Qingdao is not old, and there are many old streets.

Looking back at the dusty past of Henan Road, you will find that it was originally in the name of Financial Street. Once upon a time, Henan Road was like an auxiliary street in Zhongshan, hidden behind the bustling old commercial street in obscurity. With the transformation of Zhongshan Road into a pedestrian street, No.2 and No.5 trams dragged their long braids into Henan Road, and the settlement of a large number of foreign trade shops made it a must-see place for island people who prefer foreign trade goods. This familiar and unfamiliar road began to attract people's attention again.

There are "opposite views" on the seashore of the north-south roads in the old city. The "opposite views" on the seashore at the southern end of Henan Road is a pinnacle bungalow, which is a seawater extraction place in Qingdao. There is a pipeline under it leading to the sea, and a water truck is sucked in to wash the road. This pinnacle bungalow has a history of one hundred years and has become a scene on the coastal landscape.

Photography/Hu Pai

Henan Road starts from Taiping Road in the south and ends at Jinan Road in the north, which is completely parallel to Zhongshan Road and once belonged to two districts like Zhongshan Road. The German colonial regime divided Qingdao, where Europeans lived, and Baodao, where China people lived, with Dexian Road and Baoding Road as the boundaries. Therefore, the southern section was originally named Hamburg Street after the famous German city Hamburg. It was called Shenshanmachi during the Japanese occupation, and the northern section was called Henan Street and Henan Town from the beginning. China recovered Qingdao and the whole street was called Henan Road.

There used to be many banks and banks on Henan Road. In old China, banks with little capital could only be called "Qianzhuang" or "Bank". No.13 Henan Road is a private China Industrial Bank, which set up a branch in Qingdao in July 193 and moved here in 1932. In the financial crisis of 1935, there was a bank run, and with the support of Bank of Communications, it turned out to be a joint bank of government and business, with its manager Kong Xiangmian as the seventy-fifth grandson of Confucius. After liberation, the original site served as the People's Bank, and the business hall was once used as "Qingdao Gold Store", dealing in gold and silver jewelry and coins.

No.13, Henan Road, the former site of China Industrial Bank, is a European-style building, which was built in 1934 and was originally established as Qingdao Branch of China Industrial Bank. Designed by architect Xu Shouzhong.

China Industrial Bank was organized by the Ministry of Finance of Beiyang Government in the 4th year of the Republic of China (1915) and was formally established in April of the 8th year of the Republic of China. The main sponsors are Li Shiwei, former president of Bank of China, Zhou Xuexi, former chief financial officer, Xiong Xiling, former Premier, Qian Nengxun and others. The total capital is set at 2 million yuan, with 5% commercial shares and 5% public shares, of which 1 million yuan is held by China Bank, and 1 million yuan is recruited from the society. However, the paid-in capital at the time of opening was only over 2 million yuan, which was mainly allocated by China Bank. The head office is located in Tianjin, and moved to Shanghai in 21, and changed to the general management office.

The building was designed by Qingdao Lianyi Jianye Huahang, with Xu Shouzhong as the architect and Shentai as the builder. It covers an area of 1,837.33 square meters and has a building area of 3,37.47 square meters. Steel-wood structure. There are three floors in the original place, and one floor was built in the mid-198 s. Now it is four floors with a basement.

On the west side of the facade, the square granite foundation is attached to the wall, and there are thread-shaped and net-buckle-shaped wall-attached stone pillars on both sides of the gate. The arch stone carving decorative pattern is embedded with the door cover, and the embossed copper gate is attached with granite stone pillars on both sides of the arch and the arch window. A layer of threaded stone pillars is embedded in the window, and the second layer is a rectangular stone decorative line window. The whole building is simple and classical.

In 1934, Qingdao Branch of China Industrial Bank moved into the building from Guantao Road. In February 1937, the bank closed down. It resumed business in 1938 and barely maintained under the control of the Japanese puppet bank. After the liberation of Qingdao, it joined the Qingdao branch of the public-private joint bank in December 1952. This building is now the business place of Qingdao Central Sub-branch of China People's Bank.

