江汉关:作为武汉城市文化意象的形成与发展

Hankow Customs House Formation and Development of Wuhan City Cultural Image

对近代武汉而言,江汉关不仅是一座城市建筑地标,更具有城市文化意象的价值。它在见证武汉近代百年风雨的同时,也将这座城市开放求新、勇立潮头的文化品格凝聚其间,成为武汉从传统迈向现代、从内陆走向世界的一个时空坐标。进入20世纪以后,江汉关伴随武汉经历了风雷激荡的时代变革,书写了一幕幕宏伟壮阔的“革命叙事”,在其原有的文化意象基础上又增添了拼搏奋进、勇往直前的全新寓意,使其作为武汉城市文化意象的内涵更为丰满。梳理江汉关城市文化意象的形成与发展,是透视武汉近代城市发展的一种全新视角,也是识读近代武汉城市文化的一种独特方式。

For modern Wuhan,Hankow Customs House is not only a city architectural landmark,but also has the value of urban cultural image.While witnessing the century of wind and rain in Wuhan in modern times,it also condenses the city's cultural character of opening up,seeking innovation and bravely standing on the trend,and becomes a space-time coordinate for Wuhan to move from tradition to modernity and from inland to the world.After entering the 20th century,Hankow Customs House has been accompanied by Wuhan through the turbulent changes of the times,and has written a series of magnificent"revolutionary narratives".On the basis of its original cultural images,it has added a new meaning of hard work and courage,making Its connotation as a cultural image of Wuhan city is more abundant.To sort out the formation and development of the urban cultural image of Hankow Customs House is a new perspective to see the development of modern Wuhan city,and it is also a unique way to understand modern Wuhan city culture.