The earliest small building was proudly independent in the surrounding environment called "barren". Its height, exquisiteness and even its story are obviously the elite representatives of urban civilization, which not only stand out from the geographical height, but also stand out from the historical era at that time, so people look up at the small building, fearing and loving it, so they are named after it. With the process of urbanization, small buildings become dim in the surrounding environment. Neither height nor shape can reproduce the glory of the past. More small buildings are disappearing quietly, but the place names named after them have been preserved by convention, which inevitably adds a feeling of "nothing is left but the Yellow Crane Tower" to those who pursue this period of history. When we look back at this small building today, it is a good idea to observe the history of this city. As the Italian writer Calvino said: In any case, another additional charm of Metropolis is that through her transformation, people can look back on her past fondly.
Research on Copper Building 200 Years ago
When the lights are on, watching the night of the copper building through the window is like watching the deep sea in a submarine. As far as I can see, bright lights are everywhere. French windows reflect the hustle and bustle of the restaurant. Under the neon lights, men and women in the city went in and out with the revolving door. The wide roads are occasionally congested by long queues of cars. It is like a huge plane ferris wheel, full of sounds and smells everywhere. Then I remembered that this is an endless world of dust. No one will associate such a copper building with the cold study in Qingyuan, but the copper building does inherit a kind of study called "leisure study".
Tonglou, formerly known as Tonglou, was owned by Tong Yuankui, a Tianjin poet during the Qianlong period. "Continued Tianjin County Records" records: "Children live in the south of the valley, set up fields, live in small buildings, and are called' leisure villages' to talk about daily affairs." Today, we can't find out why Tong bought a field and built a small study here, leading a semi-secluded life. However, according to natural speculation, anyone who has a soft spot for small buildings must be pessimistic about the world. Didn't Lu Xun have a poem: hide in a small building and become unified, regardless of winter in Xia Chunqiu. The site of "Idle House" should be near Tianxin Building on Friendship Road today. When the small building was built, it was still a wilderness. In the open field of vision, this small building is particularly abrupt, and passers-by use the "Children's Building" as the name and symbol of this place. Later, because it sounded the same as "Tongjialou" in Hongqiao District, it was gradually misrepresented as "Tongjialou". Later, Shenmou, the yamen of Qingyan Road, built a house on the high platform around today's Children's Hospital and set up a village called "Tongluo Village". After more than 200 years, the "children's building" disappeared, and the place name of the copper building is still in use today.
Xiaobailou ―― Tianjin's "Russian City"
Xiaobailou, the name of an imported product, is mysterious and imaginative. 1860 After the opening of Tianjin, this area was included in the American Concession. The name of Xiaobailou came from a two-story bar whose outer wall was painted white near Kaifeng Road. Because there was no official place name here at that time, local residents took this unique little white building as a symbol and used to call this area Xiaobailou. Later, Britain and the United States granted it privately and merged it into the British Concession, where British businessmen built a large number of buildings. Xiaobailou is adjacent to Haihe Wharf in the east and the middle street of British Concession (now Jiefang North Road) in the financial center, forming a gold selling cave for foreigners, bureaucrats, comprador, politicians and warlords. There are many restaurants, bars and dance halls here, including hairdressing, beauty, suit cutting and other industries, as well as shops specializing in imported cosmetics, clothing, shoes and hats, canned wine, western pastry and candy, all of which are famous for their high-end and fashion.
Xiaobailou is known as "Russian City". After the October Revolution, a large number of "Belarusians" flooded into Tianjin to settle down, with as many as three or five thousand people. Because they did not recognize the Soviet government, they lost their nationality and became refugees. Russian expatriates set up the "Russian Overseas Chinese Association" in Xiaobailou, opening schools, chambers of commerce, hospitals, clubs, restaurants, dance halls and various shops. Russian men, women and children with blue eyes, yellow hair and white skin can be seen everywhere. They come and go every day, and some sit on street corners in twos and threes to chat. This situation makes people feel that they are in a Russian city far from Wan Li. Therefore, Russian expatriates call it "Russian City" and Tianjin has become their foreign home. Russians who have lived here so far still regard Tianjin as their second hometown.
Over the past century, it has gradually developed and prospered, forming the Xiaobailou area, which is widely known today. If we say that in the north of modern China, Tianjin was ahead of the world with its unique geographical location and historical background; Then Xiaobailou is a typical "special zone" and a bright "window".
