Excuse me, the origin of the names "Xidan" and "Dongdan"?

The origin of the names "Xidan" and "Dongdan"

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During the Yuan Dynasty, the East Fourth Street and the West Fourth Street were called Dashi Street, which was very lively and prosperous. This place had already become a prosperous commercial district in the Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty was established, this place was called the "Old Privy Council Corner City" and belonged to Mingzhaofang. At that time, there were many businesses and shops in the "Privy Council Corner Market". The business was prosperous, the transactions were active, and it was extremely prosperous. It was one of the three major commercial centers in the city. At the east, west, north and south intersections of the Dongsi intersection, there is a large archway with "three bays, four pillars and three floors" in the sky, which are called "Sichengfang", "Renshoufang", "Baodafang" and "Mingzhaofang" respectively. . The four archways at the Xisi intersection face each other with three characters for "Dashi Street" in their north and south directions. The archway on the east side is named "Xingren" and the one on the west side is called "Lvyi". Later, these four archways had new names: "Jinchengfang", "Mingyufang", "Jiqingfang" and "Anfufang".

Since Dongsi and Xisi have four separate archways, people no longer call them "Dashi Street", and simply call them Dongsi Archway and Xisi Archway. It will be easier to call it "Four Archways" later on. By the time Peking was liberated, these archways were still in existence. It was demolished in the 1950s to expand the road. Since the archway is gone, the naming becomes easier: "East Fourth" and "West Fourth".

Dongdan and Xidan also came from this. The word "single" is because the archway here is a single one. The archway in Xidan is called "Zhanyun" and the archway in Dongdan is called "Jiuri". In this way, Dongdan Archway and Xidan Archway were called. Similarly, in the 1950s, when roads were expanded and the archways were demolished, only "Dongdan" and "Xidan" remained. You see, the boundary with such a concise and smooth name turns out to be the family property left by the archway.

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