What are the interesting places in Heping District of Tianjin?

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In the south of downtown Tianjin, six streets, namely Chengdu Road, Chongqing Road, Changde Road, Dali Road, Munan Road and Machang Road, are juxtaposed in the southwest of China. Tianjin people call it "Five Avenue", also known as the Five Avenue area.

There are more than 2,000 garden-style houses built in Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, covering an area of more than 600,000 square meters, with a total area of 6,543,800 square meters. Among them, there are more than 300 famous buildings and celebrities, which are recognized as the unique World Architecture Expo in Tianjin.

The strong sense of history of Fifth Avenue is also unique. As a reflection of the history of modern Tianjin, the Fifth Avenue area contains rich cultural connotations. Many modern celebrities have left footprints here, and each building contains stories, which fully shows the century-old situation of modern China. Hundreds of Chinese and foreign celebrities, including President Cao Kun, President Xu Shichang, six prime ministers of Beiyang Cabinet, patriot Zhang, uprising general Gao Shuxun, sprint world champion Eric Lee in the 1920s, American President Hoover and Secretary Marshall, all lived here.

Fifth Avenue is still elegant, unique and quiet. Coming to Fifth Avenue will keep us away from the noisy and flashy world, just like walking into a quiet international architectural museum.

Racecourse Road on Fifth Avenue

Machang Road is the earliest, widest and longest road built in the Fifth Avenue area. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, the chairman of the British Concession, De Cui Lin, built villas and racetracks in the area of Yangyuan Garden in the Copper Building. Since then, a road leading to the racecourse has been built in the east of the racecourse, which is the predecessor of today's racecourse road. The road is 3.2 kilometers long and 20 meters wide, and there are flower beds on the street. The racetrack was destroyed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. 190 1 year, the British concession authorities rebuilt the racecourse and renovated the old road, and officially named this road Racecourse Road, that is, Racecourse Road.

The Xiaoyanglou at Machang Road 12 1, formerly known as "Wen Da Shilou", is a typical Spanish garden villa and the earliest building on Fifth Avenue. Located on Racecourse Road are the former Northern Xinjiang Museum and the College of Business Technology. Beijiang Museum is one of the earliest museums in China, which was founded in 1922. The building is an I-shaped plane with Roman architectural style. The Institute of Business and Technology was established in 1925. There is a basement on the third floor of the main building, and there is a big mushroom stone wall, Mansel-style tile roof and round clock outside the eaves, which is a French-Roman architectural style.

Munan Avenue on Fifth Avenue

Munan Road is 2.08 kilometers long, with 74 scenic buildings, 22 former residences of celebrities and 4 municipal cultural relics protection units. Foreign small foreign buildings with different styles are shaded by green trees on both sides of the road. During walking, people feel that the spatial scale of roads, houses and trees is just right.

No.20 Munan Road is the former residence of Sun Dianying. Built in 1930, a three-story western-style classical mansion with basement is quite luxurious. No.24 is the former residence of Yan Huiqing, a modern diplomat in China. The building has European classical architectural style. No.28 Romanesque colonnade Italian Mansion is the former residence of Li Shufu, the descendant of eight famous people in Tianjin, and Li used to be the manager of bank of tianjin. No.50 is the former residence of Zhang Xueliang's second brother Zhang, with red brick drywall and sloping roof, which has the style of English courtyard villa.

The origin of five avenues

The development of Fifth Avenue develops with the pace of Tianjin's modernization. Judging from the long history of urban development, Tianjin is a young city. More than 600 years before the Opium War, Tianjin developed from an ordinary military fortress and grain transportation center into a new commercial city north of the Canal [13.09 -0.30%] and became a prosperous "capital of Kyrgyzstan". In the decades after its opening, it has rapidly grown into an industrial and commercial metropolis, which is rare in the traditional urban system of China. At that time, Tianjin's "going to Shenjing for more than 200 miles was the key point of North-South exchanges", which could play the role of "receiving boats, gathering millet from all over the world and bringing goods from all over the world to benefit the capital", as the so-called "being the key point of rivers and seas and being the gateway to Kyrgyzstan". The special geographical position endows Tianjin with a special political role-defending Kyoto, especially in the modern history of China. Many important events are related to Tianjin, just as Jin Yue, a neighbor, said in the preface of The Evolution of Tianjin Political Customs: "For decades, the grand plan of national reform, especially the development of management, has become a country, and then gradually spread to various provinces, which is the key to the prosperity and abolition of the world."

Since 1860, when the Second Opium War ended and the Beijing Treaty was signed, Tianjin was forced to become a trading port, and concessions also appeared. By the beginning of the 20th century, Tianjin had nine concessions, making it the city with the largest number of concessions in modern China. The longest occupation time of concessions in various countries is over 80 years, and the shortest is over 10 years. From the perspective of urban development stage, Tianjin was forced to open a port, and since then Tianjin has entered a transitional 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 trade city.

The five avenues embody the breath in Tianjin's bones. 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 of Tianjin, and the population gathering in Tianjin plays an extremely important role in the development and cultural formation of Tianjin.

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Heping Road Pedestrian Street in Tianjin is about1230m long, and binjiang road Pedestrian Street in Tianjin is about1290m long. Together, the two pedestrian streets are 2520m long, which is the longest pedestrian street in China. The upgraded business format involves large retail department stores, clothing, catering, culture, entertainment, photography, finance and so on. While giving full play to the rich cultural atmosphere of the old business district, the whole binjiang road business district will also become the main vein of the business district and a "golden corridor" where merchants gather and crowds surge.