How many street names in mainland China are related to Taiwan?, There is also a "Unified Street" here! Guess Taiwan Province | Street | Taiwan

Earlier, some netizens found that on the map software, after zooming in, they could see Nanjing Road, Tianjin Road in many counties and cities in Taiwan Province, and on some streets, there were also Shanxi Daoshai Noodles. At that time, netizens searched through Taiwan Province on maps and found many familiar roads with the same name and local cuisine. Netizens who want to go to Taiwan Province to eat Shanxi noodles have also received a warm response from their boss, "Welcome mainland compatriots to come and eat noodles, 10% off.".

Many road names and place names in counties and cities such as Baodao and Taipei originate from the mainland. In mainland China, many cities also have streets named after various counties and cities in Taiwan Province. These familiar road names, you and I have each other, and they are very friendly.

As netizens have said, "Every road is a way home.". Recently, the Taipei Road and Taipei Police Station in Wuhan have sparked discussions on the island. A netizen found that next to Taipei Road, Kaohsiung Road, and Miaoli Road is a Liberation Avenue that connects them together. According to Taiwanese compatriots working and living in Wuhan, this neighborhood is a treasure island.

This block in Wuhan is very precious

Taipei Road is the first road in Wuhan named after the place name of Taiwan Province.

The glass curtain wall buildings on Taipei Road will remind people of Huaxin Lihua Building near Xinyi Xintiandi, the commercial center of Taipei. Gradually, with Taipei Road as the main axis, the surrounding streets were also named after Taiwanese place names. With the addition of Taipei 1st Road, Taipei 2nd Road, Kaohsiung Road, Taitung Road, Yunlin Street, Miaoli Road, and more, roads named after the place names of Taiwan Province have filled the entire neighborhood.

In addition to the road names, there are actually many communities related to Taiwan Province here. Baodao Community, Kaohsiung Community, Hemei Community, Taoyuanli, Penghu Apartments, as well as a Baodao Park.

Baodao Park was built following the architectural model of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province. The "Dragon and Tiger Pagoda" on the central island of the park lake is also modeled after the "Dragon and Tiger Pagoda" in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province. Some netizens also said that the lake island in the park looks like a miniature version of Taiwan Island.

The street office here has been renamed as Taipei Street Office, and the police station has become a Taipei police station. There is also an antique "Taipei" memorial archway. In addition, with the names of Taipei's affordable small supermarkets and small Taiwan restaurants, it is like walking into a corner of the island.

From a change in the name of a road to a change in the style of the community, this block with rich Taiwanese characteristics reveals a profound spiritual connection between the mainland and Taiwan.

Later, in celebration of the return of Hong Kong and Macau, nearby Hong Kong Road and Macau Road were successively established, forming the "Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan style street" in this area. Netizens say that the end of "Taipei Road" is "Liberation Avenue", but in fact, there is a "Unified Street" not far from "Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Style Street" in Wuhan.

Why is there a "Taipei Road" in Wuhan

Street names can witness historical changes and record the style of the times. Why does Wuhan have a "Taipei Road"?

This starts with the knowledge of naming urban streets. The common name of urban streets refers to the naming method using words such as "avenue", "road", "street", "alley", "alley", etc. as roots. Adding a proper name before these word roots forms a unique road name. People use road names to locate travel and get to know the city. Its pronunciation and meaning usually reflect important information about a city's geography, history, economy, culture, etc. In the process of urban construction, the road names of cities gradually form and condense into collective memories.

One of the common ways to name streets and roads in China is to choose provinces and cities from other regions or mountains and rivers from our country for naming. The most typical example of using this naming is Shanghai, which is roughly arranged in corresponding positions according to the original place names in the country. This has become a distinctive feature of Shanghai's street names and can also help determine one's location within the city. Moreover, Taipei is learning from Shanghai and naming the streets and alleys after mainland cities in the city.

And Taipei Road in Wuhan was initially a vegetable field. In 1976, the road surface was renovated and paved with asphalt, becoming a traffic artery on the northwest side of Liberation Avenue. It was named Anding Road, symbolizing "stability and unity".

In the 1980s, local members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and overseas Chinese proposed to the Wuhan Municipal Government to name a street after a Taiwanese place name in order to express their longing for their compatriots in Taiwan. The municipal government immediately adopted the proposal. In 1984, this Anding Road was renamed Taipei Road. This is also the earliest road on the mainland named after the place name of Taiwan Province.

In 1987, Taiwan compatriots were allowed to visit mainland China for more frequent economic and trade contacts. Many Taiwanese compatriots who came to Wuhan to visit, travel, invest, and do business coincidentally came to Taipei Road and stayed in hotels and restaurants named after local place names and scenic spots on Taiwan Island.

In 2007, Miaoli Road officially opened. This was the 16th road in Wuhan named after a place name in Taiwan, following streets such as Taibei Road, Kaohsiung Road, and Yunlin Street.

The birth of this road dates back to 2006 when a delegation from the Nationalist Party's Miaoli County Party visited Wuhan and discovered numerous streets named after Taiwan. They happily suggested naming a newly constructed road after "Miaoli Road".

These distinctive road names in Taiwan not only reflect the increasingly close connection between Wuhan and the Taiwan region, but also reflect everyone's desire for the early reunification of the motherland.

"In mainland Taiwan, in mainland Taiwan"

Do you know how many road names are related to Taiwan Province in mainland China? About four or five thousand pieces.

In Xiamen, which faces Taiwan Province across the sea, there are also many road names related to Taiwan, including Taipei Road, Taichung Road, and Tainan Road. There is Keelung Road in Shanghai. Suzhou has Penghu Road, Changchun has Hsinchu Road... In the layout of urban planning, Qingdao city names all the streets located in the golden area of the central business district of the city using the names of Taiwan Province.

The special rural imprints of Qingdao and Baodao can be seen everywhere in Qingdao. On the Taitung Snack Street in Qingdao, there is often a long queue in front of a Taiwanese sausage shop. According to an online travel guide to Qingdao, a netizen wrote, "In Qingdao, it's a beautiful thing to go to Taitung to stroll around the night market and eat the local snacks.". Two place names bring together a profound emotion and a sense of daily happiness. These distant echoes across the strait indicate that the mainland and the island have always been closely linked in terms of emotions, culture, and urban development, with blood thicker than water.

In Taipei, everyone travels through Chengdu Road, Luoyang Street, and Xiamen Street; There is Taipei Road in Wuhan, Kaohsiung Road in Qingdao, and Hualien Road in Nanjing.

More than 80% of the population in Taiwan have ancestral roots in the southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong regions of the mainland. For hundreds of years, they have crossed the strait to settle on the treasure island, mostly naming new settlements after their ancestral homeland and village. Therefore, many villages with the same name have emerged on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. For example, there are 9 Quanzhou, 4 Anxi, and 6 Haifeng in Taiwan. These geographical place names that reminisce about their hometown have been passed down to this day.

Every road name, every village with the same name, is the same origin on both sides of the strait. These roads and the names of these villages, every place, every sign, and every symbol, are indelible elements of Chinese culture. They not only carry the longing between the people of mainland China and Taiwan compatriots, but are also very daily events. They are the most simple expression of emotions. They are the historical and cultural connection of the same root and source on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the common historical imprint on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, naturally. Every road is a way home, it is a two-way road that has always been like this since ancient times.