Many cities on the land of the motherland are ancient streets and alleys that represent their own history, just as Jinli and Chengdu, Hefang Street and Hangzhou, they have been washed over the years, emitting a charming light, each old street is a historical refraction of a city, and each old street has its own unique taste!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > there is a feeling called "old street"</h1>
The old street carries people's nostalgia for the past, the yearning for slow life, and the taste of authenticity. Lao Jie, a witness to history, engraves the memory of a city and tells the story of generations.
If there is a yearning called the far side, then there is a feeling, which is called the old street. If I count carefully, I don't remember how many of the most worthwhile old streets in the city I have been to, but the old streets of Beihai have made me remember it deeply!
Many locals say: "If you don't come to Laojie, you don't come to Beihai." "Explain the importance of the old street in the hearts of the locals!" Represented by Zhuhai Road and Zhongshan Road, Laojie was founded in the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 150 years, and is one of the longest and best-preserved Qilou Old Streets in Lingnan, China, with a distinct architectural style of combining Chinese and Western styles.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="48" > a review of the history of a century-old street</h1>
Beihai Old Street is an old street with a history of nearly 200 years, which was founded in 1821 and was originally called Shengping Street when it was first built, located at the head of the Waisha Bridge to the east of the San Po Temple to the mouth of Goldfish Lane, with a width of about 4 meters and a total length of about 1.44 kilometers. In the first year of the Qing Dynasty Daoguang, Shengping Street began to have immigrants from west to east to build shops, and in the fifth year of Qing Xianfeng, the Zhuchang Division moved to Shengping Street, responsible for exercising public security, taxation and other functions. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the Lianzhou Shuishi Xingtai, longmen Xietai, Changguan and the Lijin Factory from the late Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China were also located on Shengping Street.
Before 1927, Zhuhai Road was the most prosperous commercial district in Beihai, with shops lined up one after another, the shops in the middle section mainly engaged in silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, the shops in the eastern section mainly engaged in dry sea goods, and the western section was close to the Waisha port, and all the shops operated fishermen's supplies. With the passage of time, Zhuhai Road gradually lost its former prosperity, except for a few sparse shops operating fishing gear, almost all other shops became residential, and the street buildings were aging.
In April 2019, I visited Laojie and fell in love with beihai laojie for the first time. Marvel at her long and far-reaching, grandeur and elegance, and even more marvel at the vicissitudes of her mottled appearance...
Although this time it is an old revisit, it still makes me feel very close, inexplicably like the old taste of the old streets of each city, the Yangjiang River in beihai in mid-September is bright, the temperature is as high as 35 degrees, and it is about 1.4 kilometers from the street to the end of the street.
Beihai Old Street, a place full of imagination and aftertaste. Walking around such an old street, you can feel a kind of deep thinking and gaze across time and space, strolling in the Beihai Old Street full of the vicissitudes of the times, looking up at the mottled walls and long-yellowed shop signs, touching the bluestone slabs that have been polished by the years in the corner of the alley, I am really afraid that if you are not careful, you will enter the era of black and white memory.
Now is a special period, there are not many tourists on the old street, the owner of the shop on the old street drinks tea while doing business, this leisurely attitude to life, indeed makes the office workers who are nine to five in the morning envious.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > This shrimp cake shop in Beihai Old Street, why on the "tip of the tongue of China"</h1>
A piece of browned crisp shrimp cake, covered with sea shrimp, and decorated with a little green color of chives, is enough to make people salivate before they enter. The shrimp cakes in LaoJie flow quickly, basically just out of the oil pot, did not put it for a while, and have been taken away by long-awaited guests.
When it comes to playing in the North Sea, many people will think of eating seafood, but in addition to seafood, there are more special snacks in the North Sea, waiting for us to explore. In Beihai Old Street, there is a snack that is almost all Beihai people's childhood memories, which can be seen everywhere on the side of the road, and its fragrance will always attract many people to stop.
Beihai's most famous snack, shrimp cake, was once on CCTV, and the shrimp cake on the old street is made of a layer of batter with scallions and fried with sea shrimp. The browned and brown appearance is crispy and delicious, fragrant, and every bite of shrimp cake can eat two or three small shrimp. What is unique about the shrimp cake in the North Sea, the reason is that the shrimp that makes shrimp cake, because the shell of the shrimp is very soft, after frying, it will be very crisp, and it will be soft and sticky when eaten. This small shrimp must use fresh sea shrimp, if it is a farmed shrimp, there is no salty fresh, so the shrimp cake of the North Sea will be a unique shrimp cake, which is difficult to imitate in other places.
According to the locals, the most famous shrimp cake on the old street is Aunt Li's shrimp cake shop, once on CCTV "China on the tip of the tongue", but unfortunately, when I went, her shop closed, and then I came to the shrimp cake shop of The No. Mori Xing, saw the shop owner was frying shrimp cake in the oil pot, and chatted with the boss, the batter of its store is quite thick, 5 yuan a very filling stomach, shrimp on the surface of a layer, it looks quite appetizing. In fact, in addition to the shrimp cake shop of the No. Tsukihiko, there are also homemade fried cuttlefish balls, which taste good.
In addition to shrimp cakes, there are many kinds of local and inexpensive food in Guangxi on the old street, due to the relationship of time, I did not have a further understanding, I can only take a few photos to take souvenirs, and then taste it when I travel to Beihai next time.
There was a series of cordial shouts in my ears: popsicles, old popsicles..., looking at the window of the shop on the opposite street, there was a girl with two small pigtails, wearing an army green top and sitting thoughtfully against the window, going to help her business, buying an old popsicle to eat, suddenly reminding me of the taste of childhood, very sweet, very cold...
What is a real old street? Wander through the long and quiet ancient buildings, walking aimlessly and watching, thinking about everything as if it were light and clear.
Walking the old street is to appreciate the perfect combination of Chinese and Western art, which can be called the architectural treasure of the old city of Beihai. Although it is a long time ago and the walls are slightly mottled, the prosperity of the North Sea can still be seen on that day.
Beihai is a thousand-year-old city with profound historical and cultural heritage. The exquisite architecture of Beihai Old Street bears witness to the history and vicissitudes of Beihai. Today, Beihai is bathed in the spring breeze of the new era, and the urban development is changing with each passing day. In the core area of Beihai City, a four-dimensional integration of "industry and humanities" of the all-round life of the big city jumped out of the world, when exquisite architecture, quality habitat meets the millennium context, Mercure was born! How many people dream of quality habitat, in the North Sea to achieve.