Watching the sunrise on the Bund

Welcome the first ray of sunshine on the Bund, which embraces hundreds of rivers, and feel a different scene.

In the golden autumn season, to celebrate my wife’s birthday, our family accompanied my old father-in-law to stay one night at the Peace Hotel next to the Bund on Nanjing East Road. Late at night, lying on the soft bedding, I thought about how many famous people had stayed in this hotel since its establishment in 1854, including Chaplin, Bernard Shaw, Lu Xun, Zhou Enlai, Clinton, etc. I was so excited that I couldn't fall asleep, and I felt confused for a while. I woke up again at three in the morning, no longer sleepy. The autumn air is crisp and the temperature is pleasant. A strange thought flashed: why not go to the Bund to watch the sunrise!

When I was young, I once watched the sunrise from the Jade Emperor Peak in Mount Tai. A large group of military school classmates took advantage of their internship in the army and rushed from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. In the middle of the night, it was dark on the top of the mountain. We wore rented military coats and stood on the wet rocks in the night fog, waiting for the sun to rise. At that time, we were young, full of energy, and our hearts were full of ideals and dreams; we also worked with people from Zhejiang Province A group of children's literature writers watched the huge sun rising from the East China Sea at Baibu Beach on Putuo Mountain. The bright fireball was stretched up and down, and suddenly jumped several feet into the air above the sea. Everyone in the audience was moved to tears. To this day The memory is still fresh. What will it be like to watch the sunrise on the Bund today?

I stayed up until 5 o'clock in the morning, before dawn, and the street lights were shining alone on the ground. The sky above Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street was empty, which was in sharp contrast to the bustle last night. When I walked to the intersection of Zhongshan East Road, I saw a few taxis and buses passing by. On the Bund sightseeing platform, "the dawn here is quiet", which looks particularly spacious and empty. The buildings of all nations stand above the black shadow of the street lamps, seeming to be still sleeping in the night. Only the lights of the tall two-sided clocks of the Customs Building are like a pair of round eyes, watching alertly at this century-old "Ten Miles" building with vicissitudes of life. Foreign market".

The quiet river surface looks unusually open. Occasionally, one or two freighters are traveling on the river surface, making a slight churning sound of engines, like a slight percussion sound on a drum set. The most eye-catching thing is on the other side. This financial city that has risen in the past thirty years is also half asleep at the moment. The dark buildings are lit up with countless window lights, and the overall look is like translucent objects of different shapes. . Even the Oriental Pearl Tower, which was the most exciting light show last night, now stood quietly among the forest-like buildings except for a few rows of red beacons flashing.

As the sky gradually gets brighter, more and more pedestrians start to appear. People who get up early come to the Bund Sightseeing Causeway to exercise. There are also a few tourists like me wandering around carrying professional cameras. When the Oriental Red music played over the customs building and the bell struck solemnly six times, both sides of the Pujiang River seemed to wake up instantly. There are gulls flying on the river, and boats of different sizes are sailing downstream one after another. Several kites flew up. On one of the white tail fins, a slogan with red letters on a white background clearly read "Warmly celebrate the opening of the China International Import Expo!" The young running team members have gathered to prepare for the exercise, and the photographers set up their cameras. The lights of the buildings in Lujiazui went out, and the entire opposite bank looked like a row of black sculptures standing on the water, inlaid on the background of the milky white sky.

About 10 minutes later, the bottom of the Lujiazui building complex gradually turned golden, and gradually turned from gold to red, expanding upward, and the area became larger and larger. The side of the building on the North Bund on the left has been plated with gold by the sun, making it dazzlingly bright. Slowly, the high-rise buildings in Pudong are also rimmed with gold by the sunshine, mirroring the North Bund. I thought of a poem in Du Fu's "Song of Landscape Paintings by Wang Zai": "How can I get the quick scissors of Bingzhou to cut off half of the water of Wusong River". Although Du Fu was in Bashu when he wrote this poem, and "the knife cuts Wu Song" is just an imagination of the poet, the two sides of the Pujiang River, known as "Shanghai's First Bay", vividly resemble the two sides of a pair of big scissors, scissoring This rushing river.

Suddenly, the sun showed its face at the waist of the center of Shanghai, and slowly raised its head, squeezing the cracks between the buildings and splashing light. Finally, the sun was full and round, like a pearl sandwiched between Shanghai Center and adjacent buildings. The flames it splashes onto the river below, like a belt made of gold, tightly connecting Pudong and Puxi.

"Oh," someone called out on the observation deck, and a foreign friend who was taking photos next to me also exclaimed "beautiful." The sun is rising slowly along the center of Shanghai. Its dazzling light shines on the buildings on the Puxi Bund, making these outstanding historical buildings formed at the beginning of the last century suddenly gain light and regain new vitality.

Greeting the first ray of sunshine on the Bund, which embraces all rivers, I felt a different scene than before! (Zhou Jianxin)