Shouguang old county includes "four passes in the city". In fact, in Shouguang, it should be the "five links" in the city.

Let's start with the city. The scope of the city should be within the four gates of east, west, north and south. However, Shouguang County has no north gate, only east gate, west gate and south gate. The east gate is in the current experimental primary school and the west gate is in the current electrical appliance city. The south gate is at the northeast corner of People's Square. True north should be the north gate, but it is the lobby of the county yamen, which is today's armed forces department. There is an east-west street in front of the county lobby. At the eastern end of this east-west street, there is a gate called Xiaodongmen, which is located at the intersection of Jisheng Hospital. From the small east gate to the east is the small east gate. At the west end of the east-west street, at the intersection of Bohai Road and Miao Wen Street, there is also a door called Xiaoximen. There is another street outside Xiaoximen, which runs north and south, and that is Beiguan.

Speaking of which, you should know why Shouguang's county is called "five links in the city", right?

At that time, Xiguan was the most prosperous among the "five customs". The location of Xiguan starts from the west gate of the county in the east, that is, the east-west street in front of the electrical appliance city, and reaches the intersection of Guangjin Street and Chen Ming in the west. The prosperity of Xiguan is mainly the shops along the street on both sides of Xiguan Street-there are many shops, including daily necessities, cotton satin, refreshments, pickles and sesame sauce, ready-made clothes, clothing, shoes and hats, Chinese and western pharmacies, pubs and restaurants. Many of these shops are front shops and back factories, such as Chinese medicine, ready-made clothes, yellow wine and snacks. Doctors often sit in front of Chinese medicine shops. These doctors are called "Mr Zuo Tang". It is free to see a doctor there, but you must "get medicine" there. Therefore, the business of pharmacies is closely related to the level of "Mr. Zuo Tang", and powerful Chinese pharmacies have to pay a lot of money to invite famous doctors to sit in the classroom.

At that time, almost all the residents of the "five links in the city" were farmers. Even businessmen who open stores are basically locals and have land at home. The format of front shop and back factory provides another employment opportunity for many people with less land at home. Even if you don't go to the store and have nothing to do, you can get a shallow wooden pallet, hang it around your neck, put a few boxes of cigarettes, sell them all over the street, and you can make a living. Women can take some sewing work from clothing stores and do it at home, earning more than a dozen copper coins every day.

At this point, I thought of another related topic, that is the street name of the county. I remember at 1966, there was a wave of street renaming, and all the streets and lanes had to be crowned with revolutionary names: "Anti-imperialist Road", "Anti-road Construction", "Dongfeng Street" and "Cultural Revolution Avenue". Now, these names are gone, and there is no trace.

I wonder, can you refer to Beijing's practice in street naming? Beijing can have Wangfujing Street, Qianmenwai Street, Chegongzhuang and Gonggu Lane. These names not only make no one feel "rustic", but also make people realize rich historical details and rich cultural connotations. Why can't there be "Ximenwai Street", "Dongxiguan Street" and "Gong Wei (Shu Wei) Street"? Even those new roads are named after villages that are about to disappear. Why not? Shouguang, known as the "Holy City", has a proud historical and cultural accumulation, and those precious historical heritages are worth cherishing.