Have you ever been fooled by the strange street names in Xi'an?

Source: The old demon takes you to eat Xi'an

Which piece of loose film said to me that the five-flavor cross is selling spices! Which two-ball said to me that the sprinkling gold bridge has gold everywhere! Which cub told me that there are sheep in West Sheep City! Which Ha Pi said to me that the chicken market has chickens! Which bad guy told me that the pasture slope is to let the horses go! Which two hundred and five told me that Gun House Street was selling arms! Suzaku Road Wood has Suzaku, and Charcoal Street is not selling charcoal! Ice Cellar Lane is still hot in the summer! I tasted the water from the sweet well, not sweet! They're all liars!!!

Have you ever been fooled by these place names? Do you know how the names of these places came about?

Wuwei Shizi: Yuan "Chang'an Zhitu" refers to present-day Nanguangji Street as Yaoshi Street. The Qing "Xi'an Futu" refers to the southern part of Nanguangji Street as wuwei shizi. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, until the early years of the Republic of China, the pharmaceutical industry was gathered here, and there were many Chinese medicine stores such as Zaolutang, Fuyuancheng, Shurentang, Wanniantang and so on. This street is named after the five flavors of Chinese medicine: sweet, spicy, sour, bitter and salty. In 1928, the Xi'an Municipal Government was established in the East Courtyard of the Present-Day Sixth Middle School on this street (then the former Yang Hucheng Mansion "Keyuan" Office). In 1966, it was named the middle section of Five Star Street, and in 1972 it was restored to its original name.

Sprinkle Gold Bridge: The east of the street is the origin of the construction of the city of Present-day Xi'an. According to the "Continuation chronicle of the two counties of Xianning chang'an", the eastern side is the Sui Yangxing Village, and the Ancient Locust of Yangxing Village, which was protected by Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Taizong of Tang at the time of the Republic of China. The Qing "Chronicle of Chang'an County" said: This street is located in Tanghan Guangmen Street. The Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty were called Iron Furnace Street, because there was an iron incense burner under the ancient locust when the Sui and Tang Dynasties built the city, and the Ming Dynasty changed it to an iron furnace. Mr. Ge said that according to the Book of Tang, Tang Xuanzong once sprinkled money on the nearby Jinshui Bridge for officials to pick up, which was named The Golden Bridge. It was called Avant-Garde Road in 1966 and restored to its current name in 1972. It belongs to the Hui Han ethnic cohabitation area.

Xiyangshi Street is adjacent to the North Courtyard Gate in the east and North Guangji Street in the west, with an east-west length of more than 400 meters. It is a traditional historical street in Xi'an City, with a history of more than 600 years, which was formed during the Yuan Dynasty, and was first called the Sheep Market, which was mainly traded in sheep and sheep. At present, Xiyang City has formed a pattern of tourism service business in the eastern section, indigenous residents in the western section, and original real living areas. The residents are mainly Hui residents and have a strong Islamic cultural tradition.

Chicken Market Abduction: If you want to explain the reason, you have to go back to ancient times. Today's Jishijiao, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, is located in Dongguo City, which is the eastern section of Dongguan ZhengJie. Its exact location should have been a small area at the fork in Dongguan Main Street turning north into Changing Qianfang (now the southern section of Xinxin Street). The origin of the name, according to legend, is that during the Qing Dynasty, many chicken businessmen around the area took chickens and eggs to this place to sell, and over time, a more concentrated market was gradually formed, which was called "Chicken City" by people with child-like sounds. "Chicken City" is also the prototype of the later name of Chicken City. So where does "abduction" come from? It turned out that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Republic of China, and long after liberation, the east gate of Xi'an City was not a straight road like what we see today. At that time, there was a highland near The Corner of Jishi, and the main road facing east outside the East Gate was turned north along the terrain, and this north-facing road was called Changing Workshop and Changing Workshop. As the eastern section of Dongguan Main Street, "Chicken City" happens to be at the turn of Dongguan Main Street to the north of the road changing front square, and because of this, over time, "Chicken City" has been vividly called "Chicken City".

