Yee Yi Street

Juyi street is located between the prosperous northeast corner and beidaguan, parallel to Beima road.

This is a famous clothing wholesale place in Tianjin. There are all kinds of clothes, and it is quite close to the Sancha estuary of Haihe River. Most old Tianjin people have been here.

The street is not long, with shops on both sides. The daily flow of people is not small and bustling. The main sales of clothing and a variety of gadgets and other groceries, retail, but also wholesale. The price is also very cheap and negotiable. But the environment is noisy and chaotic. There are also qianxiangyi, ruixiangxiang, Tongshenghe, zhengxingde and other time-honored merchants in Yiyi street.

Of course, in addition to shopping, the buildings outside Yiyi Street are very retro, which can be enjoyed by nostalgic people. In the evening, the night market is also very busy, many people come here to look for food or listen to crosstalk.

Yee Yi Street

Juyi street is located between the prosperous northeast corner and beidaguan, parallel to Beima Road, with a total length of 800 meters. It is an ancient commercial street with a history of more than 600 years in Tianjin. It used to be the cradle of Commerce in Tianjin.

In the early days, there was only one shop in the street, so it got its name. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to clothing shops, silk, cotton, leather and porcelain shops also developed. Especially in the early 1930s, when it reached its peak, it became the distribution center of silk, cloth, fur, clothing, pen and ink stationery, Chinese herbal medicine and daily commodities in North China. Some time-honored brands such as qianxiangyi, ruixiangxiang, ruishengxiang, Yuanlong, Laohu Kaiwen, laomaosheng, etc. are all concentrated in this street. The vendors here are everywhere, which is extremely prosperous.

Detailed features

At that time, Jueyi street was also the center of folk activities. Every Lantern Festival, lights were put on here for three days. In this regard, the poet once described: "fish and dragon dance on Jueyi Street Spring lamp returns my youth heart. In 1986, it was restored by the municipal government, and the historical scene of the past reappeared. More than 130 large and small open shops are equipped with palace lanterns, with gold lettered plaques and root couplets, and with covers and decorative items. Some famous time-honored brands, such as Ruixiang Hongji, Qingji and Qianxiang yibaoji, have renovated their iron flower awning; the red lacquer porch pillars of Darentang drugstore, the lattice doors and windows, and the bronze plaque of "Darentang in Kyoto" have restored the style of the old store. The buildings on the street of Juyi are made of green bricks and grey tiles. They are simple in shape. Although they are decorated, they are simple and proper. There is an antique archway at the west entrance of the street, and a new 50 meter long "Erlong Xizhu" at the east entrance of the street is integrated with the original buildings of the ancient street.

Traffic information

External traffic

Take No. 5, No. 15, No. 37, No. 161, No. 168, No. 600 inside, No. 600 outside, No. 605, No. 606, No. 635, No. 651, No. 657, No. 683, No. 688, No. 801, No. 829, No. 840, No. 855, No. 906, and No. 61 for convenience at the foot of Yiyi street.

Internal transportation

As an old commercial street, the roads are smooth and the intersections extend in all directions. Juiyi street is an east-west street with a width of less than 10 meters and a total length of less than 800 meters. However, from the west entrance (beidaguan) to the east entrance (Dahutong Street) along Juiyi street, there are several roads on the north side of Juiyi street that can lead to South Yunhe Road, including wucaihao lane, Guijia lane, Fandian lane, Jindian lane, etc Second: ear eye Hutong, Longevity Palace Hutong, yicuili Hutong, Shenjia Hutong, Yangjia Hutong, etc.

At that time, small roads were called hutongs instead of roads. There are so many crossroads that it is convenient for businesses and buyers to communicate with each other, and there are many shops in each lane. The width of these hutongs varies from 7 meters to 8 meters. The narrowest part is less than 1.5 meters. When two people pass each other, they almost wipe their shoulders. The famous ear eye fried cake is located on the north side of beidaguan at the entrance of ear eye Hutong.

Historical evolution

Since the establishment of Wei in the early Ming Dynasty, Tianjin has always been the thoroughfare of Dayi with people from all walks of life. It is known as "the unparalleled place of flowers and moon in the south of the capital, and the first prosperous city in the north of Ji". As a result, clothing, food, housing and transportation, prosperity, all competing luxury Mi Li. Tianjin Qing Dynasty poet has a poem: "prosperous to the number of estimated clothes Street." Juyi street, which still exists, is located in the east of the north gate of Hongqiao District. In the past, it was a place for concentrated sales of clothing, reflecting the prosperous situation of Tianjin clothing industry.

