Hengshan road-Dongping Road-Xintiandi

Shanghai petty bourgeoisie's top ten romantic dating routes are probably a little old Shanghai.

Strolling route 1: Zhongshan Park-Yuyuan Road-Jiangsu Road-Huashan Road-Xujiahui

Time: 1 to 1.5 hours

Informant's recommendation: Yuyuan Road is indeed a private garden named Yuyuan Garden on the map of Shanghai on 19 18. Experienced the hustle and bustle of the old Shanghai concession, lived in 72 tenants, and experienced the excitement of coal-fired electricity sanitation for more than half a century. It was as peaceful, gentle and graceful as Lao Keller.

Yuyuan Road is a typical Shanghai Road, winding from the westernmost end. The number of alleys has been arranged above 1600, and there are countless homes in each alley.

Walking slowly from west to east, in the deep alleys on both sides, amazing small buildings jump into view at any time. Old houses, especially those with stories, always bring many inexplicable associations to people's hearts. On both sides of the road are plane trees that have grown for more than half a century, witnessing the development of Shanghai in recent years.

Stop point:

Wang building

More than 60 years ago, Wang Boqun was built to marry the flower of Daxia University, and it was named after Wang Jingwei lived here. Now look at this Gothic castle building, the house is still that house, but the sign of Changning District Children's Palace is hung at the door. Sometimes when you pass by during the day, you can hear all kinds of instrumental music floating out of the window, either melodious or urgent.

Lane 749, Yuyuan Road This is a villa group that can never be found from the outside. The most famous buildings are No.63, No.65 and No.67. Turning into the corner from 749, the entrance of the whole building complex is quite open, but the more secluded it is, the more distinguished its owners are. The last few small doors lead to the bustling downtown, which is said to be convenient for escape. All the houses in troubled times have their own doors.

Address: Yuyuan Road/No.31Lane 361

Walking route 2: Xujiahui-hengshan road-Huaihai Road

Time: 1 hour

Informant's recommendation: hengshan road didn't know until he walked by that day and night in hengshan road were completely different. The wide roads, clean streets and buildings with different styles on both sides are all simple and direct in the sun, and have nothing to do with the ambiguity of the bar.

I like the dense buttonwood trees on both sides of the road best. It has spread for several blocks, and the long history has made the branches and leaves of trees extremely lush. Pruned branches have densely covered the sky of the road, and the whole road has become a long arched corridor.

There are many old apartments and private houses with a long history hidden in hengshan road, which, like hermits, have maintained a unique posture in the changes of time. The iron gates that open and close occasionally are mysterious, leaving only passers-by who glance at them in a hurry. The lush green trees and branches outside the door, the ivy covered with gables, the bright outline of the building in the sunset and the elongated figure of the building under the street lamp always make us feel a little excited.

Stop point:

Zhang Xiang Garden

Zhangshu Garden in hengshan road is a cafe with great temperament. Tall camphor trees come out of the wall, and trees and buildings become an inseparable whole, creating a unique charm. On the street side, there are bright and transparent open glass windows.

If you are tired from walking, you can choose a window seat here, order a cup of blue mountain coffee, throw your thoughts out of the window, and just stare blankly out of the window, so that passers-by can become their own scenery and themselves.

Address: No.2 A, hengshan road (near Taojiang Road)

Xiaohonglou restaurant

The three-story red building is full of temptation. The moment I stepped into the little red chamber, I was immersed in that elegance and nostalgia. It is said that this place is the predecessor of the China headquarters of EMI Film Company, and 1983 became the location of Shanghai Company of China Record Corporation.

Address: No.811in hengshan road.

Walking route 3: Yan 'an West Road-Xinhua Road-Huaihai Road-Huashan Road-Xujiahui

Time: 1.5 hours

Informant's recommendation: Walking on Xinhua Road, the buttonwood trees along the road are luxuriant, and the crown is closed in the middle of the road. Sunlight can only be shed through sparse branches and leaves, forming mottled spots on the road. Walking through the Shanghai National Orchestra, you can vaguely hear the long piano sound coming from the depths of the courtyard.

Now the old buildings facing the street have been renovated, and the walls are decorated with various reliefs. Unfortunately, the newly added modernist sculptures always make people feel a little abrupt.

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Xinhua Road

A traditional palace-style building in China, with double eaves, big roof, red glazed tiles and grey walls, is calm and solemn. This three-story English country garden house, with white powder walls, black wooden frames and tiger windows, has a touch of elegance. 32 B, Lane 329, Xinhua Road, was designed by Swedish legation and Hungarian architect Hudac in his early years. The building is in the form of English folk houses, partly with the style of Roman castles, which makes it unique among the houses nearby. It is said that this building was sold to the Sheng Xuanhuai family before liberation, and there are still descendants of the Sheng family living in it.

