The word "Xianheng" comes from Kun Gua in the Book of Changes, which means "everything is beautiful". "Xian" is an adverb, meaning "Quan, Du", "Heng" is an adjective, meaning "Smooth and accessible", and "Xian Heng" together means "Everything is smooth and accessible".
In the old society, ordinary shops took such a store name for the sake of auspiciousness.
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During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1894), during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Lu Xun's uncle Zhou Zhongxiang opened a small hotel in the mouth of Duchangfang, Shaoxing City, and the owner took the word "Xianheng" as the name of the store. In Kong Yiji, Storm and Tomorrow, Mr. Lu Xun took Xianheng Hotel as an important background and made it famous at home and abroad.
198 1 year, the centenary of Lu Xun's birth, the old shop opened. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shaoxing's architectural style was the same as before: a shop plaque with the words "Xianheng Hotel" was hung in the middle of the house. On the street, there is a curved ruler cabinet with Qinglong brand straight book "Taibai Legacy", under which there are celadon altars and blue-edged bowls, forming a unique style.
Warm a bowl of mellow yellow wine and serve a plate of delicious fennel beans. Xianheng Hotel written by Lu Xun is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the statue of "Kong Yiji" in front of the hotel has also become a "star" for tourists to take pictures. This pub mentioned many times in Lu Xun's works has become a tourist "business card" in Shaoxing.