端州是"隋唐名城，宋元商埠，明清都会"，是广府文化的前沿。谢健江编著的《端州百街掌故》，目的是唤醒城市记忆，接通历史文脉。"地名是民族文化遗产"，端州每条老街巷的地名都具有岭南气息和乡土特色，反映了这座城市的历史。 以"街"成书，分16个篇章，273篇短文。其以朴素的语言，随笔的格调，描绘古街巷的"风"情。本书着重从乡思、乡情、乡韵、乡音等方面去挖掘、整理城里的故事，反映市民对自己生活的城市的认同感。它既有文史考究的严谨沉稳，又有谈天说地的生动活泼，力求知识性与趣味性兼顾，内容可资参考，不拘泥于史论的限制，使读者能从传说中得到轻松愉快的阅读乐趣。 以"街"入史，通过端州古街巷的故事写真，以大量生动的情节全面展示端州的广府文化、蛋家文化、宗教文化、景观文化、历史文化等内涵，可以令读者如"行街"般地直接感受端州的千古神韵。尤其是那些在城市的变迁中已经湮灭了的街巷，让我们在阅读中回味历史、尊重历史，在生活中重新了解历史、认识历史。可以说，这是一本"活"的乡土教材，是一册"厚"的文史读本，也是一部散文版的《端州志》。 (DuanZhou is "famous city of Sui and Tang Dynasties, commercial port of Song and Yuan Dynasties, and metro of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", and is at the forefront of Cantonese culture. Anecdotes Of Hundreds Of Streets In Duanzhou edited by Xie Jianjiang aims to awaken the city memory and connects the historical context. "Places name is a national cultural heritage", every name of the old streets in DuanZhou is with lingnan flavor and local characteristics, reflecting the history of the city. This book is compiled by streets with 16 chapters and 273 essays. It uses plain language and the style of essay to depict the "wind" feelings of the ancient streets. This book excavates and sorts out the story of the city from aspects of homesickness, hometown feelings, hometown charm and hometown sounds, etc, reflecting the residents' sense of identity to their city. It has both the preciseness and stability of literature and history, and initiation and liveliness of gossip. It strives to contain both knowledge and fun. The content is for reference and not constrained by the limitation of history so that readers can get relaxed and pleasant reading experience from the legend. The book is mixed into the history. It comprehensively displays DuanZhou's Cantonese culture, egg home culture, religious culture, landscape culture, historical culture connotation through a large number of vivid plot with the stories of ancient streets in DuanZhou. It can make readers feel the eternal charm of DuanZhou directly like "walking on the street", especially those streets that have disappeared in the changes of the city can let us aftertaste and respect the history in reading, and re-understand and know the history in life. It can be said that this "live" local teaching material is a "thick" list of literature and history, and also a prose version of the "DuanZhou Annals".)