Formed in the Kangxi sand Daishan County town, with its unique century-old wooden structure to attract tourists to pour in all directions, went to town to play the tourists know.
Many of the residents in the town house, the courtyard is decorated with a pair of water tanks, which received wide mouth abdominal vat, capacity greatly, sporting a long brim of the water, the locals call "peace tank" glue stick or "auspicious cylinder "So, what do these vats used for?
So this is an ancient fire prevention facilities. In ancient times, there is no pressure equipment, pumps, no running water, fire water can only be used to solve natural water sources, people came up with the vat and placed in front of fire-fighting approach when conditions permit, residential homes, often place a water cylinder, is used to prevent and extinguish fires water reserves, usually they can watch the fish in the tank, when the fire occurred at any time the nearest fire-fighting water. At that time, people called vats as the "sea gate", that is in front of the sea. In their view, in front of the sea will no longer have a fire,glue gun the ancient folk taboo because of "water and fire," the word, vat, also known as "Lucky cylinder", "peace tank." Our people have "clean stove, water tanks full," saying the fire, which shows the popularity and easy supply tank. Over time, convenient and effective modernization of the invention of fire-fighting equipment, Pacific cylinder gradually fade from view. Dongsha number of important and more ancient wooden building year-round sun and rain, after years of vicissitudes, wood corrosion, dry, loose, and the town more than alleys, fire narrow passageways, blocking, residents of the home air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens and other high-power appliances The popularity of messy electrical circuit layout, aging and damaged access free Luanla serious disorder, coupled with mostly elderly people living in town group, mobility, lack of fire control knowledge, constitute the many fire safety hazards. Town for the actual situation of the East Sand, Zhejiang Daishan County Fire Brigade and heritage department in accordance with the "East Sand provincial historical and cultural town historical protection plan" the relevant documents, for the town "tailor" to develop fire prevention programs, so that the fire water tank " return "to the town, residents of the home in the conditional set up fire water tank and fire wells, water tanks of these antique building blends with the ancient, simple harmony, as the town add to the unique landscape of a point, but also as preventive and the first fire fighting water, greatly improving the people's self-defense self-help capabilities. According to statistics, the area has been set up only to fire more than 200 water tanks, fire well more than 100 ports.
In addition, fire brigade Daishan further strengthened the publicity fire, fire the villagers developed the Convention, highlighting the electrical, gas stoves, smoking, children playing with fire and other fire prevention, and made posters, displayed at conspicuous place, the fire of knowledge of men and women truly known, young and old to understand. Qing buildings in the town, not only preserved the civil peace tank fire tools, but also adds a variety of fire extinguishers, equipped with a machine lift pump and a number of conventional hands-fighting equipment, fire fighting for the ancient buildings of the modern science and technology content. In such preventive measures, the East Sha town have not been a major fire fresh robbery, the villagers live and work, original still intact.