No.15 Henan Road, the former site of Qingdao Banking Association, was built in August 1934. Its architectural style is very similar to No.13 Henan Road, designed by famous designer Xu Yao and constructed by Huafengheng. The former site of Qingdao Banking Association covers an area of 1582.76 square meters, and its modeling style is European classical style. Four floors above ground, concrete structure, square granite foundation and wall. The facade is symmetrical and rectangular windows are arranged in groups. There are four windows in the middle and two windows on each side. The whole building gives people a simple and solemn feeling.

Qingdao Banking Association was established on March 3, 1931. Its member banks include China, Communications, Mainland China, Zhonglu, China Industry, Shanzuo, Shanghai and Minghua. The first Committee elected Wang Zuxun, the manager of China Bank, as the chairman, and the meeting place was temporarily located in China Bank. At the same time, the building was planned to be built on Henan Road and moved to the new site after completion.

No.15 Henan Road is China Industrial and Mining Bank. Its manager is Yu Mozhang, who manages deposits, loans and remittances, and has a warehouse.

No.17 Henan Road is Jincheng Bank, manager Chen Guonan. This is a Renaissance-style building with granite pillars, a "Δ"-shaped roof eaves and a bell tower in the middle. It is the most moving building on Henan Road. After liberation, it was used as Shinan District People's Hospital, and now it is Qingdao Commercial Bank. Jincheng Bank on Henan Road In old China, banks with little capital can only be called "Qianzhuang" and "Silver Bank".

Jincheng Bank is mainly designed by China architect Lu Qianshou. The plane of the bank is nearly L-shaped, with three floors above ground and one underground. The top of the main entrance is equipped with a towering tower imitating the 19th century European town hall, which not only forms an exaggerated composition center, but also plays a role in the scenery of the street. For a long time, this bell tower was not only the symbol of this intersection, but also formed an organic connection with the bell tower of the former police station and local court. The yellow-gray building with reinforced concrete structure was designed on April 27th, 1934 and completed on September 19th, 1934. At that time, the construction speed should be very surprising.

Later, it was used as Shinan District People's Hospital. Nowadays, this building has been occupied by many shops, the front and west sides have become community health service centers, and the east side has become a foreign trade clothing store. Many temporary houses have been built on the roof of this beautiful old building. I wonder if these temporary buildings will become a part of the old building forever.

There is a Little Square at the intersection of Henan Road, Dagu Road and Baoding Road, which was the dividing line between Qingdao District where Germans lived and Baodao District where Chinese lived during the German occupation. This junction used to be Qingdao bus terminal and coach terminal, and it went to Huiquan and Dongzhen from here.

No.36, Henan Road, is a golden mean bank, with manager Wang Chunyi;

No.38 Henan Road looks ordinary, but once you enter it, you will find that its circular wooden ladder is very unique: there are wooden ladders on both sides of the promenade that go straight upstairs, meet above the promenade, climb the second floor, then separate to the middle of the second and third floors, and meet again ........................................................................................ Such stair design is extremely rare in old houses.

No.4 Henan Road is the former site of Qingdao Xiejutai Qianzhuang. Before 1949, Qingdao Xiejutai Qianzhuang was a large-scale Qianzhuang. Xiejutai Qianzhuang is located in Jinan, which is an early and powerful money house. In 1931, Xiejutai opened a branch in Qingdao, and several branches in the province, such as Tai 'an and Weifang, opened one after another. In January, 1948, the Ministry of Finance of the Kuomintang government adopted a unified name, so that all banks in various places were renamed Qianzhuang. The name of Qingdao Xiejutai Qianzhuang remained unchanged, and its foreign business was stamped with the seal of "Xiejutai Qianzhuang Qingdao Branch".

after time's transformation and baptism, the original site of Qingdao Xiejutai Qianzhuang, No.4 Henan Road, is still "alive", and it is the former site of Qingdao's few old Qianzhuang branches outside the port. As a nonlocal money house, Xiejutai Money House, which came to Qingdao to open a branch of money house and "make money" in Qingdao, was originally an old two-story store building with a length of 4 to 5 meters facing the street, which was also very magnificent in that year.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the Ministry of Finance of Nanjing National Government issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of Money Industry in Recovered Areas. Qingdao was designated as a restricted area, and only 13 banks were allowed to resume business. Among them, Xiejutai Bank Qingdao Branch was located.

