Yingze Street

Yingze Street

Yingze street is an east-west urban road in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It is located in the center of Taiyuan City, Yingze District of Taiyuan city. It is the main trunk road of Taiyuan City in terms of landmark, traffic, landscape and life. It is also the central axis of Taiyuan City in the previous master plan of Taiyuan city. The word "Yingze" originated from "Yingze gate" in the Song Dynasty. When it was built in 1955, most of the roads in Taiyuan city were only 6 or 7 meters wide, and the width of Yingze street was 70 meters, which really made people stare for some time. Along the road are the provincial Party committee, provincial people's Congress, provincial CPPCC, Taiyuan railway station, Wuyi Square, Yingze Park, Taiyuan workers' Cultural Palace, Yingze Hotel, Bingzhou Hotel, China Coal Museum, Taiyuan University of technology and other landmark buildings. It is known as the first street of Sanjin.

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Yingze street, an east-west urban road in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is located in the center of Taiyuan City, crossing Yingze District and Wanbailin District from east to West (the west section of Fenhe River is called Yingze West Street). It is the landmark, traffic, landscape and life main road of Taiyuan City, and the central axis of Taiyuan City in previous master plans. The road is also the main street of Taiyuan Rail Transit Line 1.

Yingze street was built in 1955 with a design width of 70 meters. At that time, it was the same width as Chang'an Street in Beijing, so it won the titles of "China's Second Street" and "Sanjin's first street". Yingze street has been built four times, with 14 two-way motorways (including 2 bus lanes), two non motorways, two sidewalks and two green belts. Yingze Street starts from Taiyuan railway station in the East, extends westward, crosses Fenhe River through Yingze bridge, and reaches Nanhan square, with a total length of 10 km. The part of Wanbailin District in the west of Fenhe River is called Yingze West Street. Along the road are Taiyuan railway station, Wuyi Square, Yingze Park, Taiyuan workers' Cultural Palace, Yingze Hotel, Bingzhou Hotel, China Coal Museum, Taiyuan University of technology and other landmark buildings. Today, Yingze street after transformation, is still the widest street in Taiyuan, it has become one of the symbols of Taiyuan.

Following the principle of "no backwardness in 50 years and no regret in 100 years", the road was built in 1955, divided into five phases and lasted for 40 years. It was completed in 1996. After several times of widening and "microcirculation" and pipe network transformation from 2007 to 2008, it has become the main traffic trunk and artery in Taiyuan city and Yingze District. Known as the reception hall of Taiyuan

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The word "Yingze" originated from the South Gate of Taiyuan City - "Yingze gate". After the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, Taiyuan city had a circumference of 24 Li, a height of 3 Zhang and 5 feet, and a total of eight gates were opened with bricks outside. In the East were Yichun and Yinghui, commonly known as Dadongmen and Xiaodongmen. In the West were Zhenwu and Fucheng, commonly known as Shuiximen and hanximen. In the north were Zhenyuan and Gongji, commonly known as dabeimen and xiaobeimen. In the South were Yingze and Chengen They are the so-called big south gate and New South Gate. What is worth mentioning here is the two South gates of Taiyuan. The name of the big south gate is still in use today, and the word Yingze has become the most frequent word in the history of Taiyuan urban construction. Yingze District, Yingze street, Yingze bridge, Yingze Park, Yingze Hotel, and even Yingze beer and Yingze soap. The name of Yingze and Chengen comes from an old folk song "song of the south wind": the smoke of the south wind can relieve the anger of our people! When the south wind blows, we can enrich our people! According to legend, this is a folk song sung in Emperor Shun's time in praise of the benefits of Nanfeng to the people of Yanchi in Yuncheng. The main idea is that all things in the world welcome the grace of Nanfeng. Therefore, the two South gates were named Yingze gate and Chengen gate respectively

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"Yingze", like any Chinese character, has no special place, but it has a special position in the land of Taiyuan and in the minds of Taiyuan people. To say that it is a household name and well-known is by no means a word of praise, because it is closely related to many of the best in Taiyuan and seems to have formed an indissoluble bond with them.

What is the biggest and most beautiful park in Taiyuan? It's Yingze Park. What is the most luxurious hotel in Taiyuan? It's Yingze hotel. What is the name of the longest, widest and most spectacular street in Taiyuan? It's called Yingze street. Let alone the others, we can see why some of the words "Yingze" are so famous from the above.

In the early 1950s after the founding of the people's Republic of China, Taiyuan's urban construction entered a large-scale development period. In order to make the development of this ancient city have a scientific and reasonable direction, then made a 20-year overall plan of Taiyuan city construction.

