Chengdu daxue road

An east-west road. It starts from Renmin South Road in the west and ends at Hongxing Road in the east. It is about 20 meters wide and 800 meters long, and it is also a two-lane road. * * * There are two rows of 1 16 buttonwood trees, which were originally named after being adjacent to West China United University (now West China Campus of Sichuan University).

Ethnicity

Late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China

In 1905, five Christian churches in Britain, the United States and Canada established Huaxi Sheikh Middle School in Chengdu, and in 19 10, Huaxi Sheikh University was established, so there is the present university road. At that time, the internal road of the school was orthogonal to the central axis, and it was also the main road connecting the school and the city, which was called Nanmen Road and Dongmen Road.

The north side of the road is mainly the temporary dormitory of the university, the middle school attached to it and the middle school teachers' dormitory, and the south side of the road is the main part of the campus. There are offices (Huaidetang, now the West China Office Building of West China Campus of Sichuan University), libraries (Maodetang, now the history exhibition room of trade unions in West China Campus of Sichuan University), education rooms, religious rooms and university teachers' dormitories (no longer exist).

From the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) to the beginning of 2 1 century.

With the division of campus by urban roads (1960, the construction of Renmin south road divided the campus into two parts), the construction of northern dormitory areas and the increasing number of nearby schools and residential areas, University Road gradually evolved from an internal road between school teaching areas and dormitory areas to a public life road facing the whole city with the function of vegetable market as its main function. There is a booth between every two buttonwood trees, which extends to the sidewalks on both sides, with a total area of nearly 8000 square meters. It was called "Daxue Road Vegetable Market" and was one of the main vegetable markets in Chengdu at that time.

Shops along the street are mainly catering, and there are often mobile snack car stalls at night, which is very lively. Pedestrians, bicycles and motor vehicles are mixed on the road, and the traffic jam is serious.

265438+ From the beginning of 20th century to the end of 2006

The road began to be rectified and was listed as one of the key cultural blocks in Chengdu in 2006. The main measures are:

A new building was built near Daxue Road for the operation of the vegetable market, and the original vendors were mobilized to move into the building, and the vegetable market on Daxue Road was also moved indoors.

Manage the mobile snack car stalls that haunt at night, and transform the street surface of West China Campus of Sichuan University, including replacing the original solid fence with hedges, passing through walls and repainting buildings along the street. , and build a wall on the north side of the road. By means of embossed old maps and figures, Huaxi Dam (1908) was named "Huaxi Dam" after the establishment of Huaxi Sheikh University, covering all places from the present First Ring Road to Funan River. ) Introduction to history and related buildings. After the transformation, the road has become an important channel with traffic function as the main function and running through Chengdu.

Landscape and architecture

On both sides of the road are shops along the street, mainly selling restaurants, small supermarkets and small commodities. On the north side of the road are the New Meteorological Hotel, Information Engineering College, Huaxi Dormitory, School Kindergarten, Parasite Research Institute and Longjiang Road Primary School, and on the south side is the West China Campus of Sichuan University, where you can see the West China Office Building, North Gate, Old Library and Ningcun Dormitory. Among them, the Huaxi office building and school history showroom on the south side were listed as cultural relics buildings in Chengdu on 200 1.

Huaxi office building

Huaxi office building, also known as Huaiting Memorial Administration Building, was the former office of Huaxi Union Medical College. 19 15 started construction and 19 19 was completed. It was designed by British architect Fred Rowntree, who is also the planner and designer of the whole West China Campus and donated by American Ron Fu.

The latest inverted arch structure technology is adopted in the architectural design. After the building is completed, it will be used as the school administrative office, auditorium, liberal arts classroom and photography department, and the lecture room on the second floor will be used as a place for Sunday worship and gathering. Now it is the office building of West China Campus of Sichuan University.

Old library

The old library, also known as lamont Library and Harvard Yanjing Museum, was donated by Raymond's family in the United States to commemorate his son and was built in 1926. When completed, it will be used as a school library and museum. Now it is the trade union history showroom in West China Campus of Sichuan University, with a long history and is deeply loved by students.