North Street, Yi County, Anhui Province

North St

Generally speaking, the North Street is a city, with the trunk line as the central axis, and it is basically located in the north of the north gate of the trunk line. For example, Yi County, Huangshan City, Anhui province takes the Zhijie street as the central axis, and the street near the north is the North Street. Compared with the old urban area of Jiangmen City, a street in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the north, also known as the North Street. There are also many North streets all over the country.

Brief introduction of North Street

Although Gu Yi was established as a county in the Qin Dynasty and was crowned king twice in the Western Han Dynasty, it was known as "the Peach Blossom Land of Gu Yi" because of its four fortresses in the high mountains and inconvenient diplomatic relations. In fact, Yi county was not really isolated from the world. The commodity economy of its feudal society was still developing slowly. People from outside the mountains came to visit, be officials and do business in Yi county. Xu Jian, a poet on the left side of the river in the Southern Tang Dynasty, has already mentioned in his well-known poem "entering Yiyin". Although "Yiyi is a small peach garden, and the haze is hundreds of miles wide", it is "the city is scattered to the bottom of the river, and the mountains are cold after night". The early commodity exchange has already existed. Later, with the economic development of Jiangnan in the Song Dynasty, especially the formation of Huizhou merchants since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the commerce and trade of Yi County, like Huizhou counties, also developed greatly. Taking Yicheng as an example, the area of linzhangmen across zhangshui Tongji Bridge (known as Wuji bridge when it was built in Song Dynasty) has become a prosperous commercial area during the day, and the night market didn't close until the end of the month. The poet sun Xuedao of the Qing Dynasty once said in his Yishan Zhuzhi Ci that "the drum is beating, the horse is rustling outside the city. Around the branches, the mountain moon rises, and the Wuji bridge is closed at the beginning of the evening. It can be seen from this that the commerce and trade in Yicheng was very busy at that time.

Location of North Street

The ancient city of Yi county is slightly oval in shape, and its north end is Linzhang gate, which is called Beimen because of its north Linzhang water. From the north gate into the city, there is a long street (North Street) which goes directly to the central area of Yicheng and ends at the intersection with Zhijie, commonly known as beijiekou. Crossing beijiekou is Henggou, which is called henggouxian by the side of the ditch and leads to shuimen on the right side of Guomen in the south of the city. Therefore, the North Street is the north section of the central axis of Yicheng and is the commercial center of Yicheng. The whole North Street can be divided into three sections. The north section from the north gate to feijianong is called the north gate section; the middle section from feijianong to the intersection of East and west streets is called the street center; the south section from the street center to beijiekou is called the Li Street section.

North Street is full of shops

Brief overview

the North Street is about 1000 meters long and 6 meters wide. It is paved with light blue granite slabs. There are many shops on both sides. The shop houses are usually two-story Hui Style brick and wood buildings with opposite shop doors. Since ancient times, how many businessmen have been sitting here to pay wisdom and hardship for the social commodity circulation! Most of these people were unknown in the feudal society which valued agriculture more than commerce. It was not until modern times, especially since the early years of the Republic of China, that their names and shop numbers were recorded in the history books and kept in people's memory.

Nanhuodian

Taking all walks of life in the North Street of Yicheng as an example, there are many Southern stores, and the most important one is the north gate

"Deji" of Wang lianbaokai in Yicheng

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"Yuanfeng No." set up by Wang Tiankai of Henggang at the North Street entrance

Two. The north and South groceries in their store are indispensable to people's daily life. They are not only large in scale and prosperous in business, but also have a profound cultural meaning in their store name. "Deji" is named after people's code of conduct, so it must conform to the requirements of "Deji" with "genuine, honest, and honest". As for Yuanfeng, what is its origin? It can't help but remind people of a couplet commonly used by businesses: "business is booming, reaching all over the world, and financial resources are flourishing, reaching three rivers.". Therefore, they must consider "abundant financial resources". Where is the source of money? Then there must be "source of goods" as well as "source of customers", and the more important thing is that the firm has its own "source of affection", that is, to solicit customers with affection, to treat them warmly, to make customers happy and return with satisfaction, and "source of wealth" can roll in. Many other stores also have their own ways of being human and making money, and show respect for customers and their own norms. In the North Street, the biggest cloth shops in Yicheng are the "Daxin" shop opened by Shu Tiantao in Pingshan and the "reform" shop opened by Shu in Lijie. Their glass kitchen windows are bright and full of cotton, silk, woolen cloth and so on. They are of various designs and colors and of different quality to meet the needs of different customers.

department store

In Li street, Wanhe, opened by Jiang Zhemin in Yicheng, and Xieji, opened by Hu family, are two department stores. In the glass kitchen window, there are all kinds of lamps and lanterns, glass or enamel utensils and all kinds of flower ornaments, and all kinds of cosmetics also emit bursts of fragrance. In particular, the glass platform in the middle of the store displays all kinds of electric or mechanical toys, which attract countless small customers.

stationery store

Yixian people always focus on reading, writing and ink, so there are several stationery stores in North Street, such as Li Zhaotang, Hanmo Lin, Jingxing, etc. Among them, Li Zhaotang was the oldest. Apart from selling ordinary ink, paper and inkstones, it could also be printed in wood and stone plates. At that time, many primary schools and private schools were supplied with red ink and Chinese characters.

