Xinmin Quick Comment | when the corner meets beauty, it becomes a reason to take the subway

I love taking the metro when I go out. The subway is not only punctual and fast, but also a window to observe the society, where there are endless crowds, office workers, book readers, tourists, silver-haired people... Men and women, young and old, and so on. In the carriage, you can see the world, and you can hear the short, steaming city atmosphere of the parents.

Recently, taking the subway has a new perk – meeting beauty around the corner.

Pictured: Part of "Gong'e". Official figure

At the Longhua Middle Road Station on Line 12, I bumped into the Prado Art Museum. Goya's "Maha in Dress", Velázquez's "Gong'e", Dürer's "Self-Portrait" and more than 20 masterpieces that have been seen in Madrid, one by one, come into view, although they are replicas, although there is no brushstroke, but the exact same size, golden frame, exclusive dark blue background, or create a world-class art museum unique atmosphere. This gives art lovers who cannot go abroad and cannot go to foreign art museums due to the epidemic have a comfort.

In the subway, you can also see many artists' original works. On May Day this year, the famous painter Wang Guanqing's sculpture "Dawu Powerful" Bronze Bull settled in the People's Square Station; in the long corridor of the South Shaanxi Road Station, the "Splendid River and Mountain" of Chinese painters Le Zhenwen and Zhang Chi and his wife painted the magnificent mountains, the endless water, and the clouds flowing across the river... At the Shanghai Library Station, the basement floor is exhibiting Lu Zhiwen's celebrity former residence works, Lu Xun's former residence, Ba Jin's former residence, Ding Ling's residence, Hengshan Road, Fuxing Park... The familiar architecture is in the painter's pen, and there is another mood and charm.

The beauty of the corner encounter, in addition to the artwork, but also the subway station itself. Many subway stations are full of architectural and design ingenuity. Whether it is Fudan University Station, which is the "subway station where you can read the most ancient poems", Tongji University Station, which introduces sunlight through clever skylights and embodies architectural aesthetics, or the Natural Museum Station, which uses a large number of clay plates and stones to create a "cave", it is fascinating at first sight.

Shanghai is the "little brother" among the cities that have subways in the world. London Subway, New York Subway have a history of more than 100 years, there is an "underground palace" reputation of the Moscow Subway is also nearly 90 years old, Shanghai Rail Transit although just arrived at the year of establishment, but later on, not only the total length has been the world's first, its safety, neat, orderly, punctual, as well as the instructions and facilities of the station hall, even foreigners also praised. Nowadays, more and more works of art and exhibition activities have entered the subway, which has added to the artistic and humanistic atmosphere.

I heard that more and more people around me have given up driving and traveled by subway. That's a good thing!

Shao Ning/Wen