? However, the once prosperous place in Pingliang City has gradually degenerated into a lonely and helpless face in the historical situation and changes of the times, and it has become synonymous with "messy" in people's mouths ...
This life: the desire for sound on the south stage
For people 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 lanes and twenty-five bifurcated lanes, winding back and forth on 387,111 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 thanks to the special governance action of "no garbage in the whole region" by government agencies, the environmental sanitation here is still clean and tidy. Nantai is a pure Hui community. At present, there are 551 households and 281 farmers living here, and there are more than 311 migratory birds from the North and South tablelands or other places, with a population of nearly 4,111. Nantai people are very particular about the living environment. Every family is a big yard, so they pursue trees, flowers and grass in the yard. Nowadays, although most of Nantai people's courtyards have been replaced by small buildings that have sprung up, the habit of growing flowers and grass has been inherited.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 life and beautiful artistic conception to this "world-independent" place.
? Xiao Ni, who works in a furniture city in the city, rented 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 will be satisfied with a place where she can live. Like Xiao Ni, a large number of migrant workers and college graduates who have just left school and entered the workplace will choose to temporarily settle in this place called "village in the city" for economic reasons. During the rush hour every day, you can always see young men and women in fashionable clothes walking out of the deep alley, walking at a hurried pace, and occasionally buying a bottle of water at the canteen in Pokou and a few steamed buns in the steamed bun shop next door. "The rent is relatively cheap, the transportation is relatively 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 from the high-rise building not far away can still shine on his bedside, will dispel a lot of the loss and sadness of "strangers" in Xiao Ni's heart. Speaking of Pingliang's boyfriend will buy a building in the city in the future, Xiao Ni's shy eyes flashed a trace of longing and desire.
? Foreigners regard Nantai as a temporary foothold, and 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 residents living in Nantai?
? In a canteen, I wanted to talk to the proprietress by buying water. However, her vigilance and caution in the face of 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 Zhengxue, 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 and of poor quality, and they are against the government. It is as difficult as going to work for the staff. But last year we carried out demolition, and more than 21 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 eyes, and many households are asking about the government's demolition policy. However, with the two building climaxes of Nantai in 1992 and 2111, the cost of planning and demolition continued to rise, so that Nantai was forgotten in that highland on the construction drawings of the city's "moving north and expanding east", which made it feel sad alone. However, the resentment, resentment and resistance of Nantai people are not only caused by the gap between "ideal and reality", but also by various speculations and prejudices of the outside world about this "village in the city".
Past life: the prosperity of Longshang dry dock
Walking into this highland behind the downtown area 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 built with red bricks in the last century, and mottled low wooden doors.
? These elements are mixed together, and people will always imagine that there was a bustling scene here when they walked.
? "Obviously, I am walking in an extremely quiet place, but I can suddenly hear the beating of cast iron, the selling of vendors, and the frolicking of children. A magnificent scene of the dry dock on Longshang appears like a mirage in front of people's eyes, mind and heart." Wu Tian, a new citizen of Pingliang, loves traveling and is keen to understand and discover local culture. This is how she described her feelings when she first went to Nantai.
? In the eyes of many old Pingliang people, the entire South River headed by Nantai is the birthplace of Pingliang City. This "tiny place" starts from Xinmin South Road in the east, reaches Zhifanggou in the west, adjoins Nanhuan Middle Road in the north and Nanshan Root in the south. It was once a prosperous place in Pingliang City and the most active mountain products trading market in Longdong.
