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Besides the cardinal establishing of gothic church outdoor, in the north of templar still one western neatness bilevel xiaolou, is this lobby abbe habitation, church situated between ten bricks bungalow layout always use Beijing traditional houses format,beijing port, merely Windows merely GongQuan framework, impose rates with Chinese and western goes.
The yuan dynasty,port xingang, DongJiao MinHang and square west the MinHang were together a hutong, named "traditional lane".
It was this the hutong have yuan control of grain actors, meters and customs tax bureau contended, so it becomes south edible boated the larynx of the north keys, hence its name traditional lane. When Ming dynasty built chessboard boundary, will the elemental traditional lane truncation chance dongjiang meters lane and xijiang meters lane. In the lane the dongjiang meters with six does and hon Lu temple and jointly with hall but primarily from Mr Annan received only
Mongolia, and Korea, myanmar and so on four qagatay realm envoys, so in association with hall and is phoned "4 yi hall". In qing dynasty, jointly with the library renamed four translation hall, and modify the policy merely allow foreign diplomats living here for forty days. DongJiao MinHang originally is the Ming and qing dynasties "five mansion six" is located. Qing qianlong and jiaqing; period had "hostel" for exotic envoys temporary living.
The opium warfare (1840) later aboard this area has install the English, Russian, German, French and so on embassy, 1901 years instead legation avenue, Britain, the United States, law, etc., in 11 countries created coupler governmental agencies within the lane, also have "American citigroup", "French calyon bank", "British HSBC bank", "Japan namely gold bank" and mosques, hospitals, etc in more, this duration of history left many different styles of western architecture, too fascinated many overseas.
In 1900 on August 14, g8 aggression Beijing, and specifically the aggressor crews "formal",map of xingang, 3 days DongJiao charter robbery MinHang also there is no escape from fate. Only lane within the revenue silver database was shredded invading Japanese silver 3000000 liang; The academician courtyard of yongle dadian, "of si ku quan shu also destroyed such infrequent rob apt peril.
The treaty of citizen powers DongJiao MinHang region will devin "embassy border", DongJiao MinHang renamed "embassy street", and also in the whole earth built nigh embassies about six meters high walls,xingang tour, fence built eight garrison, with an iron. The Chinese nation self-esteem a tremendous challenges. 1928 years countries successively shook to nanjing embassy DongJiao MinHang site,xingang sea port, but not waste.

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