The origin of the name of Wangfujing

Wangfujing Street.

Wangfujing Street, from East Chang'an Avenue in the south to the National Art Museum of China in the north, is about three miles long, and is the most famous commercial area in Beijing.

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Liao, Jin era, Wangfujing is just a not famous village, after the Yuan Dynasty, the population gradually densed, at that time called the T-shaped street. In the Ming Dynasty, ten palaces were built here, and Wangfujing began to take shape, and it was renamed Shiwangfu Street. The Qing Dynasty abolished the Ten Kings and renamed it Wangfu Street or Wangfu Street.

In 1915, when Beiyang** drew the "Detailed Map of the Four Suburbs of Beijing", this street was divided into three sections: the northern section was called Wangfu Street, the middle section was called the Bamian Groove, and the southern section was called the Wangfu because there was a sweet well"Wangfujing Street. "。In 1903, Dong'an Market was established, the old Dong'an Market is the favorite place for Beijingers, in 1909 published in the "Jinghua Hundred and Two Bamboo Branches" there is a single poem that says that it "the new market is wide, it is not difficult to buy things as you like, if you talk about the prosperity of the first finger, please go to Dong'an in the city".

This is enough to see the status of Dong'an.

Just look at that well.

Summary. The origin of the name "Wangfujing" comes from a well on the street since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The origin of the name "Wangfujing" comes from a well on the street since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Guangxu period, there were 1,258 wells in the inner and outer cities of Beijing, most of them were salty and bitter, only a few were sweet and could be drunk, and the ten kings were in the sweet and usable. And Wangfujing, this street was built in the Yuan Dynasty to the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (the park is a rotten tong early 267 years), and there are ten Wangfu streets, Wangfu Street is called the wheel calendar.

The name Wangfujing is equivalent to combining the two characteristics of the location of the Ten Wangfu and the clear and sweet well water.

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1. Wangfujing is Wangfujing Street. Wangfujing Street was named in 1915. In the Liao and Jin dynasties, Wangfujing was just an unknown village, but after Kublai Khan made the capital of Beijing, this small village began to be lively, and it was called "T-shaped street".

When Ming Xian became an ancestor, ten palaces were built in this area, and they were renamed Ten Kings or Shichun Mansion or Ten Wangfu Street. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the palace was also abandoned, and later, there were only eight talks of the palace on the street, and people called it Wangfu Street.

2. The renovation plan of Wangfujing Street, which is characterized as "the first commercial street in Beijing", the commercial style is mainly "modern" and "trendy", and the Wangfujing Street after the renovation and renovation is from the goldfish alley to the south entrance of the border with Chang'an Street, and there are 12 large shopping malls on both sides of the 810-meter-long slightly wavy street, in addition to the original department store, arts and crafts building, Muslim building, foreign bookstore, Xiehe shopping mall, new Dong'an shopping mall, but also the new department store building, Donghua clothing, Minghui Building, friend world, Danyao Building, Oriental Plaza and other six large-scale shopping, entertainment and business comprehensive commercial buildings, the pattern of large shopping malls and one street can be described as unique in Beijing.

Wangfujing Xiaosanfeng Street is the most prosperous commercial center in Beijing. The reason why the royal palace is associated with the "well" and named this place is because there is such a legend:

This was originally the residence of the prince, and there was a famous sweet water well in the palace, the edge of the well was very high, and the mouth of the well was a round hole chiseled by a large stone, and there was a hexagonal pavilion with an exquisite shape on the well. One year, in the face of a rare drought in a century, almost all the wells in the city were dry, and only a few wells still had water, and Wangfujing was one of them. Wangfujing not only has water, but also is still sweet.

The prince ordered the old janitor to pipe the well and not allow outsiders to take water. But this old man who is the only janitor is kind-hearted, and in order to save the poor who have no water to drink, he secretly makes it a little convenient for the people waiting to get water outside the mouth of the alley every morning and evening when the prince and his cronies are sleeping. Later, the fact that someone came to fetch water was finally discovered by the prince, and he angrily blamed the old janitor.

The old janitor replied without humility or arrogance: "Lord, I did let people get some water, which is against your orders. But from the perspective of thinking about the prince, if the people in the neighborhood are dying of thirst, how can anyone work for the prince's family?

If the prince doesn't think so, I won't let anyone take a drop of water from now on. These words made the prince feel angry and felt that there was some truth, so he had to vaguely not pursue it. Later, people who lived far away also heard the news and came to Wangfujing to fetch water, and the reputation of "Wangfujing" spread and gradually became the name of this place.

Later, as soon as people mentioned this area, they habitually called Wangfujing North, Wangfujing South, Wangfujing East, Wangfujing West, etc.

1. According to the (Yanjing Visit Ancient Record), the construction of the palace here first began in the Sui and Tang dynasties, "the palace of the king of the Sui Dynasty, the marshal mansion of Luo Yi, the king of Beiping" is here, and it is still known as the palace garden.

2, Luo Yi is the father of Luo Cheng in **, Tang Gaozong named Luo Yi as the king of Yan, the head of Youzhou, and built the palace of the king of Yan here.

3. In the Ming Dynasty, with the construction of the Forbidden City, many dignitaries and nobles built palaces here, and there is a well-known sweet water well on the west side of the street, so it is reported that this place is called the Ten Wangfu, Wangfu Street and Wangfujing Street.

4. In the streets and alleys of this street, there are still the ruins of Shuai Mansion, Ruan Mansion, Kong Mansion and Xia Gong Mansion that can be found.

5. In the Qing Dynasty, it was still a gathering place for princes and county kings. For example, the Shuai Mansion in the Sui and Tang dynasties became the Yuwang Mansion of the fifteenth son of the Qing Taizu and the fifteenth son of Duoduo.

6. In the northwest of today's Oriental Plaza, it is the champion mansion of Emperor Guangxu's teacher and Hubu Shangshu Weng. To the west of the department store is the auxiliary mansion of the tenth son of Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, General Tao Sai Zhenguo. Therefore, the origin of the name of Wangfujing is closely related to the construction of many palaces by the magnates of the past dynasties.

7. A few years ago, when the new Wangfujing Commercial Street was opened, people were pleasantly surprised to find that they actually saw the well in the place where they did not pay attention to the chain upgrade before. Before that, the well had been sleeping underground for almost a century. Is this really the well?

It seems that we still need to read the historical records of those years. According to the location indicated in the "Complete Map of the Capital of Qianlong", the well is indeed here. Someone in the Ming Dynasty said in their notes that this well was "available in Gansu", which was already very famous at that time.