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[Originally published in Fujian Daily, July 8th edition 1998]

The dark green tone in the movie Half-Life is impressive. Against a faint dark green background, the lingering moisture in the air, the creaking sound of shiny wooden doors and the noise stirred up by people coming and going in the alley brought the audience to the alleys of southern cities. People seem to smell the musty and sour smell that pervades the alley; The sadness and helplessness that rippled in Hu Qin's voice seemed to emerge from memory.

Time seems to lose its meaning in this alley. Perhaps the title of Zhang Ailing's original Eighteen Springs has such a meaning. 18 years have passed and nothing has changed here. As Man Zhen said in the movie, it took me many years to realize that my sister and I were actually going the same way.

Looking at the green light emitted by the old house, we may find the answer-this alley has been washed away for a long time, and too much historical inertia remains here. 18 is nothing to it. Family is the most basic factor that constitutes this alley, and it is this "family" that has accumulated the deepest historical relics. In the movie, the family has brought an unbearable burden from material to spiritual to young men and women who want to get a new life. They can't get rid of the shackles of their families. After some struggles, they still fled into the old-fashioned life along the historical track.

Man Zhen tried to support her family with her own hands, so as to dispel the shadow of her sister's dance experience. In order not to let the family burden drag Shi Jun down, she even put her marriage on hold. When her younger sister, Manlu, found herself sacrificing her youth and reputation for her family, she was misunderstood and ridiculed, so that she was finally abandoned by her family and her husband's family. She dramatically changed from love and hate to sacrificing her sister's love and happiness in exchange for her position in her husband's family. Shi Jun is the only one who has ever left his family, but he can't get rid of the family network. For the sake of the continuity of his mother and family, he wants to go home and inherit his father's career. For the sake of the reputation of his father and family, he asked to hide his relationship with Man Lu, which made his love with him irretrievable. ...

Home wandered in that alley like a ghost. Perhaps they are too weak, perhaps the power of history is too strong, and the children's yearning for a better life in this alley is ignited and suffocated in the cage of the family. Love is more like a candle in the wind, and the fragility and brevity of life seem to belong to the fate of history and are inevitable. Man Zhen's last letter, which may save their love, was intercepted by Mrs. Shen and immediately vanished; When Man Zhen was insulted by his sister's family and Shi Jun came to Shanghai to find out his whereabouts, not only did no one tell him the truth, but he mistakenly thought that Man Zhen had married a foreign country. Good things are so worthless in the eyes of those people in the alley.

A new wind blew into Shanghai in the 1930s, but nothing could be done in that alley except fantasy and hope. The love in the alley just germinates and can't grow. There is a prop in the movie-a pair of red gloves-which is a red line running through the movie. Shi Jun and Man Zhen's initial love began with looking for a red glove. The progress and destruction of their love is also realized in the tossing and turning of a pair of red gloves; After more than ten years, their love has gone with the wind, and Shizhen is still looking for the lost red gloves with a flashlight. Their love can only stay in each other's thoughts and desires, and their love will always be-"there are beautiful people on the water side."

Only desolation and sadness grow in the alley, and love in the alley will not grow up. (Author: Cao Qinghua 1998/07/02)

Love imagination in the post-alley era

Author: Anonymous article Source: Network hits: 9 Updated on June-17, 2006

As the old alleys are gradually replaced by mushrooming new public houses, the lingering feelings belonging to the old times have no room to rely on and can only be annihilated step by step. No one will walk sadly through the rain lane of love with an oil-paper umbrella. The new girls in the existing space dare to love and hate, even if the story is wonderful, it will eventually lose some charm. Otherwise, let's imagine a love story. The address is in Lane Huaihai Middle Road 1857.

The ideal house is a single-family house.

She walked through this alley every day since she was a child. The alley is very long and deep, hiding countless unknown histories and stories. However, she doesn't care, she just wants to leave this secret old-fashioned alley where she has lived for more than 20 years. She knows that Shanghainese call it "Shangzhijiao" because it has too many historical backgrounds and cultural flavor, and it is located near Huaihai Road and hengshan road, but she is really tired of this kind of life with a large family living under one roof. Her ideal house is a new public house, with private hygiene and a single family, even if it is small, as long as it can accommodate two people's warm dreams. Unfortunately, such a dream may not come true until grandpa, who is in his 90s, dies.

She has a big rich family. Besides her father, she has three uncles and an aunt. In order to fight for this house, all uncles and aunts, including their own fathers, are reluctant to move out of here after marriage. She knew that her brother-in-law might have secretly bought a house outside, but even after the renovation, they were expressionless and willing to endure the noise of the second uncle's younger son practicing piano and the quarrel between his sister-in-law, as well as the leaking toilet and the shabby little bathroom on the top of the attic.

She went to see the property price, knowing that Grandpa's house has sold for more than 5 million yuan at present, but the old man is in good health and was rated as "the health of the elderly" last year. On the contrary, his parents suffer from some chronic diseases. If grandpa is not over 90 years old, it is really hard to say who will go to heaven first. The two brothers have been married and have children for a long time. Big brother was squeezed in this narrow space like her. Second brother saw through the world, emigrated and never came back. She once had a chance to get married, but now she is close to1000000 in Shanghai, and she doesn't want to live with a large family after being killed, so because of her dream and longing for a single family, she finally gave up the man she loved.

