The old street in Yuhuan is from Yuhuan Telecom Bureau to the west, with a narrow passage in the middle, which goes north to Xiqing Street via Xicheng Road. Yuhuan calls this section of the road Old Street.
As soon as you enter the old street, a strong flavor of the old days will come to you, which makes people feel that they have entered a dark oil painting. Only from some dilapidated courtyard walls and gatehouses can we vaguely see that this street was once brilliant. The high firewall, the upturned eaves, and the finely carved doors and windows are all very intriguing. If the small town is a history book, then the old street is the most exquisite chapter in the book, telling people the vicissitudes of the world and the changes of the times.
if you walk a few tens of meters, you will find streets three meters wide, mostly paved with smooth stones, from east to west and then to north. Shops with wide or narrow sides or modern or ancient shops are still open and business is booming. Some have demolished some old houses and turned them into pharmacies or barber shops, but most of them are snack bars, goldsmiths and small grocery stores. The people who look after the shops are usually old people, old women and middle-aged women, all smiles and attracting pedestrians. There are several time-honored shops, and the paint on the boards has fallen off, but it can still be seen from the traces left behind that this is Mihang and that is a drugstore. If you meet elderly people in the street, they will tell the story of the prosperity of the pharmacy of the Dong Shi brothers in that year. Every morning, the people in the old street are very busy, and several snack bars are always full of people in front of them. There are many varieties in the store, such as sweet glutinous rice balls and dumplings, fragrant baked wheat cakes and fried wheat, Huang Cancan oil
glutinous rice balls and fried dumplings, and the most distinctive and local flavor is Rufen Bao, also known as Shanfen Yuan. The skin of Ru powder bag is made by kneading cooked sweet potatoes and starch evenly, and a round hollow dough skin is produced by fingers. The bag is full of seasonings mixed with winter bamboo shoots, dish vegetables, dried bean curd, pork, onion celery, shrimp and eel, and the skin is thin and rich, which makes people greedy.
If you open the Ancient Records of Yuhuan, you will know that this old street has a poem called "Patrol Night" written by Xu Rong, a tongzhi in Qing Dynasty: "A few people wake up in the vast land and go to the octagonal pavilion with yellow flag alone. Cangzha bisects the bright moon boundary, and the north of the city holds the north wind screen high. Go into the clouds to guard against the cold and scare the geese, and go out of the trees to fish the lights and mix the stars. I can also tolerate Ningyue, so I might as well warm the classics. " I knew that this street was originally called Huangqi Street, which was in front of Yuhuan Hall. Since 1964, the people's government has successively demolished the old street in front of the county government and widened the road surface by 13 meters, which has become the present appearance. Xiqing Street was outside Yongqing Gate in ancient times, which was the place where residents gathered in the market at that time. There is a poem written by Lu Yushu, a Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty: "The doors of Qingxiaocheng are open, and the fresh sellers take advantage of the tide. Yellow croaker and white fish, together with shrimp and crab, have exchanged firewood and Sue. " You can see the prosperity of the past. Now at the corner of the old street, vendors are consciously lined up beside the street to facilitate residents and attract customers, and their business is booming and bustling.
As time goes by, the mottled old houses and rich local flavor in the old street always exude ancient charm.
The old street in Yuhuan is not well protected. It can be said that it has not been protected at all. Today, only these dilapidated old houses in twos and threes prove that it once existed. I believe it was once brilliant, but now it has lost the dignity, elegance and patchwork of Luqiao Old Street and Wenzhou Old Street. Suddenly, I feel that the local government and people are somewhat saddened by the trampling of history.
Although the old street has experienced many vicissitudes, it has not got rid of its daily life. There will always be corners that you can't understand, but it calls you to interpret its decline and glory because of its heavy history. The knocking sound from the blacksmith shop spreads far and wide in the silent old street, as if you can hear the call of vicissitudes of history.
after a hundred years of prosperity, the excitement is over, the family changes, and the fate rises and falls. It is tied to this old house and written in the old street.
Leave gently, just like coming gently, taking away the image of the old street and leaving sincere feelings.