Baixiang Street is an old street in Chongqing, about 425 meters long and less than 10 meters wide, located between Wanglongmen and Taipingmen. According to legend, there used to be a huge stone beside the city wall, which looked like an elephant, and was named Baixiang. The white elephant is on the north bank, and there is a lion mountain on the south bank, so there is a saying that "blue lions and white elephants lock the river". In fact, the river in that area is wide, the "white elephant" is upstream, and the "green lion" is downstream, and they are not completely opposite, so it is impossible to "lock" the river. The "White Elephant" stone originally had a pool, named Baixiang Pool. Baixiang Street faces Longmen in the northeast, Taipingmen in the southwest, and is close to Yamen. With the development of water transportation in Chongqing, merchants and boaters came to Chongqing to transport goods, and many warehouses and commercial houses were built in that area. Baixiang Street also increasingly prosperous. After Chongqing opened as a port, foreign businessmen could not come to the city without permission. But foreign businessmen had to do things, so there was a comprador. Baixiang Street is in Taipingmen, so it is used by various compradors and commercial firms as their offices. Therefore, Baixiang Street has an earlier foreign house in Chongqing City. Those houses also absorbed some advantages of traditional Chinese architecture, for example, most of them used lattice doors and windows, carved hollow, quite delicate. For quite a period of time, Baixiang Street was the most luxurious street in Chongqing.
15 Baixiang Street is the old site of the "Yuren" hosted by Song Yuren in 1897 and the "New Yibao" newspaper office hosted by Xiao Chunv in 1924. Around 1905, Yuan Xiaowu, Yang Yubai, Zhu Shuqi and others raised funds to set up Donghua Match Company on Baixiang Street. There used to be a pier here, densely populated, and it was one of the downtown areas of Chongqing. The origin of the name of Baixiang Street is that there is a Han white jade sculpture stone elephant here, which happens to be opposite to the blue stone lions of Xuantan Temple on the south bank. This is the folk legend of "green lion white elephant lock big river"; Another way to say, the local original white elephant bathing white elephant pool, so named white elephant street.
Baixiang Street, Chongqing Old Street, between Wanglongmen and Taipingmen. This small street has been visited by many celebrities, including Chen Yi, Wang Xusheng, Zhou Enlai, etc. There are buildings such as Daqing Post Office and Li Yaoting Mansion. In 1886, the earliest cable telegraph bureau in Chongqing was established here. After the opening of Chongqing in 1891, British, American, Japanese and other homes opened foreign banks here, forming a "financial street".
Baixiang Street is an old street in Chongqing. Between Wanglongmen and Taipingmen, this small street has lived in many celebrities, with buildings such as Daqing Post Office and Li Yaoting Mansion. Many things on Baixiang Street are closely related to the development of Chongqing.
A white elephant street Chongqing old taste. Baixiangju is named after the white elephant street. Her design began in 1983, and finally in 1992, it was built in Qingshi Baixiang lock Dajiang, a white elephant street, half of Chongqing history. It is difficult to know how many floors are shuttled in the building. Baixiangju is a 24th floor net red building without elevator, the taste of old Chongqing. Looking at the best angle of the ropeway, tourists will choose to view the scenery here. Zipper-style stairs, the 12th floor of Unit 5 may not necessarily be the 12th floor of Unit 4! One of the shooting locations of the 2016 classic movie "Hot Pot Hero". [View] Old taste [Fun] You can come to view [Cost-effective] Free
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