This used to be the beach by the Huangpu River. After the opening of Shanghai, the colonists built roads here. Westerners call it the Bund, and the Bund or Huangpu Beach is written in Chinese. The southern section is called the Bund in France. After the road was completed, banks and foreign companies concentrated. Famous buildings include HSBC Building, Customs Building and Bank of China Building. These buildings have different architectural styles.
Now the Bund is one of the financial centers in Shanghai, with customs, Chinese and foreign banks and so on. Also, because there used to be many banks and foreign firms on the Bund, which was the center of Shanghai's economic development and was very famous, people often referred to Shanghai as Shanghai Beach.
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Shanghai is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River and was inhabited more than 6000 years ago. It can be said that it has a long history, but its glorious years are short. Unlike an ancient capital like Beijing and Nanjing, you can get the pity of the emperor; There has never been a luxurious palace built here, not even a wall.
It was not until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty that Shanghai began to prosper because it was defeated in the Opium War, signed an unequal treaty with Britain and was required to be opened as a trading port.
The Bund, also known as Zhongshan East 1st Road, is about 1.5 km long. Located in Puxi, near Huangpu River in the east, there are 52 buildings with different styles in the west, such as Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque and Chinese and Western styles, which are called "World Architecture Expo Group".
Huangpu River is the largest river flowing through Shanghai, and its source is located in Longwangshan Nature Reserve in Anji, Zhejiang. Because the Huangpu River connects the rivers and seas, there are two obvious high tides and low tides every day on average. The water level difference in a day can reach more than 4 meters. In case of astronomical tide, the water level difference is even greater.
Shanghai Bund faces the open mother river-Huangpu River, and is backed by buildings with rigorous modeling and different styles. Because of its unique geographical location and its influence on Shanghai and even China in the field of economic activities in the past century, it has very rich cultural connotations.
The street view of Shanghai Bund, which consists of river surface, long dike, green belt and beautiful buildings, is the most distinctive landscape in Shanghai. 1995 was selected as "Top Ten New Scenery in Shanghai in 1990s".
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