The village of a street across three provinces: string a door out of the province, "roaming charges" had made people very distressed

"Chicken listening to three provinces, barking three provinces," in the southwestern Henan, northwestern Hubei, southeastern Shaanxi Province border, there is an ancient small village called Bailang Street, is China's largest cross-province a village street.

Bailang Street, the center of the street, there is a piece of ground exposed to the three-pronged stone, one side towards the west, one side towards the southeast, one side towards the northeast. To the center of the three-pronged stone as a starting point, the west side of the Shaanxi Province; towards the southeast side of the Hubei Province; towards the northeast side of the Henan Province, which is known as the "three provinces stone". Many tourists come here just to experience a "foot on the three provinces" bold.

Behind the boldness there have been some small trouble. Years ago, here in the cell phone bill roaming charges accounted for a high proportion of the expenditure, but later after the three provinces to coordinate the abolition of roaming charges.

Today's Bailang Street looks relatively depressed, but in the 1970s it was very prosperous, Jia Pingwa in his article will be called here Little Hong Kong: "Some of the neighborhood businessmen also carry baskets and baskets to set up stalls, so things that can not be purchased elsewhere can be purchased here, and things that can not be seen elsewhere can be picked up here, the reputation of the Little Hong Kong has spread. "

There is a three-province inn opposite the Three Realms Monument, and the innkeeper's wife says she married into Henan from Hubei, and her nephew-in-law, Zhang Yanli, married into Henan from Shaanxi. In their minds, they do not consider themselves "outsiders", they feel that everyone is a village. Neighbors who have something to do, people from all provinces to help each other; the ground in front of the door is dirty, take up the broom a sweep sweep three provinces.

Such stories between the three provinces are staged every day: Henan bun selling aunt riding a tricycle every day between the three provinces, the loudspeaker out of the Henan dialect "sell buns sell buns," in a short while there will be Hubei people out of the house to buy buns; Hubei uncle to eat a meal with a bowl of work to the neighbors of the three provinces to string a door; After dinner, the neighbors of the three provinces get together to play mahjong, square dancing, life is happy.