Qingguo Lane is located in the middle-south of
Changzhou
Changzhou ( Changzhounese: ''Zaon Tsei'', ) is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provin ...
's old city, which starts from Heping Road to the South Main Street, Changzhou's famous commercial street. It is one of the oldest lanes in Changzhou, which was built in The
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Wanli may also refer to:
*Wanli Emperor (1563–1620), the 14th emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty
*Wanli District, Nanchang, district of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
*Wanli District, New Taipei, a ...
Period of the
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
(1368-1644) in 1581.
As Qingguo Lane at that time, joined the grand canal between Beijing and Hangzhou, which is one of the longest and oldest canals in the world, many ships gathered there and made it a distribution center of fruit. There were also many fruit stores along the bank. So, Qingguo Lane also has an old name, which is Qianguo Lane. After many years the canal diversed, but the lane's name remained. In Changzhou dialect, qian and qing is difficult to distinguish in pronunciation, which made the name now.
Qingguo Lane is famous for hundreds years of residence at Bagui Hall. Many famous people once lived there including one time leader of the
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...
Qu Qiubai
Qu Qiubai (; 29 January 1899 – 18 June 1935) was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1920s. He was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Early life
Qu was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu. His family lived in Tianxiang Lou () loca ...
, and military strategist
Tang Jingchuan, who was born in Wujing, Changzhou.
Recently, Changzhou's planning bureau has put more and more emphasis on the protection of Qingguo Lane. The bureau has finished the scheme of the protection, which is respond to Qingguo Lane's historical cultural street.
Qingguo Lane is the lane of traditional opera, of calligraphy and writing, of industrialists and educators, of revolutionists and has many ancestral temples.
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Streets in China
Transport in Jiangsu