Don't look at the high-rise buildings, in fact, the most affectionate and interesting places are still those ancient streets and deep alleys, which are a quiet search in the bustling urban area, the old streets have history, and there are modern people's lives, and there will be the beauty of the story where there is life, some of the beauty is obvious, and there is also a hidden beauty without a trace.

Just as the beauty of Pudong is a kind of brilliant glamour, which is intuitive and concrete, the beauty of Puxi needs to be appreciated in a slow time mood.

Shanyin Road is located in the famous Hongkou District, which originally belonged to the Japanese Concession, and it 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 the avenue with bright lights and colorful dogs and horses, and on the other side is the streets and alleys, and the long and short neighborhoods of the market.

The narrow streets without separation guardrails, the low street houses open a few shops, fruit shops, snack bars, and all kinds of vehicles passing through, such as cars, battery cars, tricycles, bicycles, and constant bells, enriching the landscape on the street.

Most of the people walking on the street are marketable, less trimmed, and casually dressed, and they are the kind of ordinary people who will not leave any impression on you. Or for a living, or for commuters, or looking for card friends, there are also elderly people sitting on street corners, watching people come and go, day after day.

On both sides of the road, rows of houses are neatly laid out, weaving countless alleys, and every few steps a narrow alley appears, extending into the distance, or leading to another street, or connecting with other alleys. Each house is connected to each other, and a wall separates the two worlds, intimate and guarded.

The main entrances of the front alley are crowded side by side, and although there is a house number, you will be confused in the mist of the alley, but the people who live in it can always easily smell their own smell in the heavy fog of the door.

In the afternoon, the alley is very quiet, almost uninhabited, and the sunlight falls from the cracks of the building, dispelling the gloom of silence and bringing life to the alley, which is a tranquil satisfaction enjoyed by the people in the alley.

I happened to pass by a real estate agency, and the blackboard outside the door was neatly stacked with sales information, most of which were 15-25 square meters of cottages, and the lowest price was more than 1.8 million, which was the dignity of the people of Modu.

SC Johnson suddenly understood, why many people call this the magic capital?

Nanjing Road is surrounded by office buildings towering into the clouds, brightly lit shopping malls, and foreigners of all colors shuttling endlessly, with a superior calmness and bearing under the glamorous appearance, and the air is spacious.

It's just a few streets away, and this alley in Hongkou District is another scene where cars and horses are mixed and full of smoke and dust, and this instantaneous transformation of time and space has highlighted the special magic of the magic capital.

The scene of the city that never sleeps and the tranquil market coexist.

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

On both sides of the road, most of the European-style buildings built during the colonial period are stormy, and the sycamore trees have been built for a hundred years, and the garden houses built in the turbulent and turbulent times have become urban landscapes today, and the taste is complex and difficult to say.

Compared to San'in Road, it presents a completely different temperament. The tranquility of being in a bustling city is already precious, there are few tourists, locals do not frequent, and the occasional car is just passing by, and the whole street pushed up by the courtyard of the deep mansion has its own quiet and aristocratic atmosphere.

Without the shelter of high-rise buildings, the verdant sycamores stretch out to the blue sky with all their might, and the light shining from the branches and leaves also has an elegant taste.

Traveling all over the world, it is not only the shape that attracts me, but also the temperament contained in the building itself. The first and second floors and the uppermost façade are made of cement imitation stone walls, and the middle layers of red brick paving are just ordinary building materials, but they are cleverly matched with the beauty of simplicity and carving.

Temperament comes from skill, look closely at the paving method of bricks, hooks and joints are very exquisite, there are many changes in it, it is the presentation of lines and three-dimensional; the integrated balcony bears the finishing touch in the building, the Roman column is similar to the bucket arch of the ancient building, is the support and decoration of the role, is an important feature of the French Renaissance style.

It's the role of time. Time has endowed it with mottled external traces, and has also left a rich and indelible humanistic atmosphere.

Continuing on, a pure white building jumps out in the emerald color of April, with a girlish freshness, like a bride in a wedding dress. Its beauty is not only the effect of the years, the years have not left many traces on its body, it is a kind of elegant and noble beauty, a feeling that makes people's hearts pound.

The square inch balcony is the gift of nature, the sunshine, the air, the breeze blowing, the singing of flowers and birds, and it is also a bridge of love, a leaning on the railing with a variety of styles, a heroic posture under the window, staging a romantic love legend.

Walking is a comfortable stroll through every building and every person. The building is a static scene, and there are people in the scene, so there is more of a vivid and beautiful atmosphere. This freshness does not come from locals, but from Europeans and Americans who meet from time to time. Among these people, it is not professionals in formal attire, but the kind of everyday life.

A couple pushing a stroller, two children happily following behind, the sun gently sprinkled on them from the branches and leaves of the sycamore, casting a warm and warm shadow; the man riding the battery bicycle always looked at ease, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, a gust of wind passed, raising a few sycamore leaves; the bicycle is the most common means of transportation on the road, and under all kinds of hair colors, there is a beautiful rainbow......

When I came to Ba Jin's former residence, in the black iron door, a comfortable green and a chic rhyme spread to my body. Creepers crawl all over the gray cobblestone exterior walls, turquoise wooden windows, and a few pots of green plants under the windows, a quiet classical charm.

Stepping into the room, a sense of intimacy emerges, and this intimacy is even more intense when you see the portrait of Mr. Barkin. The painting hangs on the wall of the square dining table in the front hall, which is Huang Yongyu's own handwriting, strong and powerful brushstrokes, and the sound is like Ba Jin. It vividly conveys the voice of Ba Jin's lifelong struggle: tell the truth and give the heart to the reader.

The intimacy also comes from the abundant and drumming fragrance of books, not the smell of books, but the intuitive sight, but also the soul-enriching fragrance of books that I feel in my heart. From the first and second floors, bedrooms, living rooms, attic balconies, there are entire walls of bookcases, and even the bathroom has a stuffed bookcase.

Walking through this long street, you need to maintain a high level of attention and exploration at all times, just because, the seemingly ordinary and ordinary street scene, in your hurried steps or inadvertently, many scenes worth seeing will be rubbed off, whether it is the deep alley hidden behind the shikumen, or the food and tea between the teeth, or the garden house hidden among the high walls and leaves, and the treacherous history and stories behind it.