Cangxia street, Taijiang District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province

Cangxia Street

Cangxia street is located in the south of Taijiang District. It is adjacent to Houzhou street in the East, bangzhou street in the west, Minjiang River in the South and shuanghang street in the north, covering an area of 0.47 square kilometers.

Cangxia sub district office was established in May 1955, located at No. 6, Dagong East Road. By 1990, it had jurisdiction over 11 residents' committees, including cangxia, Zhiqian, Dagong, Pengcheng, Sanjie, yizhi, Zhengyi, LunGong, Zhongping, Houyang and Anyuan, with 7329 households and 43654 residents (2010).

Street profile

Cangxia street, Taijiang District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province is located in the southwest of Taijiang District. In April 2004, cangxia street and bangzhou street were merged: Zhongting street in the East; baimaqiao, beixingheng road and Jiankang street in the West; Minjiang River in the South; sanjiehe and xiahang road in the north, and Hongqi village bridgehead. It governs 9 communities: ～ 003_ Zhongping community_ Xincheng community, ~ 006_ YMCA community, ~ 008_ Tianlong community, ～ 009_ Wanhou community, ～ 010_ Tongde community_ Changshou community, ~ 012_ Sanbao community, ~ 013_ Hexia community. It covers an area of 0.47 square kilometers and has a population of 43654 (2010).

Historical changes

The origin of cangxia

In ancient times, cangxia area was originally the water area of Minjiang River. Due to sediment deposition, it gradually expanded into sandbars from the Song Dynasty, and then connected with the land. In the beginning, it was a lonely place. Later, there were more and more people. Most of the boat people lived here. Its original name is "cangxiazhou" because it faces the front of Yancang (today's cangqianshan). In the Ming Dynasty, "cangxia sunset" was one of the ten scenic spots in Nantai, and the name of "cangxia island" is still in use today.

Prosperous place for merchants

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the commerce of Taijiang area was prosperous. Along the Minjiang River of cangxiazhou, it was an important channel leading to the upper and lower reaches of Minjiang River. The Sanjie River and xinqiaozi River crisscross the area. Along the river, there are some roads, such as Meida Road, Hengchang Cheng Road, Pengcheng Road, Nanfu Road, niangnimiao Road, etc.

After the five trade, most of the local products and agricultural and sideline products such as tea, bamboo shoots, paper, wood, etc. from the West and north of Fujian entered the trade here. In cangxia area, there were 60-70 tea shops at their peak, most of which were distributed in cangxiazhou, fuquanshe and lizhixia. Among them, Hong Yihe, Hong Maochun and Hong Chunsheng were set up by the Hongs of Nanbang, ranking the first in cangxia tea Gang, and they were called "Dao brand Yanzi Hongjia tea". Most of the local paper and dried bamboo shoots businesses are concentrated in Bailong society, including Xintai, fumaochun, fushunyuan, etc. Log, coffin business in Shengxing society. Operating bamboo, grocer in Anle she. Shoe making shops and antique shops are concentrated in anyuantou and Zhoubian. In 1907, British businessmen set up Meida foreign company in cangxiazhou to sell opium and poison the people.

Eradicate bad habits

In the late Qing Dynasty, cangxiazhou and Zhongping road became busy areas in Taijiang area. During the period of the Republic of China, there were 46 brothels in cangxia area, most of which were concentrated in Tianlong (Zhongping Road) and Zhoubian area. The famous brothels were Hongxi hall, xinziluan, lequnfang, xinyuji, Guiying hall, Guibao hall, Lihong hall, saiyue hall, huatinghou, xinghuatian, etc. in addition, there were many lower brothels and brothels in Tudi temple, lanweishi, jingjichi, etc. Guests on Zhongping Road, xiyantai, huanhuazhuang, fujulou restaurant, Mingyue, international song and dance hall, and guangyulou restaurant beside Minjiang River in cangxiazhou are famous in Fuzhou City. At night, the lights are red and the wine is fragrant. It is a place for businessmen, visitors and officials to have fun. The poor living in yizhinong, daolou and Lichi, who are engaged in carrying, cutting chopsticks and taking out dung, live in a miserable situation.

After the founding of new China, the people's government made great efforts to rectify social order and ban prostitution. On December 11, 1955, Fuzhou Public Security Bureau organized a unified action to close all brothels and restaurants, arrest and punish some Taiwanese owners who were guilty and angry, organize prostitutes to study and reform, and settle for employment. The living standards of the working people within the jurisdiction have greatly improved, and the social atmosphere has taken on a new look.

The rise of shipping

Cangxiazhou along the river has always been the berthing place for ships in the upper and middle reaches of Minjiang River. In 1936, the Nationalist government built a wooden passenger and cargo wharf in hengchangcheng, cangxiazhou, which changed the situation that there were only stone revetments and ships were not convenient to dock. The operation of goods and passengers was convenient. Minjiang steamship Co., Ltd. and Fujian telephone company are located in Zhongping Road, and Fuzhou Pingshui steamship Co., Ltd. is located in cangxiazhou. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, cangxiazhou's inland waterway shipping remained prosperous and maintained its position as a commodity distribution center in the upper and middle reaches of the Minjiang River. Fujian ship company still has Zhongping road.

