莫名的青春▲你可知沙面岛上藏着三个中国“第一”？The olden days of Shamian Island 沙面

沙面，几乎在每一位到广州的旅行者的必打卡清单上。
Shamian Island, or Shameen Island, which barely covers a third of a square kilometer but houses an array of European-style buildings, has been put on the map for many holidaymakers. On Mafengwo, a travel service and social networking platform, over 8,100 comments regarding Shamian have been posted with pictures up to this month.
这个面积仅有0.3平方公里的城中小岛，遍布着别于城中主流建筑风格的欧式楼房和绿意盎然的街道，清新脱俗，深受“文艺青年”们的喜爱。每天来沙面岛打卡的旅客，数不胜数。在旅游网站“马蜂窝”输入“沙面” ，可以看到关于它的评论超过8100条（截至2020年9月）。
图片来源：吃喝玩乐IN广州
那么，让沙面如此吸睛的“欧洲范儿”是怎么来的？这其中有着怎样的故事？它在历史上曾扮演什么角色？让我们一起来了解这座迷你岛屿的“前世”吧。
How come such a Chinese block ends up boasting so many western-style architectures? What kind of role has it been playing historically? Let’s probe into the past days of the islet.
一应俱全的生活社区
A well-equipped community
100多年前，沙面是与沙基（即由街市组成的片区）相连的沙洲，叫拾翠洲。 1856年，英法联军向中国发动了第二次鸦片战争，英法联军攻占广州后，逼迫广东衙门辟沙面为租界，并挖沟使它与沙基分开，在四周筑砌花岗石，使它成为了一个真正的小岛。
Previously known as Shicuizhou, Shamian Island was originally a sandbank connecting an area of street markets called Shaji. In 1856, Britain and French armies attacked and occupied Canton (Guangzhou today). The then government was forced to make concessions on Shamian, making it a foreign settlement and an isolated island separated from Shaji by an artificial river with granite piled around.
沙面被划为租界之后，陆续兴建起一百五十多座欧洲风格建筑，有领事馆、教堂、银行、邮局、电报局、商行、医院、酒店。
Since then, more than 150 European-style buildings rose straight from the ground, serving different purposes as consulates, churches, banks, postal offices, telegraph offices, commercial firms, hospitals and hotels.
约摄于1894年的沙面基督堂。图片来自曾任粤海关税务司的杜德维（英文名：Edward Bangs Drew）的家庭相册。
另外还有俱乐部、酒吧、网球场和游泳场等，其中，沙面室内游泳场始建于1887年，沙面网球场建于1905年，在中国都是首开先河。它们于2013年被合并为广州市沙面体育俱乐部。
Also rising up from the ground were clubs, bars and a tennis court built in 1887 as well as an indoor swimming pool which came into use in 1905. There were neither tennis courts nor swimming pools in China before. In 2013, the tennis court and the swimming pool were merged into the Shamian Sports Club of Guangzhou.
沙面草地网球场，网球手和观众的合影，约摄于1803年，杜德维家庭相册。图片来源：布里斯托大学中国老照片项目 Lawn tennis players and spectators in 1893, Image courtesy of Drew, Edward Bangs collection, Harvard-Yenching Library, USA and Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol (www.hpcbristol.net).

莫名的青春▲你可知沙面岛上藏着三个中国“第一”？The olden days of Shamian Island

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