Two: the capital of peace and tranquility

In 1929, Nanjing began a ten-year construction plan. Nanjing's construction is everywhere. A brand-new Nanjing is presented in front of the Chinese people.

Residents were demolished, roads widened, and the city's small train extended south. The buildings of hotels, shopping malls, cinemas and political axe agencies are in full swing one after another.

Migrant workers from other places poured into Nanjing.

In 1923, Nanjing had its own production of cement, and the roads and sidewalks were directly poured with concrete.

On the surface, the people of Nanjing are still living a step-by-step life, but the torrent is quietly surging under the calm river.

The families who caught up with the demolition were busy building new houses. Residents on both sides of the street opened shops, restaurants and hotels.

The people in the deep alleys cleaned the old houses that had not been lived in for many years and rented them out to outsiders. More young people are moving into factories, schools, institutions and public utilities.

Advertising agencies, tourism companies, cinemas, commercial areas, industrial areas have sprung up like mushrooms. Employees of hotels, banks and large companies took off their big hexagrams and changed into suits.

There are more workers in blue overalls and female weavers in white aprons on the streets of Nanjing. People who go to work are in a hurry.

The hearts of Nanjing people were activated, and their fiery hearts were like the sun in June 1937. It's hot.

The weather in Nanjing is very strange, and it is as hot as a boiler room during the day. Things inside and outside the house are touched

It's hot to go. But when it was windy, people braved the heat to work and did not feel uncomfortable.

At dinnertime, the wind stopped, and the house was so hot that people could not sit still, and people could only sweat and wave banana fans under the trees and eaves.

The old man and his children in the house began to sprinkle water on the road in front of the house and moved the beds, recliners and door panels to the side of the road. They are prepared to cool off and sleep at night.

People have sovereignty over the territory on their doorstep, and how big the place to enjoy the shade was at the beginning, and it has remained so big since then, and it has remained the same for many years.

Occasionally, something that crosses the line is resolved by greeting. There were no disputes between neighbors over places to enjoy the shade.

Students after school stepped through the threshold and were busy eating. The grandmother hurriedly filled the food for them, saying, "Eat quickly, the child who is growing his body will never be able to fill his belly." ”

Mother couldn't care about so much, she didn't say angrily, "The clothes are rented." Take it off and wash it for grandma, and it will be good to wear tomorrow after a while. ”

The mother also instructed: "After eating, take a bath as soon as possible." Go under the street lamp and read a book. It's cool and saves money on electricity for the family. ”

After a while, the elderly and children of each family came out with banana fans to enjoy the coolness, and the neighbors greeted each other. The old people meet and start a homely routine. Men love to talk about news and insights.

The men were shirtless, and there were also teachers and staff in small hangers. They sit on small benches or lie on doors.

Women wore short-sleeved clothes and knee-high shorts, and they sat or lay on beds with their children. Recliners are all places for the elderly.

Under the street lamps, there are chess players, students doing homework, and old people taking the soles of their shoes. It was late at night, and the people gradually dispersed. Adults and children, men and women, fell asleep in the streets.

When the migrant workers first arrived in Nanjing, they couldn't get used to seeing Nanjing people sleeping on the road, and they wiped their sweat in the house and shook the banana fan desperately.

However, in the blink of an eye, they were too hot to stand. Sweating profusely, they spread reed mats on the sidewalk, lying on a large area.

The silent city of Nanjing fell asleep, and the streets and alleys lined up from one end of the road to the other end of the road, and people in their sleep lined up throughout the city of Nanjing.

There is no one here to support mosquito nets, not because they are poor, but because there are no mosquitoes. To say that the city is clean and there are a lot of flies. Flies circulate around you when it's time to eat, and you can't get rid of them.

When it was cold at night, the old man got up and went back to his room to bring a sheet and cover the child. It was dawn and people spent the night in deep sleep.

Although the door was not closed that night, no thieves entered the room. Because there is nothing worth stealing in the house.

Many girls and daughters-in-law slept in the streets, but there were no hooligans. The hooligan Ah Fei knows that he doesn't want to run away here, and he won't be sent to the bureau if he doesn't fight half to death.

