The story of Guangzhou street

These are not distant memories of Xiguan: a century-old banyan tree, a doorway crossing a street building, an aunt sitting at the door picking vegetables or sewing, crying in the street … so familiar and so far away.

However, after all, the story has gone away with the running water, and only a little time has leaked out in the gap of the years and connected with the palm of your hand. ...

Jiuri advertisement

Now Guangzhou is flooded with inferior advertising products, and people are clamoring for creativity. Advertising with unique creativity can not only receive the effect of "widely advertising" its own products, but also spread for a long time.

As we all know, there were eye-opening creative advertisements in old Guangzhou decades ago, which are as good as today's! ! As far as the author remembers, the anthology consists of two broadcasts, two outdoor paintings and a couplet, which is shared with readers.

Fifty-five years ago, people from all over the province and Hong Kong and Macao almost always heard advertisements on the radio. One of them is: "There is a mosquito, who lives at the bottom of a double door. His food is not appetizing, he bites his fingers and has a runny nose.

Don't ask aki, the stem system is stagnant.

Since eating a good cheesecake, there have been many bugs.

Instant appetizer clips eliminate stagnation, and thin people become fat! "The second is:" Asian soda, Asian soda.

The most beautiful soda in Asia, the most beautiful soda in Asia.

As long as Asian soda, but not as good as Asian soda.

Asian soda tastes good, but not as long as Asian soda.

My uncle and aunt next door are not as good as Asian soda! "So," are you too angry about Asian soda? "This became the language of the market at that time.

At that time, there was a "semi-European" teahouse on the second floor on the left side of Li Watch Shop in Huiai Middle Road, Guangzhou. In order to improve the popularity, the signature "drink a cup of nectar together" caused a sensation among intellectuals for a while.

Later, I don't know who answered "there can be a cool breeze under my arms", so this couplet became a famous brand and hung in the hall.

I am young, but I have never forgotten anything.

After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, there was an "European noodle restaurant" in Xiguan, Guangzhou, whose famous brand was "Silver Silk Noodles". There was an advertising picture hanging on the street: a diner climbed a ladder with chopsticks and noodles kept falling into the bowl.

Therefore, "remember to eat noodles when you go to Europe" also became the language of the market at that time.

I still remember the happy face of the diners.

In my impression, the inscription of this painting is Weibei font, which reads "Dida Advertising Company".

At that time, advertising pictures were fashionable and signed by design companies. One is to take responsibility, and the other is to "hitchhike" and take the opportunity to sell advertisements to advertising companies. If you think this painting is good, please help us.

Funny street selling ghost horse songs

If the floating hawkers in Guangzhou are a scene on the streets of Yangcheng, then peddling along the street is a symphony reflecting the folk customs.

In the past, vendors always crossed the road with burdens. In order to attract customers, they often make up some jingles to attract people's attention.

Specially excerpted part of Hawking's "classic songs" for readers.

(The monologues in the article are all pronounced in Cantonese)

White olive seller:

Sharon mark, teapot, one penny, buy two.

It is delicious, not funny! The food is very sweet and sweet, and there is no residue! Come and buy after eating!

Selling chicken and olives:

"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock ..." The suona sounded, and then the vendor shouted, "Chicken Gong Lan, a penny, two olives."

Selling wine glasses:

White beard, good smile; No, just stand in the middle.

Come, buy a tumbler!

Herbal tea seller:

Wang Lao Ji-Wang Lao Ji, Wang Lao Ji, a cold at four o'clock is the most cough-relieving!

Baicaotang-Herbal tea sold by Baicaotang is good, with sore throat and fever; Two pence a bowl is not expensive, but a cold throat is the best!

Shennong tea-Shennong tea, Shennong tea, don't be afraid of fever, buy a bag to drink.

Shennong tea, top class!

Zhang Jiong Pavilion-Zhang Jiong Pavilion, with thunder; Get rid of the chill!