This plan aims at the block pattern of Taiyuan for thousands of years, such as blocked streets, unsmooth atmosphere, unsightly view, full of "t" word, east-west, north-south, no thoroughfare, puts forward a bold and scientific direction of old city reconstruction, and formulates the principle of Taiyuan urban road construction expanding from the city to the outside. Yingze street, as the main axis of the expansion of Taiyuan city streets, has been included in the overall planning of the city construction.

Yue Weifan, the mayor of Taiyuan city at that time, was far sighted, spared no public opinion, and planned the width of Yingze street as 70 meters with broad vision. Many experts, leaders and comrades were stunned and did not believe in their own ears. It's too difficult for everyone, because in the streets and lanes of Taiyuan at that time, the widest one was 67 meters. Compared with 70 meters, there was no large number of people, which was really puzzling.

As for the name of Yingze street, to be exact, that is because at that time, the street started from Chengen gate of Taiyuan city wall, later Shouyi gate, passed through Yingze gate and reached the east dam of Fenhe River at the southwest corner. Yingze gate is the largest gate of the two old cities. In memory of Yu Si, Yingze gate has attracted the name of Yingze street.

Yingze street, which is now ten li long, was built by widening, straightening, paving stones and sprinkling oil on an ancient road outside the south of Taiyuan city wall. For thousands of years, the ancient road along the southern city wall and connecting the traffic between the two gates outside the city was originally a rough muddy road. This dirt road connects two famous ancient traffic arteries "Dongguan Road" and "Xiguan road" which started in Taiyuan, went down Hedong in the South and left Niangziguan in the East.

Dongguan Road, after leaving Shouyi gate, meanders southward to Yuci, and branches to Niangziguan and zihongkou; Xiguan Road, after leaving Yingze gate, enters Nanguan City, and goes to Fenzhou (now Fenyang) and Pingyang (now Linfen) through Xiaodian and Xugou.

This ancient road along the city was the ancient battlefield where Li Zicheng led the rebel army to attack Taiyuan in the late Ming Dynasty. Once upon a time, the peasant army came to Taiyuan City, outwitted Nanguan City, attacked Yingze gate, used the southeast turret Garrison's storehouse to catch fire, broke through Chengen gate and Yingze gate, and captured Taiyuan city. Once upon a time, when Li Zicheng led his army out of Beijing and passed through Taiyuan, he appointed his beloved General Chen Yongfu to stay in Taiyuan to resist the Qing army. In order to defend Taiyuan and Yingze gate, Yongfu demolished Nanguan City, which threatened Yingze gate.

All these past events have been performed in the former site of Yingze street. Even the well-known "nvqijie" yutangchun is said to have been tried in the third Hall of the chasi department by nanguancheng, a Taoist from the west, through yingzemen.

In 1955, the first phase of building Yingze Street started. It took one year, from Wuyi Square to Yingze bridge, a nearly 10 Li Long Road, came to the world. Over the next ten years, Yingze Hotel, Bingzhou Hotel, finance and trade building, telecommunication building, workers' Cultural Palace With the advent of Yingze street, it has been inlaid on both sides of the street.

In 1976, with the birth of Taiyuan new railway station, the second phase project of Yingze street was started. Two years later, the second phase of Yingze Street project was completed, and the east of Wuyi Square went directly to the foot of Dongshan. Another smooth road appeared, which was originally called Yingze East Street, and then merged into Yingze street. After that, new high-rise buildings sprang up on both sides of the street: Post and telecommunications building, communications building, Sanjin building, Yunshan Hotel, power building, friendship building, Tangming Hotel Today, the broad and straight Yingze street is basically the tallest building group, the most beautiful building group and the most prosperous building group in Taiyuan. Become the most willing place for Taiyuan people to set foot in.

Of course, it is only one aspect to say that Yingze street has gathered high-rise buildings in Taiyuan. The most beautiful Street Garden: small square garden, Zhulin garden, ink garden, binxiu garden It's also on both sides of Yingze street. There are also the most beautiful flower beds in the middle of the street, flower beds, square lawns, station flower beds, big south gate flower beds, and city sculptures along the street, which make Yingze Street colorful and elegant.

Yingze street is called Yingze West Street after crossing Yingze bridge to Wanbailin District of Hexi. The original Yingze West Street bends to the northwest near Qianfeng. In 1986, the extension and straightening project of Yingze West Street was started. By 1987, Yingze West Street, which starts from Yingze bridgehead in the East and ends at Xiayuan T-junction in the west, was formed. In 1996, the opening project of Yingze West Street was started, and the project led from Xiayuan intersection to the foot of Xishan. On the national day of 1996, Yingze street, with a total length of 10 kilometers, was finally completed after 40 years. On the national day of 1997, the new Yingze bridge with a width of 50 meters was completed and opened to traffic, marking a successful end to Taiyuan people's ten mile long street dream.

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Reconstruction is necessary

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