Why is it called Baqier Road East Second Road?

There are two versions of its name.

Related to the flag bearer

There is a "Eight Banners and Two Roads" near Tianzi Wharf. The name "Eight Banners" appeared here because, as honest officials, they all went to Guangzhou by water and landed at Tianzi Wharf, and then took this road to rest in the Eight Banners Guild Hall (the relics were nowhere to be found), and were greeted by the children of the Eight Banners and related personnel at the "Guanguan Pavilion", which was called "Guanguan". After a welcoming ceremony, I went to town to take office.

Although the Eight Banners Guild Hall and the Eight Banners Second Road are not located in the "Qimin District", they are both closely related to the eight banners stationed in Guangdong, so they are named after the eight banners. In fact, the area around Tianzi Wharf is indeed the "second area" where the Eight Banners stationed in Guangdong frequently.

This has nothing to do with the flag bearer

Recently, the history of Guangzhou Manchu Culture Research Association broke the news that the so-called Eight Banners Guild Hall is not its real name and has nothing to do with Guangzhou Banners. The reason is foreigners' misunderstanding and word of mouth.

The so-called "Eight Banners Guild Hall" was originally located in Zhantangkou, southeast of the city. In those days, it was mainly a silted floodplain. Wanfu Street in the south of Wanfuqiao is on the west side, adjacent to the East Pearl River (now Baqi No.2 Road) in the south and the former navy flag camp playground in the north. It is about 80 meters wide from east to west and 150 meters long from north to south. The "Guild Hall" covers an area of about 18 mu, of which the buildings are only a small part, and most of the plots are mainly sheds for transporting coal, as well as docks and trestles extending into the river.

The original title "Eight Banners Guild Hall" can be found in the article, which was written in the ten-year report of Guangdong Customs at the end of 19. The writer is a foreigner from Guangdong Customs and Taxation Office, and his name is Lei. The report said: "There are 23 guilds or fellow villagers' associations in Guangzhou, one of which is the Flag Bearers' Association ... This Flag Bearers' Club is funded by donations, and the land allocated to it used to be a military camp ..." The report also mentioned that this is a "new coal storage warehouse built by China Engineering Mining Company". 1907 The full map of Guangdong provincial capital, printed and published in Germany in both Chinese and English, was produced by German engineer Shu Le, and clearly marked "Eight Banners Guild Hall" here.

No matter what Lei called "China Engineering Mining Company", "Banner Club" or "Eight Banners Club" marked by Shule, it is all wrong! In fact, it was the property of Kaiping Guangdong Bureau under the Northern Kaiping Mining Bureau operated by Beiyang officials at that time. Guangdong people call it Kaiping official coal bureau. Kaiping Mining Bureau is a modern coal mine in China. It was opened in Kaiping, Hebei Province in the early days of Westernization (1878) (it merged with Luanzhou Mining Bureau more than 20 years later and was called Kailuan Mining Bureau).

At that time, the commercial enterprises operated by Beiyang government planned to develop in southern Guangdong, with the famous comprador Tang in China as the protagonist. As early as the tenth year of Guangxu in the Tang Dynasty (1884), it was envisaged that Guangzhou or Foshan would be chosen as the place to build docks and transport flat coal. It was not until the 16th year of Guangxu that Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang and Governor of Zhili, strongly supported it that he put forward the overall plan of setting up a "bureau" in Guangzhou. That winter, Tang went south for this matter and lobbied Zheng (later known as the "prosperous feast"), who lived in Guangdong, to come out of the mountain and jointly advocate this move. On March 10th, 17th year of Guangxu, Zheng accepted the appointment of Li Hongzhang as the general manager of Guangdong Bureau of Kaiping Mining Bureau. Immediately, the plot was surveyed and distributed by the local government. After more than a year of development, it became an "opening file" in the early autumn of 1892.

