Gaodusi Lane

Gaodusi Lane

Gaodusi lane is located in Lixia District Quancheng road sub district office area, is a north-south street.

Gaodusi Lane starts from the west entrance of jiangjunmiao street in the north, ends at Quancheng road in the south, adjoins Bianzhi Lane in the East and Taipingsi street in the West. House numbers 1-41, 2-56. It is 250 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. In 1982, the stone slab pavement was changed to asphalt pavement. The name of the street began in the Ming Dynasty. It was changed to Qiming street in 1966 and returned to its original name in 1980. In 1640, the 13th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, a textual research on the construction of Licheng county annals (an additional edition in the 61st year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty), it was recorded: "gaodusi Lane: East of Taipingsi Street". On both sides of the street are small brick buildings with northern characteristics. Some residential buildings have a unique pattern of "courtyard street, street with courtyard".

This lane, together with Furong street and Bianzhi lane, is the only ancient building complex on the west side of the provincial government. Although many ancient dwellings have been renovated or rebuilt after hundreds of years of social unrest and wind and rain erosion, it retains the basic features of old Jinan as a whole.

Historical overview

During the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the banking industry in Jinan set up the Ford guild hall in gaodusi lane. Sanheheng, qingtaichang, xiejutai, dadetong, dadeheng and other banks sent people here every day to exchange information and trade, commonly known as "Shangguan". In 1906, the German Lihe foreign firm's Han Shi Lilai Ji set up Lihe foreign firm Jinan Branch in gaodusi lane, which was the first foreign firm established in Ji.

At the beginning of the first month of the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), French bishop Jiang leisiliqi preached and threatened to take back the Catholic Church which had been abandoned in the 30th year of Qianlong. Because of the weakness of the Qing government and the unequal treaties, many houses in the east of gaodusi lane and the Lake fields in the north were occupied by missionaries. From 1861 to 1869, the Catholic Church was expanded one after another. In order to prevent the siege of the masses, all the churches were closed buildings, which looked like an ancient castle from a distance. Nowadays, many old Jinan people still call this area "Yanglou Street". In 1903, gongligong school was opened in gaodusi lane. After the revolution of 1911, the school became a public school. In 1914, it merged with private shanzuo public school and Jinan government secondary school to establish provincial No.1 middle school, which is the predecessor of Jinan No.1 middle school.

Huiyuanli Huang's courtyard at No. 10-26, gaodusi lane, is the former site of Jitai clothes shop. It is one of the most important business houses in Jinan history. Its business scope has reached Beijing, Qingdao and other cities. The courtyard is divided into main road and branch road, including 6 large courtyards and nearly 300 houses. It is a lane with modern style, which is different from the typical quadrangle in the north, and has distinctive characteristics of the times. The owner of Yuhua stationery store, who once lived on the 36th, once opened the branch in Shanghai and Singapore. When the public-private partnership was established, the government's valuation of the store was as high as 400 million yuan!

geographical position

Gaodusi lane is located in the west of Quancheng road sub district office, Lixia District, Jinan, starting from the west entrance of jiangjunmiao street in the north and ending at Quancheng road in the south. The street is 250 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. It is said that the street was named after a high surnamed Dusi who lived here. The name of the street dates back to the Ming Dynasty. The county annals of Licheng in 1640, the 13th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. There is a record in jianzhikao: "gaodusi Lane: Taipingsi Street East". It was once named Qiming street in 1966 and was renamed in 1980.

In the old days, the west gate of Jinan was heading east, and the second lane in the north of the road was gaodusi lane. On both sides of the lane are mostly Qing Dynasty dwellings with green bricks and small tiles with northern characteristics, and many of the buildings are very elegant. There are cloister courtyards with slopes, and some courtyards have auspicious patterns of stone and wood carvings. Some large families have built their houses into a unique pattern of "courtyard street, street with courtyard". In October 2002, the rescue archaeological excavation of gaodusi Lane unearthed a large number of cultural relics, such as ancient wells, ancient roads, pottery pots, porcelain, tiles, wine altars, etc. these cultural relics almost ran through all dynasties from the Warring States period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which proved that the ancestors had lived in this area during the Warring States period. Therefore, some people say that gaodusi lane is "the whole chronicle of Jinan.".

What it looks like today

In 2002, when gaodusi lane was demolished, the relevant departments took good care of some ancient buildings with preservation and research value, numbered the beams, doors and windows of the old houses, and prepared to rebuild them according to their original appearance in the future.

Today, Wal Mart, the world's largest chain retailer, together with its Chinese partner Dalian Wanda Group, has invested a huge sum of money to build a 50000 square meter shopping mall here. Gaodusi lane, an ancient street with a history of more than 500 years, has disappeared from the hinterland of 2.6 square kilometers of Jinan City, Shandong Province. It will only appear in the old version of the map of Jinan City.

Cultural Relic

Jinan news: the archaeological excavation at the site of gaodusi Lane in Jinan, which has aroused strong public concern, ended today. The archaeologists finally cleaned up the remaining cultural layers at the site and withdrew after excavation. The roar of excavators was restored here. The cultural relics unearthed in 10 days are very rich, from the Warring States period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in almost every dynasty.

This morning, the staff of Jinan Institute of archaeology cleaned up several ancient wells on the site, and once again cleared up some pieces of porcelain from the song, yuan and Ming Dynasties and other relics of the ancestors' daily necessities. At about 10 a.m., the archaeological excavation on the site was completed, and the archaeologists began to turn to the second stage of restoration, research and analysis of the cultural relics unearthed at the site.

Li Ming, deputy director of Jinan Institute of archaeology, said at the end of the site excavation that the excavation at gaodusi lane was extremely fast. In less than 10 days, they found 38 ancient wells in different periods, including Warring States, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, found 30 ash pits, excavated and cleared hundreds of ceramic artifacts and other valuable materials Cultural Relic. These unearthed cultural relics cover a wide range of ages, and are the most abundant in all previous archaeological excavations in Jinan, from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, to the Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is reported that after more than one month's restoration of cultural relics, archaeologists will use these antiques with the "symbol" of the times to determine the important contents of the urban change history of ancient Jinan.

Gaodusi Lane

Address: gaodusi lane, Lixia District, Jinan City

Longitude: 117.01769583039

Latitude: 36.666889145007

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