I hope that tomorrow's Shanghai --
Go to the toilet is no longer a topic of writers sun and the moon Tan
The 20th century, the early '50s, most of the family in Shanghai is not that there is no exclusive use of sanitary facilities, and even communal toilets are difficult to universal access. Of local houses and old buildings Shikumen families are generally the use of toilets, even in bustling downtown area, convenience is very embarrassing thing. Using the toilet residential areas, a day after it opened fire and water is of urgent priority. Lanes in the front row of public toilets toilet's long since teams are old-fashioned houses in the Lanes common sight, much less the middle of the night to talk about such and such an embarrassing moment of encounter. At that time, an era of a room, the room stopped out of a place in the corner of the toilet, privacy, of course speak of, but relying on the people of Shanghai old-fashioned dignity and modesty over the years, we thus tacitly maintain survival The most urgent needs.
Because, there is the inconvenience and so on, so that in that era, to the people house guests, to facilitate the mind in their hearts. Planning based on expenditure into the ground water is a basic knowledge of tea, the guests seated not long after the Tanxing side effect has been to rose to leave, most of that is because there is no distraction of "hidden." A provincial writer, so he recalled the situation in Shanghai, a guest: "young and beautiful hostess, welcoming me into the small room, with its own hospitality I frying the seeds. After a while she was greeting suddenly into a meter away behind the curtain, and then came the sound of nearby Qingliang urine. A minute later, the mistress of the house while the Department of the belt walked back to the table. Her behavior is not the slightest cramped and awkward, but added my cheek due to hidden the desire to feel hot ... ... "
Scholars, and cultural critic Zhu Dake talking about the daily toilet old Shanghai style, we also can not help but remember: "Urban residents in waste collection, toilet cleaning, is a major transaction can not be discarded. From the then Shanghai International Hotel's highest skyscraper window, you can clearly hear the sound, as the sun rising on the Huangpu River, they would reverberate in the heart of Nanjing Road in the townhouse area, like hundreds of thousands of physical of morning prayers. That is a great marker Shanghai morning. the mass public health campaign launched the Red Dawn. those who are brushing rhythmic sound of the urban metaphor of time and rhythm. "
The difficulty of using the toilet in Shanghai, but also makes the writer Ye Zhaoyan Jiangsu created novel "on the toilet." Of these, a true details of a young woman named Yang Hai-ling in Shanghai within the mall when the emergency. Shopping toilet less, the young people waiting in line, the last straw before the eyes of the Diaper. She felt severely damaged self-esteem, then she chose to leave. She left the home that favorable natural conditions, the city, to the north a climate in areas such as poor conditions a lot of work in cities. She considered that the diapers, she can no longer face those who are familiar faces.
Shanghai scholar Yu's "Hangzhewujiang", the account of his visit to Einstein's house in Switzerland, when the feelings inadvertently wrote the toilet on: "In the old home turning two laps, could not find the bathroom, and began to worry Einstein up. was afraid he might, like the original, as our housing difficulties, with others, sharing the bathroom. this many times a day of waiting, humility, thanks, to avoid, had occurred to him how should not be. "walked the Earth, even the other half of the people of Shanghai psychologically old go to the toilet "collective memory", will still emerge in his subconscious.
Into the 21st century, Shanghai, toilet gradually fading vision, home life, "convenience" have begun to move toward convenience. However, once described by the Shanghai literati about embarrassing toilet has become a disgrace to the people of Shanghai. Therefore, I hope that tomorrow in Shanghai, urban development, all sorts of things, first consider the popularity of public toilets, so go to the toilet is no longer a writer topic.
Author: riyuetan
