This is a group of old photographs taken in 1941 in Jinzhou, Hebei Province. Let's walk through the fog of history, follow this set of old photos, and see what Jinju City looked like 80 years ago.
Jinzhou, also known as Jin County, is located in the south-central part of Hebei. Jinzhou has a cultural history of more than 2,500 years and is the hometown of the famous Tang Dynasty Xiang Wei Zheng. Jinju is also known as the "Land of Duck Pears". Since Jinzhou was hebei in 1941, we call it "Jinxian" in this article. The picture shows a street scene in Jinxian County in 1941, where two middle-aged women are pushing and grinding. In the old era without electric machinery, the north to eat grain first of all to use stone grinding wheat, soybeans, corn, etc., grain into noodles, this process of grinding grain into noodles is very laborious, there are livestock with livestock to pull the grinding, no livestock have to use people to push. Therefore, the process of grinding the surface is also called "push grinding".
On the outskirts of Jinxian County in 1941, a few pedestrians on a loess avenue leading outside the city.
In 1941, the street scene of Jinxian County, the streets are neat, and there are many pavilions in Jinxian County, which shows that Jinxian county at that time was also a quite prosperous county.
In Jin County in 1941, a man was drawing water from a well with a reel. A tool used in the northern region to draw water from wells during the reeling time, it consists of a reel head, a scaffold, a well rope, and a water bucket. It is a lifting device made of inoule principle to draw water from the well.
Jin County in 1941, slightly deserted streets. A truly quaint old city. JinXian is located in the south-central part of Hebei, the geographical location is important, Gu Zuyu at the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties once had such an evaluation of Jinzhou: "Jinzhou leans on Zhending in the west, between the rivers in the east, and the sichuan route is four links, which is conducive to galloping!" ”
At the gate of Jin County in 1941, a small-footed old lady walked through the street. Jinxian has a long history and many celebrities. The Tang Dynasty xiang xiang Wei Zheng and the author of the Book of Wei, Wei Shuo, were both born in Jin County. Wei Zheng and Wei Hui were both from the Julu Wei family. The Julu Wei clan refers to the Wei family with Julu as the county, mainly active in the Northern Dynasty and even the Sui and Tang dynasties. Wei Zheng's ancestral home was Xiaquyang County, Julu County (present-day Gucheng Village, Jinzhou, Hebei), and tang dynasty celebrity, because he dared to speak out and advise, assisted Tang Taizong Li Shimin to create the "rule of Zhenguan", and was known as a generation of famous faces of "Qianqiu Jinjian".
Wei Shuo was a native of Xiaquyang County ,Julu County (julu County, in present-day Jinzhou, Hebei). Historian and writer of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, Young Fu the Prince of Northern Wei, nicknamed "Wen Zhen". He is the author of the Book of Wei.
Jinxian Lü's Jinshi Arch in 1941. This archway is also called "embroidery workshop", and the archway is written with the four characters of "father and son jinshi". According to the records, the father and son Jinshi Arch was built for the Lü father and son of Jingyang, who was also a Jinshi, and the construction date is the Qing Dynasty, but more information about this archway has not yet been verified.