Stone wall skirts, shutters, arched doors... The old-fashioned buildings on both sides of the cobblestone road are charming, and the time seems to be a return to the last century. The prosperity of commerce and trade in the past gave birth to the extraordinary architectural community around Jiangcangxia...
"Hechun" Yang family ancestral home in southern Fujian Jinjiang, Qing Dao light years, Yang Qiwen, Yang Qishan two brothers came to Fuzhou Taijiang up and down Hanglifa Lane to develop, to deal with timber business, and then the business expanded to shipping, money, tea and other industries.
Located on the north bank of the Minjiang River, the historical Cangxia was once an important commercial and trade center in Fuzhou and even Fujian. The rivers are crisscrossed and the colorful rainbows are scattered, and in the heyday of the Cangxia Zhongping Road Commercial Street, many Fujian merchants engaged in river and sea trade gathered here with foreign merchants.
The Yang family, the founder of "Hechun Shanghao", took the lead in building six or seven large houses on Zhongping Road, and successively built buildings and halls to develop service-oriented industries such as restaurants, restaurants, hostels, money houses, and dance halls. In Shangxiahang, in addition to zhongping road houyangli, Hechun Lane, Hechun Lane and other place names are also closely related to the Yang family.
"Huanhuazhuang runs a winery, a tobacco factory Qiu Dekang; Qiu Dekang's famous brand leather silk tobacco, Nanxing Dao is good to wash soup." This is a "Taijiang Famous Brand Goods Song Ballad" circulated in Fuzhou City in the 30s and 40s of the last century.
The Huanhuazhuang in the song is the former "Fengyun Restaurant" in Fuzhou. Zhuo Yushui, the "great god" of Fujian cuisine, is its chef, and its signature dishes "Taiji Taro Mud", "Snow Mountain Pond Shrimp" and "School Bag Fish Treasure" are famous in Rongcheng. In the old days, Fuzhou people were proud to hold banquets in Huanhuazhuang, and celebrities such as Lin Shu and Yu Dafu also left footprints here.
Today, Huanhuazhuang still stands at the intersection of Zhongping Road and Qingnian Heng Road, and is one of the key historical buildings in the Cangxia Historical and Cultural Block.
This three-storey building is a Western-style façade along the street, the outer wall is dominated by green bricks, red bricks are dotted in between, and the inside is a three-entry Chinese-style courtyard, which is like "dressed in the body, but it is the heart of China".
The total area of the upper and lower floors of the ancient house is more than 1,000 square meters, and the exquisitely carved wooden components can also get a glimpse of the scenery of Huanhuazhuang in that year.
A building carries a memory, history has weathered the past, and the old streets of the past have been replaced by new ones. When the lanterns first bloom and people come and go, the city's past is merging the elements of today's romance, modernity and trend to reopen the prelude and interpret the legendary Taijiang to the fullest.
【Editor-in-Charge: Li Linshan】
Source: First-line Taijiang WeChat