Located in the Cultural Square in the center of Shanghai, it is bounded by Maoming South Road to the east, Shaanxi South Road to the west, Fuxing Middle Road to the north, and Yongjia Road to the south. This seemingly quiet land carries the essence of Shanghai. Tan’s history of more than 80 years.
In May 1949, Shanghai was liberated, and the Yiyuan Hotel was organized by the employees to maintain business operations. The original hotel and ballroom were lent to various units for meetings and exhibitions. In April 1952, with the decision of the Municipal People's Government and the approval of Mayor Chen Yi, Yiyuan was renovated, expanded and newly built into Shanghai's "People's Cultural Square" (it was renamed "Cultural Square" with the approval of the city government in November of that year). The reconstruction and expansion project was completed before the end of 1954, and it became a mass political and cultural activity center with relatively complete facilities that the people of Shanghai had longed for.
In the 14 years from 1952 to 1966 (that is, before the Cultural Revolution), a total of 626 important political rallies and report accounts were held in the square, with 2.01 million cadres and masses participating. The Cultural Square is a large classroom for political education and revolutionary tradition education, where people receive education on socialism, patriotism and collectivism.
However, the road was tortuous. The "Cultural Revolution" that began in 1966 brought a catastrophe to the square. The "Gang of Four" used this site to plot conspiracies and brutally criticize the leaders of the municipal party committee, a large number of veteran cadres and intellectuals. The self-proclaimed rebels fought here and made trouble. In 1976, during the so-called "countering the right-leaning trend of overturning the verdict", a singing rally was held to sing "The Cultural Revolution was good", thereby creating a massive rebellion against revolutionary public opinion, etc., etc., which left a heavy mark in the history of the square. Page...
In December 1969, a rare fire broke out due to the engineering team's violation of operating procedures during the square's overhaul, which burned down the entire conference venue, stage and part of the original exhibition hall. Thousands of people, especially young people, risked their lives to save state property in the fire. 14 citizens died heroically (all posthumously considered martyrs), 350 people suffered minor or serious injuries, and the loss amounted to more than 5 million yuan. In the spring of 1970, Premier Zhou Enlai personally gave instructions: Rebuild the Cultural Square.
In September of that year, after 83 days and nights of hard work, a 5,700-square-meter, three-way tubular grid structure was completed at the fastest speed and with excellent project quality. The closed auditorium has no floor-to-ceiling columns; the stage height was raised to 19 meters, the audience lounge and various service facilities were expanded, and a new cultural square that was world-leading at the time was built.
In May 1973, the Pyongyang Opera House of North Korea brought the original large-scale opera "Pygmalion" to the Shanghai audience for the first time, which became a lingering mark of the times for a generation.
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In the early 1990s, Cultural Square became the earliest temporary securities trading market in Shanghai.
After 1997, the main building of the Cultural Square was converted into Jingwen Flower Market, which covers an area of ??15,000 square meters, has nearly 300 operating stores, and sells about 3.5 billion fresh-cut flowers annually, accounting for 10% of the city’s annual flower consumption. From 1970 to 1980, it was the largest flower trading market in East China. 70% of the flowers consumed by Shanghainese were wholesaled through Jingwen Flower Market.
Today, the Cultural Square, which has been silent for decades, finally ended its long "hibernation" despite repeated calls. After carefully listening to the opinions of experts, the leaders of the municipal party committee and government decided to launch the cultural square reconstruction project and put forward the policy of "combination of culture and green, focusing on green".
With the start of the cultural square renovation project, in November 2005, the cultural square training center building was blasted and demolished, thus continuing a new spring of the cultural square...