[Gouqi Island Shanghai-Suzhou Tour] 1. Meiling sycamore trees accompany new Internet celebrities

Foreword: Mother Earth nurtures thousands of mountains and rivers and strange peaks. Generation after generation, people add bricks and tiles to them and use time to accumulate beautiful scenery. Traveling to Gouqi Island, Shanghai and Suzhou made me feel the pulse of natural heaven and humanistic history.

2020/10/26, I flew to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at noon (this is my second time to Shanghai, the first time was 5 years ago, for wisteria flowers, this time for wolfberry Island). The airport is so big. I was like Grandma Liu when she entered the Grand View Garden. I couldn't find a place to pick up the guide. Because I had no checked luggage, I actually left the airport directly to see the wrong way. I called the guide. He let me in and got off the elevator. Finally, I met the guide at the luggage exit.

The schedule was very tight and I visited three new Internet celebrities check-in spots in the afternoon.

Shanghai Happiness Fair is one of the new Internet celebrity bookstores in Shanghai.
There is a tree planted on the roadside. Autumn is here and the leaves are beginning to turn yellow. The tour guide said it was French sycamore, but it was not produced in France, but in Yunnan. That was one of the five things Chiang Kai-shek loved and did for Soong Meiling. That year, Song Meiling said that she liked sycamore trees, so he sent people to Yunnan to buy 20,000 sycamore trees and planted them all over Nanjing. Each sycamore tree was Chiang Kai-shek's unchanging sincerity for Song Meiling. After that, sycamore trees were planted in Shanghai and other places one after another. This story is very touching. I didn't expect Lao Jiang to have such feelings, so there is such a saying: If you love a person, you send a city, you love a tree, and you plant Nanjing City.

Xingfu Li was originally the Shanghai Rubber Research Institute, and was later transformed into Xingfu Li by designer Huang Quan. The design of Xingfu Jihui was also created by him. As a landmark for online celebrity check-in, it attracts many cultural and trendy people to check in.

The Happiness Fair has three floors. The three floors are not absolutely separated. Instead, they adopt a "sandwich" design and are functionally separated into five major areas: books, clothing, cultural and creative products, coffee and light food, and activities.

The first floor sells clothing, all of which are branded goods. The location near the window and the door is designed as a coffee shop. You can sit down and have a cup of coffee when you are tired. It is even more welcome to come here to taste coffee; the second floor has a whole row of desks. A large number of selected foreign magazines on fashion, culture, food and other topics are displayed, and the display location is located at the entrance of the second floor, which is very eye-catching.

This is the Internet celebrity bookstore.

In addition to magazines, art books and cultural and creative products are also displayed on the second floor.
There are also steps next to the bookshelf with several cushions. You can pick up a book and sit down at will. No one cares about you even when the bookstore is closed. It is also a great place to take photos here.

Essentially speaking, she should be a bookstore, but it is different from a bookstore in the traditional sense. Just like her name, Jihui, happens to be in happiness and means happiness. How wonderful! It is a collection of books, clothing, shoes, boots, clothing, drinks and snacks. It is a collection of happiness. It is so good! The store has two floors and is designed very creative, modern, fashionable yet elegant, and enjoys this artistic conception. However, if compared with the Gogol Bookstore in Harbin, it is far from the same.

Parks in Colombia
This is a mysterious area that has never been opened to the public after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was originally a foreign alley called Colombia Country Club. It was built in 1924. It is a social place set up by the U.S. Consulate for British and American expatriates in Shanghai for leisure, entertainment, and life. The building retains the characteristics of more than 70 years of history intact. Through direct sunlight, it seems that you can still smell the atmosphere of old history.

The most famous thing here is a Morocco style Tiffany blue swimming pool that is full of vacation. It allows this place to enter Morocco in one second. The mosaic veneer and blue pool water are probably the most fashionable blockbuster no matter how you shoot it. It is said that many celebrities come here to check in!

This is the only swimming pool in Shanghai that still retains an imperial size. It was originally an open-air swimming pool of the Navy Club. The Spanish-style buildings on both sides, and the arches echo the swimming pool, making people feel a little confused about where they are.

