Venue: East of Doumen Market, Doumen Town, Doumen District
Admission: free.
Opening hours: all day
Introduction:
About the ancient street
Alias "a street in the Republic of China"
Doumen Ancient Street is mainly a T-shaped street formed by the main road about 500 meters north and the secondary road about 200 meters east and west. The ancient street was built in the Qing Dynasty, but it was transformed into a arcade building that everyone can see today. Its heyday was in the Republic of China. Therefore, some literary and historical workers also call it "a street in the Republic of China".
Doumen Ancient Street, a unique arcade with a combination of Chinese and western styles as the main building, stands out among the buildings in Doumen. The doors of the shops are basically highly unified with similar specifications, and bricks such as flowers and geometric figures are carved on the ceilings of the external walls and corridors. The Doumen ancient street, which combines Chinese and western styles, can vaguely see its characteristics as a commercial street and its past prosperity.
About Doumen
Terrain such as "bucket" got its name.
Doumen Town is located at the junction of Zhuhai and Xinhui, hence the name "Doumen". According to historical records, Doumen Town has a history of 1000 years. From the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960) to the Yuan Dynasty, all previous dynasties were the seat of administrative organs. In the twenty-second year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 152), it was named Xiangshan Chaoshu Township (Chaoju); In the 14th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (138 1), it was changed to Huangliangdu; Guangxu six years (1880), changed to Huang Liang town; In the second year of Xuantong (19 10), it was changed to the eighth district of Xiangshan County; In the third year of Xuantong (19 1 1), Doumen market was renamed; In the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), it was changed to Huang Liang District; 1959 changed to Doumen commune; 1986 was renamed Doumen town.
Deshuilu convenience
Businessmen in the market period jostled shoulder to shoulder.
Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, there have been waterway passenger ships between Jiangmen, Shi Qi and even Macau in Doumen, and there have been many exchanges between businessmen. Jiangmen, Xinhui and other foreign businessmen, local overseas Chinese and foreign missionaries took a fancy to Doumen Tucheng, and came here to do business and run churches, thus gradually accelerating Doumen's business and cultural exchanges between China and the West, and gradually building bungalow-style shops on the main road and Ermayina Road. "The street at that time was Shiban Street, about 4 meters wide and about 300 meters long." Mr. Liang, an 82-year-old "old Doumen" in Doumen Town, told reporters that although the streets used to be bungalows and tile houses, people from all over the country came to do business one after another during the market, and the business of teahouses and restaurants was booming, with traffic and bustling. "Jia has shops, vendors and handicrafts in the workshop.
Yes, the rivers and lakes are full of heroes running around, and there are a lot of unscrupulous people in the city. "
A fire in the Republic of China
Almost all the shops were burned down.
In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a fire in Doumen market. Except for Jinshanzhuang, the "Shenglan", other shops were burned down, and soon, the shops were built on land. When the First World War broke out, many overseas Chinese returned home with hard-earned money to get married and buy houses, and some overseas Chinese and their relatives invested in Doumen market, which made the commerce and trade of Doumen market develop rapidly again. According to the information held by Mr. Zhao Chenghua, the head of Nanmen Village, 1920 (in the ninth year of the Republic of China), Nanmen Village opened Jinshan Village, followed by Nanmen Village Xie Chang Zhao, Zhao Hualong, Bajia Village Dachang Luo Lianyao, Yongtongchang and Xiaohaoyong Village Kuang. Collect overseas Chinese assets
Coordinated construction of Canadian priests
1928 (Republic of China 17), the streets and small shops in the original narrow market could not meet the needs of commerce and trade. Ou Yihao, then the head of the Eighth District, proposed to set up a "Doumen Market Construction Committee", in which each township sent personnel to coordinate the interests of all parties, cooperate with various businesses, widen streets and rebuild shops. This proposal has been responded by various towns and villages, and at the same time, the architectural model of combining Chinese and western styles has been adopted for demolition and expansion.
Therefore, the planning and design scheme of Doumen market reconstruction was coordinated by Gary Wei, a priest and Canadian architectural engineer who preached in Doumen market at that time. Five years later, the Doumen Market Construction Committee gathered overseas Chinese and local financial resources to build a arcade building complex combining Chinese and western styles in the northeast of Huangliangdu Tucheng, that is, the north-south main road and the East-West Second Road of Doumen Market, forming a prosperous T-shaped commercial street at that time. The arcade has two floors and three or four floors. Some people who decorate the shop live in the front bunk and warehouse, while others live in the lower bunk and warehouse.
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