Travel of Waterway Wharf Quzhou

Merchant's font size is everywhere.

As mentioned above, the causes and harms of water in Quzhou are various. In fact, the advantages of water for Quzhou outweigh the disadvantages.

Where there is water, there is life. Water breeds life and civilization. Wherever human beings live, rivers will pass by, and people respectfully call them mother rivers.

Quzhou people also have a mother river, which is Fuyang River. Fuyang River was once a tributary of Zhanghe River. In the 11th year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1475), Fuyang River was separated from Zhanghe River, and the embryonic form of Fuyang River was formed. Note in Du Weifu: "The lonely mountain is also called Jiao Shan, and the source of burnt water comes from the foothills." Fuyang River got its name. There is a black dragon cave in Lushan Mountain, which is divided into upper and lower floors. The lower cave is very small and hidden in vegetation. The upper hole is big, the hole is nearly three feet wide, the waist in the hole is four feet wide and five feet high, and the top of the hole is black. The cave walls are covered with stalactites, such as small stone dragons, or tigers and leopards, like birds. Stalactites on the ceiling drip all the year round. Go straight for more than 70 feet and divide it into two caves, Longwangdong and Xiku. The entrance of the East Library is separated by a stone bridge of the nose, which is thin in the middle and thick up and down, like a wind gourd, which is very attractive. There are three circular caves at the top of the cave, which are more than two feet high and about seven feet in diameter. They are white, whispering and amplifying acoustic energy. On the wall of the first Tian Tong cave, there is also a humanoid boulder, high and promising, like a guard on standby. The lower hole has the same composition as the upper hole, and there is also a hole at the bottom of the hole. Looking closely, the spring water gurgles, like a dumpling dragon spitting pearls and jade, but it is difficult to flow. There are several springs around, gathered together, rushed out of the mountain and washed away. They wound their way to Quzhou in the southern plain of Hebei Province, and then took the wave north to Ziya River (called Ziya River after the confluence of xian county and Hutuo River in Cangzhou area), Haihe River and Bohai Sea. "(My Chronicle of Beiting Street). In the eyes of Pei Dapeng, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, "spring sail in the water": "A bay of spring water rises with the glass, and pieces of sails are hung to reflect the green embankment. The rain in Mao Mao is blowing smoothly, and the smoke has reached the west of Huaqiao. " The beautiful scenery is picturesque and intoxicating, but it is hard to see now.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the water transport of Fuyang River was very brilliant. Over the years, it has been the main route from Handan to Tianjin Fair, with many ships coming and going. Beiting Street in the east of Quzhou City and its surrounding areas are very important land and water terminals in the south of Hebei Province. Fuyang River can be described as a beautiful picture of Wan Li with clear sky and beautiful scenery, with green willows, masts shuttling and singing. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ningjin County also set up a ship donation bureau to collect taxes on grain transportation, which shows how big the transportation capacity was at that time. Fuyang River's contribution to the economic development along the route is remarkable. His contribution to Quzhou is unparalleled. Therefore, Quzhou County is different from Fuyang River. Its city is prosperous, and Quzhou is prosperous outside the city. -The big pier on the east bank of Fuyang River Jichuan Bridge, called dongqiao town, is a flood and drought pier that has not been around for dozens of miles. All kinds of goods have to be transported in and out from here, which also laid the unshakable central position of Quzhou in the surrounding counties. Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, three counties (Jize, Quzhou and Qiuxian) and five counties (Jize, Quzhou, Qiuxian, Feixiang and Guangping) were unified into Quzhou County, and the county was ruled in Quzhou County, which shows its achievements in Quzhou. As far as Jichuan Bridge is concerned, Liu Fengyuan's Jiao Bridge is a Thing in the Qing Dynasty said: "When the bridge goes downhill, the light can't flow, and you can see the bamboo passing your neighbor along the stream. The rain on the wall gives birth to quiet grass, and the flowers return from the stream. Pen and inkstone write old sentences, flag guns and tiles send new tea. After a sleep, I wandered around Xixi and watched the sunset in Changlin. "

Not many people know who Jichuan Bridge is, but you have to say that the big bridge head is well known, and even formed a big bridge head culture and a big bridge head complex. The Ji Chuan Bridge was built very high, because it had to cross the boat under the bridge, flying like a rainbow on a busy river. Since ancient times, people always say "get on the bridge" when they come to the county seat. No matter going to the market to visit relatives, it is said that the bridge head is around Jichuan Bridge, because it is the representative place of logistics center and the symbol of county prosperity. Now it's a landmark building. Now Fuyang River has long lost its function of water transportation, and Jichuan Bridge is no longer tall, but the bridge head is still in people's memory and reality, and it has been swept away. At dawn, the bridgehead was rendered by various noises, and the shadows swayed. All kinds of breakfast food stalls were extinguished in the fog according to the established position. In the roaring bellows, the flames in the stove jump around, melting all kinds of incense, acid and oil into the morning wind and floating on people's taste buds. Fried fruit, bean curd, wonton, bean powder, miscellaneous grains pancakes and crispy fire-there are two kinds of delicious food, one is fried fruit and the other is pancake soup. There are fried fruits everywhere, which are called fried dough sticks all over the country and inby in Beijing. The name fried fruit here is just a general term, with various patterns and different tastes. Pancake soup is only available in Quzhou, and only Daqiaotou is authentic. Spread mung bean flour and white flour into pancakes, use a small bowl, make soup with the same mixed flour, and sometimes make vegetables. Its taste lies in its own fried black pepper, sweet and sour mature vinegar and secret sesame oil. Sour taste and spicy taste change with the seasons. Summer is sour and winter is spicy. Sesame oil drops three or two drops, and it floats for a few miles. When you smell it, you can't help taking a few deep breaths. Fresh fruit with pancake soup is like inby with bean juice in old Beijing, which is called beauty.

