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Outside the north gate of Wuxi, there are south tip, north tip, small tip, shuanghe tip and river tip.
The south tip is surrounded by moats, sauce garden bang, Maojingbang, etc., south of Chang'an Bridge; north tip is north of Chang'an Bridge. The Chang'an Bridge was built by Lu Wei, a Yiren during the Ming Dynasty, indicating that before the Ming Dynasty, the altar head lane was not connected to the various tips. After the completion of the bridge, it greatly facilitated the travel of merchants and merchants, and played a role in promoting the prosperity of the area around Buxing Lane and Lianrong Bridge. The bridge was demolished in 1982 due to the reclamation of the river under the bridge. The south tip is the small tip in the end. The small tip is the same as the pier, and there are three or four small water piers to the left and right. During the Republic of China, it was the place where the Mill stack was stacked. The small piers are gradually connected. In the early 1960s, there was also a small ditch separating the south tip from the small tip, and it was filled in a few years. The stacks on the tip of the small tip became warehouses after liberation, and later as factories. At the junction of Xiaojian and Nanjian, a knife and scissor factory was run from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Old scenery of the sauce garden
South Tip became a street earlier. As early as the twenty-fifth year of qing guangxu (1899), Wuxi silk cloth industry set up a Jinyun office here, which was one of the earliest guilds in Wuxi, taking the meaning of "silk brocade, silk like clouds". Wuxi is known as the cloth dock, and after the Qing Xianfeng and Tongzhi dynasties, there were more than a dozen large-scale cloth shops opened in Guangxu. Here is close to the concentration of cloth line - cloth line lane, North Street, etc., the same industry office should be born at the right time. The common name of the people is the "public office". The original old house of the public office was built in 1914 by Xu Ziqing and Zhao Yunzhai in the same industry, imitating the original building of the "Ziyang Academy" in the foothills of Xishan Mountain, with a pink wall and a dewa, which was very spectacular and magnificent. In front of it is the Outer City River, along which there are granite barges, and the river is fenced with long stones. There are two water docks on the left and right, and there is a large wall on the barge, and the two big characters of "Hongxi" are embedded in the wall. The stone steps are then five bay facades, and there are 5 head buildings. At the gate there is a pair of stone drums of large stone lions. There is a stage inside. The middle building is a large patio, planted with laurel trees and built flower beds. There are 5 rooms in the later building, and the center is the Hall of Enjoyment, dedicated to Guan Yu, because Guan Yu uses the Green Dragon Crescent Knife, which is related to the use of cloth scissors in the silk industry. During the "Cultural Revolution", the place was attacked, first the stone drum disappeared, and then the hall and the garden were separated as rooms, occupied by some "houseless households", and then the river in front of the field was also filled. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, it did not recover. In the 1990s, a large area was demolished here and the "Hongmei Market" of China Merchants City was built. Before the liberation, Nanjian also had an "oil factory" and became an auto parts factory after liberation. There are many large mansions in Nanjian, such as the Lu Family Courtyard, and the owner of the courtyard, Lu, is of the Xizhang clan, and Lu Dingyi is the same ethnic group.
The north tip faces the Lotus Rong Bridge and the ancient canal, connecting the Maopeng along the river and to the tip of the river. During the Reign of the Qing Dynasty, a three-storey Wanghu Tower was built along the river in Maopeng as an entertainment place. In the last years of Guangxu, a silent film was screened here for the first time. The north tip and the south tip can be reached at The river tip through Hengjie. Near Hengjie, there are also Yokohama-ri and Qianhengjie, both named after Yokohama, which existed as early as the Ming Dynasty. Yokohama is an artificial channel dug in the middle after the Grand Canal divides the east and west rivers from the tip of the river to facilitate navigation. This hama separates the north and south tip. Yokohama was later stuffed. The south tip and the small tip can also pass through Shiputou, Maojingbang (formerly known as Tongrenbang, because of the Tongren Stack) and cross the Maojing Bridge (there was once a mountain mao hall in the south of the bridge) to the tip of the river, which was blocked after the Cultural Revolution. In 1995, the Jiangjian Bridge was built to connect Beitang Avenue and Wuli New Village.
