Tianping road starts with architecture
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On Tianping Road, which is only about 1000 meters long, there are several new villages, such as Guotai new village, Maoling new village, Datong square, Yuehua new village, Yicun, maoguan, etc
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in less than 100 years, many celebrities and sages have lived there
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Among them, the development models of Yicun and Guotai new estate are worth mentioning
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After the “August 13” Songhu meeting, the Kuomintang troops retreated, towns in the south of the Yangtze River were occupied one after another, and people from all over the world swarmed into the Shanghai concession, so the supply of rental houses was in short supply
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So there was a climax of real estate construction, during which there was a development mode of “renting land to build houses”, and Xu Yongzuo was one of the pioneers
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In the article “I and the Shanghai Real Estate Association” in the selected literature and history materials of Shanghai (volume 64 real estate management in old Shanghai) compiled by the literature and history materials working committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, Chen Xiaotian wrote that Xu Yongzuo accounting firm first saw this trend and built dozens of single room, three storey and small western style houses on several mu of land in the Old French concession It is a “Yi estate” with a 20-year lease term of 5000 yuan
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When the lease term is due, the house will be returned to the landlord
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The tenant may renew the lease, buy or move the house
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The two parties will discuss the matter separately, and the office will not be closed
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Since the advertisement was published, people have been negotiating to buy it
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It is estimated that it can be sold out in a short time
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It can be said that it is a shortcut to get rich
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Under the influence of Xu Yongzuo, Xiaotian, who used to be an accountant, rented more than 10 mu of base at Lane 608, Yuyuan Road from Wang Boyuan, general manager of China kenye bank, and built dozens of independent three story garden houses and Lilong houses along Yuyuan Road, named “grange”
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When the rent is refunded, all the rent received before can be returned to the rental counter, and a contract is signed with the customer, and guaranteed by a famous bank
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The house developed by Chen Shukun was rented out in a short period of time, and the project was a great success
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Since then, Chen Shukun has given up the “free profession” of accountants, specializing in the real estate industry, and served as the general manager of Lianhua real estate company
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49 years later, he was elected as the chairman of Shanghai Real Estate Association and became one of the industry leaders
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In addition to Yi estate, Cathay new estate was also developed and built in this way
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According to the old people there, Guotai new estate was developed by a Russian Jew in the form of renting land to build houses, which was a popular practice at that time
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The developer rents the land at a cheap price, builds a community on it, and rents out the houses in the community
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After renting for several years, the total rent received minus the government rent and construction costs, there is also a profit to be made
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In exchange, it was agreed that the land and the buildings on it would be owned by the landlord when the lease term expired
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The landlord can sell the buildings in the community or continue to rent them out
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Due to the nature of the form of rental housing, the quality of the house is generally not very high
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After the 1980s, there were several new workshops on Tianping road
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The largest one was Tianping community, which was reconstructed from Lane 179 of Tianping road and lane 149 of Guangyuan Road
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It was composed of several high-rise buildings and several multi-storey buildings
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Other new workshops include scattered multi-storey houses, such as No
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1-3 of lane 36 and No
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42 of lane 38 in Wenlian system, No
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1-2 of lane 91 in shanty town old transformation and No
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2-5 of lane 215 in municipal design system
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These new workshops all appeared before the large-scale urban renewal in Shanghai
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Non residential buildings include silk mansion built by Dou family mansion, Tianping hotel built by foreign house of tianer primary school, women’s garden building and women’s Federation office building built on the open space of log shop
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Now the largest commercial building is phase I of ITC, which is surrounded by Huashan Road, Guangyuan Road, Tianping road and Zhaoping road
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1 Guotai new estate Guotai new estate is located on the east side of the north end of Tianping road
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It is composed of No
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1-7, No
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1-7 and No
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1-29 of lane 43, Lane 47 and lane 51
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There are shops at No
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35, 39, 41, 45 and 49 on the ground floor along the street
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According to the toponymy of Xuhui District, Shanghai, published in 2012, the house was built in 1939
