Mirror | Go to Guanlan to listen to the story of the past tower telling the past

When people mention Shenzhen, the metropolis will flash in their minds: avant -garde, novel, young, open, miracle and other keywords, so that some people say that this miracle city that has grown up in the "overnight" regrets lack of years of participation. The precipitation of time is brand new like a wasteland of history and culture.

However, some people pointed out that in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Baoan had already had administrative systems. In the Shenzhen market more than 300 years ago, the word "Shenzhen" appeared as an important place name. Up ... saying that this city is a cultural wasteland is not fair. So, what exactly is Shenzhen? The reporter decided to go, watch, visit her past, and read her present.

Niuhu Village, Niuhu Village, Niuhu Village, Guanlan Street. This version of the picture is taken by the Shenzhen Evening News reporter Liu Chang

The Diaolou of the Guanlan area is now hidden in the streets and alleys, and it is interesting to the blue sky and green trees.

There is a tower at the end of the city

As the saying goes, "Chess outside the game", reading this big book in Shenzhen, I plan to start from its edge. So in a sultry summer afternoon, I came to Guanlan Old Street in the north of the city to try to find Shenzhen Wenmai.

When I first arrived at Guanlan Old Street, the reporter felt a sense of alienation. The narrow streets covered by the shade, the street shops full of decorative styles at the end of the last century, and the low -civilian houses with mosaic tiles in the outer wall make people seem to enter a corner of being forgotten by time, but it is not described in the historical classics. The "Dongbaohui District Little Hong Kong" grand occasion. On the north day and night, the prosperity of the ancient market was drifting away. Fortunately, the Diaolou was preserved and used as a witness to history to open the door to this land.

Chengchang Tower is hidden in the past prosperity

Passing through the quiet Guanlan Old Street, turning into the lively Dongmen Street, as soon as he raised his eyes, he saw the long -standing "Wenchang Building" (later known as "Chengchang Building"). It was once the highest building in the ancient market of Guanlan. It was about 24 meters high. The walls of the three -in -earth soil were still strong after hundreds of years.

According to the historical records of the local side, Chengchang Building was the vault of Chengchang Ticket Number. In addition, the post office near Chengchang Building and No. 18 Nanmen Street Diaolou were also the vaults for civilian financial service agencies such as pawnshop and ticket numbers. Their belly was once full of valuable gold and silver jewelry and satin. The swallows on their heads were used to the prosperity of the ancient market.

Witnessing the exchange of civilizations in the Star Tower

Starting from Chengchang Building, passing by the old site of the ancient market, a gun building numbered "No. 140 of Waizai Village" stands quietly next to the Guanlan River Pier. There is a sentence of "picking the stars" on the Danglou, so it is named the Star Pick Tower. The stars are half -covered by the canopy of the banyan trees like an umbrella. The top of the building has a beautifully -like daughter wall and a Western -style loft. It is like a girl hidden in the deep girlfriend, and she is easily unwilling to show her fragrance.

There are exquisite cloud -like daughter walls and Western -style attic on the stars.

The specific completion of the building is no longer available, but the use of its Western architectural elements can be inferred that this building should be built in the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China. In the 1920s, due to the great depression of the world economy, a large number of overseas Chinese who walked out of Guanlan and went to Chongyang chose to return home to buy a home, setting off a climax of the construction of the Chinese and Western -style tower on both sides of the Guanlan River. Diaolou, once seemed to be a tall sentry, standing majesticly on the eaves of the Guanlan people, and the alarm guarded the fence, shops and ancestral halls underneath. The star moves, the time has eroded its painting, mottled its wall, and the young tree grows from its cold cannon eyes. The residents of the old market moved away, and the new people covered the buildings and factories to easily press its momentum. These former sentrys became the old man, leaning on the big banyan tree at the village entrance, silently staring at the people who came to the people came. In the past, the vicissitudes of the sea.

Shenzhen Evening News reporter Liu Chang

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