Enning Road

Enning Road

EN Ning Road, located in Liwan District, Guangzhou City, China, is a road with strong Xiguan characteristics. It starts from Baohua road in the East and connects Longjin West Road in the northwest. It was born in 1931, the road can be ranked eight top sedan, a time of unlimited scenery, known as "the most beautiful old street in Guangzhou.". Enning road is the essence of Xiguan arcade building. Enning road and Longjin West Road are connected with the arcades of the Shifu and Shangxiajiu pedestrian streets, becoming the most complete and longest arcade streets in the city, with more than a dozen cultural relics and historic sites. At the end of 2007, Enning road was included in the old city reconstruction plan by Guangzhou municipal government.

history

Why is Enning road named "Enning"? According to research, there used to be an enzhou village at one end of Enning road and a Ningxi village at the other. The road must be built through the two villages. After the agreement between the two sides, it was finally named "Enning".

Enning road has the grand view river. It used to be the most prosperous place in Xiguan. The eight bridges on it were called "the prosperity of the eight bridges" in the Qing Dynasty. North of Enning Road, west of shierfu, two branches of xiaxiguanyong and Shangyuan converge in the north of Huiyuan bridge. To the south of Enning Road, to the west of shierfu, there is Penglai bridge at the entrance of fenglaizheng street.

It is said that all the people living on Enning road are rich. In fact, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Unimaginable poverty, hiding behind the gorgeous road. Laojiefang said that simple dwellings were built near Enning Chung on the South and north sides of Enning road. Because of their low culture, most of the original dans who lived there were unable to make a living. They became sanitation workers and "poured incense at night" for the rich families on Enning road. The old neighborhood, which had witnessed their hard life, was full of emotion. "People are equivalent to sleeping with garbage and dung pits. It's more of a slum than a slum. During the cultural revolution in 1966, the authorities changed the name of the road to xiuliyilu in memory of Xiang Xiuli. In 1981, it was renamed Enning road.

Street cultural and educational relics

Bahe guild hall

177 Enning road. Bahe guild hall, formerly known as Qionghua guild hall, was set up in Foshan by Cantonese opera artists. The original site was not in Enning road. In 1889, some artists bought land in Huangsha to rebuild the guild hall, which was called Bahe guild hall. In 1937, the former site of Huangsha was bombed by the Japanese army. In 1946, the museum was moved to Enning road. At that time, Guan Dexing, Xue juexian and Ma Shizeng were the principal and vice presidents. Every year, countless Cantonese opera artists or fans come here from all over the world to seek their roots. They are all from the "Bahe children" here.

Zhan Tianyou Memorial

It is located at 42 Yacai lane, 12 Fuxi street, Enning road. Zhan Tianyou was born in shierfu, Xiguan, Guangzhou. Due to the disrepair of his former residence, the relevant departments rebuilt the Zhan Tianyou Memorial Hall in situ according to its original appearance.

Jinsheng cinema

265 Enning road. Jinsheng theater was founded by Zhu Yinqiao and Zhu Jiafan, who once lived in the United States in 1932. It opened on February 14, 1934 and was named "Grand Theater". A six story arcade with a floor area of more than 2500 square meters, mainly for American films.

Jinsheng cinema had many outstanding features at the beginning of its construction. It took the lead in assembling air-conditioning equipment, with people specially responsible for the sanitation inside and outside the field. It was a very high-end consumer place in the Republic of China. There are more than 1500 soft seats and boxes on the floor of the auditorium. The seats on the floor are made of genuine leather, and the interior walls on the East and west sides are decorated with fake boxes in imitation of foreign theatres. In order to show the noble identity, a notice was specially posted in front of the cinema: "if the clothes are not neat and the shoes are not finished, we will not accept them.". Jinsheng cinema was a public-private joint venture in 1956. It was renamed "Oriental cinema" during the cultural revolution. Its glorious period was in the late 1970s.

In 2010, the main building of Jinsheng was demolished, and only the archway with the inscription "Jinsheng cinema" in gold paint was left, similar to the archway of Macao's dashanba. The ground floor became a grocery store.

Xiguan Peizheng primary school

Located at 41 Enning road. Xiguan Peizheng primary school is a member of Peizheng family and a first-class school in Guangdong Province.

Bruce Lee's ancestral home

It is located at No.13, Yongqing Lane 1, Enning road. In the 1940s, it was built by Li Haiquan, the father of Bruce Lee. After Li Haiquan moved to Hong Kong, he rented out the house. In 1978, his descendants took back the property right. Bruce Lee's ancestral home is zoned in the park of Peizheng primary school. The old appearance is not impressive. If it is not for the seal of "cultural relics protection" on the wooden door, it will almost be mistaken for the school's utility room. It has a brick and wood structure with the architectural style of Xiguan big house, with carved beams and colorful carved glass screens. It sits south to north, three deep, with a width of about 8 meters and a depth of about 21 meters. It covers an area of more than 200 square meters and a construction area of about 400 square meters. Liwan District government plans to restore its old appearance and develop it into a memorial hall for Bruce Lee's ancestral residence and a medical and martial arts school.

