"Centennial Shoe Street" borrows "new"

The last one of the enhancement of the renovation is close to the end. Photo by Lin Luo Xiao, a reporter from Meizhou Daily

The sculptor Chen Chunhui is improving the sample of the clay sculpture works in "Chen Jingbang and Shoe Makers".

The city's shoe industry has a long history, and now it is the city's first output value exceeding 100 billion yuan. During the protection and renovation of the historical and cultural district of Xinghua House, pay attention to the excavation of characteristic historical and cultural resources such as "century -old shoe streets", organically integrate historical relics and humanistic accumulation, and truly allows the neighborhood to continue the context, retain nostalgia, inscription memory, and rejuvenate.

"Shoes and arts and crafts industries are our traditional industries of Putian. Our sculptures such as" Chen Jingbang and Shoe Merchants "and" Gold "and other works. I hope that tourists can understand the long history of Putian industry in the future." In the past few days, the country has been in the country. Grade sculpture skills Chen Chunyang and Chen Chunhui brothers hurriedly polished, improved, and cast copper on 5 sculpture works, adding humanistic landscapes to Xinghua History and Cultural District.

Yesterday, on the weekend, in the historical and cultural district of Xinghua Mansion, the construction staff gave up the holidays and fully touched the last big road street to improve the transformation. The construction scene was hot.

Xiao Ya, a member of the Protection and Repairing Engineering Group of Xinghua History, studied the local history of Putian. He introduced that the history of Daolu Street can be traced back to the Tang and Song dynasties, from Wenfeng Palace in the south, and Changshou Society in the north. It is a north -south traffic road in the center of Xinghua Ancient City. Therefore, it was called "Avenue Street" in ancient times. Due to its superior geographical location, it has become a place for merchants to operate and family livable. The shoe industry here has a history of more than 400 years. According to historical records, there were 4 well -known shoe store in the late Ming Dynasty. The story of "Chen Jingbang and Shoe Merchants" circulating in the folk happened in front of Changshou Club, Dalu Street.

There is another story circulating Chen Jingbang and shoe making industry. According to legend, after the state teacher Chen Jingbang returned to his fellow, he was invited to write a sign of the shop friend. The "A" shape is like a tool -making utensils, and the word "B" is the same as the cutting of the shoe. So far, the shoemaker still uses such tools.

Later, the shoe repair industry on the road street gradually developed into the shoe making industry. During the Republic of China, it had developed into Putian's famous "shoe street". Some elderly people in the local area still remembers that the largest scale and reputation of the old road street shoe stores in the past are "Caicheng" and "Progressive Heaven". Shoe stores are all produced by themselves, using cloth shoes as the main and small amount of leather shoes, slippers, etc. Flat -ups are popular, canvas, canvas, thick cloth. Most of the colors are black and blue. There were three types of bottoms, namely the superior cowhide "Citi", camels, and rubber. Later, it gradually developed into a durable tire -cut sole. The manufactured cloth shoes, the best -selling Xianxian, all people who enter the city like to buy double cloth shoes in Dalu Street. After the Western medicine was introduced into Putian in the late Qing Dynasty, in addition to the shoe industry, the medicinal materials industry began to rise, and it developed rapidly.

Yuan Fang, the person in charge of the operation of the History and Cultural District project of Xinghua House and the vice president of Beijing Peak Intelligence Tourism Culture Creative Co., Ltd., introduced that the remaining city memory of the historical and cultural district is an important resource for the city to promote the integration of cultural tourism. The project headquarters carefully planned the investment business format of the neighborhood, continued history, regarded Dalu Street as the core business district, implanted new industrial functions, introduced the characteristic industries such as shoe, gold jewelry, Putian arts and crafts to settle in, and incorporated modern fashion elements at the same time. IP Retail (Internet Red Store) reflects the characteristics of the Xianxian, the gathering of industries, and the integration of cultural tourism. (Meizhou Daily reporter Huang Lingyan)

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