The author Jiang Liu, with five years, 200 hand-painted paintings and more than 60,000 words of text, created "Original Guangzhou", depicting the scenes of the integration of various people, buildings and nature in the streets and alleys of Guangzhou, some scenes have disappeared and are disappearing, but they have become the collective memory of Guangzhou people...
Guangzhou Up and Down 9 Road
"Original Guangzhou", this book shows a modern Guangzhou with the tone of the Republic of China. If you have not been to Guangzhou, the Guangzhou written in the book is the Guangzhou you are looking forward to; if you are a new and old Guangzhounese who have been living in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou written in the book may be beyond your daily imagination, and the familiar scenes such as streets and alleys, Cantonese cuisine, Lingnan customs and other scenes are presented one by one with unique and beautiful hand-drawn, so that people can truly feel a Guangzhou with historical background, cultural precipitation, tolerance and feelings.
Guangzhou Litchi Bay
Jiang Liu, the author of "Original Guangzhou", is painting
Jiang Liu, currently settled in Guangzhou. He has worked as a public relations media supervisor of a five-star hotel, a sales communication manager of a foreign company, a senior manager of advertising, and the most enjoyable identity is the hand-drawn author of slow travel.
She loves to interpret a city she likes in the way of hand-drawn small paintings, sharing its cultural customs and cuisine. Hand-painting is just her hobby, but every painting is poured into her heart.
Guangzhou Haizhu Bridge
In 2014, Jiang Liu began planning to paint a picture book about Guangzhou. To write about the hometown of Guangzhou, and the ever-changing city, it is a challenge, one is too familiar to feel, and the other is that the changes cannot keep up. For this reason, the planner Cai Mingxi spurred and waited for a long time.
Travel writing for Jiang Liu is not a hodgepodge of books that can be cut out over and over again, but several years of data collection, life experience and repeated experience. And in the past few years, at the pace of development in the world today, especially a country and city that is racing all the way, it may have long since become unknown to you. So for Guangzhou, Jiang Liu wrote it not from 2014, but from the moment she set foot on this land thirty years ago.
Guangzhou Liwan District Old Town
Jiang Liu said: "I came to Guangzhou with my parents in 1986, when China had just implemented reform and opening up, and Guangzhou was the earliest window to open up to the outside world. As a member of a population of 20 million, I went to school, worked, got married and had children, and lived here for more than thirty years. At first, I didn't like this wet and hot southern city, I couldn't understand Cantonese, and there was a lot of noise everywhere. After staying for a long time, growing up with this city and personally feeling its every transformation and unique charm, the memories of urban transformation are constantly accumulating, and my feelings for it are also changing. Now I not only like it more and more, but I am not used to it. ”
(Note: Lian Xiang Lou is a Guangzhou store located on Tenth Fu Road in Liwan District.) Lian Xiang Lou has a branch in Hong Kong, although the two are already decoupled in operation, but they can also be said to be of the same origin. In 1993, it was awarded the title of "Chinese Time-honored Brand" by the Ministry of Domestic Trade, and in 1998, it was approved by the Bureau of Domestic Trade as "National Special Grade Restaurant". ）
Guangzhou life is particularly convenient, but also a very inclusive city, many things can be adapted, people get along with each other more casually. The most important thing is of course that Guangzhou's food is too tempting, not to mention the famous tea drinking points, just chicken-related dishes, Cantonese chefs have 10,000 ways of cooking; and the old city of Tenth Fu Road, Baohua Road, Wenming Road, Dongshankou street food is even more people hate the stomach is small. And the food is online 24 hours a day, and there are takeaways and suppers late at night, which is something that many other cities can't do.
(Guangzhou Panxi Restaurant is the largest garden-style restaurant in China.) Together with the North Garden and the South Garden, it is also known as the three major garden restaurants in Guangzhou. In September 2016, Guangzhou Panxi Restaurant was selected into the list of "The First Batch of Chinese 20th Century Architectural Heritage". ）
(Guangzhou Restaurant Tea House Dim Sum)
Guangzhou people are not only gourmets, but also familiar with traditional Chinese medicine health. When Jiang Liu first came to Guangzhou, he saw the mother of the local classmate put a large number of medicinal herbs to cook a large pot of delicious soup, and felt that it was amazing, and later found that every housewife around you could tell you what soup to drink seasonally, what flowers and herbs to taste and what effect, only to understand that Guangzhou people do not only food, but also health medicinal food.
Guangzhou refreshments - milk yellow buns, bean paste buns
Guangzhou refreshments - boat boy porridge
The 2010 Asian Games was a watershed for Guangzhou's gorgeous turnaround, and what impressed Jiang Liu particularly was that the day before the Asian Games, the whole city was still in the dusty construction, and overnight the fence on the road was suddenly all opened, and what appeared in front of him was really a new urban appearance.
The saplings planted in 2010 have been lush and vigorous, one after another pedestrian bridges are like a bend of flowers skimming by, the middle green belt on Dongfeng Road has gradually become a climate, the streets and alleys of the old city have a sense of shade, and everything verifies that the image of the flower city in all seasons is returning.
