Guangzhou Memory: the days passed Tiyuxi
When the time is getting closer, "April show lush, May Wong cicada" in season, a warm wind blowing then scrape off, everybody in town are in the growth of the green, sports, the way northwest to the brown of the branches unwilling to spit it out a sprout, bloom with a few, such as blood Bauhinia.
Some days ago I heard of that road due to repair Metro Line 3 to be closed for two years the news of mind will be suddenly startled, that road is so quiet in the wake of the memory started to extend, until very far. That road is not old, not as well-known Gaudi Guangzhou scholarly Street, is not very long, and even less than one-tenth of Dongfeng Road. To me, it old, vicissitudes of life and long-term, looking like I feel at this moment. A philosopher once said, recalling the past, most of them implies a pain. Or, like Ouyang Xiu, "Yu Louchun" and wrote: "One recalls with a twist of view, re-meet Biansi flowers," I do not know is not so, but perhaps to organize the past, time to pack up mood.
Many years ago, a friend said to me, Liwan, Guangzhou people like the classical implication, Dongshan aristocratic atmosphere, or even crossed the river old sea beads, and no one would go to watch a distant Milky Way. At that time, no one could think, many years later, Tianhe Napian smell of farmland actually is such a sparkling place, like the street lights lit the sky. When you stand on Milky Way Road, West Cross junction and the sports, the former Pillar of view, he discovers that the West Natiao sports have long been turned into a mud road, half a materialistic society full every night Shengge, half of the dense tree-lined, quiet and delicate street. You will suddenly feeling the past, the future of good sense, MO wondering, more off-meter degrees. Shidao the original is the case, should not be people to regret or remorse, but they can miss and imagination.
That year, I'm still young. For the first time and sports West meet, it looks a bit helpless, panic. From the East Railway Station, then catch a ride to the Book Center, diagonally opposite is the future prosperity and well-known because of the Tianhe City, is also noisy construction, at the foot of there after the call on the 1st line of the subway, has not yet begun to start, I stood in the physical midpoint of the West. In fact, nothing but 10 minutes on foot go there then I do not know the road in front of West called the sport and do not know the fate of being not far from quietly watching me. A few months later, once again came to Huacheng, people become that way are part of the South to the corner Since then, I often walk on this road, as we stroll in the sunshine, or if the paint of the night, life becomes so simple while the ordinary, just as life itself.
I live in that place, next to a reservoir, it has saved much of the surrounding reservoirs of. Every summer, a night to sleep on the flights of fancy, frog sounds are like in the countryside. A friend said that he had also been entered to catch frogs to eat, I was afraid, and always feel that grew up in the city, not clean like a little frog. However, in the summer night, and friends brew a pot of tea on, listening to the Washeng, mixed with not far from the subway tunnel digging the sound, and talk late into the night, but it is pleasant pieces of matter. Later, Napian reservoirs into high-rise now, Jun Hui Building, inside homes, there are companies there is also a known TOP of the KTV karaoke, very lively, Washeng but disappear in the memories. Perhaps this is civilization's footsteps, in the city process.
In reservoirs of the opposite, there is a road called sports, West side streets because they have to cross the West over sports, it may thus its name. It is like most of the streets of Guangzhou, the same narrow, crowded, caught in the sterile bud cell for communications between buildings, the empty stalls in full bloom, there are operating barber shop, selling general merchandise department stores, and open studio, and industrial and commercial business license agents, and most are devoted to diet, period of days, eat the most is a restaurant called Ruby because the decorated bright clean, the price is moderate, rich flavor, exceptionally large number of guests, a few years later, I went to the shop area has been expanded twice, signs, and several other restaurant owners in exchange for another in exchange, it is this constant female boss Nafu "Peach Blossom Spring is still laughing," electoral victory. Stalls, perhaps the most outstanding feature of the city, reminds me of "do everything well water office, there are Liu Yong word" is said, and it corresponds to "do everything the road where the roadside buildings, there are stalls. " If it is not strictly managed all these years in Guangzhou, you may need to add "a place where there are stalls, market stall, was bound to be an extension of a shed to", unlike in Beijing, you have to move forward along the road, half-day did not see a small shops; this phenomenon, it typically reflects the southerner sensitive and pragmatic style of doing business, however, despite the market stall, buy some little things convenient for the daily chores and the like, but pity the poor roads and pedestrians, entire neighborhoods are also appear messy and chaotic, like a powder, would not have his face painted with colorful dressed little girl.
