Swing street towards the Millennium

　　—— into the Dongan County LU Hong Shi Town

　　Reporter Jing Cai Peng Peng Zhang Xinguo

　　Correspondent Zuo Yajun Zhang Ming

The old street scenery

The  stone bridge of song dynasty

      LU Hong Shi Town, Dong’an County, Yongzhou City, located in north-central, 59 Village committees, the total population of 65000 people, a total area of about 136 square kilometers.

　　It is a thousand years old street in LU Hong Shi town.

　　The midday sun baked the earth, the air is very hot. Over 70 Lan Guangzu leisurely sitting in the hall, playing the piano and singing the song, "let loved ones as soon as possible to recover a good healthy", this wrote by him. And in front of the aisle, his wife will simple stove on the chestnut stir-frying cracked.

　　Street length 1900 meters, 6 meters wide, district covers an area of 2 square kilometers, is "Z" shape along the extension. Shingle structure two-floors building along the both side of the street. Street door relative open, open the door that visible lobby. Local people said, the design is for business.

　　According to the records, the old street is Dongan (ancient says Yingyang county) recorded since the first county location, from the first year of the Kingdom of West Jin (290 years) to the Kaihuang 9 year of the Kingdom of Sui Wendi. The county has located here for 300 years.

　　Lan Guangzu was born in this street, and he was a teacher in the high school of the town for 41 years. 2000 from the school after retirement returned to the street again. 3 children have left the street, live the city life. The children suggest him to enjoy the city life, he said: "where is not more comfortable than the old street!"

　　Walking along the street, the ancient and strange things "flash" in the street shop from time to time. A similar case, one end of the wooden box band attracted reporters curiosity, the reporter don’t know what it is. The town cadre "revealed" the answer, this is the bellows. Reporters each first tried the bellows, which in the thousands of years old. The town cadres said: "the Blacksmith, Tinker, do manual scale...... The street is full of ancient skills you can’t think of, have never seen, beyond count."

　　42 year old Pan Mingguo hometown is not in Lu Hongshi, but lived in the street 20 years, operates play cotton and metal processing business. Remember first time to old street, Pan Mingguo described that "every day like a fair". "Then the street especially busy, not just the nearby villages, even the Yongzhou City, Dong’an County, and even Shaoyang, who go to the street for shopping!" mention in last year, Pan Guoming still very excited.

　　7 years ago, Pan Mingguo starts to play cotton. In 2000, the town built development zone, some business people left the street, followed to the development zone to do business. "In the early 90 century, I do processing drum, cabinet business, can earn ten thousand to five thousand or six thousand yuan each year. Now, metal processing and play cotton together, just earn more than 30 thousand yuan a year." Pan Mingguo said, now many young people live in the street are out of work. Even though the business is not as good as before, but he doesn't want to go out. In the old street though not earn a lot of money, but can live a comfortable life.

　　In 2008, LU Hong Shi town launched the work of the declaration of "historical and cultural town", in order to protect the remaining street. Nowadays, has all the old buildings on the old street registrated, don’t allowed to change for private and personal reasons, even if the repair, also should be repair old as the old. White wood house becomes pale, behind of it the gurgling clean water, became the unique beauty of Lu Hongshi street.

　　As to the old street, the LU Hongshi Industrial Park Add radiance and beauty to each other, which is full of youthful spirit, and be just unfolding. Industrial Park, adjacent to the Luoyang-Zhanjiang railway and the S-217 line, from the Shao Yang expressway entrance is only 2 km. The superior location, convenient traffic, and improve the supporting facilities, the plan achieved initial success. The Hongxing zinc, Kowloonyuan food and so on, 7 enterprises invests million output value successful admission.

　　From the street, Lan Guangzu told us, he is spectrum a song for the old street.

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