Qinghe outside Beijing's North Fifth Ring Road is a very famous place in Beijing, Qinghe area now belongs to Haidian, before the liberation of Changping, in May 1949 Qinghe Town was established, in November 1959 Qinghe Street was set up, in March 1963 Qinghe Street was established separately. Qinghe Town, formerly known as Qinghe Guan, Qinghe She, Qinghe Store, is only nine kilometers away from Deshengmen, is the first ancient town in Jingbei that year, and a Qinghe River runs through the Qinghe area from west to east. Before the liberation, there was a Guangji Bridge in Qinghe, built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and the bridge is still intact, and the whole has been moved to Xiaoyuehe, a tributary of the Qinghe River, which belongs to the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit.
Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit - Guangji Bridge
The current Guangji Bridge after the migration
The current Qinghe sluice
The origin of the name Qinghe is related to the Yuan dynasty scientist Guo Shoujing, who was born in the Xingtai region of Hebei Province and was a famous astronomer and water conservancy expert in the Yuan Dynasty. In 1262 AD, Zhang Wenqian, a heavy minister of the Yuan Dynasty, recommended Guo Shoujing to Kublai Khan, because of the frequent floods on both sides of the Qing River at that time, the people had no livelihood, and the people suffered from floods, Guo Shoujing put forward a proposal to build water conservancy, and after Kublai Khan adopted Guo Shoujing's opinion, he dredged the river channel and turned the flood into water conservancy, in order to express homesickness, Guo Shoujing named the river after the county of Qinghe County in his hometown Xingtai region.
Regarding the origin of the name of the Qinghe Small Camp, it is said that the Yang family general fought with the Liao soldiers in the north of the city Gaoliang River, and the base camp of the Liao soldiers at the time of the battle was in today's Qinghe, and at present, there is still a statue of She Laotaijun and a temple of She Laotaijun on Baiwang Mountain west of Qinghe, and the statue of She Laotaijun stands on the top of the mountain, and the two eyes are looking at the Qinghe area in the east. In addition, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army broke through Juyong Pass, the army along Dechang Road straight to Beijing, on the way to Beijing, once camped in Qinghe, which is also one of the origins of the name of Qinghe Small Camp, in the 90s of last century there was a statue of Li Zicheng placed ten kilometers outside Beijing's Desheng Gate in a small camp, and later in order to build the Badaling Expressway (G6 Beijing-Tibet Expressway), the statue of Li Zicheng was moved to Changping West Pass.
The statue of King Li Chuang moved from Qinghe Camp to Changping Roundabout
The second source of the name of Qinghe Xiaoying may be derived from the current Xiaoying Bridge northeast, the current Laizhen Homestead north, the south side of Xixiaokou Road Dongsheng Xiaoying Village, Xiaoying Village is said to be the Ming Dynasty military tun station, gradually became a village, known as "Dongsheng Granary".
Xiaoying Village
Regarding the Qinghe Building, it originated from a famous military academy opened in the late Qing Dynasty in Qinghe Town, formerly known as the Qinghe Preparatory Department of Baoding Military Academy. Now buses 328, 518, 476 and other buses have a Qinghe Building station, but people cannot find the Qinghe Building, and some people mistake the Qinghe Building for the Qinghe Building. In fact, the Qinghe building is related to the Qinghe Preparatory Department of the Baoding Military Academy, which was originally a 100-meter-long two-story ancient building with water-milled green bricks and gray tiles and white and gray hooks, this military academy predates the famous Whampoa Military Academy, and has trained a number of military talents for China, the cradle of talents for late Qing military modernization, and Guan Jingtao, the regiment commander in the novel "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", graduated from Qinghe Military Academy. After the 77 Incident, the North China Puppet Army Officer School was moved to the school in October 1939; At the time of liberation, this place in Qinghe was still very remote, and there was a unit stationed in the boundary of the old military school, and the family members of the troops lived in the dormitory rebuilt by the Qinghe Military Academy, the ground of the dormitory was a thick pure wooden floor, and the military school building was a two-story building, and the floors were connected by a long corridor. Later, the scale of the garrison in this place slowly expanded, and the original two-story Qinghe building was demolished and a new camp was built, which is the current rocket force of the Second Artillery, but the Qinghe building survived in name and is still used today.
The historic Qinghe Building
In addition, Qinghe Town is also famous for Qinghe Woolen Factory, which is the first woolen mill in China jointly run by government and business, founded in the 30th year of Guangxu, that is, in 1904, once subordinate to the War Department of the Qing government, mainly producing wool, blanket military products, completely controlled by the army, the main leaders and managers of the factory wear general-level epaulettes; In addition, Dr. Sun Yat-sen once inspected the Qinghe woolen mill. Today, the original site of Qinghe Woolen Mill has become the Oak Bay Community of China Resources.