The green tile houses lined with small streets loomed in the mist that had just turned white. The iron stove on the west gate was red, and the sound of pulling bellows rose and fell, merging with the creaking sound of chicken buses pushing on the street. This small town woke up on an ordinary day.
There was also a bell and drum tower on the west gate, which fell into disrepair and was demolished. Walk along the small street of Sanhetu to the East Gate, not far in front of it is the Fire Temple, which was changed to Xingjing Erxiao after liberation, where I studied when I was a child. I remember that at that time, the ages of the students were uneven, the older ones had already started families, and we were the youngest at the age of seven or eight.
There are more and more temples going forward. Shing Mun Cave is in the middle street, and behind the street there are Sanyuan Temple, Hetian Temple, Zi tong Palace and so on. At that time, there were still walls in the city gate cave, but there were also broken walls. Down is the Temple of Literature, the earliest complete elementary school. (What is the end of the primary school is from the first grade to the sixth grade)
Opposite the Yu King's Palace, the north gate of the Catholic Songzhu Lu. Go forward to Jiangxi Guild Hall and Chenghuang Temple. Kaizenji Temple. (It's still there, it's a cultural relic)
Opposite the Chenghuang Temple is a vegetable market, there are fish sellers, and at that time it was all Ya fish. For those who sell pork, beef and mutton are not valuable. Not many people eat it. The blind king of fortune-telling, Wang Banxian, is not very blind, and the most visible thing is money. There are three fortune tellers and half immortals, of which Wang Half Immortal has a good business, even coaxing and scaring, and can earn a few dollars a day. The front is the backstreet water alley. The Water Alley is an alley for residents living on this section of the street to go down the river to fetch water to eat and walk, and is made of cobblestone steps. Down the stairs is the beach of the former river.
The former river, also known as the Jinghe River, originates from Wawu Mountain. The Hou River is called Xinghe River, which originates from the Sanhe Niubei Mountain. The place where the two rivers intersect is called the Xingjing. The confluence of the two rivers flows into the Tsing Yi River, which was ancientally known as Ruoshui. And the Dadu River is called Foam Water. The great literary hero Guo Yuruo's family lived in Shawan, Leshan, which happened to be the confluence of the Qingyi River and the Dadu River, so his pen name was 沬若也. (Xingjing wild talk, to be continued.)