There is a place in Jinan called Grand View Garden. Is it the same as the place in A Dream of Red Mansions?

The Grand View Garden in a Dream of Red Mansions was invented by Cao Xiong and does not exist in the real world.

Market culture of Jinan Grand View Garden

Grand View Garden, a comprehensive shopping center, is a major attraction of Jinan's urban culture. It is said that the TV series Dyeing Room's companion, Grand View Garden, has its market culture and folk customs as its background.

The preparation of the Grand View Garden began in the early 1930s, and it was built by private investment. It officially opened on August 15 of the lunar calendar (September 20th of the Gregorian calendar, which happens to be the weekend) 193 1, which has been more than 70 years since. The name of Grand View Garden comes from the famous novel Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty. The Grand View Garden in the book has beautiful scenery and romantic characters. Then, the naming and opening date of Jinan Grand View Garden clearly shows its beautiful name and auspicious meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to local records, the newly-opened Daguanyuan Shopping Mall is located between Jingsi Road and Jason Wu Road, a commercial port, with Weier Road in the east and Xiaoweier Road in the west, with a square garden of more than 40 acres. Before the construction site was built, it was a pothole and a shanty town, where hundreds of hardworking people lived. "When the Grand View Garden was built, this shanty town was razed to the ground by the authorities. In the early Grand View Garden, there was a garden in the center; The buildings in the southern district include: the first theater, the second theater (now the former site of Daguan Cinema), the third theater (now the former site of Bandung Supermarket), and the * * * and Hall Bookstore. The first theater was originally starring "Little Da Zi" Li Guichun, and 1933 was changed to Hongle Review Theater. 1935 resumed the first theater, and Peking Opera was performed by Shandong Fuliancheng Troupe. The second and third theaters were built in 1932, with sound films and pingju respectively. Another Xin Ming cinema staged a silent film, which was later changed to Guotai Cinema (now the location of folk art theater). In the north area of Daguan Garden, most of them are Jianghu artists performing in the open air or setting up tents temporarily. There is a pony theater in the northeast corner, and wild animals such as tigers and leopards are exhibited with the group. There are several storytelling sheds and juggling fields in the northwest corner; Other places are littered with martial arts practitioners, wild medicine sellers and vendors. Grand view garden used to be admitted by ticket, and the fare was 20 cents per person. After entering the Grand View Garden, in addition to the garden, the library, opera and acrobatics, you need to buy tickets separately. Among them, the most expensive ticket is the movie ticket for the second theater, which costs 7 cents per person upstairs and 5 cents per person downstairs.

From the late 1930s to the 1940s, the Grand View Garden developed rapidly. Famous restaurants in this period include Daguanlou, Zhaojiagan Restaurant, Muslim Majiaguan, Goubuli Steamed Bun Shop and so on. Famous actors include Peking Opera, Mongolian, Han Shaoshan, Lu Shaolou and Geng Yongkui. Jingyun Drum Zheng Dieying; Dan Xianhe et al. 1943, a teahouse specializing in cross talk was added to the east of Daguan Garden, where famous actors such as Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, and Ma performed. Wulin experts active in the Grand View Garden include the flying fork, Wang's barbell and Tong Shunlu's wrestling. The Grand View Garden can be said to be a prosperous scene with a collection of cultures and artists vying for fragrance.

At that time, the business of Grand View Garden was booming, which was second to none in the whole city and even the whole province. It has about 200 shops, about 200 vendors, and more than 20 industries, including satin, foreign groceries, watches, glasses, nanzhi, stationery, electrical appliances, porcelain, handicrafts, books, tobacco and alcohol, sugar and tea, dried and fresh fruits, cakes, cold food shops, bars, cafes, Chinese medicine, dental implants, billiards room, and so on. However, with the commercial prosperity of the Grand View Garden, its negative phenomena are also quite serious. Bullies, hooligans, thieves, soldiers of fortune, spies, prostitutes, beggars, drug dealers, drug addicts, gambling, superstitions and so on make the Grand View Garden a mess.

After liberation, the Grand View Garden took on a new look after socialist transformation. Since the reform and opening-up, its newly-built high-rise commercial buildings and shops around the square have a reasonable layout and are thriving, and the largest comprehensive shopping mall in the city is more popular with customers.