DONGJING MENG HUA LU / 卷三
大內前州橋東街巷
Arrival District
East of Zhouqiao, the city starts to look like a landing zone. Food, medicine, entertainment and religious compounds sit beside a corridor of guesthouses where officials, merchants and military personnel from the south lodge.
ARRIVE IN THE CITY ↓01 / ARRIVAL ECOLOGY
A place to land before moving deeper into the capital.
The corridor is reconstructed as a functional sequence only. The evidence supports adjacency and lodging use, not ownership of every guesthouse or a precise modern street plan.
The most important sentence in Entry 17 identifies both a lodging corridor and its users. That turns a sequence of place-names into evidence about how travelers entered and temporarily inhabited the capital.
1. Xiangguo Temple is already in view.
大內前州橋之東，臨汴河大街，曰相國寺，有橋平正如州橋，與保康門相對。橋西賈家瓠羹、孫好手饅頭，近南即保康門潘家黃耆圓。延寧宮禁，女道士觀，人罕得入。街西保康門瓦子。WORKING TRANSLATION
East of Zhouqiao before the palace runs the main street along the Bian River, by Xiangguo Temple. A level bridge there, similar to Zhouqiao, faces Baokang Gate. West of the bridge are Jia Family’s calabash soup and Sun Haoshou’s steamed buns; near Baokang Gate is Pan Family’s Huangqi Pill shop. Yanning Gong is a restricted women’s Daoist establishment that few people may enter. West of the street is the Baokang Gate wazi.
2. The wall becomes a lodging corridor.
東去沿城皆客店，南方官員、商賈、兵級，皆於此安泊。近東四聖觀、襪袎巷。WORKING TRANSLATION
Eastward along the city wall are guesthouses. Officials, merchants and military personnel from the south lodge here. Nearby to the east are Sisheng Guan and Wayao Lane.
GALOK READING
This is commercial urban lodging, distinct from the official diplomatic hostel in Entry 16. Kaifeng also had government-managed rental property, but Meng does not identify the ownership of these guesthouses. Galok leaves that question open.
3. The route keeps layering memory, education and religion.
以東城角定力院，內有朱梁高祖御容。出保康門外，新建三尸廟、德安公廟。南至橫街，西去通御街，曰麥稍巷口。以南太學東門、水櫃街、余家染店。以南街東法雲寺。又西去橫街、張駙馬宅。寺南佑神觀後門。WORKING TRANSLATION
Farther east at the city corner is Dingli Yuan, which contains a portrait of the founder of Later Liang. Outside Baokang Gate are newly built religious sites. Southward the route reaches a cross street, then the eastern gate of the Imperial Academy, Shuigui Street, Yu Family Dye Shop, Fayun Temple, a princess-consort residence and the rear gate of Youshen Guan.
The temple is already a landmark.
18 / 相國寺內萬姓交易Walk through its gates.