History of Zhongshan Road in Guangzhou

Like the traditional commercial streets in many cities in China, Zhongshan Road in Guangzhou has experienced historical vicissitudes. According to historical records, Yuexiu District is the birthplace of the ancient city of Shangdu, and the area around Zhongshan No.4, No.5 and No.6 Road is the earliest commercial district in Guangzhou. During the boom, there were more than 70 old shops in this city. From a distance, arcade shops on both sides have dense signboards, and old shops are row upon row, which is a prosperous business climate. After years of baptism, the time-honored brand here once became synonymous with Guangzhou. Until the 1980s, there were still more than 20 time-honored brands in Zhongshan 4th Road and Zhongshan 5th Road, including Zhimeizhai Sauce Garden built in the early years of Qianlong, Sanduoxuan in the fifth year of Daoguang, Xinyitai in the late years of Xianfeng, Kongwangji, Cangzhou Store in Guangxu, Huirulou and Miaoqi Lane, as well as university shoe store, Yanfang photo studio, Libiao Store, Xindaxin Department Store and Xinxin. The shops and restaurants on Zhongshan Road are constantly updated with the replacement of the dynasties of South Vietnam Kingdom, Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty, with a long commercial history and rich traditional businesses and handicrafts.

As early as 2000 years ago, the brilliant Qin Shihuang sent 500,000 troops south to Guangzhou (formerly known as Panyu), captured it for three years, and finally unified Lingnan. Soon, Qin Ershi was incompetent and finally gave the country to Liu Bang. At that time, Zhao Tuo, the satrap and head of Lingnan in Nanhai County of Qin Dynasty, took the opportunity to implement the national policy and established Nanyue State in 204 BC. South Vietnam has existed for 93 years, and it is ruled by five masters. Nanyue Palace is the palace where the five emperors of Nanyue lived. The Imperial Garden is where they play and dance in the F-stage.

Zhongshan Road is a thoroughfare street in Qing Dynasty, which runs through the whole city in the name of love, and is divided into ten conventions from Ximenkou to Dadongmen. 19 19 The roads opened were named Hui 'ai East Road, Zhong Road and Xi Road (now Zhongshan No.4, No.5 and No.6 Road), with a length of 2.495438+0 km. 192 1 year opened Dadong Road (now Zhongshan No.3 Road) to the east, 1925 completed Baizi Road (now Zhongshan No.2 Road) with a length of 1.735 km. Later, Zhongshan Highway (now Zhongshan No.1 Road) was built eastward to Yangji Village, with a length of 2. 135 km. At first, the pavement was all sand or mud, and it was changed to asphalt pavement after 1923. A section was also built west of Simon. Due to the suspension of work in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the road surface is in tatters, which is called rotten road by the public.

After the founding of New China, the section from Ximen to Gaoji of Zhongshan No.7 Road has been rebuilt, opened up and expanded for many times, and then it continues to extend to Liwan North Road, with a total length of1.56km. Then Zhongshan No.8 Road was built to the west, reaching the East Square of Pearl River Bridge, with a length of 2.3 kilometers and a width of 26 meters. It was completed in June 1960. In the 1960s, Zhongshan Road was widened. In 1980s, Zhongshan No.8 Road was also widened, the expressway was converted into cement concrete pavement, and three plate-type shunt roads were built. 1987 A parallel road was built on the old subgrade from Dongshankou to Mei Dong Road of the former Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway and merged into Zhongshan No.1 Road as a one-way traffic from west to east. 1991From April 30th to September 30th, the 566m-long section from Zhixin intersection to Dongchuan intersection of Zhongshan 2nd Road was widened to 36m. The total investment of the project is 3.24 million yuan. 1995 to 1998, with the construction and development of Zhongshan road subway 1 line station and superstructure, the pavement is widened at the same time, and the pavement of this project will be restored before March 1999. 1998, the first section of Zhongshan Road in Inner Ring Road was started, and then the first section of Zhongshan Road was widened. The extension from Mei Dong Road to Yangji Road was completed on May 199, and a green isolation belt with a length of 2 10 m and a width of 0/6 m was built, which became another beautiful new landscape in the reconstruction project of Zhongshan Road.

On September 2nd, 1998, next to the Children's Park on Zhongshan 4th Road in Guangzhou, in front of the former Municipal Cultural Bureau and the demolition site, a notice of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government was posted, declaring that the area of * * * 48,000 square meters is the "Nanyue National Palace Site Cultural Relics Protection Area", and it is forbidden to break ground without approval in the future.