Recently, the Kowloon Walled City movie is very good, and in Hong Kong, it is the overall box office champion of the film opening day in the past 8 years, and it is the second highest box office in Hong Kong movies on the opening day in the past years, second only to the Cold War 2 in 2016.
So, what exactly is the Kowloon Walled City, and is it real? Today, let's talk a little about the history of this place, first of all, the Kowloon Walled City is called the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, not the Walled City.
Because this place is the first to have a village, and then there is a city, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, the earliest is the place where the officers and soldiers guarding the salt field lived, to the Qing Dynasty, the village has formed a large-scale garrison.
At that time, it was directly under the jurisdiction of the current Shenzhen Dapeng, called "Dapeng Shouyu Thousand Households City", so Shenzhen was also called "Pengcheng", and the defense at that time was from Lantau East to the south, and the Kowloon Walled City was sandwiched in the middle.
Therefore, this walled city is very important, at that time, the governor of Liangguang Lin Zexu and the commander of the naval division Guan Tianpei, also stationed in the city of Dapeng, transferred to Jiulongzhai to garrison, it can be seen that the status is not ordinary.
In this walled city, on September 4, 1839, he fought with the British, known as the Battle of Kowloon, a complete victory, Daoguang was rewarded for meritorious deeds, and the Walled City defenders were upgraded, which is the story of "Dapeng General Kowloon resists the British".
Since the guards were upgraded, in order to facilitate the office of officials, the governor of Liangguang at that time, Qi Ying, asked Daoguang to build a city in Kowloon Wall, and in the 27th year of Daoguang, that is, in 1847, the Kowloon Walled City was built.
From that time on, whether it was called the Kowloon Walled City or the Kowloon Walled City, this small city became a besieged city on the Kowloon Peninsula, with the Yamen garrison in the middle and the surrounding villages around.
In 1898, the Qing government leased more than 200 small islands north of Boundary Street in Kowloon and south of the Shenzhen River to the British for a period of 99 years, with the agreement that the Kowloon Walled City could be preserved.
At the beginning of this contract, it was not under British jurisdiction, although the British government of Hong Kong invaded the walled city in anger and drove all the officials and troops in the city, and the walled city was deserted.
In 1900, Li Hongzhang negotiated with Hong Kong Governor Brie about the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, saying that he would never give up his sovereignty and governance over the Kowloon Walled City, and the British did not include the law in the city.
Although the dynasty was changed later, the British continued to ignore this place, and this place miraculously existed in Hong Kong and became a very special three-way zone.
After the 1940s, with the development of history, a large number of mainland immigrants came to Hong Kong, and many people's first stop was to choose the Kowloon Walled City, because no one took care of it, and the environment was extremely complicated.
At that time, the Kowloon Walled City had the most three things, one was an opium stall, one was a place of fireworks, and the other was an unlicensed dentist.
Even so, it is the first stop for many immigrants to gain a foothold, because there is everything in the city, the cost of doing business is very low, and all kinds of OEM businesses are opened everywhere, delivering a large number of cheap goods to the outside of the city.
The British government in Hong Kong does not recognize the qualifications of dentists from the mainland, so these dentists operate in the city and are sought after by a large number of residents outside the city.
However, the population is increasing, and the density has become the highest in the world, with a small 0.026 square kilometers, there are actually more than 30 streets, and the population exceeds 40,000.
Moreover, there is only one water pipe inside, which is a problem with water supply; the population is large, and the houses are being built higher and higher, and the Kai Tak Airport is next to it, which is beginning to affect the airplanes; and the public security conditions are getting worse and worse because of the rampant underworld.
The "three-in-care zone" that the Hong Kong government did not dare to manage, the British government did not want to manage, and the Chinese government could not manage, became a hotbed of pornography, gambling, and narcotics in Hong Kong at that time, and there were far more crimes hidden than you can imagine.
It may be a classroom during the day, but at night it turns into a yellow business establishment, and the dark and damp streets are full of rats roaming around, which is not the plot of the movie, but the real Kowloon Walled City.
In 1987, China and Britain decided to demolish the Walled City and relocate its residents, and the two countries reached an agreement on the Walled City to rebuild the park on the original site, while retaining some of the original buildings and features of the Walled City as much as possible.
Before the demolition in the 1990s, Jackie Chan filmed the film "Crime Squad" here, where a group of Japanese explorers sketched a map of the walled city for a week, and finally the walled city was completed in April 1994.
The original site became the current Kowloon Walled City Park, with 9 scenic spots, including the Yamen at that time, as well as the old life style, as well as the two large granite lying on the ground, "South Gate" and "Kowloon Walled City".