Muddy beach: the trail followed by stalkers. The Bund is the place where Shanghainese are most willing to tell stories. If you don't come to Shanghai, it means there is no real Shanghai. In the past, people called Shanghai the beach, and Shanghainese thought this beach meant the Bund. There are all kinds of buildings on the Bund, and countless people have made a fortune there. ?
1880 Bund: More than 100 years ago, when the first foreigner's boat came to Shanghai, it was a very ordinary fishing village. At that time, the Bund was just a path for trackers to walk on. Before 1842, it was still a wilderness. The Huangpu River here has no protective facilities and belongs to the muddy area when the Huangpu River overflows. 1In the summer of 842, the British fleet involved in the Opium War finally arrived in Shanghai. Since the signing of treaty of nanking, four other ports between Shanghai and China have been forced to open. Because foreigners living in Shanghai at that time often went for a walk on this path where trackers walked, they deliberately covered it with cinder and named it Huangpu Beach Road. ?
French adventurers described the Bund in those days like this: "Numerous sewage ditches and rivers crisscross, and graves are everywhere. A low and dirty hut is a broken shed made of bamboo and dry mud. "
The Bund in Colonial Period: Beautiful "Scar"
1928 the bund: 1842 after the first opium war, the Qing government signed the treaty of nanking with Britain, stipulating that Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Guangzhou were trading ports. The following year, British captain Buffel, as the first British consul sent to Shanghai, came to Shanghai to prepare for settlement. 1843165438+1On October 7th, a three-masted ship named "Water Monster" sailed into Shanghai. On the deck stood British captain Buffel and several attendants. Shanghai County, sometimes called "Little Suzhou", has a population of 270,000 and more than 60 streets. Gong Mujiu of Shanghai Daotai didn't meet Baffo at the dock for a long time, but sent several sedan chairs to take them to Daotai House. Just as Buffel was worried about renting a house, a businessman named Yao found him and offered him 52 rooms in the city to give Buffel and his four entourage a place to live. But when Yao Shuping offered to make an exclusive deal with Baffour, Baffour flatly refused. British businessmen who arrived in Shanghai later were not so lucky as Baffo. They were blocked out of the city and had to build a simple hut outside the north gate wall. Baffo firmly grasped the words "stay" ... trade was unimpeded. In treaty of nanking, he constantly put pressure on Justice Desk to designate foreigners' residence, and chose the muddy land beside the Huangpu River as the leased land, which is today's Bund. Baffour chose this muddy land of more than 800 mu as the lease land. First, it is adjacent to Huangpu River in the east and Suzhou River in the north, with convenient land and water transportation. Second, foreign merchant ships entering Huangpu River from the Yangtze River estuary must have berths. In addition, there are British warships cruising on the Huangpu River in the east, which makes them feel safer to put their homes under the care of their own warships. 1845165438+1October 29th, after two years of negotiation, Gongtaitai and Bafuer signed the Shanghai Land Charter, stipulating that the British commercial residence starts from Lijiachang in the north, Huangpu River in the east, Pidgin in the south and Henan Road in the west, with an area of 830 mu. This charter was once regarded as the fundamental law of Shanghai by foreigners who invaded China. The history of Shanghai Concession began. Shanghai Bund has become the political, financial, commercial and cultural center of western powers in Shanghai. At that time, consulates of various countries were mostly concentrated here. In the year when the land contract was signed, 1 1 houses and 23 foreign firms were built on the Bund. Shanghai Bund is one of the oldest parts of Shanghai Concession. Starting from 1845, today's Bund has been designated as a British concession. The British used this area as a dock, paved roads here and reinforced the river bank. The houses of British businessmen are also protected by the British army. Because of this concession, countless explorers and businessmen set foot on this beach. Outsiders like to race horses on the mud beach and run out of a 500-meter-long path, which was called "the road" by Shanghainese at that time. The British call this road the Bund. Since the end of 19, Shanghai Bund has gradually become the fat meat of the invading colonial countries, and the management institutions, banks, hotels and other countries in the concession area have built their own decent buildings here. Gradually, the relatively low buildings built here in the early days of the concession were demolished, and new luxury buildings sprang up. There used to be HSBC in Britain. At that time, the British called it "the most luxurious building from Suez Canal to Bering Strait". Since Shanghai became a commercial port in 1846, wealth has accumulated here like a myth, and bank buildings have mushroomed everywhere. After about a century of construction, it starts from Waibaidu Bridge in the north and ends at Jinling East Road in the south. On this arc, which is only 4 kilometers long, 52 buildings with different styles stand in rows, including English, French, Spanish, Greek, Renaissance, Chicago Academic and Baroque. Gothic spires, ancient Greek domes, baroque colonnades, Spanish balconies ... exude a strong exotic flavor everywhere, and the unique charm makes people linger. By the 1940s, the pattern of today's Shanghai Bund was basically formed. In just over a century, Shanghai has jumped from a seaside town to the largest city in the Far East. ?
? You can also visit the bund historical memorial hall.