Tianjin's traditional culture has profound and rich connotations and outstanding characteristics.

It is reflected in the construction of cities and sanitation, production, commerce, culture, food, clothing, families, residential buildings, transportation, life rituals, annual festivals, beliefs, folk arts and entertainment competitions.

After Zhu Yuanzhang died in the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1398), his grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne. His son Zhu Di launched a war for the throne against his nephew Zhu Yunwen in the name of "Jingnan".

In September of the second year of Jianwen (1401), Zhu Di led his army from Tongzhou to "follow the river south, cross Zhigu, and march day and night" to defeat Cangzhou and open up the road to the south.

Zhigu was given the name "Tianjin", which means "the place where the emperor helped ferry people".

At the ferry outside the north gate of the old city of Tianjin, there was once a memorial archway with "Dragon Flying across the Cross" to commemorate it.

After Zhu Di proclaimed himself emperor, he believed that "it is appropriate to set up military guards when shipping merchants come and go in Zhigu."

Therefore, from the second to the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404 to 1406), Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Zuowei and Tianjin Right Guard were successively established in Zhigu, and Huang Fu, Minister of Industry, Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan and others were ordered to build the city and dredge the pond.

Build Tianjin Acropolis.

The Tianjin Acropolis has the reputation of "Same as Huai'an".

It is 9 miles 13 steps long and 2 feet 5 feet high.

There are 4 gates with towers on them.

The city wall is 220 steps away from Haihe River in the east and 200 steps away from Weihe River (South Canal) in the north.

Since it was originally built with earth, it was in dilapidated condition by the early years of Hongzhi.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi (1491), Liu Fu, deputy military envoy of Tianjin, accumulated money. In the sixth year of Hongzhi (1493), Chen Da, the commander of the capital, spent two years covering the four gates with bricks and rebuilding the tower.

There are four gates named Zhendong, Dingnan, Anxi and Gongbei.

Urban life in Tianjin during the Ming Dynasty was typically feudal.

Among the upper-class people in the city, "every day they work with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and... compete for pride and luxury." In the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1652), the three guards of Tianjin were unified into one, collectively known as "Tianjin Guards", and this name also became

Representative of Tianjin city.

Tianjin's superior geographical environment and rich natural resources provide conditions for the development of Tianjin's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline, fishery, salt industry and handicraft industries. Among them, the production customs of fishery, salt and handicraft industries, which are one of the pillars of the economy, are quite distinctive.

Especially with the development of water transportation in the Yuan Dynasty, the handicraft industry serving it developed more rapidly, and various workshops emerged one after another.

Especially after the opening of the port, the economic invasion of imperialism objectively stimulated the emergence and development of national industry, and the national industry represented by Santiaoshi Machinery Industrial Zone formed a large scale.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tianjin had become an important base for national industry in North China.

After the city was built in the Ming Dynasty, water transportation developed, business prospered, wealth gathered from all over the world, and "people like to be merchants."

Relying on the unique geographical advantages of Haihe River, it can collect boats and cars from north and south, gather merchants from all over the world, welcome grain transportation by sea, and house Wuyue Department Store, becoming the commercial center of North China.

In the Qing Dynasty, water transportation, salt industry, and grain industry became more and more developed, and the economy was unprecedentedly prosperous. "The wheels are running, the boats are sailing, and the traffic is crisscrossed, day and night without stopping."

Inside the east gate, inside the north gate and outside the east gate, there are many businesses, banks and banks on Nangong North Street. The commerce and trade are developed and all industries are prosperous.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Tianjin. The city was burned, killed, and looted. The merchants and people suffered huge losses, their vitality was severely damaged, and the business was depressed.

After the city wall was demolished in the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), it was replaced by four roads in the east, west, south and north, with shops and stalls erected along the streets.

Subsequently, the Beiyang No. 1 Shopping Center on Beiyang Road, the Chinese Products Sales Office, as well as private business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Tianjin Industry and Commerce Research Association were established, forming a commercial area centered on the northeast corner and extending to Beima Road and Dongma Road.

From the 1920s to the 1930s, the commercial center gradually moved southward to the concession areas.

Blocks such as Quanyechang and Xiaobailou are becoming increasingly prosperous, and large-scale commercial districts have formed around them.

A large amount of commercial capital has been invested. Hotels, restaurants, shops, movie theaters, and dance halls are lined up in rows. They are brightly lit especially at night, with people drinking and drinking, singing and dancing. It is a country-famous place of enjoyment, and is known as the "Little Paris of the East". It has become an important place in Tianjin.

commercial, entertainment and leisure center.

An important symbol of Tianjin's economic development is the "banking fever" that emerged after the 20th century, especially after the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927).

As an important part of the financial industry, banks are developing more actively.

Since Tianjin's financial industry can radiate all the way to the hinterland of North China and Northwest China, it has become the financial center of the northern region.

In terms of the overall scale of the financial industry, Tianjin ranks second in the country only behind Shanghai.

With the development of Tianjin's urban economy and commerce, the rapid rise of the merchant class, especially the salt merchant class, has made great progress in urban culture.

Ji Yun, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote after arriving in Tianjin in the middle of the Qing Dynasty: "Tianjin is good at boiling the sea, so its prosperity is close to that of Huaiyang. ... Scholars came and went here only to find the joy of gardens and singing and dancing.

, taking poetry and wine as a source of entertainment. "The big salt merchants who were "rich in wealth and elegant in style" all made friends with famous people from the north and south, and formed a very special cultural circle.

Shuixizhuang, a well-known private garden built by the Zha salt merchants at home and abroad, was once a famous place where literati from all over the country gathered and formed associations.

The advocacy and secularization tendency of businessmen and the combination of businessmen and bureaucrats in urban society have become the most significant features of urban culture since the Qing Dynasty.

Regional culture with a commercial flavor affects the style and habits of urban residents.