Walk through the winding and deep ancient alleys, and visit the ordinary lanes between the green bricks and tiles. The winding ancient alleys have woven the deepest historical charm of this ancient city, and the well bars that have been pulled out of the deep grooves by the well rope are still flowing with the most Yangzhou city well flavor.
This alley in yangzhou's old town, you can never imagine its splendor a hundred years ago! The alley was once the performing arts center of the country, and countless well-known artists in the show business circle lived.
Su Sing Street, connected to Dingjiawan in the east and Dujiang Road in the west, is an east-west old street with a width of about 3 meters and a length of more than 200 meters. The moving name "Su Sing" originated in the Kangqian period of the Qing Dynasty. For a long time after Qianlong and Jiaqing, the official opera was mainly Kunqu Opera. Kunqu opera is popular in Suzhou, so it is called "Su Kun". Not all of the people engaged in "Su Kun" in Yangzhou are Suzhou people, most of them are concentrated in Su Sing Street.
The origin of Su Sing Street is familiar to the old people. "In the past, the gods enshrined in the opera world were Lao Lang gods, and the shrine dedicated to Lao Lang in Yangzhou was in Su Sing Street. In addition to the sacrifices, it is also a place of deliberation in the work, and there were many artists who sang SuKun on this street in those years. ”
It is said that in order to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Qianlong, the Qing court recruited from Yangzhou the "Three Qing Class" with Hui Ban Mingdan Gao Langting as the chief actor to Beijing, which was the beginning of Hui Ban's entry into Beijing. Will Gao Langting have discussed the formation of a class in an apartment on this street, or invited a few famous people to go to Beijing with him on this street?
Walking into the long night of history, during the Republic of China, the General Bureau of Liyuan, the head office of the opera industry, was located in Su Sing Street, or a few excellent people with extraordinary skills came to the ancestral hall located in Su Sing Street to meet and discuss the departure schedule and the repertoire of the performance, and there together they set up a figure, threw off the water sleeve twice, raised a few pearls and jade singing voices, and sang a few beautiful sounds. Sometimes just rehearse a few folding plays, "Garden" or "Si Fan"? At that time, Su Sing Street was very lively.
Li Dou, a native of Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in the "Yangzhou Painting Record": "The old LangTang of Su Sing Street in the city, and the Liyuan General Bureau also. Each class enters the city, before the old lang hall to pray, called the listing. "The so-called Liyuan General Bureau is equivalent to the current Xiqu Association, when there were only two cities in the country with the Liyuan General Bureau, one in Suzhou and the other in Yangzhou's Su Sing Street. Before Huiban entered Beijing, it was here that they met and then set off, which shows the prosperity of Yangzhou opera art at that time. Time has quietly passed, and today's Su Sing Street has no architectural remains related to opera, but walking on the old street, you can see many characteristic wall paintings: the traditional Peking Opera play "Pick a Scooter", the Chinese style of opera faces... Full of artistic and cultural atmosphere.
The Su Singing Street in front of you is bustling away. Listen carefully, in the streets and alleys, there seems to be the sound of Peking Opera, following the sound, an old couple is sitting in the house listening to the play, the lyrics in the play still repeat the talents and flowers and moon cave candles of hundreds of years ago, and the alley life is full of ordinary stories of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. The old man in the house said that although he heard that this street has a great connection with Peking Opera, there are no architectural relics related to drama here for a long time, and the scholar Wei Minghua also feels a little pity, "I think we should find a suitable old building here and establish the Yangzhou Opera Museum." We must not forget that the General Bureau of Pear Garden was once here. ”
Under the warm winter sun, walking and stopping on Su Sing Street, you can also find many surprises. No. 26 Su Sing Street is a humble watch shop, and the owner, Lu Chao, is a watch collector who has a special fondness for the expression of Yangzhou's old brand, Qionghua card players. In the western section of Su Sing Street, the Yangzhou bath built in 1928 also carries the memories of generations of Yangzhou people. Nearby residents said that yangzhou bathrooms are busy all year round, the elderly especially like to come here, everyone talks, will meet, is very enjoyable.