Ma Yin Lane is located in the west of Huaiqiao, Zhonghuamen Town. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Wushu attacked Jiankang House, went straight to Neiqiao Wang Fu, and captured the Emperor alive. During this period, King Kang was leading a group of courtiers to flee to the south gate along the path. At the end of the south gate, Kang Wang's mount suddenly became restless, and Lamalle's reins could not be controlled. The horse's bray will definitely attract nomads to kill him. A junior told him that Ma sharbat had died.
They found a well in the alley, but there was no bucket to carry water underground. Finally, they let the horses drink enough water in the water tank where the people washed rice, and then they ran away from the south gate.
Since then, this alley has been called Ma Yin Lane.
Lvzi lane
Mao Laosan, who lives in the north of the city, has 40 donkeys to help people sell goods, just like the current transportation company. When the Taiping army was about to enter Nanjing, the Qing army decided to flee, and Mao Laosan hired donkeys to carry treasures. I didn't expect them to see the Taiping rebels as soon as they got out of the Zhonghua Gate, and the Qing soldiers escorted fled for their lives. The frightened donkey ran around carrying the treasure and disappeared.
After a miserable night, Mao Laosan was pleasantly surprised to find that forty donkeys came back one after another the next day. People know Ma Shitu, but they don't know that donkeys can recognize their homes. Timid Mao Laosan looked at the treasure on the donkey's back, afraid of being killed, and decided to give it to the Taiping Army.
Yang, the king of the East, was overjoyed and ordered forty donkeys to wear red and flowers. Mao Laosan took the lead in walking in the streets of Nanjing. Mao Laosan was very beautiful and became a big star.
From then on, the alley where Boss Mao lived was called "Donkey Lane".
Li Ji lane
Li Ji Lane is located between Changbai Street and Taiping South Road, and the great writer Cao Xueqin was born in this lane less than 500 meters long. In addition, Li Ji Lane was the largest comfort station in Nanjing during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period.
Jianzi lane
Scissors Lane is near Confucius Temple and Jinbang Market.
In the early Ming dynasty, there was a weapons warehouse here. There are many arrows in the warehouse, so it is named Arrow Lane.
Chaiquan steet
Chaiquan Street is located in the southeast of Wendeqiao, the south bank of Qinhuai River and the northwest of Bailuzhou, and is called Dashiba Street. On the street, there is also a small street called Xiaoshiba Street, which leads directly to Bailuzhou. This area is low-lying. During the flood season, the rivers of Qinhuai River and Qingxi River flow backward here, becoming Zeguo. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the long bridge here was converted into a stone dam, so this street was named after the stone dam.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Chaiquan Street was the place where girls lived in Quzhong, which was under the jurisdiction of Jiao Fang District. Since then, brothels in Nanjing have been concentrated here.
Chaiquan Street is the red light district in Nanjing. There is an old saying: "There are nine crooked houses in Chaidog Street." The tenth family is a family with sons and no daughters.
Zhuangyuanjing
The alley on the left in front of Zhuangyuanlou Hotel in Confucius Temple is the residence of the notorious traitor champion Qin Gui. Both father and son have been admitted to the top scholar, which should be called the Qin top scholar, but his personality is so ugly that people are ashamed to mention his surname and are used to calling him the "top scholar". After the incident, some people surnamed Qin returned to their hometown in the countryside, and those who stayed moved the three horizontal lines above the word "Qin" and renamed it "Xu".
Fishing Lane (Yuhufang)
Yuhufang is near Bailuzhou Park, starting from Neiqinhuai in the east and connecting Jiankang Road in the west. According to legend, Zhu Wuzong was here in the Ming Dynasty to watch flowers and lanterns, and the Yuhufang was named after it. Later, Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty fished here, so it was renamed Diaoyutai.
