So he decided to go in and sit down and wait for friends who had not yet arrived.

The Tiffany blue decoration extends from the door to the store. It is exquisite and delicate. The dim light is matched with a cup of warm coffee latte, making people willing to spend a lot of time.

I have to say that this is a young girl's heart-breaking cafe. It has blue furniture, dark wood-colored tables, European benches, and retro table lamps. It's a good place to take photos and check in.

I ordered a hazelnut latte and a green leaf-shaped matcha mousse cake
Matcha is not bitter, it is just right sweet. A small amount of red beans are paired with the fragrance of matcha and the shape of the leaves. It is perfect!
The coffee is regular and the waiter is very enthusiastic

I arrived early
Not long after it opened
Many items in the restaurant have not been decorated yet
This store originally sold afternoon tea, but it also sold breads and simple meals
finish my coffee
My friend also arrived and quickly asked him to help me press the shutter and take a photo
Then we set out for the Sinanli Historical and Cultural District

Stroll through Xinanli Historical, Cultural and Leisure District

"Green bricks and small tiles on horse-head walls, and latticed windows on corridors" are the architectural style of Gan Xi's former residence.
As a "neighbor", the buildings of the "Xinanli" historical and cultural district continue this style.
However, in addition to the ancient charm of Nanjing in the past, there is also the modern prosperity of Nanjing.
Antique and modern urban life blend perfectly here.

Although this area has been wrapped in skyscrapers, it has always adhered to the legacy of the late Qing Dynasty. The road is full of blue bricks and red tiles, and corridors, making it elegant and unique.

There is no too much commercial atmosphere, no endless flow of vehicles, and no hurried pedestrians. What is worthy of this place is only a cheongsam, a round fan, and a poem.

I passed by a Tiffany Blue cafe
Christmas has just passed
The Christmas tree at the door hasn't been removed yet.
Come forward and take a group photo, which is a way to make up for Christmas

Roadside graffiti also makes this historic district look more vibrant.

When the Lantern Festival comes, it must be very lively here.

In the Xinanli neighborhood, there are Waku Teahouse permeated with traditional Chinese style, Finnegan Bar filled with Irish style, J Cafe amp;amp; Lost Horizon Bar with industrial style, Sanyu Bookstore hidden in the city, and Chinese-style antique tavern Qitang Tavern, Hanfu Experience Hall Huajianji Hanfu Dynasty, Zhonggu Store Jiuge Jiuge Middle Ages Jiu Vintage, etc. If time permits, I really want to check in all of them.

Old Time "Museum"-Spring Solstice Tea House (Xinanli)

Enter this teahouse below
Because a little kitten brought us in.

pushed open the wooden door
The retro and nostalgic sense of the times comes to your face
Isolated from the cold outdoor air
I have seen many modern shops
Such a contemporary cabin wrapped in the strong aroma of tea and books
A surprise

Horseshoe lights, old-fashioned clocks, projectors, radios, black-and-white televisions... these old objects that have gradually withdrawn from the historical stage are low-key and calm, and are placed in different locations in the more than 100-square-meter store without appearing crowded.


Since it is a historical, cultural and leisure district in Xinanli, there must be old house numbers.

Aluminum signs like this are probably the third generation house numbers now. The first generation was purple-red and white in the Republic of China. The house numbers in the 1970s and 1980s, including after 2000, are all enamel and slightly mottled.

Nowadays, the latest one is already the QR code doorplate. From the dimension of doorplate alone, we can also see how rapidly the entire city is changing and developing.

This little cat brought me into this store
Been following me since I entered the store
I can't resist its silly eyes

It still won't let me order
Always playing with me

Another one of its little friends came to the table

There are milk tea, tea and coffee in the store
I can't live without coffee. My
Coffee, of course
I ordered a cup of brewed coffee. The name sounded very special and I had never tried it.

