The Architectural Style of Mengyang Town

It is said that the north-south width of Mengyang Street is 1.5km, the east-west length is 1.5km, and the perimeter is 13 steps. The city wall is made of bluestone, which is very strong. There are 8 vertical and horizontal streets in the city, inhabited by more than 20,000 people.

Mengyang Street has five gates: east, southeast, south, west and north. The east gate is called "Xu Ying" to welcome merchants in the direction of Xuchang, the southeast gate is called "King of Chu" to see Ye County, the hometown of ancient Chu State, the south gate is called "Pro-Simon" and it is called "Dai Ying" because water surrounds the city like a jade belt, and the north gate is called "Bao Tong" because it can connect Baofeng and Luoyang.

Yinghe River meets Fushui in Mengyang Street, then enters the city, and then flows out of the city from the southeast gate. * * * passes through 72 large and small bridges, among which the larger ones are Dongjie Shiqiao and Taihua Bridge. Dongjie Shiqiao is located 200 meters from Dongmen East Street to West Street. It is a double arch bridge, 27 meters long and 7 meters wide. The deck is paved with bluestone. Taihua Bridge is located behind the Shanxi-Shaanxi Conference, at the southeast gate150m, which is a typical architectural style of Ming Dynasty. It is an arch bridge with a length of12.3m and a width of 5.7m.. On the village base on both sides of the West Gate, there are two big carp carved with red stones, which are said to be built to live in Heying River. When it is going to rain on a cloudy day, the stone carp will rise again and even drip into the water.

There are three theaters, namely Guandi Temple, Donglulu Temple and Taishan Temple, east of the west gate and south gate of Mengyang Street, and there are more than 20 teahouses of different grades in the city. Tired of catching up or talking about business, going to the theater go to the opera and drinking tea in the teahouse became the main leisure ways of people in Mengjie at that time.

Due to the construction of Baiguishan Reservoir, many old buildings are submerged under the waves of Baiguishan Reservoir. Today, the Qujia Courtyard in Xuezhuang Village of Mengyang Town is well preserved. People can still feel the unique charm of Mengyang residential buildings from this famous building complex of Qing Dynasty in Luzhong, Baoshan and Tan Yong. Today, Mengyang Town continues its past prosperity, and thousands of merchants still gather near the town government and within more than two kilometers from east to west on both sides of Pingbao Highway.

There are not only century-old shops and department stores such as Maji instant soup, Baoji fried dumplings and Hutchison grocery store, but also modern shops such as home appliances, communications, supermarkets, photo studios and hair salons that have emerged with the development of the times.

Pingdingshan New Town is located at the lakeside of Baiguishan in the southeast of Mengyang Town. The first-phase infrastructure project of 65,438+00 square kilometers in the core area has been completed. The planned area of 25 square kilometers covers the whole town, and Hubin Avenue and Expressway pass through it. Mengyang town has obvious location advantages.

Today, Mengyang has convenient transportation and developed communication. Rural roads extend in all directions, with Pinghan Railway, Pinglu Highway, Pingbao Highway, Luoping-Luozhou Expressway and Zheng Shi Expressway passing through the territory, and many bus lines are accessible. Mengyang town is rich in natural resources, with large reserves of limestone, river sand and illite, which have been developed and utilized, especially illite, which ranks first in the country and has high mining value. Shengguang Medicine, Ganyuan Machinery, Gao Qing Machinery, Weiqiang Industry and Trade, Hengtong Coal Machine, Jingbo Glass, Angel Pure Water, Shushan Machinery Processing and other projects have successively settled in Mengyang, and the economy has developed rapidly. Standing on the street of Mengyang, there are many shops and people coming and going. There used to be a glorious ancient town, but now it is full of vitality. According to legend, as early as the era of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor sealed this place to the Ying Long tribe with the eagle as the totem, and it was called Mengyang because it lived in the north of Mengshui. 1 1 century BC, Mengyang became the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was changed to Xiang Ying after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Mengyang County was established in the Western Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. In the eighth year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (AD 634), Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong was streamlined and simplified, and Mengyang County was abolished as a town. In the following 1300 years, Mengyang Town experienced ups and downs, and performed a brilliant commercial and cultural history.

According to historical records, in the first year of Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1567), Mengyang Street began to reach its peak, and the shops on both sides of the street prospered. During the light years of the Qing dynasty, Mengyang Street was set every two days, and the two markets of North Street and Southeast Gate were more than a mile long. At the beginning of the last century, Mengyang East West Street was named Gansheng Grain Store, which created five major firms, namely Houyoufang and Mengyang. According to Baofeng County Records, after liberation 195 1 year, after years of war trauma, there were 130 merchants, 222 vendors and 264 manual workshops in Mengyang Street.

The prosperity of Mengyang Street mainly benefits from its important geographical location and the rise of grain market. During the period of 1929, there was a severe drought in northwest Henan, and food prices rose. Grain merchants in Fangcheng, Sheqi, Dengzhou and other places in Nanyang transported grain to Mengyang market for sale, and the number of grain stores increased to nine. In that year, the trading volume of only Taishun, Yishengxiang and Zhonghe grain stores reached18.08 million Jin. After selling grain, grain merchants buy daily groceries in Dongxi Street and transport them back to Nanyang for sale, mainly including salt, cloth and kerosene. Luoyang merchants bring cotton, cloth and groceries from Luoyang, buy back grain after market sales and transport it back to local sales. At the same time, on the docks of Shahe and Yinghekou in Mengyang Town, merchant ships shuttled back and forth, transporting goods such as salt and silk from downstream areas, and then transferring ceramics, coal, cloth and Chinese herbal medicines from Mengyang Street to eastern Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Mengyang became the largest and most influential cargo transfer station and economic and trade center in southwest Henan at that time, so there was a saying among the people that it was better to dry Mengyang than to dry Luoyang and collect Nanyang. There is a poem "Sailing the Shadow to Release Xu and Liu Yingshen" in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, which vividly depicts the prosperity of commercial development and logistics gathering in Mengyang Street.