Meilong Town, Minhang District, Shanghai

Meilong town

Meilong town is located in the east of Minhang District. It is connected with Huajing Town, Lingyun Street and Kangjian street in Xuhui District in the East, Wujing town in the south, Xinzhuang Town and Zhuanqiao town in the West and Hongqiao Town and Gumei street in the north. The area is 28.07 square kilometers. It has 15 administrative villages, 64 neighborhood committees and 2 fairs. With a total population of 309127 (2017), the total length of roads is 97 km (including municipal, district and town roads), and there are 9 main roads (class I and class II roads), of which the outer ring road, Caobao Road, Gudai Road, humin Road, Chunshen Road, Yindu Road and Jindu road run from east to west. Hongmei Road, Hongmei South Road, central ring road, Lianhua Road and Lianhua south road run through the north and south. There are 20 bus lines in Meilong Town, 52 cross regional bus lines, including 41 departure and destination. There are also rail transit lines 1 and 12. There are 81 bridges in District, town and rural areas (including 46 rural bridges). There are 105 rivers in Meilong Town, with a total length of 53.429 km. Among them, there are 3 municipal rivers, namely Dianpu River, zhangjiatang port and Xinjing port; 2 District rivers, namely chunshentang and liuleitang; 18 town rivers and 82 village rivers. Seat of town government: 1618 Yindu Road, postal code: 201108. In 2018, the national health county (township) was reconfirmed.

Introduction to market town

Meilong

Meilong town is located in the southwest of Shanghai, at the junction of Zhumei Road, Hongmei Road and Meilong Road, and at the south side of Shanghai Hangzhou railway and Shanghai Minjiang highway. Meilong port runs across the territory.

Meilong was formerly known as meijianong. It is said that during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the surname Mei of Huizhou was engaged in business here, and his descendants built houses similar to jienong. It rose in the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty and became a market for meijianong. In 1933 (22 years of the Republic of China), with the approval of the Shanghai municipal government, it was renamed Meilong. Today, the family name is still Duomei. During the reign of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, business was booming. In the 1940s, the rice industry rose. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the business of meat farms was booming, forming a pig market.

In 1949, there were 50 stores with 114 employees. Among them, there are 6 rice shops, 13 tobacco shops, 5 tofu shops and 3 fresh bacon shops. In the 1950s, most of them were closed and the market was deserted. In 1984, there were nearly 20 stores. In 1949, there were 7 rice mills, 2 asbestos mills, 2 commune run factories in 1958, and Meilong handicraft factory, agricultural machinery factory and glass fiber factory in 1984. The street layout of the town is in the shape of "Feng". The main street is north-south, about 200 meters long and 34 meters wide. In the 1980s, the old town was transformed, and all the old streets were demolished and new streets were built. Electricity was supplied in 1935, tap water in 1964, gas in 1967, and new workshops were built in 1973. In the south of the town, there is Shanghai Yimin brewery with an annual output of 120000 tons of beer, and in the north of the town, there is a large-scale modern amusement park in Shanghai, Jinjiang park.

Zhu Xing

It is adjacent to Dianpu River in the north and laochun Shengang in the south. It is located at the intersection of Zhumei, Zhuxin, Zhucao, laozhuhang and Zhuhang. Zhumei highway crosses the town, which is divided into East and west parts. In the Song Dynasty, there were houses and Zhu's family's residence, commonly known as zhujiaxiang. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called town in Qianlong period, city in Jiaqing period, and commercial market declined in Daoguang and Xianfeng periods. During the Tongzhi period, the channel of laobachigou was silted up. Laochun applied for dredging and moved the nearby shops here. The city is more prosperous. "Lane" and "line" sound harmonic, along with each other, so called Zhuxing town.

In 1928 (17 years of the Republic of China), after the county and city of Shanghai were divided, the town was divided into Shanghai City, Shanghai county and Songjiang County by the boundary of huntang bridge. East west old street, about 200 meters long, only 23 meters wide, most of the street bungalows. In 1949, there were 45 shops with 90 employees, including 8 teahouses, 7 oil sauce shops, 4 Yanshi and tofu shops, and 3 restaurants. There are 4 ginning plants with 8 employees. There are also two asbestos factories (yards). In the mid-1950s, the number of stores dropped to eight. Since the 1960s, more than 10 municipal factories such as Shanghai art carving factory have moved in one after another, and the market has gradually improved. In 1984, there were 19 shops, most of which were moved to Zhushen road and laozhuxing road. In 1933 (22 years of the Republic of China), electricity was supplied. In 1964, tap water was supplied. In 1967, gas was supplied. In 1970, nearly ten thousand square meters of new workshops were built in the north and west of the town. Zhendong new Shanghai picture tube glass factory, Yongxin color TV picture tube factory. There is a 300 year old wisteria in the old street. No. 50, No. 218 bus and Xinlong line connect Xujiahui, Daxing street, Longhua Town and Xinzhuang Town.

West pailou

It is about 1km northeast of Meilong Town, namely the first, second and fifteenth teams of the pailou brigade. It is close to the Shanghai Hangzhou railway and humin road in the south, dongshangaotang port in the East and zhangjiatang port in the north. It is a large natural village. Most of the houses are located in the north of Humin road. It is also divided into five small homesteads, shijiali, gujiatang, yinjiatang, xiajiali and xipailou, collectively known as xipailou. At the time of the third national census in 1982, there were 217 households and 817 people. The water and land transportation is convenient. There is xipailou station for xumin long distance bus.

