Shui Zhen, Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province

Tax town

Tax town, belonging to Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, is located on the Bank of Yinghe River in Taihe County, Anhui Province, in the northwest of Taihe County. Bordering Jieshou City in the west, it is the Western Gateway of Taihe County.

308 provincial road and Luofu railway run across the town, Yinghe River and wanfugou pass around the town. The land and water complement each other. The transportation is very convenient and the location advantage is obvious. The Shoutai industrial corridor passes through the whole town, and its development advantage is prominent. The town is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with flat terrain. A brief introduction to the town

The town governs 9 administrative villages, 72 natural villages, 42659 permanent residents (in 2017), and 39000 mu of cultivated land. The tax town is long and narrow from east to west, covering an area of about 43.68 square kilometers.

Administrative villages: Zouqiao village, taozhai village, shiligou village, yaozhai village, Shuizhen village, mamiao village, kongzhai village, zhangdazhuang village, Sunlou Village

Historical evolution

The tax town was set up in the Tang Dynasty. The government set up a tax collection card here, so it is called the tax town.

Shuizibu, shuizipu and shuizhenpu are the original names of tax towns in Taihe County. According to historical data, in the period of emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1023-1063 AD), the government got its name from the tax card. Since the end of Qing Dynasty, especially the war of Qing Dynasty, until the end of 1940s and the beginning of 1950s, Bengbu, Jieshou, Zhoukou, Luohe and other commercial ports have been flourishing and developing abnormally. Located on the Bank of Shahe River, upstream to the hinterland of Central Plains, downstream to the golden waterway of Huaihe River, and located at the junction of the two provinces, shuizipu has become a water wharf and a land "post station", and soon flourished Nanjing is also known as "Nanjing". Jieshou town was called "little Shanghai" at that time City walls and docks

As a tax card and commercial port, tax shop has walled villages, markets and docks.

The wall of shuizipu was built during the reign of Daoguang and Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (around 1850 A.D.). At that time, the Nien army was active here, and merchants surnamed Qi, Peng and Xu raked up buildings and raised funds to build them. The fortress wall is like a city wall, with crenels, gun holes, and ditches around it. There are five gates in the wall, namely east gate, west gate, north gate, Southeast gate, northwest gate, Shahe River in the South and shuimen. Each gate has a two-story gate tower, on which sentries are stationed. Each gate tower has a cannon called jiuxiaolei, which is about three meters long and is said to have a range of ten li. The area of Zhaili is only 2.5 square kilometers (originally planned to be 4-5 square kilometers), with a permanent population of more than 2000. Outside the village, a road passes through Dashiqiao from the east to the north to the West. The big stone bridge is like the single cage entrance of shuizipu. East and west to and fro merchants and their cars and horses in and out of tax zipu must pass through Dashiqiao. Dashiqiao has several large-scale inns. Every night, there are several groups of red cars pushing goods to stay. The next morning, the red car team was on its way again.

The scale and standard of shuizipu's Wharf is not comparable to that of Shahe waterway. From the South Bank of Shahe River, it is trapezoidal, with village trees as ground nails (Foundation), bricks and stones as base, glutinous rice juice mixed with lime for irrigation. The water face is about two feet high, and the upper platform is about 60 square meters. There are slopes in the East and West. The water is large and the water is small. Ships can berth, and it is very convenient to load and unload goods. On the Bank of Shahe River in front of the wharf, there are often dozens or hundreds of ships, ranging from Sunlou in the west to Zhangzhuang in the East. During the period of the Republic of China, Jieshou, Jiuxian and shuizipu were all equipped with "water conservation". There are more than 400 ships here. Usually, the porter of No. 100 is busy on and off the wharf. The porters picked up the 200 Jin salt bags and sacks of grain and walked away. At that time, there was a catchphrase in shuizipu: "the Toon head in Taihe County, the good Wharf in shuizipu, the felt strips in the old county, and the paper coming out of shiligou."

In summer night, the wharf is also a good place for residents to cool down. In the hot summer, residents came to the dock to cool off. Here, the boatman's lights are shining, the river breeze is blowing, and the chat is full of poetry. Sometimes, "fans" sing and players play. As people enjoy the cool and listen to the opera, they can enjoy the water scenery and the starry night sky.

Market and flavor

On the tax shop, there are Yanhe street, Shunhe street, Mopan street, Taiping Street, Dongxi street, etc. the most prosperous one is Taiping Street. Several big businesses are set up on this street. There are groceries shop, Beijing goods shop, traditional Chinese medicine shop, traditional Chinese medicine shop, tobacco shop, cotton shop, grain shop, yahenri granary, restaurants, taverns, teahouses, oil shop, trough shop, firewood shop and so on. Beijing goods, Shanyao, traditional Chinese medicine, tobacco from Hankou, Shangqiu, Bozhou, Bengbu and other places. Every market day, there are two lines of vendors, including iron wooden farm tools, banquet baskets, wooden combs, chicken, duck, fish and so on. The men and women who went to the market were bustling. In the market, there are many voices, such as peddling, calling and so on. At the end of the night, it was still buzzing, affecting the five or six Chinese Li. The old people said that this is the "street gall" of the tax shop.

