Jianghu flavor from "hitting the dock"

"March 3rd, September 9th, nothing to do, don't go to the river" is the most Jianghu-flavored Wuhan folk song I have ever heard.

This is what an old man in Hanzheng Street told me.

I'm interested in this. Then, the cultural square of Hankou Jiangtan Wharf starts.

Hankou Jiangtan Wharf Cultural Square is located at the entrance of Cai E Road, which is in the gate of Yuehan Wharf opposite Howard Johnson Pearl Hotel. There are reliefs and bronze statues in it. This place is the Wharf Cultural Square. The rise of Wuhan is inseparable from the dock, and a large part of Wuhan's culture comes from the dock.

Wuhan rises from water and thrives on it. The unique natural environment and humanistic environment have created the cultural spirit and character of Wuhan Wharf. The most intuitive thing about the pier cultural square is that the bronze statues are lifelike.

# foreigner #

# artist #

# coachman #

# porter #

# dockworker #

# Mr. Accountant #

# Broad and spacious #

The pier cultural square condenses the development of Wuhan for thousands of years.

The word "Great Wuhan", which is talked about by every Wuhan population, must have been so prosperous at that time. I can't help looking up ancient books and reviewing and reflecting on history. At present, the words "breaking into the dock and hitting the dock" are extremely strange to us. But I think that in the past few hundred years, the pier here must have staged a clique every day, and blood shed has become a river and lake of its own.

In Hankou Zhuzhi Ci, it is described that "there are dozens of miles of people, and there are thousands of Jia families", "Stone fills the street and soil fills the slope, and Ba Wharf faces the river", "The city is noisy and smoky in the daytime" and "Ten miles of sails sail around the city, and thousands of lights are on all night". I think gangs, merchants, porters, chambers of commerce, guilds, foreigners, wealthy young people, accountants, workers and so on from all over the country gather here. They talked and laughed shirtless, smoked, drank tea and did business. By the way, there may be ladies who hurried by in cheongsam, lovers who left, gentlemen carrying suitcases, and vendors who shouted, as performed on the bosom friend. I think this is the "beating the dock" among the old population!

the rise of Hankou & The inscription on the thoroughfare of nine provinces says: During the Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (1465-1487), Hankou, which was originally a swamp, was silted up into a new trade port city, which was "Zeguozhou became the city and started from the bamboo house". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war once turned Hankou into ruins, but after 21 or 31 years, it quickly recovered and became a port that never sleeps. Inscription: During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1662-1722), the Qing court designated Hankou as the distribution port of Huai salt in the two lakes region, which made it known as "the place where the salt business is the best in the world" and "the place where Kyushu department stores prepare collections". During the Qianlong period (1736-1795), Hankou has developed into the heyday of "dozens of people, thousands of households, dozens of shops, tens of millions of ships, and all the famous towns in Jiuzhou have concessions", and it is known as "the thoroughfare of nine provinces".

The inscription in Wuchang says: Around 1838, it became a common practice for dignitaries and ordinary people in Wuhan to smoke opium. At that time, Governor Lin Zexu of Huguang, who took office in Wuchang, made an angry case, drew up a proposal to fold the regulations on banning opium, and immediately established a local law in Han to ban smoking, which achieved remarkable results and set a precedent for the nationwide anti-smoking movement.

The inscription on the opening of Hankou for trade says: In 1863, before and after the official opening of Hankou for trade, hundreds of merchants from more than ten countries of western powers came one after another, successively dividing up urban land, delineating concessions, opening foreign firms, factories and banks, and building docks, repairing warehouses and sailing routes in the Yangtze River waters and land, so as to control the Wuhan market and plunder resources from the mainland, making Wuhan Port suddenly a semi-colonial port.

The inscription on the rise of modern industry says: In 1889, after Zhang Zhidong was transferred to the governor of Huguang, he set up a number of modern military and civilian industries in Wuhan: Hanyang Iron Works and Hubei Gun Works. The establishment of four bureaus of weaving, spinning, reeling and hemp making, and the preparation of railways, the promotion of postal services and the development of telecommunications laid the foundation for the formation of Wuhan's industrial modernization characteristics.

The Yangtze River roared in the inscription: On October 3rd, 1927, to celebrate the victory of the Northern Expedition, people from all walks of life in Hankou gathered near Jianghan Pass, which was suppressed by British imperialist sailors. One seaman was killed on the spot, one member of the dock trade union was seriously injured, and more than 31 participants were injured. On the 5th, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life in Wuhan demonstrated in yanjiang road in the rain, recovering the British Concession in one fell swoop. ?

Throughout the ages, I am deeply in awe of these "gold diggers" in Wuhan for their daring, enterprising, tolerant and open-minded spirit. No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter how old or young you are, as long as you dare to work hard, I believe you will be able to get ahead and settle down in this "Jianghu" of Wuhan.

After the reform and opening-up, with the rapid development of land transportation and air transportation, terminal transportation gradually withdrew from the historical stage. Some people say that Wuhan pier culture is too angry, Wuhan dialect is rude, and there is a kind of ruthless spirit in the rivers and lakes. In today's cultural diversity, some people are thinking about inheriting or forgetting this Jingchu culture. The economic culture of Wuhan Wharf has come to an end, waiting for us to be a modern economic system with high quality and rapid development. If our predecessors dare to shed blood, our generation should also strive for self-improvement. The rivers and lakes in the wharf no longer exist, but the spirit of "beating the wharf" will lead our youth to revive "Great Wuhan".