(Shucheng Renmin Road is full of stalls)
Old things in the main street of the city
I went to the meeting on April 12
Jiang Han
May 12 this year is the 12th day of the lunar calendar, which is the traditional temple festival day in Shuyang in previous years.
When I was a teenager, I was most impressed by the April 12th Exchange Conference every year.
The Shucheng Temple Festival flourished during the Ming and Qing dynasties and flourished during the Republic of China. On the day of the temple fair, good men and women came to Shucheng one after another, and went to the temples of Zhaode Temple, Ziyang Temple, Wenchang Pavilion, Shengfu Temple and other temples to worship the Buddha, ask for children and make wishes, pray for smooth wind and rain, abundant grain, and peace for people and animals.
Shucheng temple fair is the twelfth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, people in addition to going to the temple to burn incense, but also to Dongguan Mule Horse Street to select mule horses, cattle and donkeys and other livestock, ready for summer harvest summer planting, the governor of the Republic of China at that time will be the temple fair market in Mule Horse Street, so called Mule Horse Club.
After the 1950s and 1960s, there were few religious believers, and the temples were rare for pilgrims to see fewer cars and horses. Because it was in the planned economy period, in order to activate the local economic development and promote the exchange of urban and rural materials, the temple fair on April 12 was changed to the urban and rural material exchange conference.
The people of the four miles and eight townships came to catch up with the meeting, ten miles of empty alleys, far away, dongguan to xiguan, bustling, crowded, shoulder to shoulder. Especially those vendors, early on the designated streets on both sides of the tents and stalls, placed all kinds of supplies, shouting and shouting, all want to take the opportunity to sell a good price.
The lively cityscape is like a reproduction of Zhang Zeduan's "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty".
The big garden in the center of the county (in front of the former People's Hospital) was crowded
The material exchange conference is generally three days, that is, from April 12 to 14, mainly including commodity trading, agricultural tool sales, clearance material handling, livestock trading, agricultural product exchanges and various cultural performances.
In the era of scarcity of materials, it became a luxury for everyone to buy cheap and high-quality goods that people needed during the material exchange conference. So regardless of men and women, young and old, those who ride, ride, and walk all rush to Shucheng, and it doesn't matter if they buy bargains or not, they want to make a scene.
Selling to sell can not sell at a good price is the idea of business people, they are not far away, the car push shoulder pick,
Rush from Linyi, Tancheng, Donghai, Xinyi, Guanyun, Guannan, Huaiyin and other places to find a good place to set up a stall.
Those blacksmiths and carpenters have long built agricultural tools to facilitate sales at material exchange meetings, and these agricultural tools are not worried about selling. Like wood milling, broom, bardou, stall wood, wooden branches are complete.
The flea market has the largest number of people, and everyone rushes to buy clearance materials and shop for smart goods. Most of these clearance goods are backlogged goods in the warehouses of department stores or supply and marketing cooperatives, which are somewhat flawed, and they are sold at a discount, and the people are cheap.
You can't buy bargains, pick some necessities, you see the women who rush to the meeting, squeezed out of the crowd, always holding towels, undershirts, socks, pillow mats, plastic shoes and other small commodities; girls are to choose one or two pieces of flower cloth, go back to make a summer single dress, and then buy a soap, toothpaste toothbrush or something.
The most exciting is the children, Shandong old couple ingenious, hundreds of miles to push the cart, the stall is always full of various forms of wooden toys, attracting many children to watch. Seeing other children buy a fun toy, other children are envious in their hearts and always pestering adults. If adults are reasonable, they will buy one or two toys to satisfy their children. If someone is shy, this wayward child will inevitably be beaten.
The place where men gather is the bookstore, everyone comes to catch up with no money to buy things, the feet do not want to turn, go to the bookstore to sit down, listen to the Huaihai drum gong "Yang Jiajian" over the addiction, four or five temporary bookstores are close to each other, the gongs are heard, the storytellers rush to a lively popularity, each shows his magic to take out the storytelling skills to attract everyone, and the people who take the sign are the busiest in the audience.
