The Story of Old Town or Old Street in Qingdao

Jihouli

Jihouli is located at JIAOZHOU Road 1 16. It's a small quadrangle with two floors outside and three floors inside. There are about 60 families living in the yard. Although the yard is small, it is famous. In the 1940s, it became famous in the urban area, on the one hand, because it was famous for "running and playing" on stilts during the Chinese New Year holiday, and on the other hand, because several hospitals specially pulled off the road, which made great contributions to maintaining the cleanliness of the old Qingdao road.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the old Qingdao was feasting and hungry, just like Du Fu's poem, "The wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the road freezes to death." At that time, many people lived in Qingdao, begging for a living, and the elderly, the sick and the disabled were often lying dead on the streets. At that time, there were more drug addicts, and they smoked opium when they had money. I was defeated by smoking. To save money, I smoked white flour (heroin) until I was penniless. I have to beg or sell clothes to get morphine (injecting drugs through needles). This kind of people, in the severe winter, wear sacks, shrink their necks and hook their heads, wandering in the streets. Once the drug addiction attacks and there is no money for injections, he immediately dies on the side of the road. So the old Qingdao people call them "Lu Luo".

At that time, someone specially pulled the road down. Usually, shops or residents gather together some money and let them drag the dead to the suburbs and bury them with bicycles. At that time, the city took this as a profession. First, there is one in Xidasun on the west side of the overpass, and then several specialized in this profession. They have made great contributions to cleaning the market. In the 1960s, a crematorium was established in Qingdao. In the first batch of cremators, several were originally engaged in pulling down the road.

Before liberation, Qingdao had a small population, and citizens still kept the custom of visiting villages and pretending to make fun of the first month. The so-called "running and playing" means that a team composed of performers of stilts, dry boats and yangko (also known as ground stilts) performs along the street, among which stilts are the most difficult to perform. Stilts legs are divided into high and low legs, more than one meter high and more than 60 centimeters high. Performers should walk steadily and run fast. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the most influential "running and playing" around Zhongshan Road was mainly the team with thick area in the park.

Among the stilts, ugly girls and silly boys are the most lively and beautiful. The ugly girl is wearing her old mother's hat, with triangular eyes, a mole on her cheek, a small plaster on her temple and a long stemmed Chinese pipe. Silly boy with a pigtail and a white nose, chamber pot hung on his chest, filled with tea or white wine, and took a sip from time to time. These two are the liveliest in the team, making the audience laugh before and after running.

Because most of the annual festivals "Running and Playing" are organized in Hou Li, the reputation of this "Pear Garden" is far-reaching. Until 1950s, with the increase of population in the island city, the traffic became more and more crowded, and this kind of folk "running and playing" with strong local flavor gradually disappeared.

After the founding of New China, some young women began to go out and take part in some social activities. Learn culture, learn to sing, and young men and women * * * take activities. Each school has formed an amateur troupe with street offices as the unit and performed many anti-feudal and party-praising programs. Among them, the most influential is the amateur troupe of Jinan Road Office. They often perform in the auditorium on the second floor of Beijing Road Primary School and Dagu Road Flower Yarn Company. The plays include Sister Xianglin and Little Son-in-law, all of which are wonderful. During the performance, the audience is full, and sometimes there are two performances day and night, which are free to the public. Most of their small programs are based on Beijing Opera oratorios. Among them, Tan Jia's three brothers and sisters are the most popular when they perform Peking Opera. Talking about the boss singing the old tune, although he doesn't wear makeup, his voice is very strong; Tan Jia's second child sings Tsing Yi, with enchanting voice and graceful figure. Tan Jia's little sister is only ten years old, but she has learned to sing "Lao Dan". Her childish voice is full of old age, which makes people curious. At one time, when the troupe of Jinan Road District performed, the residents in the surrounding streets came to watch.

From 1956, the State Construction entered the first five-year plan from the recovery stage. A large number of young men and women entered the factory, and the cultural performances in the inner courtyard gradually declined, but the cultural activities of workers in major factories flourished. Various factories have set up amateur performance groups such as cultural and artistic teams or theatrical troupes, and the amateur cultural performances of the people of the island city have since stepped onto a new level.

Zhongshan Road, a well-known central commercial street in Qingdao, runs through the north and south, undulating and winding, like a historical stream, flowing in the hearts of old Qingdao people for a hundred years.

It is amazing to pay attention to today's bustling and clean commercial streets and look back on the vicissitudes of Zhongshan Road for a hundred years. At the beginning of this century, there were only one or two small villages along Zhongshan Road. When Qingdao opened, it turned into Frito-Lay Street, starting from Qianhai Zhanqiao in the south and reaching Dayaogou in the north. In the past two or three decades, things have changed, and it has been renamed Jingwangding, Shandong Ding and Shandong Road three times. After China recovered Qingdao, in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Zhongshan Road was officially named 1929, and the first (Huiquan) park was named Zhongshan Park. The name of Zhongshan Road is still in use today.

The footprints of Zhongshan Road in the first 50 years are full of historical dust of the old times. After the German occupation of Qingdao, Zhongshan Road was once divided into two areas: Europeans and China people, with Baoding Road as the boundary (the boundary pillar of that year is now in Qingdao Mountain Battery Exhibition Hall), the European residential area in the south and the China residential area in the north. The pavement in the south section is six meters wider than that in the north section. Due to the different living areas, the commercial pattern of Zhongshan Road has formed a pattern of dividing foreign firms and Chinese shops into north and south. On the eve of the liberation of Qingdao, the shops on Zhongshan Road still have this old logo.

