Hualou Street

Hualou Street

Hualou street is a street between Jianghan Road and liuduqiao in Hankou, Wuhan. It is divided into qianhualou street, zhonghualou street and houhualou street. Qianhualou street is on the back of Jiali square in Jianghan, zhonghualou street is between Liudu bridge and riverside. Hualou street, as one of the oldest streets in Hankou, is the epitome of Hankou. Later, with the municipal construction, qianhualou was connected with Lihuangpi Road, collectively referred to as Lihuangpi road. After Hualou extended to Daxing Road riverside, collectively known as Hualou street. But only from Jianghan Road to Minsheng Road, people are still used to call it houhualou. The old scene of Hualou Street described in the poem of bamboo branches in Hankou is "the front Hualou is connected with the back Hualou, straight out of Xinsheng road.". Horses and carriages are like shuttles, people are like weaving, and the song has never ceased in the deep night. "

brief introduction

Hualou street is a multi-cultural District, located in the southeast corner of Jianghan District, bounded by Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street in the north, Yanjiang Avenue wuhanguan in the East, Minsheng Road in the south, Zhongshan Avenue water tower in the west, with a total length of 1100 meters and an area of about 0.28 square kilometers. It governs Hualou street, Huangpi street, Jiaotong Road, Jiaotong lane, Gexin lane and xiaodongjia lane.

According to interesting notes on Hubei place names, Hankou was opened as a trading port in the late Qing Dynasty. In the immediate vicinity of the concession, business flourished and the population was dense. There are many teahouses, restaurants, groceries, gold and silver shops. Most of the buildings in this street are of brick and wood structure. The eaves, beams and columns are painted with colorful flowers, and the doors and windows are carved into antique patterns. This street is also called Hualou street.

The origin of Hualou Street: at the end of Ming Dynasty, along the riverside of wuhanguan and Miaojia wharf, there were small vendors, iron makers, etc. who settled here for a long time to form a street. One of them was a filial son surnamed Zhang. After his death, the neighbors felt his filial piety and built a cross street building in the street to show his virtue. Because of its carved railings, this small street is called Hualou street. Until 1851-1861 (Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty), a parallel street was developed in the north. At that time, Hualou street was also called Hualou street. In order not to be confused, the public gave the former the word "before" and the latter the word "after". Since then, there have been two street names, qianhualou and houhualou, juxtaposed in the city.

Later, with the municipal construction, qianhualou will be connected with Lihuangpi Road, collectively referred to as Lihuangpi road. Qianhualou, the name of the street, is gradually inundated. After Hualou extended to Daxing Road riverside, collectively known as Hualou street. But only from Jianghan Road to Minsheng Road, people are still used to call it houhualou.

"The front flower building connects the back flower building, straight out of Xinsheng road. Horses and carriages are like shuttles, people are like weaving, and the song has never ceased in the deep night. " The old scene of Hualou Street described in "Hankou Zhuzhi Ci" is expected to reappear. According to the seminar on "urban space development planning of Wuhan modern service industry center", the riverside area of Longwang temple will build a traditional folk corridor, a Ming and Qing ancient road, Hualou street, and restore the traditional culture of Han school.

The entrance of Hualou street is located between Longwangmiao Park and Yanjiang No.1 mall. It meets Minquan, Minsheng and Jianghan Road longitudinally, about 1km long.

Historical evolution

The earliest records of Hualou street can be traced back to 1861. When it comes to the formation of Jianghan Road, the relevant materials say: in 1861 (the 11th year of Xianfeng), Taiping Street (Jianghan Road) was transformed from a dirt road into a gravel road, extending northward to Hualou street. It shows that Hualou has been born at this time. During the Yangxia defense war in 1911, Feng Guozhang, the Qing army, set fire to Hankou. "The rest are from Qiaokou to Yuzi lane, and from zhangmeizhi Lane (Minsheng Road) to Hualou street." Therefore, houhualou is well deserved to be known as a century old street.

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Hankou town rose, and the riverside gradually became a wharf market. Qianhualou is located between houhualou and the Bank of the Yangtze River. In 1934, Jianghan Road to Minquan road was called qianhualou main street. When the street was prosperous, it was once known as the eight major trades (salt, tea, medicine, groceries, oil, grain, cotton and fruit). In this street, there are dongshengyang milk cake shop (front shop and back factory), wanhelingshen drugstore, yuyuanxiang, liuhaicheng seafood shop, Guangdong jiaohang, yuhongtai, luanshunfa fruit shop, etc. It is said that most of the operators here are from Huangpi and Xiaoqing, and they are moving. They are organized and run together to form a street. In 1946, it was renamed Huangpi street, which has continued.

