buddha, the Zunti Bronze Buddha, and the Iron Buddha, which were cast during the Ming Jiajing period of the temple, are breathtaking. According to records, Yaoguang Temple was long under the custody of the nearby Wenshu Monastery, and until the Republic of China period, the incense of the Jizo Bodhisattva in the temple was quite exuberant.
The former site of Yaoguang Temple
In the written records, Yaoguang Temple also has a small episode worth mentioning. During a temple repair, eight large ink characters were found on the main beam of the main hall with the words "Thursday Year Zhangxue Monk Reconstruction". According to the research of scholars at that time, "Zhou" was Wu Sangui's usurpation, which was during the period when Wu Jun occupied Chengdu, so this temple is also the only building that can be confirmed that Wu Sangui built in Chengdu. By the republic of China period, the temple had been occupied by the army for a long time, and the buildings in the temple were gradually demolished.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, in order to build the Renmin Middle Road, the ruins of Yaoguang Temple were all demolished, and the traces of the ancient temple in Luoma City disappeared.
Yaoguang Temple was also the place where the first Buddhist organization in Sichuan history was founded. On September 10, 1942, the Buddhist Association of China City and County Friendship Association (Chengdu city and Huayang County) was established at Yaoguang Temple, and the first chairman was Master Dinghui.
According to historical records, there are many temples around Luoma City, such as: Zhenwu Palace (the original site of The Red Light Mall) near Qinglong Street, Yandi Palace, and the Dragon King Temple on Tie hoop Well Street.
Second, Sichuan cuisine nest - Rong Paradise
As the first of the four major cuisines in China, Sichuan cuisine is welcomed by people all over the world for its wide range of materials, varied seasonings, diverse dishes, and good use of seasoning. Sichuan cuisine is a school of lineage, roughly formed in the late Qing Dynasty. In Luoma City, there was once a restaurant that was familiar to the old Chengdu people and had a deep influence on the development of Sichuan cuisine - Rong Paradise. Speaking of Rong Paradise, I have to mention his founder, who is also the founder of modern Sichuan cuisine - Blu-ray Jian.
Rong Paradise
Blu-ray Jian (1884-1962), a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. At the age of 13, he entered Zhengxing Garden, studied under the famous chef Guibaoshu, and quickly learned a good skill with his ingenuity. In 1911, Blu-ray Jian and Uncle Qi Lezhai jointly opened Rong Paradise (Rong Paradise is said to be Blu-ray Jian Considering that the cost of the opening of the museum is from Uncle Qi Lezhai and technically relying on Uncle Shi to control the fire, the honor should also be attributed to Uncle Shi, so it was named "Rong Paradise").
In 1933, after Rongyuan Park moved to Chengdu Buhou Street, it changed the storefront on the first floor to a store hall, with a total of 16 large and small private rooms, which could receive hundreds of tables at the same time, which was called "Bao Xi Pavilion" at that time (before that, the rich families in Chengdu invited famous restaurants to invite guests to set up banquets in their homes. The custom of Chengdu people going to restaurants to set up banquets only gradually began in the 1920s.)
In 1948, The Park closed in a climate of soaring prices and depression.
At the beginning of the founding of new China, Blu-ray Jian was recruited to work as a nutrition teacher at West China University, and other chefs, Lan disciples and re-transmission disciples (known as "Rongpai" in the industry) were distributed in many restaurants around the city. Due to the bold innovation of Blu-ray Jian and his Rongyuan in Sichuan cuisine techniques, and even carried out a beneficial attempt to eat in Western cuisine, developed a number of modern representative Sichuan cuisines that are praised by people, at the same time, improved the concise and practical new format of Sichuan cuisine tables, formed a series of basic norms of classic Sichuan cuisine, trained a group of master-level senior chefs, and laid the basic pattern of Sichuan cuisine banquet dishes, so "Rong Paradise" has long been recognized as the banner of Sichuan cuisine industry.
After the reform and opening up, Sichuan Province decided to open a high-end Sichuan restaurant in the United States under the name of "Rong Paradise". As an attempt, the first signboard of Rongyuan Was restored in Luoma City, and the "Rongyuan" that has been closed for more than 30 years re-entered the vision of Chengdu people in 1980 with Lan's disciples Zhang Songyun, Kong Daosheng and Zeng Guohua as chefs. To this day, the paradise in the hearts of most Chengdu people is in Luoma City.