The gate of Xiejutai Bank was arch-shaped, and there was a Qingdao-style courtyard in the 193s. Nowadays, in the courtyard, the old staircases and wooden structures are well preserved, but the small short houses built privately, pulling messy lines like cobwebs, have no idea that it used to be a money house.

No.51 Henan Road is Qingdao Commercial Bank, with manager Ji Yichen; No.88 Henan Road is Tiancheng Bank, with manager Zhang Shuxing.

according to the records of Qingdao archives, the street center between Zhongshan Road, Qufu Road, Henan Road and Feicheng Road was once a relatively square street center park-Qingdao Fourth Park, which was built in 1922 (the first Japanese occupation period) and covers an area of 5,5 square meters. There are only a hundred trees, which are called "Deep Mountain Park". In 1932, the municipal authorities of Nanjing National Government sold the park land and built banks in China, Shandong, Shanghai, Mainland China, Jincheng and Industry. The park is occupied.

once Henan road was a gourmet street in Qingdao, with Shandong restaurants, Muslim restaurants and Henan restaurants everywhere. In the 192s and 193s, large-scale hotels in Qingdao were divided into first-class and second-class hotels, and the prices of dishes were different. According to the Qingdao Guide published in 1933, there are first-class restaurants Yadong Hotel (No.58 Henan Road) and Houdefu (No.19 Henan Road) on Henan Road. There are second-class restaurants, namely Tongchun Building, Deshun Building and Xinsheng Building. In addition, there are special hotels such as Zhenyizhai and Caigenxiang.

Mr. Lu Hai recorded in The Story of Old Street that Yadong Hotel is the second largest Chinese hotel in Qingdao after Jufulou, with a lobby on the first floor and a private room on the second floor, where many wealthy families get married and celebrate their birthdays, which no longer exists.

"Caigenxiang" is the largest vegetarian restaurant in Qingdao, frequented by Buddhists and ordinary customers because of its light taste and clean food. Master Hongyi (Li Shutong) came to Qingdao to talk about "law" in Zhanshan Temple. Shen Honglie, the mayor of Qingdao, admired his name and gave a banquet at Caigenxiang, but Hongyi refused, which was a big news at that time.

Zhenyizhai is a halal restaurant on Henan Road, with two floors. In 1929, Ma Fuxiang, the mayor of Qingdao, was a Hui nationality, and often held banquets here, which made it famous, but it closed down during the occupation.

Houdefu is a restaurant with Henan cuisine. Houdefu is found in all major cities in China, and Qingdao's store happens to be on Henan Road, with specialties such as "tiled fish". It is said that Liang Shiqiu is one of the shareholders. Later, it was verified that his father is actually a shareholder of Houdefu in Beijing. He often entertains friends in Houdefu, Hu Shi comes to Qingdao, and Liang Shiqiu entertains him here.

Hotels on Henan Road can be divided into Chinese style and Japanese style. Kazuo Hotel has tatami according to Japanese custom. Chinese hotels include Dachang Hotel, Huabei Hotel and Gaoshengzhan, all of which are traditional inn-style hotels in China. There is one in the Harmony Hotel called "My Wife Pavilion", which means my wife; One is called Dahe Hotel, which is the largest Harmony Hotel (at Qufu Road).

The dim sum industry in Qingdao can also be divided into Chinese style and Harmony style. The famous shop in Chinese dim sum industry is Wanfulin, with its head office on Henan Road and nearly 2 employees, ranking first in the city. For a long time, Qingdao people gave gifts. If they gave cakes, Wanfulin's dim sum was the first choice. If they didn't give Wanfulin, it seemed that it was not good enough. The wrapping paper of Wanfulin Dim Sum is gilded on a red background, an art "Fu" trademark or bat pattern, which symbolizes "Fu". According to records, in 1947, Wanfulin sold more than 7, kilograms of moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival alone, which was a great sales volume at that time.

