However, the former Nantai was once brilliant. From here, not only university professors and scholars have emerged, but also businessmen and celebrities who have stayed in Pingliang for half a century, as well as many political figures.
? However, Pingliang, a once prosperous place, has gradually degenerated into a lonely and helpless face in historical circumstances and changes of the times, and has become synonymous with "disorder" in people's mouths. ...
This life: the desire for sound on the southern stage
For those who come to Nantai for the first time, it seems that it is not as bad as others say. Compared with the architectural planning style of other places in Pingliang, Nantai is shaped by the ground, with four main roads and 25 forks, winding back and forth on 387,000 square meters of land, making people who set foot in it for the first time feel like they are in a maze.
? However, it is gratifying that the environmental sanitation here is still clean and tidy thanks to the special governance action of "no garbage in the whole region" by government agencies.
Nantai is a pure Hui community. At present, there are 550 farmers and 280 farmers living here, and there are more than 300 migratory birds from the north and south tablelands or other places, with a population of nearly 4,000.
Nantai people are very particular about the living environment. Every family is a big yard, so we pursue the trees, flowers and grass in the yard. Nowadays, although most Nantai people's courtyards have been replaced by small foreign buildings that have sprung up, the habit of planting flowers and grass has been inherited. Walking in the roadway, all kinds of green plants and flowers are scattered on the balconies on both sides of the road, adding a bit of vitality and beautiful artistic conception to this "isolated" place.
? Xiao Ni, who works in a furniture city in the city, rents in a resident's home in Nantai East Lane. This girl, who is just in her early twenties, doesn't understand the outside world's evaluation of Nantai and may ignore such rhetoric. She lives in this city, and she is content to have a place to live.
Like Xiao Ni, a large number of migrant workers and college graduates who have just left school to enter the workplace will also choose to temporarily settle in this place called "village in the city" for economic reasons. During the rush hour every day, we can always see young men and women dressed in fashionable clothes coming out of the deep alley, taking a hasty step, occasionally buying a bottle of water at the canteen in the slope and some steamed buns at the steamed bun shop next door.
"The rent is cheaper, the transportation is more convenient, and the landlord is also very real. My room is warm in winter and cool in summer. I have lived here for more than two years and don't want to move elsewhere. " The thought of being only one step away from the core area of Pingliang, and the neon lights projected by high-rise buildings not far away can still shine on his bedside, will dispel the loss and sadness of many "strangers" in Xiao Ni's heart. Speaking of Pingliang's boyfriend buying a building in the city in the future, Xiao Ni's shy eyes flashed a trace of longing and longing.
? Outsiders regard Nantai as a temporary foothold. When the time is right, they will eventually leave, integrate into the "mainstream society" in the central city and enjoy the modern urban life in Pingliang. Then, what about the indigenous inhabitants living in Nantai?
? In a canteen, I want to talk to the proprietress by buying water. However, her vigilance and caution against strangers forced people to leave. However, at the moment when the reporter turned away, the proprietress politely said, "Then take care!"
? "Anyone who has the ability to move out has bought a building in the city." Ma, secretary of the Party branch of Nanhe Community in Kongtong District, as the first-level government worker closest to Nantai residents, knows the thoughts of Nantai people too well.
? "It is said that Nantai people are rude, poor in quality and against the government. This is as difficult as working for employees. But last year, we carried out demolition, and more than 20 households were demolished in January. What does this mean? " Ma Zhengxue asks.
? He believes that Nantai people are eager to integrate into this land under their noses, and many households are asking about the government's demolition policy. However, with the two construction climaxes of Nantai (1992 and 20 10), the cost of planned demolition has been rising continuously, so that Nantai was forgotten in that highland on the construction drawing of the city's "moving northward and expanding eastward", which made it feel sad alone. However, the resentment, resentment and resistance of Nantai people are not only due to the gap between "ideal and reality", but also due to various speculations and prejudices of the outside world about this "village in the city".
Past life: the prosperity of longshanggan wharf
Walking into the highland behind this prosperity is like walking into the memory of Pingliang City, which makes people feel like a lifetime ago.
? There are small foreign buildings full of modern flavor, brick walls made of red bricks in the last century, and mottled low wooden doors.
? These elements are mixed together, and people always imagine that it used to be a bustling scene when they walk.
? "I was walking in an extremely quiet place, but suddenly I could hear the tapping of cast iron, the hawking of vendors, and the frolicking of children. A magnificent scene of the dry dock on the dragon appears in front of people's eyes, minds and hearts like a mirage. " Wu Tian, a new citizen of Pingliang, loves traveling and is keen to understand and discover local culture. This is the feeling of her first visit to Nantai.
? In the eyes of many old Pingliang people, the entire Nanhe River headed by Nantai is the birthplace of Pingliang City. This "small place" starts from Xinmin South Road in the east, reaches Zhifanggou in the west, adjoins Nanhuan Middle Road in the north and reaches Nanshan Root in the south. It was once the bustling place of Pingliang City and the most active mountain products trading market in Longdong.
? According to relevant historical records, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a large number of refugees from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan settled in Pingliang with their families. By virtue of his skillful craftsmanship. Such as tanning technology and pottery making technology. , living on the bank of Zhifanggou River. Using the rich river water resources of Zhifanggou, pulp and paper making, leather making, wine making and pottery making have formed a large number of small workshops and commodity distribution centers for paper making, cast iron, knitting, wool spinning, wine making and leather making along the Zhifanggou in Nanhe area.
