Beijing Xidan

Beijing Xidan

Xidan, Xidan Street, Xidan Cultural Square, is one of Beijing's central business district. Beijing Xidan business district including the Xidan Cultural Square, Xidan North Street, there are many supermarkets and department stores. Fuxingmen and Chang'an Street near Xidan. With the different Wangfujing, Xidan North Street to allow buses and cars pass.

Xidan's name comes from an archway, due to Beijing where things have a roughly symmetrical arches, so as Xidan and Dongdan archway archway. In the north of Xidan and East orders have four arches, so called the West and the East 4 4 archway archway, hence the name Xidan, Dongdan, West 4, East 4.

History of the Xidan commercial street dating back to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, there is a gateway to the southwest Beijing Guang An Men Wai pore of key junctions on the land comes from the southwestern provinces, business travel and cargo must be from the Marco Polo Bridge outside the city of Guang An Men Wai east, north and into the mouth by the food market within the city of Xuanwumen, after Xidan access throughout the inner city. To this end, Xidan area set up a number of shops, liquor store, restaurants and state in order to entertain visitors in the past.

Ming and Qing Dynasties, West Chang'an Avenue near the supreme court, Tai Pusi, Tai Chang Temple, Board of Punishments, Censorate, Luang Ya Shu Yi Wei, the acquisition, and many more Xidan mainly here to promote the commercial development.

Near Xidan Beijing Hotel: Lingnan Jiayuan Chain Hotel (Beijing Xidan shops) at the Chang An Avenue and the Xuanwumen West Street, between adjacent Xinhua News Agency and Xinhua Printing House, north Xidan commercial street.



The late Qing dynasty, the Manchu nobility Daugu northwest city, the Northern government, the KMT government's many agencies have also set up in West Side near the snowball effect, drawing the Qing Dynasty and politicians to meet the needs of the nouveaux riches, Xidan area restaurants, hotels, department stores, food shop, as well as a vendor, vendors will be increasing. East side of the street in 1929, founded the Xidan Shopping Center, including daily necessities, snack food, second-hand bookstall, as well as storytelling, juggling, games, drama and other industries and variety. After emergence of the "Three Friends of the Industrial Society", "foreign goods shop" and other shops. Originally in the West 4, Gokokuji area vendors and shops, have also focused on the Xidan, prompting Xidan Street, a West business center.

Xidan shops on the street known as "amiable and published for" "Pu-Tang", "Chan Yuan Tong" drugstore, "Heaven and never dye shop," "Sam Sung vegetarian shoe store," "All sunshine food stores," "Rongqing Nanzhi shop" and other well-known font, such as 1738 opened, "Thian Hock Shop No. Jiangzhou Zi", 1869, opened a "source of soy factory days", opened in 1890, "Topline old number", opened in 1916 " Southern Village bakery cinnamon flavor, "and two decades on behalf of the opening of" Taiwan Yuhua Fan Zhuang "," Fanzhuang with the Spring Garden "," West to shun Fanzhuang, "opened in early thirties," Xidan vegetable market, "" written Thick books shop, "opened the forties" Wanli shoe "," another Shun Fan Zhuang ", and" lerentang drugstore "," Yuan Chang thick tea "and so on, are several decades or even centuries the history of well-known shops. There are 10000 Poly Park, meaning a new garden, large Hua Yuan, Chinese Garden four baths, and in 1939 moved to Beijing Sheng Xi Fu hat shop, 1949 moved to Beijing, Qu Yuan restaurant, Shanghai, Beijing 10000 State moved to barber shops.

In the 1980s, Xidan Street is a prosperous commercial street, mainly Xidan Department Store, Xidan Shopping Center, flowers market, Quangyechang, national macrocosm, Xidan furniture stores, Xidan vegetable market, cinnamon Village South taste bakery, with the Spring Garden Fanzhuang, Yuhua Taiwan Fanzhuang so. Subsequently, the construction of high-rise buildings built Xidan SCITECH the king too much merchandise, the Friends of the department stores, Xixi Friendship Shopping Center, Xidan Books Building, Bank of China and other large department stores and offices.

Beijing Xidan Street is two streets, one of the main north-south, south by the Xuanwumen Avenue, Xuanwumen Outer Street food market can reach the mouth of the north by the Xidan North Street, West 4 South Street, West Fourth North Street, Gokokuji, Ping Village, up to Xinjiekou. Now, after expansion, Xidan Street, the south can exit through the food market across the South Second Ring Road South Street, South Ring Road, and South Fourth Ring connects the north can be made by Xinjiekou Huokou across the North Second Ring Road, North Third Ring Road, the North Fourth Ring, etc. Link.



June 15, 2009 Xidan after fire

Beijing Xidan Shopping Center on the first floor shop fire in the west side of the street on the first floor store was totally destroyed. Fire fire area of 110 square meters, causing no casualties, and suspected electrical trigger.

Surrounding tourism and cultural attractions: Beihai Park, the Cultural Palace, former residence of Chi Pai-shih