At first glance, the shape of Chongqing, in the mountains, with the river as the pool, built on the cliff, the mountain is the city, the city is the mountain. Among them, there is a ridge named "Daliangzi" (now around Xinhua Road), which runs east-west and passes through the city, dividing the mother city of Yuzhong into two parts: the lower half of the city in the south, which flourished because of the waterway pier, was the political and economic center of Chongqing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties; To the north is the upper half of the city, which is full of diaojiao buildings hanging from steep cliffs and winding streets.
Time has changed, and the lower half of the city has suddenly turned from the original political and economic center to the crowded streets of ordinary people, hiding everything that was once brilliant and brilliant in the roundabout streets …
Taking advantage of the National Day holiday, let’s start a cultural tour in the lower half of the city and visit Shancheng Lane, Eighteen Ladders and white elephant street in depth!
Exploring the lower half of the city: a cultural tour of old streets
Shancheng Lane →→→ Eighteen Ladders →→→ white elephant street
Shancheng lane
The history of Shancheng Lane can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In 1900, French missionaries lit lamps along Shancheng Lane to light the way home for passers-by. In the future, every household, with lights like stars, seems to be in the sky, so it has a good name "Tiandeng Lane" or "Tiandeng Street". In 1972, it was officially renamed Shancheng Lane.
"The street lights in the distance are clear, as if shining with countless stars. The stars in the sky appear, as if they were lighting countless street lamps. " In those years when Shancheng Lane was not called "Shancheng Lane", it was like a street with lanterns lit in a fairy tale, floating far away on the mountainside of Chongqing’s mother city, connecting the upper half of the city with the lower half.
Shancheng Lane is built on the mountain, facing the Yangtze River, climbing the hill and climbing the ridge, with a stone ladder-like distribution, which has a typical mountain city style in Chongqing, reaching Pipa Mountain on the upper side and Nanjimen on the lower side.
All the way along Shancheng Lane, you can come across historical sites including Jintangmen Old City Wall, Diaojiao Building, Tixin Hall, the former site of Jinmasi Primary School, etc. Every brick, tile, tree and stone in Shancheng Lane embodies the essence of old street, old city and old lane culture. These buildings with a heavy history, like colorful kaleidoscopes, show the past prosperity of Shancheng Lane one by one.
Old streets can be strolled, old buildings can be read, and scenery, humanities and stories are all in this alley.
It is worth mentioning that during the National Day, the "Wild Theater" in Shancheng Lane was temporarily opened to the public.
When the natural music from South America is playing in the ruins of a century-old church in France, but you stand on the 600-year-old Ming Dynasty wall and listen quietly, this dream-like experience can’t help but fascinate people …
In addition, the "Lantern Festival" dam mat in Shancheng Lane is also in full swing. Interested citizens and tourists can learn about related activities and make an appointment by paying attention to the "Traditional Scenery Area of Shancheng Lane in Chongqing" WeChat WeChat official account.
Traffic travel
1. Bus lines
Take bus No.10, No.308, No.321, No.322, No.346, No.361 and No.429 and get off at Zhongxing Road Station.
2. Rail transit lines
Take Rail Transit Line 1, exit from Jiaochangkou No.5, and walk for about 6 minutes to Shancheng Lane.
Hotel accommodation
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Shop juggling
Nong se Hua Chu
It has a long history to use flowers as vegetables. Hundreds of years of tradition of "eating flowers" can always bloom some unique charm in the precipitation of years. This is perhaps the most direct way to feel the original taste of flowers.
There are many flowers in the coloring kitchen, such as jasmine, pomegranate, bittersweet flower, kapok, Lady Enforcers, Tangli flower … The cooking of flowers is not only beautiful and interesting, but also has excellent edible value and even medicinal value.
Lingerjie snacks
When you come to Shancheng Lane, you can rest on the bench by the roadside when you are tired, or you can order a bowl of traditional snacks along the way.
Although there are only two varieties of bean curd and Gaiwancha on the menu of Linger’s snacks, they have diverse tastes. Order a good meal, go up the wooden ladder from the old square table in the lobby, and you can board a small attic with a wide view.
Bubu hotpot
Trail hot pot, inherited from the domineering of Chongqing hot pot, imbued with the fireworks in the streets and lanes of mountain city.
After boiling, there is a mellow oily fragrance, which is spicy and lasting, and can make citizens and tourists feel the spicy and delicious flavor of authentic Chongqing hot pot.
Xiao zi Xiang Xiang da sweet glutinous dumplings
There is nothing that can’t be solved with one bite of iced dumplings. If there is, take two bites.
Hand-made glutinous rice balls are put into the pot, picked up after they are cooked, and placed on a bowl full of sand ice. First, take a sip of brown sugar water, then take a sip of sand ice, and finally take a spoonful of ice dumplings, and immediately resurrect with blood. And the signature salted egg yolk sweet potato dumplings, YYDS!
