Jingxiu Lu 静修路 (Convent-of-Quiet-Self-Improvement Road) is named after the Buddhist convent on its northern side, corresponding to today’s No. 101 静修路101号.
Zhaojia Creek, running in the place of today’s Fuxing Road, used to cross the walled city from east to west, filling scores of little canals. One of these canals, just south of the West Gate, was Jingshi’an Creek 静室庵浜, named after the Buddhist Monastery of Quiet Abode (Jingshi Chanyuan 静室禅院) sited on the north bank. In the nineteenth century, the creek lost its link with the principal waterway and became a pond. The male monastery eventually expanded and added a female nunnery next door, called the Convent of Quiet Self-Improvement (Jingxiu’an 静修庵). This convent is thought to be the setting of the opera Rendezvous at the Nunnery 庵堂相会, a popular romance piece, first published in 1868.
2 Jingxiu Road 静修路2号 (2010).
Boundary stone for Renshoutang 仁寿堂界石, Lane 12 Jingxiu Road 静修路12弄 (2010).
23 Jingxiu Road 静修路23号 (2010).
Resident outside 23 Jingxiu Road 静修路23号 (2011).
No. 1 Lane 7 Jingxiu Road 静修路7弄1号 (2010).
No. 1– 15 Lane 37 Jingxiu Road 静修路37弄1–15号 (2010).
Shikumen residence at No. 14 Lane 37 Jingxiu Road 静修路37弄14号 (2011).
No. 29, Lane 35, Lane 37, No. 39 Jingxiu Road 静修路29号,静修路35弄,静修路37弄,静修路39号 (2010).
Residents outside 51 Jingxiu Road 静修路51号 (2021).
Panorama of 51 Jingxiu Road 静修路51号 (2021).
Jingxiu Road 静修路 (2011).
Aviary at 51 Jingxiu Road 静修路51弄 (2009).
Shoe repairman at Jingxiu Road 静修路 (2010).
Chicken at Jingxiu Road 静修路 (2011).
Jingxiu Road 静修路 (2011).
Map of Jingxiu Road 静修路. Shanghai Old Town, Walled City, p. 380.
Today’s Jingxiu Road 静修路 on the 1884 map.
Today’s Jingxiu Road 静修路 on the 1910 map.
Jingxiu Road 静修路 on the 1948 aerial map.
Playbill for Rendezvous at the Nunnery 庵堂相会, presumably set at Convent of Quiet Self-Improvement (Jingxiu’JAn 静修庵), on Jingxiu Road 静修路.
Still from the propaganda film Peach and Plum Blossoms in the Spring 春催桃李 (1961), showing the eastern end of Jingxiu Road 静修路, at the intersection with Zhuangjia Street 庄家街. Map.
Still from the propaganda film Peach and Plum Blossoms in the Spring 春催桃李 (1961), showing the eastern end of Jingxiu Road 静修路, at the intersection with Zhuangjia Street 庄家街. Map.
From here you can walk to: Xicangqiao Street 西仓桥街, Menghua Street 梦花街, Caojia Street 曹家街, Zhuangjia Street 庄家街.