Zhangjiawan not far from Beijing, from the east and then south Jingdong of Tongzhou. The gateway to the ancient Tongzhou, Beijing, in the absence of cars is not the railway age, longitudinal north-south Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the lifeblood of passenger and freight transport. Heard at the earliest, when the Yuan Dynasty merchant is able to directly into the Beijing Shichahai the city, and some have been written about the time where people coming and going, unloading grain shipment, the mast, such as forest scenes. Later, the city can be more and more people do not know how the water becomes shallow, navigable river can also become shorter and shorter, and the final shipping destination on the change in the capital, tens of miles from land Tongzhou, Tongzhou City, Zhangjiawan outside, where two Si, Ha Tay and other town services are a result of the shipping canal flourished pier.
Passage of time, thirty years in Hexi Hedong three decades, is now the Canal in Tongzhou this section is already a shallow mud deposition, sailing has become a back, a newly built section of rail, road and Zhangjiawan not next to, where of course, slowly How many people have no way to go, and whenever there's a bit methods are gradually removed, there is no longer how much money they build a new, while the number of thoughts there would be no dismantling the old, it would be there are some things worth a visit preserved.
I thought, so I went to Zhangjiawan go.
Zhangjiawan primarily on a street in town, very long and narrow. Far into the blocks, you see a tall mosques. It tall, and it is on the street than other houses in the street with the old cottage for multiple, almost faceless buildings, the mosque's main hall was higher than the surrounding buildings 1.
Walked in front of the mosque that has to go through a long list of selling beef and mutton, selling roast chicken, eat in Mai Shaobing stalls, mostly Muslim hung signs in Arabic, but also selling shoes, selling socks, selling daily Xiaobai Huo, has been plugging into the Terakado.
Terakado south, in front of which stand block sign a tombstone that read Temple Stele of business, in particular, marked with "back to the Han-Safe." Sure enough, see arrayed into the door of the family on several pieces of finished, probably waiting for the owners to take, and there is an engraved "in October 2001 Master Ma Day" in the words of the Muslims must have. Inside is a small little set of hospital doors east, prostrata style, there are trees in front of the pagoda tree is very thick, probably several hundred years of age. Doors left and right sides of the powder wall painted a blackboard on one side is written the juma day chanting verses from the Bible, one can not read, probably in Arabic phonetic Chinese characters. On the other side is written the name of each prayer five times a day, but also Chinese phonetic, there is also this month, "what messages" list and the number of people who have ranged from 10 yuan to 1,000 yuan, I think this may be the equivalent of Buddhist temple donations inside the bar.
Was about to go look inside, from the big door of the bathroom wearing a white hat out of bits of the old man came to say hello to tell him just to visit, the old man was very kind to say it casually see, this temple there are four or five hundred years, and can be house was rebuilt a few years ago. I asked what does the original house, the elderly said the demolition, and demolition of the urban renewal projects, which are all shining on the new original that satisfactory end.
Was with some disappointment to the small courtyard looked at, but is typical of traditional Chinese courtyard block only to have small and delicate, flowers trees, corridors Baoxia evil can be as full of new, there is less spectacle of. Head of the hall in front of them the few pairs of shoes, wearing a white cap to see some of Hui kneeling salute in that room.
Outside the hospital is also planned to construct and do not know what is to be completed by month. However, in the new mosque can be built even if this is also good. Pure classical Chinese style, practices, fairly authentic. Some counties in Beijing, I have seen the new mosque entirely sharp coupons, large garlic dome, did not know thought it was to do in Central Asia. The kind of disregard for the environment rigid territorial blindly self-serving it is not acceptable, and we have a world-renowned Chinese and foreign industry predecessors have said, is to build a house on a Chinatown in the United States should be the United States is also the first house before with a little Chinese flavor. I do not been to any of a Chinatown, do not know where the house looks more like the United States in the end the house or a house like China, anyway I do not like to see in any one city and the surrounding environment does not take the kind of community, like a stage set like the building industry.
Say that the mosque should be up Zhangjiawan good, completely dissolve in the environment of a small town in northern China, the beautiful is also very coordinated. I think this may be attributed to a few hundred years ago craftsmen who, as the old man said that a new Temple is shining on the old temple covered.
Zhangjiawan quite busy street, shops pay a one and sell what are, there are two or three light studio. With grocery store for more than a large house with a very high shelf, on the ground are filled with colors of the pots, pots scoop spoon, there are stove chimney, Long Ti shovel, the counter is the rows of cloth, a pile pile of shoes and boots, there are also a variety of brands of toothpaste is just soap. Anyway, my whole childhood was a living fossil store, and even the older salesman that the last lazily leaning there listening to the radio storytelling show vigor is like everything together.
The son of such a small town, can support so many businesses is maintained Mody? May still have such a leisurely open, and feel comfortable.
Street, when the end came quickly turned into a small alley to go on both sides of all homes, and temporary walls of the road into a blue and white brush color, from the open courtyard where you can see every family with a yard kinds of flowers. Road, is a river, the river with the town next to the river there is a very old three-hole stone blocks, paving stones have already trampled too bumpy and each stone pillar inscribed with a lion fence, there are several lion heads have been to Zade left a half, while the stone fence is almost only half the battle. Bridge on the monument, written in the name of this bridge, "Express Bridge", or municipal-level cultural relics, and the bridge was cut the same as the only remaining wall.
That brick wall, less than 10 meters, and a kind of argument is the Forbidden City with the rest of the brick repair, and presumably this year when the shipping canal was on the number of Zhangjiawan is where there are walls there are terminals in the city is is the style.
Shrunk, hero no mention of the year. Under the bridge that I do not know what blood ties and the Grand Canal as early as the river is already Youzhai You shallow, Beijing does not get rid of even the river is now terrific, and which would dare to think what the sail? Even this last remaining wall of a length, not to mention the famous Pingyao in Shanxi Province, Chinese and foreign, that is, than I have ever seen in Beijing around crowing Station, Yulin Castle, are also far worse.
However, there are mosques in the end, there is the street, find the street there is a river, river stone blocks on, even though no longer the boat under the bridge.
Author: Mingkaiyehe
