A vibrant road to hope
In the past, Wharf Town Road was like a teenager, maintaining its original nature. Now, Wharf Town Road is like a successful young man, full of books, showing the style of "taking pride in poetry and books" and attractive bright prospects everywhere. Among the many streets in Taiyuan, the history of Wucheng Road can't be compared with the old streets such as Dongmishi Street, Fangshan House and Zhonglou Street, but it has changed greatly and quickly enough to make people sit up and take notice.
From 1950s to 1970s, Wucheng Road was a dirty street in the eyes of the old lady. There is a simple reason. Wucheng Road is located in the suburb of old Taiyuan. Apart from going to Shanxi University and surrounding villages, old ladies living in urban areas rarely take this road. At that time, there were green crops on both sides of the road, and people who passed by didn't seem to care what the road next to them would look like and what imprint they would leave on the city where they lived.
Today's Wucheng Road is not what it used to be. In those days, low shops were replaced by magnificent clothing stores, bookstores, bars and video stores. The biggest feature of this street is the dense bookstores, stationery stores and optical shops. No matter whether the goods are complete or not, every shop is full of customers and bustling, which reflects that the educational atmosphere here is by no means comparable to other places. "There are many universities and scientific research units, which is the biggest feature of this road. Wucheng Road should be changed to Education Road. " Gao Suling, a middle school teacher who lives in Wucheng Road, said, "A name is like a person's first business card; The same is true of roads. The road name should also be the first business card of this road. It should have its own characteristics, so that people can understand this road as soon as they hear its name. Wucheng Road is characterized by education. " Gao Suling's words reflect the elegance of Wucheng Road from one side. On this road, there are more than ten schools of all levels and types, including Shanxi University, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Shanxi Judicial School, the High School Attached to Shanda University and Jiuyi Primary School. In addition, there are IT Plaza, Book City, Computer City and many bookstores nearby, so this road really has a certain academic temperament.
Walking along this road, from time to time there will be some students-like teenagers passing by, who exude a unique youthful vitality, which is precisely the unique symbol of this road.
When you think of Wucheng Road, you think of the "big braid" of 103 tram.
This year (2007), Wang Haibin just turned 60 and is a typical old woman. In his impression, when he was in his twenties, he went to Shanxi University and took the dock road for the first time. At that time, the road was very narrow, and two rows of trees were planted along the road. There were no shops and no houses. It starts from Changfeng Street and ends at the old school gate of Shanxi University, which is the length of Wucheng Road. There is no road to the south of the old school gate of Shanxi University, but farmland. "I have lived in the yard not far from the middle of this small dirt road since I was a child. In the 1960s, my neighbors were very deserted. At that time, the urban area of Taiyuan was very small, and it was all wasteland. It's out of the yard, which is a vegetable field. To the north is a small forest. Every day after school, a group of children throw away their schoolbags and play various games until dark. " Wang Haibin's eyes sparkled when he recalled the experience of that era. You can imagine how impressive the dock city road was at that time. After 20 years, little has changed here. During this period, Wang Haibin became a soldier, retired from the army, entered the factory as a worker, got married and had children, and passed the first half of his life, while the pier road next to him remained the same. Dock City Road has always witnessed the growth of Wang Haibin, and later it was Wang Haibin's turn to witness the transformation of Dock City Road.
In the early 1980s, the environment of Wucheng Road began to undergo earth-shaking changes. The gutter has been filled up, the vegetable fields have disappeared, the open space on the roadside has become a dormitory area, and modern buildings have sprung up. Twenty years ago, Wang Haibin went for an outing by bike with some friends, walked a short distance on the pier road, and immediately returned. Because Wucheng Road was really scary at that time, it was more appropriate to call it Loess Road. As soon as the car passed, dust flew all over the sky. The road is too narrow, and the fast lane and the slow lane are mixed together, and there will always be a scene where cyclists are chased by cars. For a long time, Wang Haibin always thought that 103 tram with a long "braid" was a great sight on the road of the pier city. Probably because of the poor road conditions in those years, you can always see the "braid" of trams. Drivers who encounter impatience can "tie" the tram braid again under the attention of the full car, and they will be happy to go on the road. But if you are not so skilled, you can't do it for a long time. Since the 1990s, Wucheng Road has become busy during the day, full of people, and colorful lanterns at night.
When Wang Haibin's son was in Shanxi University, Wucheng Road had become very easy to walk, and the slow lane was wide enough for cyclists to gallop forward. However, it is a great pity that the residents nearby feel that there is no place to go shopping, and there are only Fuzhong Commercial Building and Dock City Shopping Mall around. If you want to visit Liuxiang and Chonglou Street, you have to change trains twice. However, in the following years, the development speed was even faster. Shanxi University has become a "campus of ten thousand people", which has led to the rapid development of this road, and the increasing importance of education has also made this road brilliant. Bookstores, Internet cafes and fast food restaurants related to education, specifically students, have mushroomed, accelerating the change of this road. "Now Wucheng Road has no shadow of my childhood, and the country and society have improved a lot." Wang Haibin said so.
In my spare time, I like shopping in bookstores and fast food restaurants nearby.
Wang Juanhua, a junior this year (2007), has lived in Wharf Road for six years. After three years of high school life, her impression of this road only exists in what she sees and hears on her way to and from school every day. It can be said that there is basically nothing special, but she is familiar with other streets. I know there are several traffic lights along the way, so it's not easy to walk either way. The rest are the shops I have been to.
Since I became a college student, I began to look at it gradually in my spare time and feel the taste of this pier road. Wang Juanhua likes to walk along Wucheng Road in autumn afternoon best. The small trees on both sides of the road are yellow-green, which constitutes a unique color art. Students with books or piano boxes can be seen rushing by at any time on the road. On weekends, I saw that most of the children led by their parents were carrying small schoolbags. The sun shone on their tender faces, and they danced happily with the shadows. On the street, in the window of the shop, there are posters of various concerts and information that young people are interested in, which makes Wang Juanhua feel very good. If the roads in Dock City are as full of the breath of institutions of higher learning as Chun Xue; Then, those roadside vendors were among them. On the one hand, it is spiritual elegance; On the one hand, it is a little ordinary life. The realm of Yangchun Baixue and Xialiba people has been so perfectly interpreted in this scene. ...
Nowadays, buses extending in all directions make it easy for Wang Juanhua to go back and forth between home and school and reach other parts of the city. During the holidays, Wang Juanhua sometimes goes to Dock City Road by car, walks casually, unconsciously crosses Dock City Road and the alleys here, and can also see many people living a leisurely life. Men either squat or sit idle; Most girls are not glamorous, so they look leisurely and quiet. Wandering around the bookstore on the street, you can read it all afternoon without buying it. She and many classmates especially like this pastime.
In addition to bookstores and video stores with strong cultural atmosphere, fast food restaurants are also the most attractive places, both Chinese and western. Wang Juanhua and her classmates are frequent visitors here. Besides eating, what Wang Juanhua likes is the dining environment and atmosphere, which conforms to the characteristics of young people.
Wang Juanhua said: "I like Wharf Town Road, not only because it is full of energy, but also because the people on the street are very nice, which is very different from what I have heard before." This is my favorite place, not entirely because I study here. Although it is not as long as Yingze Street, as prosperous as Liuxiang Street and as modern as Changfeng Street, I still can't help liking it because it inherits a strong humanistic and academic atmosphere. I believe that with the development of Taiyuan, this road will become more and more beautiful. "