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Chapter 26 Shanghai Petty Bourgeoisie
night shanghai

I don't know when, many people began to yearn for a lazy petty bourgeois life, which has also become a life attitude of urban fashion men and women.Speaking of petty bourgeoisie, one naturally thinks of Shanghai. It seems that Shanghai has become a symbol of petty bourgeoisie sentiment.

Nostalgia seems to have become a kind of emotion in Shanghai, a touch of sadness when the rain hits the parasol trees.But when night falls, this busy and depressing city will release its crazy style.

During the day, Shanghai is fresh and quiet, suitable for people to cultivate their minds and minds; at night, Shanghai is bustling, crazy, and can be indulged to the fullest.

The night view of the Bund is the most beautiful place in Shanghai.Here, the only thing you can do is to feel it with your heart - the night on the Bund is like the bright eyes of a lover, passionate and blurred, like the breeze blowing on the sea, pure and soft, and your heart beats for a moment.

Strolling at night under the gorgeous lights of Huaihai Road, the road is still full of people hurrying to and fro, and you can still hear the concentration of southern tunes and northern tunes here.Far and near, everywhere you see are bright lights, red and green, just like life in daytime.The people in the city have long been used to the bustle and noise at night, and they can finally let go of the pretense and busyness of the day, and run to the place they have always wanted to go under the cover of night.As a result, on the side of the road, in the square, and in the shops and shopping malls hidden behind the lights, there are a group of young figures, accompanied by long-lost hearty smiles, echoing in the night sky of Shanghai.

The Pujin Entertainment Center on the podium of Jinmao Tower is the newest and most eye-catching night entertainment club in the city. It was designed by Super Potato, a Tokyo avant-garde design company. The two-story dance floor is surrounded by internal light transmission You can sit here and enjoy the live performance of the six-member band MAXTEMPO from Los Angeles, or you can dance to your heart's content...

No matter you are strolling along the bustling Huaihai Road, looking at the people coming and going, bowing your head and remembering the plain and fulfilling past, or hiding in a bar on the street corner, or drinking refreshing beer, or dancing to the rhythm of youth , Shanghai at night can bring you a crazy mood.Although time flies, the classic old song still floats in the air of old Shanghai: Shanghai at night, Shanghai at night, you are a city that never sleeps... Maybe when everything settles in time, the heart changes to a new world with the wheel of flow , Shanghai at night will present another scene of radiance.

Yu Garden
From ancient times to the present, people's pursuit of happiness and wealth has never stopped.They have become a habit of people's life, a kind of expectation and wish for those around them, and Yu Garden is a place that carries such good wishes.

Yu Garden is located in the northeast corner of the bustling and bustling old city of Shanghai. It is a well-known private garden both at home and abroad.The owner of Yu Garden is Pan Yunduan, a native of Shanghai, who was the chief envoy of Sichuan in Yuyuan Commercial Street in the Ming Dynasty.In order to make the parents of the family happy, a garden was built in the former residence in Shanghai.In line with the Confucian idea of ​​"pleasing parents and nourishing life", the garden was named "Yu Garden".

Because of the hope of "both good fortune and good fortune, and nourishing one's life", the figures of "Fu" and "Lu" are indispensable on the pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, corridors, eaves, and furniture in Yu Garden.Those bats that represent "blessing" are either hugging round birthday peaches or flying with wings, which is very lively.The deer, the representative "Lu", can be seen everywhere in the roads of Yu Garden.

The scenery of Yu Garden is also a must.Yu Garden is the essence of Ming and Qing gardens, in which the corridors and eaves are turned around, and the flowers and plants are ingeniously divided, which has the wonder of one step at a time.One of the most distinctive is the dragon wall.The Dragon Wall is actually the enclosure wall of Yu Garden, but it is named "Dragon Wall" because of the carvings of crouching dragons, piercing dragons, double dragons playing with beads, sleeping dragons, and five dragons in different shapes and lifelike winding on the white wall.Maybe it used to be a symbol of the prestige and wealth of Yu Garden, even now it still exudes the brilliance of dominance.

In Yu Garden, there is a commercial street that brings together special snacks from all over the country.It is said that there are nearly 50 styles of dim sum alone, among which the more distinctive ones are rice balls with rice wine, three silk eyebrow cakes, phoenix siu mai, ruyi cakes, mincemeat cakes, eight-treasure rice, pigeon egg balls, and onion oil noodles. , heavy oil shortbread etc.

When you come to Yu Garden, you must see Yu Linglong. Of course, Yu Linglong is not a piece of jade, but a delicate and exquisite Taihu Lake stone.This stone is about 3 meters high, 1.5 meters wide and 0.8 meters thick. It is a relic of Huizong's Huashigang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

According to legend, when Yu Linglong first moved into the Pan family, the Pan family only knew that the stone was precious, but they didn't know where it was, so they planned to randomly place it in a corner of the garden.However, the old stonemason who built the garden knew the mystery of this stone. One day when Pan’s family came to inspect the garden, the old stonemason happened to put a burner of incense on the bottom of the stone. The old mason poured a pot of water from the top of the stone again, and saw that the stone immediately flowed from the holes, and the smoke disappeared.Only then did the Pan family know how wonderful this stone is.

Now, hundreds of years have passed, Yu Linglong still stands quietly in Yu Garden, but how many people will know this wonderful and interesting story?Who ever thought of the prosperity and mist it experienced?
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