Friend, have you been to Yingxiu before the earthquake?
Friends, do you know the old street and middle stalls there?
Laojie is a common name and the nickname of Yingxiu. Zhongtanpu is a regional homonym, also known as Zhongtan Fort. It was the original name of Yingxiu Town.
Yingxiu Town belongs to the alpine geosyncline canyon landform. The terrain is divided by the Zhongtanbao fault, with high northwest and low southeast. The rolling Minjiang River is about 14 kilometers long in Yingxiu territory, and its tributary Yuzi River is about 11 kilometers long in Yingxiu territory.
Yingxiu Town, a God-given beauty with an area of ??about three square kilometers, is located in the Minjiang River Valley: Niangziling on the left bank, Panlongsi Mountain and Dahongyan Mountain on the right bank, forming the appearance of three mountains embracing each other; The Minjiang River and the Yuzi River are like a couple eloping in the Dragon Palace, meeting here for a date. They hug each other, hesitate, and finally form an inverted "human" shaped geographical wonder with two rivers merging into one and three mountains competing for beauty.
Yingxiu Town is the southern gate to and from Aba Prefecture. It is 78 kilometers away from Chengdu. National Highway 213 and Provincial Highway 307 intersect here. It is the only place for tourists to go to Jiuzhaigou, Wolong and Siguniang Mountain Scenic Areas. .
A thorough study of the history of Yingxiu Town is related to the Ancient Tea Horse Road that passes through it. This ancient road is the Songmao Ancient Road, which starts from Dujiangyan, passes through Wenchuan and Maoxian County and ends at Songpan, with a total length of 700 miles. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it has been a commercial thoroughfare and military thoroughfare connecting Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai border areas to the north and the hinterland of central Sichuan to the south. In the past, there were many inns or inns on ancient road fortresses or water sources.
There was an inn in Yingxiu in ancient times. But this inn is not where Yingxiu Town is today. It is on the other side of the river beside the old Tea Horse Road, the so-called Xigua Nao among the eighteen bends of San Nao, Nine Pings. The ancient road winds down from the high pass of Niangziling, like a nine-winded sheep intestine hanging in the mountain, and leads to a big bend in the Minjiang River at the foot of the mountain. Perhaps among the passing merchants, some literati and refined scholars saw the scene of "the morning sun rising, the mountains and rivers shining, and the beautiful bay", and they sincerely marveled at the scene called "Yingxiu Bay". Therefore, this resting place on the ancient road was called Yingxiu Bay, and the post station was also known as Yingxiu Post.
The "Wen Zhi Ji Lue" published in the 10th year of Jiaqing period in the Qing Dynasty contains: "Yingxiu Wanpu is located in Jiuzhi South". "Wenchuan County Chronicle" in the 33rd year of the Republic of China records: "Yingxiu Station is located ninety miles south of Zhizhi, with two stations on the right, eight horses and four grooms." Dong Xiangqin, a poet of the late Qing Dynasty, wrote in his "Songyou Xiaochang": "The natural range is bounded by Huayi, fifteen miles above and fifteen miles below, and the good name has been called the lady since the past... After thousands of thoughts, what is the need for life and death? The plan gradually came to the level ground, the people carrying the sedan chair were tired, the people sitting in the sedan chair were tired, and Yingxiu Bay took a rest."
As time flies, Yingxiu Station welcomes and greets people in the wind and rain of history, and gradually evolves into a chain. long street. This long street is called "Old Street" by locals. There is a constant flow of caravans of merchants, and the aroma of tea bags and medicines is overflowing. At its peak, there were twenty or thirty shops of various types here.
As the saying goes: the tinkling of the pack bells and the cacophony of people and horses are the symphony of the old streets for thousands of years;
The Tibetan and Qiang returned to the Han Dynasty, and the porters and porters reflected the image of EMI.
Yingxiu Bay, a gift from nature, can be called a beautiful mountain and river in the eyes of literati.
The Yingxiu scenery of the ancient post road is difficult to navigate, but in the hearts of the post horse porters, it is a poor place.
"Ask Cancong how many years have passed since the founding of the country, why has this vicissitude remained unchanged?" Dong Xiangqin laments this in his "Songyou Xiaoshang".
There is a tragic story circulating about Yingxiu in modern times: During the Revolution of 1911, Dong Hanqing, a patriotic member of the Sichuan Baolu Comrade Association, responded to the call of leader Yao Baoshan and organized the "Fifth Route Army of the West Road Comrade Army" in the Yingxiu area. The rule of the Qing Dynasty Yamen in Wenchuan County. Later, Dong died while leading his team to besiege the Qing army in Guan County, and was commended with a gold-lettered plaque by the provincial governor's office.
There is also a Red Army story circulating in modern Yingxiu: During the Long March, Xu Xiangqian led a division of the Fourth Red Army from Wenchuan south to Yingxiu, where he set up a headquarters and built fortifications to confront the enemy on the east bank of the Minjiang River. At the same time, a team was sent to attack Wolong, preparing to join forces with the Central Red Army led by Mao Zedong in Xiaojin County. As the enemy guarded the dangerous pass of Wolong, the Red Army was blocked. After returning to Yingxiu, it marched north...
