The Loudao River is a tributary of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha, and the town of Loudaohe is an ancient town on the northern outskirts of Changsha City.
Changsha's Second Largest Internal River
Loudaohe, also known as "Lautang River" and "Buhu River", is a first-class tributary of the Xiangjiang River, and is known as the second largest internal river in Changsha. It is the second largest river in Changsha.
According to the data, the Loudao River originated in Liuyang City, Shizhu Peak, the northern foot of the Shegang Town, Zhou Luo Village, Liuyang City, Liuyang City, Shegang Town, Longfu Township, Shashi Township, Beisheng Township, and Yong'an Township, and then into Changsha County, Chunhua Township, and Huanghua Township, and then out of the Changsha County area to the west from the present Xianglong Street, ShuiDuHe River into today's Kaifu District, Luohanzhuang. After that, there are Shaping, Baixia, Yuanfengba Skimming Drainage Channel and Jinzhu River converging into it, and Chujiahu Lake enclosing into a large dikewan--Su圫wan, and then through the town of Loudaohe, in the north of Changsha City, Yangyuchi converging into the Xiangjiang River. The total length is 141 kilometers, with a watershed area of 2543 square kilometers.
Legend has it that Guan Gong led his troops to attack Changsha, and when he passed by the Loudao River, his Green Dragon Crescent Blade accidentally fell into the river, which was later fished out by Zhou Cang. From then on, the place where Guan Gong fell into the knife is called the mouth of the knife (the mouth of the knife is the mouth of the Liuyang River into the Xiangjiang River), the knife of the river is called the knife river.
The downstream of Loudao River enters the Xiangjiang River and flows upward 2 kilometers to the south in a reverse direction, and the Xiangjiang River, Liuyang River, and Loudao River form a huge "top bracket" at the confluence during the flood season. At the same time, the LiaoDao River reverse flow into the river, resulting in the flood season Xiangjiang River water inversion, Kaifu District, Liuyang River, LiaoDao River downstream is often engulfed in floods, floods year after year.
From 1994, the provincial and Changsha municipal governments began to organize expert conceptualization of the LiaoDao River diversion. 2004, mid-November, cut a straight alternative to the new LiaoDao River navigation, diversion of the LiaoDao River after the location of the exit of the north to move 2 kilometers. After the diversion of the LiaoDao River, the flood water flows into Xiangjiang River in advance, avoiding the "top support", shortening the Wuhuwan and Luhuwan flood control levee line, not only reduces the pressure of the local government's flood control, but also makes the local residents free from flooding.
A quiet and peaceful old town
Loudaohe Town Located in the north of Changsha City, Loudaohe Town is located in the northwestern part of Changsha City, close to the district's Xingang Town and Wangcheng County's Dingzi Town and Qiaoyi Town; the southeastern part of Changsha County, Beishan Township; the southern part of the township borders Furong District; the east of Xiangjiang River; the west of the Changshi Railway Trunk Road; the south of the Changyong Expressway; and the north of the Changsha The second and third ring roads of Changsha are in the north. There are major rivers Loudao River and Liuyang River running through the whole territory, and Sutowan (Sujiato) is the largest plain lake land under the jurisdiction, which is also an area prone to flooding. There is the only concentrated area of ethnic minorities in the Changsha area - Hanhui Village.
On September 1, 2013, the former Lodaohe Town was abolished and Lodaohe Street and Shaping Street were established .
Before the 1980s, in addition to taking the waterway from Xiangjiang River to Ladehe Town, the only way to get to Ladehe from Changsha City was to take the rural highway from Hongshan Temple across the Liaojiadu Bridge to Ladehe Town via Pengjiaxiang. At that time, Changsha had two long-distance buses from the East Bus Station opposite Tianxinge to Laidaohe Town every day. In addition to these two trips, the only way to get to Ladehe Town is to take the long-distance bus that passes through Pengjiaxiang and get off and walk a few miles.
Of course, if you take the train, you can also go to Ladehe town, the first small station out of Changsha city north is Ladehe station.
The first time I took a train, I got on it at Loudaohe Station and rode it to the old station on Wuyi Road in Changsha. It was the autumn of 1960, I was in Tifo East Street Completion Primary School in the sixth grade, the higher-ups to support agriculture, the organization of our senior elementary school students to send fertilizer to the countryside. We male students in groups of two, picking with bamboo skips loaded with fertilizer, female students but two people to carry a skip fertilizer, go Wangjiaxiang, Maojiaqiao, across the new river go Fengzui, through the Delta Xiangjiang River embankment, from the mouth of the drop knife across the Liuyang River, and then across the Mafang Yang oil pool, will arrive at the destination. Although the way is very tired, but we play while walking, all the way is fresh scenery.