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It is a three story brick and wood structure, with 44 buildings in 6 rows, covering a total area of 4007 square meters
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It is a new type of lane
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The new estate has 168 households and 464 people
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“Guotai” means national peace
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In those days, the area was relatively remote
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There used to be an open land owned by a landlord
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Later, a White Russian moved into the French concession, and the landlord rented the land to a White Russian for 50 years
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This wise Russian learned that there were many refugees fleeing into the concession due to the war between China and Japan, so he built row houses on this land for European expatriates and Shanghai civilians
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Feng aimi, an old resident there, gave a detailed description of Guotai new estate in his article: the townhouses were divided into seven rows, facing south and North, forming six lanes, which was a typical new type of lane group at that time
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The lane is not wide, and the space between the two rows of houses is only five meters, so every family in the lane lives very close, and the windows between them are clear at a glance
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The three story house has green wooden windows and doors
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The stairs are very wide
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The entrance faces south and a large room can be separated in the middle
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Each floor has an independent bathroom and pavilion, forming the so-called 2dk (two room type)
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Washbasin, bathtub, toilet and hot and cold tap water are complete in the toilet
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Each family has a small patio on the ground floor, with a side door, which is regarded as the “back door”
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The black cast iron chimney leads from the ground floor to the roof of the third floor
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There is also a well in the lane, not too deep
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In summer, if you grab the thick hemp rope tied to the wooden barrel, you can make cool well water, cool watermelons, take a shower, and brush the alleys
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Although the new style is not impressive, it is economical
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At that time, there were many French and Russian people living here
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It can be said that China and foreign countries coexisted and the five sides lived together
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After liberation, foreigners gradually withdrew, all rented houses were under public ownership, and many civilians were allocated by the housing management office
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I remember that before the cultural revolution in Taixin village and Maoling new village which will be mentioned later, the house management office sent people to wax the floor every month
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During the cultural revolution, the residents went to the house management office to collect the floor wax and wax it by themselves
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In those years, some hardware stores had floor wax brushes for rent
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According to the author’s understanding, the celebrities living in Guotai new estate include Li Jinguang, Zhou Boxun, Zhou Xuan, Ma Siwu, Hong Jiaguan, Zhang Dawei and Wen Qiang’s wives and children
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Sun’s descendants of hendali clock and Shao’s successors of Yu Tiancheng hall also lived in Guotai new estate
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Wen Qiang’s family is in Guotai new estate
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The family members of KMT general Wen Qiang once played a tear jerking life story
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Wen Qiang, Mao Zedong’s uncle and cousin, was in the same class with Lin Biao at Huangpu Military Academy and Zhou Enlai’s younger brother Zhou Enshou
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He participated in the Northern Expedition and Nanchang Uprising
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Later, he broke away from the Communist Party and became a member of the Military Commission and a military adviser of the Kuomintang
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During the Anti Japanese War, he joined the war as a member of the Kuomintang
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During the war of liberation, he was captured in the battle of Huaihai
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In March 1975, he was pardoned and released from prison
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He served as a full-time member of the literature and History Research Committee of the CPPCC National Committee
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After Wen Qiang was captured in the Huaihai battle, his wife Ge Shiming and three sons (led by Grandma) returned to Shanghai from Taiwan
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For a long time after that, Wen Qiang was transformed in the north
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His family (his wife and three young children, and his mother’s nanny, who was always with him, were living in Guotai new estate
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In 1955, after years of suffering, Wen Qiang’s wife chose to commit suicide
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The announcement said that all the children would be sent to the orphanage, and the family’s soft will would be taken back to her hometown with her
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But at this time, grandma resolutely proposed that she should raise three minor children
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At that time, the grandmother was over 60 years old
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In order to live, she had to go out of the house and help many families cook, cook and take care of their children.
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