Therefore, Yuci City in spring is even more refreshing.
I spent my childhood in Yuci ancient town. At that time, the old town of Fiona Fang Erlihu Yuci was surrounded by a long, high and dilapidated earth wall, and there were more than a dozen streets and lanes in the city. North Street and South Street are the main streets in Yuci Old Town, which are five or six meters wider than other streets. The road is paved with smooth bluestone slabs, from the north gate to the Nanguan Qingxu Pavilion. When it rains, all bluestones are like mirrors of water.
My family lives in Longwangmiao Street. Longwangmiao Street is very special among more than a dozen streets and lanes, with complete brick walls in the north and more than 20 well-organized quadrangles in the south. That brick wall is the wall of Longwang Temple. Longwang Temple has long been transformed into a school. It was first called Mingfeng Academy, and later called Yuci No.2 Middle School. The gate is located at the east entrance of the street. This is a row building with complex cornices and arches. When entering the door, there is a Mashi Bridge with pools on both sides. Duckweed grew in the pool, lotus bloomed and goldfish played. After crossing the bridge, it leads to one hall after another. There are cypresses and locust trees in the yard between the halls. Every early summer, the green and white spikes of cypress trees bloom in the crown of the huge locust tree, and the flowers are overflowing. As the students read, they overflowed the brick wall and mixed with the smoke floating over the courtyard in the evening, covering a large area of the old city.
Since 200 1, the old city of Yuci has started the restoration project, which is a big restoration project and the first phase of the project was completed in 2004. After completion, I walked into the old city for the first time. At the entrance of the North Gate, I saw a stone tablet embedded in the ground. I know that this ancient city existed in Zhou Chengwang more than 3000 years ago. Today's Yuci ancient town appears in my field of vision, as if it were a man who came back from the dead. Its solemnity contains vividness, and its quietness reveals agility. From the North Gate to the Qingxu Pavilion in Nanguan, the pavement is repaved with stone strips, and there are rows of shops on both sides of the street. Some doors have stone lions and drums standing on both sides, some have rain corridors lined with columns outside, and some wooden street doors have round hat-shaped nails nailed. If you stand at the north gate and look south, you can vaguely see the Qingxu Pavilion towering at the end of the old city ... There are many people taking a leisurely walk in the old city. All this is a kind scene of my childhood.
If I stand at the north gate, facing north, I see a modern city that is a little strange. It has a wide music fountain square and a straight road. There are luxuriously decorated cultural centers, shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, bookstores, KFC, Yonghe Soymilk, hair salons and bars on the roadside ... all of them are glamorous and incorporate the background music of pop songs that never tire of singing. Further north, people will mistakenly think that you have entered a small European town, and there are two or three-story European-style houses on both sides of Yutai Road. ...
Nowadays, every time I stand in the wide North Gate Square, I will obviously feel that I am in a city with obvious contrast between North and South. I will find that the expansion of the northern new city and the protection of the southern old city actually exist in a harmonious state in Yuci. The simplicity of the old city in the south will make me feel peaceful, and the modernization in the north will make me feel surging and harmonious between the north and the south. This is the Yuci I know today.
For Yuci, there is an unspeakable emotion, familiar but unfamiliar, familiar but unable to penetrate into the muscles. Her skeleton can always be touched in memory, but in reality it is increasingly alienated because of constant beauty and urbanization.
With the growth of age, more and more place names about Yuci are remembered. Cultural Palace, Beishan Road, Tiehualou, Anning Bridge, Yingbin Bridge and Huaju have drawn me into the streets and people's feelings again and again.
Yuci is becoming more and more urbanized now. I once got lost while driving with my friends. This is a newly developed industrial park. Everything looks so novel. Another time, I went straight from Taiyuan to Bayi Hotel, but when the car stopped at that spacious intersection, I was in a trance. How about Bayi Hotel? What about the familiar Bayi Hotel that I have never been in? It's gone. Instead, it is a tall building full of modern flavor.
