Place names origin
Sui Zhaoyan palace, the Peking Wang Luo Yi Shuaifu here, there are still Shuaifuyuan said Luo Yi Luo's father, "Orientation of the novel, Gaozong closure Luo Yi Yan Wang, Explorer Youzhou This has Yan palace to the Ming Dynasty, with the construction of the Forbidden City, many dignitaries in the construction of the Palace, Chengzu Record contains, here are ten-part palace, Palace Street, the Republic of the end of the imperial times, the people gradually faded at that time, the people most important value is to eat and drink, housing, and then in Beijing, people can not afford to fight well, well played water is bitter and can only be used to do laundry, steaming, drinking water is to buy, we also often see on television pushing water tankers to sell water, in fact, sell the water, but is a contrast light bitter taste of some of it, the west side of the palace roadside one well known for the quality of sweet water wells, called Sweetwater, in fact, is colorless, odorless, relatively speaking, Wangfujing place names also be derived.

Plaque

September 6, 2010, Wangfujing new plaque will be hung in the Beijing Hotel, two new building brick wall. "Wangfujing" plaque moon in September 1999.

Phase, the iconic role in the Wangfujing Street. The old plaque hanging in the women's department store brick wall. In 2007, the Women's Department Store demolition alterations, the old plaque was removed.

6:00 on the evening of 5 September 2010, a 6 m high copper plaque inlaid in the Wangfujing Street, South Side, the hotel two new buildings on the wall. Steel tablet on the reliefs showing the former lively scene of the "Chinese studio, department stores, such as old shops next to the new building of the Beijing Hotel, two brick wall erected nearly seven eight-storey scaffolding, allegedly for the installation of copper plaque build.

Future planning

According to workers at the site, a new plaque on the Wangfujing "in the name will be the vertical arrangement is slightly different to the original horizontal plaque. The Wangfujing built tube Office official said, the newly built Beijing Hotel, the two can not be placed on the original 'Wangfujing' plaque. Thus, according to the site space on the plaque re-design, although the change in the arrangement, but still retains elements of the traditional old original plaque. "

Re-create the plaque screen performance unchanged, the design follows the original elements, symbols, and other material, the use of existing copper processing materials, the use of the original process, and adjust the original metal type titanium process for gilding process. Plaque practices, embossed with the traditional plaque Dong'an, Quanjude, Sheng Xifu, department store workers Mansion, China Photo Gallery, etc. the operation of twelve old scene presented in the form of three-dimensional relief plaque, reflect the "Golden Street" unique charm of Beijing.