18 │ Looking for Beishan Street, a museum without walls.

Beishan Street, a museum without walls. If you must choose a street to represent Hangzhou, it must be Beishan Street. From the broken bridge to Su Causeway, many people will choose the road from the broken bridge to Su Causeway, but they miss the deep historical feelings on Beishan Street on the other side of the broken bridge.

The 2000-meter-long Beishan Street is like a natural studio, with different scenery every day. The French buttonwood trees have been shaded by green leaves for nearly a hundred years, and this road is surrounded by mountains. On the one hand, there is Xizi Lake, a paradise, on the other hand, there are Baoshi Mountain and historical buildings. This road is considered as one of the most beautiful streets in the world. It is a museum of modern architecture without walls, where elegance and interest coexist. It may not take long to walk around this street, but if you sit down, it will be all day. At the moment, we meet at the intersection of Beishan Street in Baozuo Road, and start today's walk on Beishan Street from here. Not far away, you can see two antique pavilions on your right. The main building is the famous "Wanghulou" in West Lake. There is a cloister between the two floors. In the west of the building is a camphor tree with a history of hundreds of years. Very spectacular. The history of architecture in Wang Hu can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty 1000 years ago. Formerly known as "Kanjing Building", it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. "Dark clouds turn over the ink and don't cover the mountains, and white rain crosses the boat." The winds come and go. They scatter and look at the water under the lake. "Su Shi's" Drunken Book of Looking at the Lake Building on June 27th "made this place famous. The scarlet porch and blue tiles of Wang Hu Building are now good places for drinking tea. Sitting by the window, the scenery is right in front of your eyes.

Not far from here, a small building with green bricks and tiles looks chic among the trees. This is the former residence of Jiang Jingguo. This house was built in 193 1 year and changed hands several times. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, it was distributed to Jiang Jingguo and his family. Some flowers and plants in the yard were planted at that time.

50 meters further west, you will reach the intersection of Bai Causeway and Beishan Street. We crossed the road and faced Bai Causeway, where is the famous "Autumn Moon in Pinghu". Is there a hexagonal gallery at the corner of Bai Causeway and Beishan Street? "Broken Bridge Canxue" begins here. There are many mandarin ducks by the lake beside the pavilion. In fact, there used to be more, because there was the largest crowd here. Many people will buy food rations to feed these mandarin ducks, but it also causes them to eat too much, have indigestion and become less and less.

Let's continue along Beishan Street from this side of the West Lake. Across the street, many supermarkets, restaurants and local specialty shops are crowded with tourists. Don't worry about walking on this street. Don't think of yourself as a tourist, you will find that you can hear dialects from different regions in this street. It's a little foggy today, and the wet weather after the rain makes people feel the climate in Jiangnan more appropriately. The season when buttonwood hates wool flying is over. At this time, the lofty temperament was revealed, like a kind old man standing on both sides of the road, watching the people passing by go back and forth.

Let's find a sidewalk and cross the street to the opposite side. You see, there is a building with white walls under the camphor tree covered with green vines on the right front. This is Rulu, named after its first owner, Shanghai businessman Lin Jiuru. Once the house number here was No.3 Gelingshan Road, but now it is No.34 Beishan Street. The villa is full of antiques and needs to go through a small forest. Get on the platform. After a few dozen steps, I climbed the bluestone steps and finally reached the door. Although it is not open to the outside world now, walking along the steps like this makes the former residence feel more artistic. By chance, I saw a little squirrel eating an ear on a paper tree near the gate of Rulu. In this busy city, I feel that this situation is rare. The outer wall of Rulu is still very long, with many branches of Chimonanthus praecox sticking out from the white wall, and many fruits of Chimonanthus praecox bearing on the branches. Brick by brick, the memory of time is in these small details.

Not far ahead, there is a road on the right, facing a yellow gatehouse. Four scarlet characters of "Zhiguo Temple" were blocked by Parthenocissus tricuspidata's feet. This is the former site of Zhiguo Temple. Now, in addition to the beautiful towering trees, the quiet steps are winding up, leaving only the ruins of Xiaqiandian and Zushi Temple. More like a; This is an quaint garden.

Walking out of the alley, the building on the right hand side looks like a black and gray brick house, which was built in the early years of the Republic of China and was once called "Bamboo Hidden". This is a beautiful western-style villa by the lake. This building can also see a wide balcony from the outside, and the external walls are all Zhou Fu Changqing bricks commonly used in Shanghai and Hangzhou in the early Republic of China. This kind of blue brick is thick and strong and will not fade for a hundred years.

