Tour guide of Pingyao Old Street: the scene after the transformation of Pingyao Old Street

Pingyao Old Street, located in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, is an ancient town full of history. It has a history of 1000 years and is also the cultural base of Jiangnan kiln. The following is a list of travel notes of Pingyao Old Street.

Pingyao was called Shi Ting in ancient times, Lin 'an House in Xianchun in Southern Song Dynasty was called Beizhen and Shiting Mountain in ancient times, and the village at the foot of the mountain was named after the mountain.

In the Song Dynasty, a kiln for firing pottery bottles was built at the southern foot of Shiting Mountain, formerly known as Yaoshan, so Shiting Village was renamed as Bottle Kiln.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573- 1620), Huzhou scholar Zhu Guozhen once said in his book Rebuilding Ji Temple in Pingyao Town: "Pingyao is simple and frugal, and has been engaged in farming since planting mulberry. Therefore, the city is opposite to the pottery cave. " At about this time, Pingyao was upgraded from a village to a town.

Bottle kiln has always been a battleground for military strategists. Matouguan, in the north of Zhenbei, is one of the three passes in the northwest of Zhejiang, and it is the passage from the northwest of Zhejiang to Hangzhou. Tielingguan, commonly known as Tielingguan, is covered with Tielingguan, hence its name, in order to guard against the enemy. After the cypress pass, the north and south roads enter Hangzhou, and the north road passes through the bottle kiln.

After crossing Pingyao Bridge, take a few steps to the west, and you will arrive at Liyao Street, which is Pingyao Old Street. Every detail here tells the story of the 1970s and 1980s.

Liyao Street (Pingyao Old Street)

Many old shops in Liyao Street have closed down. There are dusty shop doors, mottled windows, missing eaves, and criss-crossing wires on the roof. On them, time seems to have frozen.

Bottle kiln supply and marketing cooperatives, dilapidated houses,

Pingyao Cinema and Library, which have been "retired"

However, some shops are still insisting. The older generation supported these once brilliant shops with sincerity and quality to gain a firm foothold in the new era.

Walking in it, there is a feeling of "avoiding the world".

If you walk in the old street in the skirt worn by your mother when she was young, you will feel that you have crossed into the era of shopping by ticket.

Bottle kiln was originally a three-piece set.

A mountain, a stream, a street.

Thirty years ago, the bottle kiln was only 0.8 square kilometers, mainly concentrated in the fields in front of the cinema. At that time, it was the most prosperous area of bottle kiln.

Because it is adjacent to Tiaoxi, Pingyao Kiln has a well-developed water transport, and villagers from nine surrounding towns and villages come to the market with goods. Watching movies will be a wonderful thing. "

At that time, the most magnificent building in Old Street was Pingyao Cinema. "The cinema was built in the 1970s. There was no such thing as pre-sale at that time. A ticket costs 8 cents and can be purchased on demand.

Pingyao cinema

The weight of the old street is enough to bear the childhood memories of everyone in this city.

If you are a passerby, just say the word "old street" to Pingyao people, and everyone will show you the way. "On the north bank of Tunxi, it faces Xixian Datang across Pingyao Bridge."

The existing Pingyao Old Street is not just a street, but a synonym for the old city.

The ancient town of Pingyao, standing by the Tiaoxi River, should have some white walls and tiles, carved doors and windows, flying over the walls, but it also looks a little shabby under the rolling of the annual rings.

18 is full of mysterious wells

When I arrived at Pingyao Old Street, I had to say a strange thing, that is, eighteen alleys and eighteen wells in the alleys.

This 18 well, lying in the middle of the road, is still an important water intake place in people's daily life until now. Why should the old street be laid out into eighteen lanes and eighteen wells? The residents of the old street can't tell why, except that this well and this alley existed many years ago.

"According to legend, the bottle kiln is an excellent place for feng shui. There are two pig-shaped hills behind the old street, shoulder to shoulder, not mirrors. When Zhu Yuanzhang made Nanjing his capital, he ordered Liu Bowen, an adviser, to destroy geomantic omen everywhere to prevent outstanding people from making heroes and shaking their position. At this time, Liu Bowen discovered these two mountains, so he dug 18 wells at the side of the mountain, which were distributed on the stomachs of two pigs.

Seen from the well, villagers' houses are closely arranged along the hillside.

If you are interested in knowing what this legend is, or going to see this 18 well, you can pay attention to the name of this 18 alley first.

Liyao Street from west to east includes Zaixing Lane, Lijia Lane, Shi Yu Lane, Ancestral Hall Lane, Jingtou Lane, Cairen Lane, Huajia Lane, Primary School Lane, Chamber of Commerce Lane, Bafang Lane, Tangjia Lane, Fang Jia Lane, Wu Jia Lane, Waiyao Lane, Shengdian Lane, and Jiangjia Lane, Wandian Lane and Hengcha Lane located in Xixi Street.

Old city reconstruction

Most of the buildings in Pingyao ancient city were built in 1970s and 1980s. Sanitation, transportation and fire fighting equipment.

The functions of these cities can't meet the living needs of residents. The developed water system and low-lying terrain lead to floods every rainstorm in the old city, so today's bottle kiln is undergoing tremendous changes.

People who go to the bottle kiln recently may encounter various inconveniences. Many houses have been included in the scope of demolition and transformation, and the roads are muddy and dusty.

It is said that Pingyao Town did not unify all the houses in the renovation plan of Liyao, but cut them according to the original buildings and upgraded and strengthened them on the basis of retaining some elements of the times.

Rebuild some old shops that are about to disappear, inject fresh blood, let the craft pass on and let the shops survive; Gather some scattered jade carving processing plants together, encourage upgrading and transformation, and form an industrial belt.

I hope that after some transformation, the bottle kiln can return to the glory of that era, and the old people on the street can regain the good memories of their youth, so that more tourists like us can discover the charm of the old street.