The Shichahai Fire Temple is still closed and has not been reopened. Everyone needs to wait for a while.
Shichahai in Beijing includes three waters: West Sea, Houhai Sea and Qianhai Sea. It is said that Shichahai was written as Shichahai because there are ten ancient temples around it.
Qian Hai Xi Yan is a famous summer resort in Beijing. In the 1920s, it began to form a market mainly dealing with Beijing-style snacks and antiques. Lotus market is named because there are lotus plants all over the surface of Qianhai and weeping willows on the shore, with excellent scenery.
After 1949, the lotus market gradually declined and eventually became invisible. 1990, rebuild the open lotus market. Mr. Qi Gong, a famous calligrapher, inscribed the famous "Lotus Market" plaque and hung it on the original Haixi Street archway.
200 1, the Lotus Market was transformed into an antique building, with two floors randomly connected, and a wooden plank road with a width of about 4 meters and a length of more than 200 meters was opened on the water side, gradually forming an antique tea bar-style pedestrian commercial street.
On July 20 17, the format adjustment of the lotus market and the facade decoration of the lakeside store began, and it was completed on June 20 19.
After the Tonghui River dug in Guo Shoujing in the Yuan Dynasty was opened to traffic on 1292, Shichahai became the terminal of water transportation in the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and a bustling business district was formed around it. At that time, Yuan Dadu became one of the few international metropolises in the world.
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the road leading to the Fire Temple at the northern end of Jinding Bridge in Qianhai was closed, and the Fire Temple was also closed to the public from 0: 00 on June 24, 2020.