Wide alley and narrow alley are two parallel alleys, bounded by a row of houses. They are the former site of old Chengdu and one of the many streets where Manchu people lived in Chengdu in Qing Dynasty.
It is very quiet and quaint here. Although the alley is not very long, it is difficult to erase its imprint from the bottom of my heart once I have been there. They lie here, quietly telling the leisurely and elegant life charm of Chengdu people for hundreds of years.
The origin of the wide alley and the narrow alley: "In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi (17 18), Junggar disturbed Tibet. After the Qing court sent 3000 officers and men to put down the rebellion, it chose 1000 soldiers to stay in Chengdu forever, and the whole city was built, which is a small city. The Qing system was strict, and all Manchu and Mongolian officers and men were not allowed to leave Shaocheng to get their hands on commercial transactions without permission. In the spring and autumn, he lived in Shaocheng Park (now People's Park) by year, and he made outstanding achievements and received imperial grain.
Although the level of the house owner is different, the height of the roof and the width of the door are also different. However, the water in every yard is rippling, the well water is sweet and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. There are several well-preserved mansion doors in the narrow alley. From the pegs embedded in red sandstone on both sides of the mansion door, we can see that the old owner has a busy business. Notice that there is hay on the wall of several short houses. You will find an arched door open on the wall. Now it has been sealed, and at first glance it looks like a stone tablet. The old man told me that this is the side door of the house door, which is specially used for people who clean manure.
After the prosperous period of Kanggan, the situation of the country declined, which led to the decline of the children of the Eight Banners who only knew martial arts and sparrows. Zhao Erfeng, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, then handed over power. Yu Youren, Yang Sen, Liu and other military commanders have successively settled here, and Chiang Kai-shek once lived here. You can imagine how many political decisions and secret messages are sent from here.
A typical northern quadrangle has walls on three sides and three doors. Its two doors are only open on holidays. Usually only take the screen doors on both sides. The house is divided into upper, middle and lower rooms, which were built in the Republic of China, and the traces of the house in the pre-Qing period can no longer be distinguished. In the storm, there were only two alleys left in Shaocheng, one wide and one narrow. "
Kuanzhai Lane has a history of nearly 300 years, so I look at these old houses with great respect. The quadrangles here are full of life; In some hospitals, three or five old people get together and play mahjong around a table, which is Chengdu people's favorite leisure activity. In some yards, people in twos and threes are drinking tea and chatting; In the yard, several people gathered around the only baby in the family to listen to her singing and dancing. ...
That year, Yue Ming came, and I recommended him to Xiaoguan Garden at No.40 Kuanxiang. Pushing open the quaint, red square wooden door of Xiaoguan Garden, a small courtyard with garden-style architecture came into view.