Riding On The Ground Floor Of "Shoe Island" Old Street And Wang Pu

The island, surrounded by water, is also formed by the evolution of nature through time, or by the mutation of external factors.

There is an idiom "the sea and the sea". There is also a saying that "Chaoshan Tokyo" can best reflect its causes.

Chaoshan people like to focus on a specific commodity in a certain range of wholesale and retail regional image known as "an island".

Ju Ping Road, the old urban area of Shantou, is the most prosperous area in Shantou in the 20s and 30s of the last century. North connecting Anping Road and South connecting road, both sides are old arcade buildings. The exterior walls are antique, but they are weathered or even collapsed. They are contrasted with the newly built modern buildings in Shantou new town. At the first glance, we can see that this is a forgotten corner. Waiting for its fate seems to be a large-scale demolition and reconstruction.

However, on the narrow sides of the street, the old footwear shops on the base of the old arcade and the foot side of the road are miraculously crowded. The signs and posters of "wholesale shoes" and "children's shoes collection" can be seen everywhere. The two street streets in the middle of Pingping Road, the town street and the Ping Ping Road, are also stacked up by shoes. Every April, September and the end of the shoe wholesale season, there is more traffic and more traffic. Customers are following the shoulder shoulder, and a business is booming.

And all this is gradually forming over time. The dilapidated roads and narrow roads do not affect guests.

Seeing the thriving businesses, we are happy for them, and can not help but ponder over the sudden decline of the "Electrical City" of the Yellow River Road, which was flourishing in the 90s of last century.