<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > well of Fukuji Street is the well in people's hearts</h1>
Source: Chengdu Evening News ○ Xiao Zhen
Jingfu Street is a fork alley that extends from the east street of the main street of the ancient city of Guanxian County, and is named after the well. According to legend, this well was drilled from the Ming Dynasty, with cool summer and warm winter, and a sweet aftertaste. According to the Qing "Guanxian Chronicle", at that time, Guanxian county had a reward system for the long-lived elderly, and different amounts of rice, oil and salt, and cloth were distributed to the 80-year-old, 90-year-old, and 100-year-olds every year. The old people who live on Jingfu Street can often receive this honor. People believe that drinking the water of this old well all year round can prolong life, and longevity is the greatest blessing in the eyes of ordinary people. Therefore, this well has also become a blessing in people's hearts.
During the Republic of China period, as the legend of Fukui was widely circulated, the population of this street born of the well gradually increased and became more and more lively. Slowly, the shops along the alley also began to prosper, and after that, the alley gradually became a street, and the street surface was widened from three or four meters to more than ten meters, becoming one of the main living streets of the people in Laoguan County. At that time, the demand for water surged, and a special profession was born: water carriers. They get up early every morning to fetch water from the well, deliver water to the households in need, and charge a copper plate for each water. After 1950, a young man surnamed Hu was also identified on Jingfu Street to be responsible for carrying water for everyone. At first, the price of a water was one penny, and later it rose to two cents, when two cents could be bought for a pot helmet. Later, it rose to five cents, one dime, and when it rose to two cents, tap water became popular. When tap water began to spread, the figure of water was gradually reduced to the side of Fukui. In the 1950s and 1960s, the street house in front of the well fell into disrepair, and when the street house was renovated, the owner felt that the well was useless, so he covered it with stone slabs and built a new house on it.
Today, the merchants along the street still retain traces of the lives of people at that time. In the past, the earliest tea store department in Guanxian County is still here, and it has a history of at least 60 or 70 years. The grandmother of the tea shop said: "When my mother-in-law was in her twenties, she was an employee of a tea factory, working and selling tea at this store. Now that she's old, I just took over the shop from her last year, and there are a lot of old buyers and old neighbors who come to buy tea. My mother-in-law has to repeat it every day, not shoddy, not short of two pounds. ”
There is also a muddling shop on Jingfu Street, and the owner said: "Since the time of my grandfather, I have been engaged in the hand-framed business, and my grandfather was an old gentleman who had read private school. Later, my father opened this shop here, and the business was still good, and now he has opened a branch in Nishikawa. But the business of this shop in Lao Jie is better than that of the branch, many people come to visit, and many cultural people have become friends with their fathers. More than 300 meters above Jingfu Street, there is also a Dexingxiang food store, which used to be famous for "stale tofu". The owner is in his 70s, and his parents have been working in the store since he was even born.
After 1958, his parents became employees of the Guanxian Sauce Garden Factory, which also became a daily necessities store selling tofu, soy sauce, vinegar, etc., and still retains the business license from the early liberation period. The old man said: "We also have WeChat pay in our store, which is helped by children." But I am not used to it, I can collect cash when I can receive cash, after all, it feels more real and stable in my hand. I'm old, and it's slower to take on new things, but I also have to keep up with the times. "There are also many long-established Dujiangyan delicacies in this street: the High Pig's Ear Hotel, the Old Well String Of Incense, the Soldier String Incense, these delicacies are unforgettable over the years; there are also the old bookstores that people remember, and the students in the adjacent irrigation in the past are regular customers on this street, and I am one of them."
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > draught does not forget the story of the digger, the old well and the old street</h1>
Transferred from: Incorruptible Dujiangyan
The ancient city of Guanxian is located at the foot of Yulei Mountain, a branch of Longmen Mountain in the northwest corner of the Chengdu Plain, and was the geographical key of the Chengdu Plain to the present-day Gansu, Qing and Tibet in the old days. Although the ancient city is small, but the merchants gathered, so there is a saying that "Chengdu cannot be moved, and Guanxian county that is dissatisfied".