Human history

Saving the nation through education

In 1897, Chen Bi, sun Baojin, Lin Shu and others founded "cangxia jingshe" in the former residence of Lin Shu, No. 46, cangxiazhou, which was the predecessor of Fujian government secondary industrial school founded by the government in the first year of Xuantong (1909).

In 1907, the American Christian church founded the YMCA Academy in cangxiazhou, which was later changed into a business vocational school of the YMCA.

In the fifth year of the Republic of China, the American Methodist Church, the American Ministry of education and the Anglican Church of England jointly raised funds to build a four storey western style building with a construction area of more than 7000 square meters on the right side of Wanshou bridge (today's Jiefang Bridge), which stands on the Bank of Minjiang River. As the Fuzhou YMCA, it has a cinema, gym, billiards room, reading hall, western restaurant, swimming pool, hotel, barber's room, shower room, dining room, dining room, swimming pool, dining room, barber's room, dining room and so on Table tennis room, etc. During the war of liberation, the Fujian provincial Party committee of the Communist Party of China rented a private room in the Youth League hostel in the name of "American Information Office" to carry out underground revolutionary activities.

In the sixth year of the Republic of China, the Anti Japanese sentiment of the masses in Fuzhou was high. Some students of the Japanese school in cangxiazhou asked to drop out. Later, the Fujian provincial governor's office set up another Fuzhou B business school to accommodate the above-mentioned dropout students. The school was located at the former site of the Yinyuan Bureau opposite the Japanese school. Soon he moved to the Japanese school.

In the 16th year of the Republic of China, the Anglican Church of cangxia was built at Yixia bridge, which is the Bishop's Cathedral. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, the cangxia Catholic Church, which was rebuilt from the tea shop warehouse purchased by the foreign bishop sumaso, was also built in Jingyi lane, Shengxing. It can accommodate more than 1000 believers to carry out religious activities in the church.

In the 26th year of the Republic of China, Hu Wenhu, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader, donated money to build a two-story wooden teaching building named Wenhu primary school on the site of the former Fuxing primary school (now the first Central Primary School in Taijiang) in lanweishi (originally a river leading from sanjietou to Pingli bridge, with businesses and families on both sides, and later reduced to a river ditch), and filled the river ditch outside the school gate to widen the road and expand the local community People call this road Wenhu road.

Set up a newspaper

In July of the Republic of China, Nanfang Daily moved from daoshan road to No. 41 Zhongping road. In October of the Republic of China, the Japanese occupied Fuzhou for the second time, and Nanfang Daily suspended publication temporarily. The new Dongnan daily, a traitor's newspaper, was located in Nanfang Daily and stopped publication in the middle of May of the 34th year of the Republic of China. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Nanfang Daily resumed publication. In the 38th year of the Republic of China, he moved to shanjiawei and stopped publishing when Fuzhou was liberated.

On July 1, the 36th year of the Republic of China, Hu Wenhu, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader, founded Xingmin daily at 19 niugong street. Zheng Shuxiang served as the general manager, mouthpiece for the people and justice. Until the liberation of Fuzhou, he was taken over by the military control commission of Fujian Province and renamed "new Min Daily", which resumed publication on September 21, 1949. It was closed in October 1950.

In February of the Republic of China, Xieji printing office, founded by Chen Yaomin, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, opened at 12 danshuinong, Zhongping road. Under the cover of open business, they reprinted a large number of CPC documents, progress books, PLA notices and leaflets, and mailed them to Kuomintang military and political personnel in Fuzhou City to coordinate with the liberation of Fuzhou by PLA. At the end of May that year, they were forced to close down for fear of exposure.

Scholarly new land

After the founding of new China, education and health services in cangxia Street are still developing. By 1990, there were provincial theological college, municipal finance and finance school, municipal No.13 middle school, municipal commercial senior vocational school, provincial aviation management senior vocational school, Municipal Grain vocational school, municipal water transport vocational school, Taijiang No.1 middle school, Taijiang No.1 Central Primary School, Zhoubian primary school, etc.; and there were Provincial skin disease prevention and treatment hospital, Provincial TCM expert hospital, cangxia health center, etc.

Religious Resort

Cangxia Church

In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, sumaso, a foreign bishop, purchased the warehouse of tea shop No. 8, Jingyi lane, Shengxing, cangxia, and rebuilt it into cangxia Catholic Church, which can accommodate more than 1000 believers for religious activities. The priests include father Yang (foreign), Lu Xinghui (foreign), Liu Zongbang (Chinese), Lai Mengdu (foreign), Li Wugang (Chinese). Tangkou has jurisdiction over cangxiazhou, Yizhou, bangzhou, Sanbao, binshe and other areas. Most of the believers are boat people. There are often classes for learning to answer questions and to read scriptures, with missionaries and nuns as teachers. They volunteer to serve the children of believers. They are very popular with the church members. In winter and summer vacation, the number of students can reach 50-60.

In 1951, the church actively responded to the call of the diocese. In the "three self" reform movement, cangxia church branch of the Catholic independent reform committee was established to mobilize its members to actively participate in the anti US aggression and aid Korea, anti imperialist and patriotic movements. After the "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966, the hall was occupied by Fuzhou No.7 auto parts factory. In 1981, Fuzhou Transportation Bureau returned the property right of the church to the diocese. It was restored on Easter day in 1986

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