An article describing the ocean

Memory related to growth

-My hometown Dalian

Memories often lie in the city landscape. Once the scenery was like a long piece of cloth, which unfolded in turn in the dark night. Many familiar faces walked back and forth, shaking some glorious past events, like the back of snakehead exposed from the sea, with vague traces on it. So the tide is everywhere, and the room is filled with the smell of the sea in a trance.

Those signs are some place names, and each city will have its own unique place names. Behind these place names, there are some secrets of growth. In fact, the sea does not need to be mentioned repeatedly. It has dissolved in the blood of everyone in Dalian, keeping in line with their breathing.

I. West Dog

Siergou is located at the eastern end of Dalian, pronounced as "Siergou" by the local population, with the oil terminal in the north, which used to be the gathering place for dock porters. Trams, which are hard to see in other cities, grew up here with me. The slow and rhythmic sound of the tram, the rough voice of the dockers, the whistle of the ship entering the harbor from time to time in the distance, different voices mixed together, accompanied me like a young hedgehog, wandering aimlessly in the street. At dusk, my mother's voice calling me home was particularly kind.

Like childhood, life in Dalian at that time was slow and comfortable, like a calm sea. The waves and undercurrents in the 1970s were hidden under water, and people living in them could not feel them.

In the evening, the dockers who had worked hard all day talked excitedly about what they had seen and heard during the day. Almost all of them are descendants of Shandong people. They are rude and bold, pay attention to unity, and like to talk with their fists and wine, just like rough shells growing on rocks. The sweat on their foreheads glistened under the lamp, which attracted me more than my father's brushes and sketches.

Second, Qingniwa Bridge

It is said that the whole Qingniwa area is covered with coal ash, including Dalian Railway Station. 100 years ago was Wang Yang, and now it is one of the most prosperous areas in Dalian.

Take a tinkling tram from Sigou and sway all the way to Qingniwa. Dalian Railway Station will suddenly appear in front of you, just like a close old friend. Many locals prefer to call this place "Qingniwa Bridge", which should be related to a bridge. Later, I heard from the old man that the bridge was long gone, like the sea, left on people's mouths and yellow old paper.

The railway station is naturally crowded. Victory Square in front of the station is a large-scale shopping plaza invested and built by people from Taiwan Province Province. There are only a few towers on the ground, most of which operate underground. The tower is dazzling in the sun, and few people can remember what it looked like. When victory square broke ground, it was said that many shells were dug out of the ground. The soil was as black as mud on the seabed, which was in line with the name of Qingniwa.

Third, Nanshan Theater.

Later, I lived near Nanshan Theater, a few steps away from the south campus of Dalian International Studies University. Students of foreign languages college who are as arrogant as sunshine show off their youth unscrupulously under the eyes of their neighbors every day. Nanshan Theater refers to a gray-white European building, which used to be a cinema. Later, after several changes, its name was changed from "Strategist Club" to "White Swan Ballroom" and then to "New Century Bath Center". Finally, everyone can still remember the original Nanshan Theater.

To the west of Nanshan Theater is Shengli Road, which leads to Xinghai Square. There is a big temple beside Shengli Road, which used to be the rehearsal place of Dalian Peking Opera Troupe. I used to lie on the wooden window lattice, gently prick the window paper with my fingers stained with saliva, and watched curiously through the gap a group of men and women dressed in ancient costumes, dragging their sleeves in the empty hall of carved beams and painted buildings. In the east, there used to be a small Japanese-style building, but now it has been converted into "Nanshan Style Street", which has enhanced the flavor of Japanese architecture and quietly reminded passers-by that the Japanese once ruled Dalian.

Due north, Zhongshan Square is only ten minutes away from home, next to the bustling Tianjin Street, the commercial center of Dalian. European-style buildings surround squares, green spaces, fountains, pigeons and music, all of which complement each other with bright smiles on their faces. When there is a ball game, many people will stand in the square and cran their necks, staring at the huge display screen upstairs of Dalian Hotel in the south of the square, as if it were crops planted in the field or osprey in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. They are waiting for unexpected excitement, and Dalian football rarely lets them down.

Fourth, Black Rock Reef.

Legend has it that a star fell into the sea, leaving this abrupt black reef, a place with beautiful legends and scenery. This place is also the gathering place of Dalian colleges and universities. Smart real estate developers decorate the Black Rock Reef westward to Lushun with various buildings with different shapes, which is wonderful.

The most familiar song when I was a child was also related to Black Rock Reef. We children lined up and watched the women bending over the rocks to catch the sea, generally singing and chanting: On Sunday at the Black Rock Reef, the aunt who caught the sea was in the air, making an oyster to taste early, and letting a fart stink all over the sky. Run after reading it. And childhood, like those women's bawls, was left behind far away until it became a few lonely white sails on the far sea.

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Beautiful mountains and rivers and touching seascape-my hometown Dalian.