It is said that before 1949, Yingxiu Temple There are only 15 families with three surnames: Zhang, Li and Dong living in Ziping area, with less than a hundred people. The Yuzixi river dam and Jiecun area (today's location of the Aba Prefecture Pharmaceutical Factory) are all paddy fields or rocky beaches.
In 1952, when the highway from Chengdu to Aba was built along the left bank of the Minjiang River, the thousand-year-old road was relieved of its historical responsibility, and Yingxiu Old Street fell into neglect.
The township people's government also moved from Laojie to Jiecun by the highway. The center of Yingxiu was moved to the highway downstream of Laojie, close to the confluence of Minjiang River and Yuzi River, forming the prototype of today's Yingxiu market.
In 1965, when the Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Station was under construction, the Guanying Highway was built on the right bank of the Minjiang River, and the Yingxiu Center moved from Jiecun to Zhongtanbao Miaoziping (formerly Yingxiu Primary and Secondary School).
After 1966, when various hydropower construction armies gathered together, the Minjiang River ushered in a new era of hydropower development, and Yingxiucai truly became a beautiful home worthy of the name. Yingxiu Bay became Yingxiu Town in 1984. Wenchuan County has planned the three banks of Zhongtanbao, Jiecun and Yuzi Creek as small town construction areas.
As the industrial population increases, buildings rise one after another on the beautiful hillsides, river beaches, and fields. Schools, hospitals, restaurants, shops, hotels, banks, post offices, markets, etc. have been built one after another. Built. There are 67 industrial, commercial, transportation, construction and other enterprises here, including 42 central, provincial, state and county enterprises. Yingxiu Town, with a total area of ??115.12 square kilometers, has a population of more than 12,000 people, and governs 9 administrative villages and 31 villager groups. Han, Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and other fraternal ethnic groups live together.
The Sixth and Tenth Hydropower Bureau of China Hydropower Bureau, which earlier built the Yingxiu Bay Power Station, have bases here. Aba Prefecture Pharmaceutical Factory, Taipingyi Power Plant and other locations are located here. Before 1996, all personnel and their families of Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant worked and lived here.
I came to Yingxiu for an interview and found out a doubt. I asked many people in the town and many old people in the movie theater, but they couldn't explain it clearly. This question is: Why is the power plant built in Yingxiu Town not called "Yingxiu Power Plant" but called "Yingxiu Bay Power Plant"? Later, when I talked about this matter with Li Qicai, deputy director of Yingdian, he was also very puzzled. He said that he had worked here for 30 years, how could he ignore the name of the factory? He is a serious person when dealing with problems. He immediately dialed the deputy magistrate of Wenchuan County on his mobile phone. The deputy magistrate was not very clear. Then he dialed the phone to ask Chen Wu, deputy director of the Chengdu Survey and Design Institute, for advice. The vice president learned about the reason why it is called "Yingxiu Bay" through an old engineer from the design institute who was originally responsible for survey and design.
In fact, I also found out clearly in the "Wenchuan County Gazetteer": the upstream of the Yingxiu Bay Power Station plant was the location of the Laojie Brigade in the past. Although the old street has been depressed over time, the ancient places in the Laojie area , called Yingxiu Bay. The power station was built here, and it is customary for designers to name the power station after the place.
Yingxiuwan Hydropower Plant was planned to be constructed in August 1966. At that time, it was called "Hongwei Power Plant". The initial office was located in Guanxian Power Supply Station, with only 9 staff members. In 1967, the Preparatory Office began to build an office building in Yingxiu, and the following year the office structure and personnel moved to Yingxiu. Since then, the army has become stronger, more cadres and technical personnel have been transferred from various places, and the number of family members has also increased. The number of employees has reached 300, and housing has become increasingly tight. Therefore, in 1971, four residential buildings (i.e. family buildings No. 2, 3, 4 and 5) were built in the area of ??Yingxiu Commune Apple Orchard and Fengshan Mountain after excavating the land. The 61st Detachment Operations Brigade also built a single dormitory outside Yeongzhandong that year.
Times have changed. After Yingdian's three power stations were completed and put into operation, the power plant actually owned half of Yingxiu Town. In the era when enterprises were running societies, the factory's office building, children's school, employee hospital, employee canteen, hotel, single dormitory building, and family residential area were all available. Along the foot of Ertai Mountain and on the left bank of Yuzi River, the office area and living area form a self-contained system. It is no exaggeration to say that Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant takes up less than half of the entire territory of Yingxiu Town.
In the 1980s, Yingxiu had many high-rise buildings that were rare to see in the county. Cinemas, bookstores, banks, shopping malls, hotels, everything is available. In an old street along the river, wooden shops are packed close to each other. They are full of people drinking tea, eating breakfast, smoking cigarettes, playing mahjong, and "setting up dragon gate formations". It is really lively...