Impression Wucheng Road
Wucheng Road, east from Huashan West Road, west to Dongfeng West Road, a total length of 850 meters, east high west low. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a temple in the east section (now Wuhua No. 2 Middle School site), called the main temple street. 1937, collectively known as the Wucheng Road, the city's traditional commercial street, the famous Chinese medicine hall "Yao Fuyuan Hall" prepared by the children's wumei pills, Zisheng pills, Dasheng pills and other proprietary Chinese medicines are quite prestigious. There is also the Christian "Trinity Church". Most of the buildings on the street are Chinese-style stores with wooden structures.
Wucheng Road before the remodeling is a long ramp of the bustling old street of Kunming, the last century eighties and nineties, Wucheng Road is a very commercial atmosphere of the street, the street is not very spacious, paved with green stone road, there are traces of the former oxcart and horse-drawn carts and traces of the modern automobile over the traces of the late automobile may be due to the car more up after the pressure of the too much, the green stone road surface in some places are a bit uneven, but the stone pavement is also a little bit uneven. Some of the unevenness of the road, but the stone was polished smooth, to the rainy days, rainwater will be wet stone, stone will be a cold glaze to the foot on the slippery, in the stone road in the rain don't run, or an accidental fall you a four feet to the sky. Wucheng Road on both sides of the building is mostly two-story boarding house, the lower level for stores, the upper level for home, Wucheng Road, most of the bosses are the original old Kunming residents, are some of the old native Kunming people, doing business are also playing the old Kunming people warm traits, open the door late in the morning, it feels like more than ten o'clock in the store's door will be all open, and the night off some later, like to shop! The young people are still strolling on Wucheng Road very late at night.
The distinctive wood-paneled houses that lined the bustling Wucheng Road in those days were the homes of the residents of the area, and were the most prominent feature of the street. Kunming residents have been living in Yunrui West Road, she is very satisfied with the location, because the road north to Wucheng Road, south to Yongdao Road, that is, the Jingxing Bird and Flower Market area, these two roads in the past is one of the most prosperous area of Kunming City.
Auntie He told reporters: "Like when we were young, we like to buy bean flower rice noodles in a pavilion, the taste is particularly delicious. Like to go to buy clothes, children's adults have, from the morning open to the evening. At that time, it was normal to go to work, unlike nowadays when you can take a few days off, but at that time, it was just one day off, and if you wanted to buy children's clothes, it was very centralized. You go there are, high-grade resistance are there, like Taobao are panned, the night to ninety o'clock before closing, after work to collect eat can be strolling for a couple of hours."
When the Wucheng Road is the main road of Kunming City, but also a relatively concentrated neighborhood of residents, known for selling clothing and small department stores. The more stalls were set up, the more popular they became, and the more popular they became, the more stalls were set up.
Mr. Zhao is also an old resident of Wucheng Road: "Stalls, standing at the door and shouting what price what price, everyone quickly come to buy, ten dollars can buy how many things. Just like this shouting, anyway, buy or not to buy to go to join in the fun, see touch touch pinch."
Wucheng Road's lively reporter can also be felt in the description of the old Kunming. Those who get up early in the morning and work hard to do a small business of individual households in the old Kunming memory is also framed. He recalled: "We have a stable job, we saw their hands carrying a few boxes of lighters, socks, sarongs to sell, at first do not understand the heart thought, they can not eat enough, enough money to buy rice."
In the policy just allowed the existence of individual households in the 80s, engage in individual is considered to be a dishonorable thing, because that is not able to go to college into the collective unit of the people have to take the road, in the minds of ordinary people, they are "hobo". In such an atmosphere, He said that the people who made money that year are very low-key.
"At that time, the money to hide, sick to money. At that time, the salary is not too high, slightly dozens of dollars, ten thousand yuan household is there ten thousand dollars is called ten thousand yuan household Will feel too rich, Wucheng Road, how the self-employed so rich, but many people are not willing to expose."
