It was learned from the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development that Jinan plans to invest 15.5 billion yuan to implement the renovation and upgrading of historical areas such as the ancient city (Mingfu City), the old commercial port, and Shangxin Street, and build the old town of 160 square kilometers within the second ring road into a core area of the historical and cultural city, a cultural landscape area of Quancheng, a central activity area and a famous city tourist resort.
Now many old buildings in Jinan have "come alive". Some have been opened to the public as memorial halls and museums, such as Cai Gongshi Memorial Hall, Lao She Memorial Hall, Hongjitang Museum, etc.; some have become restaurants, theaters, bookstores, such as Xiaoguanghan Cinema, Lao Foreign Firm, Jinan Staff Theater, etc.; some have been repaired and maintained as homestays, tea houses or commercial offices, such as Zhangjia Courtyard at No. 9 WangfuChizi Street, No. 15 Courtyard on Qushuiting Street, and No. 13 Courtyard on Public Street in Shizhong District.
Located at No. 58 Nanxin Street, Lixia District, Jinan, Jinan, the Jinan Lao She Memorial Hall was the residence of Mr. Lao She when he taught at Qilu University from 1931 to 1934. In 2006, Lao She's former residence was announced by the Shandong Provincial People's Government as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. The exhibition of Jinan Lao She Memorial Hall takes Mr. Lao She's life creation in Jinan as the theme, and is divided into three parts: "People's Artist", "Lao She's Footprints in Jinan", "Jinan by Lao She's Pen", and the restoration landscape part, recording the footprints of Mr. Lao She's life in Jinan.
Photography: Wang Qin
"1904" is the year of Jinan's opening of the commercial port, in this year, a German in Jinan Jingsan Road Weier Road established the first cinema in Jinan's history - "Xiao Guanghan" (renamed Little Star Cinema after liberation), which is the first cinema in Shandong Province, and the oldest existing cinema in China, in 2013, it was rated by the State Council as the "Seventh Batch of Key Cultural Relics Protection Units in China".
In 2009, Xiao Guanghan was renovated and became a boutique restaurant with a film culture theme. At present, Xiao Guanghan has two functions, the first is a film museum, which is open to the public; the second is a theme cultural restaurant.
Photo: Li Feng
Located at No. 27 Weiliu Road, Huaiyin District, Jinan City, the old foreign company is the former site of Shandong Fengda Bank, which was founded in 1919, and is also the first century-old building in Shandong Province to be preserved by translation. In the Commercial Port District of Jinan, where European-style architecture is concentrated, the decoration of the old foreign firm is complex and gorgeous, and it is the only building in Jinan that is in the Southern European Baroque style.
Photography: Shao Kai
This old building, which has been completely preserved through overall translation, is now a "flower building and old foreign company" urban homestay. This old Jinan urban cultural landmark has returned to everyone's vision.
At the same time, in order to highlight the characteristics of "spring water people's homes", Jinan has also steadily promoted urban renewal with micro-transformation methods such as "embroidery weaving and supplementation", so that history and culture and modern life can be integrated. In 2020, Furong Street-Baihuazhou Historical and Cultural Block was selected into the preliminary evaluation list of outstanding cases of national historical and cultural blocks by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and was announced by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as twelve intangible cultural heritage theme tour lines.
The entire area of Baihuazhou is a courtyard of Chinese architectural style, with white walls and green tiles, bluestone slabs at the foot, and spring water around the ancient buildings. Walking among them, it is as if you can touch the old style of Jinan's "spring water at home, and every household is weeping".
Come here and you will find that the whole rhythm has slowed down. You can feel the gentle wind blowing through the alley, the green poplars hanging low, the flowing water, the green brick porcelain tiles, and the green algae fluttering. Stroll through it, taste the elegant culture and feel the life of the old city.
Source: Integrated Public Network