Abstract: "Mianzhou Memory" characteristic commercial block in Tieniu Square officially opened more than half a month, Tieniu Square has attracted the favor of countless citizens and tourists, the nightly film of the water curtain is the most popular project, has not begun to perform, the square will sit around a large number of people looking forward to.
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An old street like a story, let a person moved aftertaste; An old lane records a period of history, let people chase ancient thinking today. As Mianyang with a thick history, an ancient lane, an ancient wall, an ancient house...... In time, all recorded the changes of Mianyang. From now on, this newspaper opens "Mianzhou Memory" column, with the old streets and alleys as the longitude line, with the time flow as the latitude, to sort out the context of the development of the city, the development and changes of Mianyang.
"Mianzhou Memory" characteristic commercial block has been officially opened in Tieniu Square for more than half a month. Tieniu Square has attracted the favor of countless citizens and tourists, and the nightly water-screen movie is the most popular project. Before the performance starts, a large number of people sit around the square and look forward to it.
From Tieniu Street to Tieniu Square, with the continuous development and change of the city, it has become a new city landmark of Mianyang, but also the ideal choice of leisure and entertainment for citizens, full of fireworks and market atmosphere.
The lively Tieniu Square
76-year-old Pu Changsheng is a people of old Tieniu Street, according to his words, in addition to the educated youth sent to the countryside for a few years, he was born, studied, worked, married, lived and so on around the Tieniu Square. Born at there, long at there, in love with there, let him to Tieniu Square is particularly nostalgic and familiar. After the opening of the street, Tieniu Square become more popular, every day make hot, full of vitality. "It's been 70 years in the blink of an eye. When you think of the Tieniu Street area in my childhood, it's totally different from now." In front of everything, let the old Tieniu Street people pleased.
"Tieniu Street, Jieguan Pavilion, down the slope into the city; Water Guanyin, Shushenglang, kill cattle, peel it and also increase insight; Raincoat city, buy grass, into shoes and clothes run around; By the North River, cargo ships are lined up to carry special products..." This is Pu Changsheng written rhymes, is also his memory of the most familiar Tieniu Street area. "There was a lot of business in Fir Street at that time, especially tofu and bean sprouts. Not far from the Fujiang wharf side, wooden boat felling line up in a string, boatmen singing songs laborious handling goods. My parents and my five brothers were seven people living in a house with a fence covering 10 square meters. They lived in poverty, but they were more humane. We ran to the Fujiang River to pick up wood, take home as firewood." The old man looked back on his childhood with melancholy.
Wang Ping is a new generation of Tieniu Street residents. In 2012, she and her family bought a house near the Tieniu Square and settled there. For more than 10 years, it has been bustling. And every time Tieniu Square changes, she likes it more. "As the business community becomes more mature, the comfort of life becomes better and better. We used to drive to other places to see water-curtain movies and light shows, but now we can see them at our doorstep. It's really comfortable."
Whether Pu Changsheng or Wang Ping, they are used to and like the change of Tieniu Square.
Since the "Mianzhou Memory" characteristic commercial block opened in Tieniu Square, it has attracted the favor of countless citizens and tourists from Yingen Street to Tieniu Street
People in Mianyang are no strangers to the story of Tieniu Square. Tieniu Street, originally named Yingen Street, was built during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, from 1800 to 1802, when Liu Yinquan, governor of Mianzhou, rebuilt Mianzhou in the Qing Dynasty. This street was originally just an ordinary street, and the only classy one was the "Connecting official Hall", which was a place for Mianzhou officials to greet superior officials, so it was called "Yingen Street". And from Yingen Street to Tieniu Street, in the folk spread such a legend.
Legend has it that loach in Fujiang River makes trouble, often harmful to both sides of the river. Gods dream of old blacksmiths, casting iron cattle can remove the demon town water, eliminate disaster. As soon as the news spread, the people sent in old iron pieces one after another, so that the old blacksmith could build an iron ox. Subsequently, iron cow town demon, calm the flood. For Thanksgiving iron ox, people cast an iron ox lying on the Fujiang River embankment in the street. Over time, the street became known as "Tieniu Street" and has been used ever since.
After the establishment of Mianyang in 1985, this city's development entered the fast lane, especially after the 1990s, the speed of the old city reconstruction was accelerated, and the city had a tremendous change. Some shabby streets and alleys near Tieniu Street have been demolished one after another. The low and dilapidated houses around are gradually replaced by high-rise buildings, and the narrow muddy road has become spacious and flat. Most of the residents moved to the Yvyingba and Hanjiaji areas. At the same time, Siwang Temple will be the core of Tieniu Street, connecting the nearby Xinhua Lane and Sishui Lane to form Tieniu Square. "Pu Changsheng said.
Strong market culture
The passage of time, just like the east Fujiang water, day and night, silently witnessed everything. Tieniu Square, which has reopened its streets, features water-screen movies and VR displays, as well as the square surrounded by high-rise buildings, bustling crowds and flowers. Different elements are perfectly matched together to form a unique temperament. It's hard to imagine that half a century ago, this was a sprawling shantytown.
Fujiang River runs through the city and becomes Mianyang's mother river. Fujiang shipping also drives Mianyang's economic development. In the early days, Santai, Shehong, Suining and other places were short of coal and had no railway access, so almost all ships were shipped from Mianyang and transported along the Fujiang River. Tieniu Street Wharf gathered a large number of boatmen and porters all year round. On and off the boats crowded the river, the boss, the keeper of the boat after the boat, eat, live in the Tieniu Street. It brings together all kinds of people in this neighborhood.
"Low, dilapidated thatched huts, mud roads made of cobblestones, potholes hard to walk on rainy days, even dusty on sunny days..." In the old Tieniu Street people's impression, Zhengbei Street is a bustling business district, and the adjacent Tieniu Street is distributed with small grocery stores, small hotels, small tea houses, is the place where boatmen, vendors activities. Even if there are some small Siheyuan, they are in poor condition, cramped and crowded.
"Geography and history interweave and blend together, forming the original characteristics of Tieniu Street." Mianyang construction expert Tang Yuliang grew up in the East Street, at that time he often went to the Tieniu Street area to play, where the noise and bustle left a deep impression on him. Later, when Tang Yuliang wrote the book "The Mystery of Mianzhou", he specially introduced the scene around Tieniu Street, from his words can also feel the city culture at that time.
"Now, Tieniu Square has spontaneously formed a bustling city integrating catering, tea tasting, Sichuan opera performance, trade and folk collection. It has become one of the popular venues for citizens to enjoy leisure and entertainment, and has become a new landmark of Mianyang. Such changes are gratifying." Tang Yuliang sighed.