Yu-Lei district's residents, mostly employees of some state-owned enterprises, such as the Shipping Group, COSCO Group, and so on, the early 90s, district built up, many people are not willing to be assigned to this remote place to live, but because of their positions and is not high, beyond the control of their own choice, no one can think of, today's busy making house prices continue to rise, many years later there will be the policy of housing reform, and some people Bianba sell, re-bought a set of larger new houses; some people, the house rented to the vicinity of high-priced white-collar work, with monthly rents to pay for a new home to live another; there are those who, even as companies with poor performance and laid off, but because the rent can continue to the maintenance of life; the previous two years, said the government wanted to district north of Teem Plaza, City Grand Place and the south of the Pearl River New City together into a large green square, to the demolition of part of the education bud district buildings, residents can also receive a substantial The Chai Qianfei. Of course, a long time ago is home, where, who do not want to move freely, though, it is only a forced to choose life.
Now, in sports the middle of the West side streets, there is a beautiful vegetable market on the first floor is the fruit stalls, flower stalls, dry goods stalls, seafood stalls, riding elevators on the second floor, is one of many stalls of vegetables and meat stalls small hanging red lanterns, clean and tidy. Opposite is a multi-purpose entertainment center, which has table tennis room, chess room, gym, there are often active in silhouette. Years ago, there is only a makeshift scaffolding vegetable market, which Heidengxiahuo, the smell mixed, I remember that year, just came here, some colleagues took me to the lives of bought items like pots and pans, and later on the often came to buy some vegetable oil, salt and rice, and in here, learned to squat on the ground and the small vegetable vendors to bargain, but also began to learn to use those few words of Arabic numerals in Guangzhou, lame but ugly, and have a life segment on the demolition, and then re-built before, to become today's look. The edge of the new vegetable market, but also built a row of antique's veranda, a number of lush green vines wrapped in the hollow of the veranda above, you can cover wind and rain, and Ke Dang the sun; Gallery inside the walls display a number of primary school students in the vicinity of art exercises, naive and full of fantasy; tired, you can also sit in the cool Langxia stools, watching the front of interesting paintings and a delightful green, enjoying the "Green Trail Wind inclined to spend lit, galleries were quiet rain Cecil" classical mood.
Moving forward along the porch, not far to the Pearl River Delta on the well-known business center ---- Teem Plaza and City Grand Plaza. Or they could Teemall stands next to the abandoned scaffolding, something to stop the construction of two towers, City Grand Plaza, just can not wait to build a layer on the business, verifiable prosperity of the business circle, which seems to be a paradox, because the building of downtown stop ; Tianhe City is not high, coupled with the ground floor, were on the eighth floor, underground floor has originated from a famous Japanese Jusco department store, ground floor Guangdong, Hong Kong and Taiwan are mostly well-known fashion shops, second, third, seventh floor of Guangzhou and Shenzhen old The days of trade the South Building, department stores, the fourth floor of the electrical appliances, five, sixth floor of the culture, games, food center, constitute a set of large-scale integration of many functions MALL. City Grand Plaza is also based on the fashion business as a shelter, though a layer, it covers an area of large, covered with ancient brick street in London, Paris Avenue, named after various internal channels, and accompanied by deep jazz, there is a Western flavor. Stroll too tired, I love to go, in the Tianhe Chengerlou a Sanwei, and sometimes can turn to several academic books on, people feel the lingering legacy of Lu Xun, while City Grand Plaza, there are 1 Shannan Random House, which put a lot of books on Zen Buddhism class, into which a quiet and simple and elegant, like a remote control to enter the realm of Zen, in particular, is more like a book called the South Wye, said bookstore owner would like to worship of the South Wye , I have not seen, but listen to the little girl selling books, said business is not very good, most of them rely on the income of the owner to compensate the other bookstores in the hole, a tribute not help remember with affection. A few days ago, but found that two Random House has disappeared into two size-fits-boutiques, Dunsheng a heavy heart, in this commercial era and eventually denied the fashion culture.