Little by little accumulation and savings, and finally a blockbuster outbreak, the rise of Zhujiang New City and the display of the Guangzhou Wealth Forum at the end of 2017, Guangzhou already has the appearance of an international metropolis. These better and better changes have made Jiang Liu have the passion to write about his hometown.
(Central axis of Guangzhou: Guangzhou is moving towards the development goal of an international metropolis, and a strong urban center is of great significance.) Based on specific natural conditions and historical background, Guangzhou's urban axis system includes the Pearl River as the main axis of the east-west urban landscape and three north-south urban axes formed in various historical periods, namely the ancient axis, the modern axis and the modern axis. ）
Guangzhou Sacred Heart Cathedral
(Guangzhou Sacred Heart Cathedral: Stone Room Sacred Heart Cathedral, located in yide Road, downtown Guangzhou.) The Sacred Heart Cathedral was officially inaugurated on June 18, 1863, on the Day of the Sacred Heart, hence the name Sacred Heart Cathedral. It took 25 years to complete, and it is the most magnificent and characteristic cathedral in the Catholic Diocese of Guangzhou. The Sacred Heart Cathedral was designed by French designers and built by Chinese craftsmen. ）
Jiang Liu said: "I often walk in the city of Guangzhou like a "cat for food", with curious eyes. Every walk has a new experience, under the surface of the city, after the cement steel that covers the sky, I can always feel more and more literary atmosphere and fashion creativity, and the charm of Lingnan culture wanders around, low-key and unobtrusive, which is a kind of hidden mood. ”
(White Swan Hotel: Guangzhou White Swan Hotel, located in Shamian, became a member of the first world-class hotel organization in China in 1985; became one of the first three five-star hotels in China in 1990; in 1996, it was ranked first in the selection of the top 100 best hotels in China, and has been rated as the first choice hotel for international business people to Guangzhou by international well-known media such as International Travel Guide for many years.) In 2010, the third national cultural relics census of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou White Swan Hotel was identified as a cultural relic. ）
Guangzhou Shamian
Under the Lingnan plantain, on the flower floor tile staircase, in the small Western-style building of the Republic of China in Dongshan Pass, in the shadow of the lychee tree, the loquat courtyard, the figure of the woman of the Republic of China swaying... This charm is hidden in all corners of the city, such as the flowing skirts of beautiful women, looming, looking back at the twilight, taking a glimpse; in the vulgar environment, the seductive posture is more seductive and addictive. Under the Lingnan plantain, on the flower floor tile staircase, in the small Western-style building of the Republic of China in Dongshan Pass, in the shadow of the lychee tree, the loquat courtyard, the figure of the woman of the Republic of China swaying...
Cantonese opera in Guangzhou
(Cantonese Opera: Cantonese Opera - Traditional Drama, also known as "Guangdong Opera" and "Opera Theatre Official Dialect", is a traditional drama mainly popular in urban and rural areas that use the Cantonese dialect, such as Guangdong Province, the southern part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, and is one of the world's intangible cultural heritage.) ）
Guangzhou Lingnan architecture
Guangzhou Chen Clan Ancestral Hall
(Guangzhou Chen Clan Ancestral Hall: Architectural decoration epitomizes the essence of Guangdong folk decorative arts, skillfully using wood carving, brick carving, ceramic sculpture, copper and iron casting and other processes for decoration, the skills are ingenious, very famous.) Chen's Academy is the largest, most complete preserved and most exquisitely decorated ancient art building in Guangdong, and is now the Guangdong Folk Craft Museum. ）
Guangzhou sells airplane langles hawkers
(Guangzhou folklore: Chicken gonglan is a famous traditional snack in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, in fact, it is a Guangdong specialty of white olive, which is made of the best white olive through a complex process and is sweet.) There is salty. There are also spicy ones. Sweet is Heshunlan, salty is licorice olive, spicy is chili olive. Chicken olive entrance is sweet and crisp, endless aftertaste, for Guangzhou people generally love the traditional candy, is currently most of the local elderly in Guangzhou childhood memories. ）
Five years is not long nor short, the author Jiang Liu in five years to walk the streets and alleys, with heart to experience Guangzhou, with the heart to depict Guangzhou, she used 200 hand-painted and more than 60,000 words of text, created the "Original Guangzhou" picture book, depicted the streets and alleys of Guangzhou city a variety of people and buildings, nature integration scenes, some scenes have disappeared, is disappearing, from the book, we can understand the history, humanities and architecture of old Guangzhou, understand the living customs of old Guangzhou.
If you have not been to Guangzhou, the Guangzhou written in the book is the Guangzhou you are looking forward to; if you are a new and old Guangzhounese who have been living in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou written in the book may be beyond your daily imagination, and the familiar scenes such as streets and alleys, Cantonese cuisine, Lingnan customs and other scenes are presented one by one with unique and beautiful hand-drawn, so that people can truly feel a Guangzhou with historical background, cultural precipitation, tolerance and feelings.