The sound of drums and gongs attracted the crowd to gather to listen to books
Small drama classes from other places also showed a hand, including Tancheng Yangqin, Donghai Lv Opera, Shuyang Huaihai Opera, Linyi Acrobatics, Xuzhou Magic, Haizhou Monkey Playing, Jinan La Dayang Film, one by one to attract the audience, a variety of forms of artistic performances, a bit to make the audience flawless, hate the art of no separation.
If you say that the meeting comes to join in a lively, and young men and women choose this time to see the object, it is another matter, to the hotel to invite the matchmaker to eat a mouthful is very necessary, almost all the restaurants on the day are full of friends, guessing the fist order, drinking wine one by one.
When the production team had to work 360 days a year, only on this day of the meeting, there was a day off, so that the people would rush to buy a sickle and buy a cloak to collect wheat.
The third-rate, ninth, and so on all went into the city to catch up, and the little cockroach thief could not sit still, and went into the city to make a scene, where there were many people drilling, the winner was complacent, the lost hand was caught by the plainclothes police, and the public humiliation, hanging his head, sighing and remorseful.
The workers who go to work are outside the class, the outside is bustling, the office can't sit still, and everyone will always borrow a reason to sneak out on the street. Relatives from the countryside came to the city to catch up with the meeting, took the opportunity to meet with the people in the city, and it was the common sentiment of people to entertain them, and I had to hurry up to buy vegetables. I am not afraid of all coming together, I am afraid that my relatives will arrive one after another.
In this case, simply call it a big stack of grilled cards, cook a few dishes, who eats, and a flowing water mat. There is no guarantee of eating well, but the seeker is full, otherwise, relatives will go home and curse the people in the city.
The twelfth day of the twelfth month of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is around the time of the small full festival, that is, before the wheat harvest, the weather changes when it is said, the dark clouds roll in in the afternoon, the thunder rumbles, and the people who are scared to rush to the meeting have gone home, and no one wants to be drizzled into a soup chicken. The fucking day stirs up business opportunities, and businessmen will seize the last time before the rain to sell at a low price. People who are not afraid of rain and do not panic take the opportunity to pick up the cheap.
Without notice, the people will come to the meeting when they arrive, because April 12 is the meeting of the people. If the people rushed to buy things in those years, it was better to say that the people had money and no money to join in the fun.
Entering the era of market economy, all kinds of commodities are available, and fewer and fewer people rush to the meeting, and it is of no practical significance to hold the April 12 exchange conference. Due to various factors, the relevant departments have also ignored and ignored this exchange meeting, changing the location of the meeting for many years, so that the people can run a lot of unjust roads.
The people have money in their pockets, he wants to consume, he wants to rush to the meeting to make a lively, April 12 exchange conference is the people's heart of the meeting, not only to leverage the economy and opportunities, but also to drive consumption of business opportunities. In a narrow sense, April 12 is considered to be an economic exchange, but in essence it is a local folk cultural gathering. Its influence is no less than that of an advertisement on CCTV.
I personally believe that the relevant departments should turn their feelings into sentimentality and take the opportunity to cater to this rare opportunity, such as: holding a township folk art performance, street performances, holding peasant sports meetings, sports competitions, recruitment fairs in development zones, blind dates for young men and women, going to temples and churches to worship and pray, organizing peasants to go to the city to see Shuyang, and rural farmers to go to the city to visit relatives, and other colorful activities, to promote and highlight the cultural connotation of the festival, and really make April 12 a big event of folk economy and culture that sets up a stage and sings on the stage.
Then again, during the epidemic in 2022, for the sake of epidemic prevention and control, it is better not to hold the April 12th meeting.
The Twelfth of April, those people, that era, that grand event, seemed to be far away from us, but they were in a trance.
Jiang Han, a native of Shuyang, is from Huai'an. In the 1980s, he studied literary creation and local history and culture research, and his works were scattered in various newspapers. He is currently a director of the Suqian Historical and Cultural Research Association, a member of the Suqian Writers Association, and a member of the Shuyang County Literature Research Association.
Published a long historical novel "Poor Way".
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