At that time, the feeling of Wucheng Road is always vibrant, during the day, a variety of goods selling sound endless, each store in front of one or two people holding a trumpet in a loud call to sell their own goods, a wave of high, the most absolute is not hanging in front of the door of each family of all kinds of clothing, but the bosses of each family sunshine in the second floor of the wooden room outside of a variety of different types of different styles of clothing. At that time, many people like to stroll Wucheng Road, because it is not very long, not tired of shopping, and where very trendy clothes can be bought, and not very expensive, most people can afford, the whole street sells clothing and shoes mostly, and clothing and shoes are to young people as the main consumer groups, so the whole street is full of fashion elements, most of the shopping is a pair of couples holding hands, and let the street is filled with the smell of love. A flavor of love.
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Status Wucheng Road
With the expansion of the city, Wucheng Road was demolished and expanded, now Wucheng Road into a spacious People's Middle Road, the previous green stone plate is gone, no green stone plate Wucheng Road is not the original Wucheng Road, always feel that it does not have a soul, there is only a gorgeous shell, a cloned city road is just a road, expansion After the Wucheng Road has never been, because it is not a lot of old Kunming heart with a heavy sense of history of the old street, has long been no road flavor.
When the Wucheng Road, today's People's Middle Road, it may be a lot of reasons for its despondency. If the words of the public, is that it is not lively. According to experts, Wucheng Road as the core of the Kunming Xiaoximen business district has no commercial atmosphere.
Speaking of the people in the middle of the road Gome Electrical Appliances, Meichen Department Store and other large shopping malls, as long as it is Kunming people, almost no one does not know. But to talk about the Mechen department store next to the Fu Chun shopping mall, but not many people can find. It is in such a prime location, 8 years Fu Chun shopping center has never officially opened for business. In addition to the first floor of the mall a few street stores into use, the vast majority of stores have been vacant. And Fu Chun shopping mall is the year you want to re-create the "old Wucheng Road"
After a visit to the reporter saw the Fu Chun shopping mall north and south of the two roll-up doors, including the south side of the street door with an escalator to the mall on the second floor. Surrounded by more than 20 street stores, the interior of the first floor of the mall has become a bicycle shed and place to pile up debris. The passageway is full of garbage, a store door closed.
From the emergency channel up to the second floor of the mall, thousands of square meters of the mall interior is empty, most of the space is cut into small stores, all the stores roll-up door closed. Inside the mall, water, electricity, pipelines, lighting, fire, escalators and other facilities are complete, because they have never been put into use, everything looks very new. As a rich spring shopping mall property management, Huamao property management company has never received a penny in 8 years of property management fees. Since there is no collection of property management fees, the property management company has not implemented the management of the mall, the lack of management of the mall has become more unattended.
In 1996, the Wuhua District Government decided to implement the widening of Wucheng Road, Wucheng Road along the hundreds of temporary stores are included in the demolition and resettlement of objects. Owner Zhao Ruihua is at that time left their own operation for more than 10 years sofa fabric store, after being relocated to the Fu Chun building B building a store. Zhao Ruihua said, the government according to the principle of demolition of a return to the principle, assigned to her a store with an area of about 30 square meters, but from the day she got the new store, has not done a day of business.
And many relocation resettlement merchants initially encountered the same difficulties, due to the lack of allocation to the street store, Zhao Ruihua store to imagine the past as the same "street and the market" to do running business has not been possible. The large shopping mall housed nearly a hundred owners, was partitioned into hundreds of stores, everyone "their own business", the business is more into the climate.
Compared with most of the stores set up in the mall, more than a dozen stores on the street are "sweeping the snow in front of the door", guarding dozens of square meters of stores to do small business. A reluctant to disclose the name of the owner said that the street store rent from six or seven hundred dollars to one or two thousand dollars, store are several subletting, a time to recover the cost is very difficult. The street store tenants of the integration of the mall also have concerns: the mall unified business, increased foot traffic, business may be good, but the rent may also soar, their business impact. "Bad business within the mall is someone else's business, even if the mall does not open, our business is the same."
