Sometimes, a city is a home.
Sometimes, a city is a man.
We fall in love with a city because of one person, and we love the people here because of a city.
Today's [City Book List] will enjoy the soul and core of 10 Chinese cities with you.
01 Beijing "Goodbye, Old Beijing"
For Chinese, Beijing is at the center of everything.
Since its founding, whether it is Youzhou, Yanjing, Beiping or Beijing, it has been an inclusive city that attracts visitors from all over the world.
The author of this book is a foreigner, but it has the same rich plot as Chinese beijing.
The book was written on the eve of China's upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, and it was also the time when Beijing's epoch-making revolution was in the new.
"Goodbye, Old Beijing" is interspersed in the alternation of history and reality, and the most core part is to write about Beijing's humanities and urban construction.
There are sad regrets, there are also longings, in this complex feeling, this foreign author gradually integrated into Beijing, but also realized a part of the City of Beijing.
02 Shanghai "Blossoms"
"Blossoms" is not a travelogue about the city of Shanghai, but about the people of Shanghai and the things of Shanghai.
As the winning work of the Mao Dun Literature Award, as soon as "Blossoms" is opened, the rich Shanghai flavor seems to come to the fore.
As a memory novel, although "Blossoms" is based on two alternating timelines in the 60s and 90s to tell the story of three Shanghai teenagers.
But the variety of life in the story, the sour, sweet and bitter spicy highlights, not only the transformation of human nature and desire, but also the vicissitudes of Shanghai.
"Blossoms" can be called an encyclopedia of Shanghai, there are people in Shanghai, there are things in Shanghai, and the most impressive thing is the tragic and joyful life in Wu Nong's soft language.
03 Chongqing "Jiangcheng"
The more familiar things are, the more they may feel strange to us.
"Jiangcheng" is the story of Fuling in Chongqing, but the author is a foreigner.
We are accustomed to observing from our own point of view, but we never think that a foreigner can write a deeper text than a Chinese.
Heisler's habits of life and thinking may be different from ours, but in essence, there is no difference in feelings, literature, and social responsibility.
Fuling in "Jiangcheng" is a place full of humanity, and in the process of reading, we may find it difficult to extricate ourselves in the interweaving of past memories and reality.
But Heisler's Fuling, which is both shining with brilliance and embellished with flaws, will surely immerse us in the real world of small people and small cities.
04 Tianjin "The Strange Man of the World"
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are people, there are cities.
Everything is insightful and learned, and human emotions are articles.
"The Strange Man of the World" tells the story of the people of Tianjin.
The book consists of a total of 19 short stories, each dedicated to the life and deeds of a legendary character, whose strangeness is unheard of and the subtlety of the story is also breathtaking.
The big hidden in the city, the big ya began with the custom.
Feng Jicai wrote the folklore of Tianjin Wei vividly and vividly.
Brush Li, Kite Wei, Clay Man Zhang, Zhang Dali... Every odd man has his craft to the extreme.
These strange people and strangers are like Tianjin Wei, who have always focused on doing themselves well and focusing on being the only one in the world.
05 Kunming "Grass and Trees on Earth"
Wang Zengqi is a master who truly understands life.
A flower and a tree, a worm and a bird have become vivid and interesting in Wang Lao's pen.
The reason why "Human Grass and Trees" was chosen as the representative of Kunming was because this book records a large number of articles during Wang Lao's life in Kunming, including the rain of Kunming, the flowers of Kunming, the vegetables of Kunming, and the four seasons of Kunming.
In my spare time, I opened this collection of essays on "Grass and Trees on Earth", which was comfortable, homely, relaxed and interesting, and there was a fresh and elegant agility flowing everywhere between the words.
In Mr. Wang Zengqi's pen, you will find that planting flowers, buying vegetables, and hanging out are so interesting.
A person who truly understands life, no matter how busy and tired he is at work, must maintain a strong interest in worldly life.
This is Mr. Wang Zengqi's attitude towards life, and it is also an attitude worth learning from.