The place was originally called Longhua Zhang's house. During the Ming Dynasty, many descendants of the surname Zhang worked as officials in the imperial court. They built two archways in their homes. In the East, they were called the East archway. In the west, they were called the West archway. They were built on the yinjiatang site of the first archway team. These two archways were destroyed by the "Cultural Revolution". Before the prime of the Qing Dynasty, the commercial market at xipailou was very prosperous, and it was already known as xipailou. After 1876, it became a general village because of the depression of the official career and the rise of the commercial markets of meijianong and zhujiaxing.

The West archway is dominated by the surname Zhang, and the village is southeast to northwest. On the east side of the archway, there used to be a Ming Dynasty architectural complex. The whole architectural art was superb and the carving was fine. But in the war of the past dynasties, the architectural complex was destroyed.

Li Hang

In the north of Zhuxing Town, there are now five, seven and eight teams of zhujiaxing. Zhu en, the Minister of rites in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, lived here. It used to be a prosperous market. Later, due to the blockage of bachigou, the shopkeepers had difficulty in purchasing goods, and the merchants gradually moved south to zhujiaxing. As a result, the business market in this area has become more and more deserted. Now, there are still traces of the streets.

Wengban Bridge

Wengban bridge is located in Jixin village, named after chunshentang River Bridge on the Southwest Road of the village. Before liberation, it was divided into Shanghai county and Songjiang County. It was located in a remote corner. During the Anti Japanese War, it became an important road leading to the urban area of Shanghai. It once prospered into a city. There were more than 30 shops and more than 100 residents along the side of the bridge, which was called "wengbanqiao Saixin village". After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the market declined. In 1949, there were 9 stores with 11 employees, including 3 South North stores, 2 sauce stores and 2 teahouses. In 1950, there were still six shops, and then the commercial market disappeared completely and became a village. The stone bridge across chunshentang is still in good condition.

Cao Xing

Caoxing town is the seat of the former caoxing town government. Also known as caojiaxing, caojiaqiao, because of the Ming Deputy envoy Caomin (nine years of Hongzhi Jinshi) house named. Later, some artists of the surname Ding settled here, and their descendants flourished. Most of the former residents were Cao and Ding. In the early Qing Dynasty, commerce gradually gathered and became a market. In the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, it was called caojiaxing city. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the textile industry declined, and during the war of resistance against Japan, the commercial market became more and more prosperous. In 1949, there were 52 stores with 90 employees, including 10 Nansha stores, 7 barber shops, 5 teahouses, 4 tofu shops and 4 xianrouzhuang. After 1956, it was merged into seven cooperative stores, and the market was sluggish. In the 1980s, there were 19 stores, including general merchandise, knitting, cotton, hardware, communication and electricity, southern products, tobacco and sugar, with more than 200 employees and 23 individual vendors. In 1949, there were 15 rice mills and ginning factories, and in 1984, there were 6 Township factories, including agricultural machinery factory, carbon black factory and weaving factory. Along matunjing, the town is divided into East, West and middle streets in the shape of "Gong". The West Street is 45 meters long along the river, the East Street is 150 meters long, and the middle street is more than 200 meters long in the east-west direction. In the past, most of the shops were set up in Zhongjie and Dongjie, especially Zhongjie. There is Guanyin hall in the north of the East Street. In the old days, temple fairs were held twice a year on June 19 and October 14 of the lunar calendar. Narrow streets, bungalows, two-story buildings mixed. In the 1980s, the street was widened to 8 meters, and a new street was opened up. Banks, post offices and shops were built in the west of Matun. In addition, a new district was set up on caohang road in the north of the town, with township government agencies and township cultural stations, cinemas, agricultural machinery factories, construction teams, carbon black factories and other Township run enterprises and institutions. In 1984, there were nearly 120 households. There are caoxing Road, matunjing and external traffic in the town. There are XINCHE bus passenger lines connecting to Xinzhuang Town and CheGou bridge ferry of Huangpu River.

Introduction to village house

Chen Jiazhai

In the south of Caobao road and the east of Hongmei Road, there are now five teams, six teams and seven teams in Guilin. It is said that when a man who had fled from Pudong pulled a boat to this place, unfortunately the boat broke and sank, so he settled here and named his house Chen Jiazhai. Later, chenjiazhai was divided into two natural villages, North chenjiazhai and South chenjiazhai. In 1983, the house had more than 110 households and more than 400 people.

Jiang Jiatang

On the west side of Hongmei South Road and the south side of Caobao Road, there are now teams 1, 2 and 11 of Hua. It was originally named jiangjialou. During the period of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was burned down in the war, and later generations rebuilt it into bungalows. During the period of Emperor Guangxu, Jiang Qinfang, who lived there, built a dam at Wai Bai Du bridge. The court built a hall with exquisite architecture, especially in the hall. In 1983, there were 168 households with 596 people. Hejiabang is located in the west of Xinjing port, south of Caobao Road, which is now Huayi 9 team. It is said that there was a little official named he in his early years

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