The inevitable decline of Wucheng Road
Professor Hu Qihui of Yunnan University's School of Economics told reporters that the development of Kunming's business district has also experienced the same process as China's economic development, from a planned economy to a commodity economy to a market economy. Specifically, Kunming's commercial property development has gone through five stages: the state-owned commercial system stage, the rise of individual merchants stage, the merchants centralized and branding stage, the emergence of supermarkets stage, the stage of business district. In fact, it is also the result of the specialized division of labor and specialized competition in commercial competition - from department stores to brand stores, professional supermarkets, general supermarkets, fashion department stores, commercial streets, from a single business entity to chained operations, from the simple shopping, catering, entertainment functions to shopping, catering, leisure, culture as one of the recreational and entertainment concentration areas
Chinese people pay attention to the living space and privacy at the same time, more emphasis on the public **** gathering space for communication, neighborhood interaction space in the life of the important position. Kunming is also the same, from the ancient tea garden, wine shop, theater to today's bars, supermarkets and a variety of commercial plazas, commercial streets are an indispensable part of people's lives. And with the development of the city, people require a variety of leisure, entertainment, commercial and other facilities as close as possible to the place of residence, which is inevitable in the current stage of rapid urbanization. With the rapid expansion of cities, the habit of going to a commercial center for all shopping and recreation has become a thing of the past. Therefore, focusing on a certain area or several areas to provide a variety of services has become the main space for the development of commercial properties, and the relatively high population density in these specific areas also provides the economic basis for the survival of various commercial property facilities. In this context, some of the major business districts in Kunming have slowly begun to form.
Before the reform and opening up of the old Kunming is very small, within the first ring road is basically all of Kunming City. The area around Sanshi Street, Nanping Street, Baoshang Street and Wenmiao was the busiest commercial area in Kunming. Twenty years ago, the commercial district of Kunming was mainly composed of a few commercial streets such as Youth Road, Justice Road, Nanping Street, Jinbi Road, Wucheng Road, Changchun Road and Shuncheng Street. The Kunming Department Store Building (old building) was the largest and almost the only big shopping mall. A few other shopping malls that count are the Justice Department Store on Justice Road and the Dongfeng Store on Xiaoximen. The department store as the center of the commercial district, that constitutes the only commercial center in Kunming, or even the only "business district".
? In the early 80s, after entering the reform and opening up, individual business flourished. Youth Road became the earliest concentration of individual business operations. Subsequently, the competition between individual businesses and state-owned businesses and foreign businesses rose and fell. By the early 1990s, five major commercial districts were formed in Kunming: the central commercial district of Sanshi Street, which was composed of Department Store Building, Wuhua Mansion, and Zhengyi Road, Nanping Street, Sanshi Street, and Baoshan Street; the commercial district of Youth Road, which was composed of Southwest Commercial Building, Tianyuan Mansion, Pangkun Mall, Youth Road, Changchun Road, and later Qiancun Department Store; the commercial district of Baita Road, which was composed of Cherry Blossom Mall, Jinlong Department Store, and Baita Road; the commercial district of Xiaoximen, Xiaosimen, and Baita Road; and the commercial district of Xiaoximen, and Baita Road. Commercial District; Xiao Ximen Commercial District composed of Xiao Ximen, Wucheng Road and Daguan Street. Individual business mainly constituted by the conch bay daily necessities wholesale market business district.
? After the mid-1990s, due to the transformation of large areas of the old city and urban road reconstruction, changes in business operations and the booming real estate market, Kunming commercial structure and business district has undergone major changes. In the early 1990s, several business districts constitute the pattern of business district based on Kunming BaiDa as the leader of the "heavy commercial district" three city street business district, to some large shopping center property-based youth road business district has become the mainstream business district in Kunming, and thus drive and spawned the formation of some other sub-business districts and regional business districts.