There is a Yunge Bookstore in the north of Wanfulin, which is small in size but has its own characteristics. It mainly deals in popular novels, including martial arts, romance and detective. The junction of the old Qingdao district and Baodao district on Henan Road has been an open space for a long time (it still is). It used to be the bus terminal of Qingdao and the coach terminal of Qingdao, from which it went to Huiquan and Dongzhen.

No.35-39, Henan Road, is a beautiful three-story courtyard-style building, with granite foundation and 8 petals of four different shapes on the grayish-yellow wall. There are three kinds of flowers in a row at the junction of the first and second floors of the building, but only one kind at the junction of the second and third floors. There is a strange door on the street of the small building. The door is rectangular iron. Although it is worn out, flower decoration can be seen faintly on it. There is a stone plaque above the door, and the handwriting on the plaque is mottled. Some people say that it used to be a famous restaurant, while others say that it used to be an inn.

No.8 Henan Road, Donglai Bank was originally located at the intersection of Henan Road and Tianjin. Although it is not as gorgeous as the Donglai Bank built after No.39 Hunan Road, it is already the most magnificent old building in the northern section of Henan Road.

This building is four stories high, with granite foundation. The decorative square columns and gables on the exterior wall of the building are all wrapped in heavy granite, which is like a layer of armor worn on the building. The top of the gable is decorated with patterns. If you look closely at the top of the square column, there are also small plaid flowers. Walking into the interior of the building, there is a square patio. Looking up, the fence on each floor is stone, and each fence has eight gourd-shaped stone decorations, which are very beautiful.

No.88, Henan Road, which is a two-story courtyard with granite foundation and light yellow walls. The rectangular window on the second floor is surrounded by thick white edges, and the top is slightly curved. Entering the patio through the gate and corridor, the patio is not big. Unlike the wooden fences on the second floor of many courtyards, the second floor here is not a fence but a wooden window. Some data show that it was a bank named "Tiancheng" in those days, and its manager was Zhang Shuxing.

There is a road in the heart of old Qingdao and the old urban area, named after Berlin, the capital of Germany, which is called Berlin Street, also called Mabu Town, and now called Qufu Road. Although this road is in the heart of the city, it does not show mountains and rivers.

Qufu Road starts from Dexian Road in the east and passes Zhongshan Road to Xintai Road. The easternmost point is the early Catholic church. Qingdao, published in 191, introduced: "The beautiful building of the Catholic Church is located on a piece of land with an area of 3, square meters handed over to the church by the Governor's Office. It was built in 1899-192 and is now used by churches and schools. This church, like all Catholic churches in southern Shandong, belongs to the Archbishop of Hurstel Church. Every Sunday, worship activities are held for the troops and the civilian order. " In 1934, after the completion of St. Michael's Cathedral, it became the auditorium of Mingde School.

Xu Shichang was the governor and minister of military affairs of the three northeastern provinces in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1912, he bought land and built a house on Berlin Street. Later, Yuan Shikai sent people to Qingdao three times to invite him to Beijing as Secretary of State. After Yuan Shikai's death, he became President of the Republic of China.

Zhang Shiheng, an old man from the Xun Qing Dynasty, lived diagonally opposite the Xu Shichang House. He once visited Laoshan with Xu Shichang. Xu Shichang wrote an inscription on the cliff, which is still on the road to Taiqing Palace. It reads: "Gui Chou (1913) visited Laoshan with Wu Yusheng of Suzhou and Li Jiaju of Guangzhou, and his fellow travelers were Yu Shimei, Li Jingmai and Zhang Shiheng of Hexian County. In his courtyard, there is a stone tablet inscribed by Yu Yue, a great scholar in the Qing Dynasty, which stands beside the bamboo forest in Zhongshan Park and is a Qingdao cultural relic.

Zhang Shiheng's house was later opened as Yingzhou Hotel, with few rooms, but good facilities and a traditional garden in China. Like Asia Hotel, it is close to Yong 'an Grand Theatre, and many famous actors have lived here, including Cheng Yanqiu, Li Wanchun, Bai Yuwei, Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying and Qiu Shengrong. Shang Xiaoyun, one of the four famous men, lived in Ying several times.