Weihai Road

Weihai Road

Weihai Road is an east-west road in the center of Shanghai. It starts from the viaduct of Yan'an middle road in the West and borders on wusheng road in the East, with a total length of about 1800 meters. Weihai Road was once known as Weihaiwei road. The juxtaposition of Weihai Road and Nanjing West Road, from west to East, is slightly wavy and curved, which implies the "moral" of Weihai, a coastal city in eastern China.

From the Shanghai Exhibition Hall under the viaduct of Yan'an west road, Weihai Road begins its long "coastline". Pass the new lane marked "lincun memorial archway" at the entrance of lane, pass Shaanxi North Road, and meet Shaanxi North Road at Weihai Road. At the corner of Shaanxi North Road, there is a small triangle garden. Green bamboo is planted all around the green bamboo Pavilion. The wind blows slowly, bamboo leaves rustle and fluctuate like waves. Close to the small garden is the Weihai Road Kindergarten, which is opposite the campus of the Second Polytechnic University, the Wenhui Xinmin newspaper group building and the Minli middle school campus built in 1903. These educational and cultural units make this section of Weihai Road full of the fragrance of books and newspapers, and make people feel a kind of refreshing cultural atmosphere. It is reported that relevant parties will build a "cultural media Street" here.

Along Weihai Road, there are many lanes on both sides of the road. Most of the houses have the style and characteristics of Shikumen in early Shanghai. From time to time, the "old sea lanes" are sandwiched in the middle of new buildings, which makes people's thoughts jump and think constantly.

Weihai Road and Maoming North Road are the few exquisite lanes in Shanghai, such as Jing'an villa. On the side that opens to Nanjing Road, the road of the main lane is quite wide. Rows of houses in the Branch Lane are tall and tidy, with carved lintels and colored glass windows. On rainy days, the old houses are full of nostalgia in the humid air. They stand quietly in the deep of the lane, unobtrusive but different. It's easy for people to enter those old sea memories, and they can't let go for a long time.

In the southeast of the intersection of Maoming North Road and Weihai Road, there is an old Shikumen building in Zhonghai. Her house number is No. 5-9, Lane 120, Maoming North Road, and the original house number is No. 318, jiaxiuli, murming road. This is the old residence where Mao Zedong lived in Shanghai for the longest time in his early revolutionary activities and lived with his wife Yang Kaihui. This is a typical two-story old-fashioned Shikumen house with brick and wood structure, fair faced exterior wall, black paint gate, copper ring door buckle and stone door frame. Cai Hesen and Xiang Jingyu lived in the wing room on the second floor, while Mao Zedong's family lived downstairs. In the middle was the place where Mao Zedong met his guests. In December 1924, due to illness, Mao Zedong ended his work in the Shanghai executive department of the Kuomintang and returned to his hometown Hunan with his family. Comrade Mao Zedong came to Shanghai ten times from 1919 to 1926. After Yang Kaihui was arrested in that year, his three sons all roamed the streets in Shanghai. Mao Anlong, the youngest of them, died in Shanghai hospital. It can be seen that Mao Zedong and Weihai Road really had an indissoluble bond.

It is recommended as a tourist spot by Shanghai Tourism Administration. Walking into Jiaxiu, there is a bronze statue of Mao Zedong's family of four in the green bamboo forest beside the Qingshui wall. Yang Kaihui is sitting on a rattan chair with a small shore herring in her arms. Mao Zedong is amused. Beside her, there is a small shore Ying around her knees. The family is happy and enjoys a short time of family happiness. As soon as you step into the top show, you will feel the amiable demeanor of a great historical man.

Of course, there are many old-fashioned apartment buildings on Weihai Road, which are still intact. No. 651 Weihai Road is a 7-story apartment with mixed structure and courtyard style, which was completed in 1928. From the air, the whole flat is in a zigzag shape. The facade facing the street is decorated with face brick of alternate depth and light, the main entrance is decorated with arch with high vertical scale, and the window lintel is decorated with white flat plate. The apartment was named "Sun apartment" by sun Chunshan, a real estate developer, with his surname transliterated in English, and now it is not only inhabited by residents. There are also signboards at the door, such as Shanghai Broadcasting Science Research Institute and China Building Materials East China company.

In recent years, Weihai Road legal person cell transformation pace is very fast, now from Maoming North Road to Chongqing North Road this section. There are many modern buildings, such as Shanghai TV station building, four seasons hotel, Zhongkai chengzhiguang residential district, gentleman's building, Zheshang Bank, Changsheng building, China Minsheng Bank building, Shanghai Merchants Plaza and so on. Among them, the environmental layout of ZhongKai chengzhiguang residential area is admirable. A brown micro arched granite stone gate at the gate of the city is abstract and modern in shape, and the tall buildings with beige walls and green window frames inside the city are elegant and noble. Both sides of the "city" gate are two-story shops decorated with black marble. The goods displayed in the window are beautifully packaged. There are a row of street trees planted on the street. Every two street trees are separated by a palace lamp, which brings the modern flavor to Weihai Road.

The east section of Weihai Road connects with wusheng road in the south of people's Square. People's square used to be the largest horse racing hall in old Shanghai. Wusheng road used to be called horse racing Hall Road, which still has traces of arc-shaped horse racing road. Weihai Road was close to the race hall, so many stables were scattered between Weihai Road and Huangpi North Road. Now 20 Weihai Road is the management organization of the stables and stables. This is a two-story clock tower with a concave plane. The top floor of the clock tower is the management office and the rider's dormitory. There are nine stables in the two sides of the ground floor. Before the start of Marseilles, the horses were checked and dressed, then pulled to the raceway of the main grandstand (that is, the Shanghai Grand Theater) in the race hall in turn, and then pulled back to the stable after the race. Today, the horse race hall has disappeared, but the stables have been turned into civilian houses. This is a wonder on Weihai Road. When many people first see this house with red tiles, green eaves and yellow walls, they always think it's a foreign house with peculiar shape. When they know that it used to be a stable in the horse racing hall, they often feel incredible. But when they look at the two-story building on the top of the red tile slope, which is lower than ordinary houses, and the clock base with white cement holes on the top, they have to believe that time has changed everything. Weihai Road is really beautiful It is also a road with unique history.

Address: Weihai Road, Shanghai (across Jing'an District and Huangpu District)

Longitude: 121.46000056949

Latitude: 31.226694819305

Ticket information: no ticket required.

Chinese PinYin : Wei Hai Lu