Beijing Land Temple, the birthplace of Chinese first film in the history

Beijing Land Temple is located in the South Xinhua Street, was the seat of Anping Water Club, near the site of Liulichang, is now an experimental kindergarten. Beijing Land Temple is the origin of Chinese film, in 1905, Fengtai photo studio in the Liulichang land of the temple, filmed the film "Ding Junshan" piece, the film became the first in the history of Chinese film black and white silent film.

Beijing Fengtai photo studio founder Ren Qingtai (word King Fung), the family is more rich, learn photographic technology, and later to Beijing development. In 1892, he opened the earliest photo studio in China in the Liulichang Land Temple, and took the word "Fengtai" from its word and name. Later, he opened a large fence in the Grand View Theater cinema. As a result of the lack of foreign film, Ren Qingtai from the German businessmen in the East Crossing Road, Qi Luofu business trip to buy a French shaking camera and 14 volumes of film, began the Chinese people to make a movie attempt.

Tan Xinpei, the famous Peking opera actor, the main old students, had played Wu Sheng. In 1905, Tan Xinpei in the Fontaine photo studio for its shooting "Ding Junshan", for the beginning of Beijing film production activities, the film became the first Chinese film history black and white silent film.

Land is the "grass of the gods", the old Beijing have the South City are the land of the temple, Liulichang the land of the temple, Jianguomen within the land of the temple downhill, big land temple alley, small land temple alley, crossing the land of the temple, Tiger hole of the land of the temple, Fucheng door thieves alley of gold and the land of the temple

The land gods originate from the worship of land tenure in ancient times. The land can be born grain, is the human "food and clothing parents", so people worship the land. The ancients think that land for the local administrative God, to protect the peace of the village peace. The land of God to defend one side of the local peace, soothe the hearts of the people of the pain, bless people abundance of food, the land of the temple as a place to concentrate on the land of God, naturally flourished.

Land God faith to become the basic beliefs of the people, the general people often raise money, build the land temple with great concentration. Some of the poor small villages, often only one tile, the cylinder near the mouth knocked into the long side, fell to the ground, the land of God tablets to the inside, the right to fill the land of God's ancestral hall. And its place for the shrine door, so there is a saying, "Land Master surnamed Zhang, money live tile house, no money to break the cylinder."

Land God faith to the development of clear, is no longer confined to the Han Chinese society, Manchu also infected with such a custom, even in the capital of the government, also has a land temple, accept the clan officials of the worship. At the same time the land of God in Taiwan, the belief, but also with a large number of immigrants and the introduction of the establishment of the land of God worship system.

The old year of the Austin period, the book Jia set up in this set, antique business and more by the furnishings for sale. After 1949 to South Xinhua Street Primary School.

Spring came, the earth resurrection, all things grow, the ancients at this time respect heavenly, enshrined in the land, because the land loaded all things, but also raise all things.
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