The Fuhe River, which is close to and parallel to the "Main Street", is a boundary river, with Yin Shan in the west and Huiji River in the east. Until the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), shanhui county was merged into Shaoxing county. This Fuhe River used to be the north-south water traffic trunk road of Shaoxing City, which was needed by people for bathing, trading, getting on and off the ship and other life and production. On both sides of the river, namely Yin Shan Avenue ("Street", now Jiefang Road) and Huiji Avenue ("Nanhou Street" and "North Back Street", which still exist today); Some plank roads (docks) have been built by the river, among which Gu Xuanting's dock is the largest, and it is called "Step over the King". However, at that time, most docks, like many rivers in Shaoxing, had no names. It turned out that in the late Tang Dynasty, wars often occurred when the buffer regions were separated. In the third year of Jian 'an (896), Qian defeated Wu Yueguo, with Hangzhou as Xifu and Yuezhou as Dongfu. He was stationed in Yuezhou, and his palace was built in the southeast of Wolong Mountain (now Fushan Mountain). From Hangzhou and other places to Yuezhou, you land here, and from Yuezhou to Hangzhou and other places, you disembark here, so it is called "Yuewangbu". Someone wrote: "Gou Jian, King of Yue, often boarded ships here, so this port is called King of Yue Port." This statement is debatable. When (Li) left Shaoxing, Hong Kong was a special wharf. Usually, like other docks and sidewalks in Shaoxing, residents near Xuantingkou go out to welcome their relatives, visit friends, travel, watch plays, sweep graves and attend funerals. , got off the boat here. Rural people use boats to transport agricultural and sideline products such as vegetables, fruits, fish and shrimp and aquatic products here to trade with city people. What's more, even farmers' ships carrying manure and ash are parked here. In the past, farmers used manure and organic fertilizers in their fields, such as plant ash. Manure and plant ash are almost wastes to urban residents. Except for a few large families with back gardens, a few need to fertilize vegetables, fruits and flowers. For rural farmers, simply relying on their own "output" is definitely unable to meet the demand for fertilization. So, farmers rocked into the city to buy. Because of the lack of cash, such as copper coins, I always bring my own fruits and vegetables when I go to town. Therefore, city people and country people often barter things, hence the names of (changing) cargo ships and ash-changing ships. The reason why rural farmers use boats is that the amount of manure and fertilizer is large, and the transportation cost should be considered; Shaoxing is a water town and a water city, with criss-crossing rivers extending in all directions. Therefore, using boats and taking more waterways can save a lot of costs and reduce the burden on farmers themselves. Because at that time, dung trucks were all open agricultural boats, and some farmers were fully loaded. In case the boat collided and swayed a little, it would overflow into the river, causing certain water pollution; And that river is also necessary for city residents to wash rice, vegetables and clothes every day. Fortunately, the water quality at that time was good, and it was running tap water, so it was not surprising that people were used to this scene.
Xuanting was built in the Tang Dynasty, and after several vicissitudes, it was built again after being abandoned, and it was converted into "Hehe Tower" in the Song Dynasty. According to the examination, Shaoxing, known as a wine city and a drunken hometown, had a grand occasion of "village mash cooked everywhere" and "restaurants opened everywhere" in the Song Dynasty. Located at the entrance of Xuanting in the city center, it is a golden treasure. It is natural to demolish the old back porch pavilion and rebuild the high-end restaurant. In September of the fifth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1800), a fire broke out in Xuantingkou, which was very urgent and spread widely. At that time, the losses were very heavy, and even the original buildings of Xuanting disappeared. Residents of Shanyin County petitioned the authorities, "This is the place where the King of Yue boarded the ship in ancient times. The pavilion was occupied by residents for a long time and then sold to others. Now it is all ashes ...". At the request of the people, Qiu Shi, the magistrate of a county, led the people to buy land and rebuild Xuanting and Wangyue Port. Probably in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shaoxing officials put the execution ground of death penalty prisoners in Xuantingkou and the yard of primary school. This is because the magistrate's yamen in Shaoxing in Ming and Qing Dynasties is located in the southeast of Wolong Mountain (hence the name Fushan) in Shaoxing, and the yamen in Shanyin County and Huiji County are only a few hundred steps away, so it is safer and more convenient to take prisoners to the execution ground. The more important reason is the large population in the city center. If the downtown area is taken as the execution ground, we can make an example of it, thus obtaining better warning and deterrent effect. All the male prisoners on death row were executed at the entrance of Xuanting, and all the female prisoners on death row were strangled in the school yard (regarded as whole bodies). On the stage of classical novels and costume dramas, you can often see (listen to) the plot of execution until "three noon". This execution time was chosen because the ancients worshipped superstition. In the eyes of the ancients, at noon, the sun shines high in the sky, which is the shortest time for people (or things) to appear small shadows on the ground, that is, the most vigorous moment of the day. They believe in a superstition that murder is a "dirty thing", and whether the murdered person deserves it or not, his ghost will haunt judges, supervisors, executioners and other relevant personnel forever. The execution at "three o'clock noon" at the peak of the sun seems to free or reduce the entanglement of the ghost of the condemned man. Some people say that before dawn on the sixth day of June in the thirty-third year of Guangxu reign, Guifu, a Shaoxing magistrate, tied Qiu Jin, a female revolutionary, to be beheaded at Xuantingkou, fearing that she would be detained for a long time and that the communists would rob the imperial court. She thought that she was as shameful as Guifu and could only secretly kill revolutionaries. There is some truth in this statement, but the reason of execution time may not be valid. Let me give you an example. 190 1 March 27th, Zhou Zuoren's Day recorded: "Sunny. Warm. In the morning, I turned to Xu Chaozong and sent a small high-speed train to Baoqiao (after passing through Xuantingkou, the two abandoned the market, the body was still there, covered with straw mats, and I heard it was a thief). " It can be seen that in Shaoxing and other places, the execution of death penalty prisoners is not "three minutes at noon" like Beijing, but generally in the early hours of the morning. Whether it is to show off the public or to abandon the market, the government's purpose is to "educate" and shock the people to be obedient and good. As for Qiu Jin, beheading is an exception, which fully shows how much the Qing government hates revolutionaries and how cruel the means of killing revolutionaries are!