The largest slum in Beijing, the largest slum in Beijing, the largest slum in Beijing, the 1950 version of the map of Beijing, north of the Temple of Heaven, there is a slender longsu ditch north of the Temple of Heaven, which flows from west to east from the overpass into the goldfish pond. But now there are place names such as Longsugou North Lane and Goldfish Pond Middle Street, but the waters are not seen.
The largest slum in Beijing, the vicissitudes of the sea have become mulberry fields
On the 1950 version of the map of Beijing, there is a slender Longsu Ditch north of the Temple of Heaven, which flows from west to east from the tianqiao into the goldfish pond. But now there are place names such as Longsugou North Lane and Goldfish Pond Middle Street, but the waters are not seen. "Who said, the goldfish pond is downstairs from our house!" Aunt Chi, who lives in the goldfish pond, warmly took us to the center of her own community, only to see the crystal clear water of the pool, goldfish and koi enjoying the freedom of the afternoon. And the statue of the "little chick" in "Dragon Sugou" stands by holding a goldfish bowl, watching the good life that the old neighbors did not have the opportunity to live in her year.
Historically, goldfish ponds were actually much larger than they are now, equivalent to the entire goldfish pond community. When the Jin Dynasty built the capital city, it took soil to burn bricks in the south of the city, and many ponds were formed after the kiln pit accumulated water, and the water quality of this pond was the best, suitable for the growth of goldfish. Therefore, until the Qing Dynasty, it was a place to raise goldfish. Until the beginning of the last century, the Qing Dynasty declined, the upstream Longsugou was unable to renovate after the city's sewage and rainwater were merged, the goldfish pond was abandoned into a stinky puddle, and the shore was reduced to the largest slum in Beijing.
Mr. Lao She's work
"We don't need to say it, Mr. Lao She's works are all said for us." In 1950, Aunt Chi witnessed the first renovation here, when she had just entered elementary school and was about the same age as the "little chick". Unfortunately, in the early 1950s, Longsugou was changed to a dark ditch, and the goldfish pond was re-cleared and became a park where boats could be rowed. But before the Cultural Revolution, due to years of water shortages in Beijing and a surge in population, Jinyuchi Park was filled in as a residential area.
However, Longsugou has not completely disappeared, and after the guidance of the big mother, it turned out that there was a small alley on the east side of Qinian Avenue that was easily overlooked, and the door number was impressively written "Longsugou Road". It's just that most of the residents there are foreigners now, and no one has ever seen the "original" Dragon's Whisker Ditch. According to the relevant planning of Chongwen District, these old houses belonging to the first and second generations of relocated houses in Longxugou will also become history in the past two years.
60 years ago, Dongxiaoshi Street, the old Beijing flea market
The Longsugou area is poor but not desolate. People who have seen Lao She's "Longsugou" will remember the five elements and eight works, three teachings and nine streams there, including many traders and traders. The largest flea market in old Beijing is located on Dongxiaoshi Street on the north bank of Longsugou. At that time, the popularity of this place did not let the current Panjiayuan.
According to the "Chenyuan Zhiluo", "DongxiaoShi is in the south of Banbi Street, with a gap of more than ten acres of land, and at two o'clock every day, the old goods are traded here, but the most expensive clothes are estimated." In 1933, the "Beiping Geographical Names Dictionary" renamed this place to Dongxiao City, which is also worthy of the name - every night from midnight to dawn, there will be vendors with old goods and miscellaneous goods to sell here, forming a street market, but after dawn, it will disperse. A bamboo branch reads: Xiaoshi is facing off from east to west, and civilians are trading like bees. All kinds of things are mixed with fakes, ready to close the stall at nine o'clock. Xixiao City outside Xuanwu Gate has long disappeared, and Dongxiao City outside Chongwen Gate continued until after the founding of New China.
"Until the 'Cultural Revolution,' every day when it was dark, there were old furniture, old clothes, old cooking utensils, antique calligraphy and paintings, old porcelain, and even scrap copper and rotten iron, and one after another old goods stalls, stretching from Dongxiaoshi Street to OnionDian Qianjie, Houjie, Dongtangjie, Xitangjie, Zhangju Hutong and many other streets and alleys." A grandma Feng who lived at the east entrance of Dongxiaoshi Street recalled. And the stalls are not only "drummers" during the day (collecting old goods sellers), but also people with identities in the former dynasty who are broken and love face, embarrassed to sell things in broad daylight, and come here in the middle of the night. "My uncle used to be a bodyguard in the palace, a policeman in the Republic of China, and once came back from a night shift and was very emotional: 'I made a little fortune today!'" Guess who I saw in Xiaoshi? Tao Qiye (Puyi Seventh Uncle Zaitao)! pushing a bicycle and wearing glasses Sven Wen stood there, and did not dare to talk to people, I was excited at that time and forgot that I had changed the Republic of China, according to the old practice came to a please Ann, the result was that the grandfather was startled, and stuffed a gold watch into my hand to tell me not to be silent, what is this called!'"
Dongxiaoshi Street
Guess who I saw in Xiaoshi? Tao Seven Masters! I was so excited that I came to ask for peace, which startled my grandfather.
