说起闸北,总让人联想到水闸、闸门之类的东西,一查方志,原来闸北一词,确实源于苏州河(原名吴淞江)上的两座水闸。清康熙十四年(1675年),在吴淞江上建了第一座水闸,即后来所称的老闸。雍正十三年(1735年),在老闸西面三里外的金家湾(今新福建路桥附近)又建一水闸,称为新闸。嘉庆 Speaking Zhabei, always reminiscent of sluices, gates and the like, a check Fangzhi, the original Zhabei, really originated from the Suzhou River (formerly known as Wusong River) on the two sluices. Fourteen years of the Qing Emperor Kangxi (1675), built the first sluice on the Wusong River, later known as the old sluice. In the thirteen years of Yongzheng (1735), another sluice was built at Jinjiawan (now near the new Fujian Road & Bridge), three miles west of the old gate, and called a new sluice. Jiaqing