The Uygur village in Dadu,the capital during the Yuan dynasty from the 13 th to 14 th century,is located in the same geographical position as Weigongcun,a community of Uygur immigrants with a Xinjiang Street in Beijing nowadays.Obviously,this is a thought worthy case that the “significant history” held by one ethnic group is spread out across different space time continua. The rise and the diversification of restaurants on Xinjiang street shows the social cultural process of the reconstruction of space originally symbolically occupied exclusively by Uygur restaurants.In this process,different ethnic groups use cultural resources,such as the design of certain ethnic menus,alternation of restaurants’ names,an temporary borrowed identity to mold the environment of Beijing.The above resources,as well as the use of ethnicity and localism and political symbolism,are used to reach a coordinated growth for their social cultural principles and business management in modern business.From these,we can discover the nature of the historical,geographical and social cultural construction of a residential district.