Canned food:

Mend the jar-there's a rotten jar to mend!

Welding copper solder, welding copper antimony pot, repairing rotten earthen pot, and carrying out the rotten copper pot, antimony pot and earthen pot to make up!

Umbrella repair:

Repair the outer cover-repair the rotten rain cover, repair the outer cover to cover the bones, and repair the rotten rain cover!

Waste collector:

Scrap copper and iron, buy scrap copper and tin.

Rotten antimony pot, rotten copper pot, rotten antimony pot, buy all.

There are glass wine bottles, old medicine bottles, old copper coins and old newsprint of books and newspapers. If you have it, you can sell it-

Talking about Xiguan (I) —— The Mystery of Xiguan Inner Street

I grew up in Xiguan, from kindergarten to middle school, studying while reading, and I have deep feelings for Xiguan.

In fact, I have only a little knowledge about the history of Xiguan. After being a tour guide, I learned more.

The story and culture of Xiguan is undoubtedly an extremely important chapter in Guangzhou culture.

From now on, I will collect as many stories about Xiguan as possible, and I will also write my own views on Xiguan culture, hoping to play a role in attracting more people to know Xiguan. I also hope that other Miss Xiguan and Master Xiguan can go to Lebanon to talk about Xiguan Gazi:)

Why is Xiguannai Street so strange?

If you open any map of Guangzhou City Square drawn before the end of Qing Dynasty, you will see that the street names and buildings in the city are similar, but Xiguan is almost white. This land is really clean.

However, if you open any detailed map of Guangzhou streets drawn in modern times, it will be as white as shit-the inner streets in Liwan District are denser and labyrinthine than those in any administrative district. I accidentally got stuck and couldn't get out for a long time!

This strange phenomenon obviously hides a historical mystery.

Where is the answer?

I remember at the end of 1997, someone solemnly announced: "Liwan District is the oldest urban area in Guangzhou!" With awe, I specially studied a section of "The Secret History of Xiguan" and immediately found that the mystery mentioned above was impressively hidden!

The Secret History of Xiguan

Before the wall was torn down to clear the way, the western wall of Guangzhou stood on today's People's Road, and outside the wall was the suburb where the river branched, which was called "the head outside the city". As late as the middle of Qing Dynasty, the authorities set up a flood station beside the moat to maintain public order, which was called "Xiguan flood". This is the name of Xiguan in Fiona Fang for more than ten years.

Xiguan aborigines are farmers in Nanhai County, who have lived in Yong 'an An Wei and Xilewei for generations. There are villages and cities in the village, and mulberry fields outside the village. People in the village were self-sufficient and died at the same time, so there is no need to know about the "Three Dynasties and Ten Emperors", and history is too lazy to pay attention to these people.

It is the strangers who haunt the outside world who toss out the "Secret History of Xiguan".

Turning to the authoritative compilation of Guangzhou City Square Records, we found that there were few words about Xiguan before the Ming Dynasty, but there was a piece of material that was traced back to the Song Dynasty by scholars of the Ming Dynasty, which vaguely revealed the mysterious news that many strangers wandered around Xiguan as early as the Song Dynasty-Anle Road and Song Jiading were founded after four years of operation, waiting for people who had gone and never returned; Embroider clothes in the west of the city.

"There is no going back" alarmed the government to build an "Anle Road" to take them to live. It is conceivable that their number is so large and has caused serious social problems.

Miss Xiguan married a Fujian businessman.

Embroidered clothes shop is a romantic word that easily causes people to miss Miss Xiguan's boudoir.

This place, which has long been annihilated, is located in the upper and lower floors today. A propagandist looks forward to literature and life and widely introduces it as the origin of Guangzhou women's products industry in later generations. This is a great record in the world!

In the Qing Dynasty, the editor of Wuchuan County Records in Guangdong Province was very knowledgeable, pointing out that embroidered clothes workshop was a special term, which existed in all provinces, and was used exclusively by the imperial censor (the central law enforcement officer), "directly taking the meaning of embroidered clothes".

