Located at No. 22 Dongsishitiao, it was one of the royal warehouses of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It is now a cultural relic protection unit in Beijing.

When Yongle moved the capital to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, the city was developing rapidly and the demand for food was growing. However, the food production in the north was insufficient and there was an urgent need to transport food from the south to the north.

In the ninth year of Yongle (1411), 300,000 migrant workers were recruited to dredge the rivers of the Yuan Dynasty and carry out water transportation, so that grain from the south of the Yangtze River could be continuously transported to the north. For this reason, many buildings including Nanxincang were gradually built in Tongzhou and Beijing.

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In the Qing Dynasty, grain transportation from the south to the north was still implemented, and official warehouses were still flourishing.

The main buildings of the warehouse in each hospital are: black block, gantry, official hall, supervisory duty station, official duty station, department room, lobby, watch room, alarm tower, Jitong warehouse, Taicang hall, well, gate, warehouse temple and land

Temples, etc., but only some of the temples have been preserved to this day.

South Xincang, commonly known as Dongmencang, was built on the old foundation of North Taicang in the Yuan Dynasty in the seventh year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1409). It was originally used to store rice, black bean feed, etc.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Nanxincang had 30 buildings. Later, there were many additions. By the time of Qianlong, the number had increased to 76.

After the mid-Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the country faced financial difficulties. In the late Qing Dynasty, corruption became prevalent and grain reserves were dwindling.

By the Daoguang period, the grain storage in this warehouse had decreased significantly compared with that in the early Qing Dynasty.

During the Republic of China, the warehouse was converted into an arsenal and is now a Beijing department store warehouse.

Due to the frequent construction of new buildings in the past ten years, several warehouses have been demolished, and now only 9 warehouses remain.

The huts in Nanxincang were built during the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. There are one hut with one hut and one with two huts in a row.

Taking every five rooms as a building, each room is about 24 meters wide, 17 meters deep and 7 meters high.

The roof of the building adopts the form of a cantilevered mountain, with shingle ridges applied to the composite roof. The original scorpion tails at both ends are now incomplete.

There are eaves and rafters on the front and rear of the roof without flying rafters. A 4.4-meter-wide and 2-meter-deep cantilevered eaves gate is installed on the front slope, and an air tower (skylight) is opened in the center of the roof.

The bottom is laid with bricks, wooden boards are laid on top, and the bottom of the boards is elevated to prevent moisture.

The hut has five-flowered gables, and the walls are made of "black city bricks" with rough white masonry. Only small square windows are opened in each bay.

The wall is thick to meet the thermal insulation requirements. The bottom is 1.5 meters thick and the top is about 1 meter thick.

The structure of the warehouse is five rooms with seven rafters, with eight gold pillars inside, three beams in the middle, and double beams in the front and rear.

The building's roof, wall methods and structural form are basically consistent with the records in the "Dingxin Warehouse" in Volume 4 of "Instructions for the Factory Warehouse of the Ministry of Industry" written by He Shijin in the Ming Dynasty.

Nan Xincang Cultural and Leisure Street is located at the "leading head" of Ping'an Street (No. 22, Dongshishitiao, Dongcheng District). It has the characteristics of "new in the old, fashion in the history".

The block covers an area of ??26,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??32,000 square meters and a total pedestrian street of more than 1,000 meters.

It is composed of Nan Xincang ancient warehouse group, antique building group and Nan Xincang Business Building.

There are currently more than 30 merchants operating in the area. The business formats are divided into two categories: culture and leisure, involving art culture, performance culture, food culture, etc.

The cultural category includes art galleries, music communication centers, film and television culture clubs, cultural media studios, Kunqu opera theaters, clubs, etc.; the leisure category includes Chinese and foreign specialty restaurants, bars, tea gardens, etc.

Nanxincang Cultural and Leisure Street focuses on cultural creativity.

Since May 18, 2007, 300 performances of the Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion" have been performed in the "Royal Granary". The wonderful combination of 600 years of historical and cultural heritage and 600 years of intangible cultural heritage has become a cultural hot spot and is listed as a 2008 cultural heritage.

Beijing's new traditional cultural projects are highly recommended by the Olympic delegation and international guests; during the Beijing Olympics, the first domestic Olympic champion club "Berlin Beijing 2008 Champions Club" was located in Nanxincang, and the event was very successful.

Dadong Roast Duck Nanxincang Branch, Before and After Dinner, and Tianxiayan Restaurant also attract many domestic and foreign guests to enjoy their leisure time with their distinctive business characteristics.

"Nan Xincang" is a non-renewable cultural relic. At the beginning of the construction of Nan Xincang Cultural and Leisure Street, in view of the non-renewable characteristics of cultural relic resources, "Strictly implement the "Cultural Relics Law" was formulated to adhere to the combination of cultural relic protection and rational utilization.

The working principle of "protection as priority", and the protection of ancient warehouses has been included in the company's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" development plan, and efforts have been made to organically integrate historical and cultural heritage with neighborhood construction and development, in accordance with the harmony between man and nature, the harmony between man and heritage, and the environment.

The concept of harmony with heritage and harmony between tradition and modernity enables the organic integration of cultural relic protection and the commercial operation of characteristic streets, balanced development, and harmonious growth; so that the historical context of the ancient capital can be continuously passed on and carried forward.