Zhoukou Town (now Chuanhui District, Zhoukou City) has a long history. It belonged to Chen Chu in ancient times, and its sleeping ancestor was in Wanqiu. The ancient three emperors and five emperors all thrived here, and they have the reputation of "Pioneer of China and Holy Land of Kyushu". Shahe, Heying and Jia Luhe meet in Sanchuan. History shows that in the Qing Dynasty, there were five thoroughfares, people were everywhere, merchants gathered, and the voices of the north and the south were heard, so it was called "Little Wuhan" in China. Zhoukou is one of the important birthplaces of Yellow River culture.

Zhoukou, also known as Zhoujiakou or Koukou, is located at the intersection of Shahe, He Ying and Jia Luhe. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was only a market town where nearby farmers exchanged agricultural and sideline products. During the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, due to the opening of Huaihe River, Shahe River and Heying River, the market town expanded from the north bank of Shahe River in the early Ming Dynasty to the south bank of Shahe River. In order to facilitate the exchange of materials, a ferry was opened in the south bank street (now the old street), and a family named Zhou took the ferry back and forth here, so it was called Zhoujiakou, hence the name. In the 9th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1670), Chen Zhou Guanliangfu decided to move the capital to Zhoujiakou, Cheng Zhen, and later named it "Zhoukou Town".

At that time, there were 1 16 streets in the prosperous Zhoukou town (now Chuanhui District), and each street had its own specialized industries, such as Jiaozi Street selling bamboo wares, Ma Xian Street selling sacks, Tongda Street specializing in bronze wares such as copper pots and mountain products Street, all of which operated in mountain products. Dayoufang Street, Xiaoyoufang Street, Mopan Street, Jiangu Street, vegetable market, leather market, animal market, etc ... and a temple will be built every two streets on average. Although there are 1 16 streets in Zhoukou Town, its business is mainly developed by transshipment trade, mainly between eastern Henan and Jiangnan. Its export commodities are mainly agricultural and sideline products produced in Chen Zhou and Kaifeng, while its input is mainly silk and groceries produced in Jiangnan. Yang Zishan said that some people used the word "business travel Mercedes-Benz" to describe the prosperity of Zhoukou's business at that time, which was very appropriate.

So what was the commercial scale of Zhoukou at that time? Yang Zishan said that Professor Xu Tan of Nankai University once raised funds from businessmen on the basis of the two monuments of Daoguang, Zhoukou Shanshan Guild Hall, and calculated that there were 164 businessmen in Zhoukou, 320, a total of 484.

Xiong Tingbi, a scholar in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Crossing Zhoujiakou" when he was passing by Zhoukou. There is a sentence in the poem: "Jiangpu shines with lights, and Qian Fan gathers like Gao Han." It means that Zhoujiakou is brightly lit like Nanjing Pukou at night, and Qian Fan gathers like Hankou during the day. "This shows the degree of prosperity at that time." The real prosperity of Zhoujiakou was in the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, Zhoukou had opened a ferry 16, with 40,000 local residents and hundreds of thousands of floating population. It also won the reputation of "Nanpidu" and "Xiaohankou" and became one of the four major commercial towns at that time.