Fireworks Su singing street

The ancient city of Yangzhou is full of ancient streets and alleys, and Su Sing Street is located in it. Walking on this street, from time to time, there is a long melody of elegant rhyme, like a youlan tufang, as if recalling the past that was once flourishing, and the shadows are fragrant.

Today's humble Su Sing Street has no prosperity in the past, only the mottled high-walled deep house, the chic carved gatehouse, the closed black lacquered wooden door... Silently counting the past time, lamenting the liveliness of that year. The street of more than two hundred meters long and three meters wide seems ordinary, and you are not in a hurry to come, but there is a dry inside, and it is hidden.

The painting boat takes the spring dawn smoke, and the silk pipe is full of elm money. Thousands of adopted daughters teach the song first, and ten miles of flowers are counted as farming. The Yangzhou Liyuan General Bureau of the Qing Dynasty was located in Su Sing Street, where who could have imagined that the source of the essence would be here. Due to the development of the salt industry in Yangzhou at that time, many salt merchants gathered here, and most of them were Confucian merchants, who liked to make friends with literati and scholars. The Qianlong Emperor made six southern tours, loved to watch plays and listen to music, and salt merchants recruited famous classes from all over the country to select plays, and Yangzhou opera was able to develop and grow, laying the foundation for the four emblem classes to enter Beijing. At that time, salt merchants maintained drama classes, and listening to drama became their most casual way. The south cavity and the north tune integrate the east and the west, the Beijing cavity, the Qin cavity, the Zizi, the Erhuang, the Kunqu opera ... gathered in one city, the huge and complex crowd of various dramas, making the opera active here, Su Singing Street carries a pleasant tune, a long historical context.

The carved gatehouse is accompanied by the Four-Bank Office standing at the east end of Su Sing Street, and several houses have gone through vicissitudes, slightly lonely and desolate. It is the joint office place of the salt trade ports of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces in the Qing Dynasty, where the salt industry transports production, supply and marketing, decision-making, price approval, and balance demand, and it is also a good place for merchants to talk about friendship and remember homesickness. Walking here allows you to appreciate the gathering of merchants at its peak, or the scene of talking loudly or talking on the knee seems to be in front of you, and the exquisite carvings bear witness to the glory of the exclusive century.

The most important thing on the ancient Su Sing Street is the fireworks in the world, the narrow streets, people come and go, and the people on the old streets live their lives calmly and calmly. Especially the old Yangzhou people who live in it, in the morning, the water is wrapped in water, and the water is foreskin at night, and the days are plain and comfortable. Old Yangzhou people get up early in the morning near He Garden to stroll, tired of the nine furnaces or Jiangjiaqiao dumpling noodle restaurant to sit, order a portion of hot dry silk, sip green Yang Chun, order two or three delicious buns, or come to one or two pots of paste plus a bowl of dumplings, or a bowl of dry mixed noodles with poached eggs, just floating green leaf waist flower soup, really delicious and rich morning tea filled the stomach, want to come to Yangzhou the biggest benefit is to be full of happiness, excellent taste, affordable to let people eat shaking their heads, a little satisfaction.

Shortly after lunch, the Yangzhou bathroom at the west end of Su Sing Street began to be lively, and the old Yangzhou people were welcomed one after another, and the Yangzhou bathroom located at No. 23 Su Sing Street and the three-star bathroom, the Yongning Spring bath, and the Shuanggui Spring bathroom became the only four old bathhouses left in Yangzhou. Built in the late Qing Dynasty and early Minchu, with the passage of time, the facilities are old, fortunately in 2019 by the Yangzhou Ancient Architecture Company to renovate and upgrade, retro Republic of China style, so that these traditional bathhouses revitalized.

In the steaming water in the Yangzhou bathroom, the old guests rubbed their backs in the bath and looked up to it comfortably. I think of my grandfather, who has been dead for many years, at more than two o'clock in the afternoon, often going to the three-star bathroom of Guqiting to take a bath, where there are his old friends chatting and drinking tea, squinting for a night, and then nibbling on a piece of baked cake and returning, full of red light, not to mention how leisurely it is. Although he is deceased, if I pass by the Guqiting Street entrance of the Three-Star Bathroom or walk through the Yangzhou Bathroom, I will inadvertently look inward, as if my grandfather, who is tall and handsome, is still enjoying the happiness of the water foreskin in it.

A song and a tune are sung on the ancient Su singing street, quiet in the years, knocking on the door of the heart, quietly enjoying life, boiling tea and cooking dishes.