Along Chang'an Avenue all the way to the west, past the Military Museum and the Princess's Tomb, the space began to change. There are more military compounds and scientific research institutes, the sides of the road gradually become quieter, the noisy and restless atmosphere disappears, the flow of time is slowing down, and it seems that the temperature is one or two degrees lower than that in the east of the city.
In the middle of Wukesong and Yuquan Road, there is a north-south longitudinal road - Yongding Road, named after the Yongding River. It intersects with Taiping Road in the middle.
Just listening to the name, "Yongding - Taiping", it highlights its special meaning. It is not a historic place, but it is famous in the history of Beijing's urban renewal. In the 50s of the last century, China's first missile research institute was established.
A year later, the Second Branch came into being in Yongding Road, which was also the predecessor of the Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry. This is the cradle of the birth of the motherland's sword, the fertile soil for casting the aerospace shield, and the erection of countless milestones in the history of the development of ground-to-air missiles.
Beijing is huge, and the atmosphere in the east and west of the city is very different. The west side is more suitable for life, low-key, clean and comfortable. There are many small roads, one for motor vehicles and one for bicycles. The side of the road is planted with acacia, and the branches stretch out to the middle, and in summer they grow green leaves, creating a cool green shade. Many brick and concrete buildings built in the seventies and eighties have simple red brick walls in appearance, and the building is five or six storeys high, and the living density is very low.
Don't underestimate the "old and broken", the buildings in the era of planned economy have good quality, and the load-bearing is "three seven walls" and "two or four walls", and the sound insulation is much better than that of commercial housing. Due to the early construction, Yongding Road, Taiping Road and the area around Xicui Road and Wanshou Road have already had a mature community atmosphere. A 15-minute walk, you can find a number of vegetable markets, supermarkets, restaurants, parks, cinemas, and even schools and tertiary hospitals. Before he became famous, musical actor Ayunga used to live in a semi-basement on Xicui Road. Xicui Road and Cuiwei Road are named because they are facing Cuiwei Mountain. There was an old man selling sauce elbows nearby, who appeared at the gate of a military compound at four o'clock in the afternoon every day, and had already lined up before setting up a stall. Later, he opened the chain store "Pig's Trotter Gang", which was located on Yongding Road Xili and Jingouhe Road.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Bingdundun was "hard to find". Many people who live in the east and north also have to come to Yongding Road West Dianmao, because there is a low-key Winter Olympics franchise store here, which is full of goods, and can buy a complete set of blind boxes that were in demand and scarce at that time, keychain version of Xue Rongrong, as well as quicksand notebooks, stickers and figures of various sizes that cannot be bought in online stores.
The predecessor of West Point Mao was Yongding Road Department Store and Yongding Road Non-staple Food Market. Different from the current large-scale comprehensive supermarkets, the operation was particularly particular at that time, the sesame paste was freshly beaten, and the residents took an empty jar, peeled and weighed; The sesame paste is viscous, and when it is rolled, it should be shaken skillfully, just enough to be thrown into the bottle, and the soup will not be sprinkled at all. Tea is easy to skewer, the shop is a separate room, the packaging is made of two layers of origami, the technique is done in one go, the good-looking tea bag is low in front and high in the back, and the "butt" is cocked, which is particularly spiritual.
The location of Xidianmao used to be called Zaolin Village. Writer Qi Jian once wrote in "City Memories: Tracing the Old Things" that Yongding Road belonged to Zaolin Village before 1949, with less than 20 residents. Now to the east of Yongding Road, there is another street called Zaolin Road. "There is a residential yard where dozens of households have jujube trees. Autumn is coming, and the trees are full of jujubes. At harvest time, each family gives their own fruits to their neighbors to share the joy. ”
North Taiping Road, west of Zaolin Road, has the famous Beijing 11th School. Its predecessor was the Central Military Commission Children's School, which was approved by Premier Zhou, Marshal Nie Rongzhen named it after the birth day of New China, and the first principal was Luo Ronghuan's wife Lin Yueqin. Therefore, "eleven" is not a number, but the "eleven" of a seven-day long holiday. The brother school is Bayi School, and in the same way, Bayi is also the August Day of Army Day.
In 2010, Beijing No.11 School established the "Zaolin Academy", which was named after Zaolin Village. Zaolin Academy is very individual, not aiming at the traditional domestic college entrance examination, and cultivating one-on-one with apprenticeship. There are folk crafts such as cloisonné, porcelain, paper-cutting, carving, and folk music...... When it was first established, there were only a few students, including a national karting champion driver and the youngest member of the national youth equestrian team.
