At the secluded corner of Jingsan Xiaowei 2nd Road, there is a unique old baroque building. I've lived here for thirty years, and it's one of the roads I used to walk, but I only discovered it 4 years ago. I took a closer look at the earliest cinema in Jinan, the Xiaoguanghan Cinema, which is also the Jinan Xiaoguanghan Film Museum and a national cultural relics protection unit, and now, it is a movie-themed restaurant.
I came at this time, just in time to visit the film museum for free, I walked into the door, the four numbers of 1904 on the ground are particularly eye-catching, directly opposite a small movie screen is showing Chaplin's silent film "Modern Times", I explained my intentions to the waitress at the door, she let me register in a visit registration book, and took me to explain while visiting.
Here is now Xiao Guanghan 1904 film art restaurant, 1904 is the beginning of the establishment of The Jinan Commercial Port, Xiao Guanghan, a poetic name, this Baroque building was built in 1904, when it was the second cinema in the country, but now it is the oldest cinema in the country. At that time, the film was an art form like the Moon Palace that was "cold in the heights", and the ordinary people simply looked down on it, so it took the meaning of "guanghan".
Xiao Guanghan can now be said to be nirvana rebirth, once a very dilapidated old house, since 2008, Xiao Guanghan has finally been transformed after three years. After its completion in 2011, its unique film theme design and exquisite ornaments and tableware were praised by visitors.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about the two bosses of Li Jianjun and Wang Jianning, who have such a vision and courage, who spent more than 8 million yuan to repair and transform them into today's appearance. When they are repairing, the principle they adhere to is to repair the old as old, keep improving, just the small Guanghan door face has been done three times, the original old material, the quality of the craft, so that the current Xiaoguanghan is so full of history and fashion of artistic charm.
This is the second time I have visited here, 4 years ago when I first came, I was shocked to see the unique design inside, here is full of movie-related things, old projectors, old film films, old movie posters, movie stills, movie classic dialogue, etc., it is a real film museum. It is said that the restaurant displays three thousand famous old film films at home and abroad, all of which the boss has bought from all over the country and around the world, and each tableware is customized in Italy, hand-forged, and even every piece of furniture is imported from abroad, so that the original 500 square meters, two-story small Guanghan cinema is now endowed with history, culture, film, art, catering as one of the multi-functional roles.
I like to be in such a film museum, Western-style tableware and uniquely decorated environment to eat, I think it must be a person who has both memories of film history and nostalgia, and at the same time has a great love for Western culture.
When I walked out of the restaurant with a camera and photographed Xiao Guanghan's face at the door, it happened that a father rode a battery car with his teenage daughter over, and I saw him stop at the entrance of Xiao Guanghan, look at the introduction of Xiao Guanghan at the door, and then curiously took his daughter in to visit.
I think this kind of protection and development of Xiaoguanghan Cinema is a good practice, which not only has the protection and inheritance of the history of the old building, but also allows the old building to exert its unique economic benefits today. Can the old foreign firm of Weiliu Road also learn from it and let it play a greater role today, rather than just existing as an old building with Jinan's history?
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