She thought it was all a dream.

The man who looked like Rainbow Leehom appeared at that moment. When she crossed the ill-fated alley after work, she suddenly saw him standing at the corner, looking up at a tall magnolia tree. She looked up, partly because his handsome appearance attracted her, only to find that there was nothing special except the sunlight shining through the gap. "Miss, is there any other exit here?" The man asked her in half-baked Mandarin. She glanced at his backpack and realized that it was a visiting ABC, right? That day, I didn't know where my interest came from, and then she actually guided him for an hour-there was no more suitable person in this alley, and that was her kingdom. For more than 20 years, she has been familiar with every turn, every fold and even the label of every telephone pole here.

In the end, however, he thanked her and left without any attachment or asking her phone number. Before seeing him again, she thought it was just a dream. At dusk, they walked side by side through this long and short old-fashioned alley. As if she were a young female teacher, she took pains to tell him about the history of the alley, the foreign buildings in the alley and the almost annihilated culture. He listened very carefully. No man has ever listened to her so carefully. In front of the blackboard newspaper "Everyone pays attention to hygiene and vigorously eliminates the four pests", he even asked if the slogan "There are 36 kinds of flies" was listed by biologists, which made her laugh.

The second time I saw him, he had already lived in a house with creepers in the middle of the alley. He basically lives alone in a house that big up and down. At first, she thought he was a rich boy who came back to inherit, or some second-rate movie star needed to shoot here, but he wasn't. He belongs to a foreign company, and out of his love for China culture and inexplicable Shanghai complex, he volunteered to work here. The small building with simple painting is very beautiful now. What he loves to do is to keep pressing the shutter and shoot some details of this alley, such as the design of a stone, a birdcage covered with blue cloth and a cricket tube. And then upload it to the internet to make his colleagues envy. I really want to see his colleagues, but without exception, they will get lost in this "messy" alley several times. At that time, he will laugh happily. She had never seen a man with such an open smile, so in the end, when she finally kissed him, even she felt natural.

This side and that side of the driveway

Later, she moved into that small building without any birthright. In the questioning eyes of family and friends, she became very silent, silent and calm. She knew that in their eyes, what she did was simply immoral. However, she really likes to see him smile, and that kind of sincere smile from the heart is something she has not seen for many years. She hates to see the vengeful and calculating faces of her uncles and aunts. She longs for a life without others and happiness without peeping. In his residence, she happily walked from room to room, smiled at the wooden lattice door and jumped into the bathtub naked from the garden. Actually, it's just this side and that side of the alley, but it's completely different worlds.

But good dreams always have lucid moments. He was leaving, and she knew it from his melancholy eyes. At that time, he asked her to teach him to read Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane, and then they went to Suzhou to buy oil-paper umbrellas and cheongsam, praying that it would rain soon. Although it was very late, at dusk, the rain drifted into the colorful shutters of his residence. He shouted and dragged her into that suit and walked repeatedly in the alley, taking pictures all the way. She saw the regret in his eyes, so she couldn't help falling into a clove-like bitterness. When the group of photos came out, she stood in front of the building full of creepers, sad and resentful, and at first glance it was written by the master. Later, long after he left, she saw these photos online again. It turns out that he is a photographer by profession, and she is his inspiration and the beauty of his dreams. But how can people live in dreams all the time?

Now she lives alone in a small house, and the high rent makes her life very difficult. But she no longer expected to get a lonely corner from her grandfather's inheritance. After experiencing spaciousness, who can return to the narrow and tortuous old days? Don't you think so?

Surrounding attractions hengshan road

Few people who travel in Shanghai don't know about hengshan road. Those European-style buildings and French phoenix trees have simply become synonymous with Shanghai abroad. Everyone wants to take a walk on the Champs Elysé es in Shanghai or sit down for a cup of coffee. You know, hengshan road block used to be a part of the French Concession after 1900, but today, it is obviously more suitable for walking. No matter the architectural style or the dazzling night, it will never make you feel bored. Passing through it and those who pass through Tian Ping Road, Qing Yu Road, Jianguo West Road, Wanping Road and Gao 'an Road, or those who lie beside it, Huaihai Middle Road, Fuxing Middle Road, Donghu Road and Yueyang Road, you will involuntarily have an illusion that you are passing through the heart of this city.

In fact, as an important area for the protection of Shanghai's historical features and the root of Shanghai's urban culture, hengshan road block was once the residence of many historical figures from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. With the former residence of Soong Ching Ling at Huaihai Middle Road 1843 as the center, on the right are the former residence (one village) and the former residence of the industrial giant Sheng Chongyi, the former residence of the late modern literature master Mr. Ba Jin (Wu Kang Road), the former residence of Huang Xing, the founding father of the Revolution of 1911, and "Ai Lu" by Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen and his former residence (Dongping Road), which are a little far away. In addition, there are two churches nearby, the famous Lilac Garden and the bronze statue of Nie Er. It can be said that those small foreign-built buildings and their alleyways, which are hidden deep in the shade of trees and have had numerous historical events, are almost annihilated now, but they will always be the "upper corners" with rich cultural connotations in the minds of Shanghainese.