I am happy and ancient.
Walking into my joy is like walking into a magazine pictorial, where baroque style and retro showa style can be met. Friends who like vintage are absolutely not to be missed, and you can’t stop scouring once you enter!
Eighteen ladder
Humans live by water, so at the intersection of the two rivers, there is the mountain city of Chongqing. So is the Eighteen Ladders.
It is said that there used to be an old well in this area, which was just 18 steps away from the residents’ residence. People were very busy here, fetching water for drinking and washing clothes, so it was gradually called "Eighteen Ladders".
▲ Old Eighteen Ladders
Another view is that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people built a stone ladder path here for the convenience of traffic. Because of the steep slope at the upper and lower ends, the ladder was divided into 18 sections, and each section had a platform for passers-by to take a nap, hence the name "eighteen ladders".
A source of water, a source of mountain, this is the city of mountains and waters of Chongqing’s eighteen ladders.
Eighteen ladders are not just a place name. It used to be the path of life and the road of years that mountain people had to go through, and it was the deepest homesickness of Chongqing people. For hundreds of years, it has changed several times, and its prosperity has declined for several autumn.
Here, celebrities and dignitaries, diplomatic envoys, peddlers and pawns, and daily fireworks slowly extend, and countless people temporarily stay here.
Countless Chongqing people and foreigners have wandered around here. They walked down or straight up the ladder, then found the alley and turned back. So they walked casually, touching the most original Chongqing and the oldest mother city, and doing nothing else.
Overlooking the Eighteen Ladders, the looming Diaojiao Building by the river is strewn at random. When you walk into the Eighteen Ladders, you can see all the most common and popular Chongqing fireworks.
It is the fate of the Eighteen Ladders to change from shabby to rebuilt to new life. Eighteen ladders will not disappear in the long river of history like a bubble, but will continue the original street pattern and texture to be reborn.
On September 30th, the 18th Ladder Traditional Scenery Area officially opened.
Looking up is a city, looking down at Festival Walk. As a link between the upper and lower cities, the Eighteen Ladders are the deepest memory and homesickness of Chongqing people.
After careful renovation, the Eighteen Ladders have preserved the "original ecology" in history and humanities, reproduced the "original landform" in business layout, and restored the "original scene" in architectural style, striving to fully present the evolution of mountain space and the changes of citizens’ lives, and strive to create urban renewal samples.
The Eighteen Ladders combed the "Eighteen Scenes" of Seven Streets and Six Alleys, and comprehensively displayed the important historical events, anecdotes of celebrities, urban legends and street features of the Eighteen Ladders, carefully treasured the memory of the city and preserved the old flavor of the mountain city.
On the opening day, many old residents and young people stepped into Tikan Long Lane and met with Eighteen Ladders again.
The updated Eighteen Ladders are full of ancient charm, with old streets, old buildings, time-honored brands and old crafts all the way. The singing on the stage is euphemistic, the trees under the Huangge trees are full of light and shadow, and the sliding poles pass by. The teahouse is noisy and the streets are still familiar with the smell of fireworks. After the reunification, there is always a reason to attract you to stop in generate, cool shops, performing arts shows and movie shooting punch points.
It is understood that during the National Day, Eighteen Ladders will launch national quintessence drama festival, national fashion show, music LIVE party, funny music workshop, meeting with big coffee, live animation night tour and other activities throughout the holiday, accompanying citizens and tourists to celebrate the holidays.
Traffic travel
1. Bus lines
① Get off at Sun Moonlight Square Station on Heping Road by bus, and walk 188 meters to reach the 18th ladder traditional scenic area. You can take bus lines 476 and 0491, etc.
② Get off the bus at Xiaomi City Station and walk 263 meters to reach the Eighteen Ladders traditional scenic area. You can take bus lines 322, 440, 651, 871, 881, sightseeing bus T480, sightseeing bus T002, etc.
③ Get off at Ciqi Street Bus Station, and walk 287 meters to reach the traditional scenery area of Eighteen Ladders. You can take bus lines No.10, No.124, No.152, No.429, No.308 and No.321, etc.
④ Get off the bus at Jie Fangbei Station and walk 679 meters to reach the Eighteen Ladders traditional scenic area. You can take bus lines 462, 465 and 601, sightseeing bus T001, sightseeing bus T480 and airport express K01.
2. Rail transit lines
Take Rail Transit Line 1 or Line 2, get off at Jiaochangkou Station, exit at Exit 4, and walk for about 139 meters to reach the 18th Ladder traditional scenic area.
3. Parking by car
It is suggested to park in Leijiapo Parking Building, Proud World, Jiaochangkou Sunmoon, Xinghe Building and other properties, and then walk into the Eighteen Ladders traditional style area.