The community uncle entertained us for lunch, we played in the surrounding fields, hills, river ponds for a while before walking on the return trip. Teacher smiled and said: home not walk, we go to Loudaohe station to take the train back to Changsha. The students were so happy that they ran to the LiaoDaoHe station a few miles away, and sat on the train for the first time in their dreams.
At that time, train tickets were cheap, only one stop from Loudaohe to Changsha, and the fare was only 10 cents. Although there were dozens of students, the school could afford to pay a few dollars.
Later, I also rode a bicycle to Loudaohe once. That is a colleague of mine to get married, his hometown is Loudaohe, anyway, I was young, then invited a few good colleagues a bicycle, from Wujialing over the Sifangping to the Hongshan Temple, over the 163rd Hospital, Liaojiadu Bridge, through the Pengjiaxiang to the town of Loudaohe, his home. Are young people, twenty miles of road talking and laughing to the effortless. After eating the banquet, a group of us will go to play in the town of Loudaohe.
Before the 1980s, the town was quiet and peaceful. The town is situated on the edge of the LiaoDao River, not far from the mouth of the Xiangjiang River. The town is not very populated, the old brick houses, worn smooth and shiny hemp stone streets, all give a person a sense of vicissitudes. There are not many stores in the town, and after the public-private partnership, only a few stores under the name of Supply and Marketing Association are left, such as comprehensive retail stores, agricultural stores, health centers, food stores, butcher stores, buying stations, post offices and tailor stores, and so on.
The most patronized store in the town is the general retail store, which is called the supply and marketing agency. The store has goods such as southern food, daily groceries, stationery, fabrics, and departmental goods, and is bustling with activity as soon as the peasant women enter the store.
The river that flows through the town is not wide, and the water is crystal clear. There is a small boat ferry. There are not many pedestrians on the street, they are residents of the town and the surrounding farmers to the town shopping people. We are a few foreigners walking in the street is particularly conspicuous, a lot of small children followed us, curious to look at wearing different clothes with the town people, especially two young girls beautiful flower dress, but also to attract a lot of attention.
Laodaohe Knife and Scissors Factory
The third time to the town of Laodaohe, is a few years later. At that time, the reform and opening up is anxious, our state-run stores by the impact of the big, I can only change the manager of the original waiting for customers to come to the door of the habit, began to go out to sell. I remember that I set up store in Tongguan to expand sales; to the town of Pintang to study the situation, ready to find the Pintang Chemical Factory and other units to promote business; also to Loudaohe to find the knife and scissors factory and other units to open up the business, at that time Loudaohe knife and scissors factory But Changsha and even one of the most famous factory in Hunan.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, Loudaohe town scissors to open and close and smooth, sharp cloth cutting, beautiful shape, durable known since the end of the Ming Dynasty, best-selling in the world.
Loudaohe knife scissors factory is located in the beautiful scenery of the Loudao River, one of China's three major knife scissors manufacturers (the other two are Beijing's Wang Mazi scissors and resistance to the state Zhang Xiaoquan scissors). This place knife and scissors forging industry flourished, so far more than five hundred years. Loudaohe knife and scissors factory set knife and scissors forging of the essence of the product modeling is unique, extraordinary skills, ingenuity, pure fire, the product has repeatedly won the provincial excellence, the Ministry of Excellence, best-selling at home and abroad.
I remember the old street of Loudou River in the river, and knife and scissors factory and other units in the old street outside. My colleague Zhao Heping's sister and brother-in-law are knife and scissors factory workers. They introduced me to Master Shao, the buyer of the cafeteria of the Knife and Scissors Factory. I met him and realized that he was an old acquaintance of mine, and I had dealt with him in the New River Sauce Garden. Old Shao is a loyal person, he is the old customer of Xinhe Sauce Garden, not willing to switch to our North Main Street Sauce Garden, so he had to say goodbye. He was embarrassed to accompany us to visit the knife and scissors factory workshop, which is the first time I know the nationally renowned Loudaohe knife scissors production process.
Loudaohe knife and scissors factory in Changsha's most lively Huangxing South Road near Wuyi Square set up a store, specializing in the sale of knife and scissors produced by the factory.
Now we walk to the old street of Loudaohe town, in addition to some civilian life outside the store, here is the most is the knife and scissors store. A few hundred meters long town street, but nearly 20 stores specializing in the sale of knife scissors LiaoDaoHe, which is also a big landscape.
I chatted with a few knife and scissors store owners, asked them to open so many knife and scissors store to do what, there will be no business. They smiled and said: the town is not patronized, but foreign tourists come, they will know that the LiaoDaoHe's business card is the knife scissors. So, many people will bring back a pair of scissors or kitchen knives, of course, there are many other varieties, such as food carving knife, flower and wood scissors and other special knives and scissors. That is why so many stores are opened.