What is "embroidered clothes instruction"? It is said that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the refugees in Beijing once made large-scale troubles, and the history of the empire could not be stopped by conventional means. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Dr. Guanglu, a former counselor, to put on embroidered clothes symbolizing special power, command the army and forcibly suppress the troublemakers.

Doctor Guanglu, plus sign pointing to the messenger, "pointing"-who killed who!

This embroidery workshop is similar in nature to the Royal Guards of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, Guangzhou authorities, a specially selected dictatorship, concentrated on accommodating a large number of foreigners wandering in Xiguan. There is no record of what happened in history.

Well-informed historians know that it reflects the positive side of the mainstream society. At the beginning of Qing dynasty, Fujian authorities confronted Zheng Chenggong and his son across the sea, and coastal areas were strictly forbidden to pass. Foreign trade practitioners in Fujian province flocked to Guangzhou to find a way out and lived in embroidery shops with only place names left.

There's no way to know if those guys are married or * * *. In short, there are many Xiguan women around, such as "Xiguan Zhi Zhu Ci" said: "My aunt's house is close to the embroidery shop, and she is married to a Fujian businessman who is used to taking advantage of foreign countries!" Local intellectuals did not choose Fujian businessmen to write poems, which shows the powerful influence of "Fu Lao" in Xiguan that day. Many people make a lot of money and take their aunts back to their hometowns, but those who don't think about "Fujian" naturally become "old Xiguan".

Stranger's Xiguan

The story of Xiguan, which was deeply influenced by foreigners, was imitated by a large number of Fujian businessmen who settled down.

One of the stories is Yimin City.

In the early years of Kangxi, as a supplement to the maritime ban, the Qing Dynasty carried out the policy of "moving the border" in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

Pearl River Estuary area? More than 10,000 people were forcibly moved to Guangzhou West Village and Pantang-this figure is of great significance and far-reaching influence to the population composition after Xiguan.

You know, the population of Nanhai County was only 90,000 at that time! 350 years later, this batch? The descendants of this family can be called "Old Xiguan"! Coastal? The family makes a living by fishing, and when they get the "Xiguan hukou", they are unemployed. In order to fill their stomachs, they took their young to touch fish and shrimp in the river and rushed to the nearest Tianjin to be a ghost. There is a new market in the suburbs, which is called "immigrant city".

Later, the government found the word "move" dazzling and renamed it Yimin City, which is now Xihua Road.

Another story is thirteen lines.

"Pan Lu Wu Ye" has become a word-of-mouth 13 richest man.

The founders of these four families were born in poverty and developed like myths. Some people in Xiguan are confused and regard them as rural sages. In fact, Lujia is from Xinhui, Guangdong, and Panjia, Wujia and Yejia are from Fujian. Are they poor with those people? The whole family is the same, all strangers who immigrated to Xiguan.

Seeing that the thirteen merchants got rich first, Xiguan indigenous people also got rich.

Not everyone can do foreign trade, so the insiders climb to the side of the foreign trade car and open an export room for weaving.

The profit of weaving industry is less, and the surrounding computer rooms are mushrooming. As a result, a large number of rural houses have been transformed into computer rooms, and contiguous buildings are becoming more and more deserted.

When the aborigines washed their feet, Yong 'an and Joy fell apart.

When the "youngest" needs to be equipped with wage earners, it is a natural match. Unemployed eggheads are eager to be exploited. Their generation's popularity is in tune with the men and women around them, so they are called "computer room boys".

Working is better than farming. By the same token, the news that joining the computer room to queue up was feasible spread to the four townships, and poor farmers from Sanjiang and Wuling flocked to Xiguan. Scholars in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "When villagers first came to the city to work as helpers, they all gathered in front of Changshou Temple (note: the address is now changshou road) and were hired and served for many years, so they were called Nianzai.

"There is an endless stream of people in the four townships, and the population composition of Xiguan has added new elements!

