There are places where there are rivers and lakes, but I think there are places for sale.
 
As early as before the birth of the city, people were still in the ancient times of barter, and the market was born, so there was a flow of people who came in and out of the city. So, in each city, every village and town, there are so few streets, who have come and go, have been like a cloud.


As the years change, some streets have been obliterated in the trend of historical development, and can no longer find traces. Although some old streets are still traceable, they never have the brilliant day. The city is a person, a character, a thought. Alley, alley, alley, marketplace, northern tea, southern snacks, these familiar elements are buried with a city or deep or fresh human thought. In Chongqing Xiushan, such elements are yellow carved window grille, is the cornice out of the Diaojiao floor, is revealing the cold sealing the fire wall, is Lu's beef noodles, Hou's Lucai, Liu's buns, Hu's duck ...
 
When I embarked on the Dragon's Stone Road in the West End during this Dragon Boat Festival, alleyways of more than 100 meters in length and breadth criss-crossed, a horizontal and vertical erection. The ridge of centuries-old streets Bone, people feel like being in the roots of history, mysterious and distant. Fushuixianjiu, mottled wood frame house and the old small courtyard became the only commemoration of Yan Yun years.
 
The old people in the old streets told me that West Street was formerly called the "Lao Cai Market" and relied on the Meijiang River. It is the hub of the old county town of Xiushan. Almost every household here is a small business, tailor shop, department store, Buns Shop, pastry shop, butcher shop, pastry shop, pharmacy, shaved shop, restaurant, tea house, tavern, snack, oil mill, dye workshop, bean curd workshop, inn and so on.
However, with the development of the city, the streets are gradually shabby, old, sunny taste, rain everywhere mud has become the reason it is gradually abandoned, the West is also increasingly lonely. In 2013, in order to transform the broken buildings and restore the original appearance of the West Street, Xiushan County carried out comprehensive renovation under the condition of not aboriginal people in line with the principle of "repairing the old as the old" Transformation, and even plans to rebuild the Temple of the Apostles, Bagua well so long disappear the old building ... ...
 
Today, the ancient streets of the road, "a vertical and four horizontal", such as "wide and narrow alley," each residential style different from the professional antique units of carpenters, artisans restore construction, people come to the streets, you can see shrouds, old pubs, etc. Traditional pavement can be around the fire shop to talk about earth tea, with handmade cloth shoes cloth home.
 
Night banquet, it is a feast of magnificent, tens of meters long banquet lined up in the streets, a look can seem to extend to the end of the street, when a bowl of home dishes placed Table, we toast after long drink, the earth bowl fell on the street in the bluestone, full of coarse porcelain burst sound one after another, it is really shocking buildings, lofty ... ...


Old Street, 70-year-old resident Chen uncle said Do not look at this long street only more than 100 meters wide but more than ten feet wide streets, it was the first street in Xiushan, it is no exaggeration to say, Street is the epitome of Xiushan development!
 
I think the words of the old folks are not unreasonable. Everyone once had such a feeling: the old streets and lanes scattered by the cobwebs, the most let you and I never forget, in addition to the long stretch of infinite extension of the immediate sense, it is condensed Every human race in the long, narrow world filled with worldly fireworks and rich human feelings, no matter what kind of meticulous situation, here will become an ordinary day seasoning, become talkative relish dinner.