What is the good life in the city?
Today, the launch ceremony of “China’s Better Living Cities (2020-2021)” opened in Chengdu, and the list will be announced soon.
The street is a mirror to understand the happy and beautiful life in the city.
Strolling through the streets and alleys of the city, you can not only trace historical memories one after another, but also experience the ins and outs of the new face of the city.
Image source: Visual China
Chengdu, a city with 4,500 years of civilization, has a strong historical heritage since ancient times. The cultural charm of time has been transformed into a bit of artistic light, scattered in the texture of the city, reflecting the character of the city.
Just take a walk on the streets of Chengdu, and you will understand the city more and more.
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The newest street-Palladium Street
In 2018, the authoritative British travel guide magazine “Time Out” selected “the world’s 50 coolest city blocks”, and Chengdu’s selected street is the Palladium Street.
The magazine commented: “The old neighborhood and the new business are not inconsistent, and the Palladium neighborhood can be regarded as a perfect demonstration block of Chengdu’s traditional and modern integration.”
Picture source: YOU Chengdu Li Li/photo
Three years have passed since the selection, and now I look at this street again. East Street to the east is across the street from Taikoo Li Business District. There are as many as 164 hot pot restaurants, which continue to be crowded. To the north is Dongsheng Street. Barbecue is spread all over the street, full of the taste of the market; Lan Kwai Fong to the south is not drunk or not, and the lights are brilliant. Only the Palladium Street in the middle grows naturally. Outside the quiet residential area, there is an existence that integrates fashion, literature and art with firewood, rice, oil and salt.
▲Leimen, where coffee is mainly used during the day and party and drinking at night, is a leisure space that perfectly integrates art and life. There is also hot pot dining on the second floor. Chengdu’s trendy life is presented here in fashion and vividness.Image source: @雷门火锅
▲Chongdli, an alley for nearly a hundred years, is close to Leimen, but retains the old taste of the combination of Chinese and Western styles in its original style. There are also sentimental “talking tea” and “eat” in Sichuan restaurants and boutique hotels in it. under”. Art, history, humanities, and life are all harmoniously blended in this short alley.Picture source: Pioneer Chengdu
▲Japanese ingredients, desserts, lo-mei hot pot…Many entrepreneurial young people choose the purest chai, rice, oil and salt that continues their life on this street.Picture source: Pioneer Chengdu
▲”When the city enters midnight, the bookstores are the lights.” Whenever the night is quiet, the sleepless lights of the “24-hour bookstore-Xuankehui” on the Palladium Street will accompany every night watchman to concentrate on practicing.
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The smartest street-Daxue Road
Mr. Liushahe once said: “The five major cultural landmarks in Chengdu, I think they are the Old and Young City, Huaxiba, Thatched Cottage, Wuhou Temple and Chunxi Road. The other places are all city scenes, but Huaxiba is a humanistic atmosphere.”
Unlike other streets, Daxue Road in Huaxiba always reveals a bookish atmosphere.
Whether it is the West China Campus of Sichuan University, which is one year older than Tsinghua Academy, or the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, which is a top medical leader in China, the literary atmosphere and “study hegemony” temperament here are becoming stronger and stronger.
In March of this year, Huaxiba, as one of the important components of the “Nine Squares” in the “Eight Streets, Nine Squares and Ten Views”, also opened a new chapter.
People can see the history of Huaxiba through the “River of Time and Space” at the foot, through the MG animation of Huaxi Story House, immersive multimedia corridors and other means, they can see the humanistic stories and academic achievements of Huaxiba, and the English wall on the roadside The Sichuan dialect is translated into one sentence in English, which is agile and interesting.
Walking on Daxue Road, as if walking onA miniature “museum” and brand-new public spaces reshape the humanistic life of Huaxiba.
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The most mixed street-Mengchaiwan
For the old Chengdu people, Mengchaiwan carries too many memories, old teahouses, Sichuan theaters, swimming pools, state-owned factories… But with the rapid development of the city, the old streets and alleys here are all quiet.
When everyone thought it was going to continue to disappear, it turned red in surprise and realized a wave of overtaking in curves.