The competition in the labor market is fierce, and the losers become a "journey of no return". The best choice for the most unlucky person is to be a beggar.

Xiguan Beggars' Sect has a prosperous lineup, and its base camp is around Hualin Temple.

Rogue proletarians are lawless, and the public security situation in Xiguan is grim. The authorities know how to do both. On the one hand, they set up a glittering Xiguan flood season, on the other hand, they set up a care and cultivation hall at the 18th National Congress. These two institutions are as famous as Embroidery Workshop and Anle Road in the history of Xiguan in the Song Dynasty.

Beggars are making trouble in Xiguan.

During the period from Lang to Xianfeng, the northern beggar king visited Xiguan.

This guy is good at martial arts. He knocked off a beggar's head in Hualin Temple and started a new dynasty.

Chen Qifeng's era was the heyday of Xiguan Beggars' Sect, and hundreds of beggars from various provinces rushed to join him.

Later, Chen Qifeng had a dispute with the monk of Hualin Temple who was supported by the government. In desperation, he had to lead a small group to land on Henan Island in Guangzhou New Development Zone.

Last year, a group of elegant men were sickened by the nonsense of "Miss Xiguan contending for youth". They used two abandoned folk proverbs called "Miss Xiguan, Master Dongshan", but deliberately put the third sentence of scenery-"Henan local ruffians" (new Cantonese pronunciation meo) on hands-free.

Henan is a pure land, where is the source of local ruffians? So is Chen Qifeng's team! A small team has the ability to make Henan a boiling point, which shows how rampant Xiguan base camp is! At that time, the "temporary residence permit for floating population" had not been invented, and the monsters in the base camp unconditionally became legal residents of Xiguan.

It seems that these "dragons crossing the river" have been effectively integrated into Xiguan society.

In the late Qing Dynasty, a special industry appeared in Guangzhou, dedicated to mourning the owner. Most of the practitioners are male and female beggars gathered in the rotten land of Xiguan Guangya.

One of the necessary conditions for being qualified for the post is accurate pronunciation of Cantonese. If the honorific title of "Lao Dou" who just died is called out when he is on a business trip, it will be strange for the bereaved not to grab the broom and shoot at the "professionals" in a panic! In all fairness, the ability of this generation of beggars to master Cantonese quickly is obviously far better than that of thousands of white-collar workers from other provinces in recent years.

Beggars live on the ground, but serious strangers need a tile to cover their heads.

In the same time and light years, the Xiguan aborigines who had long been integrated with strangers, only "Uncle Mao" (Mao, which is the same as "Miao" in Cantonese), Sanji Hetian were sold one after another and turned into land for building houses.

As the old saying goes, Xiguan walks out the door in three steps! Winding through the Daguan River in Xiguan, there is a busy waterway with pier 18 downstream, which has been filled up and surfaced, leading to the most prosperous commercial street in Xiguan in the future.

A few rich people choose Xiguanjiao, which is near litchi Bay, to build magnificent houses, while the working people, like ants, pile up low and wet shacks in any newly filled river. People who are too poor to buy ropes can only build shacks against other people's corners-the same is true of the gaps between the streets and shacks!

"Village in the City" gave birth to "Xiguan Dialect"

This goes back to the "charade" at the beginning of my article.

If you want to see the "mystery of image", please take a trip to the "village in the city" in the urban-rural fringe of contemporary Guangzhou, where the "handshake house" is crowded and there are rows of rental houses. Unplanned dark streets, narrow alleys, twists and turns, all kinds of strangers who speak Cantonese shuttle through them.

This kind of scenery is the contemporary version of the formation process of Xiguan Inner Street!

In the nearly 300-year history of Guangzhou, the population composition of Xiguan is diverse, and the interactive evolution connotation of various dialects and customs is extremely complicated.

Scholars claim that "Xiguan dialect" is the purest and most standard in Guangzhou dialect-I wonder what is the basis of this statement? (