Luanyu Hall

It is located at No.1, Yongqing Lane 2, Enning road. Luanyu hall, formerly known as Dehe hall, is a Cantonese Opera martial arts troupe under the Bahe guild hall. It was founded in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

Taihua building

Located at 27 Duobao square, Enning road. Taihua building was the study of Li Wentian, a visiting flower in Xianfeng Period of Qing Dynasty. It is named after the collection of rubbings of "Dongyue Taishan stele" and "Xiyue Huashan Temple stele". Later, there was a plaque of "Taihua building" in Chen Li's calligraphy. In the past, there were 100000 volumes of books, some of which were lost during the Anti Japanese War, and some of the books, calligraphy and paintings were copied away during the cultural revolution.

Taihua building, the garden gate to the East, hard mountain two slope top, into the study house and courtyard, courtyard set rockery, planting flowers and trees. The study is located in the north and south, three rooms wide, with a hard top and blue brick masonry. It was rebuilt in 1988 with the same style. Inside the hall, on both sides of the room, the front entrance of the hall set flower cover, after the hall set God building. In the west, the former kitchen and dining place is demolished and built in the two-story two slope hard peak house with grey glazed tiles on the external wall. The building covers an area of more than 420 square meters. The building was announced as a municipal cultural relic protection unit in 1993.

Urban renewal

The reconstruction plot of Enning road is located in the middle of Duobao street, connecting Duobao road and Longjin road in the northwest, extending to Shifu Road in the southeast, and adjacent to Shangxiajiu commercial pedestrian street, with a total area of 81146 square meters. It is the gathering place of authentic Xiguan houses in the past. There are 1965 houses with an area of 149137 square meters. There are historical and cultural relics such as Taihua building, Bahe guild hall, etc.

Enning road has been taken as a pilot project by Guangzhou municipal government to implement the new mode of old city reconstruction, with an area of 90000 square meters, which is the largest area of dilapidated houses in Guangzhou in recent years.

On March 16, 2012, Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of land and housing announced the "notice on adjusting the demolition scope and implementation unit of Enning road" in Enning road. Compared with 2007, the new demolition list retains about 16000 square meters of demolition land, including 221 arcades and historical buildings, as well as some historical buildings in Enning road plot. In the new announcement, Jixiang Fang No. 1 and houses No. 36, 38 and 52 with western architectural style are preserved, but many buildings such as No. 5, 7 and 11 of Jixiang Fang that were suggested by experts to be preserved have been demolished in advance. Jinsheng cinema was demolished as early as March 2010, leaving the street facade.

negative

In terms of relocation, only the residents with property rights will be provided with a relocation plan, and they will be relocated to the residential area to be built about one kilometer away from the plot. The rest of the public and private housing tenants will move to Jinshazhou new community near Huangqi, Dali Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City, and some will move to Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District. Some will seek their own way out, which will make the traditional folk culture of Guangzhou disappear At the end of the 20th century, foreign tenants who speak Putonghua or local dialects began to pour in, and the old city became hollow.

Some old neighborhoods of Enning road believe that the old city reconstruction is not only to build new buildings, but also to let the native Xiguan people live in Xiguan, "if the Xiguan neighborhoods all move far away, who will tell the history of Xiguan? How to remodel the history and culture of Xiguan? The most important thing is to let the indigenous people stay here, and the inheritance of roots depends on the indigenous people. ".

It is not uncommon for demolition teams from other places to carry out brutal construction on Enning road. Some people even forcibly damaged or even removed valuable buildings and building components under the eyes of the left behind neighbors, and a large number of cultural relics and buildings were damaged. The authorities have not imposed any deterrent punishment on these companies. In January 2013, a large number of people expressed dissatisfaction with the damage of Taihua building caused by the uncovering and covering project in Litchi Bay.

The reconstruction project has also destroyed many ancient streets and alleys that are well known to all. According to the current practice, the names of these streets and alleys will disappear completely geographically.

In an exclusive interview with the night news of Guangzhou TV station on March 7, 2012, Hong Xiannu, a master of Cantonese opera, said: "it's not to build a room for a house or a museum. Enning road can't represent Cantonese opera. It's true that many Cantonese Opera workers lived in Xiguan before, but they lived in Xiguan. It's not Enning Road, it's Xiguan, but most of them lived in Henan.". She believes that the government should gather more people from the Cantonese Opera industry to discuss the contents of the exhibition instead of simply listing the video materials.

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