In the past, the office building of the Old Chenghua IRS was transformed into an urban public space integrating Mengchaiwan Story House, Geometry Bookstore, and small theater;
▲Mengchaiwan Story House.Image source: Red Star News
The Xiangxiang Alley, the favorite of the delicious mouths, has also been extended to create Xiangxiang 2 Lane and Xiangxiang 3 Lane;
▲The original Lane 1 is mainly based on the Chengdu food experience, while the newly built Lane 2 is based on the famous traditional Chengdu snacks such as dumplings and eel noodles, presented in the form of a snack museum. Lane 3 is mainly presenting light meals, coffee, German handmade yogurt and other international diversified cuisines.Image source: Red Star News
The renovated Binhe Commercial Street, under the blessing of lighting and landscape improvement, has attracted a large number of new stores: Kung Fu Animation Hotel, the first shop of coffee and western food, WE, the first shop of Japanese desserts in Chengdu, Asada Koji······ Waiting for more than 30 Internet celebrity shops.
▲Binhe theme commercial street.Image source: Red Star News
There is also a literary and artistic place on the street—a “cave”-style geometric bookstore.Let people visually get rid of our previous stereotypes of traditional bookstores.
Nowadays, when we walk into this neighborhood again, the alleys are renewed, and a vigorous vitality is visible to the naked eye.
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The most out-of-the-loop street-Yulin
A song “Chengdu”, let people from other places come for Yulin Road. But in fact, there is no Yulin Road in Chengdu, only Yulin West Road, Yulin East Road, Yulin South Road, and Yulin North Road, collectively referred to as “Yulin” streets.
From the top to the white hair and down to the hanging hair, you can find your own place in this block of less than 2 square kilometers.
Yulin has never lacked attention. With its own business card, countless shops have settled in. Whether it is the “new internet celebrities” one after another or the “evergreen tree” that has been going on for ten years, they are keen to present new ways of playing and fun.butYulin is always out of the circle in unexpected ways.
▲FromSince the establishment of the Nine-Minute Film Championship in 2010, for more than ten years, we have insisted on helping young film teams complete their dreams of cinema movies, and let more new forces with film dreams gather on Yulin Road.
▲In 2018, Yulin became a new online celebrity check-in site with the 100-meter graffiti wall.
▲Since the opening of the park in 2018, Yulin’sThe Yard Cultural and Creative Park uses an inclusive model to discover community needs, carry out activities to benefit the people, hold lectures, markets, exhibitions, and music performances every month, attracting many potential young artistic talents.
▲The skateboarding experience hall hidden in the underground parking lot of Yulin became popular due to its small number of people, spaciousness and privacy. The venue without a boss provides a place for skateboarders to play.
In the future, how will Yulin go out of the circle? Wait and see.
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The most healing street-music workshop
The frequency of music can resonate with the human body, so music can most heal people’s hearts. The music workshop, backed by the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and Sichuan University, has become the home of musicians from Chengdu and even the whole country.
There are a thousand ways to heal people’s hearts on the Music Avenue in just one kilometer. All unhappy will stop here.
Strolling in the music workshop, soft music flutters on the street, the city concert hall at the end of the road, and the occasional music feast look forward to your visit;
Image source: Chengdu Music Workshop
In the evening, the fun market here will kick off. A dazzling array of interesting dolls, lively free music live, and a series of dance carnival activities in the square will all make you forget your worries.Have a hearty vent in the music;
Chengdu Music Workshop “Unbounded +” series of activities.Image source: Visual China Red Star News Ren Hongwei/Photo
If you are itching to hear, there is also a group of twelve music micro-museums, a collection of 12 music culture carriers such as pianos, folk instruments, guitars, and wind music… The micro-museum cluster that integrates exhibition and experience is just to realize your dream of music experience.
When you come here, in addition to listening to the music, the eyes are also healing rainbow-colored buildings. Strolling in the neighborhood philharmonic ring, you can get the same ins “Rainbow Village”: vibrant orange, sunny blue, fresh green…makes people sweet instantly!
As night falls, there are many delicacies to soothe the soul, such as hot pot, skewers, mala Tang…everything.
The pet cafe around the corner can take you out of melancholy with your face value and start a journey of melting your mind .
The character of Chengdu is not limited to these streets. It may be a cafe of tens of square meters, or it may be a house, a homestay, an art gallery, or an old town… How to discover these hidden beautiful spaces? We can get a clearer answer from the book.
Today is the 26th World Book Day. A few days ago, the 2020 Chengdu Library Literature Lending Ranking was released. Although affected by the epidemic, the Chengdu Library will still receive more than 5.29 million readers in 2020, and 670,000 books and periodicals will be in circulation.
Love to read is already a living habit of Chengdu people, and we can learn more about Chengdu faster from books.For example, published by Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House”One Building and One Thing” records the “small and beautiful” side of the urban space in detail. “The Leisure Time of Chengdu Teahouse” introduces the development and changes of old Chengdu and the historical changes of Chengdu from the teahouse…
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