At present, relatively complete historical buildings have been preserved in the plant area, and the original historical features and patterns have been basically maintained. Representative heritages include Sheng Da Wharf Arch, Bell Tower, Business Hall, Expert Building, Tsinghua Workshop, etc.
Sheng Da Wharf is the starting point for Mr. Zhang Jian to build a factory. In order to make urban planning and facilitate water transportation, Sheng Da Cotton Mill built a factory-specific Sheng Da wharf beside the Toarey Yang Canal at the factory gate, with a memorial archway on the wharf. "Archway" is a unique architectural type and cultural symbol in ancient China. It not only shows the skills and symbolic significance of the building itself, but also shows the etiquette, ethics, aesthetic taste and customs of the society at that time.
The archway is made of stone and wood, with three doors and four columns. The four characters "Sheng Da Horsehead" are engraved on both sides of the archway, in which the word "wharf" is written as "horse", and the following four points are deliberately omitted, indicating that it is necessary to lay a solid foundation for national industry like a three-legged iron anchor. On the east and west sides of the archway column, there are couplets written by Zhang Jianen's teacher Weng Tonghe and Zhang Jian himself: "Start the machine and rely on heaven and earth;" Clothes and quilts are everywhere in the southeast of China. " "Growing rich is born in the ground; Shang Tong Gong Hui Jiang Hai Da ",this association means to use land resources to gather the labor force of the masses, and use it to develop national industry and commerce, benefit the local working people, gain profits, enrich people's livelihood, and have great merits like rivers and seas. "This concept of" taking from the people and using it for the people "still has positive practical significance.
The bell tower was built in 19 15, with a height of 22.8 meters. It consists of a podium and a building. The building is divided into three floors, with windows on the first and second floors, a clock room on the third floor, and clocks with Roman numerals 12 hour on all sides, which still play the role of telling the time. The bell tower marks the replacement of the times, and new productive forces and relations of production begin to appear. It embodies people's new concept of time, accelerates people's life rhythm and cultivates punctual work habits. At the same time, it is also a cultural symbol of national capitalism settling in Tangzha. Today, this century-old red brick bell tower still stands.
The workshop in Tsinghua is a brick-wood structure, east-west, covering an area of 500 square meters. It is the earliest modern industrial workshop in Nantong. This workshop is a rare sample of modern zigzag wood frame workshop, which can not only light through the skylight, but also facilitate workers to observe the fine defects on the yarn during operation and ventilation. Because the working face of the machine is long and wide, choosing the sawtooth workshop can make the working face get uniform and soft scattered sunlight. Today's Sheng Da cotton mill is not what it used to be, and Jiangsu Sheng Da Group has entered the era of Internet artificial intelligence. Volunteers saw in the intelligent spinning workshop that there are almost no skilled workers in the spinning workshop, and the manual mechanical spinning a hundred years ago has been upgraded to the intelligent electronic equipment operation today.
One hundred years later, we are still excited about the patriotism, social responsibility and spirit of struggle shown by Zhang Jian and his companions in establishing modern enterprises. "Virtue of heaven and earth is life". The tall bell tower and Sheng Da Wharf witnessed the glory and dream, prosperity and decline of Sheng Da Cotton Mill. Polish thinker Michnik once said that fighting for an imperfect society is not fighting for a perfect society! Mr. Zhang Jian, like a "good trustee", drew his "new world" blueprint step by step.
The final trend of the script is also a tribute to Mr. Zhang Jian's concept of "father teaches, mother works". We have reason to believe that when the "script culture" collides with the script, it will be different!
Text | Chen Xiaolei
Image | Yao Wenjing is partly from the Internet.
Editor | Tang? China banyan tree
Audit | He Chen Jinshan Wen Jia