Kuanzhai Lane, which was founded in the Qing Dynasty, is the only remaining two of the 33 Qing soldiers hutongs in Chengdu, belonging to a quadrangle-style building.
In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi (17 18), Junggar invaded Tibet.
After the Qing court sent 3000 officers and men to quell the rebellion, it chose 1000 soldiers to stay in Chengdu permanently, and built the whole city-Shaocheng, which was designated as the residence of the Eight Banners military camp and their families as a forbidden area.
Among them, the west entrance of the wide alley is the red flag station, and the west entrance of the narrow alley is the red flag station.
At that time, the name was not Kuanzhai Lane, but Xingren Hutong and Taiping Hutong respectively.
It was not until the early years of the Republic of China that this name with obvious northern style was replaced by "Kuanzhai Lane", which has been in use ever since.
Concentrate north-south folk customs
Because the children of the Eight Banners live idle and pursue enjoyment, this area has become one of the cradles of leisure culture in Chengdu.
Blue brick walls, quadrangles, high gatehouses and flower skirts have both the characteristics of southern Sichuan folk houses and the connotation of northern folk culture.
With the deepening of the old city reconstruction movement in Chengdu, more and more old buildings, hutongs and residential areas have been replaced by modern high-rise residential and commercial buildings. However, "Kuanzhai Lane" has sprung up in the ruins of urban transformation. The original residents have opened teahouses and bars with local characteristics in the alley, and more than a dozen people are crowded in the street less than 200 meters away.
In these two alleys, the smell of "old Chengdu" is getting stronger and stronger, and quiet street life scenes such as bowl-covered tea and bean curd rice are still tenaciously reproduced here ... Teacher Lin Wenxun believes that Kuanzhai Lane is the last relic of the urban pattern of "a thousand-year-old city" and the original architectural pattern of a hundred years, and is also the "orphan" of the northern hutong culture and the southern architectural style, the most famous new "business card" and today's Chengdu.