When you get off at Xidan, you can first see Xidan Book Building, then walk to 77th Street, and then come out with Zhong You. After that, it is the pearl, a new generation. Opposite Zhong You is Juntai, next to Joy City, and opposite him is Xidan Shopping Center. On the fifth floor, there are Warwick and Xidan Raiders, next to Xidan Shopping Mall, Saite and Wedding Building. Continue north, Xisi is a small shop, and you can walk to Xinjiekou. Xidan is a famous business district in Beijing. Xidan Commercial Street starts from Xuanwu Gate in the south and ends at Xinjiekou gap in the north, with a total length of 5.4 kilometers. Xidan business circle includes Xidan Cultural Square and Xidan North Street, and there are many large department stores. Unlike Wangfujing, Xidan North Street allows buses and cars to pass. Xidan is the core business district of Beijing. Xidan Business District includes Xidan Cultural Square, Xidan North Street and many supermarkets and department stores. Xidan is near Fuxingmen and Chang 'an Avenue. Unlike Wangfujing, Xidan North Street allows buses and cars to pass. The name of Xidan comes from an archway named "Zhan Yun". There is also an archway at Dongdan Road, Dongcheng District, titled "Nine Days". Because they are all single-seat archways, things are opposite, so they are called Xidan archway and Dongdan archway, or Xidan and Dongdan for short. There is a four-archway intersection in the north of Xidan and Dongdan, so it is called Xisi archway and Dongsi archway, or Xisi and Dongsi for short. All the above archways were demolished during the reconstruction of urban traffic after 1949. The history of Xidan Street Business District can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was the main intersection leading to Guang 'anmen, a tunnel in the southwest of Beijing. Business travel and goods from southwest provinces by land have to enter Guang 'anmen in the outer city from Lugou Bridge in the east, Xuanwu Gate in the inner city from Caishikou in the north, and all parts of the inner city from Xidan. To this end, some shops, restaurants, restaurants and prefectures have been opened in Xidan area to entertain tourists. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the procurement of Dali Temple, Taibu Temple, Taichang Temple, Ministry of Punishment, Duchayuan and Luan Yiwei near West Chang 'an Avenue was mainly Xidan, which promoted the commercial development here. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, most Manchu nobles lived in the northwest city, and many institutions of Beiyang government and Kuomintang government were also set up near the west city. In order to meet the needs of the old people and the newly rich politicians in the Qing Dynasty, there are more and more restaurants, hotels, department stores, vegetable shops, vendors and vendors in Xidan area. Xidan Shopping Mall, founded from 65438 to 0929 on the east side of the main street, includes daily necessities, snacks, second-hand bookstores, storytelling, juggling, entertainment, opera and other industries, with a wide variety. Later, "Sanyou Industrial Society" and "foreign goods store" appeared. Vendors and shops of Xisi and Huguo Temple also concentrated in Xidan, making Xidan Street the commercial center of Xicheng. Well-known shops on Xidan Street include Heshunfang Mingrang, Pu 'antang, Zanyuantang Pharmacy, Tianhe Yongranfang, Sanshengzhai Shoe Store, Heshuncheng Grain Store and Rongqingnan Branch Store. Tianfu sauce elbow shop 1738 opened, Tianyuan sauce garden 1869 opened, Hengrui old shop 1890 opened, Guixiang Nanwei pastry shop 19 16 opened and other well-known brands. And Yuhuatai Restaurant, Tongchunyuan Restaurant and Xilaishun Restaurant opened in the 1920s, Xidan Vegetable Market and Chengwenhou Restaurant opened in the early 1930s, Wan Li Shoe Store and Youyishun Restaurant opened in the 1940s, as well as Lerentang Pharmacy and Yuanchanghou Tea House, all lasted for decades or even hundreds of years. There are four baths, namely Wanju Garden, Yixinyuan Garden, Dahuayuan Garden and Yuhua Garden, and Shengxifu Maodian, Quyuan Restaurant and Wanguo Barber Shop, which moved to Beijing on 1939 respectively. In the1980s, Xidan Street was a prosperous commercial street, including Xidan Department Store, Xidan Shopping Center, Baihua Market, Quanyechang, National World, Xidan Furniture Store, Xidan Vegetable Market, Guixiang Nanwei Cake Shop, Tongchunyuan Restaurant and Yuhuatai Restaurant. Later, with the construction of high-rise buildings, Xidan Saite, Juntai Department Store, Zhong You Department Store, Xixi Friendship Mall, Xidan Book Building, Bank of China and other large department stores and office buildings were established one after another. Xidan Street is one of the two main north-south streets in Beijing. South via Xuanwumennei Street and Xuanwumenwai Street to Caishikou, north via Xidan North Street, Xisi South Street, Xisi North Street, Huguo Temple and Ping 'anli to Xinjiekou. Now, the expanded Xidan Street can pass through the South Second Ring Road and South Third Ring Road in the south through Caishikou South Street, connect with the South Fourth Ring Road, pass through Xinjiekou Ditch in the north, and pass through the North Second Ring Road, North Third Ring Road and North Fourth Ring Road.