Hotel accommodation
Chongqing Shi ba ti pu Shi hotel
Secluded in the east of the Eighteen Ladders traditional scenic area, it has a unique style and a strong artistic atmosphere. With the Ba people’s martial arts cultural armor as the design element, the diaojiao building stands by the mountain, which is a good place for filming "out of the circle".
Shop juggling
Houxiang
If you still remember the "upstream canteen" located in Houci Street in the 1980s, you must not miss the thick lane when you walk out of the Mountain City Memory Museum. It recreates the "upstream canteen", where you can taste Chongqing’s special cuisine, and you can also roam the tea house, art exhibition hall, cultural exchange area, etc., and feel the strong cultural atmosphere of the mountain city.
Yuchao store
When talking and laughing in the trendy old school, you will turn into a dragon as soon as you enter the market. As a mass entertainment gathering place for the quintessence of Chinese performing arts and the fashion art of "National Tide", Yuchaofang will show you the innovative style of "National Tide Crossing Drama+National Tide Sanda Show", and see how Yuchaofang stirs the Chinese trend from another dimension.
Zhu Bingren Art Museum
In the past 18 ladders, there were many "craftsmen" of various colors on both sides of the hundreds-meter-long ladder ridge, mending pots and bowls, sharpening scissors and chopping knives.
Zhu Bingren Copper, a national intangible brand, will take you into the shocking world of copper with the craftsman spirit inherited for thousands of years. I believe you will be amazed by the exquisite exhibition of copper carving techniques and copper artworks on the spot.
Hong kong police gift shop
In the film and television drama, the image of SIR A in Hong Kong is handsome and heroic. As the first store of Hong Kong police gifts in the mainland, police souvenirs authorized by the Hong Kong police can be bought here, which is definitely worth starting with.
Xiangxiang camellia oleifera
Camellia oleifera stands, which used to be all over the streets and lanes, are hard to find now, and Eighteen Ladders once again dedicate the warm alley camellia oleifera to the people in the mountain city. Sprinkle crispy prickly heat on the soft rice paste, then pour two spoonfuls of spicy oil, and a bowl of spicy and crisp camellia oleifera will bring back childhood memories.
White elephant street
White elephant street is located between two water docks, Wanglongmen and Taipingmen, adjacent to Chuqimen Medicinal Materials Market, next to the financial district of Datong Street and Shaanxi Street, next to the government yamen, facing the Yangtze River and looking across the river from the south bank. The combination of favorable weather, favorable geographical position and harmonious people has once been the political, cultural and economic center of Chongqing.
In 1886, the earliest cable telegraph office in Chongqing was established here. After the opening of Chongqing in 1891, Britain, the United States and Japan all set up foreign firms here, forming a "financial street", and then customs broker and transport company were also established here. In the 1930s, shipping companies were concentrated in this street. Besides Minsheng Company in the model market and Sanbei Company in Sanjinyuan Lane of Shaanxi Street, Jiejiang Company, Qingguang Company, Swire Company, Nissin Company, Jardine Matheson Company, Pingping Company and China Merchants were all in white elephant street.
White elephant street witnessed many precious firsts in Chongqing: Chongqing Customs Bureau opened the customs for the first time; Chongqing’s first post office-Daqing Post Office; Chongqing newspaper, the first newspaper in Chongqing; Yaoting Lee Mansion, the place where the first electric light was lit in Chongqing; Chongqing’s first sorbet factory-Jade Bird Ice Factory …
▲ Cultural Relics Building
There are nine cultural relics buildings and the city walls from Taiping Gate to Renhe Gate, such as the Chinese Medicine Association, Bufengju, Jiangquantai, and the Customs Complex. Each one represents a microcosm of Chongqing’s development. Today, the restoration of cultural relics has been completed.
Jiang Quantai is recognized as one of the most beautiful buildings in white elephant street, with strong eclectic architectural features and strong Baroque style. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was once the most famous ballroom in Chongqing. After the restoration, Jiang Quantai will show its old style again.
Not far away, the main building of the Chinese Medicine Association is symmetrical and steady, which is not only the most representative combination of Chinese and Western architecture in the modern architectural history of Chongqing, but also one of the most prominent symbols in the history of white elephant street. During the Anti-Japanese War, transporting medicinal materials and ensuring supply for the battlefield in Chongqing was called a barometer of the situation during the Anti-Japanese War.
At the end of 18th century, due to the large number of immigrants coming to Chongqing, the wind of building guild halls prevailed in Chongqing, and Shanxi guild halls came into being. In 1930, because of a sudden fire, the prosperity of Shanxi guild hall disappeared.
Many years later, Chongqing Place Name Culture Exhibition Hall was built and opened on the former site of Shanxi Guild Hall. This is the first creative exhibition hall in China that deeply integrates historical buildings, street style restoration and scientific and technological experience. Precious historical photos, video materials, old objects of Bayu culture and dynamic antique maps of old Chongqing are on display here.
