One early in the morning come, to the urban area, or the empty streets, the passers-by sparse. Rest of Shanghai on the morning of Bahrain but also deserted. Enthusiastic taxi driver, speaking in accents full of coke salt flavor asked us where to go. "Duolun Road." "Refer a street culture in Shanghai. Know the land."
From the car window looking out, I do not know when an unknown vehicle on the road has been Shui. Shanghai is Qianhuaxijin day in Shanghai, the traditional street blocks of alley adjacent to the house, in today's apparently seems completely outdated. Clothes of the bamboo spider's web, like wires, corner Wuli cement telephone pole, rod-like forest of antennas ... ... This is the changing of neon scrolling can not see the people live in Shanghai Another landscape.
Sichuan North Road car turned into a corner, and finally stopped. Front is a narrow little road, back in 1943 before the concession, it is called sinus Lok Road. 1911, was Guangxu Dici in the "Scholars" on the title of British missionary phase of the Hongkou this inconspicuous to children, built his accommodation, which they put the house next to the road passing on the crown's own name children. This is a small road, at a time a few decades ago, the situation was also the occasion of this city will start a lot of legendary trillion places. As a left-wing cultural movement "cradle" and has a form of fancy villas, Duolun Road has become the taste of local people from outside Shanghai alley culture, and to listen to the old joys and sorrows of life in a Shanghai spot. Some people say that the small road that went into this, as if history could hear soft breathing.
Walking in the Duolun Road paved the red arc of the new road pattern, I tried to search for the shadow of the old Shanghai, and cultural customs. Not see the old cars, nor hear the sound of rickshaw Dingdang. Daoshi thick with London plane trees there, but the cover is not high, but the external walls of houses. Shikumen, looks like a new puzzle, and did not as I imagined, as many people along a narrow alley, on both sides festooned with drying clothes, do not block to the full sun. Exhibitions collection and buy some trinkets Jilinggousui the owner of the small objects are hard at dealing with people who come to pan for gold, in this tree-lined street garden actually put up a rather spectacular Central Market. Also have seen on the stuff, but face goes on leisurely smile - not me suspicious, it is Shanghai gave me the feeling was too cunning too smart a.
However, the loss of the authentic essence of the old Shanghai style Duolun Road is still a losing graceful and elegant way. All kinds of houses, villas scattered in the trees on the garden and, for example, corner blocks inside that Islamic-style mansion, diagonally across from the chic Spanish-style garden villas, as well as those of Chinese-style churches. These magnificent private residences tend to have a one day behind the endless talk about the old things news, excitement is not lost on the building itself. But I have no interest in from those fine delicate railings, windows and doors in the difficulty to distinguish which one is what's old home. For those people who live in crowded speaking, it is just a home. Balcony may be transformed into the study, and relief might long been the black coal smoke. Gently passed the old wooden floors, will hear the foot of the planks creak Yaya to call, after all, decades have passed.
A few decades ago, here is the number of youth and enthusiasm. From the "Mountain Huayi Society", "evening pick up the clock tower" can be bygone days of rehearsal of the drama here, held rallies and Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Ye Shengtao, Ding Ling, Shen Yinmo hurry, but after the figure. And the magnificent villa just a few steps away, these literary everyone stay at the roadside ordinary Shikumen alleys, when the "King Wan li", now get 35 in Yokohama road. Mr. Lu Xun once spent the night 17, 23, has become the ordinary family, his home front door facing the back door of Mao Dun, Mao Dun was later moved into the home, Feng Xuefeng and live very close to Lu Xun Jia Rou Shi's often late at night long talk. In this alleys, when the owner has not a trace. Today's Duolun Road, only the roadside flowers, the plastic has leaned on the bench of the reading of the Ding Ling, eager running Xiangjiu arrested Hu Shen Yinmo frequency and others are controversial Lu Xun and Qu Qiu-bai ... ... like again know the details behind the scenes story of the statue, and only rely on people's self-tour "literary qualities" to speculate on the.
Very eloquently of a small road. A taste for the unique architectural style, there are celebrities for years of legendary Way back, there are exquisite calligraphy and painting of ceramic ware can be reluctant to, as well as middle of the street corner garden, garden villas corner, a few old people chatting around a row of cages of their birds and homely. Here is the ordinary people of the world, they, like me, and here the same as the previous tenants to enjoy living in harmony with the early spring the new green.
Author: benbenniao