Grassland slope: In the Tang Dynasty, it was a grassland for Chang'an Guanma. The Song Dynasty Zhang Li's "Records of Youcheng South" records that "in Yongle Fang, that is, the fifth yaoye of Henggang, now known as the grassland slope". Luo Tianjun of the Yuan Dynasty's "Chronicle of Chang'an" says: "Outside the Suzaku Gate, it is the old grass market, and there is a slope that is known as the grassland slope. "If you infer from this, there is one on the slope of the grassland, and Song Yuan already has it." Regarding the grass market, there are data that show that during the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a "grass market" on the slope of the grassland on the outskirts of Chang'an City, but the grass market was probably a market of the nature of the market, not necessarily selling grass. Ge Hui, a place-name expert in Xi'an, said that according to his research, the grassland is likely to have existed in the Tang Dynasty, occupying an area in Yongle Fang, but it may not be called this name. At that time, horses were an important means of transportation, and officials living nearby relied on it to travel, and the feed supplies needed for horses came from the grass market. Mr. Ge Lao vividly compares it to the "gas station and gas station" in ancient times. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the area around the current grassland slope belonged to the countryside and was organized as a village under the jurisdiction of the Nanguan Society, which was reflected in the "Xianning County Chronicle" during the Qing Jiaqing period, but the name was slightly different, and it was recorded as "Caochangpo Village". According to the "Dictionary of Xi'an in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", the so-called Nanguan Society, also known as Nanguancang, was originally a warehouse for grain accumulation and famine avoidance, and evolved into a rural grass-roots organization with management in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Gunfang Street: The old people who live on this street say that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, almost every family here made a living by hand-rubbing firecracker twisters (fuses) and paste matchboxes, and the whole family, men, women and children, went into battle, and some merchants transported firecracker twisters and paper rolls to other places to load gunpowder, so "Cannon House Street" got its name.

Suzaku Road: At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin ordered the most famous architect at that time, Yu Wenkai, to build a new capital city, and Yu Wenkai designed the new capital city in the southeast direction of the original Sui capital City daxing city after careful measurement and site selection, which was the future Chang'an City. Chang'an City adopts a symmetrical design of left and right. Designed as two cities inside and outside. The inner city is the Imperial City, and the south gate is the Suzaku Gate, which is equivalent to Tiananmen Square in the Forbidden City of Beijing. The central axis street opposite the main south gate is Suzaku Street. The remaining remains of the city wall are surrounded by the Ming Dynasty Chang'an City. It is not a line with the central axis of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. However, due to the grandeur of Tang Chang'an City, Suzaku Avenue, as the main artery of Chang'an City, has a far-reaching role and name influence, and has remained until now.

Ice Cellar Lane: Named after the Ming Dynasty Qin Dynasty Imperial Palace and the Qing Dynasty Manchu bureaucrats hiding ice in summer. The ice cellar is to dig a trench on the ground that is not deep, and in winter the ice is dug and stored, and the surrounding is paved with sawn wood and other insulating substances to prepare for the summer ice to cool off.

Tanshi Street: In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Xi'an's domestic heating was changed from Nanshan salary wood to Beishan coal. It was just an unnamed street stacked with coal. Later, it became famous for its business and was named Tanshi Street. Widened in 1927. Before liberation, it was a market for dried fruits and seafood. Most of them are now non-staple foods. In 1989, the house was built.

Sweet Water Well Street: The Song "Chang'an Zhi" records that the Tang Dynasty Mennei Street is called Hanguangmen Street, and there are Hongxu Temple and Hongxu Guest House (that is, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Guesthouse of the Tang Government) on the side of the street, and more than 4,000 foreign guests stayed here in the late Tang Dynasty. Yuan "Class Editor Chang'an Zhi": The Yuan Dynasty called Hanguang Street. In the Ming Dynasty, it was Hanguangfang (present-day Hanguang Road). During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the sweet water of this well was named Sweet Water Well Street. In 1966, it was changed to the southern section of Qianwei Road, and in 1972 it was restored to its original name.

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