Dashilar was a bustling commercial and entertainment center in the history of Beijing, and people used to praise Dashilar with the saying, "The essence of the capital lies here, and there is nothing more lively and prosperous than this".
"Dazhalan" was not initially called this name, but called Langfang Sijiao, and nearby Langfang Tou, two, three. In the "Ming Beijing City Map" on the label is "corridor room four", and to the "Qianlong capital city map", the name of the above labeling was changed to "Dashilar".
The setup of the Dajie Bar in the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xiaozong Hongzhi first year (1488) ordered the establishment of fences in the streets and alleys of Beijing, and sent soldiers to guard against thieves.
By the Qing Dynasty, this area had become a major commercial center, and because there was a lot of trade, the fences were built to be bigger and better looking than the rest of the city in order to effectively prevent thieves, hence the name "Dajie Ban".
Da Jie Lan became a commercial center, some famous old shops have opened here.
The Ming Dynasty, there has been the opening of the six Bijiu sauce garden; the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi years opened the famous Chinese medicine store Tong Ren Tang; Jiaqing years opened the Ma Juyuan hat store, Neiliansheng shoe store, and later had four storefronts of one of the eight - Rui Fu Xiang Silk and Leather Goods House, and so on.
For food and drink, there are Changshengkui Dried Fruit Shop, Zhang Yiyuan Wenji Tea House, Houdefu Restaurant, Quanjude and so on; and for entertainment, there are Qingleyuan, Sanqingyuan and Guangdelou. There is also the Da Guan Lou Cinema, the first movie theater in Beijing, which opened in the early years of the Republic of China. China's first movie "Dingjunshan" was released here.
The Dazhalan neighborhood still preserves the pattern of "three verticals and nine horizontals" of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with "three verticals" referring to Coal Market Street, Jewelry Market Street, and Grain Store Street; and "nine horizontals" referring to the nine horizontal streets of Dazhalan. refers to the nine east-west hutongs in Dazhalan.
Daljiejie got its name because of the iron fence
Daljiejie is worth a stroll, but also because it has always maintained the appearance of the old commercial street, the historical legacy of the streets and lanes is the ancient architecture, the original flavor of old Beijing.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "night ban" was popular. At night, thousands of hutongs and alleys were closed with iron fences. Soldiers were sent to guard, pedestrians can no longer come and go. But because of the capital's civil and military officials five morning, the fence needs to be daily "special open", quite a hassle; business, night entertainment, transportation, over a fence, but also quite a hassle; especially in the streets and alleys to open a teahouse, theaters, brothels, often making a scene in the middle of the night, the existence of fences on the more redundant, and therefore these fences to the Qing dynasty during the reign of the same period of time will be name existed in fact died.
While the fence of Dazhalan Street to 1922 is still alive and well. This is because Dazhalan is a commercial area, entertainment area, the officials do not send soldiers to guard, businessmen in order to protect their personal interests, they still pay to hire a dart board guard, played a positive role.
Dajiejie name out on the business. This is an old street, the old to play the Yuan Dynasty is the merchants gathered, the city prosperous place. At that time, its prosperity is in the Li Zhengmen Guanqiang place. After the Qing soldiers into Beijing, dorgon ordered the Han people in the inner city were moved to the zhengyangmen (former lizhengmen) outside the outer city, the inner city is not allowed to set up clubs, theaters, brothels, many stores were forced to move to the south of the city. This store, restaurants, tea houses, vendors, vendors, in the Zheng Yang Gate outside the bee save mosquito gathering, the place into a climate.
This piece of business area is very wide, zhengyangmen, arrows between the urn in the city once had a purse alley, cap alley, south river, grinding plant, Langfang head, two, fresh fish mouth, Dajiejie and other streets, are market vendors intensive area. And Dazhalan and Dazhalan around a lot of old, old signboards, but also through the decades and centuries not to fall.
Today, many of the facades on both sides of the street have been redecorated or laid out, and the old names of the past are still there, and the streets are as crowded as ever. Rui Fu Xiang did not change; Zhang Yiyuan Tea House changed the face; Neiliansheng shoe store window display is a series of shoe culture, three masters set up a shoe stall, on-site performance of the production of cloth shoes; Tong Ren Tang pharmacy store has long been expanded, three-story antique building in the street is very eye-catching; the old Rui Fu Xiang Silk Fabric Manor in the middle of the street residual a door without store store store wall and the old couplets, inscriptions, and so on, like monuments, like the stage! The set.
Dajiejie is worth shopping, because it has never fallen behind in the tide of business. Word old, old signboards, goods but new; more varieties, high grade, society has it all have everything; and from stalls to stores, is a variety of business methods, business scale metropolis.