There is a small alley called Ludang Lane west of Xi'an Chengnan Avenue, east of Nanguangji Street, south of Nanyuan Gate, and north of Wuyue Temple Gate, which is only 342 meters long and 5 meters wide. Many elderly Xi'an still remember its former name- Lu Jinshi Lane, and some people must ask, have you ever lived here before?
Yes, this alley got its name because there was a Lu Jinshi who lived in this alley in the past. According to the "Dictionary of Xi'an of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", Lu Jinshi Lane was located at the Taichang Temple of the former Chang'an Imperial City of the Tang Dynasty, and gradually became a residential square after it was changed to a new city at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
It is said that Lu Jinshi was a person from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are also legends that Lu Jinshi Lane got its name from the Tang Dynasty, because Lu Jinshi who lived in the alley at that time was knowledgeable, and many people came to worship Lu Jinshi as a teacher, and these Lu Jinshi's protégés all lived around the Lu family, so at that time this alley was named Lu Jinshi Lane.
Lu Jinshi may be a Tang Dynasty person, or it may be a Jinshi in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, or there may be two Jinshi who are both surnamed Lu, maybe they are still the same family, it is said that there was a stone stele about Lu Jinshi in the alley before, but unfortunately, the stone stele later is missing, so lu Jinshi is exactly which dynasty we can't verify.
After the end of the Qing Dynasty, because the north entrance of Ludang Lane was the most prosperous South Courtyard Gate in Xi'an City at that time, this alley was close to the South Courtyard Gate, so it became the first choice for merchants to buy a house and settle down.
During the Cultural Revolution, many streets and alleys in Xi'an were renamed, and Lu Jinshi Lane was no exception. The famous model play "Shajiabang" also had a name called "Ludang Tinder" at that time, because there was a "Lu" character in the name of Lu Jinshi Lane, which quoted "Ludang Tinder", and changed Lu Jinshi Lane to Ludang Lane to use it to this day.
Lu Huiqing, a heroine of the Xinhai period, and Qingfan, a patriotic democrat, once lived in Ludang Lane, and later the owner of Fan Ji's bacon juice also lived in the north entrance of Lu Jinshi Lane.
Listening to the old people nearby, the north entrance of Ludang Lane used to have the famous Dafang Photo Studio and Li Liqun Garment Factory, and the garment factory became a collective enterprise after the public-private partnership.
Before the renovation, there were no shops in Ludang Lane, most of them were bungalows and miscellaneous courtyards. After liberation, the tap water was connected, and the tap was at the north entrance of the alley, and it turned out that the people of Ludang Lane had to go there to pick up the water.
In the early 90s of the last century, Ludang Lane was transformed, before the transformation, there were 40 yards in Ludang Lane, and there were two half-cut alleys in the alley, both in the east, one in the north, one in the south, the middle of the alley was high and low, and the south end was particularly low because there was a waterlogging pond.
There used to be a total of 17 yards in the east of Ludang Lane Road. The northernmost first is the mansion of the owner of the Dafang Photo Studio Mai. The Kang family in the south is also a wealthy family. To the south of the Kang family is the family hospital of the municipal party committee, and there is a miscellaneous courtyard in the south of the family hospital of the municipal party committee. Further south is the small half-cut alley at the north end, the alley to the south is the Jingjia courtyard, it is said that it is the descendant of a director in the Republic of China period, the Jingjia courtyard is not deep, sitting south facing north, there are two-story buildings inside. The Li family on the east side of the Jing family is a very large quadrangle courtyard, and his main house is also a two-story building. The old people who used to live in the alleys said that his family was relatively wealthy and was a landlord during the Republic of China.
To the south of the Jingjia and Lijia is the Chenjia courtyard, which is 12 meters wide and 40 meters deep. The lord Chen Jiayaoxi was also a businessman before the liberation, and the courtyard was first inhabited by a Professor Yang of Northwest University, and in 1942, Mr. Chen Yaoxi bought Lu Jinshi Lane from Professor Yang, which is now the courtyard of No. 12 in the Republic of China period in the middle of Ludang Lane.
