Jinan in the streets and alleys

Written by Cui Hongguo

Inscription: There are many streets and alleys in Jinan, each alley, has been the past is an endless topic, can not tell the story, is experiencing a city's most authentic, purest, most simple, the most textured original ecological picture.

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"Drum khotanese streets and alleys, splendid embroidery wrapped in mountains and rivers", speaking of Jinan, presumably people are most impressed by the Thousand Buddha Mountain, Baotu Spring, Daming Lake. Also, close your eyes, think about the Foshan Ashram, the baotu soaring, the Ming Lake Cuibo, even if you have not come, the beautiful fairy scenery superimposed by these layers will definitely make you immersed. But slowly, this is not the whole of Jinan's natural and cultural features, Jinan, like other cities, there are many old streets and alleys! These old streets and alleys are hidden in a long history and light green moss, and they are also a beautiful scenery with a great historical charm in Quancheng.

There are many streets and alleys in Jinan, scissors lane, grate lane, county west lane, Qushuiting, Jiande street, Foshan street, Chaoshan street, Qinglonghou street, everywhere streets and alleys, full of Jinan's endless customs and customs, some of the true color, some gorgeous, some quiet, some noisy, some rough, some graceful, such as the eight veins of the Qijing, crisscrossed on the rich skin of the world's spring city, with the flow of time without stopping to pulsate. These streets and alleys are like a mirror, standing in front of her, combing with a comb, and all the strands are mottled and vicissitudes, which is the collection of the historical smoke clouds of Jinan, Quancheng. They are also the encyclopedia of people's livelihood, every alley, has been the past is an endless topic, can not tell the story, is experiencing a city's most authentic, purest, most simple, the most textured original ecological picture.

In Pingsuri, these streets and alleys are parallel to our lives as always, and they do not interfere with each other. Spring, autumn, summer, summer rain, winter snow and the hurried footsteps of pedestrians from south to north dot the quiet of the streets and alleys, and the tenants of the original residence and renting houses write sour, sweet and bitter big things in the alley every day, just like the convention, an ordinary street has no dazzling brilliance and will leave too many waves in people's hearts. However, in the past few days, a piece of news about Shangxin Street has been on the hot search, or attracted the attention of countless people, "The Shangxin Street area will start the expropriation of houses on state-owned land, covering the east to the boundary of Shizhong District, west to shunhe elevated highway, south to Wenhua West Road, and north to Luoyuan Avenue", and also marked with a specific house number. Shangxin Street is really going to become history, is it to demolish the old and repair the old, or to demolish the old and build the new, after all, Shangxin Street is one of the few complete old streets and alleys in Quancheng to maintain the original style, where there are the old sites of the Swastika Club, there is the former residence of Fang Rongxiang, there is the former residence of Lao She, there is the old courtyard of the Ma family, wait until the old appearance is new, and can you find the "old taste" of Shangxin Street. I've been to New Street a few times and was impressed, so I was still full of anxiety about this news. If you think about it, you still have to go to Shangxin Street to take a walk, take a look, and leave some images of streets and alleys in front of those stone roots, green bricks, gray tiles, and white walls.

I got off at Quancheng Park North Gate Station along Jingshi Road, walked forward to the intersection of Youth West Road, sorted out my messy thoughts, and began my secret exploration. The east side of Qingnian Road is the original community, four-story small buildings, square courtyards, a floor along the street of the front house some sell Beijing cloth shoes, some open "Caozhou shabu mutton" small shop, in and out of a lot of people, business is very prosperous. The sky is high and cloudless, and the deep blue emerges from the thin clouds; the sun is bright, and the winter sun is not as warm as the midsummer and late autumn, sprinkling warm and comfortable on the body; the wind is very gentle, and those who have experienced the colorful leaves in the spring, summer and autumn dance in the wind, and the streets and alleys they walk through are like old people basking in the corner of the wall, quiet and peaceful.

Not far ahead, a convenient repair point inside the fence wall of the Ludong community caught my attention, and an old man in his 70s was busy changing the tires of the rear wheel of a bicycle for a middle-aged woman. Now this kind of convenient car repair point is also very small, mostly scattered in the old streets and alleys of the city, sometimes it is difficult to find half a day. When the old man was busy, I talked to him a few words, and learned from the old man that it is now about 80 yuan for a bicycle to change such a set of front or rear tires. There is a original Shanghai "big golden deer" car at home, which was the dowry sent by the wife's family when they got married, and after so many years in Jinan, they have been riding, and they have changed the tires once in the middle, I asked the old man how much it costs to change it, the old man said that the car is strong, expensive, about 100 yuan or so, and there is no problem in changing it for ten years and eight years. Although the old man is old, but the hands are sharp, when he speaks, he changes the tires well, with both hands lifted, the car is flattened, the hands shake the pedals, and the rear wheels fly like joy.