With the opening of Kaiping Guangdong Bureau, raw coal from Kaiping Coal Mine has been continuously transported to the south, breaking the monopoly of Hongji coal in Vietnam, and making soybean oil, bean cake and soybean from three northeastern provinces directly transported to Guangdong for re-export. On the surface, this is a north-south transit station for Kaiping Mining Bureau to transport coal for convenient merchants. In fact, it is an industrial and mining enterprise run by Beiyang officials and businessmen. It is a bridgehead set up in the south to make full use of the entrepot advantage of Hong Kong's international trade, just like today's "Guangzhou Office" and "Guangdong Liaison Office". After the opening of Kaiping Guangdong Bureau, the foreign-related procurement business in the north was also transferred to Guangdong Bureau, and the cabins from the north no longer returned empty-handed, which not only greatly saved transportation costs and storage costs, but also exempted the purchase of foreign equipment and foreign goods from paying re-export tariffs. Subsequently, all kinds of purchasers in the north, such as mining, cement and reclamation, also went south one after another. Most of them settled, gathered and negotiated with Kaiping Guangdong Bureau in Guangzhou, and most of them came from Fengzhi area in the north. 1926, published in "National Tourist Guide for Commercial Ports", called Xidi "Fengzhi Guild Hall", but it was a little close.

The guild hall is a convenient place for local people to go out for business, work, business trip and examination, and also has the functions of commerce and storage, such as Huguang Guild Hall, Guangdong Guild Hall, Anhui Guild Hall and Shanxi Guild Hall. Or the places where people in the industry get together to do business and study, such as the Eight Harmony Hall, are all cultural products of the Han people, and the standard-bearers do not have this custom. However, in the eyes of foreigners unfamiliar with China culture, the venue for gathering, entertainment, trade and negotiation should of course be the "Guild Hall", which is translated into Chinese and called the "Eight Banners Guild Hall" when businessmen of Kaiping Guangdong Bureau travel from south to north.

Kaiping Mining Bureau 1902 changed hands with the British, and Kaiping Guangdong Bureau 1905 strived for self-reliance. It was probably from this time that the old Guangzhou people gradually accepted the name of "Eight Banners Guild Hall" from foreigners. In addition, most of the people who come and go are similar in figure and appearance, especially in accent, to the families of the officers and men of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Army who entered Guangdong in the Kanggan era, indicating that this place is a "subordinate guy".

Guangzhou probably has a straightforward expression. For example, all mainlanders call themselves "dude" without asking about their provincial origin. zhenhai tower in Yuexiu Mountain used to call it a "five-story building" without remembering his real name. Yong 'antang in Hu Wenhu, Long Beach went straight to "Tiger Label" without knowing his real name. If so, the Eight Banners Guild Hall is a word-of-mouth name of Guangzhou people. It was not until the road was built in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China that road names such as "Eight Banners Avenue" (now Changjiang East Road) and "Eight Banners Second Road" came into being.

The misleading of foreigners, the conformity of people in the street, and the obvious negligence of later scholars (for example, the Manchu flag-bearer has no traditional custom of "guild hall") make the origin of "Eight Banners Guild Hall" really "driving" (powerful) unnoticed.

After the success of the Revolution of 1911, the official coal bureau was naturally buried by history. Although Kaiping Guangdong Bureau has nothing to do with the flag bearer, it was also designated as the general management office of the militia by the Guangdong military government after the peaceful handover of sovereignty. 19 17 Sun Yat-sen established the military government of the Republic of China in Guangzhou, raised the national flag to protect the law, and the four emperors became the "Guangdong Zhaofu Bureau", which was responsible for recruiting and training soldiers. 1925, the Guangdong military government was reorganized into the national government and became the ordnance room, military medical office and rear hospital of the national army.

1at noon on June 20, 929, there was a loud noise and the sound of shells and bullets resounded through Guangzhou city. The Eight Banners Guild Hall suddenly burned for more than two hours and was in ruins. Afterwards, it was found out that the Guangdong army was injured in the battle between Jiang Gui and the Third Rear Hospital, which was caused by the damage to the armory caused by playing grenades.

This ruthless fire made the Eight Banners Hall disappear. I deeply regret that I have not been able to find the information to see the true content of the Eight Banners Guild Hall. It will be a blessing to study the history of Guangzhou's urban construction if experts can provide information and photos to fill this gap.