To the south is the Zhang family, and the slender old courtyard of the Zhang family is not large. During the Republic of China period, the Zhang family had a shop in the South Courtyard Gate, dealing in antiques and jade business. In the courtyard south of the Zhang family, there used to live an old lady, who was said to be the widow of a Kuomintang officer. To the east of the Zhangjia courtyard is the back wall of the Municipal Party Committee Family Courtyard, which at that time extended from Dachejia Lane to Ludang Lane.
Further south, there are two good two-entry courtyards, and I don't know whose yard it was before liberation. To the south of the courtyard is the half-cut alley of the south end, and the east and south of the alley have lived two old mayors after the founding of the People's Republic of China. On the south side of the alley of the half-cut alley, the Ma family's yard is very beautiful, and the building is also higher than the average people's building, which can be regarded as the best yard in the alley at that time, and it is said that the Ma family operated a department store in the south courtyard gate before liberation. To the south of the Ma family are: a miscellaneous courtyard, a Western-style compound that is said to have been a church, and then the courtyard of the garrison.
There are a total of 23 yards on the west side of the alley. The yard of the northernmost Shang family is very good. After the public-private partnership, the courtyard south of the Shang family became the family home of the photo studio, and the families of various famous photo studios in Xi'an lived here. Further south, there is the Qu family, then the He family courtyard and the Dang Qingfan family, which opened a cultural goods store at the South Courtyard Gate during the Republic of China, followed by two well-built miscellaneous courtyards, then the Ren Family, who was doing cloth business at the South Courtyard Gate, then another miscellaneous courtyard, then the Liu family's old house built in the late Qing Dynasty, and a miscellaneous courtyard.
Further south, there is a deep pit, which is said to have been a waterlogged pond long ago. In the past, there were many people living in the pit, and the houses were not very good. The courtyards of the three miscellaneous courtyards on the south side of the pit are very deep and very good, one of which is one of the best yards in the alley, and that courtyard was like a museum at that time, very old and very beautiful. Further south is the Bamboo Pole Factory, which at that time was dedicated to supplying the city of Bamboo Fence, equivalent to a workshop, processing plant and warehouse for the shops in bamboo fence city. In the 1960s and 1970s, whenever the bamboo pole factory was purchased, the entire Ludang Alley was full of bamboo.
The south of the bamboo pole factory is a large miscellaneous courtyard, which leads to the east of Baoji Lane, which may be a yard built after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Further south is a miscellaneous courtyard built at the end of the Republic of China. Then to the south is a courtyard house bought by the Zhang family before liberation, Mr. Zhang Lao's old society repaired clocks and watches in the clock shop at the south courtyard gate, after the "Cultural Revolution", Mr. Zhang Lao used his own house in Ludang Lane to open a façade to repair clocks.
The more ordinary house south of the Zhang family is the Liu family, whose male master was a former soldier who participated in the Xi'an Incident, and it is said that Mr. Liu lao took special care of Chiang Kai-shek after he was placed under house arrest. To the southwest of the Liu family, there are four wide old qing dynasty houses, and the main house in the courtyard is two floors. Further south is the Yao Family Compound. There are two miscellaneous courtyards in the south of the Yao family, and after passing the miscellaneous courtyards, they will go to the Wuyue Temple Gate Street.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, Ludang Lane was basically the same, and the residents in the alley remained basically unchanged.