In the process of development, houhualou was in the stage of imperialist invasion of China from economy and military. At that time, it was also the historical period of the awakening and struggle of the domestic proletariat. Therefore, in the vicissitudes of a century, houhualou has accumulated countless stories and historical traces. Take No. 9, Piye lane, houhualou as an example. This is the former residence of Shi Yang, a member of the Communist Party of China, a famous "labor lawyer" and a martyr of the February 7th strike. It was from here that warlords Wu Peifu and Xiao Yaonan captured him. After liberation, the movie "storm", starring Jinshan, was filmed at the traffic intersection of houhualou and the former residence of Shiyang in Piye lane to enhance the sense of reality and reproduce the style of the martyrs. In 1900, the revolutionaries led by Tang Caichang, Wu Luzhen and Fu Cixiang once set the headquarters of the self-supporting army which overthrew the Qing Dynasty at No. 4, baoshunli, houhualou (the current address is unknown). Some people say that in order to confuse the Qing government, the sign of "Oriental Translation Culture" was hung near Baizi lane. In 1921, in the early days of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Chen Tanqiu and Dong Biwu hosted the Wuhan weekly review, whose address was No. 1, yongjinli, houhualou (later moved to Huangtupo, Wuchang).

The activities of the revolutionary pioneers in houhualou shed their heads and blood for the workers' movement. The bureaucratic rulers also wanted to build their happy palace and gold selling cave here. When Taiping Street developed into Xinsheng road and Houhua building was adjacent to Yang Street (British concession), Liu Youcai, inspector general of Wuhan police headquarters, raised funds to build Hankou Hotel (also known as Louwailou) in Houhua building. The building is five stories high, with elevators up and down, luxurious interior decoration, Chinese and Western restaurants, billiard room and so on. It is a pleasure for Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Hubei Province. After Liu Youcai's death, Zhao Dianzhi, Zhou Xingtang and other businessmen changed their name to Yangzijiang hotel.

Since the late Qing Dynasty, houhualou has been a prosperous commercial center with many famous brand shops. For example, the yuebin restaurant on the right side of Yangzijiang hotel features roast duck and Braised Abalone. It stands opposite xinghualou in Likou of Yongkang and yinxuelou in Jianghan Road. It is known as "three tripods a". Wang Yuxia, a century old shop, moved from tianlunlikou, Hanzheng Street to xiongjia alley, houhualou. She was the first to make sesame mung bean cake, a seasonal food. In particular, the Su style moon cake launched during the Mid Autumn Festival was equal to Guanshengyuan's Cantonese style moon cake. Jiuruzhai's chili oil and fungus oil are full of Xiangjiang flavor and are operated exclusively without any branch; Jin Tongren's traditional Chinese medicine number is one of the top ten traditional Chinese medicine stores in Hankou; old sijimei is known as the king of Tangbao; Zou Xiehe's gold ornaments are full of red feet; Hu Kaiwen's calligraphy is fragrant; hengtaichang's seafood is real. There are Huahua silk and satin company in the east of houhualou, naive children's clothing store in the west, and sidari tea house in the middle.

The prosperous district is densely populated. Children need to study. Houhualou has no place to set up a school. So people try to set up schools in the surrounding streets. For example, the 27th primary school in piyexiang, the 16th primary school in hexili, the private primary school in du'anli, the private Chunhui primary school in chengnanli, the private Dunren primary school in Miaojia dock, and the private Daosheng primary school in fangzhengli. These schools surround the Houhua building, like pearls inlaid around a brocade hat. The sound of books adds a bit of book atmosphere to the marketplace.

Houhualou is not only prosperous in commerce and trade, but also has a glorious history in culture. As early as the early years of the Republic of China, the Tianyi tea garden in du'anli, houhualou, held a joint performance of Peking Opera and Han Opera. In Peking Opera, Zhao Ruquan, Wang Hongshou and Wang Xiaonong, who came from Shanghai to Han Dynasty. Han Opera includes Yu Hongyuan and Li Caiyun. Wang Xiaonong gave Yu Hongyuan the script of crying ancestral temple, which he created, and Yu also gave it to Yu Hongyuan the script of knife splitting three passes, which created a good story of art exchange between Beijing and Han Opera.

In the 1940s, houhualou cowhide mansion was rebuilt into Jiangda theater, where Li Caiyun and others once performed Han Opera, and later li Shutang and Dong Mingyan continued to perform Beijing opera. After 1945, Li Qingshan transformed the Yangtze River Grand Theater into Dahua Cinema and released the first round of domestic films. "The soul of the nation" starring Liu Qiong and "a river flowing eastward" starring Bai Yang and Tao Jin have been shown here. China's first color drama "hate for life and death" starring Mei Lanfang also premiered here. In 1946, "false Phoenix and false Phoenix", starring Shi Hua and Li Lihua, was shown here for the first time. Because the film has ugly and ironic content for hairdressers, once the poster was posted, it aroused the dissatisfaction of hairdressers. On the day of the show, the hairdressers from Changsheng hall, Yanji, Deji and other barber shops in Hankou gathered together, and Dahua Cinema in Hualou stormed the ticket hall, tore up the posters and banned the show, causing conflicts with the hospital. The police from Hankou police station 7 rushed to the scene and arrested many hairdressers. Dahua Cinema suspended the show. The public and workers in Hankou are dissatisfied with the police's arbitrary arrest and support the barber from the public opinion. Ren Jianpeng, the police chief of Hankou City, worried about the chain reaction caused by the expansion of the situation, decided to release the arrested. He suggested that the Propaganda Department of Hankou city party headquarters review the film and delete some scenes before it was calmed down.

The scenery of the past

An old man has a good mouth

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