I really strongly recommend "Jiujiu Coffee", one word is perfect
Even the coffee cup is full of history
This is a family selling tea and coffee
In fact, it is an "antique bookstore" that has used decades of collecting old objects to attract customers! With a strong sense of history, the key point is that you can still attract cats.

It's not so much a teahouse, coffee shop... It's better to call it an immersive old time "museum", where we seem to have traveled through a tunnel of time and space and returned to childhood.

The soul of this store is these old things.
Each object carries its own story, and others come and listen carefully.

If you want to understand old Nanjing, you might as well come to the Spring Solstice Tea House
Feel these old times
Taste the taste of time and space and cure all your little emotions

Although I am reluctant to part with you
But I still have to leave
Meeting this small bookstore around the corner also made me very happy

If you ask, how small can it be?
The entire bookstore covers an area of less than 10㎡
You don't even have enough space to turn around, right?
Three or four tables and chairs, a row of bookshelves...
It's the entire bookstore.

There is also a place for hanging postcards all over the face
Read quietly about other people's past
Hope and love for Nanjing
There is a feeling of passing by the lives of strangers in this city.

This very small bookstore is like a "grocery store" for Nanjing people, and it is open 24 hours a day.
The overall dark green painting style adds a sense of tranquility.
Shopping is tiring, so coming here to read books is also a good choice.

It was dark when the bookstore came out
Just in time to go to the Confucius Temple a few hundred miles next door to watch the night view, take a pleasure boat, and eat delicious food.

Nanjing Confucius Temple is a landmark building in Qinhuai District. It is a place where Confucius is worshipped. It is China's first national highest academic institution and one of the four major Confucian temples in China.
This is also one of the must-check points for every trip to Nanjing.
Of course, it would be more charming if it came at night.

The archway at the entrance bears the three characters "Ancient Qinhuai".
The so-called "Ancient Qinhuai" is actually an ancient street located on the south of the Qinhuai River bank. It runs east-west. There are archways built at both ends of the street. The name of "Ancient Qinhuai" is engraved on the archway.

The ancient city is shining with warm light, and the moonlight shines down on the clear light. The atmosphere falling with the wind is the brilliance of lights and the smell of fireworks.

As soon as I entered the ancient street, I was attracted by the handmade tea cake shop on the right.
Free variety of tasting and drinking

Their tea products come in a variety of flavors.
Among them, Yuhua tea, which is a specialty of Nanjing, has five flavors such as cranberry and pineapple. Then Huayang tea bags also come in various flavors, such as small tangerine, white peach oolong, grape Longjing and rose Longjing are all great, especially white peach oolong, which are really yds.

There is also the dragon beard crisp suitable for all ages. This is salty and has rich nutritional value
Traveling to various places is to taste local specialties and experience the unique regional culture
This Yuhua tea can also be given to friends as a gift.

Walking along the street, the most important thing is a variety of delicious snacks.
Not only can you eat local specialties,
You can also taste snacks from all over the world

You can take snacks and sit on the bank of the Qinhuai River to eat, while enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Qinhuai River while enjoying the delicious food.

In addition to the Confucius Temple, the Qinhuai River is also the Jiangnan Gongyuan where Confucian scholars compete to leap over the Dragon Gate, the former residence of Li Xiangjun, a famous Qinhuai prostitute who is "sent to the Southern Dynasties with a peach blossom fan bottom"; and the ancient archway of the "World Literary Hub".
Footnotes and traces can be found here in the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the land of gold powder, and the land of gentleness.

Moving forward along the main street of Fuzimiao, I like to eat, drink, and buy, and headed straight into the Qinhuai Gifts and Cultural Creation Store on Gongyuan Street.

This is a business that integrates cultural creativity, Hanfu, bookstore, and interactive experience. It is a must-visit point for citizens and tourists at Confucius Temple. It is also a "consumption complex" that integrates business, tourism, culture and innovation.

