【原】#老寿读图#第294集-胶州路上的闽南堂

     在老寿读图视频完成后我还一直在想这个“闽南堂”到底是怎么一回事，为什么上海没有“粤人堂”、“浙人堂”，而偏偏要有“闽南堂”。

  闽人也就是福建人，闽南也就是福建南部的人，上海是个移民城市，少不了南来北往的移民，我们平时听到的都是浙江宁波人或广东商人怎么厉害，好像很少有提到福建籍来上海经商的重要人物或事件，其实并不尽然，当你仔细搜索相关信息时就会发现著名的小刀会事件中就有他们的影子。

有公众号#历史与秩序#中高红霞原创的一篇文章《 乡缘与结社：上海闽商会馆与小刀会起义》中就讲到了福建人与小刀会事件的关系。

它的开篇内容提要就说到：上海小刀会起义主要爆发于闽广无业游民中，这是毫无疑问的，但许多资料表明闽商会馆也卷入其中，原因何在？上海小刀会起义固然与鸦片战争后上海社会经济结构变化有着直接关联，但闽商会馆的介入，经济因素绝对不是主因，乡缘因素表现更为突出，这种情况凸现了作为移民城市的上海，其中的秘密结社与乡缘因素的密不可分。

  最后的结尾部分点到了：闽商会馆的参与和部分上海闽商的卷入并未对上海小刀会起义的性质和过程起决定性的影响。但上海小刀会起义的失败却成了上海闽商由鼎盛走向衰弱的起点。

  那么胶州路上的“闽南堂”又是怎么一回事？

  再查相关信息，看到一条最新发表的内容《上海开埠的第一批建筑群：圆明园路新天安堂（联合礼拜堂Union Church）上海迷你教堂与及西方宗教文化的起始点》该文原创 DEEP DEISGN DEEP深蓝设计。

  其中就提到了上海“闽人堂”的来历，这段内容中讲到了苏州河边上那座新天安堂曾经被福建人作为宗教场所的经历：1949年以后，新中国成立，百年的殖民地历史结束，英国侨民撤出上海，这座礼拜堂借给旅沪闽人堂使用。旅沪闽人堂是一个使用福州话的基督教堂会，没有建造自己的礼拜堂，自1905年成立以来一直借用教堂举行礼拜。

1958年，上海市各基督教堂实行联合礼拜，将基督徒集中在少数教堂礼拜。这时闽人堂被并入黄浦区联合礼拜。

  于是这才明白福建人习惯使用方言来进行布道，而并没有自己建造的礼拜堂，于是一直处在到处借宗教场所来进行宗教活动。

  显然新天安堂仅仅是他们在上海借过的一个宗教场所，而胶州路260号就成了靠近沪西地区的福建人借用的一个宗教场所。

  如果你进一步搜索关于闽南人的宗教来源，又会有很多新的有意思的信息，当然这都不在本文主题之内，我们就不展开了。

  回到我们的主题，我们在胶州路260号门前看到的江宁街道“最爱人文江宁记忆点”这块铭牌上只能获知这个信息，也只能知道这栋是1921年就建造的仿古典主义风格的私人住宅，但是究竟会是谁的家？是谁设计了这栋建筑？这些都只能有待于高手们进一步的挖掘，给历史建筑有一个完整的交代。

  The Fujianese Hall on Jiaozhou Road

After watching Lao Shou's video about looking at pictures, I kept thinking about what exactly this "Fujianese Hall" was all about. Why is there no "Guangdongese Hall" or "Zhejiangese Hall" in Shanghai, but specifically a "Fujianese Hall"?

Fujianese people refer to those from Fujian Province, and people from southern Fujian are from the southern part of Fujian. Shanghai is a city of immigrants, and there is no shortage of immigrants coming from all directions. Usually, we often hear about how remarkable the people from Ningbo, Zhejiang, or the businessmen from Guangdong are. It seems that there are rarely mentions of important figures or events related to Fujianese people coming to Shanghai to do business. In fact, that's not the case. When you carefully search for relevant information, you will find that they had a part in the famous Small Swords Society Incident.

In an original article titled "Rural Ties and Associations: The Fujian Merchant Guild in Shanghai and the Uprising of the Small Swords Society" by Gao Hongxia on the official account "#History and Order#", it elaborates on the relationship between Fujianese people and the Small Swords Society Incident.

The content summary at the beginning of the article states that the Uprising of the Small Swords Society in Shanghai mainly broke out among the unemployed vagrants from Fujian and Guangdong, which is beyond doubt. However, many materials indicate that the Fujian Merchant Guild was also involved. Why is that? The Uprising of the Small Swords Society in Shanghai is indeed directly related to the changes in the social and economic structure of Shanghai after the Opium War. But when it comes to the involvement of the Fujian Merchant Guild, economic factors are definitely not the main cause. The factor of rural ties is more prominent. This situation highlights that in Shanghai, a city of immigrants, the secret societies are closely related to the factor of rural ties.

At the end of the article, it points out that the participation of the Fujian Merchant Guild and the involvement of some Fujianese merchants in Shanghai did not have a decisive impact on the nature and process of the Uprising of the Small Swords Society in Shanghai. However, the failure of the Uprising of the Small Swords Society in Shanghai became the starting point for the decline of Fujianese merchants in Shanghai from their heyday.

So, what exactly is the "Fujianese Hall" on Jiaozhou Road?

When searching for more relevant information, I came across a newly published article titled "The First Batch of Architectural Complexes after Shanghai Became a Treaty Port: Xin Tian'an Hall (Union Church) on Yuanmingyuan Road, Shanghai's Miniature Churches and the Starting Point of Western Religious Culture", which is an original work by DEEP DESIGN DEEP Dark Blue Design.

It mentions the origin of the "Fujianese Hall" in Shanghai. This part of the content describes the experience of the Xin Tian'an Hall by the Suzhou Creek being used as a religious place by Fujianese people: After 1949, with the founding of the People's Republic of China, the century-long history of colonialism came to an end, and British expatriates withdrew from Shanghai. This church was lent to the Fujianese Hall in Shanghai for use. The Fujianese Hall in Shanghai is a Christian church that uses the Fuzhou dialect. It didn't have its own church and had been borrowing churches to hold services since its establishment in 1905.

In 1958, all Christian churches in Shanghai carried out joint services, concentrating Christians in a few churches for worship. At this time, the Fujianese Hall was incorporated into the joint service in Huangpu District.

So, it became clear that Fujianese people were used to preaching in their dialect and didn't have their own built church, so they had been borrowing religious places everywhere for their religious activities.

Obviously, Xin Tian'an Hall was just one of the religious places they borrowed in Shanghai, and No. 260 Jiaozhou Road became a religious place borrowed by Fujianese people near the western part of Shanghai.

If you further search for the religious origin of people from southern Fujian, you will find a lot of new and interesting information. Of course, this is all beyond the scope of this article, so we won't elaborate on it.

Returning to our topic, from the nameplate of "The Most Beloved Cultural Memory Point of Jiangning Street in Jiangning" that we saw in front of No. 260 Jiaozhou Road, we can only obtain this information. We only know that this is a private residence in the neoclassical style built in 1921. But whose home was it exactly? Who designed this building? These questions all need to be further explored by experts to give a complete account of this historical building.