How to reinforce the steel and concrete? One is the traditional scheme of making steel plate, which is similar to “patching” the building, and the price is relatively cheap; the other is to use carbon fiber reinforcement, a thin sheet of paper thickness of carbon fiber can play the role of reinforcement, which was a new material at that time, and the price was nearly 10 times higher than the former
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There are many stories here, which add a strong humanistic feeling to it
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There is a postal museum
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The general post office has witnessed the great changes in Shanghai in the past 100 years
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In addition, a large area of floor tile mosaic pattern in the “Far East first hall” was also damaged
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If you have seen the movie “war in Shanghai”, you will be deeply impressed by the general post office building
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Today, the “Far East first hall” is no different from the “Far East first hall” presented in the archives at that time, whether it is a large area of flowers and mosaic floor tiles with Hui pattern, a business counter railing with copper spike decoration, or a copper chandelier hanging on the ceiling
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Box 1741 for secret communication, which was used to post progressive books and magazines, and to receive party documents and mail from the northern Jiangsu base
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On both sides of the bell tower are a group of three people
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According to the old photos, the copper carving and the copper anti-skid strip on the revolving staircase at the entrance of North Suzhou road are still the old objects of nearly 100 years ago
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After all aspects of work, they finally won the battle of protecting the post office
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The mailbox is currently on display in the exhibition hall on the second floor of the post office Museum
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On September 25, 1989, the Shanghai general post office building was listed as an excellent modern building in Shanghai and a municipal cultural relic protection unit
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Both sides are the main facade, with simplified Corinthian colonnade column through three floors
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Business hall, known as “the first hall in the Far East”, Shanghai general post office building is the largest and earliest postal landmark building still in use in China
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In order to protect the building and the post office from damage, the postal workers under the leadership of the general Party branch of the Shanghai Post Office of the Communist Party of China mainly adopted the strategy of persuasion
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In addition to replacing a few light bulbs, the ceiling multi head chandelier is still the one installed in 1924
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The post office building was reconstructed to restore the original appearance of this magnificent old building
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It is known as “the first hall in the Far East”
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The other group is mercury, the God of Commerce in Roman mythology, who is the messenger of God in mythology and embodies postal communication
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Because there is a basement in the post building, the water in the basement causes some steel corrosion and concrete carbonization, which affects the structure of the building
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Now, when you walk into room 332 of the general post office building, you can see a bullet hole in the window glass.
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It records important events in the history of Shanghai post
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Before the commencement of the project, I checked the drawings, old photos and written materials of the building retained by Shanghai Post archives, Shanghai Municipal Archives and Nanjing Second Historical Archives; I found the staff who worked in the general post office in the 1940s to recall the early layout and functions of the building; I also invited relevant experts to carry out a comprehensive “physical examination” of the structure of the building, and invited teachers and students of the fine arts department to fill in the building The gypsum ceiling, which was originally painted as a white plane, was restored and peeled off again (
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Today, let’s go back to the time when the traffic was far away and the letters were slow to read the story of the building in the past
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In the spring of 1949, on the eve of the dawn in Shanghai, the Chinese people’s liberation army launched a campaign to liberate Shanghai
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She went back to her “postal hometown” and recalled her beautiful youth
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It is spacious, bright and magnificent
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The Shanghai General Post Office, built in 1924, is a representative work of European eclecticism
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In the end, except for leaving one or two bullet holes, the Shanghai post office almost returned to the people’s hands intact, without losing a single bullet hole Mail, damage to a piece of equipment and loss of a file
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It not only witnessed the vicissitudes of the postal industry in the past century, but also is the largest postal building still in use in China
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U-shaped plane, southeast corner circle, for the composition center
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In 1999, a two-year renovation project began
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The foundation was laid in December 1922 and completed in November 1924
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From 1938 to 1945, the underground Party of the post office rented P.O
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The building was designed by yingshangsi Jiusheng company and constructed by Yu Hongji construction plant
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Zhuoya, an American, came to Shanghai with her father who worked in Shanghai post in the 1930s and lived in the building for 14 years
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At the top of the corner is a bell tower, crowned with a baroque dome of Italian style popular in the 17th century
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After the outbreak of the Pacific War, post office box 1741 was still used to receive mail from the northern Jiangsu base, Yan’an, Hong Kong and other places
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Shanghai general post office building Shanghai general post office building is located at 276 North Suzhou road
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On the left and right sides of it is the God of love, which means that postal communication is for people to communicate their feelings
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After more than 60 years, she got together with her childhood friends
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It is not only the witness of China’s postal history, but also creates good material conditions for the development of China’s modern postal cause
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In 2006, Zhuoya revisited the building and visited the rental mailbox building at 1741, the clock out point of the post office museum building
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In 2005, when she learned about the preparation of Shanghai Post museum through Los Angeles newspaper, she donated her old photos and precious stamps to the museum
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In April 2006, Zhuoya, who was nearly 80 years old, was invited to visit the post office building again
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According to the pattern and material of the old floor that has been reserved in the building, the floor tiles with the same pattern as the original ones are specially customized
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There are thousands of mailbox rooms for businesses and individuals to rent
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She also witnessed the glorious course of revolution, reform and construction of Shanghai post
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The ceiling pattern of pink powder green gypsum board, which is called “cream cake”, surrounding the chandelier, is stripped from layers of white paint added later, and repainted according to the color at that time
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On November 20, 1996, the general post office building was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit
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After many discussions, the expensive but easier to maintain the original appearance of the building carbon fiber repair scheme was adopted
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Located at the corner of Sichuan North Road, Tiantong Road, the basement of the building was originally a mailbox room, with a large area
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Looking north from the Sichuan Road and bridge where Suzhou River flows slowly, the first building you can see is the Shanghai general post office building
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When the story building of the staircase building nearly a century ago was completed, the fourth floor was the accommodation area for senior foreign employees and their families
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The total construction cost of the building is about 3.2 million yuan, with a construction area of 25294 square meters
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It also contains a lot of time memories
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Reinforced concrete frame structure, one floor underground, four floors above ground
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One group is the model of transportation and communication cable held by each person, symbolizing the development of transportation and communication undertakings such as railway, maritime transportation, posts and telecommunications
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The atrium of the general post office building, the bell tower on the roof and the business hall on the second floor of the sculpture post office building cover an area of 1200 square meters
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