The first floor is a special market
The Q version of "No. 1 Scholar Lang", the image of Li Xiangjun's silk figure in Kunqu Opera, the "Lotus Lantern" series of bookmarks... the dazzling array of cultural and creative products makes people dizzying.
These "Qinhuai Gifts" cultural and creative products, which are soaked with Qinhuai cultural characteristics, are the best choice for accompanying gifts.

The second floor is Huashang Hanfu Hall, and the entire floor is filled with Hanfu.
You can rent a Hanfu or rent a photographer here
and put on beautiful makeup.
Wear Hanfu to experience the unique history and culture of ancient Qinhuai

The third floor is Dangdang Bookstore

Shili Qinhuai, Jiangnan Gongyuan, was a place where literati gathered from the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Dangdang's first physical bookstore in Nanjing is quietly located next to Jiangnan Gongyuan, allowing reading to travel through thousands of years with a low-key and simple attitude.

On one side of the door is golden ginkgo, and books are neatly arranged according to classification. Passing through this autumn color, a "two-eight-bar" and "telephone booth" are stubborn and arrogant. The past is always with beautiful filters, just like this bicycle, it can go out of style, but it will never fade. At this point, they entered the main area of the bookstore.

The middle position is given up to this rainforest-like "reading tunnel." There are reading spaces that can be seen everywhere throughout the bookstore. There are a few wooden chairs by the old windows, hollow recessions in the bookshelves, benches hidden under the green plants of the bookshelves, or leisurely swinging chairs... Every small corner welcomes people who can't wait to grab a good book. People who can't wait to read.

At the end of one side of the bookstore is an open space.
Exchange meetings, lectures, book launches, etc. can be held here.
This bookstore is the one that surprised me the most during my entire day today.
It is a comfortable place that makes people forget to leave and has endless aftertaste.

The bookstore comes out when the night view is at its most beautiful.
The best way to visit the Qinhuai River is to take a Qinhuai River pleasure boat.

Take a painted boat and sail in Qinhuai. Above the ten-mile Qinhuai River is the Confucius Temple with a thousand-year-old cultural charm; in the Yanbo Painting Boat, you can live the smoke and moon of the Six Dynasties, the sound of oars and the shadows of lights.

Traveling on the Qinhuai Buhe River by a painted boat can quickly understand the historical story of the Qinhuai River

The general route of the Qinhuai River Painting Boat is:
Boat Pier--Bailuzhou Park--Qicai Water Street--Dongshuiguan--Zhonghua Gate--Return Pier
The entire journey takes about 50 minutes and will be explained throughout the journey. Each ticket is 70.

Sit on the pleasure boat and feel the ten-mile Qinhuai River.
There are many restaurants on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, with strong wine and singing songs, and I don't know which dynasty I am in.
Hidden from the green trees, white walls and gray tiles, red lanterns emerge from the middle, and the shadows of the lights sway, as if seeing a beautiful dance and hearing the sound of nature.

The Qinhuai River flows slowly through Nanjing City and is the mother river of Nanjing people.
Time passed, dynasties changed, and scenes of past events became a cloud of history.
A generation of celebrities such as Wang Dao, Xie An, and Wang Xizhi from the Eastern Jin Dynasty once lived on the banks of the Qinhuai River. They recited poems and poems, splashed ink, pointed out the mountains and rivers, inspired writing, and lived a romantic life.
......
Throughout the ages, it has aroused countless sighs and emotions.

Amid the hazy lights, cruise ships drove by on the river. Tourists rowed on the river, as if entering a mesmerized dream, admiring the beautiful night of the Qinhuai River and searching for mysterious historical memories.

Unconsciously, 50 minutes passed. We were still not satisfied, and we went ashore with a reluctant feeling.

The most Nanjing flavor-Nanjing Big Brand Store (Confucius Temple)

Nothing but play and eat
If you want to taste the authentic Nanjing flavor, you must have [Nanjing Famous Brand Store]
Local friends said:
Whether they are authentic Nanjing people or foreign tourists, they all find it great. The dishes are unique and the decoration is delicious!

