How about traveling to Daxigou in Chongqing? Can you experience life in Chongqing?

1. Familiar and unfamiliar Daxigou

Daxigou is located in the so-called "lower half of the city" in Chongqing. Even if you don't go there often, it is the language of a genuine Chongqing person. an indispensable place.

Chongqing people are familiar with the name Daxigou, but except for the people who live there, others may have a vague impression of it, even though they often mention it.

According to "Ba County Chronicles", Daxigou is outside the city and located in the northwest corner of the peninsula. The water from Zaozilanya and Zengjiayan and other places converge and flow into the Jialing River. Because the basin area is large and the gully is large, The water potential was also large, so it was named Daxigou.

Daxigou is a dock

In fact, for Chongqing people who often walk in Daxigou, Daxigou is just a small street by the river. Like the entire lower half of the city, it was a prosperous and lively place on the Yuzhong Peninsula in a certain era. Times have changed, and the glory of the past has dispersed like floating clouds, leaving behind hazy moments of vicissitudes of life. It has inadvertently become the epitome of old Chongqing with the most life-like lifestyle. It is like a rock standing under the tide of the times, which makes people change from the hard face that has been carved over thousands of times. There is a glimpse of the ancient temperament.

Daxi Valley is both familiar and unfamiliar, as if the fallen leaves have accumulated without care, covering a kind of depressed enthusiasm.

2. Solidified Chongqing

I often take Line 2. Even though I pass by Daxigou and Zengjiayan every few days, I almost never distinguish them, or Say I don't want to tell. The long underground passage in Zengjiayan Station is often transplanted in my imagination to the road to Daxigou. The monotonous and repetitive length is like traveling through time.

Every time I am on the streets of Daxigou, I have the thought of being abandoned by time. It seems that all the life I have passed is just a complicated dream.

Life is a dream

After waking up from a dream, the green hair meets the green trees, the old streets meet the old people, the only disturbance is the temperature of the human world with the breath of sunshine. I am about to die, but the coffin carved by time's knives turns shrubs and trees green year after year, pleasing to the eye.

It really doesn’t matter whether your life changes or not, the important thing is whether you live or not. Therefore, even if I travel thousands of miles, going to different vegetable markets to experience the intensity of life is my repertoire every time I visit. I have been to Daxigou quite often, many times because there is a wet market where I can buy cheap vegetables.

Real life is so simple. Traveling is the satisfaction of three meals a day, and wandering is the direct answer to desire.

Daxi Gou Vegetable Market

When there are many people, the vegetable market is like a river and lake, and wishes are waiting for a price amidst the bustle of people; when there are few people, the vegetable market is lazy, like a dipping book. An old book that I read slowly, word by word, while drooling.

I like that kind of freedom: the electric fan blows the chirping of cicadas, the weather changes the enthusiasm of the world when the population is withering, sending out an anxious pass between light and dark, and the person holding it is eager to break through Surrounded by summer in Chongqing, rely on the empowerment of loofah, bitter gourd and vine vegetables.

The vegetable market naturally cannot fit into the entire Daxigou. Those unchanging impressions make even your breath turn into an antique; walking slowly with an anxious heart, the warm sunshine leaks through the shade of the trees. , like a searchlight shining on my wandering soul that cannot escape.

There was the sound of sewing machines on the roadside, just like when my mother was rushing to make winter clothes on a cold winter night when I was a child, and the melody of "Spring in the North" sounded in my mind at the right time.

The old site of the power plant

As you walk, you will pass by the old site of the Daxigou Power Plant. The mottled blue brick wall is coquettish behind the green belt, like an old woman wearing a red flower on her temples.

People living in those stubborn old bungalows insist on some ancient habits, and the clothes hanging out to dry are like flags of the times, floating in my field of vision.

Walking on the streets, walking through the streets. My childhood playmates were all green trees on both sides, which captured the loneliness of walking alone.

At this moment, Richard Clayderman's "Memories of Childhood" is playing in my ears. I plan to squeeze myself into it and make a crisp note?

Daxigou is a declining old city. But when it comes to Daxigou, old Chongqing people will tacitly think of eating.

Even if it is a bowl of noodles, preparing it at a stall in Daxigou is like formally attending a dance in a suit and tie. It has a sense of ritual.

Tikan Noodles

There is a Tikan Noodles restaurant that has been open for a long time next to the vegetable market. It believes in the principle that "the aroma of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley". The most popular signature variety of Chongqing's small noodles? The pea noodles must also be retorted, so you can get the most overbearing experience here.

Sitting in rows on the side of the alley, eating noodles facing the wall, just such a down-to-earth consumption posture is the reason why you have to go; not to mention the fragrance of spicy oil and sea pepper, ginger juice And the finishing touch with garlic sauce?

Anyway, spending an hour traveling and eating noodles in 10 minutes is something I often do.

The famous noodle places in Daxigou include Moon Noodle House, Fat Brother Noodle House, and Chen’s Noodle House. If you go to Kakajiao Corner in Daxigou, you won’t be afraid of going hungry.

Life in Daxigou is just like the old noodle restaurants that are blooming here. It is fragrant and salty with time.

4. The color of life

Daxigou is indeed old, but it hides the true meaning of life and retains the memory of old Chongqing. The author once discovered the Jujin Flower Market on the riverside here.

People in the flower market

The colorful flowers are blinding. Who says old neighborhoods have to be gloomy and dark?

Time is very slow, and there needs to be a place to prove it. Chongqing is very Chongqing, and there is Daxigou to prove it. It is a shadow cast by the years on the land of Chongqing.

It’s just our age that always makes people sigh. As long as we plunge into this very slow Daxigou and look at the appearance of old Chongqing, we will get the tacit approval of time: in a specific location, one can really freeze one's age.