Where was Jin Mao Tower before?

It used to be called Lannidu Road

I have heard people say since I was a child: "There is a mud road beside the Huangpu River. Pedestrians passing by don't have good clothes."

Saturday weekend , I rode a bicycle and wanted to see this famous road, but after searching around, I found Jin Mao Tower. I looked at the flat and smooth asphalt road under my feet, "Is this the mud crossing road?" An old man next to me seemed to see what I was thinking, and said, "The mud crossing road you are looking for corresponds to the mud crossing road here. A piece of legend, it was taken away by the historical vehicles. "Why was 'mud' used as a road name at that time?" I asked in confusion. The old man said: "The name of this road was scolded by passers-by." Then the old man introduced me to the origin of Lannidu Road.

More than a hundred years ago, this was a beachhead of the Huangpu River with no roads. At that time, there was a dock for foreigners in Puxi, and the market was very prosperous. The section of the river from Dongchang Road to Lujiazui in Pudong was full of small boats. At the dock of the small sampan, many people take boats from here to cross the river every day to do business, selling vegetables, rice, salt, etc. The Huangpu River often rises in tide, and sometimes the tides overflow the shore twice in the morning and evening. The soil here is moist, and there are puddles of water. Because there are so many people coming and going, thousands of pairs of feet are pulling in and out of the mud every day, which is equivalent to scouring for mud. There were countless cloth shoes, straw sandals, and spiked shoes (local overshoes made at that time) that travelers could not remove, making it even more difficult to walk this way. A scholar said: "The road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and the mud road is as difficult as the gate of hell." Legend has it that as long as the golden sun shines in Pudong, otherwise the mud road will always be rotten.

“I didn’t expect that there are so many stories on Lannidu Road. So isn’t there no mud on Lannidu Road now?” I sighed. But the old man smiled and said: "Look, isn't Pudong a golden sun?" He pointed to a big placard on the side of the road, which read Comrade Xiaoping's two instructions: "Hurry up the development of Pudong, don't waver, continue to to be completed.” Another point is that “development is the last word.”

Yes, Lannidu Road is bathed in golden sunshine. On one side of the northern section of the road is the Jinmao Tower and on the other side is the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. On the southern section of the road is the beautiful Binjiang Garden. To the east of the road is the towering buildings and Century Avenue, and to the west of the road is Binjiang Avenue and Binjiang Garden, which has become the most beautiful avenue. (This is a good story about Lannidu Road quoted by the author. The author is also a citizen who has lived there since he was a child. He hopes that those with life experience of Lannidu Road can piece together a real old street in our minds)