Many folk kitchen snacks, pastoral vegetables, are cooked frequently and taste authentic. There is always one for you.

Tianwang Roast Duck Bag
I saw that during the production process, every bag was strictly weighed and extremely particular.
Thin skin, more stuffing and more soup, take a bite first and drink the soup, eat it while it is hot.

Red Bean Lantern Festival
The red beans are fragrant and the Yuanxiao is soft and glutinous, which is excellent.

Osmanthus cake
The soft and glutinous are just right
It exudes a faint fragrance of osmanthus

Jinling Roast Duck
The unique soup is poured on the bottom, and the ducks are not firewood, very slippery, slightly sweet, and crispy.

Chinese cabbage mutton
Carefully select lamb leg meat, with a layer of skin on top of the lean meat
The aroma of mutton and the sourness of pickled cabbage spread wantonly in the mouth
The more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes, the more you chew it, the more you taste!
I am full of pickled cabbage mutton, and there are still vermicelli at the bottom of the pot
After a bowl of hot soup
It warms my heart and feels really comfortable!

A table full of Nanjing flavors
eat and drink enough
Go back to the hotel to rest

For today's accommodation, I chose the Westin Jinmao Hotel in the city center.

The Westin Jinmao Hotel is undoubtedly one of the first choices for every foreigner to travel to Nanjing for a vacation.
C position in the city center, mid-to-high-end cost performance, subway entrance.

Walking into the hotel, the classic white tea fragrance is Westin's unique flavor. The hotel's lobby is on the 23rd floor. The interior design is modern and simple, and every detail reveals exquisiteness and elegance. The HeavenlyBed in the room makes you more relaxed and comfortable.

Downstairs of the hotel is Jinmao Lanxiu City, which is super convenient for shopping and eating. You will be at the subway entrance when you walk out of the door.

The hotel is luxuriously decorated, unique in design, and in a superior location. Each room overlooks the picturesque Xuanwu Lake.

City view outside the window

Friends who like to run in the morning can walk to the Ming Great Wall in a few minutes. While exercising, they can also enjoy the lakes and mountains and feel the strong cultural lingering.

The past of the Six Dynasties has been turned into smoke, and there has been a new chapter in the old place. Xuanwu Lake, which was once the "National Archives", connects five continents with the style of a royal garden, with embankments and bridges connected, and the mountains and rivers are complete.

Walking on the wall of the Ming Dynasty for more than 600 years, the sky is high and the sky is broad, and the sky is vast and the sky is vast, and it is different from the hard journey between cities in the past...
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, built the capital of Jinling and used the efforts of the whole country to build the city wall. It is said that in order to ensure quality, a strict responsibility system was established: each brick of the city wall must be remembered, that is, one side of the brick must be engraved with the names of officials from all levels of competent departments from prefects to county officials. The names of kiln workers and brick makers must be engraved on the other side. Tap with your fingers is still crisp, sonorous and very strong; it makes Nanjing's ancient wall still stand proudly despite the wind and rain that has lasted for more than 600 years. To this day, Nanjing's Ming Dynasty city wall still maintains a world record. It is the largest extant masonry city wall site.

On one side are lakes and mountains, and on the other side are various buildings and roads.
The development of the city is also telling the story of history. There are purple peaks pointing at the sky in the distance, villas of the Republic of China waiting to be repaired under the city wall, the green-tiled Chinese Academy of Sciences on the former site of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, slowly winding mountain roads and residences, and Jiming Temple...

The scenery changes with steps, and the stars change.
The gust of wind blowing in the distance between the city walls seems to be cooler. Thinking about the soldiers stationed here, far away from their families, and the beautiful scenery is like this, what do you feel?