When tourists walk into white elephant street, the heavy sense of history comes to mind, and the retro streets seem to take you into another time and space, silently telling you the past …
On the evening of September 30th, white elephant street officially opened to the outside world. The live performances of the event continued, and citizens and tourists kept coming and going.
During the National Day holiday, wonderful activities such as White Elephant Art Exhibition, Neon Light Show, Song and Dance Drama Performance and Chaojie Market will continue to be staged.
It is reported that citizens and tourists can also find staff to pay attention to WeChat official account, a traditional scenic area in white elephant street, Chongqing, and get garden tickets to participate in interactive games and win exquisite peripheral gifts. The quantity is limited, so hurry up and participate!
Traffic travel
1. Bus lines
Take No.120, No.141, No.372, No.382, No.862 and No.871 and get off at Chuqimen Station.
2. Rail transit lines
Take Rail Transit Line 1 and Line 2 to Jiaochangkou Station, which takes about 12 minutes to navigate and walk.
3. Parking by car
It is suggested to park the garage in Sunac white elephant street South District, and then walk into white elephant street.
Shop juggling
Chongqing Xiling study room art complex
White elephant street introduced Chongqing Xiling Study Art Complex to build China Zhimei Humanities Study, which is also the first flagship store of Xiling Study in Southwest China.
Chongqing ˙ Xiling Study Room Art Complex was renovated on the basis of the former Xinghua Primary School, a cultural relic unit in Yuzhong District, with "stone painting and calligraphy, cultural activities, cultural and creative gifts, leisure study room, training and research" as its main business sectors.
The main building of Xiling study is divided into three floors. On the first floor, there is a leisure study integrating tea art, tasting incense and business talks, with the essence of spreading epigraphy culture, as well as calligraphy and painting, offering humanistic literacy training such as calligraphy, seal cutting, painting and art appreciation, and life aesthetics training such as tea, incense, flowers and piano; On the second floor, there is a multifunctional art hall, which has both a one-stop literati study and a classical dressing experience. At the same time, according to the four seasons, the four things of the Song people "drinking tea, burning incense, arranging flowers and hanging pictures" are used as the carrier to show the temperament of the Jiangnan literati study; The third floor is Xiling Art Museum, which mainly carries out art exhibitions, artistic creation, academic research, art collection and art services and other related art activities.
On October 6th, from 14: 30 to 15: 30, a parent-child calligraphy and seal cutting activity will be held here. Citizens and tourists can take their children to experience the immersive seal cutting and calligraphy in Xiqiao study, so that this National Day holiday can be spent happily in the calligraphy and calligraphy.
Yangji longfu
Yangji Longfu was created by the descendants of Yang Mingfeng, a bureaucrat in the late Ming Dynasty. After several generations, today’s Yangji Longfu, rebuilt by Yong Yang, a fourth-generation successor, has become the popular queuing king of Chongqing Jianghu dishes with a brand-new positioning. The dishes pay attention to the inheritance and innovation of Chongqing flavor, and combine vision and taste-"taste all kinds of rivers and lakes and taste the charm of the Republic of China". As soon as you step into Yangji Longfu, a strong Chongqing national tide style comes to your face.
▲ Yangji signature fish
There are not only retro square tables, blue-and-white porcelain, bamboo lanterns, rickshaws, phonographs and other furnishings, but also various characters such as shopkeepers, waiters, young children and girls, which seem to be in a lively wine shop in the Republic of China; Yang Ji’s signature fish, Ba Yu Yi Jue, snacks of the Republic of China, century-old brine, Yang Ji’s roast stalls, Jianghu booze and other bright stalls displayed by category show different cooking methods. Let consumers feel the different characteristics of Bayu, and let people eat with peace of mind.
Qingshan SQUARE
In the SQUARE shop in Qingshan, Chongqing, there are works by craftsmen from all over Japan.
These handicrafts have two characteristics. First, they are not decorations, but practical daily necessities. The claim of Japanese craftsmen is: "I am only responsible for making it, and it is the people who use it." , is used by people, will produce its value.
The second point is environmental protection. The materials used in handicrafts are mainly natural materials, which are born after careful consideration and effective use of a small amount of resources. After consumption, the materials are all natural and will not pollute the environment.
Picture and text: Zhang Kunkun, Mou Wenxiao, Chen Sabiao, Tian Xiangji, Chongqing white elephant street Traditional Scenic Area, Chongqing Eighteen Ladders Traditional Scenic Area, People’s Daily Online, Chongqing Publishing, Weiyuzhong, Chongqing Micro Life, Thirteen Seats, and Master Lian.
Original title: Explore the historical charm of the lower half of the city! Mountain City Lane, Eighteen Ladders and white elephant street Travel Raiders are coming!
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