But now the knife and scissors factory in LiaoDaoHe has moved to the side of the municipal government in Hexi, LiaoDaoHe town of the original knife and scissors factory has been empty, leaving only a piece of empty land waiting to be developed.
Changsha Coal Gas Plant
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was a plant in Lado River that was particularly famous, that is, Changsha Coal Gas Plant, also known as the Coal Gas Project Command, and the people of the town are called the gas plant.
At that time, many people in Changsha used liquefied petroleum gas in cans. My family lived in the northern district of Xinghanmen area, the gas station is located in the education street, every time a bottle of gas is used up, you have to go to the education street to change. The empty can weighs 15 kilograms, and the gas weighs 15 kilograms, and each bottle costs 15 yuan, which is a flat-rate gas to be indexed.
In the beginning, many residents do not want to use liquefied petroleum gas, said the fear of explosion. However, after using it for a long time, it is particularly convenient. It is much more convenient than burning coal, but also clean, they all like to use. As the supply of liquefied petroleum gas exceeded the demand, a coal gas plant was opened in LiaoDaoHe to supply piped gas. Because of the pipeline restrictions, the gas can only be supplied to the residents and units along Furong Road in the North District.
Pipeline gas is also something new, connecting a pipe to the home, like using tap water, unscrew the faucet can use gas, more convenient than using canned gas. So we all opened the back door and tried to get the gas to our homes.
At that time, the gas supply range of the gas plant: the first phase of the planning of gas supply area for the south of Baji Road, north of Renmin Road, east of Furong Road, west of the station road. The first phase can supply 41,600 residential users and a few public welfare users, business users and industrial users with gas.
By the 1990s, natural gas was introduced to Changsha, no longer subject to the constraints of the difficulties of gas pipeline transportation, in addition to Furong Road can be used on both sides of the road, the rest of the region can be used. So, our family also discarded the liquefied petroleum gas tanks and switched to natural gas. Later, when I visited the town of LiaoDaoHe, I went to the gas plant, only to know that the coal gas plant still exists, just do not know if it is still in production.
A modern new town
After many years, Ladehe Town is no longer the rural area we conceptualized, but an urban area north of the city. The wide Furong North Road and Xiangjiang North Road extend from the old city of Changsha all the way through the new district of Lodaohe, and several reinforced concrete bridges connect Lodaohe to the city of Changsha. From Wujialing out of the old city of Changsha, Furong North Road follows the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway to the north, and passes by the town of Loudaohe.
I came back to find the old town in the past that quiet and peaceful atmosphere, not to find the simple and kind old folks. There is just a new style of farmers and brand new, foreign-style new houses. The bus goes directly to the old town.
Loudaohe town Tourism resources are rich, there are built in the Tang Dynasty of the Iron Furnace Temple and the mosque, there is the hometown of Hunan embroidery reputation of Shaping Xiang embroidery street, there are nearly 3,000 acres of the city's garden ecological park. Green mountains and green water, Luohan Zhuang, wild clouds, such as monuments and cultural landscape scattered, is the public yearning for a tourist resort.
In recent years, agricultural tourism, leisure, tourism industry has developed faster, the town has developed to now have a variety of sightseeing and leisure agriculture enterprises 21, has become Changsha City, the famous agricultural tourism, leisure, tourism industry, attracting many citizens urban rural tourism. Among the more famous are Haitian Villa, Daming Villa, and Road source, and many farmhouse and farm food restaurants, this industry has also become a major component of farmers' income.
The most flavorful thing is that once upon a time, Loudaohe was a distant rural area in the minds of Changsha people, and now that it has become a new urban area, I was surprised to see that I had moved to the original Loudaohe Xinkai estuary of Wuhuwan, which is a newly developed new neighborhood - Xiangjiang Century City. Every day, standing on the 12th floor balcony of our house, I could see the clear water of the LiaoDao River flowing into the Xiangjiang River. The small, delicate, tree-lined island at the mouth of the river is like an emerald floating in the river. The Sanchaji Bridge crosses the Xiangjiang River right from the island.
A big square was built at the mouth of the Loudao River, which is called Guandi Square. A golden statue of Guan Gong stands in the center of the square. Every day, in addition to the residents of Xiangjiang Century City come here to relax and square dance, there are some tourists come to see the mouth of the Loudao River into the Xiangjiang River and Guandi Square. Especially in the evening, the place is bustling with people. Many business vendors also come here, and a night's business may be more than what he earns in a day.
Although the old town of Lodaohe is not as quiet and peaceful as it used to be, there are many new things. The times are constantly moving forward, LiaoDaoHe and LiaoDaoHe ancient town is also with the times in the forward. A new, but also retain a few ancient flavor of the old town in front of us, it is so beautiful, so bright.
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