Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Historical background of historic buildings

Historical background of historic buildings

Tianjin's historic buildings and historic buildings bear witness to Tianjin's social and urban development. As a famous historical and cultural city in China and one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government of China, Tianjin is a coastal port city open to the outside world and an important economic center in the north. In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404 65438+February 23rd), a garrison was stationed in Tianjin. Judy, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, named it "Tianjin" to commemorate its seizure of the southern regime, that is, the Tianzi Ferry, and thus began the history of Tianjin. It has been 60 years since then.

1860 After the Opium War, Tianjin was forced to open a port; Since then, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Hungary have successively set up concessions in Tianjin (see figure 1), and finally formed a pattern that the nine concessions converge on both sides of the Haihe River, with a total area of 23,350.5 mu (about 1557.5 hectares), making Tianjin a city.

The coexistence of the same city in the concession of the nine countries is unprecedented in the history of world city development. The historical buildings left by the concession of the Nine Kingdoms and the multi-culture derived from the construction process have also become the historical context and valuable cultural resources that cannot be ignored in today's urban construction. Large-scale concession buildings made western architectural culture and technology flood into Tianjin, and Tianjin's architecture moved from the traditional form of China to the convergence of Chinese and western cultures. It is full of Tianjin's human history, condensed an important chapter in China's modern history, recorded the changes of Tianjin's times, and constructed its unique style. It is an important carrier of urban culture, a valuable historical and cultural heritage and urban resources.