Shanghai, I lived for 20 years, where it seems that never in earnest to observe her. May be trivial daily life has already become very impressed with her very pale light, and around the landscape are also not remember stop and take a look. Until last fall, then it is more a beautiful sunny day, the time when APEC conference held in Shanghai, the municipal government in order to arrange the meeting in Shanghai closed up urban areas, peri-urban areas vehicles can not enter. As a result, Shanghai suddenly found a lot of open and simple, faded in the streets Fun crowd trouble at last showing of her quiet, the beauty of the details of everywhere have been inadvertently discovered.
While the APEC Shanghai has resumed after the end of the previous excitement and confusion, nothing has changed, and people may soon forget the quiet beauty of a bright and sunny 35 days time. However, I began to learn to appreciate the city, try searching for your favorite corner.
1, Ruijin Guest House lawn
A child is afraid to have a high wall into the Ruijin Guest House, but will be careful to look after each one revealing the scenery inside the door, that European-style classical architecture, a kind of time in Shanghai revive a feeling of graceful gesture, to see up like a dream, a distant and not true.
The first walked into a time when there is in college, when the United States to a small after-school to teach foreigners Chinese, followed him went many places in Shanghai. Now think of it, then their must be more or less for that dynamic fascinated by the big boys, the pair of blue Yanmou world and I saw how different, then, let me inexplicably full of longing.
It was early summer evening, attracted by, decided to go out for a walk. It rained, the air moist with, it is a very refreshing feeling. To Ruijin Hotel bar, where Shanghai's best lawn, he said. I do not know where he is come to this conclusion, but grateful that at last have the opportunity to enter this has been a dream.
So we set foot on a piece of "All the best lawn Shanghai", stained rain, Cao Jian is wet, stepped up soft, and toes are all between the thin rain. The grass path next to a white rocking chair, quiet forward, looking like a fairy tale scene. I then immersed in the outside world like the quiet inside, to forget the clamor of the wall separating downtown.
He suddenly pulled my arm, "stopping what you hear, this is the taste of green, very fragrant."
In this connection, Ruijin Guest House has been become my favorite place, like the usual after dinner Accompanied by their father's hands to walk there; or weekends on the road to buy flowers in Maoming Duodao inside the coffee shop to sit for a while; or about the friends in the Face exotic atmosphere thick and sip a glass of wine color; or do nothing, just a good afternoon to see the sun on the lawn for the wedding rehearsal, bridal makeup look of a girl sweet smile, I feel life is real of the fine.
Second, Jiaotong University, under a tree
At Fudan University's affiliated high school and nurtured by a three-year, but batteries not to test to the Jiao Tong University, a bit ironic. Can he wishes to come to the traffic noise in the Xujiahui University, Fudan more on the quiet campus, the word disappointment like little pieces of brick mercilessly me Zayun past. I can not imagine themselves in the habits of the Fudan University campus is full of pedantic interest rates after the purity of how to look at this over-commercialization of the cramped atmosphere.
Spent depressed in the first year after college, I order their own can no longer blame on others to survive in the regret in, and finally began to gradually adapt to Jiao Tong University, until like, until the last is difficult to leave.
Indeed, National Chiao Tung University to its own advantage, there is no cynical arrogance, there is no eloquent, hypocritical, and no female wearing a strange ambiguity. National Chiao Tung University everything mundane, and no one is to be specifically of concern, and everyone kept a profound knowledge of the faith, so everybody had very comfortable.
National Chiao Tung University campus which is my favorite place in front of an old library lawn, not deciduous trees, as well as the large trees scattered across the stone bench. So until now I have like a weekend afternoon, to large stone bench under the tree sat a moment to see the book, it is best not what the brains of Suibi dynamic text, the best five dollars to buy a cup of coffee on campus, the best for some of the sun through the leaves, gently sprinkle the back.
On the lawn in front of the students playing the flying saucer, or playing badminton, kite-flying over the vicinity of children, as well as the young lovers looked on in the shade of a tree where each spoke words of love. This campus, this calm, I hope to the tired city life can always come rest a while, breathing is only here, only two of fresh air.
Third, the afternoon Le Garcon
It was an ordinary alley house on Hengshan Road, the French restaurant, the restaurant is a small building blocks, not play but which are still Yun Zhi, like the store's mistress, the beautiful slim double-moving eyes of the Japanese woman. Know that outside the store when there were not many ads, unlike the later, to declare the like gossip newspapers publicize it too will not do the popular Petty Bourgeoisie. However, two years ago, precisely because it is the unknown, it emerged in a rare taste for it.
21:00 is often the most popular here, where a table filled with tables for lunch on the first floor on the second floor area and the Western District. So I just like the noon hours, sitting in the empty restaurant on the second floor window seat, rain, when rain falls on the first floor crackle crackle black tarpaulin canopy, the soft out of the window of the King. As a result, the maternal grandfather and the old age of jazz songs, and my heart will suddenly have no reason to get up moisture.