06 Chengdu "Chengdu under the Microscope"
Chengdu is a city you don't want to go when you come.
Clean streets, warm seasons, slow pace of life, everything is so comfortable.
Although there have been many historical changes, it still maintains its unique cultural characteristics.
This "Chengdu under the Microscope" unveils the ancient culture of traditional Chengdu and lives leisurely with typical representatives of streets, teahouses, robes and mahjong.
If you want to step into life in Chengdu, you must remember to look for the unique charm of this ancient city from this book.
07 Nanjing 《Nanjing Biography》
Spring returns to moling trees, and people build Kangcheng city.
As a recognized writer, Ye Zhaoyan has a unique understanding of Nanjing, where he has written for forty years.
Ye Zhaoyan spent more than 300,000 words writing about the history of the city of Nanjing for 1720 years.
From 211 AD, when Sun Quan moved to rule Moling, to 1949, a million male teachers crossed the Great River, through the Eastern Wu Hegemony, the Six Dynasties Gold Powder, the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties Longti, and the Republic of China.
In the history of 1720, how many changes and how many family and national feuds have been focused by Ye Zhaoyan into the vicissitudes of a city, and have been melted into the long river of history of a city.
At the same time, Nanjing provided Ye Zhaoyan with a platform to tell the history of China, which was constantly destroyed, hurt, and constantly reborn and developed.
It is embellished at every turning point in history, and it also clearly shows the vicissitudes of Chinese history.
08 Lhasa "One Step at a Time"
"One Step at a Time" is the author Lin Cong's experience of entering Tibet more than 100 times in the past 20 years and living in Lhasa 30 times, which lasted five years to write the Lhasa Pilgrimage Encyclopedia.
The author gives a detailed introduction to the preparations for the pilgrimage, how to make the pilgrimage, Lhasa and the main pilgrimage points around it, and includes many pictures of allusions that even local Tibetans do not know, and veteran front-line tour guides have not seen.
It can be said that this is an essential manual for traveling in Lhasa.
Lin Cong's "Step by Step", on the surface, is written as a small story, a small gossip, but in the bones it will take you back to the roots.
As you open this book, you'll learn more about the city of Lhasa, some of the people in the city, and some of the ins and outs of Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhism as a whole.
09 Xi'an "Guide to Traversing the Tang Dynasty"
Xi'an is a charming city.
However, it always feels a little awkward.
After thinking about it for half a day, I felt that it was more appropriate to call Xi'an Chang'an.
Because, Chang'an can highlight the historical connotation of this city more than Xi'an - the tang dynasty.
If you want to walk into Xi'an and learn about her history and folklore, it is also a very good choice.
This "Guide to Traversing the Tang Dynasty", by introducing various Cold Knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, allows us to unconsciously approach Chang'an in a relaxed and interesting atmosphere.
For example, Chang'an people do not sit in chairs, whether they are relatives of the emperor or ordinary people, they can only kneel or sit cross-legged when chatting with people.
For example, the Chang'an people have not yet invented firecrackers during the New Year's Festival, and the people throw empty bamboo poles into the fire and burn them, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of firecrackers.
Don't forget the way to come, know where to go.
The best way to learn about an ancient capital like Xi'an is to learn about its history.
10 Taipei "Taipei People"
Taipei is a city in Taipei, Taiwan.
Taipei people, of course, are also Chinese.
The book "Taipeiers" tells the story of the special Chinese who moved to Taiwan after the Liberation War.
They are "Taipeiers," but they are not exactly "Taipeiers."
They don't know how to define their identity.
In this book, Bai Xianyong exhausted the sadness of the fate of each individual in this historical process.
The indulgence of those singers in dogs and horses is also to numb the pain of their own skin that they cannot return to their hometown.
That kind of pain can't be felt by people in their hometown.
Only when you are far away from home will you find that there is always an irreparable hole in your heart.
Therefore, "TaipeiEr" is written as if it were Taipei, but it is not exactly Taipei.