According to the literature, before the liberation of Laoguan County, there were nearly 60 ancient wells in the city in an area of less than 2 square kilometers, which were divided into public wells, righteous wells, private wells and official wells. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the "Chronicle of Supplementing Guanxian County" records that the ancient city of Guanxian has three ancient wells, namely "Kuiguang Well", "Jinhua Well" and "Qinxin Well". Kuiguang Well and Jinhua Well were both chiseled in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years ago, according to legend, the second well and the Fulongtan water are connected, so it does not dry up in winter; it is also recorded that qinxin well "on the side of the county's East Guanyin Temple, I don't know what generation it was chiseled from, the diameter is 5 feet, and the depth is three zhang. There were monks in Kangxi, and they had to cut off a piece, and the seal of the book Qin Xinquan was written."
With the passage of time and the changes of the world, some ancient wells gradually disappeared into the long river of history, and the wells that were still famous before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China were located in the "Jinhua Well" and the "Fujing" of Jingfu Street between the present Water Conservancy Restaurant (the former old cinema) and the ruins of the Water Conservancy House.
Jinhuajing ruins
Jinhua Jingyuan and the South Street mouth of the Longchi Well one south and one north across the East Street, shaped like a dragon's eyes, by the common people collectively called "Longan Well". The two wells are separated by no more than ten meters, and the Longchi well was abandoned in the late Republic of China due to the yellowing of the well water, but the well water of Jinhua Well has always been clear and sweet, and it is one of the main forces on which the people of the ancient city rely on drinking water. It is said that during the years of the Republic of China, there were provincial governments who sent people to Guanxian County to look for superior water sources, and after tasting the water of jinhua well, the water search team unanimously believed that the water quality of the well was superior, and wanted to occupy the Jinhua well, and the neighbors quickly spread the word after learning the truth, and soon spontaneously gathered hundreds of people with flat shoulders and other "guys" to surround the water search team on three floors outside the three layers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the tap water entering thousands of households, Jinhua Well was gradually abandoned and covered.
The original name of "Fu Jing" of Jingfu Street is not available, it is said that it was dug in the Ming Dynasty, because the well water was sweet, it fed hundreds of thousands of households around Jingfu Street, Shuyuan Street and North Street, so later the street was named "Jingfu Street", and then later faced the street houses in disrepair and collapsed in front of the well during the Great Leap Forward, and when the street house was rebuilt, the well was covered with stone slabs by the main family, and a new house was built on it.
The official well of the Temple of the Water Conservancy House
Now Jinhuajing
Wells that can still be seen in the ancient city include the guan well in the temple of the water conservancy government and the Jinhua well covered by weeds and mud. In the 1950s and 1960s, the family area of the Metropolitan Management Bureau was relocated to the Temple of the Water Conservancy House, and gradually formed a large courtyard, where the residents of the courtyard considered the safety of children, and the well was temporarily covered, and the stone noose frame remaining by the well can still be seen to this day. Listening to the residents of the temple, many tourists still trace here every day, and when they see that the well has been covered, they leave sadly.
In addition to the wells of the ancient city, the well-known wells in Laoguan County also include the Lingdou Spring of Lingyan Mountain, the Mandarin Duck Well of Qinggong on Qingcheng Mountain, and the ruins of the ancient Liushi Spring in Tianshi Cave.
Lingyan Mountain Lingdou Spring
Shangqing Palace Mandarin Duck Well
Tianshi Cave Ancient Six Hours Spring
Now every household uses safe and hygienic tap water and bottled water, these old wells are no longer so important, no one cares, quite twilight, and even lost in the dust of the years, but how incompetence can not change the selfless feelings of the old wells, they were like a kind mother, silently raising and nourishing countless generations of life; they are more like historical navigation markers, witnessing the changes and development of the times.
Statue of a well by the South Bridge River (Walk Around the World, Mobile Phone Photo)
Sculpture of a well by the Yangliu River (walking around the world, taking pictures on mobile phones)