早在清初,正阳门外就出现了一家名叫荣禄堂的民间报房。当时有山东人携带报纸辗转西北各省,销路相当不错。乾隆中叶,政府放宽了私人办报的权限,民间报房出现了兴盛的迹象,有人私设报房,专门以编发报纸为生。清末在正阳门外大街西侧的一些小胡同里,尤其在铁鸟胡同一带,是民间报房的集中地,也是新闻史学界界定的清末民间报房发行活动的中心。 As early as the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a private newspaper room named Ronglou Church outside Zhengyangmen Gate. At that time, Shandong people carrying newspapers were removed northwest provinces, sales are quite good. In the mid-Qianlong period, the government relaxed its authority to run private newspapers. There appeared signs of prosperity in private newspaper rooms. Some people set up newspaper rooms privately to make a living exclusively by making newspapers. In the late Qing Dynasty, some small alleyways on the west side of Zhengyangmenwai Street, especially in the vicinity of the Tiexiao alley, were the center of the private newspaper room and the center of the circulation activities of the private newspaper room in the late Qing dynasty defined by the historical press.