Wuhan old bank to see a hundred years to the East (Photos)

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According to a vast stretch of Hankou River, Yangtze River shore stands numerous on a century old building, Hankou this auspicious treasure-house of business financial prosperity to stand in the US. When one has passed away to the brilliant direction, restore justice, the Yangtze River shore of the magnificent building is like a witness time scale coordinates, road to preexistence Wuhan old bank.

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According to a vast stretch of Hankou River, Yangtze River shore stands numerous on a century old buildings, the modern history of China is beginning from here. Once a bustling port town became the central business center of the city, with its open and concession, a big rise in Wuhan amidst the winds of change of Chinese modern history of one hundred years bright shining, and Hankou this auspicious treasure-house of business financial prosperity to station in our distance to that piece when one has passed away. Brilliant direction, restore justice, the Yangtze River shore of the magnificent building is like a witness time scale coordinates, Weiweidaolai preexistence Wuhan old bank.

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Back a long river, along the Riverside Avenue Hankou, followed by the distribution of sits on Defaeying concession. Five large concessions that Hankou and Wuhan commercial and entertainment center, five stores and brothels of the French concession, concession Russia's bustling city of tea and everywhere villas, the British concession and the construction of the most classic western style for Wuhan financial center business circle in and around the two bank building. From the British concession founded in 1860 of 1938 temporarily paragraphs to Wuhan City Construction of nearly 100 years, numerous bank commercial, office buildings, residential villas are set up, Hankou city has been expanded several times, when the Wuhan become second only to ChinaShanghaiMetropolis, huadengchushang, as you can imagine, that is how a seat not repeat the moveable feast.

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From Wuhan landmark Jianghan shut -- stands on the banks of the Yangtze is nearly a hundred years old building as a starting point, start looking for broken footprint that dream in many foreign architecture history. Now the Jianghan Guan can no longer send time sound, however in the hometown at dusk, wandering back from his travels, sail upstream the first glimpse of the mood Wuhan, this magnificent old building body left many have mixed feelings.

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Today, we close the feet from Jianghan Road into Jianghan Road walking street, and then turn into Zhongshan from Jianghan Road Avenue, carefully looking for, Fang and through Dongting village, finally return to the road along the river, they can turn to enjoy more than twenty old bank building majestic. Although a variety of Hankou architectural forms, but the mainstream of its architectural style is stillEuropeNew classicism, which also involved.FranceThe Renaissance and Baroque, Rococo style, one can imagine, after the integration of these exotic architectural art and oriental culture, but also the formation of such a kind of indescribable "Chinese and Western" aesthetic meaning. Unfortunately, these hundred years left in China of the old building traces, can see considerable and can keep the original site of only a few not much, after all, the modern time of more than one hundred years, the land of China experienced too much.

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