1 Suzhou Street, Haidian District

Suzhou Street Station on Metro Line 10 is named after it is located in the northern section of Suzhou Street, a famous ancient commercial street in western Beijing.

This ancient street starts from Wanshou Temple on the west side of Zizhuyuan in the south and ends on the west side of Haidian Town in the north. It has a history of more than 240 years. In the 16th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1751), Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River, and his mother also went there. The Empress Dowager was already in her sixties. This was her first trip to the south of the Yangtze River. It was an eye-opener. After returning to the palace, she still thought about the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. In order to please his mother, in the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign (1761), Emperor Qianlong, on the pretext of congratulating the Virgin Mary on her seventieth birthday, imitated the street scene in the south of the Yangtze River, started from Wanshou Temple and went north to Haidian Town and Changchun Garden, and built a He built a Suzhou-style "commercial street" that is several miles long, named "Business Street", commonly known as "Suzhou Street", and selected businessmen from Gusu City to operate it. The soft words make people feel like they are on the bustling streets of Suzhou. Whenever the old queen mother thought of the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, she would visit here and enjoy it very much. During the birthday celebrations, scenic buildings, stages, and prayer sheds were set up all the way from the Xihua Gate of the Forbidden City to the Grand Palace Gate of Changchun Garden. This was the envy of the Empress Dowager Cixi and she wanted to imitate it during her 60th birthday.

After that, the empress dowagers of all dynasties took a sedan chair out of Xizhimen, boarded the boat at Qihongtang Dockyard or Leshan Garden. After landing on the Changjiang River, they entered the Wanshou Temple Palace to rest for a while, then entered Haidian Town via Suzhou Street. Go to Changchun Garden. It was not until 1860 that the British and French forces burned down Changchun Garden and Haidian Town and then abandoned them. From then on, they gradually lost their name but no shape.

In the past ten years, with the construction of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, some buildings and shops have been rebuilt in parts of Suzhou Street, making the ancient street gradually prosperous again.

2 Summer Palace Suzhou Street

Suzhou Street in the Summer Palace is located in the northwest suburbs of Beijing. It is a shopping street on both sides of the Hou Lake built after the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Qianlong period, it was built after the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It was a water street specially designed for the emperors and empresses of the Qing Dynasty to visit the market. It was burned down by the British and French forces in 1860 and rebuilt on the site in 1990. It is the only copy of the ancient "palace market" in my country.

Suzhou Street is located in the middle section of Suzhou River. The total length of the street is more than 300 meters, with one river and two streets. There is a market along the bank. There are 64 shops of various types, 14 archways (squares), and small bridges. 8 seats. There are all kinds of teahouses, restaurants, banks, pharmacies, pawn shops, silk shops, printing offices, etc. on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Qingyi Garden

"Picture of the Longevity Ceremony of the Chongqing Empress Dowager"

During the period, there were various shops on the shore, such as jade antique shops, silk and satin shops, snack shops, teahouses, and gold and silver jewelry shops. Wait, the shop assistants and clerks here are all dressed up as eunuchs and palace maids. Whenever the emperor, queen, concubines, etc. come here to visit and shop, they will do hot "business" in a serious manner.

The practice of setting up four cities (cities) in royal palaces began in the Han Dynasty. In front of this majestic Lama Temple, such a beautiful Jiangnan-style water town street was built, like a folk temple fair integrating entertainment, food, and commerce. This reflects the unique charm of Qing palace life and my country's prosperous traditional commercial culture. Visitors here can go shopping along Suzhou Street in the Summer Palace

or take a boat ride, which is full of the rich fun of antique tourism.

2.1 Seven Suzhou Streets

Suzhou has beautiful scenery. Among the names of streets and alleys in Beijing, seven are named after Suzhou. In addition to Suzhou Street in the Summer Palace and next to Zizhuyuan, there are five more in the city. Today there are big Suzhou Hutong and small Suzhou Hutong in Nanchizi Street. This was the royal east garden in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Jinshui River in the Forbidden City flows through the Feilong Bridge here and enters the Changpu River. In ancient times, there were exquisite archways and stone bridges here, as well as many pavilions and pavilions. The scenery is breathtaking. good. A poem written by Chen Chen in the Ming Dynasty goes: "The river is thin and winds around the edge of the forbidden city, and the clear flow does not remember the year. It is good that the south wind blows in the dusk, and the lotus flowers are fragrant and the white gulls sleep."

There are Suzhou Hutong and Suzhou Alley in the inner street of Chongwenmen. downhill. In the early Ming Dynasty, this place was a water town in the southeast corner of the capital. In addition, in the northeast corner of the Imperial City of Beijing, there is an alley, also known as Little Suzhou Hutong. In the past, the river used to flow into it, and there were rocks and pavilions. Because it has the same name as Xiaosuzhou Hutong in Nanchizi, it has been renamed Yangchun Hutong.

A Suzhou Street in front of Wanshou Temple, a famous temple in western Beijing, is very famous in Beijing.

The Wanshou Temple was built in the fifth year of Wanli (1577) in the Ming Dynasty. Historical records say that the mother of Emperor Wanli invested a huge amount of money to build it. Its location is five miles outside Xizhimen. Wanshou Temple is one of the largest temples in the capital. When it was prosperous, it covered an area of ??more than four hectares and had thousands of monks at its peak. There are three sets of courtyards. The middle courtyard is the temple hall. The main hall is called Dayanshou Hall, which houses the three great Buddhas. There is the Heavenly King Hall at the back. There are Bell and Drum Towers in front, as well as Ning'an Pavilion, Stele Pavilion, Sutra Tower, etc. The Yongle Bell of the Dazhong Temple was also hung here in the early years. The east courtyard is the abbot's courtyard, where monks live, and the west courtyard is the palace, where emperors travel. When feudal emperors such as Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited Xishan, the dragon chariot and phoenix chariot left Xizhimen, took the Baishi Bridge and took the dragon boat. When they arrived at the Wanshou Temple, the boat docked at the dock. Stay overnight and listen to monks chanting sutras and performing Buddhist rituals. Empress Dowager Cixi also passed by this place many times when she went to the Summer Palace. At the north end of the west courtyard, there is a pavilion rich in Chinese national style, which is said to be the dressing table of the Queen Mother of the West. There are all kinds of buildings, verandas, pavilions, rocks and strange peaks, and the scenery is very beautiful.

Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River several times. He was very fond of the scenery of Suzhou, which was unrivaled in the world. In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign (1761), it was Qianlong's mother's seventieth birthday. The monks of Wanshou Temple wanted to recite the Longevity Sutra for the Empress Dowager. The emperor ordered that many southern-style market streets be built in front of Wanshou Temple along both banks of the Yuhe River. The houses, several miles long, were visited by Luan Yu and named Suzhou Street. The water of the Yuhe River is drawn from the Jade Spring. It is crystal clear, as clear as a mirror, and you can have a panoramic view of the fish jumping over the rocks. Trees are planted on both sides of the bank, weeping willows hang directly over the water, and famous flowers and trees compete for beauty. There are two exquisite and beautiful stone bridges built in front of the temple. Traveling through this place is like entering a fairyland. Today, the establishment of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature and the Beijing Art Museum here will not only greatly promote the research of modern Chinese literature and art, but also be beneficial to the reference and prosperity of contemporary literature and art, and will also be of great benefit to the protection of ancient temples and cultural relics.