Luzhou Square refers to today's Luzhou "drunken beauty" agricultural super, in the past nearly sixty years, it is the oldest and earliest square in downtown Luzhou, which used to be a lot of schools in Luzhou will open the meeting place, but also a generation of children in Luzhou, the place of the youth, or when the public sentencing conference of the old, of course. Once had the largest group concert in Luzhou, Andy Lau is estimated to have fewer open-air dam singing it.
But Luzhou Square is not just limited to this, its history can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty, where it is called a small school (should be read to teach) field, with the four near the military auditorium under the large school (was the place where the Qing officials practiced) corresponds to today's four seems to have been merged into the opposite side of the foreign language school and called a middle school, in short, it is more complicated, Gu Jiuquan is too lazy to get clear about their attributes. I'll talk about it later when I write.
Speaking of this small schoolyard, surely will practice, because there are barracks here, the Qing Dynasty officials and soldiers stationed in this area. In addition this place is more a little scary is the Qing dynasty's forensic field, that is, the ancient execution place.
Originally, there is a saying in the generation of Ximen Square called "Crying and weeping to go to Ximen", and after crossing the bridge of the fallen souls, you have to be sandy head. Luzhou people called "fang" (kǎo) sand cans, probably to describe the brain like a sand can. But when it was clear that it was a beheading, I don't know if it was said the same way. However, the old generation once told Wine Drinker that one of the most poisonous words that the old Luzhou people used to use to scold people was "you are a grass-gobbler from Caiyuanba (or Ximen Xiaoyuchang)". Why is this sentence poisonous? Because it is said that back then these are vegetable dam, small schoolyard also a lot of weeds, the execution of the person, kneeling on the ground, the executioner's hand up the knife, the head fell to the ground, this neurological reflexes, a lot of people's heads were cut off, the mouth will be subconsciously biting things, a mouth may be the underground weeds, so called gnawing grass grass, think about it is not very venomous.
But know the beginning of the founding of new China, Luzhou is still no square, the end of 1949, Luzhou is actually a provincial municipality, belonging to the seat of the Chuannan Administration. The appearance of the city has gradually undergone a new change, everything from a new start, also began to pay close attention to urban construction. Of course, there were also many large gatherings, which in the beginning, such as the city's Labor Day and National Day parades in 1950, were held in the large schoolyard under the military district auditorium near the Fourth Middle School, and there was no independent and open space in the city center for large-scale events and rallies.
This is in fact very inconvenient, but also not systematic, with the development of society, large plaza as the general public leisure, assembly place demand is more and more urgent.
It is in this urgent need, the second half of 1950, the municipal government decided to build a plaza dedicated to public activities, and put forward the "people's plaza, people build, everyone to contribute to" slogan, mobilize the city's people to actively participate in the construction of the square.
Those days, although the economic backwardness, material scarcity, but people's inner passion is unprecedentedly high, want to try to be higher than the sky and the spirit of the Fool's spirit of the mountain, inspired by the organs, enterprises and institutions, industrial and commercial organizations, trade unions in various industries, women's federations, **** Youth League, schools, neighborhood committees and other institutions and organizations to respond enthusiastically. There is no shortage of enthusiastic individuals to take the initiative to sign up, and all throw themselves into the torrent of construction.
Square, as a city's open space, is often the city's landmark building. When Luzhou old square site near Zhongshan that side of the previous also belongs to the farmland, near today's party school half of this is a small school field. With the construction of the Tuojiang Bridge later, the participation of all people, the most glorious era of labor, although there is no pay, but all walks of life, various organizations in the construction of the square process, still show great passion, with "labor is the most glorious, only talk about the contribution, do not talk about the pay," the conviction, for the construction of the Luzhou vigorously contribute. Repair of the square masonry work invited specialists, voluntary labor of the public is mainly to do the earth work, including digging, earth, fill in the earth. Many people in Luzhou who have experienced the construction of the square remember that men and women, young and old, everyone took the family's bamboo, wicker and flat stretcher to transport the soil, hard-working hands rely on these most simple tools, little by little to build up the heart of the vast square dream.
