Wucheng old street

Wucheng old street

Wucheng street is located in the south of Xiuning County, 26 kilometers away from the county. Wucheng street was a political, economic, cultural and business center in ancient times. Five cities have a long history, can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, more than 1300 years ago. Luo Yuan of Song Dynasty wrote Xin'an annals, which recorded that "Wucheng village is a big town in ancient times." In the Yuan Dynasty, "five city affairs" were set up in five cities, and "five city shops" were set up in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Until now, five cities have always been important towns in the south of Xiuning County

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There are several versions about the origin of the names of the five cities, but no matter which version, it highlights the prosperity and brilliance of the five cities in history. Wucheng is located on the post road from the ancient Huizhou prefecture to Wuyuan County. Yangong River, a tributary of Liushui, flows slowly from the side. Its superior geographical location has created the formation and prosperity of Wucheng old street.

Wucheng, a thousand year old town and ancient post station on the ancient road from Zhouzhi to Wuyuan, is one of the important towns in Xiuning County. For many years, it has been the transportation, transit and distribution center of goods between the ancient Huizhou capital and Wuyuan, as well as the rest place for pedestrians from all over the world. Even today, its post station function has not completely withdrawn from the historical stage. There is a saying in Xin'an Zhi written by song and Luo Yuan that "five cities and villages are ancient big towns". In fact, before the 1970s, there was only one old street in the five cities. But the old street is very long, with a total of three li. It can be divided into upper street, middle street and lower street. It is the political, economic, cultural and business center of the five cities. With the opening of Xiuwu highway in the 1970s, the economic development center and business center of five cities and towns began to move to both sides of Xiuwu highway, and gradually formed a new block. The old streets of five cities and towns began to be deserted and depressed

History of Wucheng old street

Because the five cities are located in a special geographical location, as early as a thousand years ago, a huge gathering center has been formed here, which has become the main supply and demand place for living materials of four townships and eight neighborhoods. It is the place where every adult and children in the five cities block and surrounding areas have to go many times a year, so the old streets of the five cities have become more or less an indispensable part of every person's life in the five cities .

Wucheng Shangjie

Cross Street

The streets of the old streets in five cities are built according to the river. This river is a tributary of the Liushui River, named Yangong river. It is the mother river of the people in five cities. The river is just winding in front of the village, which is still fresh in memory. Hengjie street is about 100 meters from Chaoyang Bridge to yuanmendong. In the past, there was a strong commercial atmosphere here. It was the distribution center of all kinds of mountain goods. Local products from four townships gathered here for centralized sales, which was very lively.

Zhijie

Walking down the river from yuanmendong is a place called "Shizitou". In the past, there were two rice pounding water pestles here, but today they no longer exist. However, at the entrance of Xiaqiao lane, there is an ancient stone pillar called "Nanwu amifo", which is said to be set up to suppress evil spirits. It's a little gratifying that it still exists today. Zhijie Street (from yuanmendong to Jiangxia mingzong) is the busiest. There are many shops in this area, such as baozi shop, snack bar, stall, cloth shop, grocery store, drugstore, barber shop, wine shop, tofu shop, Zongzhang shop and so on. There are many shops here, because most of them are closely related to our life. Every time we go to five cities, we spend the longest time in this street, so we have to pay attention to them I have a deep memory.

bustling

In particular, there is a wonton stall at the entrance of Yuanmen cave, which is one of the places that rural children most want to go when they go to Wucheng street. It's not easy for rural people to go to the streets in the city. They don't have many times in a year, so once they get to the old street, they always want to visit and see enough. When they are hungry at noon, they spend a few cents there to eat a bowl of wonton snacks, which can not only taste but also fill up Belly, and adults also love to eat, so the business is particularly good. It's a pity that this place is now "where people used to go by the Yellow Crane, but there is no yellow crane tower left.".

