Qixinggang Residential District

Qixinggang is located outside Tongyuan Gate in the main urban area of Chongqing. It is a small hill. However, on the map of Chongqing in the late Qing Dynasty, Qixinggang was still marked as “Qixingang”. In the old days, Chongqing was most afraid of fire, so pools and tanks were used everywhere to store water to prevent fires. According to legend, there were seven large stone tanks on Qixinggang, filled with water for firefighting. Therefore, that hill was called Qixingang. Qixingang seemed a bit vulgar, so during the Anti-Japanese War, the “tank” was renamed “hill”. Similar changes include Jiulongpo (“pu” changed to “po”), Shimahe (“huo” changed to “he”), etc. Qixinggang is located on the central trunk road. In the 1930s, the central trunk road was named Zhongshan Road, and Qixinggang was located on Zhongshan Road, becoming an important commercial district. However, due to its location on a mountain ridge and a lack of room for development around it, one can only stand on the Tongyuan Gate and look at the rolling traffic, which makes one feel emotional.