This is the second issue of the Let's Visit Wuhan column, today's guide, isWuhan**blogger @ Lao Te
You may have also brushed his **, the voiceover cushion is an authentic Wuhan dialect, positioningNon-mainstream Wuhan romance refers to the north,I love the old ** and old map of Wuhan, like to walk the streets and alleys, accompany the old neighbors to drink tea and bask in the sun, and listen to them talk about the past of Wuhan.
After receiving our invitation, Lao Zhu decided on the destination of today's roaming - Long Beach Street.
I thought I was going to make an appointment with Guiping Beef Offal first, but he threw out a series of questions and confused me:
How long is Long Beach Street?
Yuangong embankment, Houhu embankment, long causeway ......Isn't it the same embankment?
Is the Bronze Statue really the end of Long Beach Street?
He saidTo understand a place, you have to start from its roots, and Long Beach Street is the root of Hankou.
He didn't make a late night appointment or talk about food, he wanted to take us along Long Beach Street, all the way back to Hankou 400 years ago.
How did Long Beach Street come about.
You'll have to ask about it.
Early one morning, under the Moon Lake Bridge, at the intersection of Qiaokou Road and Long Beach Street, we met Lao Ao.
Under the fame of late-night supper, Long Beach Street has many suffixes: fried chicken thighs, soup dumplings, and the pot of beef offal ......that boils day and night
And the most often ignored by us is precisely the word "causeway", so the first stop, Lao Zheng took us straight to the "causeway".
The red sandstone wall bricks on Long Beach Street, this kind of sand and gravel are generally used as building materials for embankments.
Turn onto Long Beach Street and walk for about 2-3 minutesOpposite the "37 Long Beach Street" sign, down the steps, you can see a few pieces of red sand, forming a slope.
This is the monument of the causeway, tooThe only place on the street where you can see the "Long Causeway"., which describes the origin of the name of Long Beach Street.
The remains of the embankment that can be seen on Long Beach Street are about 300 years old.
To understand these big stones, you have to know 1What did Hankow look like in the 0 era:
During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, a beach was washed out on the north bank of the Han River, and slowly people built shacks here, and then there were wharves, merchant ships, and homeowners.
But every flood season, the water of the Houhufu River has also become a huge shadow in people's hearts.
In the 8th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1635), in order to block the flood, Hanyang Mansion sentenced Yuan Yan,A jade belt river was built and a long embankment was built- The embankment blocks the flood, and the river drains into the Yangtze River.
Since then, strangers who have come and gone from south to north on Hanzheng Street have been able to live here in peace and do business lively, which has achieved the appearance of Hankou as an "economic town".
The bell tower of Yilie Lane Primary School, the red brick house with round windows in Huangjia Lane, and the Long Beach Street, there are many such charming buildings.
In 1864, Hankou built a city wall and built a moat outside the causeway, after the fort was built, the causeway lost its flood control effect, and the Yudai River was also intercepted and dried up.
Later, residents built houses on both sides of the embankment, and gradually formed a street market with the embankment as the axis, almost parallel to Hanzheng Street, which is now Long Causeway Street.
What's on Long Beach Street.
Old objects are piled up, and they are barbaric and sloppy.
In front of the bustling shopping mall, the 300-year-old old bridge "Hojutsuki" stands quietly.
It starts from Qiaokou Road in the west and ends at the bronze statue in the east, with a total length of 4 kilometers- Today, Long Beach Street exists as such on the map of Wuhan.
But in Lao Zheng's heart, Long Beach Street is a pieceA treasure trove to visitIf it is compared to the backbone of a big fish, there are hundreds of paths and alleys radiating from both sides, like small spines in the belly of a fish.
The old man's way to shop is:Don't go to the main street, just turn into the alley, Go in and out around the S-shape, and when you meet the old neighborhood, you respectfully hand over a cigarette and change an old story that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.