Unlike other Northeasters, Dalian people rarely admit that they are Northeasters. When asked, they always strut and answer: No, I'm not from the Northeast, I'm from Dalian. Dalian's location on the map is easy to find, and the rooster's beak is as prominent as a rooster on the map of the motherland. After the Yuan Dynasty, historical records recorded that a remote fishing village was like a paradise. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese army and the Qing army fought all the way from North Korea and captured Lushunkou, which was originally the important place of Beiyang Navy. Dalian's name began to appear frequently in the smoke of the Sino-Japanese War. Before the Japanese could sit down, the Russians were red-eyed. At that time, the Qing Dynasty hastily declared its neutrality and designated Dalian as a war zone. After the battle, Xiao Nose (Dalian people's disparaging name for Japanese) drove away Lao Maozi (Dalian people's disparaging name for Russian). According to historical records, there were only 18 families left in Lushunkou. Since then, Dalian has been shrouded in the shadow of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

At the beginning of the last century, there was a famine in Shandong, and the simple people instinctively made the correct choice of "no choice but to drift on the sea with a fork". Married people came to Dalian with their children across the ocean and used it as a bridgehead to launch a large-scale immigration movement to the northeast, so most Dalian people are descendants of Shandong people. Irresponsibly speaking, I always feel that the elite people who moved to Dalian for more than 100 years have stayed in Dalian. They completely abandoned the traditional agricultural life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, put on short jackets and carry hemp bags on their shoulders, and became the first generation of dockers, who should belong to the kind of people with flexible brains. Those who are still thinking about crops continue to go north. They found a magical black land in Heilongjiang and continued to dream of digging out the golden doll from the soil.

The Pacific Ocean's humid and warm monsoon blows, everything grows, and the girl is more broad-minded like flower girl. Coupled with the nourishment of rich fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs in the ocean, Dalian people are more and more like proud peacocks. The Buddha is saddled with gold, and foreigners don't understand the importance of packaging themselves. Instead, he joked with a smile that Dalian people are "corn-flour belly pants", which means they can't fill their stomachs and don't dress neatly. I don't know, poverty can't lose the ambition to get rich. When everyone has a better life, when you open your eyes, Dalian people have hastily held a clothing festival. It's been more than ten years, and others can't learn to draw a tiger according to the cat, so they have to comfort themselves: people have this tradition.

The hot-blooded Dalian young man went to other places to study, and the locals didn't ask him what school or enterprise football team he was directly pulled to and arranged the main position. If you admit that you can't play football, it will be even more embarrassing than the bride getting out of the sedan chair and showing her feet. The other party will definitely be surprised and ask in a low voice: Are you from Dalian? Football in Dalian can't be more brilliant. If the league champion is not Dalian, it must be the biggest news. Not only like playing football, but also Dalian people like to comment on the ball. Every day, hundreds of people gather in front of the People's Stadium, drooling and splashing. The anecdotes about which team, which coach's tactical thoughts and which player are informative and rich in content, and football reporters from all over the world are happy to jump there as soon as they get off the plane. The local man in Dalian originally planned to accompany his girlfriend to the clothing store, but when he got there, he couldn't move. He sharpened his head and got into the crowd, even though his girlfriend's eyebrows stood upright and her almond eyes were like frost. My girlfriend is still thinking about the new dress, and she is in a hurry. This is a Dalian proverb: You are a tiger. It means brainless and stupid.

Outsiders commented on Dalian accent, saying it has "oyster flavor". Oyster, whose scientific name is Oyster, is a good thing for nourishing yin and strengthening yang. Dalian people themselves feel a little rusty and try to bend their tongues, but the lethality value in the words has never come down. Dalian people speak very fast, and people all over the world have learned it. Just like sashimi in a Japanese meal, when you eat it in your mouth, your nose and tears start together. On Sunday, the size of your internal organs is immediately unobstructed, and it is delicious. Even the best fish fillets and horseradish mixed with soy sauce are the crowning touch. I think the accent of Dalian people is the horseradish mixed in that side dish.

Accustomed to Dalian accent, I naturally accept Dalian people's style of doing things: magnanimous and generous, never dragging my feet, arrogant. In recent years, more and more foreigners have come to Dalian to study, start businesses and settle down. The newspaper also exclaimed that 40% of the newly developed houses were bought by foreigners, and they kept calling friends to introduce them, like fish that like to live in groups. Some Dalian people complained indignantly: How come all the money in Dalian has been earned by foreigners? However, if you want to arrange a profitable job for him, such as bathing and sweeping the streets, if he is laid off at home, he will immediately refuse: who will do it if he loses that person? There is no conch in my head.

With charming mountains and stirring seascapes, Dalian people still like to live a slightly relaxing life, just like the tram still in front of the railway station, which clangs along the paved tracks, sometimes accompanied by a dull whistle. There are also many young people who don't want to be lonely in other places. In the eyes of the old people, they go out to suffer. They spread the signboard of Dalian seafood and the word-of-mouth of Dalian people all over the country. It can be said that it is a shame that Dalian does not have a local flavor snack that really belongs to itself.

Once a foreign friend heard that Dalian is rich in beautiful women, with super good skin and first-class figure. As soon as he got off the plane, he couldn't wait to look around the world through the taxi glass and borrow Jiro's third eye to make it work. When he saw me, he complained that his name didn't match. I sent him a Dalian sentence at that time: Did you just get off the boat? He quickly said that he came by plane. I told him with a smile that "just got off the boat" is similar to "hillbilly goes to town" in Beijing dialect. Beautiful women from all corners of the world are adding luster to Dalian. How can they loiter in the street for people to enjoy?

That friend even called himself uneducated. After a while, he complained to me nitpicking that Dalian was just a hundred years old and was simply a nouveau riche. I opened the guide point around Dalian to show him. This page is about Jinshitan, a famous scenic spot, where the world's largest Sinian cracked stone stands. It has a history of 600 million years.