The Shufang Street in Fang Huanshuikou, according to the results of Lin Musen and Fang Huanshui's research, should be Huwan Town, Jinxi County, Fuzhou City.

Beijing, Hankou, Sibao and Huwan were the four major carving bases of the Qing Dynasty.

There are many people in Beijing and Hankou who know about it.

But it's Sibao and Huwan, and many people may not know where this place is.

Sibao is in Liancheng in Fujian Province.

Huwan is the hometown in Fang Huanshui's memory.

Linchuan genius Jinxi book.

Linchuan talents are shining stars, such as Yan Shu father and son, Zeng Gong, Wang Anshi, Lu Jiuyuan, Tang Xianzu and others.

Linchuan is a talented man, until now.

Huwan Town, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, prospered due to the waterway of the Fuhe River, quickly became an important commercial town in eastern Jiangxi and western Fujian, and quickly transformed into a book industry and paper industry.

"Jinxi Book" mainly refers to the engraving and printing books of Jinxi Huwan.

Someone jokingly asked, did the talent come first or the book first?

Is it the talent or the book that is important?

Books give birth to talents, and talents write books.

That's how civilization has been handed down.

According to the records, Huwan engraving printing began in the Yuan Dynasty, and Wei's family school engraved Wei Su's "Yunlin Collection Poems".

After entering the Ming Dynasty, there was a record of Jinxi official carving county chronicles.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Zhou and Tang clans of Jinxi opened a book printing workshop in Jinling, which had a great influence.

As far as the wind could see, Jinxi commercial bookstores began to appear.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, because the country's largest Jianyang book industry was hit by the Qing army, it collapsed, the bookstore closed down, and the craftsmen fled.

The shrewd businessmen of Huwan knew that after the turmoil, they would definitely flourish culture, so they seized this historical opportunity to buy a large number of Jianyang book plates, collect craftsmen, and bring them back to Huwan.

At one time, the number of new bookstores was greatly increased. Later, a group of literati, scholars, and leisure officials also participated, and the combination of literature and commerce led to the prosperity of the Huwan book printing industry.

After Kang and Qian, until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China for more than 200 years, Huwan workshops were lined up, forming two bookshop streets before and after, gathering more than 60 book-engraving workshops.

There are more than 1,000 craftsmen. If you look at the number of books in later generations, you probably think that such a number of people is very small, and the number of workshops is very small, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was a very important book production area.

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the past 400 years, there have been more than 90 bookshops engaged in engraving printing and distribution.

There are more than 5,000 kinds of books in business.

Among them, Liangyi Hall, Sanrang Hall, Shancheng Hall, Wensheng Hall, Dawen Hall, Dunren Hall, Hongxing Mountain House, Yugu Mountain House, and Jiuxue Mountain House were all famous bookstores that were well-known in the industry at that time.

The subsets of scriptures and histories, operas, Mengtong textbooks, scarlet stickers, medical prescriptions, Buddhist scriptures and statues, account books and bookkeepers, etc., were operated by a large number of booksellers in Jinxi and Fuzhou, and were not only brought to Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, but also to remote mountain towns such as Huxiang, Jingchu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Qiangui.

During the Qianlong period, the Jinxi people set up stalls in Liulichang and Zhengyangmen, and the sale of engraved books has formed a great scale and influence, becoming one of the main forces in its book industry.

The shophouse of Dawentang in Huwan still exists, and there are still three carved pillar couplets in it, which say:

Since Yusu, he has written many books, and there are articles after knotting ropes.

Song Yan's class is beautiful, and Han Chao and Su Hai trace their origins.

Langhan treasure book Zheng Shirui, jade inspection gold clay Guang Guohua.

These joint words fully reflect the cultural self-confidence and pursuit of Huwan Book Industry.

Jiuxue Shanfang is a book-printing workshop founded by Xie Shi, a medical family in Huwan, and is not confined to Chinese studies, but has already looked at the world. A set of "Rhymes of the Earth" introduces new knowledge from all over the world in the form of rhymes.

The front and back bookshop streets are two roughly parallel Ming and Qing Dynasty old streets, each about 200 meters long and about 3 meters wide.

The stone arch book of the former bookshop street is "by China", and the stone arch book of the back bookshop street is "Zao Li Huan".

There is an ink sink at the entrance of the front street, where the craftsmen wash the book plates, and the ink in the pool is black.

Originally, there was a "Huixian Bridge" on the pond, and the inscription at one end of the bridge was "Jumo", and the other side was written "Liufang Baishi".

Legend has it that it was the handiwork of Lord Qianlong. Between the two streets, there are towers and lanes to communicate, and in the heyday there are special guards for watchmen, who patrol the streets all night to report the change.

It's a pity that Lin Musen and Fang Huanshui, when they came to this place, the bridge and the monument did not exist today. The ink sink is also a silt weed, and it is no longer the style of the willow in the past

Nowadays, printing technology is developing rapidly, and engraving printing has become a cultural heritage.

The ruins of engraving printing are rare, and the ancient town of Huwan still retains the two bookshop streets before and after, which is really unique and precious in China.

In 2014, Huwan was selected as a "Famous Historical and Cultural Town in China", and in 2016, the State Administration of Press and Publication approved Huwan as a "Research and Protection Base for Chinese Engraving and Printing Culture", and set up the "Huwan Bookshop Street Branch of the China Printing Museum" in Jiuxue Shanfang.

Lin Musen and Fang Huanshui set off after eating.

Although Huwan Town belongs to the county under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou City, it is a town under the jurisdiction of the county. However, the distance between Fuzhou City and Huwan Town is not very far.

They just followed the satellite navigation and drove out to the side of the road, and within twenty minutes, they arrived at the antique Huwan Town.

Lin Musen asked Fang Xun Shuidao:

"What's your father's name? Maybe there aren't many people here, and maybe some people have heard your father's name and found your relatives.

Lin Muzhu also came up and said to this future cousin and daughter-in-law: "Little sister, it's not easy for you to find someone.

We hired some people to ask them out, and it didn't take an hour to ask all the nearby villages.

Now everyone has an electric car, and it doesn't take too long to walk around a village.

What's more, the people in the village are probably old villagers, there are few outsiders, and the village is generally not too big, the whole village knows each other, as long as you ask one or two people.

So it's actually not too difficult.

If they live in the town, then not all of them know each other, and it is normal for thousands of people not to recognize other people, not to mention that your father should have been very young when he left, and he didn't know many people.

When we ask people, we can just pick someone who is about the same age as your father and is a local person. ”

"Brother Muzhu, the method you mentioned is really a good method.

It can save a lot of time, but young people don't know, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking the elderly. ”

Fang Xunshui's eyes lit up with hope.

"We went to Huwan Town and found more people we might know.

After all, if your dad used to visit Huwan Town when he was young, it means that their village is basically based on this town.

This habit is not so easy to transfer, there are regional differences, even if there are electric cars now, it is still not easy to change.

Most people still go to the nearest town.

So we just need to go to Huwan Town and find people from various villages to go back and ask. Lin Musen's eyes lit up and said.