Although there are tall buildings, the most emotional and interesting places are the ancient streets and alleys, which are a quiet search in the prosperous city. The old streets have history and modern people's lives. Where there is a place of life, the beauty of stories will be produced. Some beauty is obvious, and there are beauty hidden without traces.

Just like the beauty of Pudong is a kind of bright and bright lights, which is intuitive and concrete, while the beauty of Puxi requires a slow mood to appreciate carefully.

Shanyin Road is located in the famous Hongkou District, originally belonged to the Japanese Concession, and appears very frequently in anti-Japanese film and television dramas. It is just a corner of the street scene, and it seems to be separated from the prosperity of Nanjing Road by a century. On one side is a great temple with bright lights and wine, and on the other side is a street alley and a city with long and short neighborhoods.

There are a few convenience stores, fruit shops, snack shops, and vehicles traveling through narrow streets without isolation guardrails, with continuous sounds and rings, enriching the street landscape.

People walking on the street are mostly civilian, less tidbits, and casual clothes. They are the kind of ordinary people who will not leave any impression on you. For the sake of livelihood, people who go to get off work, or those who are looking for card friends, there are also elderly people sitting idle on the corner of the street, watching people coming and going, day after day.

On both sides of the road, rows of houses are neatly laid out, and countless alleys are weaved. Every few steps, a narrow alley will appear, extending to the distance of sight, leading to another street, or connected to other alleys. Each family is connected in a piece, with a wall separated by two worlds, snuggling intimately and guarding against each other.

The front doors in front of the hall are crowded side by side. Although there are door numbers, they will be fascinated by the mist of the alley. However, those living inside can always easily smell their own home in the foggy forest.

The alley in the afternoon was very quiet and almost uninhabited. The sunlight fell from the cracks of the building, dispelling the silence and gloom, and bringing vitality to the alley. It was a peaceful satisfaction that the people in the alley enjoyed.

I happened to pass by a real estate agency, and the blackboard outside the door was neatly marked with house sales information. Most of them were 15-25 square meters of small houses, with a minimum price of more than 1.8 million. This expensive thing is the dignity of the people in the Magic City.

Johnson suddenly understood why many people called this place the Demon City?

On Nanjing Road, there are office buildings towering into the clouds, shopping malls with bright lights, and foreigners of all colors are constantly traveling around. Under their bright and beautiful appearance, they have a superior calmness and demeanor, and the air is bright.

It was just a few streets away, and there was another situation where cars and horses were mixed and smoke was full of smoke and dust. This instant transformation of time and space has already highlighted the special magical nature of the demon city.

The scene of the ever-sleeping city and the peaceful urban area coexisting.

Next to it is Duolun Road. This short street has experienced a century of vicissitudes of life. Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo, Ye Shengtao, Qu Qiubai and other literati and patriots have all worked or lived here.

Most of the roads are European-style buildings built during the colonial period. The garden villas built in a century of turbulent times have become urban landscapes today, and the taste is complex and unspeakable.

Compared with Shanyin Road, this place has a very different temperament. The tranquility of being in a prosperous city is already rare. There are few tourists and locals will not visit them frequently. Occasionally, some cars are just passing by. The entire street pushed by the deep mansion has a sense of tranquility and aristocracy.

Without the cover of tall buildings, the green sycamore tree stretched toward the blue sky with all its strength, and the light shining from the branches and leaves also had an elegant smell.

Traveling all over the world, what attracts you now is not only the shape, but also the temperament contained in the building itself. The first and second floors and the uppermost facades are made of cement imitation stone walls and several red brick paved in the middle. They are just ordinary building materials, but they are cleverly matched with simplicity and carved beauty.

Temperament comes from skills. Looking at the brick laying method, the grouting is very particular. There are many changes inside, which are the presentation of lines and three-dimensionality; the integrated balcony bears the finishing touch of the building. Roman columns are similar to the brackets of ancient buildings, and are supporting and decorative functions, and are an important feature of the French Renaissance style.

It is also the role of time. Time gives it mottled external traces and leaves a rich and indelible humanistic atmosphere.

Keep moving forward, a pure white building jumps out in the green color of April, with a girlish freshness and a bride in a wedding dress. Its beauty is not only the function of time, but the years have not left many traces on it. It is a kind of elegant and noble beauty, a feeling that makes people feel excited.

The square balcony is a gift of nature, the sunshine, the air, the breeze blowing, and the singing of flowers and birds; it is also a bridge of love. One leans on the railings and the other is full of charm, and the other is heroic under the window, performing the Romantic love legend.

Walking is a comfortable walk, you can carefully appreciate every building and every person. The building is a static scenery. If there are people in the scenery, there will be a more vivid and beautiful atmosphere. This vividness does not come from locals, but European and American people you meet from time to time. Among these people, they are not professionals in formal clothes, but the kind of people in daily life.

A couple pushed the stroller in front of him, and the two children followed happily, and the sunlight gently sprinkled on them from the branches and leaves of the sycamore trees, casting a warm and warm shadow; the man riding a battery bike always looked happy and contented, with a gust of wind rising, and several sycamore leaves raised; the bicycle is the most common means of transportation on the road, and under various hair colors, it is a beautiful rainbow...

When I came to Ba Jin's former residence, a comfortable green and unique charm came to me in the black iron door. The ivy crawled with gray fine pebbles, green wooden windows, and a few pots of green plants under the window, a quiet classical charm.

When you walk into the room, you will feel a sense of intimacy. This sense of intimacy is even more intense when you see the portrait of Mr. Ba Jin on the wall. The painting is hung on the wall on the dining tables in the front hall. It is Huang Yongyu's handwriting, with vigorous and powerful brushstrokes, and the sound and appearance of Ba Jin vividly conveys Ba Jin's lifelong struggle voice: tell the truth and give his heart to readers.

The intimacy also comes from the full fragrance of books, not the smell of books, but the intuitive view, and the fragrance of books full of soul that you feel in your heart. From the first and second floors, the bedroom, living room, and the attic balcony, there are bookcases with a wall, and even a full bookcase in the bathroom.

Walking through this long street requires always keeping a high-profile and exploratory look, just because, the seemingly ordinary and ordinary street scenes, when you are walking in a hurry or inadvertently, many scenes worth seeing will be passed by, perhaps the deep alley hidden behind Shikumen, the food and tea lingering between the teeth, the garden villa hidden among the branches and leaves of the high walls, and the turbulent history and stories deep behind.
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