There is a small shop on Zhijie street, which is very familiar to the children of our time, although we still don't know how to call it by its name, because it has no name. The owner of the shop is a blind man. In front of the shop is a two foot square stall cabinet. Inside the cabinet are fishing hooks, fishing lines, tin Tuo, floats and other utensils, as well as wine starter. The owner was sitting in a small low room. It was dark inside. There was no other furniture except a small square table. A high wooden counter was on the right side of the room. It looked very dark and old, but it occupied half of the room. Almost every village in the five cities has a river. At that time, almost all the children liked fishing, and I also liked it when I was a child. So every summer, I would go to the blind shop in old street to fish and hook fish. Don't belittle this blind man because he can't see him. He has a sharp hand and foot when he starts this small business. He has big and small fish hooks. When he touches them, he knows that the fishing line he pulls never needs a ruler to measure. He just compares it on the counter, but the length is accurate, which makes us admire him very much when we were young. What's more incredible is that he can't see anything, but he is very good at distinguishing money. No matter how much money is, whether it's real or fake, he knows that he has never changed the wrong money, which is still elusive to me. Now the old street has changed a lot, which makes people feel a little strange. Only when I see this blind man and his shop, I feel kind. I think this is an old street, and I feel that I have found a little bit of it. Because today this blind man is still the blind man twenty years ago, the shop he opened has not changed, and the little room he lives in has not changed at all As like as two peas in memory.

The biggest store on Zhijie in my memory belongs to Wucheng supply and Marketing Co., Ltd., which is composed of three Dayang rooms, each of which has more than 100 square meters. The left one is mainly engaged in cloth stores, the middle one is agricultural materials stores, and the right one is Xinhua Bookstore, which is our favorite Xinhua bookstore when we were young. I still remember that when I was 7 years old, I didn't go to school long ago. I had a playmate in the village. His family was well-off. His father was working. He often took some comic books (comic books) home from Xinhua Bookstore in Wucheng to show them to him. I was envious of him. I couldn't bear to borrow them from that playmate. Once, when I went to Xinhua bookstore with my mother to play in Wucheng old street, I saw a lot of comic books on the counter. All of a sudden, I wanted to buy one. But my mother, who was always diligent and thrifty, was not willing to spend the money. So I stayed in the bookstore and refused to leave no matter how much my mother called me. Finally, I got a dime from my mother and bought one, It has made me happy for three days and three nights. I still remember the name of the comic book "Drum Tower of the Red Army" Of course, "supply and marketing cooperatives", the product and pronoun of the planned economy era, has long been diluted and submerged by the highly developed commodity economy era, just as it has completed its due historical mission and completely stepped out of the stage of human history. And now the original supply and marketing cooperatives house is still, but has been changed to civilian housing, personnel two non. In fact, the old street is not like this?!

Wucheng middle street

From mingzong of Jiangxia to Wucheng middle school, this section of streets is Wucheng middle street. There are not many shops in this area. Along the street, there are many houses without shops. The middle street in our memory is rather vague. When we were young, when we came to Wucheng old street, we usually turned left from Chaoyang Bridge and went up to Hengjie street. Then we went all the way to "Jiangxia mingzong" and then went across to the New Street on Xiuwu line. So we seldom came here. We only remember that there used to be a great hall on the middle street, where many movies had been played before. Adults call it the old cinema But I clearly remember that I didn't see a movie there. I remember that the first movie I saw was seen in the new cinema in Xinjie. At that time, I was only in grade two or three of primary school. The movie was called heroes and heroines. I know nothing about other people and things in the middle street.

Wucheng xiajie

As for the old street, as early as I remember the era before, it has not become a street, so far I have not formally passed. According to some old people, xiajie at that time was connected with Gulin street, leading to Gulin bridge and Yulin park. In the early days of liberation, there were many hotels and restaurants in xiajie and Gulin street. Before the opening of Xiuwu highway, it was still a major traffic artery, so there were a lot of people and business. It turns out that there are some pavilions and a memorial archway of loyalty and filial piety built here, but they were artificially destroyed during the cultural revolution. It's a pity.

Culture of old streets in five cities

temple fair

The culture of the old streets in Wucheng is deeply rooted and has formed its own characteristics. Among them, the most influential and representative one is the "zhongjingwang temple fair" on the 24th of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Three days before and after the temple fair, people from five cities beat the victory drum and solemnly offered sacrifices to Zhang Xun, a great hero who had made outstanding contributions and died for his country. At this time, villagers from four townships and eight neighbors and businessmen from Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces swarmed in. The three li long old streets of five cities were bustling with people. I still remember when I remember that on July 24 every year, there was still an activity of "inviting generals" to walk around the streets. The general with a painted face was sitting in a sedan chair carried by eight people. He wanted to swim in old streets and new streets, which made those young children love to watch and fear. Sometimes they set up a stage and invited the troupe to sing it in the town for three days and three nights. It really made people in five cities, four townships and eight neighbors happy. But this culture

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