What was Qinhuangdao like before?

I don't know how far it is, just say after 1900.

Qinhuangdao, formerly known as Linyu County, is located at the turn of customs. Compared with the present urban area, the name of Shanhaiguan should have been louder before, but the present urban harbor area was only a small fishing village in the early19th century.

Although it is called county, the actual scale of land occupation is also the scale of town level. At that time, the city center was in the area of Chaoyang Street Department Store, and Great Wall Road was in the south of the road. The main streets are only two vertical and two horizontal, and one of them is the current Haiyang Road. At that time, the surrounding area of No.3 Middle School was already a green tent farmland area. By the way, the school site of No.3 Middle School was a cemetery at that time, and it was quite reasonable to build a school here. It is said that even No.3 Middle School is not called No.3 Middle School now, but it is renamed Hebei Art High School. At that time, the surrounding area of the current port authority was relatively prosperous and belonged to a densely populated area. At that time, Qinhuangdao port was already an energy export terminal, transporting coal, but its main business was fishing, so Qinhuangdao port was a fishing port at that time. Great-grandfather's great-grandfather was engaged in seafood trade at that time, and his ancestral home was also in the current Haibohua area. At that time, it was a fish market in Qinhuangdao, and now there are basically no traces of that year. Qinhuangdao port was originally built by the British, but now there are many factories built by the British in Daonan generation, such as tile houses with red bricks and V-shaped roofs. The architectural style is clear at a glance.

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