Located in Jin 'an District, Lu 'an City, Anhui Province, there is a small town called Maotanchang at the southernmost tip. It was once one of the important towns at the eastern foot of Dabie Mountain and a famous ancient town. There is an old street in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is the most intact ancient residence in western Anhui. Today's "Charming Anhui" will take you to appreciate the ancient customs of the old streets in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
This old street in Ming and Qing dynasties is 1.320 meters long and runs north and south. After hundreds of years of weathering and erosion, the houses on both sides have been somewhat fragmented and decadent. However, the once majestic posture is still visible. The streets are all paved with bluestone strips and pebbles, with a width of 3.7 meters to 5.3 meters. There is a deep rut on the bluestone strip, which is the trace left by the iron wheel of the old wooden unicycle. There are more than 750 houses facing the street, more than 200 shops and nearly 100 private houses. The buildings on the old street are very old and varied, including the five-column porch house in Ming Dynasty, the volcano house with heavy load and small beams in Qing Dynasty and the herringbone frame house in Republic of China. However, most of the houses are buildings in the late Qing Dynasty, with shops in the front and shops in the back, wooden structures and wooden doors. Generally, they enter in two or three directions, showing strong residential characteristics in Dabie Mountain area everywhere.
Old Street Old Man: Old Street was built in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Hongwu laid the foundation of Nanjing and just ascended the throne. In order to fight against the cavalry of the Yuan people, the counties in Jiangsu and Anhui lost their horses. At that time, there was an empty plain in the southern mountainous area of Lu 'an Prefecture, where thatch and wormwood were everywhere, which was an excellent place to graze horses, so the state officials promoted a horse-raising factory called Maotan Factory. After this homonym, the book was written as "Mao Tan Factory".
After the unification of the Ming Dynasty, Mafang Nanshan in Maotan Factory gradually became an important town in Shannan due to its geomantic omen and business travel. In the Qing Dynasty, the "tea-horse policy" was implemented, and tea was exchanged for horses, which made the tea economy here develop rapidly and brought unprecedented prosperity to Mao Tan factories. Many businessmen appeared, and they competed with each other, so that Mao Tan factory formed seven ancient streets and four gates. The former site of the famous Liuxiangfeng Tea Shop still exists. From its vast area and magnificent structure, we can vaguely imagine the prosperity of that year.
The ancient buildings in the old street are most worth seeing: "Tugongguan" and "Tujiamiao". Tu Gong refers to Tu Zongying, the governor of Guangxi, Henan, Hunan and other provinces in the Qing Dynasty, and finally became the governor of Huguang. There are six rooms in Tu Mansion, three rooms in the east are residential halls, three rooms in the west are shops, and there are five rooms before and after. The walls of the house are made of bluestone strips, blue brick walls, one bucket and one lie, and the volcano is sealed with a bow. Tu Mansion is now the residence of ordinary people, and the small courtyard is full of flowers and plants. Cold and rainy winter, there is still a little green.
Tujia Temple is the public temple of Tu Zongying, with two entrances and five rooms each, covering an area of about 10 mu. Once there was no back wall, it was divided into two patios, front and back, with tall zhaobi; On the left and right are box houses. There are three stone gates on the zhaobi, and a horizontal tablet engraved with the words "Tuguanglu Gongci" is embedded above a gate in the middle. Now the temple is idle and the courtyard is empty, which makes people sigh that "the humble room is empty and the bed is full".
The most distinctive feature of the old street is that there are many manual workshops. Walking here, blacksmiths, paper umbrella factories, sewing shops and other manual workshops can be seen everywhere, and the tinkling sound is endless. The most striking thing is the old shop selling oil-paper umbrellas on the corner. Bright colors and long-lost oil-paper umbrellas make people daydream. Most of the people engaged in these handicrafts are old people, and their vicissitudes and serene demeanor are integrated with the style of the old street.
It is said that ten years ago, it was still a bustling commercial street. Due to the development of new streets and the migration of people, it is very sparse here. Nowadays, most of the people guarding the old streets are old people and children, living a simple and practical life in this corner of Maotanchang town. The old and light old street presents a tone that has experienced wind and rain, giving people a feeling of deja vu. Is this our dream home?
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