In 1958, male and female students of Luzhou Medical College wearing scarred clothes and pants struggled hard to lift the stone to build the Leapfrog Building Nie Guoquan photo
The square early stage, after just about a year of time, the first half of 1951, the people's square can accommodate 100,000 people gathered finally completed, its first name is called the People's Square in Luzhou. It was on Labor Day and National Day that year that the citizens' parade and rally began to move to the square to be held. Citizens were from the three-star street and the west gate of the two roads stride, converge to the square. Luzhou people have been looking forward to the city center of the assembly place finally a dream come true.
In addition to this, the year of the Volunteer Returning Congress and the Anti-American Congress is also held in the square. In fact, in addition to major public events, another role of the square is to hold public hearings, mainly for important criminals. Luzhou people are familiar with the "fugitive sand cans" also changed to "square corner corner fugitive sand cans".
At the same time, the square is also held in the industry's major report, the school will be held in the Games, the people's morning and evening leisure and fitness place, a lot of institutions and enterprises to organize the workers morning and evening out to dance, sing, play games. The square has become a set of public gatherings, large-scale reports, review of criminals, exercise as one of the large-scale activities.
However, this initial old square but after more than two decades of years to be able to become a formal sports plaza model, in 1960, Luzhou's location was banned, Luzhou relegated to the city of county-level city, allocated to the then Yibin area management, so until 1983, Luzhou and the then Yibin two county-level city of Yibin area under the management of the development of more than two decades of wasted! The time was wasted.
Luzhou finally ushered in its own spring in 1983, restored the status of provincial municipalities, can finally make a big impact, which is also to this day there are still part of the unknown historical reasons for people to run to say that Luzhou is the reason why who is divided out. It's really not worth discussing.
December 10, 1983, the municipal government decided: "Luzhou City People's Square renamed Luzhou City Stadium, in order to the city's sports center, as the people's mass activity center and large-scale assembly venues. Stadium development planning and construction projects, into the city of Luzhou urban construction master plan.
December 15, 1985, remodeled for the grandstand stadium project groundbreaking, with a total investment of more than 200 million yuan, completed in October 1987. Covering an area of 22,000 square meters, building area of 3,050 square meters, site area of 18,950 square meters, built a 400-meter 8-runway standard track and field and turf standard soccer field, grandstand can accommodate 10,000 - 12,000 people.
Since then, until February 27, 2013, Luzhou City Sports Bureau Venue Center posted "stadium stop opening announcement", announced that has been running for decades of the stadium in March 1, after which the stadium was demolished. Only then did it end its mission.
But in these 28 years, it not only brought Luzhou open space for public **** activities, but also left us not youthful memories.
School games, square cycling, early love haze, has been the initial lottery activities, large concerts, exhibitions, early real estate sales, automobile exhibitions, Ke Shouliang's stunt team came to Luzhou performances, and even circus and what not. Anyway, the square seven or eight what all inclusive down. Although today it seems a little too random and messy, but in those days, its ability to take on so bold, come and go.
There are also a lot of third-rate furniture stores around the square, selling liquor, fortune tellers, pulling boards and carts, which you obviously can't see today. The square used to play soccer, although not as comfortable as many stadiums now, but it seems to be more dominant and ambitious, run to is not plastic, is to make the 70, 80 years after the memory. This is probably the nostalgia factor.
Initially, the square was converted said to be bigger and more become a stadium, but I do not know what reason, into a farm super and underground parking lot, although there is also a small soccer field above, there is a basketball court below, in the end can not be called a stadium. Vision and reality is always a gap, to today also almost 7 years, although we have not forgotten, but also rarely in advance, the new Luzhou people have long been accustomed to this place, perhaps it will change again later, it will become their memories, and certainly not our memories, emotions this thing, is so unique, must be in the beginning of your encounter with him, only to remember the old, so people are still remembering the old a little bit more.