Before coming to Shanghai, I saw such a sentence when I was doing a strategy - if you don't go to the Old City God's Temple in Shanghai, you haven't been to Shanghai.

Now I am standing on the street of the old city god temple, looking at the pedestrians weaving around, but I don't think this is very right, I just feel that this place is like a temple fair that never ends all year round.

The buildings on both sides of the street are all old buildings with cornices and corners, and almost every shop has plaques and banners hanging in front of them, and the merchants who have done a little more tricks have their waiters dressed in the costumes of the ancients, making people feel like they are in an ancient market.

I am an atheist, so I didn't go into the City God Temple to burn incense and worship the City God or anything, and stood at the gate of the temple to rub the explanations of the tour guides of several tour groups, and also listened to the history of the Shanghai City God Temple.

Haicheng God's Temple was really built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and has a history of nearly 600 years. In addition to the long history, the Shanghai Old Town God's Temple also has another interesting feature - one temple and three city gods.

Chenghuang, also known as Chenghuang in some places, is one of the eight gods of Confucianism's "Zhou Palace". It is also the god of Han folk and Taoism who believes in guarding the city. Chenghuang is the magistrate of the underworld, and his authority is equivalent to that of the county magistrate of the yang realm.

So generally speaking, there is only one city god in a place, just like there is only one county magistrate in a county.

The old city god temple in Shanghai has three city gods, and the three city gods are the famous generals of the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Guang, Qin Yubo, and Chen Huacheng.

Huo Guang is the oldest of the three city gods, the old city god temple was originally Huo Guang's shrine, and later became the city god temple. Huo Guang's name may not be known to many people, but many people must be familiar with his half-brother - Huo Quai.

As for Qin-Yubo, legend has it that he was a filial son, and because his mother lamented that he had never seen the Jinluan Palace, he specially built a building like the Jinluan Palace. was informed, the emperor sent someone to investigate, and he changed the temple into a Jinshan Temple overnight and escaped a disaster.

Later, when the Qing army moved south, it was met with strong resistance from the people in the Shanghai area, and the Qing generals were ready to slaughter the city. On the eve of the massacre, the Qing army general dreamed of Qin-Yubo, Qin warned him not to kill, and the general was afraid, so he canceled the plan to slaughter the city. Because of Qin-Yubo's "manifestation", Shanghai was saved from the massacre of the city and saved the people of Shanghai, so Qin-Yubo was regarded as the city god by the people of Shanghai.

The last Chen Huacheng, who turned out to be the governor of Jiangnan, was blood-stained in Wusongkou in the Second Opium War and died in Wusong Fort. It turned out that it was not in the City God Temple, but in the Chen Gong Ancestral Hall, and later the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the citizens invited him out of the Chen Gong Temple to be the third City God Lord.

There are a lot of people who come to the temple to offer incense, but my purpose is not this, I feel that the tour guides have almost listened to the explanation, so I continue to walk forward.

In fact, if you travel abroad, if you don't follow a group but drive, it is a very good thing to find a tour group to follow the explanation on some occasions, especially those attractions with historical background, only if you know the story behind the attractions for hundreds or even thousands of years, you will feel that this attraction is interesting, otherwise you will take a look at the flowers, and it is not interesting at all.

All the way to the Nanxiang steamed bun shop, which is the most mentioned shop on the travel network, read the guide said that the Nanxiang xiaolongbao here is delicious, so I decided to try it.

Before I reached the front of the store, I found that there was a long queue in front of the store, and there was almost no empty seat in the store.

I walked to the front of the line and inquired, and found that this shop is divided into grades, and different lines are arranged according to different prices to eat in different places. I took a look, there are more people who are cheaper, and there are fewer people who are expensive.

Although I didn't see Nanxiang xiaolongbao and didn't enter this store, this famous store first made me realize that being rich is the boss.

After calculating the money, I decided to eat a medium, waited for more than 20 minutes and waited for a seat, walked in and asked for xiaolongbao and soup dumplings, which added up to about one cage.

It didn't take long for the bun to come up, and the skin of the bun was very thin and had many folds, and it looked like a small pagoda. Through the crystal clear skin, you can faintly see the soup inside.

On the one hand, there happened to be a tour guide introducing the way to eat xiaolongbao, and the voice was not small, "Attention tourists, there may be people who eat Nanxiang xiaolong for the first time, let me tell you how to eat this Nanxiang xiaolong." The way to eat this Nanxiang xiaolong is different from the ordinary xiaolongbao. Nanxiang Xiaolong is characterized by thin skin and many fillings, if you bite a big bite directly, you will either burn your tongue straight out, or lose the soup due to a big bite. Therefore, the correct way to eat is to take a small bite first, bite out a small hole, suck it, suck the soup deliciously, and then eat the skin and filling of the bun. ”

As soon as the tour guide finished speaking, a child who looked to be only a teenager said loudly: "Waiter, bring me a straw!" ”

The shop pù immediately laughed because of the child's words, I smiled and picked up a Nanxiang small cage and began to eat according to the way the tour guide said.

At the entrance of the steamed buns, I immediately understood why this Nanxiang steamed bun shop dared to line up in different places at different prices and eat in different places, and then it could be praised and recommended by so many people on the travel network.

I have a classmate from Shanghai, who usually has a good relationship, and I can play together, and I sent him a WeChat message between meals, saying that I was in the Old Town God's Temple in Shanghai.

It didn't take long for him to reply to my message, with a sunglasses expression and a sentence that the locals in Shanghai don't go to that place, they are all deceiving foreign tourists like you.

I just noticed one thing - the people in the shop seemed to be tourists, and there were almost no Shanghai locals, because I couldn't hear a word of Shanghainese or Shanghainese Mandarin.

This sentence of a classmate from Shanghai reminds me of Wangfujing Snack Street in the imperial capital, it seems that every larger city will have a similar street, in the local population, the locals never go to that street, only tourists from other places will go, and the shop pù on that street is also said to be specially designed to deceive foreign tourists.

I don't know if this is a common phenomenon in the world or a manifestation of over-exploitation and over-commercialization of culture, at least walking on the street of the Old City God's Temple, I just think there are a lot of people here, and the buildings have an ancient style, but I don't realize the word old.

"Richard?"

A voice full of uncertainty suddenly interrupted my reverie, and I looked up to see that it was Wang Hui, the owner of the night bar, and next to me was the woman who asked Wang Hui to kick me and Wang Xiaorui out of the night bar that day, only to be slapped by Wang Xiaorui.

Wang Hui sat opposite me with a smile, "Sure enough, it's you, I feel like I'm back to you." Alone? What about Wang Xiaorui? Not with you? ”

I shrugged, "She gave me a few days off. ”

Wang Hui gave me a look that all men understand, "Understood, so you came out chic, right?" ”

I guess this guy misunderstood, but I didn't bother to explain, so I pouted and didn't respond to him.