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"How to go up new street", I greeted a middle-aged woman standing at the intersection of the street, her face was full of bright smiles like sunshine, "Go forward, the front is down, very close", a word can make you feel the sincerity and enthusiasm unique to Jinan people. On the south side of Shangxin Street is connected to Wenhua West Road, and this side of the intersection is Qingnian West Road, and that side is Shangxin Street. According to the 1924 "Continuation of The Chronicle of Licheng County" attached to the "Jinan Chengxiang Map", the southern section of the street is marked with Shangxin Street, and the northern section of the street is marked with Banbiandian Street, which was collectively referred to as Shangxin Street in the 1980s. The street is high in the south and low in the north, with a drop of several meters, walking from north to south, with the meaning of rising step by step, so it is called "Shangxin Street". Maybe everyone knows the letter of relocation and renewal on New Street, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians who come to New Street to look for the old, and when I go, there are many tourists taking photos in front of an antique old building on the west side of the street, playing cards. It was the site of the Swastika, a group of large palaces and temples with late Qing dynasty architectural styles. The whole building perfectly presents the traditional Chinese architectural layout process, with four courtyards in front and behind, and the main buildings such as the zhaobi, the main entrance, the front hall, the main hall, and the Chenguang Pavilion are in turn along the central axis. The whole group of buildings flying pavilion Liudan, carved beams and paintings, magnificent. When I went in the spring this year, I went into the courtyard, and this time I went to the door to hide it, and the notice board inside was posted with a notice saying "No visit", and people passing by looked in through the crack of the door.

In the middle of Shangxin Street is the east-west Xujia Garden Street, which is particularly quiet, with occasional one or two cars passing through. The walls on both sides of the street are painted with pink white paint, and the walls are painted with the Convention of The Citizens of Jinan. Xujia Garden Street is connected by narrow alleys. Each alley is very deep, and on both sides of the alley are closed doors, and some of the door frames are hung with the sign of "Glorious People's Home", presumably with the same glorious history as this alley. Some are attached to the "Five Blessings Linmen" yanglian. The walls and tops on both sides of the alley were crawling with green vines, some of the leaves sticking to the wall, like footprints, some hanging in mid-air, and red sour berries blooming in the noonday sun. The green vines were entangled with each other and climbed to the roof of the neighbor's house. In a closed courtyard to the west, two tall elm and date trees grew. Xujia Garden Street north is a few dormitory buildings, neatly standing, the door number at the door is very simple, purple bottom, square white characters, "Xujia Garden No. 14" is very conspicuous and eye-catching. The first floor is separated by a pink-white wall, and one by one yellow pears are playfully attached to the corners of the wall, stretching out gracefully to the quiet street outside.

I walked down a long alley, some doors open, some doors closed, there was a courtyard is a simple dumpling restaurant, there are a dozen courier brothers sitting on a bench each carrying a plate, wolfing down the steaming dumplings that have just been served, it is their lunch, after a simple meal there are many lists waiting to be delivered! At that moment, I thought of countless courier brothers riding courier trucks through the streets and alleys of Quancheng, and my heart was full of unspeakable emotions. No one disturbed my visit, I did not disturb the quiet of others, at that moment, walking alone, meditation is the most pleasant thing. Do you think, the warm sun companion of winter, a city, her quietest, most kind, most primitive, most pyrotechnic background is unreservedly presented in front of your eyes, there is no hustle and bustle of cars and horses, seeing and hearing is a fallen leaf falling on the winding green vines in the gentle wind, falling in the deep alley, you can't bear to have the slightest blasphemy. There is a leaf attached to a wire, dangling around, like a cute bird and bird standing on the branch to usher in the cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The north wall is densely plastered with expropriated residential houses on state-owned land and property rights exchange price assessment instructions. Those who have lived here for generations are really going to leave Shangxin street, and they will have infinite reluctance and nostalgia in their hearts, but they believe that the Shangxin Street in their hearts will never disappear. The customs and customs of old Jinan, many of the "fans" of the world spring city are in Shangxin Street, and when they come back to see, Shangxin Street will greet and wait for them with a more culturally bearing manner.

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On that day, I deliberately went to the former residence of Fang Rongxiang and Lao She. Mr. Fang Rongxiang's former residence was once the residence of the Provincial Peking Opera Troupe. In 1958, Mr. Fang Rongxiang transferred to Jinan and lived in Shangxin Street. Later, based on the true story of what happened on the Korean battlefield, Mr. Li carefully pondered with the actor Li Shibin, sorted out the deeds of the character prototype Yang Yucai, built a practice booth in the Courtyard of Shangxin Street, and discharged the modern Peking Opera model play "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe", which was extremely popular and swept the country, and during the performance in Beijing, the scene was full, and it was difficult to find a ticket, it can be said that a play affected the faith and pursuit of several generations. Mr. Li regards performance as life, loves and persists in his career, regards the admiration of virtue and art as a lifelong lesson, and "strives to pursue true talent, good morality, high taste, and achieve both virtue and art", leaving countless good stories that people admire and admire. He "made it his vocation to act for the audience." In the field, kangtou, on the train, in the workshop, wherever you go, you will send the play to wherever you go. "The gentleman has gone, the former residence is still there, the virtue and art are inherited, and the spirit will always exist."