The sun hadn't risen yet, the air was very cool, and my hands were slippery on my face. Everyone wants to sleep a little longer, even if it's good to lie down a little longer.

Helplessly, people stretched their waists and got up. They hurriedly moved the door panels of the beds and recliners to their homes. After a night, the house became cooler. Children who do not want to get out of bed are carried into the house and go back to sleep.

After a while, smoke rose from the kitchens of every house, most of them burned large stoves, and the yards were full of firewood. Although the stove is fast, people cannot leave the front of the stove.

A few people burned coal stoves, and they smashed the stove sealed with wet coal the night before with tongs, and fanned it a few times in a hurry, and the fire in the stove soon came up.

There is something burning on the stove, and people can do other things. The people who burn the big stove are always very envious of the people who burn the coal stove. But coal is much more expensive than firewood.

Every day's breakfast is porridge or pickled rice with side dishes, which is very simple. The side dishes include dried radish, kohlrabi, and assorted vegetables. Particular people put a little sesame oil in the side dishes.

There are hawkers on the street who pick and choose to buy, some people run out to buy fried cakes, fritters, sugar balls, and some buy foreign sweets.

The whole family was eating, and there was a shout of 'take out the garbage' from the street.

The shouting is accompanied by the shaking of the bell of the shouter. The mule pulled the cart and followed the rattle man, along the stone-paved road, and walked slowly.

Some people are adults, others are children, and they immediately put down their rice bowls and take the garbage out of the bucket or old basin from the kitchen or yard.

They scrambled to dump the garbage into the garbage trucks. Whoever takes out the garbage comes out late, he has to run a few steps behind the mule cart.

Neither the elderly nor children will litter the outside of the car. Occasionally, when a child spills garbage outside the car, the adults in the family will immediately sweep up the garbage and take it back to their own yard.

Nanjing's roads and alleys are very clean. No one litters the streets, because public health is controlled by the Boy Scouts.

There is no one in the city who defecates in the open. There are public toilets on the side of the road or in the alleys in Nanjing. People who clean public toilets earn their income by selling their excrement.

Every morning, the men in the toilet are always queuing with cigarettes in their mouths or reading newspapers. There was also a hurry, he bent over and lifted his pants to greet everyone in line. He went to the toilet quickly.

In densely populated places, there are urinals on the side of the road. Men can ignore girls and daughters-in-law who come and go. Turning his back to them as if no one was unraveling.

When my mother went out after breakfast, she would put the heavy toilet bowl by a well not far from the door of her house, where there were people who washed the toilet.

They don't charge money for cleaning toilets, they ask for feces. Don't look at it smelly and dirty, it's the best fertilizer for farming, and it's a farmer's treasure.

The old man will send the washed toilet from door to door. There are many such places in the small alleys of Nanjing. It's a different landscape.

The adults went out to do their lives, the children went to school, and the grandmother took the pots and spoons to the river to wash them. The water is so clear that when you wash the dishes, you can attract schools of fish to swim in the river.

Some fish have grown so big that it is rare for someone to catch them. Eating fish here is not uncommon. As soon as they eat meat, the children will rush to eat it.

There are many rivers in Nanjing because there are many mountains in Nanjing, and the hills in Nanjing are the landform characteristics of Nanjing, and the flow direction of the rivers is related to the mountains of Nanjing.

The east of Nanjing City is the Purple Mountain, and the west from the Purple Mountain through the Taiping Gate is Xiaojiuhua Mountain, the Arctic Pavilion Mountain, the Gulou Slope, the Suiyuan Mountain, the Wutai Mountain, and the Qingliang Mountain.

People refer to these mountains as the westward extension of the Purple Mountain Range. The entire mountain range divides the city of Nanjing from east to west into north and south. Nanjing people are accustomed to calling it the south of the city and the north of the city.

The direction of the streets of Nanjing City and the construction of houses are inseparable from the direction of the river, which is the reason for the landscape and urban forest of Nanjing