Tongjialou-the building built by celebrities is a kind of beauty.
Tongjialou, formerly known as "Xue Yan Lou", can't hide a charming realm just by listening to this name, and its architecture is indeed related to beautiful women and celebrities.
This Tongjialou, located on the north bank of the South Canal in Hongqiao District, across the river from the mustard garden, is a famous private mansion and garden in Jinmen in Qing Dynasty. Xiao Lou car owner Hong Tong (? Macro plus a gold word) is a native of the early Qing dynasty, the word sugarcane village, also known as the number. Empty valley mountain. He comes from a noble family, but he has no intention of career. He lives on the bank of Weihe River in the west of Tianjin. Every day, the water in front of the door flows eastward, drinking and writing poems through the flowers, and being a vegetarian, saying: Cang Lang Kao. Tong has a concubine named Zhao, who is clever in ice and snow and good at writing poems. Although her poems have not been handed down to the world, the sentence "Beauty is like a famous star since ancient times, but it is forbidden to see a bald head on earth" was written by Xue Yan. Children built a building for it, and others also called it a building. Because of Hong Tong's bravery and friendliness, Yanxuelou became a gathering place for celebrities and scholars at that time. Kong and Qu Dajun were famous literati in the early Qing Dynasty, and they were once guests of Tong's family. After Qu Dajun was convicted of writing, Tong raised his adopted son until he got married. Another legend, the Peach Blossom Fan written by Kong, for fear of being degraded in time, put all his eggs in one basket and "pay fifty gold for it", which finally made this excellent literary work spread all over the world. During Tongzhi and Daoguang years in Qing Dynasty, the Tong family declined and the buildings disappeared.
After the decline of Tongjialou, Tianjin poet Mei Chengdong went to offer condolences and wrote a poem "Xue Yan Lou" to commemorate Zhao: "There are green waves outside Shuixizhuang, and I want to visit Tongjialou and buy a ride. Spring grass has reached the high earth house, and the painting building is still beautiful. " At the same time, Marco, a poet, also left a famous mourning sentence of "snow scattered near gold, seven-character poems spread in the air". Later, the hometown of "Tongjialou" gradually became a street, which was called "Tongjialou Street". Today, the name of the small building and the story inside have been passed down to future generations, attracting future generations' fascination. )
The fourth floor is connected ―― Legend has it that the village has become a small building.
In the middle of Hexi District, there is a concentrated area called "Building": East Building, West Building, Southwest Building and South Building. Although the word "architecture" is embedded in their names, we can't find any architectural records related to the origin of place names. It is difficult to find a letter in the misty waves, whether it is a small building that should exist in logical reasoning or a small building that may have appeared in folklore. Through all possible information channels, I only found that the history of the East Building is related to a legend, although this legend has nothing to do with the small building itself: the East Building refers to the intersection of Dagu South Road and Limin Road and the nearby area. According to legend, there was a fisherman named Li in the early Ming Dynasty, and the fishing ground was dedicated to the emperor passing by. The emperor was very happy and gave him a net to dry. Later, another person from Wang Xing came to live here. They are the first two households in Donglou Village.
The origin of the other three place names is even simpler: Xilou, which is said to have become a village at the beginning, was named after facing Donglou Village, also called Xilou Village, later referred to as today's name; Southwest building, originally a cemetery, built a large row or bungalow dormitory here in the mid-1950s. Because it is located in the south of the West Building, it is called "Southwest Building Workers' New Village", hereinafter referred to as this name; The South Building, 1925, was named Nanlou Village, also known as Nanlou Village, with the investment of the Catholic Church and entrusted by the Belgian kiln worker Zhang Lianxiang. 1984 Due to the construction of Tianjin Daily, the original village was demolished.
The common feature of this group of place names is that most of them evolved from modern villages, taking the oldest "East Building" as a geographical reference, expressing a sense of direction in place names, thus forming a series of place names. This evolution process also coincides with the trend of urban power expansion. The process of the gradual expansion of the city circle is the process that the economic and life center of the whole city shifts from rural areas to cities with great scale and speed, and cities gradually conquer and annex rural areas. The evolution of these place names makes us feel that the great ship of history is rolling over the city.
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