At present, Dongxiaoshi Street only has the east entrance near the Ciqikou subway station, which is still quite lively, full of small restaurants for foreigners, and the more people go in, the fewer people are getting, although it is a bit secluded in the daytime. "In fact, when there was Xiaoshi, this street was also quite quiet, and if we wanted to disturb the people, we wouldn't do it!" How can it be? It turns out that the shot of the buyer and seller in the cuffs of the TV series today compare the price is not an artistic exaggeration, and Xiaoshi did it in that year. Chang Ye, who later retired from the business system, introduced: "Holding a finger is represented as one, but the mouth shape says 'this whole', 'this zero' represents the yuan and the horn; Hold two fingers, two, until five fingers are five; Holding the big finger and the little finger is six, holding the big finger index finger and middle finger is seven, holding the big finger and index finger is eight, the index finger nest into a hook is nine, and the index finger and middle finger are stacked on top of each other is ten. "Dare to love later, the common table digital gesture in Beijing is from Xiaoshi.
The old writer Dong Wensen grew up outside Chongwen Gate and was a child when he visited Dongxiao City 60 years ago. "At that time, the adults in the family frightened us into saying that it was a 'ghost city' and would not let us go. But the more so the more curious ah, taking advantage of the fact that my parents were not at home once our brothers got up in the middle of the night and ran to Xiaoshi, which is quite like the underworld - tens of meters apart, there is a 25-degree light bulb, and under the faint light are people who are rubbing shoulders, and the light is more than painting but not making a sound. By the time I finished eating the oil cake and tofu brain early, the sky was already bright, and the road was bustling when it came, so clean that nothing was left. No wonder it's a ghost city. Later, Dong Lao learned the true meaning of "ghost city——— many things are not in the right way, many stall owners are even gentlemen on the beam themselves, and adults who do not let their children visit are afraid of learning badly. But Elder Dong still couldn't help but sigh: "Today's Zhandao market is a nuisance to the people, if there is no offense in the ghost city, it is not bad." ”
It is worth mentioning that the famous bully character Black Whirlwind in "Longsugou" did have a person in history, named Hei Peng, who was the head of the thief in the Longsugou area. At that time, many of the things in XiaoShi city every day came from the money he stole from his minions.
At that time, the Yaowang Temple is now the base camp for civilian education
If we say that the city of Beijing is "famous hutongs 909, nameless hutongs sai cattle hair", although the temple is not as much as the hutongs, there are 303. And the gods and immortals enshrined in these temples are also in charge of a variety of work, Dongxiaoshi Street East Exit is now Beijing 11 Middle School Junior High School, which was the largest of the four Yaowang Temples in Beijing at that time, and now the only surviving Nan Yaowang Temple.
Although the mastery is the great plan of the national economy and the people's livelihood, the snobbish layman will only think of the Medicine King when he is really sick, so the Medicine King Temple can be regarded as a cold gate in the Immortal Realm. In general, the Yaowang Temple is also a single temple, which is only dedicated to the Medicine Saint Sun Simiao and the Medicine King Wei Zizang. However, this Yaowang Temple covers an area of more than 20 acres, even compared to the White Pagoda Temple, Baiyun Temple, such as the incense is not small, it turns out that the earliest offering here is not a god, but a "nine thousand years old" who is more cattle than the gods - Wei Zhongxian. The Temple of the Southern Medicine King was built during the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse period and was built as a shrine built by Li Chengming, the Marquis of Wuqing, who was the great eunuch of the dynasty. And the old Dao in the temple was actually a kitchen god, who invented the "Honey Gong Jian'er" with honey and wheat flour, and let Wei Zhongxian eat his mouth and smear honey in a veritable way, which was called a comfort. Although the absurdity of building a shrine for the living soon ended with the fall of Wei Zhongxian, and the ancestral hall became the Temple of the Medicine King, the Royal Migong Bureau continued here until the Qing Dynasty.
In the 1950 annual work plan of the Beijing Municipal Government, the 11th Central School was built in conjunction with the transformation of the Longxugou area and to meet the educational rights of the children of working people. Since then, Chongwen District has ended the history of no middle school. The civilian performance artist Han Shanxu graduated from here in the 1950s and was admitted to the human arts. Wu Tianli, 38, lives in the first generation of Longsugou relocation house with a 50-year-old age, although it is now very simple, he is reluctant to leave the house where he was born, "how to have children in 11 years before considering moving out."
This is the oldest Beijing
To see the national treasures do not necessarily have to go to the Forbidden City, the first Bo, the goldfish pond in the south of the Chinese national treasures museum also hides a lot of treasures, cloisonné, jade carvings and other perennial exhibitions, from time to time there are orphan products on display. And there is no need for tickets or even reservations, which is quite user-friendly and has the function of art circulation. Delay a little, bring enough money, and have a chance to find a good baby. After visiting the Treasures Museum, diagonally opposite is the north gate of the Temple of Heaven Park, even if you do not go to the Temple of Prayer for a Lively, this hot day is a walk in the outer garden, just pay a morning exercise price, you can enjoy the rare good air in the city that pure heart and lungs effect.
The food in this area, the old Ciqikou bean juice shop naturally can not be missed, many large-scale BMW from the east to the north of the villa to queue up, just for this bite of a hundred years unchanged taste. Want to eat imitation food and feel that the Beihai neighborhood is too expensive, the East of the Chinese National Treasures Museum has a cheap shop of imperial meals, cost-effective OK, but sometimes the meal tour group is a bit more people. If you feel the trouble of queuing, go to the Next Door Tianjin Restaurant is also good, buns and seafood authenticity, so that you can completely save more than 100 yuan of high-speed rail ticket money back and forth.