According to the literature, in the first year of the xuanun reunification at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a number of primary primary schools were opened in Xi'an, and there was one in Lu Jinshi Lane. Perhaps due to the long time and the fact that so few materials have been preserved at the time, many of the old residents in the alley are unaware of the existence of the school. I consulted a lot of information, and later analyzed and deduced that the north entrance of Ludang Lane was at the South Courtyard Gate, and the most likely thing was the earliest Lantian yan Peitang (Ziganyuan, 1865~1942) Guangxu Thirty-first (1904~1905) founded in Xi'an Xiaochejia Lane, the school was first moved to Ximutou City and renamed Ganyuan School. Later, the Ganyuan Academy was moved to the South Courtyard Gate and a high school class was added. Yan Ganyuan also set up an Accord Girls' School in the name of his wife Yang Yage, although it was only opened for two years, it also created the precursor of the establishment of a new-style women's school in Xi'an and even Shaanxi.
According to the "Beilin District Chronicle", Lu Huiqing (1890~1917), known as Yixia, the character Huiqing, was a native of Chang'an Circle Fang Village, and was dependent on his widowed mother. In the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1909), Lu Huiqing, who lived in Lu Jinshi Lane, became acquainted with Zhang Guangkui, a member of the Shaanxi Branch of the League, and set up a liaison station with him in Early Ci Lane to transmit and receive documents and intelligence for the League, and the next year, he married Zhang Guangkui. On October 22, 1911, the Shaanxi Branch of the League revolted, and she entered the city with the rebel army and helped the Uniform Bureau (where the rebel headquarters was located) to pass orders to important strongholds inside and outside the city, contributing to the restoration of Xi'an. In 1914, during the reign of Lu Jianzhang, Xi'an was directly ruled by the Beiyang government, Zhang Guangkui was forced to flee Tianjin, and Lu Huiqing stayed in Shaanxi to support the revolution, and used a private car to help the Weibei Protectorate Army transport guns and ammunition. Lu Huiqing also founded a primary school at the Gate of Wuyue Temple to solve the difficulties of nearby children going to school. In June 1917, Lu Huiqing was only 28 years old when she died of illness, and after her death, she was buried in her mansion "Hui Garden" in the middle of Lu Jinshi Lane, when Zhang Feng'ao took care of the aftermath for her, Zhang Xiao wrote a tombstone for her, and wrote an elegy on the right: "Falling Feng Chaoyang is repeatedly shocked, and the southeast day is returning to the west." Entering the customs to know more than zero, the ceremony of the national martyrdom hangs Hui Qing. It was only that "Hui Yuan" was gradually forgotten by people, and now, almost no one in the residents of Lu Jinshi Lane knew about this matter, and the story of Lu Huiqing was only recorded in some small amounts in historical materials.
In addition to Lu Huiqing, Ludang Lane lived in the famous patriotic democrat Dang Qingfan. In 1911, the young Dang Qingfan joined the League and engaged in anti-Qing revolutionary activities. Later, he served as the secretary general of the Shaanxi Governor's Office and the secretary general of the 17th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. During the Siege of Xi'an and the Xi'an Incident, Dang Qingfan served as the secretary of General Yang Hucheng. In 1944, Dang Qingfan joined the China Democratic League in Xi'an. In the winter of 1948, with the help of the ccp's underground organization and the Democratic League, Dang Qingfan rushed to Yan'an. After liberation, Dang Qingfan served as a professor at Northwest University, vice chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the China Democratic League.
Dang Qingfan probably lived in Lujinshi Lane before liberation, and in the 1960s, he was a professor at Northwest university. His home is in the west of the street, near the north entrance of the alley, his yard has five wide, much wider than the usual yard, more than 20 meters, two into the yard, the main room in the backyard is a two-story building, the middle of the first floor is the living room, on both sides is the study, the second floor is the bedroom. His main room is covered with wooden floors, unlike ordinary people with green bricks, Mr. Dang Qingfan is very polite and elegant, and he writes well.