Address: No.23 Xinhua Road1

Visit Line 4: Cao Bao Road Subway Station-Cao Bao Road-Guilin Road-Tianlin Road-Yishan Road.

Time: 2 hours

Informant's recommendation: Tianlin Road comes out of Cao Bao Road subway station, and goes straight along Cao Bao Road to Guilin Road, which is the fragrant Guilin Park. Perhaps not everyone knows that Guilin Park, formerly known as "Huangjia Garden", is the private garden villa of the old Shanghai tycoon Huang.

Turn a corner and walk for more than ten minutes to the bustling Tianlin Road. After work, you pass by here. In addition to various small shops on both sides, there is also a huge night market. Weigh some oranges in the roadside fruit shop and fry melon seeds in the shop. Walking and eating, you can really find some small sundries that are missing at home.

Strolling route 5: Xujiahui-Jianguo West Road-Jianguo Middle Road-Jianguo East Road-Tibet South Road.

Time: 2 hours

Informant's recommendation: Jianguo West Road walks along the street, and the leaves of the old buttonwood tree rustle in the wind, and the surrounding noise disappears instantly, allowing thoughts to spread quietly in the rich humanistic atmosphere.

There are too many things to see on this road. The villa on Taiyuan Road and the building on Tian Ping Road, turn a corner from Shaanxi South Road, which is the most scholarly Shaoxing Road. Although it is a very inconspicuous path, from east to west, but two or three hundred meters, unfamiliar people will miss it. The road is very narrow, with tall buttonwood trees on both sides, and the shadow of buttonwood trees sprinkled down to make this street quieter. Because there is no bus on the road, on sunny days, people in twos and threes can often be seen chatting in the middle of the road, which looks like residents here, which has a very homely street flavor.

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Taiyuan villa

Taiyuan Villa was built at 1928. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it was once the residence of General Marshall, the special envoy of the President of the United States, so it was also called "Marshall Mansion". The architectural style is the style of the late French Renaissance, and the most distinctive features are its Sha Meng roof and French tiger window.

Address: Taiyuan Road 160

Hanyuan bookstore

The bookstore is not big, but it looks spacious. Just like your own study, there is a dark green sofa by the window, and there is a unique small lamp on the table between the sofas, which exudes the flavor of old Shanghai and is filled with western romantic customs. There is a row of bookshelves beside the sofa, displaying all kinds of books. All kinds of ancient plaques, 8mm movie projectors and quaint hand-cranked telephones are hung on the walls around, which are placed in a quiet and orderly manner.

Address: No.27 Shaoxing Road

Walking route 6: Bund-Nanjing East Road-Nanjing West Road-Jing 'an Temple

Time: 1 hour

Informant's recommendation: I walked with my friends on Nanjing West Road that day. Pointing to Jing 'an Mountain Villa, he said,1there were many jewelry stores and leather goods stores here in the 1930s, and the jewelry store in the movie Lust, Caution was here, and it did have its place. It is said that it was opened by Zhang Ailing's good friend Yan Ying.

At that time, the jewelry store had disappeared without a trace, leaving only Jing 'an Villa, which washed away the glitz of the old days and no longer had the rich rouge powder smell of old Shanghai. During this period, the descendants of old Shanghai lived a plain life of daily necessities.

Speaking of Zhang Ailing, who writes about the bitterness of Shanghai gold powder, it is natural to turn a corner to see Zhang Ailing's former residence, just at the intersection of Changde Road and Yuyuan Road. At that time, she often walked on Nanjing Road at night.

Stop point: Zhang Ailing's former residence

Changde Apartment, formerly known as Edinburgh Apartment, 1939 Zhang Ailing lives with her mother and menstruation in Room 5 1; 1942 moved into Room 65 (now Room 60) until 1948, and this life was recorded in her Notes on Apartment Life.

Address: Changde Road 195

Walking route 7: Nanjing West Road-Shaanxi South Road-Changle Road-Zhenning Road

Time: 1.5 hours

Informant's recommendation: Changle Road is bounded by Urumqi and divided into two worlds. To the west is the world of old buildings, mainly residential buildings, including many historical buildings. Stop and walk quietly, and get some unexpected surprises. These are not all. Shuttling through the alleys of Changle Road, that's the essence. As night falls, in front of the courtyard of the old villa, an old man is lying in the shade for recuperation, and the radio next to the rocking chair is playing Yiya Kunqu opera.

To the east is a famous fashion street. Clothing stores and jewelry stores live next to each other, attracting artists and celebrities of all sizes. Foreigners will open their stores in three-story old houses, with black and white colors, retro walls, creaking wooden stairs, fashionable clothes and it is said that they can be customized.

If you go from east to west, there are many famous small restaurants in Shanghai near Fumin Road, such as Paul's restaurant and Amao's restaurant.

