Moved to Shanghai at the age of eight. Guangxi Pingle is a contemporary female writer. 1982 graduated from the Chinese Department of East China Normal University. Before 1990, his works were mainly children's literature and girls' novels, such as trilogy for middle school students, and then he began to write adult literature, including novels such as quiet inside and new york Holiday. 1997, the one-child declaration was issued; 1998, Shanghai Legend published; 1999, Shanghai jinzhiyuye publishing house; In 2000, The Beautiful Heritage of Shanghai was published. In 2008, it was published at 78 north latitude. It would be a pity if a person went to Shanghai instead of walking in the alleys of Shanghai. In the afternoon, before anyone who goes to work or school comes back, as long as he walks into the path from the commercial street in Shanghai, he can immediately see the spacious entrance under the buttonwood tree. What is written on the lintel? Some of them write "1902" under the arcade. There are rows of houses with two or three floors, and the adjacent balconies are full of sunshine. People's windows in the depths reflect the passing cars on the road, which is the alley of Shanghai.
Throughout Shanghai, more than half of the houses are in alleys, and the vast majority of Shanghainese live in various alleys. At the exit of the alley, there is often a small cigarette paper shop. In the incredibly small storefront, there are all kinds of daily necessities, children's snacks, the old lady's needlework, the stamps of the city post, and all kinds of things that are easy to be reported suddenly in the home days. People can wear everyday clothes and shoes and go out to buy them. There are often women who buy a pack of snacks in flower pajamas, with red slippers with collapsed heels tightly between their toes. It is not unusual for people in the alley. People in small shops are always alert and enthusiastic. He turned on the radio and listened to the host's program all day. He also wants someone to listen to him. He looks at people coming and going in small streets and alleys every day. As long as he has a little imagination, he can be regarded as a well-read person.
Walking into the alleys of Shanghainese, you can start to see the life in Shanghai, the life behind the commercial street, the colorful lights and everyone's dignity. Shanghainese love face. Walking in shops, restaurants, bars and parks, you look well fed and well fed, but in alleys, it is different. Quiet music sounded; The smell of stewed chicken came from the public kitchen at the back door; Where there is sunshine, people on the ground floor pull out hemp ropes and take out all the quilts and plates at home to dry. The newly washed clothes smell fragrant, colorful and floating in the wind. If you look closely, you will recognize that this is the popular style in the street this year. You can see the lady with waterfall hair on the road on the bucket at the back door, wearing a shrinking old sweater and washing her hair with stone powder, and her wet hair is emitting hot air in the sun; There is also a shoe repairman, sitting in the alley, banging the thin heel of a high-heeled shoe to mend a new rubber. On the small stool next to him sat a well-dressed woman, waiting to have her shoes repaired with one foot bare. Together, they scold the quality of today's shoes and the profiteers who sell inferior shoes.
And the old people in the alley, sitting in the sun and chatting. Old ladies are always quiet. The old gentleman likes someone to talk to him. Listening to what he said in the past here is his favorite.
There is always a peaceful and down-to-earth daily life in the alley. Shanghainese value it and love it. This is the background of Shanghai people's life. Since the18th century, there has been the first Shanghai Hutong called "Xingrenli" near the Bund. It is peaceful and pragmatic, neither supercilious nor supercilious, but it does not excessively advocate the new school and appears in the life of Shanghainese.
/kloc-In the 1950s of 0/9, Shanghainese began to flee to the concession due to the uprising of the Shanghai Knife Association in the old city. In order to earn money from China refugees, foreigners in the concession built 800 houses in rows according to the appearance of workers' houses in London industrial zone, which was the beginning of Hutong in the concession. By 1872, Ant Dam was built in Xingrenli, Shanghai, and since then.
Shanghai is a big city, as big as tablecloths used by restaurant chefs, with all kinds of flavors. In the past, foreigners drew many blocks, one was the French concession, and the other was the British concession, leaving a box for the old city of Shanghai, which was far from the factory. Many people lived in the area opened up for people working in factories. That was the division of cities in the past, but in the minds of Shanghainese, it seems that such regional division also divides classes. People living in different places are not so friendly to each other and do not like to identify with their hometown. From this point of view, Shanghai sometimes makes people feel that there are many small countries in it, just like Europe, where people all look the same. If you look closely, you will find that Germans, French, Poles and people living in different parts of Shanghai also have different faces. Therefore, people who have lived in Shanghai for decades since childhood dare not say that they know Shanghai, but only know a certain place in Shanghai.
From the early refugee huts to the alleys of Shikumen, and then to the modern alleys, they are distributed like blood vessels in more than 9,000 alleys all over Shanghai, almost filled with the same breath. That's where the middle class in Shanghai has lived for generations. They are the majority of people in society, and they have no worries about food and clothing, but they are either rich or expensive; Decent, but unsuccessful in official career; Economic and practical, careful in life, not too much entertainment, not too much luxury, diligence and contentment to support their well-off life, enterprising, hoping that they will get better every year, but also know how to leave castles in the air. They are determined to live their lives in the economic space, but they can catch a glimpse of possible opportunities and look forward to going up a storey still higher. They are not the kind of innocent people, and certainly not too bad.
There is never despair in the alleys of Shanghai. On the small balcony, homemade dried vegetables and newly bought soybeans are drying. Under the shady window of Beige, bacon marinated with fine fresh meat and peppers is hung, covered with an oil paper to prevent rain from being blown by the wind. On the windowsill, someone planted a gem flower that is not afraid of cold with a broken washbasin. Even in the most turbulent times, life in hutongs is proceeding in an orderly way. Here, he is like a sophisticated old man, moderate and sophisticated. He follows the common morality and doesn't like any radicalism, but he doesn't impose his views on others. He just lives in a proper way.
At night, the back door of every house is open for cooking, and the aroma is fragrant. People go back to their homes, and people like country girls rush in and out through the back door. That's the busiest time for a part-time nanny. Most girls who come to Shanghai gain weight quickly because they eat too much. Compared with Shanghai girls, it's a little swollen. They are working quietly and quickly in the public kitchen at the back door. Today's nanny is not as talkative as Baum, who used to come and go, and likes gossip. However, they are not very good at the service of Shanghai dialect, so the hostess is still doing those exquisite things in the kitchen, cutting meat, dipping hairy crabs in ginger vinegar and warming Shaoxing rice wine. Then, the hostess sent it to her room with a big tray.
I have been to the alley in Shanghai, and I will probably go to other places in Shanghai to learn more. Because the alley in Shanghai is the most authentic and open space in Shanghai, people who live here, even the beauty of Shanghai, should dress up at home and don't care about wearing flat slippers at home to win the trust. Shanghai Alley (Chen) narrates the life scene in Shanghai, reveals the tranquility and truth of the life in the alley, and shows the author Chen's cultural appreciation of the interest in the life in the alley.
The first paragraph (1, 2) highlights that there are many alleys in Shanghai, which shows the importance of alleys in the lives of Shanghainese.
The second paragraph (3~6): Describe the "peaceful and practical" daily life in the alley.
The third paragraph (7~ 10): Explain the formation of the alley.
The fourth paragraph (sections11~13): Discuss the "regular" life in the alley.
The fifth paragraph (section 14) reveals the characteristics of alley life.