With the passage of time, the city walls of Nanjing have experienced many vicissitudes, and some city gates have even disappeared.
However, Nanjing people will go to the city at the same time every New Year.
This may be the plot of Nanjing people.

The Italian missionary Matteo Ricci visited Jinling in the Ming Dynasty. His "Matteo Ricci's Chinese Notes" mentioned a saying about the city wall: "Two people rode opposite each other from opposite directions of the city, and it took a whole day to meet each other." In the 18th and 19th centuries, many Westerners came here one after another.

During the Six Dynasties, Xuanwu Lake was a royal garden lake.
Today, at the foot of the city wall, the scenery is beautiful, and the southeast is the best...

After coming down from the Taiwan City Wall, we took a taxi and arrived at Yangtze River Road, which was only 4 kilometers away.

A Yangtze River Road, half of Nanjing's history.
Yangtze River Road is not long, but has a long history. It starts from Longpan Middle Road in the east and ends at Zhongshan Road in the west.
"Walking on the Yangtze River Road, 1800 meters, 1800 years".
Jiangning Weaving Museum, Six Dynasties Museum, Presidential Palace, Art Museum...
Strolling along the Yangtze River Road is a thousand-year-old cultural heritage and a classic along the way.
The Yangtze River Road, which spans a history of more than 1800 years, has gone from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the modern era. At this time, in Jinling City, frost and leaves were falling, and it was already deep winter.

To visit the Yangtze River Road well
I can't finish shopping in three days
Every step is a story
the trip
Only two points on Yangtze River Road were checked in

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties also has the Six Dynasties Museum (Changjiang Road)

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties also has the Six Dynasties Museum.
The Six Dynasties Museum is the most comprehensive site museum in China that displays the cultural relics of the Six Dynasties.
The environment is very quiet and the exhibition hall is full of artistic style. It is a model of combining art and historical exhibitions!
The exhibition hall is divided into four chapters explaining the theme of the Eastern Metropolis from the 3rd to 6th centuries AD. It has four exhibition halls: "Imperial Capital of the Six Dynasties","Looking Back to the Six Dynasties","Style of the Six Dynasties" and "Heroes of the Six Dynasties".

The first floor is a hall that does not perform any functions, only used for lighting, showing the Wei and Jin style that treats gold as nothing!

The exhibition on the first floor of the Six Dynasties Imperial Capital is divided into two parts: the city chapter and the life chapter: the city chapter mainly shows the architectural scale, palaces, urban roads and drainage system of Jiankang City in the Six Dynasties;

In the life chapter, a large number of cultural relics are used to show the social life of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The food, clogs, ceremonial ceremonies, daily meals, scissors, irons, and ornaments restore the people's clothing, food, housing and transportation during the Six Dynasties.

While visiting the second floor
I also met the intangible cultural heritage inheritors of "gold and silver fine workers"
The master is repeatedly beating and carving on a piece of silver

Finally, it transformed into an exquisite work of art. This skill is called gold and silver craftsmanship.

Nanjing gold and silver fine craftsmanship is a national-level intangible cultural heritage. It began in the Six Dynasties, is proficient in the Tang and Song Dynasties, matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, flourished in the Republic of China, and innovatively developed in the contemporary era. Under the teacher's repeated knocking and carving fingertips, feel the unparalleled beauty under the sonorous sonorous.

The final color was formed by natural oxidation.

The second floor of the museum arranges exhibits according to three themes: porcelain, statues, and calligraphy, presenting the audience the three most representative aspects of material life in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The entire design on the second floor is very beautiful, with one view step by step. There are bamboos everywhere, a bit like Suzhou gardens. They are displayed in conjunction with Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and paintings, making them very elegant. There are also many precious cultural relics preserved inside: chicken head pots, porcelain, etc., as well as the treasure of the town hall, celadon underglaze color pan pot. There are various patterns and feathers on it, which is very exquisite!

