The history and roots of \"Shuida Guting Street\"
The thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1945) May 9, Guting area due to continuous heavy rain, flash floods, a huge flood swept Guting Street. The entire polder was destroyed by the flood, hundreds of people were left homeless, more than half of the shops went bankrupt, and large tracts of rice paddies on both sides of the river became sandbanks. After the flood, the whole Guting Wei was swept by the flood, several ruins. This major flood, which has never been seen in history, is called \"water hit Guting Street\".
The record of the \"water beating Guting Street\" incident was recorded in the collection of township records. The Annals of Chongyi County, published in March 1989, was published in \"Natural Disasters? In \"Flood\
\"On May 9, the 34th year of the Republic of China (1945), the river broke the flood record since the establishment of the county, and there were many rural houses along the two rivers, and the loss of livestock and grazing could not be counted.\"
More than 70 years have passed, and most of the predecessors who have witnessed and experienced this period of history have passed away, and those who are still alive have reached their thirties.
In order to find more detailed historical facts about this historical disaster, the author visited the \"Shuita Guting Street\" during the Spring Festival on February 6, 2016, and several witnesses described the scene of witnessing this major disaster from different perspectives. Two of them made a more typical memory, an old man named Liu Yifeng recalled:
\"I was in Guting Old Street, 'water hit Guting Street' that year, I was only 12 years old, many scenes still remember.\"
I remember that morning (May 9, 1945, lunar April 7), before breakfast, the water in the old street had risen to more than one meter deep, we were trapped in the hanging tower, the door was held up by adults to prevent things from being washed away by the water, and many people on the street hid in the height to see the water. About noon, the river continued to surge, from time to time a wave (flood peak) into the street, along the river road rows of shops and housing, under the impact of the flood, began to collapse one by one, and from time to time issued a loud bang, did not come out in time to die three or four people. There were forty to fifty boats, rafts and large piles of timber moored at Yan Wu Ferry to Tong Kok Wan, all of which were swept away or destroyed by the flood.
After the flood, Guting Street was a mess, and some businesses felt the frequent flooding here, so they did not want to continue their business, so a number of businesses moved away one after another. Remember when the street blacksmith has a family Yudu County Xie people, moved back to Yudu, those rice, beans, oil and salt line of Cantonese, Fujian, Shangyu, Nankang, a considerable part of the move away, there are also some businesses moved to the nearest Guantian, Wenying, Shangpu and other places, Guting Wei and from then on is very different, business has become cold.\" (Note: Narrator: Liu Yifeng, female, born in Guting in June 1933.)
Another 91-year-old man named Liu Zuofu also recalled the scene very clearly:
\"My family lived in the old street, the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China\" water hit Guting Street \
Whether it is recorded in literature and history or people's oral memory, there is no doubt that this catastrophic flood had a huge impact on ancient Ting, and ancient Ting has been greatly damaged since then. Those who had suffered heavy losses, regretfully, but also did not want to revive, so they moved out with their families.
After the \"water attack Guting Street\
The serious disaster phenomenon of \"water hit Guting Street\" caused the author to pay attention to and verify the history of \"natural disasters and man-made disasters\" in Chongyi Mountain area. From the Angle of environmental damage and change, we can find the root cause of water disaster, so as to draw the conclusion of disaster lessons. The research results of the economic history of Ming and Qing Dynasties in southern Gannan show that the floods in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China are closely related to the long-term accumulation of population growth and overdevelopment in the mountainous areas of southern Gannan since Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Huang Zhifan and Liao Shengfeng's Research on Commodity Economy of Southern Gannan in Qing Dynasty made a very pertinent research and analysis, which pointed out: \"Southern Gannan in Qing Dynasty, because of the rapid population growth, its population has exceeded its own capacity during the Qianlong period.\"
According to the \"Annals of Chongyi County\" published in 1989, the total population of Chongyi County was as high as 98,179 people in the thirty-third year of Qing Qianlong (1768), which was 13,913 more than the total population of the county in 1949.
With the rapid increase of population, the relationship between people and land in the mountainous area of southern Gannan is tense, and the food supply in the whole area is also in short supply, especially in Chongyi. According to the \"Chongyi County Chronicle\" published in 1989, it is recorded that \"Chongyi nine times of great hunger, soaring prices, thousands of dollars, county people pick powder stone (Guanyin soil) for food.\" The mountainous Chongyi was forced to over-cultivate the mountains, to cultivate the mountains, to sow multi-grain crops, for ordinary farmers, more to sustain their livelihoods.
Historically, people in Chongyi Mountain area for \"shovel ridge\
The author made a comparative analysis of Fengzhou area, which can be roughly summarized into the following four aspects: 1, deforestation, a large number of rafts, bamboo rafts to the downstream; 2. The \"Reclamation Movement\" in the Soviet Area and the Republic of China; 3, the mountain farmers continue to shovel the ridge, shovel the turf, dig the tree stump and other production behaviors; 4. During the war, the stationing of the Hunan Army in the upper reach of Hunan Province and the massive destruction of vegetation, such as deforestation, building blockhouses and digging deep ditches, were the main factors leading to the \"water breaking Guting Street\
During the period of the Republic of China, the desertification of land and the increasing shortage of forest resources made the originally serious livelihood problem more difficult, and the continuous development of mountain areas was necessary to solve the livelihood, which presented a vicious circle in Chongyi society. The unsurmountable ecological and livelihood reality leads to the further development of commodity economy in Guting Mountain area and the lack of sustainable prosperity.
\"Water beating Guting Street\" made Guting lose its former prosperity with the change of the external market. Several years later, with the founding of New China, Guting Street business gradually turned a good corner. However, the social changes of Guting Street commerce have become a microcosm of the rise and fall of commodity economy in the mountainous areas of modern China.
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The name of Weifang Guting Street comes from an old street and an old pavilion. Located in the center of Weifang, this street is one of the oldest and most cultural streets in Weifang City. This street, which has existed since the Qing Dynasty, is lined with old shops and houses, the most famous of which is an old pavilion. This pavilion is located at the south end of the street, built in the Ming Dynasty, is a wooden structure pavilion, pavilion carved with exquisite patterns, is the historical and cultural heritage of Weifang City.
Because of the historical value of this ancient pavilion and street, the Weifang municipal government began to protect and develop this street in the late 20th century, and turned it into a characteristic street integrating culture, tourism and commerce. During the renovation of the street, the old pavilion was protected and restored, and moved to the center of the street, becoming the landmark of the street. At the same time, the buildings on both sides of the street have been preserved and restored to retain the original historical style.
Therefore, the name of Weifang Guting Street comes from the ancient streets and ancient pavilions, this street is the historical and cultural heritage of Weifang City, but also a cultural business card of Weifang City.