In Tianjin's history books and the existing urban layout, the old commercial street that can be traced is Juyi street. Yangcun horse head was mentioned in the history of Yuan Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, the place names such as matoudu were repeatedly mentioned in Tianjin Weizhi. Wrong. Matoudu is located at beidaguan bridge. It can be inferred that Matou East Street, the prosperous commercial street in tianjinwei during the yuan and Ming Dynasties, was the front line of houjiahou middle street and Juyi street. Li Jizhen, the governor of Tianjin in Ming Dynasty, was worshipped by Tianjin people and built a ancestral hall. According to Gao Lingwen, the editor of new records of Tianjin County in the Republic of China, Li Jizhen's ancestral hall is located in Matou East Street. Li's ancestral hall is the Wanshou Palace of the Qing Dynasty, which is now Beimen East Primary School of Beima road. The front door of the primary school was originally on today's Juiyi Street (later moved to Beima Road). Therefore, it can be proved that Matou East Street is today's Yiyi street. In other words, it is Matou East Street with a history of more than 600 years.

At the west entrance of Juyi street, there is a archway with the four characters of "sell and list shop" on it. "Gu" refers to the old 72 Gu in Tianjin, so "Gushang" has become a synonym for Tianjin. "Selling and listing shop" refers to the commercial market in Tianjin. Two hundred years ago, Li Ciming, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, came to Tianjin and often visited the Yijie street. In his diary of yueman hall, he once described the street as "clean and tidy" and "a few miles away". It was as prosperous as "the gate of Wu (Suzhou)". We can see its prosperity. There are all kinds of time-honored shops on the street. For example, there is a saying that "Zhao Hongyuan in the street usually costs ten thousand yuan for a meal.". Most of the old "badacheng" restaurants in Tianjin hotels are located in Guijia Hutong or Hou's house in Jueyi street. Another example is the oldest Yangguang grocery store "fan Yonghe" in Tianjin and Darentang in Kyoto. The old fur mat stores are all on the Yiyi street. Xikou is facing the "Wujiazi" old tobacco shop, which was set up in 1644.

Shop name of Yiyi Street

Of course, clothing stores and satin shops are still the most popular in the street. According to the statistics before the July 7 Incident, the silk, cotton, and woolen cloth shops, fur merchants, and clothing stores (including Neiju goods and wooden storehouses) opened in Jiyi Street (East to Guodian Street) included Qian Xiangyi, dun Qinglong, Yuan long, Ruixiang Hongji (manager Xin Yiquan), Hua Xiang, Ruixiang (manager Li Wenquan, mianzhang, Baofeng, Chongqing, Wan Juheng, qingdecheng, Yi Qinghe, Yiqing, Yiqing Deyizhan, tongfengyu, yishanhou, deyicheng, qingliheng, yijuheng, Baochang, xiyuxing, Qingxiang, tianshungcheng, yuxingwen, yushengchang, Rongxin, yushengyong, Qingfeng, Rongqing, Daqing yuan, Yongkang, xinfengtai, ruisenxiang, yixincheng, commonweal, qingshengheng, hengxianggong, dafengtai, hongshengyi, Hengli, dongquansheng, yongjucheng, Siheyuan, Shengxiang（ Zhang Shengsan), Deyuan (manager Chen Shaoxuan), Ruixing, Tongyi, guangxingyong, Huatai, juyuande, Deyuan (manager Chen Xijiu), Yihe, hengxingde, baoshunhe, wanxinghou, Xiangji, wenxingshun, Huasheng, yixinghe, xindayong, demaocheng, yuchengzhai, baoyuanlong, shunxingde, Yisheng, Chuntai, hengtaiqing, etc.

Other information

Of course, it's just old clothes that are sold on the street. In 1824, Cui Xu of Qing Dynasty wrote a poem "Zhuzhi Ci of Juyi Street"

The clothes are not new,

Lead and sell frequently;

You can buy summer and winter clothes at will,

I don't know who the primary system is.

This poem vividly describes the business activities of the main shop in the street of Tianjin in Qing Dynasty. 1、 Clothes are not new, but old. Because there are many pawnbrokers in Tianjin ("all 48 pawnbrokers") and the economic changes among the residents are both big and fast (there is a saying in Tianjin that "there are no three generations of rich and noble people"), the newly made fresh clothes in the family may be sent to pawnbrokers for bankruptcy in an instant, and they often have no money to redeem them. The clothes they pawn will become dead pawns, and the ownership will be transferred to pawnbrokers. Pawnshops are sold according to the pile number, and most of the sellers are clothes estimation shops, so they are sold on the clothes estimation street. At that time, he would shout: "this fur coat, sell it!" Sound like singing, buyers can bargain. Therefore, it is said in the poem that "singing sells frequently". I bought old clothes. Of course, I don't know who made them!

The clothing store on the street of estimated clothing starts from fabric, and has a history of 600 years, covering silk thread, estimated clothing, new clothing, leather goods and military clothing. This is also rare in the world.

Tourism characteristics

From the facade of some old cotton shops, we can also see the old style. There are iron awnings on the walls of the tall courtyard, and spacious shops in the courtyard. Generally, counters are set up upstairs and downstairs, which is strikingly similar to the damianbuzhuang in Dashilan, Kyoto. This shows that "Tianjin" and Kyoto were equally prosperous in the Qing Dynasty, and once attracted tourists from both north and south.

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