How is life in the city of Shanghai?

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It has been two years since I came to Shanghai, but I find myself wandering on the edge of the city. "Fringe" means that I live in the suburbs of the city, so I am a marginalized person in the city. It's also because I feel like I'm a stranger wandering around in the city. Maybe I haven't really integrated into the city's life and can only be regarded as a marginalized person. So I let myself jump out of this city and try to get out of "I don't know where the clouds are, but I am deep in this mountain." I used to work in another city, and I compared it with Shanghai. One was like a little girl, and the other was like a lady. Some people may not agree with "everybody is a lady" and think that Shanghai is exquisite rather than grand. However, "everyone" comes from the fact that it cannot be denied that Shanghai is indeed a metropolis. It takes two or three hours to travel from one district to another. Nothing but normal. The iconic area of ??Shanghai is the "Bund". Here, you can see the Oriental Pearl Tower across the Huangpu River and experience the perfect combination of tradition and modernity. Taking a car from Puxi to Pudong under the Huangpu River is like a tunnel through time and space, and you can experience the original The Shanghai-style culture in the concession is diverse and the lights of the modern city are endless. Dazzling and intoxicating. So others thought this was Shanghai. Some people see the prosperity of Shanghai, but I see another side of Shanghai being backward. In a suburban town, an old lady wearing a small square headscarf in an alley carries a little vegetable on her back and is chased around by the urban management every day. She struggles to sell cabbage for a few cents: "Sister (Shanghai dialect governs young women) Call me sister, no matter adults or children), come and take a look!" Huaihai Road, Xujiahui and Nanjing Road in Shanghai are places where Shanghai girls often go shopping. They lead the fashion trend. Shanghai gives people the urban fashion, but it is different from the urban requirements. Becoming a noble should be more elegant and gentlemanly. In preparation for the World Expo, Shanghai put forward the slogan "Walking with civilization and being lovely Shanghainese". This slogan can be seen everywhere in the subway, but maybe it is a Shanghainese, maybe it is a non-Shanghainese. I see uncivilized phenomena everywhere. In Shanghai On the subway, I rarely see people giving up their seats. Everyone squeezes into the subway to grab a seat. Everyone is very skillful and clever. In the small town where I live, the stench of domestic garbage and sewage in the creek behind the old street is so strong that it makes people turn their noses up. Although it is not far from the World Expo, Shanghai is not close to a truly civilized metropolis. Girls in Shanghai are very "composed". I don't know how to describe "composed". I can only understand it, but it's hard to explain it in words. But one thing is for sure, they live very confidently and a little flamboyantly. Walking on the streets and in shopping malls, you can indeed see many eye-catching and beautiful girls. Among my colleagues, many men in Shanghai will do a large part of the housework at home. This is probably related to their concept of family education, and it is indeed interesting. I have a colleague who is a Shanghai girl. She said If she gives birth to a boy in the future, she must make him know how to do all the housework, such as washing, cooking, and doing housework; if she gives birth to a girl in the future, she must not be asked to do anything and must be raised well. It turns out that in Shanghai In the traditional concept of family education, girls are born to live a noble life, while men are born to live for the family. Shanghainese love to speak Shanghainese, including in public places. I don’t speak Shanghainese, and I have only a limited understanding of Shanghainese. When he went to the district to attend teaching and research meetings, the teaching researcher would speak Shanghainese every time. When he realized that there were teachers from other places who wanted to speak Mandarin, but it seemed that they were not speaking smoothly, he would switch back to Shanghainese, and then use Mandarin again after being reminded by others. In other words, a meeting would go through a dozen of these back and forths. I'm just guessing too. The same is true for students in Shanghai. In the school where I stay, the students communicate with each other privately in Shanghainese. Sometimes they forget that when I ask them after class, I may say one or two "Nong" when I answer. Students in Shanghai pay more attention to fashion. They don't pay much attention to current affairs, and they don't watch CCTV. I remember one time when I talked about "Tell the Truth" in class, the students looked at it strangely. They watch Shanghai's lifestyle channels and lifestyle entertainment channels. Perhaps because Beijing is a cultural and political center, taxi drivers talk about politics; Shanghai is more commercialized and urbanized, so students are more willing to pay attention to fashion. We don’t know whether the city creates its people, or whether it is the people who make up the city’s temperament. Students in Shanghai are not willing to study abroad, and many who are willing to study abroad are not truly native Shanghainese. This year, in order to attract students to apply for admission to schools in other provinces, many preferential policies have been introduced. When chatting with colleagues, they often ask questions like: "Why did you think of coming to Shanghai? I never thought of going anywhere else after graduation.

"Therefore, many colleagues in the school are close relatives of former teachers and students and classmates. In recent years, the number of teachers from outside has gradually increased. Why in Shanghai? Who does this city belong to? A person walking on the edge of the city continues to think, walking Holding, watching...