Thus, the city of Yuzi in the spring is even more pleasant.
My childhood, was spent in the old city of Yuji. At that time, the old city of Yuzi two miles around, the city around a long high dilapidated earth walls, the city has more than a dozen horizontal and vertical streets. North Street and South Street is the main street of the old city of Yuji, wider than the other streets and alleys, five or six meters of the way, paved with a smooth green stone slabs, from the North Gate caliber until the South Gate of the Qingxu Pavilion. When it rains, the strip of stone is like a watery mirror.
My family lives in Longwangmiao Street. Longwangmiao Street in a dozen streets and lanes is very special, different, north of the street is a complete brick wall, south of the street is more than twenty rules and regulations of the courtyard. That brick wall is the wall of the Dragon King Temple. Longwang Temple in a long time ago was changed into a school, the earliest known as the Mingfeng Academy, later called Yuji two middle school, the gate is located in the east end of the street, is a complex construction of eaves arch rows of buildings, into the door, there is a small hemp stone bridge, the bridge on both sides of the pool, the pool has grown over the duckweed, bloomed over the lotus, the game over the goldfish. After the bridge, it leads to one and one of the hall, between the hall and the hall of the courtyard with the old cypress and acacia trees, every year in early summer, cypress green, white spikes of small flowers on the huge acacia canopy bloomed, the fragrance of the flowers, accompanied by the sound of students reading loudly overflowed the brick wall, and in the evening in the quadrangle over the curls of smoke floating in the mix together, shrouded in a large area of the old city.
From 2001, Yuji Old Town began its restoration project, which was a large restoration project, to 2004, the first phase of the project was completed. After the completion of the first time, I had walked into the old city. At the entrance to the north gate, I saw a stone monument set in the ground, I realized that the old city as early as three thousand years ago, King Cheng of Zhou ** has existed. Now, Yuji old city seems to be a person who has risen from the dead as in my field of vision, it is solemn contains vivid, quiet reveals the spirit of movement. From the north gate to the south gate of the Qingxu Pavilion, the pavement resurfaced stone strips, on both sides of the street is the repair of the rows of stores, some of the door on both sides of the stone lions and drums, some of the door outside the columns of the rain porch, some of the wooden door wrapped with a round cap-shaped iron nails. If you stand in the north doorway to the south, you can vaguely see the Qingxu Pavilion looms large at the end of the old city side of the end of ...... there are a lot of people walking in the old city, all of this is my childhood on the intimate scene.
If you stand at the north gate and turn to the north, I saw a somewhat strange modern city, it has a wide music fountain square, there is a straight road, the roadside is luxuriously decorated cultural centers, shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, bookstores, KFC, Yonghe soya bean milk, hair salons, pubs and bars ...... which are all bright and shiny, and melt in the They all shine brightly, blending into the soundtrack of pop songs that are never tired of being sung. If you go further north, you will mistakenly think that you have stepped into a small European city, the entire Yutai Road on both sides of the two-story European architectural style of small houses ......
Nowadays, every time I stand in the wide North Gate Square, will clearly feel that they are in a north-south geographical region has a clear contrast between the city, it will be found that the north of the new town expansion and the south of the old town preservation. Expansion and the south of the old city protection in the city of Yuji in a harmonious state **** exist, the south of the old city of simplicity will make me feel calm, the north of the modern city will let me surge, not contrary to the north and south of each other, this is my understanding of today's Yuji.
For Yuji, there is an indescribable emotion, familiar but unfamiliar, déjà vu but can not go deeper into the muscle, the memory can always touch her skeleton, the reality is that she is constantly beautiful and urbanization and increasingly detached.
Age is growing, the geographical name of Yuji more and more memorized, Palace of Culture, Beishan Road, Tiehua Building, Anning Bridge, Yingbin Bridge, Hua Vantage, which pulled me into the streets of Yuji time and time again and the people's feelings.
Now Yuji more and more urbanized, once and a friend drove around and around the car was lost, this is a new development of industrial parks, everything looks so new, so unfamiliar; there is a time to go down from Taiyuan straight to the Bayi Hotel, but when the car parked at the intersection of that spacious, I was in a trance, Bayi Hotel? That never went in but familiar with the heart of the eighty-first hotel? It was gone. Replaced by a tall building full of modern flavor.
