Everyone says that there are rivers and lakes, but I think there are people who buy and sell.
Before the birth of the city, people were still in the ancient times of barter, the market had been born, so there was the flow of people, and then the city. So, in every city, every village and village, there are several old streets, once people come and go, once a guest like clouds.
With the vicissitudes of years, some old streets have been lost in the trend of historical development, and no trace has been found. Although some old streets still exist, there is no day's glory. The city is a person, have character, have thought. Alley, alley, alley, market, northern tea, southern snack, these familiar elements, all buried a city or deep or fresh humanistic thought. And mountain in chongqing, this element is a yellowish carved window lattice, are cornices spotlighting the diaojiao building, is through the cold fire seal, beef noodles Lou home, keeping Hou Shi, liujia steamed stuffed bun, DE gruyter roast duck...
When I was in the Dragon Boat Festival on the green flag road west street, a few hundred meters long alley, a horizontal, vertical, in the light of light and shade adjustable had rowed under the old street of the spine, one hundred, lets a person as if place oneself in the historical roots, mysterious and wonderful. In the past, the wooden frame house and the old house have been the only memorial in the cloud years.
Old street of the old people told me that the west street in previous call "old market", the plum river, is the hub of mountain old county, and almost every doing small business, tailor shops, department stores, groceries store, steamed stuffed bun shops, pastry shop, shop, shop, pastries, and finally, haircut shop, restaurant, teahouse, taverns, snacks, oil mill, dyeing, bean curd with square, inns, etc, it may be said "the sparrow is small, all-sided".
However, with the development of the city, the old street is gradually broken and old, and the sunny day is full of smell, and the mud in the rain is the reason why it has gradually been rejected, and the west street is becoming more and more lonely. To rebuild broken architecture in 2013, have uncovered west street history, XiuShan County based on the principle of repairing old unchanged, under the condition of not out of the original residents comprehensive reform, implementing integrated pipeline fields, rain sewage diversion, housing style, even going to rehabilitation of the queen of heaven, gossip well already gone so old buildings...
Today, the ancient road block "a vertical and four horizontal", such as "width alley", each residential building style each different, carpenters and craftsmen, reduction of construction by professional antique unit, the people to go shopping, you can see the clothes shop, old bar, such as traditional revetment, can drink oil-tea soil around the fire on the shop chat, get handmade cloth shoes of his home.
Evening of banquet, is a feast to the great momentums, dozens of meters long banquet lined up in the old street, look seem to extend to the end of the street, when a bowl of bowl of home-made food on the table, you a toast after long drinks, soil bowl on the streets of the green flag, the sellout coarse porcelain upsurge of bursting is really acoustic shock houses, inspiring...
Old street residents more than seventy - year - old uncle Chen said, watching the street more than hundred meters long, wide but a post, the small streets, how wide it was mountain first street, it is no exaggeration to say, the old street is the epitome of mountain development!
Not without reasons, I think, the old neighborhood everyone had such a feeling: web scattered old streets, the most let you me not forget for a moment, in addition to spread in the sight of long infinite extension of feeling, more concentrated the bigotry of the narrow world, filled with earthly fireworks and strong taste of human feelings that must not turn, no matter what the slight chance, here will become the ordinary day seasonings, become a conversation at the dinner table with relish.