Village Collection | Hometown Series No. 2 / Yu Changcheng 1 One of the aspects of Chinese language aesthetics is the large number of vivid adverbs.

We say that articles should be written vividly, and many adverbs themselves are vivid, such as hurry, hurry, hurry. There is a word "hurry" in the adverbs, and this word "hurry" is a verb.

Among the verbs composed of the word "hurry", the most common ones include "hurrying", "driving a car", "driving horses, cattle and sheep", "going to the market", "going to the temple fair", "going to the exam", "going to the mountains and the sea", etc. When I was a child, I was most familiar with "going to the market".

Going to the market is also called going to the market or going to the market in some places in southern China. Both the market and the market have the meaning of the market.

Anyone who has traveled to Guilin and rafted on the Li River must know that there is a Daxu (ancient writing market) wharf, which is next to Daxu Ancient Market; Daxu is Daji, and later developed into Daxu Ancient Town.

Temple fairs in ancient times were also markets, so they were called temple fairs.

The temple fair is not like the market all year round, but only once a year, but it is large-scale and later evolved into an agricultural and business exchange meeting.

In the 1980s, commodity exchange meetings expanded and were no longer limited to temples, but moved to the edge of the city or even in the city. Commodity exchange meetings were held every year in rural markets.

I was lucky enough to be born in an era, but after all, I have no memory of the village fair in the late 1970s, or my memory is not very deep.

One is that my memory was shallow at that time, and the other is that the market in the 1970s was relatively boring.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, private commerce was not allowed. The main body of rural markets was supply and marketing cooperatives. Although the markets still existed, they mainly sold vegetables, fruits, snacks and breakfast.

The 1980s and 1990s were an unprecedented period of prosperity for markets. Markets of all sizes were flooded, with many fruit and vegetable markets or commercial streets popping up in cities, and many facades also being built in rural markets.

But the good times did not last long. As a large number of people from rural areas, especially young people, moved into cities, village markets gradually became useless, as if they had returned to the depressed scene of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

My memories of village fairs include the late 1970s and the entire 1980s.

I left my hometown in the autumn of 1990. I only returned to my hometown during the winter vacation of 1990 and the summer and winter vacation of 1991, and saw the final prosperity and prosperity of the village market.

2 Among all the natural villages, I think the best one is my mountain village. It has shallow mountains, streams, large ponds, deep wells, ancient trees, old houses, and most importantly, an ancient market.

A shallow mountain is good, it is better to climb up, and it is better to go deep; a small stream is good, so you don’t have to worry about crossing the river; a big pond is good, in addition to the scenery, there are also big fish in a big pond; a deep well is good, because the well is deep and the spring is cool.

; The trees are old and good, as ancient trees are like sacred trees, which can protect the villagers; the houses are old and good, century-old houses contain ancient traditions and gather the spirits of ancestors.

The market is a platform for the village to communicate with the outside world and to obtain daily necessities.

Although every village goes to the market, only a few villages are close to the market. My mountain village is one of the very few villages close to the market.

The reason why it is called going to the market is because most villages are far away from the market, and life is busy and heavy, so you need to rush.

The village market is mostly a dew market, and if there is a slight delay, we will be unable to catch up. Before ten o'clock, the market has completely dispersed and the dew has dried.

For our village, which is close to the village market, although it is also called going to the market, the pace is slow and leisurely, and there is no need to rush.

Only when I go to a rural market farther away will I sometimes be in a hurry and count the time.

Generally speaking, village fairs are relatively rare and can be described as few and far between.

Ancient villages generally existed in Bao. Ancient Bao was like a modern village, but its area was as large as a modern township.

Ancient li and bao, after the modern division into towns and townships, ancient jis generally became the current town jis and township jis, and only a few Baoji jis became village jijis.

However, the initial formation process of the market was mostly due to the natural formation of population settlement. Only when there is a market, there are streets. Many towns, towns and even cities were developed from ancient markets.

There are two factors in the formation of the ancient market. One is that it can bring together a large number of people from the surrounding areas, and the other is that logistics and transportation are convenient.

In ancient times, people and goods flowed either by land or by water.

Most people travel by land, because walking is free, there are often inns along the road, and there are many shops and shops along the road; bulk freight mostly travels by water, and ships carry a heavier weight than cars.

People usually call the main roads with post stations, passes or checkpoints official roads. The residences of Li and Bao are mostly located on the official roads, and the post stations are also mostly located in the residences of Li and Bao. Therefore, in the post stations or the residences of Li and Bao,

A market was formed.

For a market that can continue to grow, in addition to the official road, there is usually a waterway port that can be navigated. It is difficult for a market with only land routes to develop and form a large scale, and it is also difficult to develop into a large town.

Where there is a river, there are banks, and where there are rivers there are residents. Pedestrian roads will naturally form along the banks. This kind of road along the river can also be opened into a road, allowing waterways and land roads to develop in parallel.

After a large market street takes shape, there are many merchants. In order to prevent bandits and soldiers, walls and gates will even be built to form a fortress.

In these larger market streets and villages, at least one side is surrounded by rivers, and some are even close to mountains and rivers. A more complete defense is to build a moat-like river protection - some of the rivers themselves are natural ditches.

There are three main official roads that passed through Guangshan County from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty. The two Guanghuang Ancient Roads in the Tang and Song Dynasties mainly followed the Bailu River, a tributary of the Huaihe River, to the Jianghuai watershed, and the Guanghuang Ancient Road in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Huanggu Road mainly follows the Huanghe River branch of the Huaihe River to the Jianghuai watershed.