In 1930s and 1940s, with the expansion of Qingdao's city scale, Qingdao Central Business District with Zhongshan Road as its axis has been formed. There are many banks, shops, restaurants and theaters along Zhongshan Road, including Henan Road, Tianjin Road, Beijing Road, Haibo Road and Weixian Road near Zhongshan Road, and shops, restaurants and hotels abound. This central business district was affectionately called "street" by several generations of Qingdao people, and "shopping" was the fashionable leisure way of Qingdao people in those days. In the fifty years of old China, "shopping" Qingdao people not only amused themselves with consumption, but also cultivated and supported a number of Chinese time-honored brands that still stand on Zhongshan Road, such as Fu Lushou, Chunhelou, Hongrentang, Sheng Xifu and Qingdao Domestic Products Company. At that time, the word "domestic products" was so stirring in the hearts of China people.

1June 2, 949, Qingdao returned to the people's arms. After 50 years of wind and rain, Zhongshan Road washed away the dust and dirt of history, giving off a bright luster and thriving industry. In the past ten years after the reform and opening up, modern commercial buildings have sprung up on Zhongshan Road, and the charm of time-honored brands still exists. Qingdao people who are "shopping" are no longer satisfied with "modesty and auspiciousness" and go to "Pichai Yuan" to eat a bowl of noodles, but enter fashion shops and "KFC". Foreign meat is not only for foreigners.

At night, facing the slow sea breeze, looking at Zhongshan Road today, the neon of "Lighting Project" has turned Zhongshan Road into a bright and colorful stream.

The story of Qingdao old street

No.98 Weihai Road

Taidong Town, from Taidong No.1 Road to Taidong No.8 Road, forms a rectangular "mouth" shape, and Weihai Road from Dengzhou Road to Haibo Bridge passes through Taidong Town in the middle, forming a "middle" shape.

In the early days, the Qingdao factory was mainly invested by Japanese businessmen, mainly concentrated around Liaoning Road and Sifang, while workers lived in Taidong Town, and Weihai Road was the main road leading to two industrial zones in Taidong Town. Liu Shaowen's Hundred Poems of Qingdao once sang about the life of Qingdao workers twice.

I asked the factories one by one, and Dongzhen wandered to the fourth warehouse. Thirty thousand brothers shed tears together. Who are you busy for every year?

"From Taitung Town to Sifang, it is an area where factories gather, and the rate is Japanese. There are 20,000 to 30,000 workers, who are tired all the year round and have little income, but they hate wedding clothes for other girls every year. "

Feet are higher than feet, feet are thin, and long streets are not as good as them. It is a tall building facing the avenue, and it is a heavy dream.

"... women depend on the factory. It's not clear who is more than ten miles away from the factory, who made a last-minute move in the middle of the night and left in a hurry, even standing in front of the door or sitting under a tree! Get better and get bitter! "

There are many textile mills in Qingdao, and 80% of the workers in the textile mills are women workers. In the past, women workers with children were not accepted, so Qingdao people called them "factory women". They work 12 hours a day and are very tired. Their parents do housework. Many "factory girls" came from Weihai Road, wrapped in long cloth and holding lunch boxes in winter, talking and laughing in groups of three or five, and having fun in hardships, which is the street view of Weihai Road.

From changchun road to Haibo Bridge, there are more than a dozen timber mills on both sides of Weihai Road. Because it is a timber factory, the yard is a fence for waste wood, and there are many logs and wood piled up in the yard and on the sidewalk. It used to be a chore to untie wood by hand, but it was a man's world.

The southern section of Weihai Road is equivalent to Zhongshan Road in Taitung District, and most departments have branches in Weihai Road. For example, China Bank is on Zhongshan Road and Taitung Office is on Weihai Road; Wuhua Gold Store has its head office in Zhongshan Road and its branch in Weihai Road ... After liberation, Xinhua Bookstore has its head office in Zhongshan Road and its branch in Weihai Road. The former Taitung police station is also on Weihai Road.

There used to be a civilian market in the middle section of Weihai Road, also called the mainland market. There are several small streets, and artists performed in Qin Shu and Qiang Mao. There is also an emerging market not far from the civilian market, with more than 70 shops operating for many years, including secondhand goods, economy, handicrafts and so on.

On Weihai Road, although it is also called Li, it is different from ordinary Li. It is actually equivalent to the civilian compound in Xizhen, a miscellaneous courtyard with bungalows, which is completely different from Li's pattern.

There is a small shop and a story-telling place in Li Xinhua. Wang Baoheng, an excellent storyteller in this city, talks about "characters"-long speeches, such as "Three Heroes Fighting Sword" and "Eight Commandments", etc., and leaves a big "deduction" at the end of every night-suspense, which attracts the audience to listen to it the next day.

In the later period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese and Puppet defeated one after another, and the vast area of Shandong became an anti-Japanese base area or an anti-Japanese guerrilla area. When the war burned near Qingdao, the Qingdao authorities were very scared. They built a defense line from Zhenjiang Road along changchun road to Fort No.5, and most intersections were blocked. Some puppet troops stood guard at Weihai Road and changchun road. When they saw the so-called "suspects", they went forward to search, and some puppet troops took the opportunity to extort money. At night, the door is closed and the people can't pass.

After liberation, Weihai Road was widened and a footbridge was built. The old houses on both roads were demolished and new buildings were built. Later, a contemporary square was built at the intersection of Weihai Road and Taitung Road.

After the adjustment of Qingdao's zoning, Taidong District was abolished and merged into Shibei District, and "Shang Yexing District" was proposed. Weihai Road is planned as the business district of Shibei District and the business center of the city. (