Hubu Street (Coffee Essay Original)
Hubu Street, east of Changfu Street, west of Hongwu Road. Judging only by the name, it can be seen that this is an old street.
Hubu Street, the name must be related to Hubu.
Hubu (胡部), signed by an ancient Chinese official, is the organ in charge of household registration finance and economics, one of the six ministries, and the chief officer is Hubu Shangshu. As one of the six ministries of the Central Committee, the Household Department has a high status and functions roughly equivalent to that of the modern Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.
Which dynasty's household department was once here?
Baidu is recorded in this way: Hubu Street, one of the ancient place names in Nanjing, was named after the Ming Dynasty Hubu Yamen unit, which has a history of more than 600 years. This is not credible.
Because, the Ming Dynasty Hubu Yamen is close to the imperial palace, which must be near Yudao Street. This is basic historical common sense.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang approved the six departments of "officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, criminals, and workers".
Except for the office of the Punishment Department located outside the Taiping Gate, the other five departments were located at the southern end of the Imperial City, that is, the east of today's Yudao Street, starting from the Houbiao Camp, passing through the Biaoying, Lanqi Street, and until inside the Guanghua Gate, from north to south: Zongrenfu, Officials, Hubu, Ceremonial, Bingbu and Gongbu.
The Ming Dynasty Household Department Yamen was in "Willow Bay Duyu Shop", which is between today's Blue Flag Street and Biaoying.
So which dynasty does this household belong to?
There are ten dynasties with Nanjing as the capital, that is, the "Six Dynasties" refers to the Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen, plus the Southern Tang, Ming, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Republic of China.
Of these ten dynasties, ming has been excluded, and the six dynasties should also be excluded.
Because during the Six Dynasties period, the term "Hubu" did not exist at all.
Because the three-province six-part system was first created in the Sui Dynasty after the Six Dynasties, the household department at that time was called the Minbu. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty's Yonghui, that is, in 649, Emperor Gaozong of Tang changed the Minbu to the Hubu because he wanted to avoid the name of his father Li Shimin.
The term "Hubu" officially appeared.
Then, there are only three options left, the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Republic of China.
Exclude the Republic of China first. Because the Republic of China has entered the modern society, the Ministry of Household Affairs has long been replaced by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance.
Then, there are only two options left, namely the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Let's talk about the Southern Tang First.
In 2011, archaeological excavations were conducted in Hubu Street, revealing the ruins of the Southern Song Dynasty Palace.
The Southern Song Dynasty Palace was the palace of Zhao Zhuo during his stay in Nanjing. In fact, from 1129 to 1138, Jiankang was the de facto capital of the Southern Song Dynasty court. After that, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Nanjing was still the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.
And this Southern Song Dynasty palace was built on the basis of the Southern Tang Palace.
The scope of the two generations of imperial palaces is basically the same, generally north to the present Yangskin Lane, Hubu Street area, south to Jianye Road, Baixia Road area, west to the present-day Zhangfuyuan Community, east to the present-day Huowa Lane line, the central axis is probably the current Hongwu Road.
In history, during the Southern Tang Dynasty, all kinds of central official offices, including the Household Department, were also close to the imperial palace. It can also be inferred from this that perhaps Hubu Street is related to the Hubu of the Southern Tang Dynasty?
Let's talk about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only existed for 14 years, it did have a household department.
In the early days, the Heavenly King's Mansion did not have six departments, and the Eastern, Northern, and Wing Three Royal Palaces all had six Shangshu, but the six Ministries of the Eastern Wangfu held real power.
In 1856, the Tianjing Incident, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was killed, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan pro-government, the Heavenly King's Mansion added six departments, the name is still official, household, ceremonial, soldier, criminal, labor, in order to distinguish the other royal palaces of the six departments, known as the six ministries of the Dynasty.
The ruins of the Tianwangfu are located in the present-day Presidential Palace, just over 1 km from Hubu Street. So, is Hubu Street related to Hong Xiuquan's hubu?
However, would the Manchu court allow streets to be named after the rebels' households?
At present, the most reliable theory is that the name of Hubu Street actually originated from the Qing Dynasty.
It's incredible, because the capital of the Qing Dynasty was in Beijing.
According to historical records, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the university soldiers' department Shangshu Hong chengzuo advocated the retention of the household department, the military department, the ministry of works in Nanjing, and the Qing court, and moved the household department to a new site to establish the "Nanjing Household Department Tax Department", which was also known as the "Nanjing Hubu Mansion" during the Qianlong period, and after that, a street market gradually formed nearby, so "Hubu Street" got its name.
It is said that No. 52, 54 and 56 on the street are the former sites of the Nanjing Hubu Mansion.
However, throughout the Hubu Street community, there are no Nos. 52, 54, and 56, nor do they see the remains of the name plate of the old site of "Hubu". However, some elderly residents talked about the fact that No. 54 was a five-entry building and is no longer there.
It seems that the same fate as the old hubu building and the Guanghua Gate has long disappeared into the historical torrent of modernization.
In summary, what do you think is the reason why Hubu Street got its name?
Pulling out the clouds and seeing the moon, this is the charm of tracing the footprints of history.