Pier Chaotianmen

"Wharf Chaotian Gate" Author: Yichen Moxiang Two rivers, one clear and one turbid, intersect, and one beach and one city rise and fall for hundreds of years. From the opening of Chongqing as a port in 1891 to the rise of the new city in 2025, one hundred and thirty-five years of vicissitudes have all settled in the stormy beachfront of Chaotianmen. This book is based on the ups and downs of three generations of Chen's boat family. It embeds the joys and sorrows of the family, the friendship in the market, and the ups and downs of ordinary people into the mighty current of the mountain city, and writes a rich and authentic century-old real history of Bayu. It was difficult to gain a foothold in the troubled times of invasion by ocean ships, gambling between merchant gangs, and warlords, and witnessed the demolition of a thousand-year-old ancient pass. When the flames of the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he led a group of boatmen to risk their lives to transport war supplies and shelter displaced refugees. They clung to their homeland in the purgatory of the heavy bombing of Peidu. In the end, half of his life's foundation was burned in the Chaotianmen fire on September 2. The second generation, Chen Jiangsheng, was born in the ruins of war and grew up in poverty. Starting out as a coolie porter, he experienced the difficult years of lack of supplies and witnessed the sudden rise of Chaotianmen's trade wave. He made repeated choices between the divide between rich and poor in the old street, the grievances between neighbors, and the game of friendship and interests. Carrying the weight of the times, he struggled to support a family's livelihood. The third generation Chen Yuyang is the last aborigine of Chaotianmen Old Street. Witness the demolition and disappearance of century-old streets and old wharfs that have been transformed into new urban landmarks. He looked back at the centuries of suffering, bloodshed and perseverance of his ancestors, and the collision of nostalgia in the old city and prosperity in the new city. Fireworks are hidden in a pier, and three generations of mortals have experienced the vicissitudes of life, which is half of the history of the mountain city's changes over the past century.