Sandbox in the old city of Tianjin
Before the demolition of the old city of Tianjin in 2003, on the land of 1.53 million square meters, many old houses from the Ming and Qing dynasties were retained, with turning hutongs and layers of mansions, with unique forms and different styles. After 600 years of vicissitudes, it has nurtured many literati and inkers, dignitaries and dignitaries, and is one of the birthplaces of Tianjin.
In the past, the Wuhe Shopping Mall at the intersection of East Road and North Road was the former site of Changguan built in the late Qing Dynasty. Dongan Market is the first shopping mall in Tianjin. The archway of "Charity and Charity" was written by Zhao Yuanli, a Scholar of Jinmen. The source of Cangliu Street can be found in the Wei Zhi: "Ordered the Tianjin Wei officials to build a warehouse to store grain." Three warehouses were added between Xuande and Xuande. "There is a literary academy on the street, which is a place for "township tests". Behind it is the Temple of Literature, an ancient architectural complex of Fuxian Xue, which is the best-preserved area of the old city, which was later restored and can still be visited at any time to this day, which is a kind of remembrance of Tianjin's history.
Walking west along the North Road, there is the old trace of the "Beihai Tower". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Beima Road became the most prosperous area in Tianjin because of its close proximity to Yiyi Street, "Beihai Lou" is equivalent to the current shopping mall, which has more than 200 merchants selling Foreign and Guangzhou groceries, and the advertising slogan is: "Don't visit Beihai Lou, white under Tianjin Wei!" "Upstairs there is the Beihai Tea House, which can accommodate 300 spectators, and usually has two performances a day, drum king Liu Baoquan, single string Rong Sword Dust, plum blossom drum Jin Wanchang, cross-talk artist Li Dezhao, Tianjin Shihua Wugu, Mandarin Duck tune Qin Cuihong and other famous masters, all of whom have performed here, string song sandalwood, and flourished.
Tianjin Old Town
Next to the Baiyi'an Hutong Longting Holy Temple, the Dragon Pavilion was changed to an examination workshop, imitating various foreign goods of bamboo, wood and iron porcelain, weaving, teaching oil painting, photography, embroidery, lithography, manufacturing organs and other processes, displaying products, is the starting point of Tianjin industry. Later, it was changed to a domestic sales office, and then it was a Xiangdezhai pastry shop, which survived until 2003.
Inside the old city box there is also the Ming Dynasty building Sanyi Temple, which was once the altar mouth of the Boxers' initial activities in the city box. During the May Fourth Movement, the "Women's Patriotic Comrades Association" was established in the nearby Jiangsu Guild Hall. The "Township Ancestral Hall" is a Ming Dynasty building that preserves the main hall and is next to a stone stele written by Zhang Tixin. There are still many buildings in the county and salt transportation bureaus. In front of it is Hubu Street, which once built the first garden in Tianjin, "Huan Folk Pavilion".
In the old city of that year, ordinary people lived with the rich people in the mansions, and the rich people were also proud of the cultural people in their homes. The Yide Wang family and the Bian family of the township ancestral hall in Tianjin's "Eight Greats" are scattered in this area. In modern Tianjin, the famous salt merchant "Hai zhang wu" Zhang Jinwen, a figure who made the most of the limelight during the invasion of the Anglo-French coalition army, his family home is a building of the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods, the Tiger Gate Tower, the brick carved wall, the wood carved flower ornament, the exquisite stone carving, the hanging flower door, the eaves carving, the gallery pillar, the door leaf, the ceiling... Extraordinary. The gate of the Immeasurable Hua Family is luxurious and well known to everyone, and it is the former residence of the Tianjin literati Hua Changqing and Hua Shi Axe. The former home of Wang Xiang of the Oracle's family is at the gate of Cang, and there is an old church that combines Chinese and Western styles nearby.
