What is there to do near Heping District in Tianjin?

1. Fifth Avenue 2. Binjiang Road

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In Tianjin Central City In the southern part of the district, there are six streets named after Chengdu Road, Chongqing Road, Changde Road, Dali Road, Munan Road and Machang Road, which are famous cities in southwest China, running east and west. Tianjin people call it "Five Avenues", also known as the Five Avenues area.

Wudaodao has more than 2,000 garden-style houses built in different architectural styles from Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, covering an area of ??more than 600,000 square meters. The area is more than 1 million square meters. Among them, there are more than 300 architectural styles and famous residences, and it is recognized as Tianjin's unique international architecture expo.

Wudao’s strong sense of history is also unique. As a reflection of modern Tianjin history, Wudao area contains rich cultural connotations. How many modern and contemporary celebrities have left their footprints here, and every building contains a story, fully demonstrating the century-old vicissitudes of modern China. Hundreds of Chinese and foreign celebrities, including Presidents Cao Kun and Xu Shichang, six prime ministers of the Beiyang Cabinet, patriotic Zhang Xueming, uprising general Gao Shuxun, world sprint champion Li Airi in the 1920s, 31st President of the United States Hoover, Secretary of State Marshall, etc. have lived here.

Wudaodao still maintains an elegant, unique and quiet style. Coming to Wudaodao will make us stay away from the noisy and flashy world, like entering a quiet museum of architecture from all over the world.

The Racecourse Road of the Five Avenues

The Racecourse Road is the earliest, widest and longest road built in the Five Avenues area. At the end of the 19th century, De Cuilin, the chairman of the British Concession, built a villa and a racecourse in the "Sheep Farm" area of ??Tonglou. After that, a road was built east of the racecourse leading to the racecourse, which is the predecessor of today's racecourse road. The road is 3.2 kilometers long and about 20 meters wide, with flower beds in the middle of the street. The racecourse was destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. In 1901, the British Concession authorities rebuilt the racecourse and renovated the old road, officially naming it Race Course Road.

The small western-style building at No. 121 Racecourse Road was originally home to the British overseas scholar Leonardo da Vinci, and was called the "Da Vinci House". This typical Spanish garden villa is the earliest building on Five Avenues. Also located on Racecourse Road are the former Northern Museum and the School of Industry and Commerce. Beijiang Museum is one of the early museums in China. It was founded in 1922. The building is in the shape of an "I" and has a Roman architectural style. The School of Industry and Commerce was built in 1925. The main building has three floors and a basement. It has large mushroom stone walls on the outer eaves, a Mansell-style tile roof, and a large round clock. It is a French Romanesque architectural style.

Munan Road of the Five Avenues

Munan Road, 2.08 kilometers long, has 74 style buildings, 22 former residences of celebrities, and 4 municipal-level cultural relics protection units. Green trees on both sides of the road cover small western-style buildings of different styles. Walking along, one feels that the spatial scale of the road, houses and trees is just right.

No. 20 Munan Road is the former residence of Sun Dianying. Built in 1930, it is a three-story Western classical mansion with a basement, quite luxurious. No. 24 is the former residence of Yan Huiqing, a modern Chinese diplomat. The building has a European classical architectural style. The Italian-style mansion with Roman colonnades at No. 28 is the former residence of Li Shufu, a descendant of the "Li Shanren" of the Eight Great Masters of Tianjin. Li was the manager of Tianjin Industrial Bank. No. 50 is the former residence of Zhang Xueliang's second brother, Zhang Xueming. It has red brick plain walls and sloping tile roof, in the style of a British courtyard villa.

The Origin of Five Avenues

The development of Five Avenues followed the pace of Tianjin’s modernization. Tianjin is a young city in the sense of a long history of urban development. More than 600 years before the Opium War, Tianjin developed from an ordinary military fort and grain distribution center into a new commercial city [13.09 -0.30%] in the north of the canal, and became the prosperous "Capital of Jifu". After the opening of the port, Tianjin In the past few decades, it has rapidly grown into an industrial and commercial metropolis, which is rare in China's traditional urban system. At that time, Tianjin "went more than 200 miles to Shenjing, and was on the way to the north and south", which could play the role of "connecting the boats, gathering the world's grain, and delivering the world's goods to benefit the capital." It was the so-called "when the river The rush of the sea is the gateway of Jifu." The special geographical location gives Tianjin a special political role - to protect Kyoto. Especially in the modern history of China, many major events are related to Tianjin. As Jin Yue, a recent scholar, said in the preface to "The Evolution of Tianjin Politics and Customs": "For decades, , the great plan of national reform, planning and management, especially in the country, and then gradually spread to the provinces, which is the key to the rise and fall of the world."

Since the Second World War in 1860. After the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Beijing, Tianjin was forced to become a treaty port, and foreign concessions also appeared. By the beginning of the 20th century, concessions from nine countries had appeared in Tianjin, making Tianjin the city with the most concessions in modern China. The longest period of occupation of concessions in various countries was more than eighty years, and the shortest period was more than ten years. From the perspective of urban development stage, Tianjin was forced to open up. Since then, Tianjin has entered a transformation period from a traditional period, that is, from a feudal transportation hub and commercial city to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial modern industrial and commercial port and trading city.

The Five Avenues embody the essence of the city of Tianjin.

Although it is difficult to summarize the regional culture of Tianjin in one or two sentences, there is no doubt that the formation and development of this culture are closely related to the development process of Tianjin city, and the population gathering in Tianjin is closely related to the development process of Tianjin city and the formation of culture. plays an extremely important role.

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The total length of Tianjin Heping Road Pedestrian Street is about 1230 meters, and the total length of Tianjin Binjiang Road Pedestrian Street is about 1290 meters. meters, the two pedestrian streets add up to a total length of 2,520 meters, making it the longest pedestrian street in China. After this upgrade and transformation, the business formats include large-scale retail and commercial department stores, clothing, catering, culture, entertainment, photography, finance, etc. The entire Binjiang Road business district will not only give full play to the rich cultural atmosphere of the old commercial district, but also become the centerpiece of the commercial district. The main artery has become the "golden corridor" where merchants gather and crowds of people surge.