Compared with the bustling South Courtyard Gate, Lu Jinshi Lane is very quiet and more suitable for living, and there were many rich merchants and celebrities in the past, which is largely related to its proximity to the South Courtyard Gate. Most of the houses in the alley are brick to the top of the green brick houses, very exquisite, and the people who live are relatively rich families. The Treasurer of the Fan family, who operated bacon at the South Courtyard Gate, once lived at the north entrance of Lu Jinshi Lane. Boss Mai of Dafang Photo Studio also lives at the north entrance of Lu Jinshi Lane.
Until the renovation, there were still many old courtyards in Ludang Lane. On the west side of the street opposite the Chen family's courtyard, is the old house of the Ren family. Before liberation, ren, the owner of the Ren family, had been running a cloth business, and the shop was originally opened at Mafangmen and later moved to the South Courtyard Gate. The Ren family's house is very large, with three yards. After the 1960s, the first half of the Ren family's yard was transformed into a grain station, and the second half was still inhabited by the Ren family. Later, the grain station in the front yard became a wire factory, and later a small watch factory specializing in the production of cases in the Beilin District.
Since 1991, Ludang Lane has been the first low-lying transformation from the southern section, and in 1993, the northern section of the alley has also begun to be transformed. After the renovation is completed, many old residents of the past still live in the alley. At present, Ludang Lane is already densely packed, and the West District of Defu Lane Community, Ludang Lane Community and part of the Municipal Party Committee Family Hospital are all on this alley.
Now, many people have heard of the Yao family's old courtyard at No. 40 South Of Ludang Lane. At that time, the yard was particularly well built, there were rockeries, gardens, a two-story backyard, and the house was covered with wooden floors. The owner of the courtyard, Yao Wenqing, may not have been the richest and most famous businessman who lived in Lu Jinshi Lane, but he is known to the world for his image of a "Confucian merchant" and the Yao family compound that has been preserved to this day.
He was raised by his aunt when he was a child, and he studied and studied since he was a child, determined to "save the country through industry". He inherited the native cloth business of his ancestors early on, and also engaged in tea, medicinal herbs, white ash and so on. Around 1926, Yao Wenqing bought the property in Lu Jinshi Lane. After liberation, Yao Wenqing handed over his tea and textile companies to the state, and the other 17 properties were handed over to the public, leaving only the ludang lane, a residence, where Yao Wenqing spent his old age. In 2007, Xi'an City renovated his old courtyard, and today, this old courtyard, which once had both Chinese garden style and Western architectural style, after nearly a hundred years of ups and downs, although only half of the courtyard remains, it has still become a landmark building in Ludang Lane, and people often come to visit this courtyard of the Republic of China period. Episode 73 of the TV series "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round" mentioned that the Yao family of Sheshu was in the Yao family compound in Xi'an City. Ordinary people pass through the southern section of the alley, and if they do not pay attention, it is difficult to find. The owner of the compound, Yao Wenqing, bought the courtyard and expanded it after his family, and the expanded courtyard was divided into the south courtyard and the north courtyard, covering an area of nearly two acres, that is, about 1,300 square meters, which was replaced by the current 130 square meters of three bedrooms and ten sizes. Later, the north courtyard of the Yao family was demolished, and now all that can be seen is the original south courtyard.
The current Ludang Lane is one of the narrowest alleys in Xi'an City, and there are few alleys narrower than it. Both sides of the alley are basically some family homes composed of residential areas, there are many small shops on both sides of the alley, some convenient shops during the day, and there are many all-night business at night, most of the people who come out from the South Courtyard Gate and Powder Lane and other big nightclubs in the city will go to Ludang Lane to walk around again.
About Ludang Lane, I originally had friends who opened shops inside, and in addition to my continuous inquiry of information belts, I can sort out these things. Because I am from the eastern suburbs, after all, I did not grow up here, grew up here, I believe there must be more people than I know Ludang Lane, if you or your relatives and friends have lived nearby, but also know what about the historical origin of Ludang Lane, I am also a brick thrower, I hope that everyone will know those things about the past history of Ludang Lane and other things through the comment area and more people who care about here together.
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