The Xiaoyi Gate in the North Gate is the place where zhang Decheng, the brother of the Boxer Master, built an altar in the city box, and the Dayi Gate is the entrance of Fuju Street, in the past, this area was mostly Ming Dynasty buildings, and Jin Yong lived in Jin Jia Hutong, which was one of the earliest residents in Tianjin. The prefectural office was a Ming Dynasty Wei Ya, later changed to a county office, and later became a middle school and auditorium. Xiangjia Hutong to the west is an ancient alley, the Ming Dynasty Jiliao garrison Xiang Jiamu originally lived here, he was originally a Jiaxing Wang, Shunzhi second year Qing army broke Nanjing, he embraced the poem jumped into Tianxin Lake and died. There is an old city god temple in the northwest corner, which was founded by Ming Yongle nian and later converted into a middle school, and there is still a pair of stone lions and stone tablets. Today, all that we said is gone.
Tianjin old city box typical courtyard, generally the main entrance is not large, but the inner courtyard set of yards, a glance can not see the end. The stone pillar that sits upright holds up the wooden door with carved patterns, the antique, milky white stone steps make the courtyard and the courtyard grow from low to high, the two sides of the stairs are smooth and delicate like stone slides, and the two wide and deep indentations on the ladder surface show a long history...
With the passage of time, the carved beams and paintings of the building became a red brick hut, the gate, the middle gate and the stone ballast also disappeared, the family population was large, the initial house could not live, it expanded into the courtyard, each family built a cottage of different sizes, dense and solid to see the needle, the courtyard of the rich family in the past became a winding and unrecognizable. Feng Gong's film "Nothing to Steal The Music" built a hut in the courtyard of the old city box and wrapped the big tree in the house. The original novel of this film is written by the Beijing writer Liu Heng, who is about Beijing, but Feng Gong moved it to the old city of Tianjin without any sense of violation.
A friend wrote a long message under the article "Today's Headlines - Tianjin Past", nostalgic for the old city he remembered, excerpted below: "I lived in the Courtyard of the Bian Family in The East Bian Family of Gulou for nearly fifty years, and in the 50s, near No. 80 Dongmenli Street was the Zhonghelou Restaurant (later moved to the intersection of Dongma Road and Dongmenli Street), and when I was a child, my family gave me lunch in that package. Not far to the west, there is a slit of football and basketball. There is a small second floor next to the Arch of the Temple of Literature, which is a privately run international typing school, but there are not many students. To the west of the archway was a pharmacy, and I just remember an advertisement with the word "deaf" capitalized. There are one or two shops selling paper-cut patterns at the mouth of Jingsi Hutong. Over the big Liujia Hutong further west, a small door face in the south of the road is kite Wei, next to the little people's bookstore, I read the little people's books, I look at the old man's kite, a look at the old half a day, the old man has never bombed me. This is a sight that has not been forgotten for decades. “
"To the east next to the door face is to sell paper-cut patterns, into the door of a door counter, the wall hanging glass frame, inside are patterns, do not remember to sell hanging money and other New Year goods, there are shoe patterns, very fine." Further east is the Wang Family Compound (or Xu Family Compound), the main entrance is in the East Gate, and the back door is in the Da Liu Family Hutong. Yunde West Street Primary School was originally 37 Middle School, the old house was not transformed before, it was still yamen-like, the front was empty, a few into the lobby, very tall and large, the house behind it was much smaller, there were many trees, a person could not hold it, there was a small garden in the yamen, but unfortunately in the late 50s, it was all demolished and changed into a small school, otherwise it was absolutely a cultural relic. I lived in the Bian family compound for decades, and in the 1950s and 1960s, the housing management station painted the doors, windows, and columns every one or two years, and later nailed the sign of cultural relics protection at the entrance of the courtyard. There are ten courtyards in the Bian family compound, and the wood carving patterns of the doors and windows of each courtyard are different and beautiful. I learned to ride a bicycle in the yard where I live. When the demolition was carried out in 2002, Wan Xing did not move much, but some exquisite brick carvings and wood carvings were taken away by the Cultural and Bo unit, which persisted for two or three years, and Mr. Feng Jicai tried to ensure that it was useless, and finally the Bian family compound became a ruin. I heard that many large lacquered wall panels, doors and windows were used in the restoration of the Yangliuqing Family Compound. The only thing that can be found now is the locust tree planted in the courtyard in 1958, and the original seedlings are now two thick. (Text: He Yuxin)
Disappeared old city place names