Around the swimming pool, there are many Internet celebrity restaurants settled in. While enjoying the delicious food, it should be great to have a 360-degree view and take photos without dead spots, but we have no time to enjoy it, just take a few photos in a hurry.

This Baroque building was originally the "Shanghai Institute of Biological Products", or "Shangsheng Institute" for short. It has never been opened to the public, and now it has been unveiled.

Some historical records on the wall

There is a row of gates that can "change color" in the park. The colors seen from different places or from different angles are different. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are all rainbow colors.

Sun Ke's former residence, Sun Ke, is the son of Sun Yat-sen. This small house was designed by Hudec and combines Spanish, Baroque, Italian Renaissance and other styles.

Sinan Open-Air Museum
In the Sinan Mansion surrounded by sycamore trees, there is an "open-air museum" with no walls, no glass windows, no fences, no tickets, and no one-meter line. Founded in 2016, it is a century-old Humanities Museum that will always be open and never end in the Sinan Mansion.

Everything here, whether you can imagine or you can't imagine, could be an exhibit. Compared with the awe-inspiring exhibits in traditional museums that are isolated by cold glass and blocked by tough railings, open-air museums pay more attention to getting closer to, entering, and feeling the exhibits. All the exhibits are vivid and natural, less serious and more cordial. Here, you may walk casually and step on an exhibit.

"Sinan Open-Air Museum" has an extraordinary display space, gathering various architectural forms such as freestanding garden houses, connected garden houses, town-style buildings, corridor buildings, new alleys and modern apartments. It is a concentration of modern residential buildings in Shanghai. Many buildings record a lot of precious history, and the well-known story of Mei Lanfang's "cultivating Hu Mingzhi" takes place here. No. 533 Middle Fuxing Road once lived a student. He graduated from Yale University in the United States at the age of 27 with a master's degree in physics and chemistry. He entered politics at the age of 44. Kong Xiangxi, who served as Minister of Finance of the National Government at that time, worked on currency reform and the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident and raised funds for the War of Resistance. In addition to old bungalows, there are also street lights, ancient trees, red brick roads, cobblestone walls, etc. The outer wall of each exhibit has a shield-shaped sign with a unique QR code printed on it. You can listen to the audio introduction of this exhibit recorded by "amateur people" by scanning the code on your mobile phone WeChat. However, we have no time to listen to the audio introduction, which wastes an excellent learning opportunity.

Here are the old residences of famous officials who inherit the cultural context, the shade of sycamore trees that grow silently, and the cobblestone walls that still breathe... The history here is not in the glass cover, but in everyone's perception and continued creation.

There are many famous people here, including Zhou Enlai, Mei Lanfang, Liu Yazi, Li Liejun, Cheng Qian, Xue Dubi, Zeng Pu, etc.

There is also the "Sinan Open-Air Museum·Time Lane", connecting history and the future.

A "Time Lane" is located in the north of the center of Sinan Mansion and connects Fuxing Middle Road to the north. The main street inside Sinan Mansion in Nantong is a lane 2-3 meters wide and about 30 meters long. In this long and narrow linear tunnel, Sinan's past, present and future are cut through. Here, a mirror array composed of 26 two-way mirrors is closely arranged with two walls. History is a prism that can reflect colorful light. The stainless steel material of the golden mirror surface interacts with visiting tourists against a black background. Among them, the walking visitors seem to be walking among their own 26 superimposed shadows, as if walking in history with countless "me" at different times. History and the present, there is a dialogue of temperature and depth here. There are Feng Yuxiang, Mei Lanfang, Zhang Xueliang... there are also us now.

Some of the exhibits in the entire open-air museum are buildings, some are people in the buildings, and some may be street lights, ancient trees, cobblestone walls, etc. These all have little-known stories and carry a profound historical heritage. In this open-air museum with neither glass windows nor fences, people are both visitors and creators of history. The past has not been far away, but the future has arrived.

The environment here is super good and the buildings are invincible. Every bungalow, every staircase, and every alley are worth your pat. I want to go and experience it quietly.

