In the northeast area of Xi'an City, north of Chaoyangmen, east of Jiefang Road, and north of East Fifth Road, there is an east-west road called East Sixth Road to the south of East Seventh Road. If you go back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the place where Dongliu Road is located is not in the city! It was only in Waiguo City that after the late Tang Dynasty and Han Jianjian and the city were completely suburban, until after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the walls on both sides of the northeast of Xi'an City were expanded by about one-third to the east and north, and the current location of Dongliu Road was encircled within Xi'an City, which has a history of about five or six hundred years.
During the Qing Dynasty, after the Manchus entered the customs, they built a wall along the bell tower to the east and north in Xi'an City, and formed a mancheng in the northeast area of Xi'an City for Manchus to live and for the Eight Banner Soldiers, and the East Sixth Road was also encircled into Mancheng at that time.
On October 22, 1911, Xi'an responded to the Wuchang Uprising, and in the fierce battle, a large number of buildings in mancheng were bombed and burned, and the flag people were either killed or fled in exile, and the city became a ruin. In 1912, Mancheng was ordered by the Governor of Shaanxi to demolish the western and southern walls, and Mancheng, a city within a city, completely ceased to exist. After the baptism of fire, the city became a ruin, and the walls of the city were demolished, which meant that 1/3 of the main urban area of Xi'an needed to be re-planned and built.
Although the Nationalist government at that time opened up several north-south roads in Mancheng, such as filial piety, compassion, loyalty, faith, etiquette, righteousness, honesty, and shame, and Shangren Road, which began with chongzi, and also built many houses for people to live in for free, the Qixianzhuang where the eighth route army office in the west is located is the architectural complex preserved in that period, because in the process of the Xinhai Revolution at that time, a large number of Manchus were killed in Mancheng, so everyone felt that it was obscure. For a long time no one in the original full area of the city wanted to live.
Until the opening of the Longhai Railway to Xi'an in 1935, a large number of Henan people drove along the Longhai Railway to Xi'an to avoid war and famine, when they first settled under the city wall, and later as more and more Henan refugees came to Xi'an, many people successively built shacks nearby. At the same time, because of the completion of the Longhai Railway and Xi'an Railway Station, directly opposite the Jiefang Road of the railway station (called Shangren Road at that time, the railway station was changed to Zhongzheng Road when it was built), so Jiefang Road soon formed a commercial and trade center in Xi'an and even the entire northwest region, gradually replacing the prosperity of the previous Nanyuanmen area, and a large number of Henan refugees also made money through Jiefang Road and Longhai Railway, and later they built houses on Dongliu Road. So until now, there are many people on Dongliu Road who rely on small business and work on the railway to inherit the business of their ancestors, and they still communicate with each other in Henan.
After the comprehensive reform and opening up of Xi'an in 1985, with the active market economy, some people on Dongliu Road began to rent idle houses to passing tourists or to people who worked in Xi'an City, so until now, there are still many people in Dongliu Road who rely on rental housing to make a living.
At first, Dongliu Road only had a few stalls selling books, catching up with the boom of reform and opening up, and the retail business of books and magazines and other publications was getting better and better. Many people began to withdraw their stalls and open shops, and nearby bookstores also moved here, and most of the shops began from retail to wholesale, and later developed into a book market street. When I was in middle school, the East 6th Road Bookstore was one after another, and all kinds of books were available.
In the 1990s, many primary and secondary school students had to go to the bookstore on Dongliu Road every month to buy various teaching aids and various books and periodicals such as "Readers", "Youth Digest", "Story Club", "Computer Enthusiasts" and so on.
Not only that, in addition to being able to buy books and periodicals and teaching materials, there are many shops selling cultural and sports supplies on Dongliu Road. All kinds of fashionable book covers, warm babies, hot water bottles, stationery, greeting cards, birthday gifts and even fashionable clothes, once popular sweater chains, etc. can all be bought on Dongliu Road. In previous years, before and after the start of school and holidays, there would be many primary and secondary school students on Dongliu Road who would go in one store next to another to buy their favorite things, and many girls' first cosmetics, the first gifts for their boyfriends, and their favorite jewelry were bought on Dongliu Road.
Later, in order to facilitate management, the government changed the former Jiefang Road Department Store building into Xi'an Book Forest, and most of the merchants selling books on Dongliu Road moved in, forming the first professional book wholesale market in Xi'an.
The development of the times has spawned the prosperity of a street in the book market, and has also achieved a small commodity street on East Sixth Road in the process of development and replacement. Bookstore after bookstore moved, small commodity stores opened, the most is the store that sells stationery, small gifts and a variety of primary and secondary school students' favorite daily necessities and sporting goods, if it is classified into a large category, it is estimated that the use of stationery and sports stores to summarize is the most accurate. Later, all kinds of pirated books and periodicals gradually flooded in Dongliu Road, and those years were catching up with the tide of layoffs nationwide, and countless workers were laid off and lost their jobs, because Dongliu Road was cheap and cheap, so many post-80s whose parents were laid off also went to Dongliu Road to buy counseling materials and stationery.
When you go to school, you always have a few good friends, when someone has a birthday, you have to secretly save pocket money for a long time, and then pick and choose here, and if you like it and just can afford it, you can buy it immediately, like picking up a treasure.
Now there are good friends to celebrate birthdays, generally that is, to eat a meal and sing a song, it will not be as hard as the friends at that time.
In those years, the Internet has not been much popular, many people who are keen on TV movie stars and singers are called star chasers, the most famous once had a girl, her idol was Andy Lau, Andy Lau wherever she went to open a concert she had to chase where to see the concert, I remember that the girl in order to chase her idol, in the end can almost be said to be ruined, but fortunately in the end Andy Lau personally received her, in that era, many star chasers in the end have not been able to see their idols up close. Still, some former star-chasers still have posters, stickers, and postcards of idols in their homes twenty or thirty years later. I don't know what happened to those other young boys and girls who chased the stars, but I remember that even if they weren't star chasers, many people had an idol to worship. From school to Dongliu Road, there will always be groups of students dressed in different school uniforms or dressed in popular costumes looking for posters, stickers or postcards of each other's idols.
If two people like different idols, they are never allowed to say that the other person's idol is not good, if the other person's idol is not good, the other party may not pay attention to you for a long time. I don't know if you have also been very serious about defending your idols.
At that time, Dongliu Road in Xi'an City used to be a paradise for girls to choose stationery, cosmetics and other personalized daily necessities.
Some time ago, about a day or two before Teachers' Day, when I passed by Dongliu Road, I also saw a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties driving a BMW car with his children buying Teachers' Day greeting cards and other gifts for children's teachers at the roadside stationery and sports supplies store. At that age, I don't have to ask to guess that they also bought things on East 6th Road, and now although online shopping is also very convenient, they have not bought things in physical stores like East 6th Road.
Today, the bookstore next to each other on East Sixth Road has disappeared, and the commercial atmosphere of the whole street has faded a lot, and most of the buildings are two-story houses that look old or even very shabby. Several alleys along the road have also become cramped, and on the leader's message board I saw a message about the east sixth road public, which also solved a question I had for a long time.
The area where Dongliu Road was originally located has been included in the shantytown reform plan of the urban renewal plan, but the government is studying and formulating a specific urban renewal plan.
I believe that it will not be long before the specific urban renewal plan is introduced, and Dongliu Road will soon be transformed into a new look, so let's look forward to it.
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