Dashilan (D à sh í L à NR) is a famous commercial street outside qianmenwai in Beijing. Now it also refers to a plot including Dashilan street, Langfang Toutiao street, commissariat Shop Street and Meishi street. Located in the center of ancient Beijing, Dashilan is an important part of the south central axis. It is located in the south of Tiananmen Square and the west of Qianmen Street, with a total length of 275 meters from the east entrance to the west entrance. Since 1420 (the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty), after more than 500 years of evolution, it has gradually developed into a commercial street full of shops. 36 stores in 11 industries are distributed in Dashilan.
Dashilan
There is a saying in old Beijing, "go to the overpass to see things, and go to the big fence to buy things." Dashilan, on the west side of Qianmen Street, is one of the most ancient markets in Beijing. There are many time-honored brands in Beijing. You can buy traditional and simple handicrafts here to experience the old characteristics of Beijing.
Dashilan is the most dynamic commercial district in the history of Beijing, and it is also a very characteristic area of Chengnan Hutong. With the development of Beijing, there will be more and more contents worthy of description. In recent years, a series of creative urban regeneration work has been carried out here. Li Han and his "painting and building society" with a small force, in the way of architectural caricature, selected ten locations around Yangmei Zhuxie street, extracted all the stories and plots through the interviews with the parties. Starting from the description of some small things in Beijing Dashilan, they finally built a virtual construction based on the current real story, which is also the story of contemporary Beijing.
Ruixiang silk cloth in Dashilan street, a time-honored shop, was founded in the 19th year of Guangxu. The five-star red flag raised at the founding ceremony was made of this cloth. Ma Juyuan hat shop, founded in the 22nd year of Jiaqing, was the leader of Beijing hat industry in the late Qing Dynasty. Neiliansheng shoe store, in addition to hand-made "thousand layer bottom" name crown capital, store name also implies "big neiliansheng" mouth color.
Address: Dashilan commercial street, Xicheng District, Beijing
Longitude: 116.39490844309
Latitude: 39.895800486891
Tel: 010-63109680
Official website: http://www.dashilar.org
Traffic information: you can walk to Qianmen station or Dashilan station of Metro Line 2.
Ticket information: Free
Opening hours: all day
Chinese PinYin : Da Shan Lan
Dashilan