Walking route 8: Huaihai Middle Road-Fenyang Road-Dongping Road-Urumqi Road

Time: 40 minutes

Informant's recommendation: Dongping Road is not long, and it is famous overseas for a movie "Big Cities and Small Things". This film, known as "the best Shanghai scenery film", was shot here.

Come from Fenyang Road and walk slowly along Dongping Road, but it is more than 200 meters. There are no buses and few pedestrians. Only in this way can we always walk with the most leisurely mood and pace.

Go straight ahead, you will find hengshan road, and then you will find Urumqi Road, which is the busiest and noisiest place in Shanghai at night.

You can avoid the hustle and bustle, as long as you walk more than ten meters inside, you can still see the car when you look back, but the sound of the car seems to miraculously disappear. Walking in the meantime, my heart calmed down, and even people passing by slowed down involuntarily.

Stop point

Paulaner restaurant

This magnificent gray-white building has the architectural style of the French Renaissance. Now it is a well-known German restaurant in Shanghai, where you can taste the famous German roast pork elbow, and its homemade beer is said to be the best in Shanghai. But few people know that Bai Chongxi, a senior Kuomintang general, once lived here. Before this, it was the private garden of French adventurer Charles Permen.

Address: Fenyang Road 150

Aria

Ai Lu has a French garden house, which is a dowry. A typical French garden house is surrounded by vines, and its color changes with the seasons. The outer wall is embedded with pebbles of various colors. The roof is Sha Meng slope type, covered with red flat tiles, clean and tidy.

Address: No.9 Dongping Road

Walking route 9: Huaihai Road-Tian Ping Road-Wu Kang Road-Hunan Road-Xingguo Road.

Time: 70 minutes

Informant's recommendation: Wu Kang Road is very long, and it needs a certain footwork to take this road. But it is quiet, but people can't give up.

It's hard for people who haven't been to Wu Kang Road to appreciate the tranquility and elegance of old Shanghai Road. A narrow road, extending obliquely, without any publicity. The old villas on both sides of the horse show a corner in the shade of the phoenix tree. They lie quietly in the sun and enjoy the warmth of summer.

Shanghai is not a traditional China city. Its culture is open, making foreign things serve China, and combining Chinese and western cultures. Wu Kang Road is the best expression. There are many western-style buildings, and the quiet and introverted temperament is well preserved.

Radiating from Wu Kang Road to the surrounding area, there are too many roads to walk and too many street views to see. The clothing store on Tian Ping Road is exciting, and the hand at Huaihai Road intersection is worth seeing. Zhao Dan and Ruan lived on Hunan Road, and these romantic figures carved a unique style for Hunan Road.

Stop point

Chen Lifu and Chen's residence in Shanghai is an English Country Garden villa. This three-story garden house, built in 1946, is very elegant. At present, there are several families living in this house, which is regarded as the most common one in the mansion of "four big families"

Address: No.2, Lane 0/07, Wu Kang Road.

hand

A very good clothing foreign trade store with good quality. There is also a small toy house in the shop, which is filled with all kinds of strange things collected from home and abroad.

Address: No.31Tian Ping Road.

Former residence of Zhao Dan

A deep courtyard wall, a checkered iron gate, like a fence, blocked the years. Near Xiaoyanglou, there is a leafy big fir tree, which hides the entrance of the small building. This apartment is becoming more and more quiet. Zhao Dan's apartment is on the third floor.

Address: No.8 Hunan Road

Strolling route10: Line 4 Helen Road-Liyang Road-Sichuan North Road-Duolun Road-Yin Shan Road.

Time: 1 hour

Informant's recommendation: Duolun Road is a quiet Liyang Road, 5 minutes' walk from Line 4. Turning from the noisy siping road into the quiet Liyang Road, the noise was driven away by the dense and tall phoenix tree shade. The roadside is full of garden houses, with few cars and pedestrians, and the low walls on both sides are landscape paintings, just like the quiet version of hengshan road. Go straight along Liyang Road, which is Duolun Road.

Sunset sets on Duolun Road, a street less than 600 meters. Booksellers and antique stalls along the street attract passers-by. A street where Lu Xun and Ye Shengtao once lived. The old buildings in the depths of the alley are flowing with the customs of the 1930 s, and the humid air is full of homesickness.

Stop point

Old film coffee bar

Address: Duolun Road 123

Old movie coffee bar is the first theme movie bar in Shanghai. On the second floor, you can watch the old movies of the 1920s and 1930s shown by the old movie machine. A cup of coffee, a street lamp full of nostalgia, a mailbox sealed by years, just like the unchanged old building on this street.

Kong building

Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing have four mansions in Shanghai, and the Confucius House on Duolun Road is one of them. Strolling on Duolun Road, looking at No.250, the magnificent external walls and gorgeous mosaic tiles make the Islamic style of the old building come to the fore. It is said that Kong Xiangxi likes to take the overnight train to Shanghai Building on weekends, and often holds banquets here to entertain guests.

Address: No.250 Duolun Road