Not in Beijing, the 'Little Forbidden City' in Magic City, a century-old library, reopens
🧚♀️This is not Beijing, this is the 'Little Forbidden City' in Magic City, one of the most beautiful libraries in Shanghai! The Yangpu District Library, which has been closed for a summer, is finally reopening!
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🏠Its predecessor is the old site of the Shanghai Municipal Library. The building was completed in 1936 and was one of the main buildings in the 'Greater Shanghai Plan' of the original Nationalist Government. It has a history of more than 80 years and connects the city's historical memory and future reality.
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🧡The building faces west and east, the main part is two stories, some are three stories, and the design method uses a mix of modern architecture and traditional Chinese architecture, hence it has always been elegantly called the 'Little Forbidden City'!
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💛Walking outside the library, you will be attracted by the three-hole archway on the front of the gatehouse. It is the visual center of the entire building. The roof is a double-eave Xieshan top, yellow glazed tiles, dougong, colored paintings, stone railings, etc., everywhere reveals the charm of traditional Chinese architecture. Under the mottled coat of the city wall, it also reveals the traces of time.
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♨️Stepping inside, at the entrance of the first floor lobby, there is still the relic of the 'Old Shanghai Municipal Library' revolving door. The recess in the middle of the round floor tiles is the axis of the door, and the red cylinder brick floor around it also has a history of more than 80 years.
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💚The 'Peacock Door' in the middle hall on the second floor, the door panels are two peacock shapes facing each other, above is a peacock with its tail feathers spread out, super exquisite, finely crafted, all cast iron parts are connected by rivets.
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💙Inside the two-story space, red lacquered columns, green bottom Huacai, Chinese painting screens, green lampshade platforms, etc., when you look up at the colored painting on this Tang Dynasty roof, although only a part of it is original, other colored paintings are copied from the original, but they really look alike, every detail is permeated with the charm of traditional Chinese beauty.
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🤎There are also treasure book rooms, living rooms, study rooms, reading rooms, borrowing areas, etc., the overall spatial layout is very clear, you can always find a suitable area for your own reading and study.
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💯Ancient city gatehouse, yellow glazed tiles, gatehouse flying eaves big top, ground red cylinder bricks, roof colored painting... This Yangpu District Library with a history of more than 80 years! Remember to go and see this 'Little Forbidden City' on the weekend!
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For friends without a reader's card, remember to bring your ID, you can also enter!
This is a library placed in the ancient city building, the whole building carved beams and paintings, heavy rest mountains, glazed tile roofs, ceiling color paintings, all show the traditional ancient style and ancient charm, thus winning the reputation of the Magic City Small Forbidden City. The Jiangwan historical and cultural area, which is jointly composed of the old Shanghai Government Building, the old Shanghai Museum, and the old Shanghai Stadium, is an indelible historical memory of Shanghai's modern municipality, and it is also a vivid writing of the self-improvement spirit of the Chinese people of that generation. Photo.
Definitely one of the hottest "check-in points". This is a library placed in the ancient city building. The whole building is carved beams and painted buildings, heavy bridges, glazed tile roofs, and ceiling paintings, which show the traditional ancient style and ancient charm, and thus won the reputation of the "Little Forbidden City". Oh, yeah.
This is an old building in the Republic of China, with a large volume and simple and beautiful shape. It is an excellent historical building at Shanghai level. The environment in the museum is clean and comfortable, the bibliography is rich, and the reading environment is very good.
Yangpu District Library is located at No. 366 Changhai Road, Yangpu District, with an area of 14,152 square meters. It has a general hall, Pingliang branch and children's branch in the mode of "one total two points". The total building area of the three halls is 19,800 square meters. A total of 1.32 million copies of paper documents, audition documents and local documents, 1,259 reading seats, more than 600,000 readers a year, for the national level library. There are comprehensive reading rooms, children's halls, newspapers and periodicals reading rooms, adult loan offices, and relevant reader activities are organized.
Yangpu District Library General Hall is located at No. 366 Changhai Road, Yangpu District, with an area of 14,152 square meters. It is a renovation and expansion of the old Shanghai Library during the Republic of China.
The appearance of the library building is more distinctive, and there are many kinds of books in the collection.