This is to record several kinds of flavor food in shuizipu market

Huang Shouguo's Xiaohuang is not a toy, but a steamed bun. Huang Shouguo steamed the steamed bread noodles into the shapes of kittens, puppies, mice and other animals. When children see it, they want to buy it, and adults also want to buy one or three to coax children to play. It can be seen that his xiaohuangmo is selling very fast. The steamed bun seller said that he was not afraid of heaven and earth, just afraid of adults and children around Huang Shouguo.

Lao Zhujing's pancakes are full of flesh. Lao Zhujing's surname is Jin. He is big and eats fat. His pancakes are horseshoe shaped, full of flavor, torn and deep fried, soft inside and crisp outside, which everyone likes to eat.

Sun Hualin's fried dumplings are mainly made of leeks, vermicelli, egg skin, diced tofu and noodles. They are made of bread and steamed in a pan over low heat. Steaming, and then drench with sesame oil, taste delicious.

Big old Xu's warm garlic noodles big old Xu is an old man who likes to laugh and sing songs. His steamed garlic noodles are rolled by hand. After they are cooked and cooled, they are poured with garlic juice. They are put into a pot and steamed once. After they are filled, they are poured with sesame oil and put into a fence. Then they are sold along the street. After a while, when the garlic noodles were sold out, Lao Xu said that he would buy a pig without a tail - take his legs, and then hum a little song to drive home.

Wu Lao Liu's hu la soup Wu Lao Liu's hu la soup is made from chicken soup, with complete materials, including diced fat meat, tofu skin, egg skin, vermicelli, gluten, golden needle vegetables, etc. Sheng to the bowl, and then pour sesame oil, vinegar, so spicy sweet and sour, hot delicious. Several steamed bun merchants vied with each other to be neighbors.

Sun Deshun's jelly sun Deshun's jelly is made from pure peas or lentils. It's white, transparent and can't be cut into pieces with a knife. In summer, he sells salad. In winter, he sells hot fried pork. All year round. Sun Deshun's jelly is popular.

Wang Jiafu's Stewed pot Wang Jiafu's Stewed pot soup has been famous throughout the tax shop for decades. Merchants who come from all over the world want to eat stewed meat or stewed bread in stewed meat soup. It is said that his stewed Guo soup does not contain stewed tofu, but only stewed chicken and black carp. Therefore, the other meat out of the brine is rotten but not greasy, and tastes delicious.

Gengford's mung bean cake gengford's grandfather and father were experts in processing and selling mung bean cakes. He inherited the traditional craft of frying mung bean cake one by one, then turning over the Wen huokang one by one with a small shovel until both sides were scorched. In this way, or with vegetables fried, or burn what soup, mung bean cake will not become bean curd residue. The mung bean powder processed by gengford is fried into pancakes and brewed into stewed soup. It is not sticky or rotten. It is like bean curd skin, dipped in chili oil, which makes the diners have a good taste.

Temple fair and culture

The cultural life of shuizipu is rich and colorful.

Temple fair is the "chorus" of cultural life. There are three grandmothers temple and the whole temple in the west of shuizipu. From the first day of the first lunar month to the 13th of February every year, people of all ages come to the temple to make a vow. Every day, there are three or five drumming troupes, as well as big troupes and circuses. The seventh and twenty seventh day of the first month is the birthday of the immortal, and the thirteenth day of February is the birthday of Wenchang. The birthday of God and Wenchang is the climax of the temple fair. At the birthday temple fair, men and women were packed.

During the Lantern Festival, the merchants of shuizipu decorated their lanterns, played with lions in the streets, and played with the scattered lanterns on the river. Throughout the Lantern Festival, the streets were filled with excitement and the two sides were prosperous.

Xiaomanhui is a grand meeting for businessmen and a festival for farmers in the area of shuizipu. Xiaomanhui, also known as trade fair, is actually a preparation meeting for collecting farm tools and busy life in the morning. All kinds of farm tools are all over the streets, and there are all kinds of daily necessities and cloth. At the Xiaoman Festival, there were two or three major operas, including dagushu, Zhuizi, xiaorao opera, and many other minor operas. The artists who played daoshan and laoyangpian showed their skills, which made people stand up straight, look sour and hungry. What's interesting is singing at any time. At that time, it was called to sit on the bench. The singers had accompaniment of blowing, beating and pulling, but they didn't make up, act or charge money. They just arranged at whose door, who would prepare the stool and carry the teapot.

There are theatres and theatres in the tax shop. Zhang Wu and Yao Wu set up a troupe. In the early 1950s, there were three troupes, and the surrounding villages were also composed of several troupes. The troupes sang big operas in shuizipu every day. It is worth mentioning that Gu Daxuan, GUI Rong, Da Cong, Ji Mian, Xue Guixiang, sanni and other women in kaishuizipu have set precedents in singing opera. At that time, there was a saying: "Zhang Wu's play, Yao Wu's box, Huang Demin came out to fight famine." Zhang Xialing, who is engaged in liquor making business, not only set up a troupe, but also built an open-air theater. At the same time, Zhu Deshi also set up zhuiziwu troupe, with special stalls to sing short passages. The repertoire includes "saw VAT", "gongs in the opposite direction" and "dead toad", etc. the plot is full of jokes, which people like to hear.

geographical position

Agricultural characteristics

The town is located in Huaibei plain, the soil is silt, clay, good soil, suitable for the cultivation and growth of various crops. The main crops are wheat, soybean, corn, potato, cotton, rape and so on.

Economic characteristics

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