The Red Mansion in ximending, Taipei, is an important memory for many old people in Northern Taiwan. The red chamber architecture creates different symbolic images with special cross and eight trigrams. Through different periods, Red Mansions witnessed the rise and fall of ximending and experienced the ups and downs of Taipei for many years. From the early period of Japanese occupation, the period of movies and dramas, the period of movies, to the recent period of multiple styles, Red Mansions have gone through the prosperity and decline of the whole Ximen business district. Now it has become a new cultural and creative center, attracting countless young people with creative ideas to visit.
Today's Red Mansion has become a brand-new cultural center. In addition to performing activities, the "cultural and creative incubation base" on the second floor of the cross Tower Plaza has entered a number of cultural and creative stores. The creative commodity market at the gate of the Red Mansion is also popular with young artists.
Inside the red building, there are riverside message exhibition hall, moonlight cinema and various cafes, which can be called "the holy land of culture and youth". It's another kind of enjoyment to come here at night and enjoy the Centennial red building at night.
Ximen Red Mansion
Ximen Red Mansion, also known as "octagonal hall" or "Red Mansion theater", operates cafes and boutiques on the first floor (mainly Taiwan featured products) and is free for the public to visit. The main business items are performing cross talk, opera, stage play, dance, concert and other arts and cultural activities on the second floor of the building.
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Ximen Red Mansion is located on Chengdu Road in Wanhua District of Taipei City, close to Ximen Ting hiking district. This two-story three-level historic red brick building was built in 1908. The most unique feature of this historic building is that its appearance is 8 meters per facade. Therefore, the building was usually called "octagonal hall" during the Japanese occupation.
Behind the main building of the octagonal hall is a brick building with a cross shaped appearance. The two buildings, which are not very similar in structure, are called Ximen market, while the red building is the market entrance. In the late period of Japanese occupation, the market scope expanded to the trapezoidal area surrounded by Chengdu Road, Xining South Road and Neijiang street, and maintained this pattern.
After the war, the Shanghai businessmen who took over the bajiaotang changed their name to "Red Mansion theater" because of the red brick appearance of the building. After 1963, the Red Mansion theater was changed to film, so it was also called "Red Mansion theater" or "Red Mansion" for short. In 1997, Taiwan's "Ministry of the interior" listed the Red Mansion as a third level historic site, named Ximen Red Mansion.
Ximen red building is a small-scale well-known art and cultural performance venue, which is commissioned by the local government of Taipei to operate by the paper windmill culture and education foundation. The contract expired in September 2007 and was handed over to the Taipei Culture Foundation in November 2007. It won the historical space activation award of the seventh "Taipei City Landscape Award" in 2008. Ximen red building supports the art, culture and creative teams We will continue to inject vitality into the cultural and creative development of the Western District of Taipei.
Historical evolution
In 1895, Taiwan entered the era of Japanese occupation, and a large number of Japanese immigrants entered Taipei. Considering the distribution of buildings in the city and the formed market geography of Kawakami and Dadaocheng, the governor's office of Taiwan plans the open space near the west gate of Taipei City as a Japanese residential space. In response to the needs of Japanese living function in Moguang, Xinqi, Daiwa, naimu, Zhudi, shouding, binding and Quanding (both sides of the first and second section of Zhonghua Road in Taipei and the walking area of Ximen ting), the market architecture of "Xinqi Street" beside Ximen appeared in 1896. The main purpose of this market is to supply the living days of local new immigrants It's often a necessity. In 1907, the governor's office of Taiwan, which successfully demolished the Taipei city wall and the west gate in the process of urban correction, was further commissioned by the famous architect Shinzo Kondo to build a formal West Gate market to provide a more perfect market to replace the existing wooden market.
Ximen market, also known as xinqijie market, was officially established in December 1908 as the first official market in Taiwan. The entrance of the market is an octagonal two-story western style building with an elevation of 8m. On the other side is a cross shaped red brick building with a "straight" length of about 65m, a "horizontal" length of about 45m and a "width" of about 15m. In the middle and late period of Japanese occupation, many private bungalow shops and vendors were built around the market. In 1911, the Daohe shrine and the small oval park were set up near the market for Japanese worship. (all near the west gate station of the Taipei MRT)
The two-story western style building at the entrance of Ximen market is now the red building. Because of its octagonal appearance, it is called octagonal hall by local Japanese residents. Eight "tiger windows" can be seen from the facade of bajiaotang. The parapet of each facade is decorated with a prominent triangular "hilltop". In addition, the exterior wall is decorated with washing stones to imitate mountain stones. In the interior, the octagonal hall adopts the octagonal beam column system, which is reinforced concrete structure, and the octagonal roof is called by the steel support. In terms of space, it can include the octagonal hall on the second floor, the entrance hall on the first floor and eight small shops in eight corners.