The tip of the Shuanghe River is north of Wuqiao, located at the west branch of the Xiyi Ancient Canal, and the ground is pointed, between the two rivers, so it is called the Shuanghe Tip. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, from the north bank of the tip, the river was densely covered with wooden stakes until the opposite shore, which played a blockade role and the ships could not navigate. According to legend, the Ming Dynasty general Chang Yuchun once garrisoned here. In order to make it easier to defend, a small river is opened behind the tip to open the inland river, and passing boats must detour from the south bank of the river through the small river. On the south bank, each vertical 1 stone pillar, each 40 cm wide, 25 cm thick, 3 holes in each column, wearing 2 iron chains, if necessary, can block the river surface, named Tieling Pass. In the Qing Dynasty, when the Qianlong Emperor descended Jiangnan, the wooden stakes were removed, and since then the two trunk roads have been navigable at the same time, and the small river after the tip has also been filled.
On the tip there is a Huitongan and a ferry port, and the ferry worker's house is inside the temple, which was demolished in 1958. The port was abolished in 1974. The ferry port has a stone bench, that is, the "Wuli Pavilion", which is 5 miles (2.5 kilometers) from the Sanli Bridge (one says from the North Gate). In 1988, Shuanghejian was changed to Wuqiao West Road.
Jiangjian, also known as Jiangjianzhu, is located in the ancient canal outside the north gate, and the river divides here. One branch flows to Lianrong Bridge and Tonghui Bridge, the other to Ximen Bridge and Taibao Pier, and the two branches merge at the Cross Tang Bridge. Ancient Furong Lake smoke waves, quite large area, has been connected to the canal outside the north gate, Jiangjianzhu is a Nagisa Island in Furong Lake, ancient called Furong Tip, Rong Lake Tip. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Chen governed Furong Lake, the water potential shrank, and there were more and more houses in Jiangjianzhu. In the Qing Dynasty, a large number of pottery shops were opened on Nagisa, and there were piles of jars everywhere, which the people called "cylinder jianzhu", and the wuxi people called it "Jiangjianzhu" in dialect, referred to as "Jiangjian".
Jiangjianzhu is surrounded by water, and the traffic is inconvenient. According to legend, once upon a time there was a filial piety who went to Jiangjianzhu to look for his mother, and he walked all the way, shouting, and turning in groups, so there was a saying that "Jiangjianzhu turned around". Professor Zhou Yibai, a famous opera theorist, wrote a poem "Bamboo Branch Words" for this purpose in 1946: "Shouting across the water that niangniang should not be, and there is no basis for the four on the tip of the cylinder." Advise Jun Mo to laugh and turn around, and filial piety looks for blood and tears." Another legend is that Jiang jian has a cylinder shopkeeper, who is addicted to gambling, loses all his belongings, Chinese New Year's Eve loses the money that his wife gives to ransom, goes home without face, and goes to Yixing Dingshu with the boat household to help run the pottery industry. 20 years later, back in Xi, in Jiangjianzhu a few circles, can not find their own house, met a child, with him naughty, he and the child to reason, chased to the child's home, met the child's grandmother, recognized each other as husband and wife, happy. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang went to the United States to investigate, and after turning around in the glass revolving door of the skyscraper, he still couldn't get out, and he couldn't help but say to himself: "This is like the Wuxi River Jianzhu on the group turning."