? According to relevant historical records, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of refugees from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan settled in Pingliang with their families and families. With their own skilled hand-made skills. Such as tanning technology, pottery making technology, etc., live on the bank of Zhifanggou River. Using the abundant river water resources of Zhifanggou, pulp and paper, tanning, wine making and pottery making have formed a large number of small workshops and commodity distribution centers such as paper making, iron casting, knitting, wool spinning, wine making and leather making along Zhifanggou River in the south river area.
after liberation, these small workshops were transformed by public-private partnership, forming 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, mechanical 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 currently working for Airbus, and Ma Jianguo, a doctoral supervisor and 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 "ten thousand households" in Pingliang were Nantai people. Nantai people sell stuffed skin in Beijing, and they have also been published in People's Daily. Minbai Building and Jinlong Commercial Building are commercial buildings funded by Nantai people, which were once landmark buildings in Pingliang City. Pingliang's famous Hei Xi Wa Niang Pi, Yiding Hot Pot, Jixiangzhai Hot Pot, Zhande Beef Noodles, Ding Xiaolong Roast Chicken, Ding Shijie Beef, Changfeng Flour, etc. are all famous brands of food 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 Pingliang's development and contributed to the formation of Pingliang's prosperous business district.
? Today, Nantai still stands on the side of the core business district in the central city, and you can step into the bustling world with a lift of your feet. However, this irregular and unremarkable quadrilateral earth platform on the satellite cloud image was marginalized into an "independent kingdom" in the times.
? People who live in this "kingdom" think that they can overlook Pingliang City at any time, but in fact they envy the life in the city. People who live outside the kingdom feel that this is a "foreign land", and generally they will never go out or stay easily.
? In this way, 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 current appearance.
Future: Can Nantai regain its glory
"Nantai is now the most complicated area in Kongtong District, and it is also a knot for Pingliang people." Ma Zhengxue commented on Nantai in this way, and at the same time he 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 tries to eat and drink as little as possible, so as not to go to the toilet there. He said, who wants to go that far? It's 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, just like Liuhu and Jingtan people. But the reality seems to have played a joke on them. These "good things" always bypass their high platform and choose flat places.
? Flatness not only refers to the flatness of topography, but also refers to the difficulty of implementing the demolition policy.
? Today, when it comes to Nantai, 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 can't let it be demolished for nothing!"
? It is precisely because of the high cost of demolition that the government and developers can only temporarily "forget" Nantai for the sake of interests.
? Dismantle or not? should i stay or should i go？ These are two problems that often haunt the hearts of Nantai people.
? Young people in Nantai are eager to change their living environment through demolition, even if they move out of places 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 features of Nantai through demolition, and have a glamorous image of "dismantling the second generation" in exchange for others' treatment.
? But for those old Nantai people, they are a little reluctant to part with the homeland of Nantai and miss the sincere friendship between neighbors and clan relatives. Think of the unbearable land in others' eyes as your spiritual home, hoping to keep it or stick to it forever.
? Many people who came 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 of Nantai, Nanhe River and Zhifanggou Valley, pass on the traditional handicraft technology that was once brilliant for a while and is about to be lost now, 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 were foreigners. These foreigners are actually Pingliang people now. Their integration has made Pingliang from Pingliang in the past to Pingliang in the present sense, which has promoted this exchange. And some people's suggestions of building Nantai Museum coincide with this scholar's idea. In Ma Zhengxue's view, Nantai is a special existence. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Shichun, a great scholar in Pingliang, once lived in Nanhe River. Zhifanggou Valley was once the most prosperous place of commodity trade in history, and it was a veritable dry dock on Longshang. It will be a very valuable and meaningful thing to build a museum by combining the history, culture and relics related to this, and he himself intends to report to the higher authorities for it.
? Some citizens who care about urban development suggest that Nantai be preserved in its original ecological form, and residents choose to stay or stay voluntarily. Those who stay will participate in the operation of tourism planning projects through prescribed forms, and those who move out will be given compensation subsidies. In the case of preserving the original appearance as much as possible, it will reproduce the prosperity of the dry dock in Longshang.
? "Because there are indigenous people, you can rely on these people to run some handicraft workshops, let visitors know about the past production technologies such as cast iron, paper making and pottery making, and even allow visitors to 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, "It can't be said that anyone has come here to open a homestay inn, so we will have another tourist attraction in Pingliang, such as yuanjiacun and Zeng Cuo An Village, which can be recommended to our friends.