Renmin Road, a Witness of Zhengzhou's Change and Development

Renmin Road, a Witness of Zhengzhou's Change and Development

家乡的人民路丨一条人民路 见证郑州的发展与变迁

On the northeast corner of Renmin Road and Shangcheng Road lies a park, known as the Sanjiao (means "triangle" in English) Park by local seniors in Zhengzhou. The sculpture of Duling Rectangular Ding (1400 A.D.) standing in its center echoing with the crowd under the crown of the chinar trees on both sides of the Renmin Road seems to be a dialogue between history and the present.

在郑州人民路和商城路交叉口东北角有个公园，老郑州人都称它为三角公园，公园中央矗立着高大的杜岭方鼎雕塑，一旁的人民路上法桐树下人车鼎沸，对望之间，仿佛一眼千年。

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The Sanjiao Park, officially named Shangcheng Park ("Shangcheng" means the capital of the Shang Dynasty, around 1600-1046 B.C.), is a place where retired workers like Sun Lihong exercise every day. Sun was living at Sunzhuang village in the west outskirts of Zhengzhou. In October 1954, when the capital of Henan was moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou, Sun, aged 14, found a work as a kettleman in a department directly under the provincial jurisdiction. When it comes to the Renmin Road, Sun says that he has never expected that such a great change would take place.

这个三角公园名叫商城公园，是退休职工孙利红每天都来锻炼的地方，孙利红的老家在郑州西郊的孙庄，1954年10月，河南省省会由开封迁到郑州时，他到一家刚搬过来的省直单位里做锅炉工，当年才只有14岁，如今谈起人民路，孙利红说怎么也想不到会发生这么大的变化。

Zhengzhou's Renmin Road. [Photo/dahe.cn]

"The Renmin Road was gradually developed after the relocation of the provincial capital." According to Sun, the chinar trees on both sides of the Renmin Road were planted when the road was repaired in 1954. Originally, the traffic was light with flower beds and telegraph poles in the middle of the road. Later on, during 1980s and 1990s, due to the ever-increasing number of vehicles and pedestrians, those flower beds and telegraph poles were removed. Today, the saplings planted 70 years ago have become towering trees, making the Renmin Road the most beautiful road in Zhengzhou.

“春天是麦地，秋天种杂粮，人民路也是随着省政府迁过来之后才逐步发展起来的。”孙利红回忆，人民路两旁的法桐，就是1954年修路时栽的。起初人民路中间还有花坛、电线杆等，车也不多，到上世纪八九十年代，车和人开始多起来，花坛和电线杆就拆掉了。原先种下的小树苗如今已长成遮天蔽日的大树，人民路也成为郑州城市道路的颜值担当。（中文来源/大河网 翻译/魏蔚 实习生王君艺 审校/丁岚 赵汉青）