Professor Hu believes that the decline of Wucheng Road and the traditional business model to give way to a more competitive model of specialized division of labor, different forms of commercial establishments and institutions need to be in a larger and larger place "pile up business" is closely related to a number of specific areas in the relatively high population density and relatively strong consumer spending power. Based on the relatively high population density and relatively strong consumer power in some specific areas, for a region or several regions to provide a variety of services related to the division of labor and combination, a more detailed division of labor and a larger combination, is the evolution of the business district and the evolution of the basic law of the industry.
No remodeling before the Wucheng Road is a prosperous old street in Kunming, the mid-1980s, Wucheng Road is a very commercial street, the street is not very spacious, paved with lapis lazuli, there are traces of oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages pressed, but also modern automobile traces of the pressure, probably due to the late car more up after the pressure of too much, lapis lazuli road surface in some places are somewhat uneven, but the stone has been polished to the point that the stone is not very smooth, but the stone is not very smooth. The stone is polished smooth, to the rainy days, rainwater will be wet stone, stone will be a cold glaze to the feet step on it is very slippery, in the stone road in the rain don't run, or an accidental fall you a four feet to the sky. Wucheng Road on both sides of the building is mostly two-story boarding house, the lower level as stores, the upper level as a home, Wucheng Road, most of the bosses are the original old Kunming residents, are some of the native old Kunming people, doing business are also playing the old Kunming people warm traits, open the door late in the morning, it feels like more than ten o'clock in the store's door will be all open, and the night off some later, like to shop! Young people are still strolling on Wucheng Road very late at night. At that time, I felt that Wucheng Road was always vibrant, during the day, all kinds of merchandise selling sound endlessly, each store in front of one or two people holding a trumpet in the loud selling their own goods, a wave over a wave, the most extreme is not hanging in front of the door of each family of all kinds of clothing, but the bosses of the family sunshine in the second floor of the wooden room outside of a variety of different types of different types of clothes, and even corsets and panties will be in the afternoon sunshine in the woman. Even women's corsets and panties would be fluttering in the wind under the afternoon sun, so I didn't like to look up when I was strolling along Wucheng Lu, especially when I was shopping with my boyfriend, and the girls would always see something inadvertently that would make them blush with shame, and these fluttering clothes would always remind me of the lilongs of old Shanghai that I had seen in the movies, and because I had always seen fluttering clothes in the lilongs, I would always get the wrong impression that Wucheng Lu was a certain lilong of old Shanghai. The first time I saw a movie, I had the illusion that Wucheng Lu was one of the lanes of Shanghai in the old days.
At that time, many people like to stroll Wucheng Road, because it is not very long, stroll up not tired, and there are very trendy clothes can be bought, and not very expensive, most people can afford to buy, the whole street sells most of the clothing and shoes, and clothing and shoes are to young people as the main consumer groups, so the whole street is full of fashion elements, most of the street is a pair of couples holding hands, and the street is filled with a wave of love, so that the street is full of love, and the street is full of love. Let this street is filled with a flavor of love. I remember a Sunday, then, I was about eighteen or nineteen years old, it is the age of the flower, my boyfriend held my hand to stroll Wucheng Road, the sun is very bright, the sky is very blue, blue, blue clean, blue transparent, blue pure, cloud light wind clear, we walk hand in hand on the stone road, the street, the people come and go, the noise is very noisy, walking tired, to a specializing in pickled radish, pickled cucumbers, pickled plums, a small store to buy on the Two or two radishes and cucumbers to eat, that crunchy sweet and sour flavor is very much like the taste of love. The flavor also stayed in the memory, the memory from the Wucheng Road through the car is very quiet, will not be very arrogant non-stop honking through, feel as if it is a silent slide past.
With the expansion of the city, Wucheng Road was also demolished and expanded, now Wucheng Road into a spacious road, the previous stone slabs do not know where it was abandoned, no stone slabs of Wucheng Road is not the original Wucheng Road, always feel that it does not have a soul, there is only a gorgeous shell, a cloned city road is just a road, after the expansion of Wucheng Road! After the expansion of Wucheng Road has never been, because it is not in my heart with a heavy sense of history of that old street, has long been the flavor of the road.