Du Ze Old Street in Duze Town

Du Yuan, the grandson of Du Ruhui, a famous figure in the early Tang Dynasty, moved here and settled down, surnamed Cun. Most people in the town are surnamed Du, and there is a Du Family Ride in Tongfeng County, Zhejiang Province.

◎ Old street is a century-old culture.

Du Ze has a long history because it has an irreplaceable surname. Du Yuan, the grandson of Du Ruhui, a famous figure in the early Tang Dynasty, moved here and settled down, surnamed Cun. Because it is located in the throat of Tongshan and Shuangqiao, miners gather and become Ada stone in the north of Ququ. As a gathering place, the market in Du Ze is very prosperous. In the past 100 years, the streets of Du Ze have become old with the years.

Du Ze Old Street extends from south to north, about 800 meters long, narrow and long. A flowing water passes through the street, covered with green slate, which is unique. Rows of shops and houses on both sides of the street mostly retain the architectural style of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Households are connected, and the tiles are surrounded by rings, which is simple and elegant, leaving only a narrow line that can see the sky in the middle. Alleys paved with stone slabs and mottled walls on both sides tell the story of the old street in the past: the old street has a century-old history, and the old shops such as shaving, ironing, Du Ze enema and osmanthus moon cakes, which sell various household items, have accumulated into a unique culture in Du Ze.

A hundred years' savings and years have carved every wrinkle on this weather-beaten old man's face. Because of its age, this old street is worth visiting. Old street is the solidification of time. I don't know how many sounds and scenes have solidified into a breeze and drizzle in this narrow alley, materialized into stories of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Among the 39 fairs in Quzhou before liberation, Du Ze was the largest city in the north of the city, with the largest number of department stores, especially paper products. Mountain products's business is booming, with paper as the bulk, gradually transforming into a Japanese market and developing into a material exchange meeting from the 9th to 12th day of the ninth lunar month. 1999 Double Ninth Festival, stilts are popular in old streets. Actors put three or four meters high poles on their feet, dressed up as various figures, walked in the street, and sat on the eaves to rest when they were tired. The old man said it was a game brought by northerners. Although it has been cornered by history, it still guards the thoroughfares and modern buildings around it, silently sticking to and savoring its own life.

◎ Old streets give people a sense of idleness.

Du Ze's old streets are winding. For a small town, there was no planning in the past. It is this winding street that gives people a sense of idleness. Walking in the street, the artistic conception comes to me, and sometimes tourists take pictures.

The old street is slow, the ancestral razor can't fall on your face for half a minute, and I'll give it to you after the enema. The blacksmith is too lazy to tell you anything unimportant, just looking down at his temperature, while the villagers waiting next to him enthusiastically introduce the blacksmith's craft and the history of the old street. The man sitting on the wooden threshold drinking porridge has a century-old bowl in his hand. No matter how many people you come and go, the grandmother who is lying on the bamboo chair under the loquat tree and listening to the radio still leads a leisurely life. It is said that Du Ze people have the glorious title of "lazy people", but in fact, everyone here is excellent.

Time has passed, and the children of the past are now full of white hair, but the old street has not changed much, which is in stark contrast to the new street with flashing lights and people coming and going. Year after year, young people go out of the old streets to pursue a new life. Only those old people who can't leave their hometown can live leisurely and with relish in the old streets, without buildings and villas built by their children. Every time after dinner, there are shouts in the old street: "Lao Wang, haven't you finished your meal?" "Zhang, come out and have a rest." At this time, the old people came out of their homes one after another. They gathered in groups of three and five, holding an armchair in one hand and shaking a cattail leaf fan in the other. The Zhang family next door said that her son had been promoted and told Yang Popo that her daughter had written from abroad. In Qian Jie, Aunt Liu said that her grandson had gone to college ... There were bursts of cheerful laughter from time to time in the not wide old street, and occasionally a long erhu sounded, some leisurely, some calm and some quiet.

◎ Old street, an old handicraft that never goes out of date.

When I was a child, my father often took me to visit relatives and friends in Du Ze, and the old street was the most frequent place. In my spare time, my father took me for a walk in the street. Tired from walking, my father can always drink a cup of hot tea in a room in the old street, and I can also get a candy from my master to satisfy my hunger. In the old street, there are many delicious foods. The first time I tasted it was a street enema, which cost only 20 cents a day, but it was delicious. Now 20 years later, the delicious enema is still memorable, thinking about memories and smelling the fragrance. The smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. More than 20 people have been waiting in front of a simple house, and some have come from Hangzhou specially, saying that this craft is exquisite and unique.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of eating Osmanthus Jelly in western Zhejiang, which means family reunion. Osmanthus Jelly is hollow, with caramel on the inner wall, cinnamon petals on the caramel and sesame seeds on the outer layer, which is crisp and sweet. Unique and unique practices can best reflect the essence of Du Ze people's wisdom and love for life. The old shopkeeper said that there should be a moon cake in Osmanthus Jelly, which tastes the best. Just like mixing wine, it blends all kinds of flavors together and makes people memorable.

In the old street, you can also see many old businesses that are rare now, such as shaving old shops, ironing old shops, repairing shoes and paving roads, etc ... I remember that there is a middle-aged hookup worker in the old street, and everyone calls him "Lao Wang". He specializes in hooping various buckets at home. In the old society, people's lives could not be separated from all kinds of buckets, such as buckets for carrying water, rice dishes for cooking, and custom-made "Hongxi bucket" when they got married ... Lao Wang was skilled and said everything, and was trained to be "watertight". Until the 1990s, when the plastic industry was booming, Cooper made a curtain call in the tide of industrialization, and his busy figure was fixed in the memory of the old street. Now this middle-aged Cooper has entered his old age and entered his "golden signboard", but he is still devoting himself to the hoop. He said that some characters must be adhered to and some traditions must be continued.

With the changes of the times, traditional cooperatives, blacksmiths and cobblers have been squeezed out of the historical stage by the years. The old street has gradually lost its central position in the expansion of the market town, and the roads on both sides of Tongshanxi have become new commercial areas, where the roads are wide, the transportation is convenient, and the uniform shops are lined up in turn. Supermarkets, farmers' markets, hotels, rural credit cooperatives, post offices and other shops and departments with rich flavor of the times have become new streetscapes. The old street is a thing of the past. Looking back at the old street is not nostalgia for the glitz of that year, but to better inherit the spirit of the old street.