After liberation, these small workshops were transformed by public-private partnership, forming later cooperative enterprises such as handling company, bamboo and hemp rope company, and then developing into a large number of collective enterprises such as Pingliang paper mill, fur processing factory, linoleum factory, aluminum product factory, machinery foundry and non-staple food factory.
Nantai has trained a large number of useful talents for Pingliang and the country. Wang Zhenggui, a senior designer of Airbus, Ma Jianguo, a doctoral supervisor and a professor of Gansu Agricultural University, and many other famous people have lived in Nantai.
? According to Ma Wei, a businessman from Nantai, after the reform and opening up, the first batch of "ten thousand households" in Pingliang were all from Nantai. Nantai people sell stuffing skins in Beijing, which was also published in People's Daily. Bai Min Tower and Jinlong Commercial Building are commercial buildings funded by Nantai people, which were once landmark buildings in Pingliang City. Pingliang's famous black Xi stuffed skin, Ding Yi hot pot, Jixiang Zhai hot pot, Zhande beef noodles, Ding Xiaolong roast chicken, Ding Shijie beef, Changfeng flour, etc. Are all the famous foods in Longshang created by Nantai people?
? In the minds of Nantai people, the commercial center of Pingliang City was born out of Nantai, which laid the foundation for the development of Pingliang and contributed to the formation of Pingliang's prosperous commercial district.
? Today, Nantai still stands on the side of the core business district in the central city, and can step into the bustling world with one lift. However, this irregular and inconspicuous quadrilateral earth platform on the satellite cloud image has been marginalized into an "independent kingdom" in the times.
? People living in this "kingdom" think that they can overlook Pingliang City at any time, but in fact they envy the life in the city. People living outside the kingdom feel that this is a "foreign land" and generally don't go out or stay easily.
? From this point of view, the prosperity of Nantai in the past is only self-talk, and the prejudice and misunderstanding of the outside world are the annotations to its present appearance.
Future: Can Nantai regain its glory?
"Nantai is now the most complicated social situation in Kongtong District, and it is also the knot of Pingliang people." Ma commented on Nantai in this way, and at the same time regretted that Nantai has now fallen into a trough.
? Ma Jian, a young man from Pingliang, lives in Nantai. Every time he goes to his uncle's house, he always eats and drinks as little as possible to avoid going there to go to the toilet. He said, who wants to go that far? It is convenient to go to the dirty and smelly dry toilet.
? As new and old Nantai people, they hope to live in high-rise buildings and live a clean life in the ever-changing construction speed of the city. They hope that in the process of tearing down the old and building a new city, they can become the envy of everyone overnight, like Liu Huren and Jingtan people. But reality seems to have played a joke on them. These "good things" always bypass their own high platform and choose a flat place.
? Flatness not only refers to the flatness of the terrain, but also refers to the difficulty of implementing the demolition policy.
? When it comes to Nantai today, many people think that "this place is not easy to tear down!"
? Nantai people also feel very wronged. "When I was in Gai Lou, I also spent hundreds of thousands of yuan. Now I'll let it go. I can't tear it down in vain! "
? It is precisely because of the high cost of demolition that the government and developers can only temporarily "forget" Nantai for the benefit.
? Dismantle or not? should i stay or should i go？ These are two problems that often haunt the minds of Nantai people.
? Young people in Nantai are eager to change their living environment through demolition, even if they move away from the place where they have lived for generations. Because what Nantai left them was cramped, messy and inconvenient. At the same time, they do have a beautiful dream, hoping to change the inherent appearance of Nantai through demolition and have a glamorous image of "tearing down the second generation" in exchange for the treatment of others.
? But for those old Nantai people, they are a little reluctant to part with Nantai's homeland and miss the sincere friendship of the neighbors. Take the land that others can't stand as their spiritual home, hoping to keep it or stick to it forever.
? Many people who come out of Nantai think that Nantai is a living fossil of Pingliang's historical development and it is best to preserve it in the form of a history museum. Collect the historical and cultural monuments in Nantai, Nanhe and Zhifanggou basins, inherit the traditional handicraft technology that was once brilliant and now will be lost, connect the memories of generations of Nantai people, and seal it in the museum.
A cultural scholar who came out of Nantai once said that in a sense, with Nantai, there are foreigners. These outsiders are actually Pingliang people now. Their integration changed Pingliang from Pingliang in the past to Pingliang in the present sense, which promoted this exchange. Some people's suggestions on building the Nantai Museum coincide with this scholar's ideas.
In Ma's view, Nantai is a special existence. Zhao Shichun, a scholar of Pingliang University in Ming Dynasty, once lived in Nanhe. Zhifanggou Valley was once the most prosperous place for commodity trade in history, and it was a veritable dry dock in Longshang. It will be very valuable and meaningful to combine the related history, culture and cultural relics to build a museum, and he himself intends to declare it to the higher authorities.
? Some citizens who care about urban development suggest retaining the original ecological form of Nantai, and residents choose to stay or voluntarily stay. Those who stay will participate in the operation of tourism planning projects through prescribed forms, and those who move out will be given compensation and subsidies. In the case of preserving the original appearance as much as possible, reproduce the prosperity of the dry dock in Longshang.
? "Because there are indigenous people, we can rely on these people to run some handicraft workshops, let tourists know about the past production technologies such as cast iron, paper making and pottery making, and even let tourists participate in the experience in person. You can also process and operate traditional halal foods to attract tourists to taste the most authentic halal snacks. " Wu Tian said excitedly, "I can't say that someone came here to open a B&B inn, so we have another tourist attraction in Pingliang, such as yuanjiacun and Zeng Cuo An Village Village, which can be recommended to friends.