In June 1980, led by Master Zeng Guohua of Chengdu "RongYuan", the first high-end Sichuan restaurant "New York Rongyuan" opened in New York, USA, was opened by the then Sichuan Vegetable Catering Company and the New York Health Food Company. New York Rong Paradise produces and supplies Rongle sea cucumber, fairy whole duck, Chengdu whole fish, chicken bean flower, Mapo tofu and other dishes and Sichuan snacks such as Zhong Shui Dumplings, Dragon Scribe, Lai Tangyuan and so on, which have been highly praised by countless celebrities around the world.
In 1997, Rongyuan Park was relocated to the third section of Renmin Middle Road.
In 2004, due to the need for urban road expansion, it was reopened in Liangui South Road, but its status and level were no longer the "glory" of the past.
3. The Okawa Hotel Incident
In August 1936, the Japanese invaders came to Chengdu to forcibly set up a consul. After the consular staff arrived in Chengdu on the 23rd, in addition to Eiichi Iwai, four Japanese stayed at the Okawa Hotel on Luomashi Street.
Luoma City Cultural Identity
Upon hearing the news, Zhang Shushi, the representative of the CPC at the time, immediately reported to Liu Xiang, head of the Sichuan military and political leadership, and explained Japan's aggressive intentions in Chengdu. After receiving acquiescence, Zhang Shushi agreed with Huang Muyan, Liu Xiang's subordinate Huang Qiu, Zhang Sike, ji Zuyou, and others to hold a mass demonstration campaign against the establishment of a Japanese consulate in Rong, in order to intimidate the Nanjing government, thwart the Attempt of the Japanese, and further strengthen the anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang Kai-shek stand of Liu Xiang and other Sichuan generals.
At the instigation of the Communists, on August 22, 1936, more than 200 representatives of various organs, corporations, guilds, and trade unions held an "anti-Japanese leadership conference" in Zhongshan Park, Chengdu. On the evening of August 23, He Jingbo, chairman of the Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions and chairman of the Woodworking Union, and Wang Feiran, chairman of the Chengdu Chamber of Commerce, mobilized at the training class on Zongfu Street to plan the siege of the Dachuan Hotel in Luoma City, where the Japanese were staying.
At about 6 p.m. on August 24, tens of thousands of people, mainly military training students and students of the Chengdu branch of the Central Military Academy, gathered at the Dachuan Hotel and clashed with the Japanese who remained. In the face of the police who came to suppress it, the crowd at the scene was even more excited, breaking through the police blockade and directly attacking the hotel. Some people even set fire to the Okawa Hotel building, and the order was once even more chaotic. Under the desperate protection of the police, Takeo Tanaka, a Manchurian railway operator, and The Japanese businessman Seto Sho were beaten to death, and the bodies of two other Japanese were found in Shofu Street the next day. During the clashes that night and the next day, the Okawa Hotel, the Fourth Police Station, which sheltered the Japanese, and eight shops selling Japanese goods in the city were all destroyed, which was the sensational "Okawa Hotel Incident." This was also the largest incident in which the people of Chengdu fought against the Japanese invaders in the city.
Fourth, the famous anti-Japanese general Sun Yuanliang and the Sun family compound
In Luomashi Street, there was a famous mansion - Sun Family Compound, which showed Sun Yuanliang, a famous anti-Japanese general during the Republic of China.
Sun Yuanliang (1904-2007), a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. The nephew of Sun Zhen, a famous general of the Sichuan Army, studied in the preparatory department of Peking University, and later entered the Whampoa Military Academy, where he was a classmate of the third team of the first phase, along with Chen Geng and Du Yuming. After the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, the 22-year-old Sun Yuanliang became the commander of the first regiment of the First Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In the Songhu War of Resistance in 1932, he led his army to defeat the Japanese army in the Battle of Baoshan Miaoxingzhen, which was rated by the West as "China's first battle to defeat the Japanese army".
In 1937, when the Japanese army attacked Shanghai, he led the 88th Division to hold Zhabei for 76 days, effectively blocking the pace of the Japanese advance. The battle that most left his name in history was the famous "Four Elements Warehouse Defense Battle", of which the "Eight Hundred Heroes" came from his 524th Regiment. In December 1944, he commanded the Twenty-ninth Army to retake Dushan (Dushan, Guizhou, the deepest and most advanced county town occupied by the Japanese army in the entire Anti-Japanese War attack on the hinterland of China), and drove the Japanese army out of Guizhou, relieving the danger of chongqing. After this battle, Sun Yuanliang also reached the peak of his military career and became a famous anti-Japanese general who enjoyed a national reputation.
In 1949, Sun Yuanliang went to Taiwan and died in Taiwan on May 25, 2007, at the age of 103. There are works such as "World Military History" that have been handed down.
(To be continued)