Two good friends settled in Yuci, one on Beishan Road and the other near the old city. Every three to five, they will take the 90 1 bus to Taiyuan for a walk. Their work pressure is not too great, and their salary is not very high, but they have regular beauty treatments and good skin care. Ceramic perms were popular at the beginning of the year, and both of them spent 200 yuan on perms. They returned to Yuci last National Day, and they were the hosts. What to eat? They said to eat something with local characteristics. Pingyao people opened a chain restaurant in Yuci, which is quite golden. What are you playing? They said that in addition to Changjia Manor and the old city, Yuci also built a large cultural center with a concert hall and a bar. If you are tired of shopping, you can go there to listen to music. They say Taiyuan is suitable for sightseeing and Yuci is suitable for living.
Yes, Yuci is livable, with a slow pace and many wide roads and bridges, but Yuci is also a fast pace, and every time you go, it will give people new differences. Ordinary people in Yuci don't earn much money and spend lavishly, but they are calm and leisurely, and slowly follow the rhythm of Taiyuan and even bigger cities.
City Impression: Local City
On the 29th day of the third lunar month, Yuci is windy. People are swaying grass on the road, striding hard one by one. Yuci and Taiyuan are almost a step away, but there is sand in the wind. Although it is big, it is just a few songs in the sky with a little cool taste. Walking out of Admiralty Hotel, you can see the owners of a row of small supermarkets opposite the store collecting things, and they are very busy. The wind is really strong and people on the road are in a hurry.
At the exit intersection of Admiralty Hotel, I saw two street vendors, one repairing bicycles and the other nailing shoes, on both sides of the fork, like two door gods, calmly fiddling with their work or silently smoking cigarettes to see people on the road.
During the two or three days in Yuci, when I walked down the street, I could see banners or advertisements hanging on my head, which read the words to promote the culture of Shanxi merchants. Jinzhong once had the best merchants in Shanxi, and kept many courtyards of Shanxi merchants. I don't know much about Shanxi merchants, let alone understand them, but in my eyes, Yuci still has many things left by Shanxi merchants, which are spread among the people without affectation, such as supermarkets and people who repair cars and nails. In Yuci, almost all small shops like to call themselves supermarkets. Although there is no scale and service level of supermarkets, on the one hand, it reflects the good wishes of owners, on the other hand, it also reflects the management consciousness of these supermarket owners. Maybe one day, one of them will rise up and become a new generation of Shanxi businessmen. I have been to many cities, but I have never seen a city like Yuci, and spikes are distributed at almost every intersection to repair cars. In my understanding, there is one thing in the culture of Shanxi merchants, that is, thrift. In a city, there are so many street stalls that can survive all the time, which reflects the frugality of Yuci people. So here, you should see people from all walks of life taking their shoes or bicycles to the roadside for repair, and among these people, no one can guarantee that one of them is the hidden "Tao Zhugong".
Yuci is a local and avant-garde city. Her local flavor is easy to be liked, and the local enthusiasm is between the lines of people's dialogue and conversation! Ask for directions or buy something, someone will push you enthusiastically and simply, so it is local. Avant-garde eyes can tell, not to mention the wide road! Even several squares scattered in the city have their own charm. The other is the roadside buildings, which are uniform and not like Datong at all, and all kinds of buildings are side by side. Yuci and Datong both have the appearance of a city. But Datong has a little prosperity and nostalgia, while Yuci's tone is bright, cheerful and imaginative. There is also a railway running through the city, and the road in Datong is also very wide, but it always feels a bit crowded. The road in Yuci makes people feel very comfortable. People shuttle under the overpass and rarely interfere with each other. Perhaps it is close to Taiyuan, and the pace of urbanization in Yuci is clearer, but the taste is not a simple imitation.
Originally thought, as long as there is a wide road, there will be tall buildings along the road, and there is wide glass on the building, which will only reflect cold and dull light, alienating urbanites. After experiencing Yuci, I realized that not all cities are like this, and the warmth will extend harmoniously in the cement jungle.