Concession is a sovereign area, and western powers manage it in their own way. When the concession was completed, the Bund became the earliest and most prosperous place in the concession. The early Bund was a foreign trade center, where foreign companies flourished and trade flourished. Since the late19th century, many foreign banks and Chinese banks have been established on the Bund, which has become Shanghai's "Financial Street", also known as "Oriental Wall Street".
As a result, the Bund has become a "land of feng shui". Owning a piece of land on the Bund is not only a symbol of wealth, but also a symbol of reputation. After companies and financial enterprises occupied a place on the Bund, they began to build the company building. Most of the buildings on the Bund have been rebuilt three times or more, and architects from all over the world have shown their talents here. Therefore, there are more than 20 buildings of different periods, different countries and different styles on the Bund, and the area is not large, so it is also called the "World Architecture Expo".
Huangpu River is the largest river flowing through Shanghai. It originated in Dianshan Lake (now Qingpu District, Shanghai), flowed to the urban area from southeast to east, turned north at Lujiabangkou (now near nanpu bridge), and flowed into the Yangtze River from Wusongkou. Huangpu River is the widest in the urban area, about 800 meters. Because the Huangpu River connects the rivers and seas, there are two obvious high tides and low tides every day on average. The water level difference in a day can reach more than 4 meters. In case of astronomical tide, the water level difference is even greater.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Shanghai was only a medium-sized county along the coast of the south of the Yangtze River, and the shipping industry was very underdeveloped. People don't need and can't build dikes along the river, so most of the banks are natural beaches except Huangpu River at the east gate. At low tide, the river stays in the center of the river bed, revealing a large beach. At high tide, the river didn't cross the beach. Huangpu River is the main river in Shanghai. Because the river is very wide and the current is very fast, ships sailing against the current have to pull the fibers. For hundreds of years, the footsteps of trackers have trodden a tortuous path on the beach of Huangpu River, which is called the "fiber path", and this fiber path is the earliest road on the Bund.
In the customary words of place names in Shanghai, the upper reaches of the river are generally called "Li" and the lower reaches of the river are called "Wai". Today, for example, Shanghainese are used to calling Hanyang Bridge in Hongkou Port "Jianhong Bridge", Changzhi Bridge "Zhonghong Bridge" and Daming Bridge "Waihong Bridge", all of which are named according to the location of the river where the bridge is located. Similarly, the first bridge where Suzhou River flows into Huangpu River today is called Waibaidu Bridge, followed by Libaidu Bridge (now Zhapu Bridge) and Sanbaidu Bridge (now Sichuan Bridge). Based on the county seat, the place near the city is called "Li", the place far from the city is called "Wai", and the downtown area is called "Licheng Gua Street" and "Waichenggua Street". "Licang Bridge" and "Foreign Enterprise Bridge" got their names.
The Huangpu River near the county seat of Shanghai forms a sharp bend at the exit of Lujiabang, so Shanghainese take Lujiabang as the boundary, and its upstream is called "Lihuangpu" and downstream is called "Waihuangpu". The floodplain in Lihuangpu is called Lihuangpu Beach, also called Tan Li, and the floodplain in Waihuangpu is called Waihuangpu Beach, also called Huangpu Beach or Bund.
According to the above statement, the "Bund" should refer to the Huangpu Beach where Lu Jiashen went to Suzhou Creek, which turned out to be good. In the twenty-second year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, the Qing army recovered Taiwan Province Province, and Sun Zheng surrendered, which marked that the coastal anti-Qing armed forces were completely eliminated. In the 24th year of Kangxi (168), the talented Emperor Kangxi promulgated the Maritime Ban, that is, from the early Ming Dynasty, the policy of "maritime ban" prohibiting maritime shipping and trade was relaxed, and China's maritime shipping and trade became active again. Shanghai, located in the middle of China's north-south coastline, is backed by China's richest Hangjiahu Plain when the Yangtze River goes to sea. It soon became an important coastal port in China, and wharves, warehouses and businesses were built on Huangpu Beach near Xiaodongmen, Dadongmen and Xiaonanmen in Shanghai County, thus promoting the development of Shanghai's urban economy and construction. About forty years after Kangxi, the Huangpu River beach from Lujiabang to Fangbang Road (now Fangbang Road) gradually disappeared in various buildings under construction. Since then, the actual area of the Bund has been from the present Fangbang Road to the banks of the Huangpu River of Suzhou River.