China shop

Yongcheng porcelain shop, which is opened by Jiangxi people, is just in the middle of the street. The shop is full of blue and white porcelain of different sizes, cups and plates, vases and caps. Customers can choose from it. The customers here are light handed, and even the reckless are very careful, for fear of bumping into something. However, the shopkeeper enthusiastically guides the introduction and makes a deal.

Lantern shop

a lantern shop in Beimen section is opened by the surname Hu. Throughout the year, especially at the end of the year, the business is booming. At that time, people in Yixian County had to decorate their streets with lanterns and lanterns. Especially before the Spring Festival, it is necessary to send lanterns to the married daughter's home. Because the homonym of "Fa Deng" in Yixian dialect is "Fa Ding", I wish "Tian Ding Jin Xi" and have a noble son early. For newly married lanterns with the design of "Qilin sending children" and those with the design of "five sons winning the first prize" for their sons. Generally speaking, the name of the hall is written in red, and the name of the main hall is written in black on the other side, which is dignified and generous, so as to avoid taking the wrong lantern after the dinner. The most interesting thing is the lantern named ye in Nanping County of Yi County, whose surname should be green to show the true color of "green leaf", while the hall name should be red to show the warm atmosphere.

Tobacco shop

Yihenri is a tobacco shop in Yuli street. Because of smoking in his early years, he used silver or copper water pipe in his family, and he carried a blunderbuss pole with copper head when he went out. All he smoked were cut tobacco. The brands he sold were leather, dezui, dingtiao and so on. The most common cut tobacco was black and thick, so people called it "balushu".

hotel

In order to meet the needs of people's festive banquets and daily drinks, there are several hotels in Beijie, among which Cheng minzhai's "Tai Hao" is the most famous. It has its own Zaofang brewing, which is not only retail, but also wholesale, making the wine fragrant all over the country.

Restaurant

There are several restaurants in North Street, the biggest of which are "Dehe garden" in the center of the street and "Qingpi pear" in Li street. Deheyuan is also a hotel. The buildings facing the street are equipped with a large row of glass windows, which is unique among the Hui style buildings with pink walls and dark tiles. Therefore, there are many new and curious customers. It was not only a place of delicacy and rich dishes, but also a place of enjoyment for some dignitaries at that time. "Qingpi pear" is known as "Qingpi pear" because the owner shaved his head, just like "Qingpi Sydney". After a long time, its original name and shop name have been forgotten by people, so it is called "Qingpi pear".

Chinese medicine shop

When people eat cereals, there are always seven disasters and eight diseases, so the drugstore is also indispensable. The famous traditional Chinese medicine shops in the North Street are Zifu (Zifu) opened by Yu Enguang, a native of the city, and Tongren he (Tongren he) opened by Yu Wenqing, a native of the city in the north gate section. In the counter, there are many drawers on the shelf, which are arranged in a wall. In addition to ginseng and velvet antler, there are some tree roots, grass leaves, snake skin, cicada shells and so on. In fact, they are all good medicines for curing diseases. According to the prescriptions, the partners compete with each other, and give the pagoda shaped medicine bags to the customers. The customers sincerely hope that they can take it home to the patients Use.

Handicraft workshop

There are many different kinds of handicraft workshops in the North Street of Yicheng. It's the Smith's shop that tinkles with the white iron to make the pot. It's the tin Smith's shop that melts tin to make the pot and oil lamp holder. It's the silversmith's shop that burns and casts all kinds of gold and silver jewelry with a large oil lamp wick. It's the carving and printing shop that carves stones into square seals. It's the tailor's shop that cuts and sews pieces of cloth into four seasons new clothes with flying needles.

Other stores

There are many other bean curd shops, pork shops, noodle shops, paint shops, watch shops, barber shops, photo shops and bamboo workshops.

North Street shop sign

All the shops and workshops in North Street have their own signboards, which are carved with red sandalwood, carved with stone, or written on the wall, or horizontal or straight, with different fonts and colors to show their own characteristics. In order to promote goods in kind, because people in Yi county pay attention to politeness, there are not many people calling at the door of the store, but there are many ingenious market makers. In addition to the general cloth market, many shops make special samples with this product, and exaggerate them to attract customers. For example, a large real brush is hung high in the pen shop, a leather nail boot is hung high in the shoe shop, a large wooden wine cup is hung high in the hotel, and the word "wine" is written on it. The photo studio displays several large masterpieces in the kitchen window near the street. In a word, all kinds of things constitute a special landscape of North Street.

North Street has been prosperous since ancient times

Although Gu Yi is a mountain city, it has a lot of tourists. On both sides of the North Street, there are two East-West streets and numerous crisscross alleys and alleys, whose residents account for more than half of the city; out of the north gate, from the three directions of East-West and North, there are numerous villages in the first, second, third, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth capitals of ancient she; Yuedong Wenling, Yangzhanling, Zhangling and fangjialing are adjacent to Xiuning, Shexian, Taiping and Shitai

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