Zhang Ruoyun, who played Fan Xian in "Celebrating More Than Years", once studied in the Eleventh School. Many years later, he felt that the teaching atmosphere in the school was very advanced, "very much like the weirdos in the inspection institute". "Those gang of tech weirdos in the three places are not serious at all; There are also books published in eight places. Isn't this just a variety of societies that have flourished? Two years after I graduated, I heard that a senior brother had brought a rock concert to the school. ”
In recent years, Wukesong Huaxi LIVE has become popular. There is Wukesong Basketball Stadium, which holds concerts all year round, and is favored because of its moderate venue and good seating view; Sparkle Roll International Cinema, with a great Dolby Hall, is one of the theaters participating in the Beijing International Film Festival, and the box office ranks first in North China all year round. There are many restaurants, entertainment, and dynamic leisure, which also make it suitable for all ages. Bloomage is located in the west of the Shagou intersection, which used to be desolate in the past.
Before the founding ceremony, 25-year-old Tian Shen was a member of the People's Liberation Army armored corps parade unit, and was leading the parade troops of the North China Chariot Regiment to train in the area of Shagou on Yongding Road. When he learned that he was going to attend the founding ceremony, he had only three months to prepare. This was the first time that the tank unit passed through Tiananmen Square, and the most used 25-ton medium tank, which was repainted and numbered to show its might.
Tian Shen is the son of Tian Han, and three days before the founding ceremony, he learned that the "March of the Volunteers" was set as the national anthem. That night, he received a call from Gao Cunxin, commander of the special forces of the North China Military Region, at the temporary command post on Yongding Road. He thought, "On the day of the ceremony, my father will also be on the viewing platform, watching my team. ”
The most concentrated place for the children of the military in western Beijing, from Gongzhufen all the way to the west, there are the Air Force Headquarters, the Navy Headquarters, the Signal Corps Headquarters, the General Logistics Department, and the General Staff Headquarters. Later, those who attended these schools may be the children of the nearby Sixth Construction, Railway Construction or the Second Academy of the Ministry of Aerospace.
Actor Liu Lin once mentioned in a low-key manner that her parents are both aerospace scientific research experts and "live near Wukesong", and when she returns home when she is not filming, the atmosphere in the west makes her feel peaceful and reassured. In the courtyard of No. 52 Yongding Road, there is a red landmark - the Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry. As soon as Academician Zhong Shan is free, he will take a walk on Yongding Road in front of the Second Academy. It was from here that many people entered the Second Academy and started their lives in missile development. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland's air defense forces were weak. It became imperative to have our own anti-aircraft sword as soon as possible. In order to race against time to send missiles into the sky, many scientific researchers only sleep three or four hours a day, and their offices are brightly lit. Huang Weilu, one of the founders of the mainland's aerospace industry and the founder of the "two bombs and one satellite," once put forward the slogan, "Born in Yongding Road, Die in Babaoshan."
During the three-year period of natural disasters, in order to ensure that the scientific and technological personnel who were working hard to tackle key problems and struggling to climb the peak of the aerospace industry at that time could have a good health, Nie Shuai personally transferred fish, meat, cooking oil, and soybeans from major military regions. He personally inquired about the distribution and instructed the administrative staff and political cadres not to use it. Everyone affectionately calls these foods "tech fish" and "tech beans". Without steaming steamed buns to fight for breath, Chinese astronauts gnawed this hard bone in difficult times.
Wang Shuo wrote in the preface to his childhood autobiographical novel "It Looks Beautiful": Beijing's Fuxing Road, which is a long and narrow strip with a radius of more than ten kilometers, is regarded by me as my hometown. This area used to be called "New Beijing", and it was isolated to the west of the old city of Beijing. I call this area "the area of cultural separation in the compound", and to this day I can still feel the imprint of the atmosphere of that place on my character, and whenever something happens, those things will bubble up from my bones.
Many of Wang Shuo's works have been adapted into film and television dramas, "Days Related to Youth" and "Sunny Days", and the creators have also had experience living in the compound. You Xiaogang's 100-episode TV series "Kyoto Chronicle", although it has nothing to do with the compound, but the creative process is in a building with only a number on Yongding Road, and he gathered the most talented screenwriters of the time to write this mighty work that shows the changes in the fate of several generations.
Nowadays, when it comes to Yongding Road, it is still not famous enough, but it is also a microcosm of a "chronicle", which combines the stories of several generations. Some people live and stand here for the interests of the country, and some people live an ordinary life, shopping, buying groceries, and living a life. Behind him is the scattered army compound, in front of the eyes is the West Mountain of Beijing, when the weather is good, the West Mountain is the Nanga Bhava of the west of Beijing, far away, open, endless.
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