Rotten Ghost House Lane

Languilou lane is a street located in the southwest of San Andoni parish of Macao Peninsula. Its northeast end starts from Guolan street, intersects Meigui lane and Taiping lane along the way, and its southwest end ends at caodui street and connects with Baota lane. The street is about 100 meters long and 5 meters wide.

Rotten Ghost House Lane

Languilou Lane (also known as languilou new street, languilou; Portuguese: travessa do armaz é m Velho) is a street located in the southwest of San Andoni parish of Macao Peninsula. Its northeast end starts from Guolan street, intersects with Meigui lane and Taiping lane, and its southwest end ends at caodui street and connects with Baota lane. The street is about 100 meters long and 5 meters wide. Languilou was originally a building named "languilou". It was called "languilou" because it was destroyed by fire. This title was later used as the street name by the Australian and Portuguese authorities. During World War II, it used to be a market for used materials and stalls, but in the middle and late 20th century, it became a center of miscellaneous stores.

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Languilou Lane (also known as languilou new street, languilou; Portuguese: travessa do armaz é m Velho) is a street located in the southwest of San Andoni parish of Macao Peninsula. Its northeast end starts from Guolan street, intersects with Meigui lane and Taiping lane, and its southwest end ends at caodui street and connects with Baota lane. The street is about 100 meters long and 5 meters wide. Languilou was originally a building named "languilou". It was called "languilou" because it was destroyed by fire. This title was later used as the street name by the Australian and Portuguese authorities. During World War II, it used to be a market for used materials and stalls, but in the middle and late 20th century, it became a center of miscellaneous stores.

The origin of the name

The historical origin of "rotten ghost house" is related to an overseas Chinese named Yang Ruoyan: Yang Ruoyan was a rich man who came to Macao from the United States in the middle of the 19th century. He built a series of Western-style buildings at the junction of today's rotten Ghost House Lane and Rose Lane, and ordered them to be called "Lan GUI Lou". On the side facing Rose Lane, there was a balcony (called "arcade" by Macao people); today, Rose Lane is also called "langui Lou" It is called "Qilou Street", which is why it gets its name. Because Chinese call Western things "ghost", and langui building is a western style building, so langui building is also called "Ghost Building".

Languilou lane and Rose Lane border, and Yang Ruoyan return to the United States, and the languilou for sale. At that time, the "pig selling" industry in Macao was booming, so "pig houses" were set up in Macao one after another, and LAN GUI Lou was bought by a pig selling merchant named Wang Mao, an overseas Chinese from Malaysia, who specializes in selling Chinese laborers (pigs) to Havana, Cuba After Mao bought LAN GUI Lou, he used it as a piggery house and imprisoned all the "piglets" who were going abroad. Later, a fire destroyed LAN GUI Lou and killed more than 30 "piggies". After the fire, LAN GUI Lou was also abandoned, forming a ruin. Because Macao people used to describe the damaged things as "rotten", they put the word "rotten" in front of LAN GUI Lou, which is also called "ghost Lou", and turned it into "rotten ghost Lou". On the one hand, it emphasizes the dilapidation of LAN GUI Lou, on the other hand, it takes its name The homonym of "langui" and "langui" in Cantonese.

On July 26, 1869, when the relevant authorities of the Australian and Portuguese government gazetted and named the street, they named the street in front of Lan Kwai Lou today.

Old material stall

The old material stalls in Guolan street were once concentrated in languilou lane during World War II. Later, languilou was demolished and turned into an open area. In the afternoon, there are stalls on the open ground to sell old materials. In the evening, there are food stalls and story telling stalls after the old materials stalls close. Therefore, there were many lively scenes at that time. During the Second World War (1939-1945), a large number of refugees came to Macao one after another. Some of them took their belongings to pawnbrokers to pawn in order to get money to solve their daily life. If they were not pawned in pawnbrokers, they would sell them in louguilou or Lianxi temple in Xinqiao. The old material stalls in languilou New Street mostly sold antiques, calligraphy, painting and other valuable works of art, and the quality of goods was higher than that in Lianxi new temple. Because most of the people who set up the stalls at that time were waiting for money, the selling price was very cheap, which attracted many people to visit and buy. At that time, even some people who knew how to buy goods went to the stalls in languilou new street every morning First, buy expensive goods at a low price, which makes the old material stalls of rotten ghost houses more popular.

However, because of the prosperity of the old material stalls and the existence of several low-level prostitute villages nearby, the flow of goods to the new street of rotten ghost house is more complicated: it is said that there were three groups of people who once occupied this street and wanted to obtain benefits from the old material stalls here, so some people called the market of rotten ghost house "Sanfan" at that time. But with the end of World War II, refugees left Macao one after another, and the market of used materials stalls in rotten ghost houses began to become desolate.

Antique store

In the next few decades, the open space and some old buildings of languilou lane were demolished and transformed into residential buildings. Some of the original old material stalls were gradually moved to Guolan street near Guanqian main street. However, some old material stalls were turned into shops and continued to operate in the underground shops of residential buildings in languilou lane, which made languilou Lane become antique shops and miscellaneous shelves shops for a time In the mid-1990s, the former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, was a frequent visitor to these shops. However, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 led to the economic downturn in Macao in the next few years. During this period, most of the shops here were closed, transferred or relocated, which gradually made the rotten Ghost House Lane lose the feature of concentrated antique shelves. So far, there are few antique shelves shops that continue to operate here.

In order to revitalize this street, the authorities concerned have cooperated with some guilds since 2003 to hold a carnival like activity called "rotten ghost house before and after customs clearance" almost every year to stimulate consumption in this street and its vicinity. In 2006, the relevant authorities reorganized languilou and the streets around it, and built more green rest areas in languilou lane to beautify the streets. In addition, the authorities noted languilou as a shopping spot in the tourist guide to guide tourists to visit and shop in this area.

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The length and width of the streets mentioned above, unless otherwise specified, can be obtained through the measurement function of maplink, a software released by the map drawing and cadastral Bureau of Macao.

Address: Southwest of sant'andoni Parish, Macao Peninsula

Longitude: 113.538787

Latitude: 22.19722

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

Chinese PinYin : Lan Gui Lou Xiang