Two very good friends put home in Yuji, one in Beishan Road, one in the old city neighborhood. Every other day, they would take the 901 bus to Taiyuan to take a stroll. Both of them work is not too tight, the salary is not very high, but regularly do beauty, skin maintenance is very good, the beginning of the year the popular ceramic perm, both of them spent 200 dollars perm hair. Last year's National Day back to Yuji, the two of them host. What to eat? They said to eat with local characteristics, Pingyao people in Yuji opened a chain of restaurants, quite Jinzhong flavor. What should we do for fun? They said that in addition to the Changjia Manor and the old city, Yuji also built a large new cultural center, which has a concert hall, bar, tired of shopping to go inside to listen to music. They said that Taiyuan is suitable for shopping, Yuji is suitable for living.
Yes, Yuji is a good place to live, with a soothing rhythm and wide roads and bridges, but Yuji is also fast-paced, and every visit will give people a new and different. The average person in Yuzi doesn't earn much money and doesn't spend it lavishly, but is calm and unhurried to follow the beat of Taiyuan's and even bigger cities.
Impression of the city: the city of the countryside
On the 29th day of the 3rd month of the lunar calendar, in Yuji, it was windy. People are swaying grass on the road, and one by one, they are taking hard steps. Yuji and Taiyuan is almost a step away, the wind inside but a lot less sand, despite the big, but also just in the sky to pull a few horn, add some cool flavor only. Walking out from Jinzhong Hotel, you can see a row of small supermarkets across the street, the owners of the store outside to collect the things set out, busy. The wind was indeed strong, and the people on the road were in a bit of a hurry.
In the Jinzhong Hotel to go out of the intersection, I saw two street vendors, a bicycle repair, a nail shoe, based on the two sides of the fork, like two gods, calm, calmly drumming the hands of the work or silently smoking cigarettes to look at the people on the road.
In Yuji two or three days, I walked in the street, everywhere you can see the head hanging banners or advertisements in the words of promoting the culture of Jinshang, Jinzhong City, Shanxi's best businessmen in the past, and retained a number of Jinshang compound. I don't know much about the Jin merchants, so I'm not at liberty to talk much about it, but in my eyes, many places in Yuzi have the legacy of the Jin merchants, which is passed down in the folklore without the slightest pretense, such as the supermarkets, such as repairing the car and nailing the shoes of the people. In the city of Yuzi, almost all the small stores like to call themselves supermarkets, although they do not have the size and service standards of supermarkets, but from one side it shows the good intentions of their owners, but also from the other side it shows the business sense of the owners of these supermarkets, and maybe one day, which one of them will rise as a result of this, and become a new generation of Shanxi merchants. I have been to many cities, I have not seen any city like Yuji, almost at every intersection are distributed nail shoe repair. In my understanding, the culture of Jin merchants has a point that is thrifty, in a city, there are so many street stalls and have been able to survive, is reflecting the thrift of the people of Yuzi. So here, you should be able to see a variety of levels of people will bring their shoes or bike to the side of the road to repair, and these people, it is not possible to which is the deep hidden "Tao Zhu Gong".
Yuji is a rustic and avant-garde city. Her local flavor is easy to let people like, local enthusiasm overflowing in people's conversations and conversations between the lines! Ask for directions or buy something and someone will push the warmth and simplicity towards you, so it is rustic. The avant-garde is what you can see in your eyes, the wide roads aside! It's the few squares scattered throughout the city that have their own flavor. Others are the buildings along the roadside, which are neatly delineated, not at all like Datong where all kinds of buildings are juxtaposed high and short. Yuji and Datong, are more of a city look, however, Datong has a trace of inheritance of the old prosperous nostalgia of the dilapidated, Yuji tone is bright and cheerful and imaginative; the same railroad running through the city, Datong's road is also wide, but always feel a little crowded, Yuji's road let a person feel comfortable, the crowd from the overpasses under the shuttle back and forth, rarely have to interfere with each other when. Perhaps close to Taiyuan, Yuji urbanization footsteps to be clear, but the flavor, but not simply imitation.
Originally, I thought, as long as there is a wide road, roadside tall buildings, buildings with wide glass, glass will only reflect the cold and hard light, alienating the distance of the city people. Walked through the Yuji, only to realize that not all cities are like this, the warmth will be the same in the concrete jungle to extend harmoniously.