Do you still remember the appearance of Gulou Street in the old city?

Author: Editor: Lao Hey, Picture: Network, Published: Xuanniao Culture Forum.

In the early morning in Ji Chun, the breeze was still slightly cool, and I strolled along Gulou East Street in the old city. Looking at the dilapidated house for many years, it has been decorated. Although it is not as old as it used to be, it does not lose the style of Loudong Old Street. The two-story building in Lunan stands tall; The tile houses in the north of the road are patchwork. This well-informed building group magically defeated Chen Meng in my mind.

Before liberation, Gulou East was an old street with heavy commercial culture. At the easternmost end of the street is the ancient imperial examination hall, which became the earliest school in Anyang after its rise. It was a complete primary school before liberation. In the quiet campus, the ground is covered with blue stones, and several ancient trees cover the classrooms in the east and west corridors. From time to time there was a loud sound of reading. Unforgettable south playground, every morning, the gourmet breakfast arranged by vendors makes people salivate. Our underground party has been working in secret here for a long time, which has given birth to many revolutionary kindling.

Go out of the small door to the northwest, which is Anyang City God Temple. However, at that time, the Chenghuang Temple was no longer a simple temple, but an important commercial center in Anyang, known as the "shopping mall" (Xinhua Market after liberation). The shopping center faces Lu Shen Street, and the gate is located at the bottom of a two-story building. There are shops in the middle of the upper and lower floors of the building, and there are passages in and out of the Chenghuangmiao shopping mall on both sides. Shopping malls, satin, clothing, shoes and hats, needles and needles made in Beijing, western pharmacies, photo studios, dental clinics, restaurants and shops are doing very well. From the east passage to the north, through the downstairs of a hotel, a big teahouse and storytelling academy came into view. Without the hustle and bustle of shopping malls and elegant and quiet teahouses, guests can eat melons, enjoy tea and listen to books. Accompanied by the sound of the storyteller's police hall, it sometimes takes you into the battlefield and sometimes into the elegant house. The audience is often the wedding. Go north from here, and then go out the back door of the mall to Xianxi Street.

Located in the center of the shopping mall, the Chenghuang Temple entered the hall, with colored plastic statues of imps and judges standing on both sides, holding chains and grinning, which was very scary. Lord Huang Cheng sits firmly in the sedan chair in the temple, and sedan chair regularly visits the city and outside the city every year. At that time, the ceremonial ceremony will be solemn, the big flute will ring, the gongs and drums will be loud, and the ranks will be like dragons. Among them, there are all kinds of ghosts and gods, a ghost of the five permanent members with a high hat and a long tongue, wandering in the ranks, which is the most striking. The audience were all in awe.

The northwest of the shopping mall is connected with Zhuanhua Building. From the west gate, you can go to Yaojiahutong, Loupo Street and Ping 'an Street. Zhuanhua Building is a two-story building, surrounded by upper cloisters, hence the name. It is said that it was built after Tianjin businessman Zhou Zhengyuan and others visited Tianjin Quanyechang in the early years of the Republic of China. In 1950s, due to disrepair, some houses collapsed, so it lost its prosperity.

Another commercial street connecting Chenghuangmiao Shopping Mall and Zhuanhua Building is called Market Lane, which is adjacent to Chenghuangmiao in the west and Zhuanhua Building in the south. The streets are narrow and the shops are narrow, which can only be called aisles. All stationery stores: there are humo and Xuan paper Duan Yan; The red print is handwritten. Every school season, parents and students come to buy stationery, and the streets are crowded. On the eve of the Spring Festival, all kinds of New Year pictures are hung here, including four seasons beauties, fighting tigers with Song Wu, making friends with Taoyuan, flowers and birds, landscapes, beautifully drawn, excellent paper, dazzling and beautiful. Out of the market corridor, there is a lithograph bureau, and mechanical printing is much more advanced than block printing. It has a disk and a pair of machines, and it has more distinctive lithographs: on a stone as flat as a mirror, medicinal paper with words written on it is spread, and the words are left on the stone, so that the whole or folio paper can be printed. Most of Anyang's big notices, advertisements and other printed materials come from here.

North of Loudong Road, near Guloupo Street, there are two musical instruments. Huqin, yueqin, erhu, banhu, pipa, flute and whistling; Gong, drum, wooden fish and bangzi are all available. Elegant orchestral music, sonorous gongs and drums, covering the whole street, shows the unique and rich cultural atmosphere of Loudong Street.

There are two Beijing goods stores on the southwest side of Gulou East Road. One of the younger brothers of the shopkeeper likes to play the Hu Qin, and more people stop to listen than the buyers. This man later went to Beijing, became a famous pianist of Peking Opera, and taught in a music school after liberation. Further east, starting from the Songjia optical shop, it is a two-story building with a lettering club, a restaurant, an eye pharmacy and a grocery store. There are three silver shops, and the Zhenhua silver shop in the middle is also engaged in the glasses industry. Most of these shops are workshops or houses behind shops.

Zhenhua Jewelry Store displays all kinds of silver ornaments. The big ones have trophies and medals (then called silver shields); Small pieces include the Eight Immortals, brooches, hat flowers, hair clips, hairpins, earrings, rings, necklaces, collars, long-lived silver locks, etc., which are exquisitely made and ingenious. The sales and maintenance of glasses should be unique to Anyang in the early days. The most difficult glasses to repair are grasshopper leg crystal glasses. In order to repair the damaged parts, Jin Gangzuan, punching and inlaying are needed. If you are careless, your glasses will be scrapped. This skill was passed on by the shopkeeper to his son, the owner of the Song optical shop. After liberation, they also became the best in the industry because they repaired glasses and recognized crystal lenses. Now, these crafts have been submerged in the long river of history and gone forever.

Old dreams are vague, the past is long, and the glory in front of us brings Gulou East Street to the punching place of Anyang network celebrities.