The former residence of another People's Artist, Mr. Lao She, is hidden in the middle of Nanxin Street. Mr. Former Residence is a typical northern courtyard, fish scale tiles, green bricks, white walls, northern characteristics of the gatehouse, on which is neatly engraved with the words "Jinan Laoshe Memorial Hall", the white shadow wall of the entrance is embedded with an auspicious "Fu" character. The east and west wings of the courtyard are two exhibition halls, and the north room on the north side is the study and a bedroom. His life, works and life in Jinan are displayed in the exhibition hall of the East and West Wing. In the middle of the yard is an old agate pomegranate tree, which has entered the winter, the lead has fallen, and the trunk has also been dressed in grass-green winter clothes, accumulating new strength for the coming year. The wall on the south side of the courtyard is engraved with Mr. Li's famous words, "Continuous writing will gradually touch the bottom of literary and artistic creation", I took a few pictures casually and remembered them in my heart. Directly in front of the door of the north house is a statue of Mr. Mister's upper body, Mr. Has a thin face, a pair of glasses on his eye sockets, his eyes are melancholy and cold, and he is thinking deeply, which is a kind of thinking about art, life, life, and life. Looking closely, that gaze was full of smiles and love, which was Mr. Quancheng's heartfelt attachment and warmth.

The country of home has fallen, drifting is uncertain, where is home, in Jinan, in the trek of thousands of rivers and mountains in the land of China, Mr. Has consistently adhered to his wind and bones and discipline. Mr. Jinan has deep feelings for Jinan, and he himself recalls: "From July of the nineteenth year of the Republic of China to the beginning of the autumn of the twenty-third year, I lived in Jinan for four years. There, I made a lot of friends; wherever I went, there was always someone there who missed me. There, I wrote "Daming Lake", "Cat City Chronicle", "Divorce", "The Legend of Niu Tianci", where I worked hard to create and rest happily..... Although four years is short, but it is settled in one breath, so the connection between things, the interaction between people, the substitution of happiness and sorrow, is clearly a paragraph of its own in this life, deeply imprinted in the heart; when the time is short, Jinan has become my second hometown. "Coming out of Mr. Chen's former residence, the background of the bamboo shadow of Qingshan And Qingquan Clear Spring and Minghu on the white wall on the north side is the words that have been influenced by Mr. Minghu since childhood, "God gave the art of summer to Switzerland, gave the spring to the West Lake, and gave the autumn and winter to Jinan", "Jinan, which is a city famous for its spring water, the so-called family spring water, the weeping willows of every household is the beautiful spring city of Jinan", "An old city, there are mountains and water, all basking in the sun under the heavens and the earth, warm and peaceful to sleep, just waiting for the spring wind to wake them up." "When the words are already immortal, Mr. Need not prove himself to be noble, and he should be relieved, and no one doubts the spiritual coordinates that Mr. Jinan has erected in the hearts of the people of Jinan.

"Don't linger in the silent mind, don't linger on the memories of the past, the earth welcomes the spring thunder, and abandons your full of melancholy." Colorful rainbows are waiting for you, don't hesitate to wait for the heart lake, don't indulge in the old dreams of the past. The warm spring breeze walks towards the brilliant end of the world. You have to look for, bright clouds, bright clouds. On the bus back, a beautiful song of "Don't Care Too Much" flowed into my thoughts as agreed, I thought of Shangxin Street, I thought of Nanxin Street, I thought of Qilu University, I thought of those antique buildings, I thought of Fang Rongxiang, I thought of Lao She, I thought of the countless streets and alleys of Quancheng Jinan, I thought of the strange and familiar courier brothers in the streets and alleys, I thought of the white-haired old man at the convenience car repair point, I thought of the middle and ancient city that was cute, and I thought of the two words that have always remained in my heart—— immortal. We still have time, we can walk through every street and alley of Damei Jinan, and feel the "immortality" of the world spring city in the pulse of history.

Cui Hongguo, male, is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the Shandong Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, a member of the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association, and a member of the Jinan and Yantai Writers Association. He has published a collection of essays, "The Ranch for The Soul", and "Jiaodong Essay Twelve Houses cui hongguo volume". He has published nearly 80 essays and book reviews in many mainstream media and platforms such as China Writers Network, Jiaodong Prose Annual Selection, Yellow Sea Prose, and Capital Literature. "The Most Beautiful Encounter with Haiyang" was selected into the Qilu Evening News's "Qingwei" excellent prose selection, and was included in the "Jiaodong Prose Annual Selection (2021)" and "Qingquan Record - Qilu Evening News One Point Excellent Works Anthology" and other prose collections.

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