Circulating in Guangzhou's real estate sector had a word, a boom in Tianhe Tianhe Sports Center. All changes, perhaps because of Tianhe Sports Center, but what is to thoroughly promote or resist the pace of expansion of urban strides it, only themselves. Sports Center area, is large enough, said the airport was originally the troops, and later converted to the Ninth National Games and sports are also due to the Sports Center Road west of the name. Center is headed by several large venues, soccer, swimming pool, badminton hall etc., the Museum is a vast ring of field outside the Avenue, the Museum and the Museum with some interval between the lawn, green shrubs, banyan, rockeries, coconut trees, mixed uneven, patchwork. Generally, there are a large number of morning exercise person, or song, or dance, or play, or run, may well be a landscape; venues are regularly organizes large-scale competitions or recreational activities, like the Thomas Cup badminton tournament Golden Rooster Awards ceremony will be like certain pop singers; to the New Year period, the museum also on the main street outside the term of the gourmet food festival every year, stocking up exhibitions, the famous flower market in Guangzhou and so on, "the rabbit and light back to see Joan stream two opposing powers, the cold soak tower. Song Chuan is the flower, cloud quiet days Street "New Year's Eve eve, where the crowd is bustling, crowded, colorful flowers bloom at night, a more beautiful, moving, visiting the flower market, is the Guangzhou New Year or foreign people to Guangzhou, the Chinese New Year a sumptuous dinner.
And the sports center across the way is the Book Center, looking down from the sky, you will find that it's shape is like a big shoes, but also like the ladder of human progress, a symbol of knowledge. Book Center is not high, because, as the structure of shoes, so each floor area is not the same, the bottom of the most spacious, selling literature, Philosophy books, on the second floor is educational, and three are well-known triple bookstores, quaint The ancient bookstores, the fourth floor is a stationery, the fifth floor is the examination of various types of small bookstores, the sixth floor of the exchange will always hold some people, I often go to the fifth floor of a bookstore called red maple leaf, which the more academic books many bookstores initially small, crowded, and later expanded its decoration, and very clean, showing that the academic life did not weaken, I do not know, is knowledge and knowledge-based economy has led the trend of value-added, or the profit-driven books, of knowledge of the value-added, but I prefer to believe the former.
Sports, culture, commerce constitutes a virtuous dynamic cycle of urban development, while the northern end of sports links Tianhe North Road West, but also makes the city added a lot of aristocratic atmosphere. May be squeezed out a narrow city man's existence and activities of the space, so the city built the more the higher the floor, and to Guangzhou two years later, in the northwest end of the end of the sport, even to pull out a few buildings high-rise buildings, the mayor of the magnificent building, into the clouds of the CITIC Plaza, built at the beginning, they quickly replaced the old twin towers in Guangzhou has become the city's latest landmark buildings, while many foreign businessmen and prominent companies to join, making these buildings more tales of the additional value, but also with making the entire Milky Way Road to become a po land, when many people work or live in the days of Hebei Province as an honor. Outsider who arrived in Guangzhou, and most will come to its feet, stirring up the neck, look up with it. There seems to be the height of a sign that it will have a kind of overlooking people's posture, the powers of a condescending, people worship.
A quiet walk around the West around the sport, when I look back, life has been in the past nearly 10 years, and years to come is the case, it is ironic fate seems to have come full circle in place, from the starting point back to square one. Unforgiving changing the scenario is a mood, when that baggage Maotouxiaohuo dragged from the train station has been lost in the crowd in this city, but along with this road every subtle change and growth, small group also become a veritable middle-aged man, slightly shy of the stomach, not scattered feelings. Elsewhere in our lives forever, time and space is one such rotation, and let all of the past, into Smoke Piaoyuan, elusive.
Bauhinia flowers year after year,花开花落, stroll sporting a rare tree-lined path that part of the West, we often ignore to miss. I often think of Taipei cartoonist Jimmy's "to the left away from the walk to the" inside passage: "labyrinth of the city, people used to see the same scene, take the same route, to the same destination; habit makes a kind of inexplicable sense of security, but a kind of inexplicable loneliness. and you never know, your habits will make you miss anything. "when the whole city enveloped in wet rain, the gray sky, late late not see the sun, people feel the melancholy, wandering, floating, there is usually a sudden impulse to cry every day run around the jungle in the city in the us, ever look back?
It is only in order to bid farewell to the memory.
Author: zhulianbihe