After its completion in 1908, Ximen market has always been the main consumer market of Japanese immigrants in Taipei. In addition to the cross shaped Ximen market, which serves as a traditional food market, the eight small shops on the first floor of the red building of bajiaotang also sell leisure, cultural and educational supplies and Western medicine, respectively, while the second floor of bajiaotang sells Taiwan products, postcards and Japanese products.
In August 2008, in order to activate Ximen Red Mansion, the Taipei Municipal Bureau of culture introduced a tea restaurant to provide tea products and refreshments in bajiaolou, providing tourists with the unique culture of drinking tea in historic sites. The front part of the cross building in the rear is divided into 16 small creative studios for creative designers of Taiwan's own brands, collectively known as "16 workshops"; the back part is occupied by the pub management team, inviting independent orchestras to perform.
Theater Theater
In 1945, Taiwan entered the period of the Republic of China, and the West Gate market of bajiaotang was officially operated by the new government. In 1949, Chen Huiwen, a well-known businessman in Shanghai who retreated from Taiwan due to the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, together with several people, rented the octagonal hall from the government and renamed it Huyuan theater. After adding a stage and more than 300 seats on the second floor of the theatre, Chen Huiwen mainly performed Peking Opera. However, the performance was not welcomed by new immigrants who were emigrated to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland.
In 1951, Chen Huiwen changed the name of Huyuan theater to Red Mansions bookstore, and the performance content changed from Peking Opera to storytelling. The name of the red building is due to the red brick building and the elegant nickname of storytelling.
Red Mansions, which have changed from performing Peking Opera to storytelling, are very popular because of the increasing number of immigrants from the mainland and the suitable venues. In 1956, Shanghai businessman Chen Huiwen added Yue opera performance to storytelling performance. At the same time, he officially renamed the red chamber bookstore as the red chamber theater.
In 1963, in response to the increasing popularity of films in Taiwan, the red chamber was renamed the red chamber theater (red chamber cinema), which began to show Huang Mei Diao and other Mandarin films such as Jiangshan beauty. The cinema was also one of the starting points of the early film street in Ximen ting.
In the early 1970s, the number of large-scale cinemas in ximending increased rapidly, and the red chamber theater, whose space seats and acousto-optic equipment could not be compared with the new cinema, was declining. From the mid-1970s to 1997, when it officially closed down, the Red Mansion became a second round cinema and was famous for its pornographic films. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the square next to the Red Mansion was also one of the few gathering places for gay men in Taipei, except for the New Taipei Park (today's peace park on February 28).
Paper windmill
In 1990, a fire broke out in Ximen market, which had not been rebuilt for a long time. Although the red building was not seriously affected, the market and the surrounding square were heavily damaged by vendors and illegal construction. In 1994, cultural groups such as Leshan Foundation began to pay attention to the development of Ximen Red Mansion, and asked the government to recover the public property and maintain it. In 1997, the Ministry of the interior listed the west gate red mansion as a class III historic site. Meanwhile, the Taipei municipal government took back the lease of the Red Mansion theater. In 1999, the Taipei municipal government began to renovate the building for the first time, positioning it as a "Film Museum". However, due to the positioning of the building and the fact that the surrounding Ximen market has not been rebuilt, the Ximen red building is still idle.
In March 2002, the Taipei Municipal Government commissioned the Ximen red mansion to be run by the paper windmill culture and education foundation. In the same year, on July 26, the foundation, which was presided over by famous director Ke Yizheng, invested a lot of money in the renovation and re opened Ximen Red Mansion under the name of "Red Mansion theater".
In addition, after the completion of the West Gate market at the back end of Red Mansions in 2003, the "ㄇ" shaped public space beside the Red Mansions and cross buildings in the west gate often holds artists' autographs or album publishing meetings on Sundays. Artists such as Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, Lin Junjie and so on have held related activities in Ximen Red Mansion square.
In February 2007, the five-year contract of the "paper windmill culture and Education Foundation" for the operation of the red chamber theater expired. The Cultural Bureau of the Taipei municipal government asked the "paper windmill culture and Education Foundation" to continue its operation until a new operation team was recruited. Based on its cultural mission, the paper windmill culture and Education Foundation continued to operate until September 30 of the same year, officially ending its five-year and 60 day operation.
Transformation and development
In November 2007, the Cultural Bureau of the Taipei municipal government was operated and managed by the Taipei cultural foundation to organize cultural and creative activities
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