The name "Dashilan" was not included in Zhang Zhupo's Collection of Hutongs in Wuchengfang Lane, Beijing in the Ming Dynasty. There are only headlines, second corridors, third corridors and fourth corridors in Qianmen West Road, among which the fourth corridor is located in the present Dashilan, which shows that there is no such place name as Fence in Ming Dynasty. The so-called "corridor room" refers to the storefront room used for street operation. It can be seen that although there was no place name Dashilan in the Ming Dynasty, Dashilan was already a bustling business district where merchants gathered.

In the first year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, in order to control the social order in Beijing, wooden fences were set up at the gates of all the streets and lanes in Beijing, and the fences were built at the expense of local residents. From then on, until the end of Qing Dynasty, more than 1700 fences were built on the streets of Beijing. Among them, the four fences in Langfang were built at the expense of businessmen, and the scale was particularly large, so they were called Dashilan. Over time, Dashilan replaced Langfang as the official name of this street.

In the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu, a fire broke out in Dashilan, and the wooden fence was burned down. From then on, Dashilan only exists in its name. It was not until 2000 that the Beijing municipal government built a wrought iron fence at the corner of Dashilan, and the real fence returned to Dashilan.