Chapter 119 Zhou Enlai did not express a positive opinion

Liang Sicheng finally had the opportunity to present his opinions and suggestions to the Prime Minister. He believed that the Prime Minister could understand him, and he believed that everything he did was correct. He told the Prime Minister about the rationality of Beijing's existing layout, and about his investigations and solutions to Beijing's traffic problems.In order to express it more clearly, Liang Sicheng quickly drew a schematic diagram in his notebook while speaking. The street system in Beijing, analyzed with the principles of modern urban planning, is an extremely reasonable system that is completely suitable for modern use.This is not found in any ancient city.The main features of this system are the streets and alleys.The avenue is roughly distributed into several layers of "ring roads" in line with modern use, and "spoke roads" extending from the "ring roads" in four directions.

The so-called several-story ring road, the innermost ring is the East-West Chang'an Avenue, the North-South Pond, the North-South Long Street, and Jingshanqian Street that closely surround Miyagi.The second ring is Wangfujing and Fuyou Street, and the north and south sides are still Chang'an Street and Jingshanqian Street.The third ring is completed with East-West Jiaomin Lane, Dongdan East Fourth, passing through Iron Lion Alley, Back Gate, Beihai Back Gate, Taiping Cang, West Fourth, and Xidan.In this way, it can be further extended to the south, passing through Xuanwumen, Caishikou, Zhushikou, Ciqikou and entering Chongwenmen.In recent years, the fourth ring has been gradually opened up, namely the North and South Streets in the East City, the South and North Ditch in the West City, Beixinqiao Street in the north, and Gulou East Street to reach Xinjiekou.However, due to the obstruction of Shichahai between Drum Tower and Xinjiekou, it will take some trouble.The south side has not yet formed a ring—maybe it can connect with Dongjiaomin Lane.Among these links, although some have yet to be broadened and some passages have not been fully understood, they are very easy to complete.

Many cities in Europe and the United States are trying to plan to open ring roads to meet the urgent needs of a large number of automobile circulation.Our Beijing can use the scale established 600 years ago, and it can become the most ideal street system with just a little bit of widening and rearranging. As for the hutongs in Beijing, many people are dissatisfied with the street system of hutongs.In fact, the disadvantage of Hutong is not its small size, but its muddy and lack of small open spaces and trees.However, Hutong is a quiet residential area, which has a certain good effect and keeps the distribution of the road system in a certain order.

All these are good foundations for development and construction. On this basis, the streets of Beijing can be improved and improved without destroying ancient buildings. Speaking of the archways in the streets of Beijing from the street, Sicheng hopes that the archway, an ancient and elegant street landscape unique to China, can be preserved in the urban construction.The street archway in Beijing originated from the gate of Lifang in the ancient city. At that time, in addition to being a decorative sign at the entrance and exit of Lifang, it was often used to post praise for the good deeds of Lifang, which had the function of enlightenment.Dashilan on Qianmen Street is a Lifang Gate.

There used to be hundreds of archways throughout the Nine Cities of Beijing, and they are the most characteristic buildings of the ancient capital.Until the early 1920s, there were still 35 street archways in Beijing.In the twelfth year of the Republic of China, trams were opened in Beijing. Because the trams had to pass under the east and west archways, the original archway was heightened, and the wooden columns of the original archway were replaced with reinforced concrete columns. Archway is an extremely important style in ancient architecture.It not only has historical value and artistic value, but also decorates the city streets and sets off the architectural group.In foreign Chinatowns, the archway has become a symbol of Chinese architectural culture.

... Zhou Enlai folded his arms on his chest and listened to Liang Sicheng's narration with a smile all the time, which greatly encouraged Liang Sicheng.He poetically described to the Prime Minister the beautiful picture of the archway of the Emperor's Temple when the sun gradually sank to the west mountain.Two hours passed, and Zhou Enlai did not express any positive opinions, but only recited a poem by Li Shangyin meaningfully: "The setting sun is infinitely beautiful, but it is only near dusk." The voices of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were swallowed up by huge waves like waves in the great momentum of destroying the old world and building a new world.