For dinner, I ate our local dishes. I remember Shanghai food as sweet and very salty.

After that, I went to the City God Temple to watch the night view.

Seeing sister Xiaowen in the same group taking photos, he went over to talk to her: "I'm afraid of getting lost, so I'll follow you." Sister Xiaowen said: "Good, good." She is a rare woman with a strong sense of direction.

There is an old saying in Shanghai,"If you go to Shanghai and don't go to the City God Temple, you have never been to Shanghai." The City God Temple has become a landmark attraction in Shanghai.

The City God Temple originated from the ancient sacrifice of Shui (Huang) Yong (Cheng) and is one of the eight gods in the "Zhou Palace". The ancients built cities to protect the safety of the people in the city, so they built tall city walls, towers, gates, moat cities and moats. This is the origin of the City God Temple.

The lights are bright, and the ancient buildings are blurred and mysterious under the light. Perhaps due to the impact of the epidemic, there are fewer tourists.

There are many specialty shops, restaurants, snack shops, gardens, etc. in the City God Temple. Let's start with a series of delicacies here. The snacks at Shanghai's City God Temple are very rich and numerous. After entering, they are simply dizzying: Nanxiang small steaks, roasted pork buns, barbecue, large row noodles, three-silk spring rolls, purple rice balls, chessboard cakes, crown lantern dumplings (shaped hats), fortune fish round soup, pea crystal cakes... Changsha stinky tofu, old yogurt, etc. that are not locally produced in Shanghai, also set up stalls here. You can relax and eat your fill.

Shanghai's City God Temple is famous for selling a variety of Shanghai-style snacks. In the area of City God Temple Food Street, it can even be called a kingdom of snacks. The specialty snacks of Lvbo Lang, the vegetarian dumplings of Songyue Tower, the eight-treasure rice of Songyun Tower, Nanxiang Xiaolong (it is said that there are long queues here all day long to buy Nanxiang Xiaolongbao), Ningbo soup dumplings and wine dumplings are all delicious snacks that cannot be missed when visiting Shanghai.

In addition to local snacks, the area around the City God Temple is also filled with different flavors from all over the country. Various restaurants, restaurants, and food shops can be seen on the winding old streets along the route. In the crowded crowd, freshly baked buns and shortcakes can be seen everywhere. All these make this place another enduring "food paradise" in the city of Shanghai. All kinds of tempting flavors are constantly interpreting the connotation of "Laomiao snacks" and "Shanghai style dishes". Those unforgettable delicacies and these familiar names are the common memories of generations of Shanghainese and are deeply imprinted in this city. In this historical attraction full of ancient scenery and crowded with tourists, its unique charm continues to be deposited.

There is also the old Laofengxiang store here, as well as those selling silk scarves, clothes, white rabbit toffee, plum candies, etc. There are many varieties, and you can buy anything with money.

The night view of the City God Temple can be described as resplendent and royal. All the lighting is just to prove its majestic and majestic appearance.

The nine-bend bridge has nine bends and eighteen bends, and the angle of each bend is different, some are greater than a right angle of 90 degrees, and some are less than a right angle of 90 degrees. The current deck of Jiuqu Bridge is made of granite slabs. A seasonal flower is carved on a slab at each bend, such as the first month's narcissus, the February apricot blossoms, the March peach blossoms... until December's wintersweet; and a lotus flower is carved on each of the two slabs at the end of the Jiuqu Bridge. On a section of the bridge deck in front of the Huxinting Tea House, a lotus flower is carved in the middle, and colorful clouds are carved at the four corners. The lotus fairy statue of white marble in the pool stands tall and graceful, welcoming every one of you with a smile.

Walking through the Jiuqu Bridge, you will see renovated ancient buildings on both sides. The Taoist style of red walls and mud tiles makes the pavilions and pavilions even more ancient. If I could sit in the restaurant by the window next to the Jiuqu Bridge, order a plate of steamed buns and a bowl of small wontons, and watch the red koi swimming in the lake, how pleasant would it be?

（3685 2020/11/20）