Zaofang lane
Zaofang Lane is located on the north side of the middle section of Changle Road, starting from Changle Road in the south and reaching the Changsheng Hall in the north. Bad shops, as the name implies, must have something to do with wine. According to legend, this is the place where Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, made wine, hence the name. It is said that the wine brewed here at that time was famous all over the country for its overflowing fragrance, and the smell of the wine brewed by the rotten workshop could be smelled within a hundred miles, and the wine brewed was especially loved by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Tangfanglang
After Ming Taizu proclaimed himself emperor, Nanjing's commerce flourished unprecedentedly. In order to meet the needs and facilitate pedestrians, official corridors have been set up on both sides of some streets where industries are concentrated, which can shelter from the rain. In this way, many place names with the word "corridor" have appeared. Tangfang Gallery is located in the northwest of Huaiqiao Town, Zhonghuamennei Town, south of the city, starting from Zhonghua Road in the southeast and connecting Changle Street in the northwest. It was originally called Mi's Street, and later it was transformed into Cue Street. Later, it was named after the establishment of a sugar workshop here.
Changle steet
Changle Street was called Changle Lane and Changle Square in ancient times, and it was also called the "Long Street". It is located on the north bank of Qinhuai River, facing Diaoyutai across the river. . As the name implies, "Mao Street" is because ancient bamboo workshops and bamboo handicraft workers are concentrated here. As for "destroying streets", it is said that it originated in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many legends about why it is called such an unlucky name:
Legend 1: In the Ming Dynasty, because a family living here tied a lantern of a Bigfoot woman, which violated the taboo of Empress Ma, the Royal Guards killed the whole street for nothing, so it was called Jiejie.
Legend 2: This street used to be the residence of Fu Shou, an official of the Yuan Dynasty. When the Yuan Dynasty perished, Fushou and his men committed suicide. The population of the whole street is almost extinct, so it is called "destroying the street".
Nanbu hall
According to historical records, there were two official departments specializing in arresting people in Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty, namely, the South Arrest Station (referred to as the South Arrest Station) and the North Arrest Station (referred to as the North Arrest Station). Nanbu Hall starts from Fuxi Street (now Zhongshan South Road) in the east and connects with Zhuang Ling Lane in the west, and is responsible for arresting inland areas under its jurisdiction. In 1960s, the original building of Nanbu Hall was destroyed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom filled with smoke. It was rebuilt in 1872. When the New Deal was implemented in the late Qing Dynasty, a police station was set up here to replace the work of the arrest hall. But on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, there was no house in the former site of Nanbu Museum, but the old street lane named after it was preserved.
Pipa lane
In the old days, there was a ditch in the middle of Pipa Lane Road, which was covered with bluestone, with different density and thickness. On rainy days, pedestrians walk on it in clogs, tinkling like playing the pipa, which is known as Pipa Lane. Now the bluestone alley has become an asphalt road, and the sound of pipa has become an echo.
Mingwalang
Ming tile, a kind of tile, is made of oyster shell, which is thin and light-transmitting. It can be covered on the roof or embedded in the window lattice. By the Ming Dynasty, Xinjiekou was already a bustling commercial place, and it was famous for selling Mingwa. Over time, no one remembers the original place name.
Invite flute steps
This is the place where the famous allusion "stop the boat and listen to the flute" took place. According to legend, Huan Yi, a famous musician in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, loved music and was good at playing the flute. One day, Wang Huizhi passed by here, parked in Qingxi, invited Iraq to play, played the "Three Tones" and left. The host and guests never said a word from beginning to end. It is said that this song is the later famous "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms".
Coal ash pile
An alley under Zhonghua Gate. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a landlord named Mei. A sudden fire turned his house into a pile of ashes, which was called "Meijia ash pile" and later misinformed as "coal ash pile", so he made a mistake and became a place name.
Sanqiba lane
It was called "Guangou" in Qing Dynasty, but it was learned that there was a big official brick drainage ditch under the alley. After a long time, "Guan Gou" became a "dry ditch" and was once called "Thousand Buddha Temple". In the early days of liberation, "Gangou" was famous for a while, because a "national first-class model of patriotic hygiene" named "Aunt Lu" jumped into the drainage ditch under "Gangou" with extraordinary courage, fished out the highly decomposed body of a lonely old man who died in the ditch the night before liberation and buried it. As soon as the newspaper came out, Aunt Lu and "Dry Dog" became famous. When Changle Road is numbered 1956, it is planned to number the "main canal" as No.378, and No.378 as 1 ... All the families in the alley think that this will cause communication troubles in the future. The numbered comrades studied the figures and simply called the "trunk ditch" "Lane 378", and all the residents in the lane were made into a whole, which made everyone happy.