The wharf in Quzhou is mainly located in dongqiao town on the east bank of Fuyang River, which is now Qianhedong Village and Houhedong Village. The center is Beiting Street to the west of Houhedong Village. It is called dongqiao town because the economy around Jichuan Bridge, located in the east of the county seat, is prosperous and people are like the city. Fuyang River is only ten feet from Beiting Street, and there is a loading and unloading passage ten feet and eight feet from River Street. On both sides of Beiting Street, the names of various freight yards, warehouses and wholesale stores. Such as Qujia porcelain shop, Liu Laozu foreign goods shop, Dehechang pickles shop, Demaochang tea shop, Detai grain shop, Yulaixing coal yard, Jia Wei Mill, Zhao Xiguang forage shop, etc. Every day, cargo ships are constantly loading and unloading, and carriages are constantly being pulled around. Whenever a boat docked, there were women who recruited stevedores, shouting "Take it home, take it home-"in the street. Knowing that they had rice bowls, the coolies rushed out of their homes and flocked to the dock, and the shiploads of goods were discharged into the warehouse with the cry of "Hi Yo-". Most of the boatmen at that time were from Ningjin. The rich buy their own boats and run to the dock, while the poor punt and pull fibers to earn a living. Later, some immigrants settled here, and now there are some residents in Beiting Street and Quzhou County, such as Jia Wei and JiaHe Zhang Lujia, whose ancestral home is Ningjin.

There are also commercial streets, from Dongchengmen to Fuyang River, and the streets of Dongguan and Hexi Fu are lined with Yishun's business names. Since Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, most merchants doing business in Quzhou are Shanxi-registered firms. It is no exaggeration to say that Shanxi merchants account for half of Quzhou's commercial activities. The Wei family in Shanxi is prosperous, and several generations have been doing business in Quzhou. In the early years of the Republic of China, his family's business was the biggest. Gong's office is located in Dongguan North Road and belongs to Houfang. The "Gong" brand dry cigarettes produced by this store were popular in southern Hebei, northern Henan and northwestern Shandong at that time, and were quite famous. I remember that in the early 1980 s, it was still a state-run dry cigarette shop. It is wrapped in square yellow papyrus paper with a red logo printed on it. As soon as you enter the store, you can smell the faint smell of tobacco. Famous font names include Gan Fengtai, Li and Fu Qingyong. Chen's Ganfengtai, opposite Gong Xingsheng's firm, mainly deals in the well-known businesses such as Yangbuzhuang and Jiuguo, and its business has always been in Ping Jin. The ceremony of the Li family's prosperity opened a pigment village. At that time, every family weaved and dyed cloth. Dyes are essential daily necessities. When I was a child, I also sold dyes in a state-owned department store, which was located in the east of Ganfengtai. Fu Qingyong is also a firm named Li, specializing in hip flask business. Good wine needs no bush. The business is big, and the wine is sold far away. According to analysis, it has a lot to do with the good water here. Later, the public-private partnership became the location of Xianfu Food Company. In 22 years of the Republic of China, "Quzhou County Records" said that "residents are also relatively rich." "But Dongguan is a commercial city. Connected with the west bank of Fuyang River, it is Hexi Store (shops and houses are often used, and now they are all used), crossing Jichuan Bridge (that is, the bridge over Fuyang River) to the east bank, that is, dongqiao town (now the former and later Hedong villages), lined up with Dongguan, towering and tall. Every ten days, on February 2, 2479, we went to the market and went to the four townships to trade. " At present, the market in Quzhou County is still in the year 2479 of the lunar calendar, but the larger the population, the richer the goods, and there is no difference between collecting and not collecting.

Although the concept of "attaching importance to agriculture over commerce" has always been adhered to in ancient times, the commercial atmosphere is very strong because of the developed waterway transportation industry, large population, smooth information and open mind in Quzhou area. People not only run transportation business locally, but also roam the rivers and lakes "out of Quzhou". They also have businesses in Peiping, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places. They have traveled all over the country and have already established their own business world. Some of them went to Tianjinwei to dump foreign cloth, foreign oil and foreign cars, some sold porcelain goods from Pengcheng in all directions, and some shipped agricultural special products such as curved surfaces, millet, handmade noodles and vermicelli from Quzhou to big cities. And those who sell old clothes, cosmetics and jewelry, iron and bronze, illegal salt and so on. Most of the ancient merchants in Quzhou adhered to the business principle of "wisdom, courage, benevolence and strength", took kindness as money and "wealth and virtue", and took out money to do good deeds to pave the way and become the effective force of social public welfare undertakings.

Some ancient commercial activities in Quzhou still have sites. The famous ancient building site, which later became a place name, is the old guild hall and the small guild hall. In fact, it is the Shanxi guild hall, which shows the scale and influence of Shanxi merchants in Quzhou. Now, there is a temple dedicated to Master Guan by the Fuyang River in the north of Hexi. The temple is served every day, and the incense keeps burning on the fifteenth day of the first month. Every year, the temple fair will sing a few days' play, which is very lively. What kind of temple is your Taoist temple? At the entrance of the temple, there are four characters "Shanxi Guild Hall".