The surname Zou is the surname of Jiang Jian, there is the ancestral hall of the Zou surname, and there is also the carved door head of the original Compound No. 59. There are two theories in the history of Zou's fortune, one is that in the early years of Qing Yongzheng, the Dingxi general Nian Qianyao was arrogant and arrogant, was demoted to Hangzhou, and one day was summoned to Beijing, passing through wuxi Jiangjian. Knowing that this act was more than auspicious, he entrusted a pregnant concubine to Zou Nanyang and gave her gold and silver treasures. Three years later, his subordinate Yue Zhongqi came to Jiangjian and took the boy born to the concubine. Zou Nanyang made a fortune from this. Second, there was a lone thief who carried a large bag of gold and silver treasures and died of exhaustion on the Zou family's Jiangjian ferry, and the Zou family became rich by flying. After the Zou family became rich, the business went from operating pottery to real estate. Today, the descendants of the Zou clan flow to other places and foreign countries. When he was a child, Kuomintang elder Wu Zhihui lived in the jiangjian zou clan and his maternal grandfather's house.
There are also three rich merchants in Jiangjian, Jiang, Yuan and Chen, all of which are engaged in pottery, and Jiang Yimao and Jiang Renmao are the largest pottery shops in Jiangjian. They brought all kinds of pottery from Yixing, and surrounded by water on all sides of the tip of the river, it was extremely convenient to load and unload. In the old days, there were no aluminum-plastic products, pottery was an indispensable item for people's daily lives, so jiangjian pottery industry was developed, and Jiang Dongfu in the Jiang clan was also the first executive member of the Wuxi County Merchants Association. The Chiang family built two houses in Jiangjian and a garden house in Tang Lane in the city. Jiangjian No. 96, there is a typical early Republic of China Chinese and Western style of the old house, is the location of the first paper company in Wuxi, for three, three, courtyard-style turntable building, although Wuxi has a lot of turntable buildings, symbolizing the glory of the rich merchants of that year.
There is a Furong Zen Temple at the north end of Jiangjian. Legend has it that after a famous gate lived in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the whole family was beheaded by the door, and only one child escaped from death, ran to the tip of the river, and lived here as a monk. The monk jumped around the tank every day and practiced light exercises. When Qianlong descended jiangnan to Huangbu Dun, he jumped from the tip of the river, jumped all the way down the pole to the emperor's boat, and stood on the top of the ship with three tremors, which meant that the Qianlong Emperor knew that there were great talents in Jiangnan. Qianlong was a wise man, and he was taken aback, and he didn't make a big fuss.
During the Qianlong Dynasty, the monks Zhihai and Deshan built Huanxiu Nunnery and Yongning Nunnery respectively, and later Huanxiu Nunnery was changed to Guandi Temple. In the old days, every 30th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there was a "lamp shed" event, and the pottery shops folded the cylinder into a pagoda shape of several inches high, stored oil in the cylinder, lit at night, and stayed overnight, called "pagoda lamp". In the early years of the Republic of China, the Wuxi poet Qin Songshi described this scene: "Floating tu seven-level stacked silver cylinders, ten thousand fires shine in ten directions."
Jiangjian West Mouth produces golden-eyed salmon, which has a long history, according to people who have eaten it, and it tastes delicious, even before the War of Resistance. After the excessive capture, coupled with pollution, it has long been gone.
Nagisa's entry and exit were all by ferry. After liberation, there were also many ferries in Hengbangkou, Caishentang, Ding Dai (Tudian), Da Wharf Lane and Lu Youfeng Trough Fang, and Wang Yiyuan Grain Store. Historically, the folk have the saying that "there are no three thousand (ferry copper coins), and no river tip". In 1953, at the suggestion of the masses, the Puxuan Bridge was built in the east, which was tied to a wooden bridge to communicate with Yokohama and enter the city. In 1961, the bridge site was relocated dozens of steps north to build a reinforced concrete arch bridge. In 1996, the Jiangjian Bridge was built.
Because it is surrounded by water on all sides, it has become a low-lying area for a long time. As soon as there is a big flood, the water floods to the shore, and even floods the road and enters the house. In 2002, all the houses in Jiangjian were demolished and built into a 3.9-hectare Jiangjian Park, which became a place for residents in beitang area to relax and play.
Image source: "City Rings", the Internet