What is the evolution of Shanghai residence?

Traditional Shanghai houses are mostly brick and wood (bamboo) bungalows and triple or quadruple houses surrounded by bungalows. There are a thousand and one center parlors, east dormitories and four rooms. Chicken and dog houses, wells and wood stoves and beans and cotton sunbathing, once made it full of rich local flavor. This kind of bungalow is mostly for the gathering of families, the clan name naturally becomes its important symbol, such as Ye family house, Wang family lane, Shen family lane, etc. This kind of place name is especially common in the south of the city, where the residents are all locals, and therefore retain more "authentic" Shanghai people's cultural practices.

In the modern era, Shanghai's population has become increasingly diverse. Foreigners and upper-class Chinese occupied the garden houses and apartments in the concession area and in the areas where roads were built across the border. At the west end of Xiafei Road (now Huaihai Zhong Road), there were all the legal persons and White Russian merchants; at Hongkou, there were many Japanese in Disiwei Road (now Liyang Road) and Wusong Road. Inside the foreign houses, "the furnishings are European style, with pianos and oil paintings dotted among them....... The dogs wagged their tails to welcome the guests". But in Zhabei, Huxi, Pudong and other Chinese community, the lower class people are living in the railroad near the river bank, the ruins of the mound on top of the humble shanty, medicine lane, tomato melon lane, Tanziwan became the northern people of the "hereditary territory". Shanghai was artificially divided into the so-called "upper corner" and "lower corner", these two marketplace terms obviously have a deeper meaning than the geographical division.

However, the most representative of modern Shanghai's housing stock and the city's flavor is still the "lane halls with a mixture of five sides," which were created in the 1870s by the adoption of the European row layout of traditional courtyard houses, such as the old Shikumen Lane in Xingrenli on Ningbo Road, and then the Cantonese-style houses in Jiujiang Li, Xinzha After that, there appeared, in turn, Guang-style houses like Jiujiang Li on Jiujiang Road, new-style lane houses like East and West Swen Li on Xinzha Road, and garden and apartment-style lane houses like Continental New Village, Xixin Villa, Changchun Apartment, and Above Garden. The structural appearance of the lane houses was gradually westernized and modernized, and the traditional colors of the lane names were gradually faded. For example, in the early days, all the lanes were named after richness and honor, benevolence and morality, and good luck and smoothness, and some of the Shikumen doors were inscribed with ancient mottos such as "Virtue carries blessings," "Virtue shines," "Accumulation of wealth flows," and so on. and "The accumulation of wealth and prosperity". But after the 20's and 30's, the name of the new alley, but more with the property rights, road names, such as the Continental Bank of the Continental New Village, Seymour Road (now Shaanxi Road North) Xinzha Road, West New Villa, and so on, and there is a Chinese-English cross-reference to the labeling.

Early residents of the concept of geography, like the same hometown. Hu Xianghan "Shanghai Xiaozhi" said "North Sichuan Road, Wuchang Road, Chongming Road, Tiantong Road, all the Cantonese", "Xiao Dongmen outside the foreign street more Min people", "South City inside and outside the salted melon Street all the Ningbo people, such as in Ningbo! ". After repeated migrations and mixed living, people from all parts of the Yi food language exchanges and integration, but on many occasions it is still difficult to change the accent, customs are difficult to easy.

Population unlimited, limited slope, with a large number of people of all nationalities remarried, the house is also more and more narrow, the patio is as small as a line, the stove Phi narrow only a few feet, stairwells, folder lane, corridors, attic, pavilions, sun decks, everywhere can be separated from the ride, a "seventy-two tenants" staged at the same time.