In the resting area in the middle of the museum, there are orchid pavilions hanging on both sides, and there is a stone unicorn in the middle.

Further ahead is the treasure of the town hall,"celadon underglaze colored feather and human pattern pan mouth pot." It is the earliest object in China to beautify porcelain with painting techniques. The feathered people on it seem to be dancing, surrounded by fairy grass and cloud gas swaying in the wind.

A super cute group of little pottery people.

The scenery outside the exhibition hall is also very unique.

The third floor is the exhibition hall for introducing characters. Because during the Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties, the economy was developed and the people's lives were stable, many talents emerged: the pastoral poet Tao Yuanming, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi, the seven sages of Zhulin, and the mathematician Zu Chongzhi... The Six Dynasties period was a very glorious era in the history of ancient Chinese literature and art!

After walking through the Six Dynasties, I first learned about Jinling.
The prosperity of the Six Dynasties is just as Wei Zhuang, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, said,"The Six Dynasties are like dreams and birds are singing in the sky."
Remembering the charm of Nanjing's ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, imagining a wonderful picture of the prosperous times of the Six Dynasties, I am glad to be able to stand on this land with a deep sense of history.
The 30-yuan ticket is really worth it, so I recommend everyone to go and have a look.

Traveling west along Yangtze River Road, passing through the Presidential Palace, about 200 meters ahead, you will find Block 1912.
There is a landmark sculpture at the intersection, which is also a symbol of Nanjing-the "Tree of Life", expressing humanistic care for the earth.

Nanjing 1912 Historical District has both traces of history and a lively atmosphere of modern fashion. It is a representative of Nanjing's fashion and leisure, and is also the place with the richest nightlife in Nanjing. It is deeply loved by young people.

Entering the 1912 block, you will find buildings with the style of the Republic of China, simple and exquisite, and neatly arranged. They look very retro and are also good shooting spots. It is especially suitable for wearing cheongsam to check in and take photos here. It gives people the feeling of traveling through time.

The shops in the 1912 block can be said to be a combination of Chinese and Western. People are dizzying to see such famous brands as food stalls, red mansions, gone with the wind, and there are a wide variety of Chinese restaurants, music bars, and Western fast food.

There are many bizarre graffiti on some walls or doors and windows on the street, or carefully decorated window windows, which also adds a lot of artistic atmosphere to the neighborhood. It makes people can't help but stop to check in and take photos.

A small railway station has been built in the neighborhood, called "Shiguang Station Nanjing Station". The train tracks are built around the entire 1912 block. They are similar to the design of Pukou Railway Station and the flashing neon lights. The style of the Republic of China is very strong and retro. Adults and children can sit there.

When the lanterns were first turned on, the lights were particularly bright. The tourists coming and going under the sycamore trees also gave the place a lot of different fireworks atmosphere.

If you want to experience Nanjing's nightlife, 1912 is a must-visit. With the buildings of the Republic of China, fashionable bars, and living rooms of the city, 1912 Street is as famous as Sanlitun Bar Street in Beijing.

It is a fashionable commercial and leisure district composed of 19 Republican style buildings and four central squares: Republican, Boo 'ai, New Century and Pacific. This street is famous for its architecture and food.

Perhaps it was due to weekdays, cold weather and the recent epidemic, when I went there, there were not many tourists here. Many stalls and small trains in the market did not operate. I was very sorry.

However, this red lantern does have a New Year atmosphere.
There may be a story behind every lamp. It is touching or sad, sweet or sad. The light of the lights of thousands of homes hides all living beings, but it cannot hide the faint smell of fireworks.

concluding remarks

People say that if you carry your luggage, you are a passer-by; if you put down your baggage, you will find your hometown.
In fact, everyone understands that there is no absolute stability in life. Since we are all passers-by, we should carry a calm and indifferent heart, walk through the vicissitudes of mountains and rivers, and laugh at the ups and downs of the world.
Goodbye, Nanjing.