Dongjiaomin Lane, the embassy district of old China, is an alley in Dongcheng District. In the old days, it was originally called Dongjiang Rice Lane because it was a place for grain transportation. Hutong starts from Tiananmen Square East Road in the west and reaches Chongwenmennei Street in the east, with a total length of nearly 1.6 km (including Xijiaominxiang, 3 km * *), which is the longest hutong in old Beijing. In the Yuan Dynasty, Dongjiaomin Lane and Xijiaomin Lane on the west side of the square were connected into an alley called Jiangmi Lane. At that time, this hutong was named Jiangmi Lane because of the Beijing Tax Department and Customs, which controlled grain transportation in Yuan Dynasty, and became the throat of grain transportation from south to north. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a waterway outside the east wall of the imperial city. 1292 tonghui river was dug to connect the north-south grand canal. At that time, the grain ship stopped directly at the ship's rail alley outside the city, and people unloaded the grain on the spot and sold it, forming a street for grain trading. Southerners call it glutinous rice, and northerners call it Jiangmi. After a long time, people simply call it Jiangmi Lane. The names of Beijing Hutong are very practical. You can know its meaning when you see the names. Nine times out of ten, people still miss the old hutongs in Beijing. In the eighteenth year of Yongle, Judy moved to Beijing. Since then, Jiangmi Lane has become a long street in the city.

In the Ming Dynasty, the chessboard boundary was built, and the original Jiangmi Lane was cut into Dongjiang Lane and Xijiang Lane. Dongjiang Mixiang has six Chinese Rites, Split Temple and Huitong Pavilion, but it only receives envoys from four vassal states, including Annan, Mongolia, North Korea and Myanmar, so Huitong Pavilion is also called Siyi Pavilion. In the Qing Dynasty, Huitong Pavilion was renamed Siyi Pavilion, and the policy was revised to allow only foreign envoys to live here for 40 days.

1860 After China was defeated in the Second Opium War, according to the relevant provisions of the Tianjin Treaty signed by the Qing government with Britain, France, the United States and Russia, 186 1 in March, the British minister officially moved to Qinchun Palace in Dongjiang Mi Xiang (then named Liang Gongfu, the residence of Wang Yunyou, the seventh son of Emperor Kangxi). The French minister officially stayed in An Jun Palace (then known as Spring Palace, the residence of Yue Le, king of Sun An County in Nurhachi); American envoy stationed in the private residence of Dr. William, an American citizen in Mi Lane, Dongjiang; The Russian minister stayed at the Orthodox Russian Pavilion built here in the early Qing Dynasty.

Later, embassies all over the world chose Dongjiaominxiang as the venue. 1900 before the boxer movement, there were embassies of France, Japan, the United States, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries. After the Boxer Rebellion broke out, foreigners gathered, which was regarded as the focus of the crackdown. There is a nursery rhyme that says, "If you eat noodles without vinegar, you will be shot at forty storehouses; Eat noodles without sauce and hit Jiao Min Lane ",the former refers to Xishiku Church in Huangchenggen, west of Beijing, and the latter refers to Dongjiaomin Lane. 1900 After the Boxer Rebellion, Dongjiang Mi Lane was renamed as Legacy Street according to the provisions of the "Xin Chou Treaty", and officially renamed Dongjiaomin Lane in the map drawn by the Chinese side, becoming the embassy area managed by the embassies themselves. The Qing government offices in this street only kept the three departments of officials, households, ceremonies and Zongren House, and the rest were moved out. Subsequently, foreign banks such as British HSBC, Macquarie Bank, Russia-China Dawson Bank, Japan Yokohama Zhengyin Bank, Germany Dehua Bank, France Oriental Credit Suisse Bank and so on appeared here one after another. French post offices, hospitals and other facilities have also been opened, and a large number of western-style buildings have appeared. This embassy district has been preserved since the revolution in 19 1 1. It was not until War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937 that the Axis diplomats were handed over to the National Government.

After 1949, it will still be used as the embassy area. Embassies of the GDR, Hungary, Myanmar and other countries that established diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China (PRC) continued to use the old buildings here until 1959 moved to the first embassy district of Sanlitun outside Chaoyangmen. During the Cultural Revolution, due to its historical particularity, it was hit again. The street name was changed to Anti-imperialist Road, and many western-style buildings were destroyed. /kloc-since the 1980s, with the development of Beijing's urban construction, the buildings in Dongjiaominxiang have also been impacted, and the former sites of HSBC, Jardine Matheson and Russia Pavilion have been demolished due to widening roads. Dehua Bank 1992 was demolished; The former site of the Japanese Embassy is occupied by the Beijing Municipal Government; Many high-rise buildings and modern buildings have been built on the street, and the whole street has been greatly damaged. Dongjiaomin Lane is a cultural relic protection block in Beijing. Protected by the cultural relics department.