Is it worth going to Chengdu? Is it fun?
For locals, you can go or not, but foreign tourists must go. After all, every city has such a memorable old street, or very good, worth a visit.
In fact, no more than Chengdu. The old streets of many cities are surrounded by strong commercialization, such as Nanluoguxiang in Beijing, Tianjin's Ancient Culture Street, Shanghai's Shanghai Old Street, Nanjing's Qinhuai River, Xi'an's Fang Hui and so on. This is a major trend in the development of society now, just like the fact that almost all the movies made every year are commercial, because literary or documentary films can hardly find a market in today's society.
There seems to be no necessary connection between the great richness of material life and the richness of the spiritual world. On the contrary, the material life is getting richer and richer, and the spiritual world is getting emptier and emptier. Just like the Broad and Narrow Alley, it is hard to find the emotion that best characterizes Chengdu in the crowded alley.
But I still want to take a walk in the Broad and Narrow Alley.
Kuan-Narrow Alley consists of Kuan Alley, Narrow Alley and Jing Alley arranged in parallel, and is known as one of the three major historical and cultural protected neighborhoods in Chengdu along with Daci Temple and Wenshu Yuan. But Broad and Narrow Alley lacks the history and culture left by Daci Temple and Wenshu Yuan. Although the buildings and roads have been restored to the original appearance of the Ming and Qing dynasties to the greatest extent possible, they still can't get rid of the commercial atmosphere given by the materialistic society.
There are countless snack bars, Pacific Coffee and Starbucks, trendy restaurants and moody pubs. For many young people who are literate and somewhat small-minded, you can also find some small literary stores like Tsimshatsui Bookstore, Flower Room, and Wide and Narrow Wells, so no matter whether you are a nostalgic or fashionable, literary or food lover, you can almost always find your own interests in Wide and Narrow Alleys.
Particularly at the beginning of the lights, at this time, the Broad and Narrow Alley has been completely turned into the night of Chengdu, the street snacks yelling, deep in the alleys from time to time came the ballad, nostalgic scene, the lights dim air ambiguous tavern, hidden in the night can touch your heart dense light.
In such a wide and narrow alley, you really can not be associated with folklore and culture.
This is the Broad and Narrow Alley, whether you love her or hate her.
Just like the words that touch the heart of every young person in the Broad and Narrow Alley: you ask me if I love the Broad or Narrow Alley, I love you
Suddenly, such pretentious language doesn't seem to be pretentious at all here.
When I was about to leave Chengdu, I remembered a line from Zhao Lei's song, "Memories are the sadness of thoughts". I walked through the streets and alleys of Chengdu, the end of Yulin Road, the most beautiful Bao Tong Street in Chengdu, the Jiuye Bridge and Wangjiang Tower on the banks of the Jinjiang River, and the doorways of the taverns until I walked into the Broad and Narrow Alley.