From "Lu Sheng" forward, through a shady parking lot, the three-story baroque western-style building in front is particularly eye-catching. The appearance of vermilion and blue bricks inlaid with each other, square columns and old-fashioned black tiles, a closer look, a row of red lanterns upstairs adds its rich Chinese style, making foreign things serve China, and it is vivid. No wonder this building will be called the most beautiful villa by many people, and it really lives up to its reputation. Baoqing Villa was built by Xing Gengxing, a wealthy businessman in Nanxun in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Later, it was changed into a green hotel, and now this building is already the art museum of Hangzhou National College. Various exhibitions are held here from time to time, mainly to promote traditional culture. The upper and lower floors are divided into six exhibition halls of different sizes, ranging from figures, paintings, fans, tea sets to spices and flower arrangements. You can enjoy the exquisiteness and beauty of traditional culture at a very close distance. What impressed me the most was a row of scroll paintings in the third exhibition hall, from "Lao Zi Going through the Customs" to Confucius and Zhuangzi, which outlined the unique temperament of our ancestors with a few simple strokes. At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and when I walked out of the door, I stood in front of the "Baoqing Villa". The red bricks were more intense, and they set each other off with the green leaves, which was very unique. In the art museum behind it, the long guqin background music is more distant. Buildings in recent 100 years are like talking, giving people a stable force.

In front of us is a unique building with a light yellow brushed cement exterior wall, and the words "West Lake Expo Museum" at the door are very eye-catching. In fact, the place where we are standing now is the former site of 1929 West Lake Expo Industrial Pavilion. This building is the main venue, and the "Baoqing Villa" we just visited is the fourth of the other eight exhibition halls. The white wall building "Wangzhuang" next door to Yamato is the second branch. This West Lake Expo is the largest, largest and most influential exposition in China's modern history. At that time, almost all the exhibition halls were private manors and villas nearby. Only the main pavilion in front of them was specially built for the Expo, so now it has become the special pavilion of the West Lake Expo. Entering the gate, the hall is brightly lit, and in the sunshine hall, there is a "Zhejiang Qin Smooth Intangible Guqin Exhibition". As soon as I entered from the left hall, I heard the old train whistle. The railway station that came into view made people feel that they had returned to 1929 and took the train to Hangzhou Station with their suitcases. At that time, Hangzhou Station still had a strong Western style. Out of the railway station, those unique Jiangnan old shops came into view. This museum is very distinctive and shows the grand occasion of the World Expo a hundred years ago in great detail.

I have walked through the West Lake many times before, but I missed so many strong historical breath of Beishan Street. A friend who used to live nearby always tells stories about his childhood. He said that at that time, when he left home every day, he was near the West Lake. Pushing open the window, you see the lonely mountain scenery. Although he has already moved away, his life in Beishan Street has long been carved into his bones and dissolved into his blood. His life is a precious memory treasure.

Walking on the bluestone road, I was instantly isolated from the downtown outside, as if it had been a lifetime ago. Walking from the alley to the innermost part, I found that this is the "Agate Temple" in Hangzhou. This agate temple, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, is more like a Jiangnan garden. As soon as I entered the gate, I saw a round door frame. Outside, an ancient camphor tree 1600 years old blocks the sun. After the round gate, pavilions, eaves and walls, winding paths lead to a secluded place, several hundred-year-old wintersweet tree plants are lush and swaying in the wind, and they are talking silently. When they reach the top of the mountain, they can still see the scenery of the West Lake, which is a unique taste. It's amazing that the people who chose the site knew the right distance to add beauty.

The buttonwood trees in this street are often pruned. The farther you go, the higher the trunk is, and every time you look up, you are surprised. Near the roots of the roadside at your feet, large pebbles are arranged neatly, and many green grass tips emerge in the gaps, which makes people feel full of hope and faith. Visitors to the West Lake never stop. On the right side of Beishan Street, continue to visit the alternation of old and new times, walk past the old and new hotels, and walk past Qiushui Villa. Buildings in the old days often stand. Where the characters stay in the book, the tall plane trees hover from right to high, and there are countless stories that have passed through a hundred years.

This is the first time I have walked around Beishan Street seriously, but I still can't count how many glories and twists and turns are hidden in time. Walking along the steps for dozens of meters, outside the wall of Shilupanzhai, another 200-year-old catalpa bungeana tree is full of pink and purple flowers, emitting a fragrance and instantly dissipating in the air. Down the steps, the footpath began to narrow and the trees became taller. Be safe. Let's cross the street ahead.

Do you see a road on the left? This is Gushan Road. When I turned around, I saw the Xiling Bridge. Xilengqiao is an old ferry. In ancient times, the downstream of the bridge was cold and noisy, hence its name, and it is also the bridge of three lovers in the West Lake now. By the way, you must know the other two bridges, right "Broken Bridge" and "Long Bridge". A hexagonal pavilion near Xiling Bridge, named "Mu Cai Pavilion", was originally the tomb of Su Xiaoxiao in Qiantang. Su Xiaoxiao was born and buried in Xiling, and lived up to his life. In the West Lake in April, a red peach is in full bloom next to the pavilion. Flowers bloom and fall, regardless of year.

One step in Beishan street-a scene and a legend. Our walk today ended at sunset and Xiling Bridge. Next, I went to sit on a bench by the West Lake for a while, watching the afterglow of the sunset spill into the lake. What about you? Do you want to join us? Of course, you can also continue to walk along Xiling Bridge, which is another scene.