Tuchengtou
In seven towns of baixia district. In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, construction began. Due to limited financial resources, the city walls are all made of earth, and only part of the dangerous places are made of bricks, and 18 outer city gates have been opened. The outer city is 120 Li Long, and the people commonly call the outer city wall "Tuchengtou". Later, Tuchengtou became the name of a street in seven towns.
Shangbu steet
1868, when French imperialism signed the Sino-French Treaty of Tianjin, it forced the Qing government to list Nanjing as a trading port, and Nanjing was forced to become a trading port in 1899. There are many imperialist firms and foreign firms in Xiaguan District, from Huimin Bridge in the north to Zhongshan Road in the south. People call this area Shangbu Street until now.
Chuanban lane
According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was superstitious, suspicious and easy to kill. Treacherous court official Liu Bowen once fabricated that two "fish spirits" fled from Yanque Lake to a small ditch near Yutonghai's home beside Qinhuai River and hid themselves. Zhu Yuanzhang believed it and ordered the fish in Qinhuai River to be destroyed. The measure he took was to cover the upper and lower pontoons with rolling hooks, stop the fish in this section of Qinhuai River, and order the troops to string all the caught fish with willow branches and hang them in the street to cool. In this way, the whole street is covered with falling willow leaves, so people call this street wicker street, which is a "boathouse" (also called boathouse lane) where fish are blocked with boards. A "gate-blocking bridge" that uses door panels to block fish at the entrance of the bridge (now called Doumen Bridge); Set up a fishing "Diaoyutai"; "Fishing Lane" (now called Ganyu Lane) is the place where fish are driven back from the river ... In addition, a memorial arch, Baimao Square, was set up across Yujia Street, with a hundred cat heads carved on it, staring at Yu's gate, so that the "fish essence" dared not come out and could never turn over.
Daxiaowangfu lane
Wang Fu Lane can be divided into Dawangmi Lane and Alley. Dawangfu Lane, now Wang Fu Street, connects Sanmao Palace in the north and Jianye Road in the south. Xiaowangfu Lane is connected to Fuyu Road in the east and Dawangfu Lane in the west. The intersection of Wang Fu Lane and Wang Fu Lane is T-shaped. Dawangfu Lane is now a bustling Wang Fu Street, but Xiaowangfu Lane is still an alley that has experienced historical storms.
Wang Fu Lane was called "Huangfu Lane" in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was named after the residence of Minister Huangfuhui. Later, this voice was mistaken for "Wang Fu Lane". Before timur, a loyal scholar in Yuan Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, he lived here when he was a vassal in Jiankang. Since then, the name Wang Fu has truly lived up to its name, and it has been used ever since.
Jinshajing
"Jiangning County Records" records that there was a great drought in the Ming Dynasty and the river dried up. Residents dug a well here to get water, but there was sand in the well and glittering gold particles in the sand. Therefore, this well was named Jinsha well. Now the Jinsha River is like a street name, starting from Zhonghua Road in the east and reaching Yangzhu Bridge in the west, which is more than 200 meters long.
Guyilang
There is an old alley-cloakroom between Zhongshan Road and Beimen Bridge. Clothing stores were originally famous for selling used clothes. Decades ago, many people who bought second-hand clothes everywhere rushed there every morning to sell second-hand clothes. From 6: 00 to 10: 00 in the morning, people who buy and sell second-hand clothes crowded this alley. Now the old clothes market here has been extinct for many years.
Xianhe steet
In ancient times, Xianhe Street in the south of the city was also a place with dense brocade workshops. According to legend, craftsmen here are good at weaving brocade with various crane patterns. The cranes they weave are lifelike, lifelike and varied, and each crane has different shapes and expressions. The cranes they weave are famous all over the country and were once regarded as royal tributes. Therefore, people call this place Xianhe Street.