Or in the autumn has bright sunny afternoon, it was the best season of Shanghai, in the Le Garcon a small courtyard in front of coffee. Quiet time basking in the sun you can see an afternoon newspaper is not disturbed, bustling up and would have some French youths riding a bicycle over to drink tea, I heard that they heard a strange French, does not remember where they are.
4, culture Square Flower Market
A child seen in the cultural plaza performances, but also the evening open-air flower market in Yongjia Road, bought flowers. Where did forget the beginning of the year, open-air flower market has been moved into the Cultural Square, the city became the now famous flowers wholesale market.
Home, there are three vases, white, orange, and glass transparent, as long as possible, I would like to put all of them filled to plug in flowers, often a white vase filled with pink roses, orange Gerbera is the same color and transparent is filled with white lilies. As a result, the flower became the Cultural Square off days I like to teach you the best places.
Strange to say, ordinary day for half an hour visiting the Pacific, Parkson will complain incessantly, visiting the flower starting to relish it this way it is. Sometimes targeted, more often it is not why just casually stroll. As if it were a kind of magical power of the duke looked at the flowers in full bloom colors mood was suddenly illuminated.
Likes the flower market, but also a kind of very strange prejudices always felt flower of the people should not profiteers, just as those who stubbornly believe that dogs, like most good, is it not so?
5, where there's Starbucks
Now Starbucks is not a little posturing say it?
I really likes coffee, so suddenly in love with a Starbucks feel, which pushed the door came a strong smell of coffee and pure, with a total let me indulge incessantly.
Starbucks in Shanghai a couple of years have become a popular symbol, this symbol appears both in the corner which would put into a small center, where, there is always a group of arty, or desire, or yearning for grace Petty attitude of young people living trend If the greedy. I admit that is one of them.
Blink of an eye in the company a five-minute walk around inside and eventually opened four stores, and sometimes tired of the embarrassment of feeding lunch 4 position, simply buy a long article on a French bread stick, sitting alone in a small window seat door Xintiandi a cup of coffee as a lunch. A good mood, when to buy this travel magazine readily turned over, so that ordinary lunch hour, if it becomes a clean mind travel.
I like the best one, I am afraid, and like most of it, is that the glass house in Pudong riverside. In Shanghai, neither hot nor cold season, when the evening, some of the wind, sitting in an open-air cafes along the river bank, holding the warm coffee mugs to see the other side of the Bund Palais gradually building floodlights lit, as if eyes widened a panorama of the Shanghai night suddenly becomes transparent gorgeous, full of Reiki. Well, perhaps the most beautiful moment of the entire Shanghai.
In addition to geographically random, Starbucks advantage lies in its intimacy, and the former sense, that require the decent coffee shop sat on a different, Starbucks is already a part of life, as is the soya bean juice shop next door. Nothing to do when you can spend time there, nest on the sofa where, what positions are unknowingly too. Therefore, one can often see a lot of people leisurely sitting there calmly reading, and others, or open the laptop work, or, without affectation, it is only the kinds of leisure attitude of the city, but also my favorite feeling.
6, Shaoxing Road, next door
Home out of a five-minute walk to the Shaoxing Road, this road to walk back and forth primary and secondary age, could not have been familiar with the feeling of familiarity, but it is grown up only gradually felt a taste of this road to.
Shaoxing Road, has been a low-key with, regardless of the new Library opened a gallery, or are faint and did not much sound. Even hotels and entertainment clubs are not unassuming, quietly stand in the street, the doors are shut, and reveals a more light, so strange that people will not dare to step the pace. Han sources such as the famous book store, for the first time, there are people Minato looked at the large French window to the inside, suspect that is where they going.
In fact, I like the quiet addition to the Shaoxing Road, there are those near the parasol lined with thick, the leaves close up the street. When a student like riding a bike here and there to turn, from the early spring garden trees sprout fresh light green, to the end of the summer rich sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, this way, regardless of the season that will bring the total number of delight.
7, ... ...
Suddenly find themselves writing their own to write to are talking about it a great place sesame seeds, in fact, the past few years in Shanghai, where people like to be quite substantial. Perhaps the relationship between the circle of life, my living and working on it a few kilometers radius of the area, so get out and turn this loss to between both.
This is the seventh most inviting me, and is of the utmost importance, of course, is their own home. Was born and raised in Shanghai, therefore, Shanghai, in my eyes, although sometimes some things are still intolerable, but, as a family, as close to a favorite of people who live here, I always feel so warm .
Sun, 20:14:03
OO 2 years in Shanghai, September 8
Author: Annie_2001
