Here is really like the Internet legend: "Nanning must go to the photo punch point", "Nanning this "Mandarin Duck Building", hiding countless old Nanning secrets", etc., in order to find out, the taxi went to interview and shoot.
This Mandarin Duck Tower, built in the 1970s and 1980s, although old, has become a popular place for young people to punch in and take photos, and the Mandarin Duck Tower is located at No. 28 Tangshan Road, Xixiangtang District.
Mandarin Duck Building has been built for nearly 30 years, the building is not large, 7-story building, simple decoration, the old building contains the memory of old Nanning. It is called 'Mandarin Duck Building' because the two buildings are connected by the same staircase, so everyone calls these two buildings 'Mandarin Duck Building'.
The building is designed as a two-way staircase, and the layers are connected and interlocked, like a dazzling maze. Among them, the domineering staircase runs between the 4 buildings in the community and connects 168 households in the 4 buildings. The crisscrossing staircases and the moss that climb the outer wall of the staircase constitute the historical sense of the "Mandarin Duck Building".
From the analysis of the online introduction of nanning's Mandarin duck tower article, the tourists who punch here and the young people who like to take photos are all out of place by this two seven-story reinforced concrete dilapidated buildings built in the 1980s and connected by scissor staircases surrounded by modern high-rise buildings around them. The staggered "scissor" staircase is a kind of fire staircase with two entrances and exits on each floor in architectural terminology, which can be up and down, and its advantage is to multiply the output and ensure the output of accidental escape.
The staircase is an outer corridor with iron railings, crisscrossing outdoor staircases that connect the occupants of the two buildings in two directions. Residents here believe that the staircase connects two buildings, so it also connects the feelings between the neighbors of each family, and it also becomes a beautiful scenery.
The two buildings are not large, 7-storey buildings, the outer wall is the kind of gray and white stone rice wall that was particularly popular in the 1980s, and the two old buildings must contain the memory of old Nanning. The two buildings are so constructed, just like a pair of Mandarin ducks, they are closely linked together and inseparable. Hence the name "Mandarin Duck Building".
The Mandarin Duck Tower was built in 1987 and has a history of more than 30 years. The original design, just to not occupy the internal space of the building, did not expect that many years later, it became a net red punch point in Nanning. Every day, many literary and artistic young people come to take pictures and punch cards.
The staggered staircase is not completely monotonous. The old Nanning people will unreservedly add their taste for life to the public space even if they do not belong to their own homes. Looking closely, a few pink bougainvillea are placed on the stairs, allowing people to walk through and inadvertently bring a good mood of sweetness.
In fact, the two cold reinforced concrete buildings are nothing to take, nothing more than to take some photos of the superficiality of the sense of form, in fact, I pay more attention to its connotation, like to explore, dig between these two buildings between the ordinary people's homes some interesting stories, enrich the content of the article.
As soon as I walked into the Mandarin Duck Building, which was somewhat deep and left the traces of age, I approached each family to find out and understand their oil, salt, chai rice, joys and sorrows. I felt a breath of "human fireworks" that was completely different from the bustling area.
I ventured to disturb several families, and I was very enthusiastically welcomed into the house, and the room layout in the 1980s was basically two bedrooms and one living room, about 50 square meters. The room is dimly lit, so I chatted with the residents, the two buildings are connected by a three-meter-long scissor staircase, the neighbors meet each other every day up and down the stairs, and they must nod their heads to say hello when they meet, and thirty years of getting along day and night is really far-reaching relatives than close neighbors.
Taking the liberty of knocking on a family living on the first floor, a middle-aged man surnamed Wang opened the door for us, and when we explained our intentions, Lao Wang chatted with us very happily. He said that he has lived here for more than ten years, and the second-hand house he bought at that time, the house price was 130,000, two bedrooms and a living room, 1 kitchen, 1 toilet, and the total area was more than 50 square meters. Three generations of grandchildren, a family of four, the son has a grandson after becoming a family, it is obvious that he can't live here, after selling this suite for 400,000, he plans to buy a new house.
Approaching the kitchen of the old Wang's house, he glanced at it, and although the sparrow was small, it was complete. In fact, in the 1980s, every household lived in such a house, after the reform and opening up, some people earned the first bucket of gold, bought a new house, completely changed the living environment, like now still live in such an old house is not much.
People meet each other, sometimes in a split second, very fortuitous opportunity on the first floor to meet teacher Wu who opened a studio in the Mandarin Duck Building, Teacher Wu is a painter, has held many art exhibitions in Shenzhen, won many awards, especially good at painting dragonflies, bamboo and birds. When I first chose to rent in the Mandarin Duck Building, I saw that the Mandarin Duck Building was very close to Chinatown Culture Street, and sometimes I turned around in the past to find some inspiration in the old things, suitable for teaching and creation.
I have always been impressed by the Hong Kong movie "Seventy-Two Tenants", seventy-two tenants live in a building, and every day they are noisy and noisy. Now every household has moved into a high-rise building, but after getting on the elevator, the door is basically old and dead, it is also possible to live in the opposite door, even the neighbor's surname does not know anything, the modern urban relationship is more and more indifferent, people can't help but miss the thirty or forty years ago, a ladder of 8 families living together, a lively, warm picture.
The painted handrails of the stairs, the mossy green walls, the yellowed doors and windows, the messy furniture, the salted fish hanging on the walls, the elderly and children going up and down the stairs, all the elements in the Mandarin Duck Building make up the visible and invisible fireworks that make people nostalgic in modern society.
Every staircase and every moss here has precipitated too many memories of the old Nanning years, and has its own unique taste. In the "Mandarin Duck Building", every object carries its own story, and every sound tells the parents of the short, "Mandarin Duck Building" is how quietly left the traces of people's growth and aging.