Who has an essay on the charm of Hefei?

I always feel that cities have complex personalities like people. As described in a book called "Twenty-four Personality", people often have multiple personalities, and it is not easy to know a person, especially a city. So I dare not talk lightly about the people and life of a city, because it is difficult to know. I am from Hefei, Hefei. I have lived in Hefei for many years, traveled through some cities, and recently lived in Nanjing. I dare to write today, perhaps because I have a dual perspective of "inside and outside", which can reduce the risk of nonsense.

If we do a social survey, the popularity of Hefei may be similar to that of Guiyang, Xining and Yinchuan, or even worse than that of Anqing. When introducing my hometown, I often ask, "Have you heard of Hefei?" If I say, for example, that it is the hometown of Li Hongzhang, Duan and Duan, the birthplace of Meiling refrigerator, Rongshida washing machine and washing powder, and the capital of Anhui where Huangshan Mountain is located, many people may find it more specific.

There is a joke about the place name of Hefei: two fat people together are Hefei, which is of course a kind of ridicule. Hefei has a long history. Written records began in Sima Qian's Historical Records, which has been more than 2,200 years. The origin of place names is because of water. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan wrote "Notes on Water Classics": "It is applied to fertilizer, so it is called Hefei". Geographically, the north-south direction of Hefei lies between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and the east-west direction is sandwiched by Wu Chu, so-called "Wu Tou Chu Wei". For many people, Hefei is a middle station. People pass by her, leaving nothing behind and taking nothing away.

From Feidong to Hefei, there is a restaurant called "I can't remember" on the roadside near Hefei. This special name shows the cleverness and humor of Hefei people. When you come to this city, you can live in your own way. You may not remember anything, and you don't need to remember anything, because Hefei is a place that belongs to you and me, a city where various lifestyles are simply pieced together. There is no heavy history, no glorious present, no strong sense of shock, no worrying things, but she is there. She won't refuse you, and it's hard for you to refuse her.

From 65438 to 0952, Hefei was designated as the capital of Anhui Province. It is said that there was an argument at that time, whether to make Hefei the provincial capital or Anqing or Wuhu. Aside from the argument itself, we can see that Hefei has no advantages to show off in Anhui. After 50 years of development, Hefei, a small town with an area of only 5km2 and a population of only 50,000, has grown to its present scale. Careful people can see that Hefei has a long history, but it has no foundation. Old Hefei people are no longer the main body of the city. Most residents are newcomers who have just moved here recently, but they don't live together for the same purpose as Shenzhen immigrants, so it is easy to form a relatively unified image of Shenzhen people. Nowadays, Hefei people lack self-centered consciousness and are tolerant, but the degree of tolerance is different from that of Nanjing people. Nanjing people's typical "big radish" character is mainly a brilliant historical accumulation, a calm, although a little blind self-confidence. There are not many things in Hefei's hands now, but it doesn't matter. If you don't have it, borrow it and study. Taking the language of young people in Hefei as an example, we can have a deeper understanding of the simple spelling style of Hefei people. If you meet a young man who grew up in Hefei, don't think that his words are authentic Hefei dialect, which is a new language with simple spelling of Hefei dialect and Mandarin. In just a few words, there may be both Hefei dialect and Mandarin, which makes people feel fresh. This is a very interesting phenomenon. My interpretation is that this concise spelling of words actually reflects a betrayal of local words, a convergence of strong languages, and a deeper sense of inferiority and self-confidence in one's own local culture.

Walking into a certain community, maybe Shanghainese and Shaanxi people are neighbors; Walking into a market, there may be people from the northeast talking to people from Hainan. People who live here graft their original life memories with reality and recombine them into their own lives. People in different places bring different lifestyles, so simply spell it, sew it, and then label it Hefei. Tearing off the label brings out a bunch of smells. Is it difficult for everyone to adjust? You don't have to worry here. Sweet, sour, spicy and salty, with five flavors; Chinese food is full of foreign flavor. Hefei has no streets, so you don't have to go anywhere to eat anything. If you are hungry, you can eat Chinese hamburger in Xi, beef in Lanzhou, mutton kebabs in Lamian Noodles and Xinjiang, rice noodles in Yunnan and jiaozi in the northeast. You can also go to various restaurants. Of course, you don't have to bother to find McDonald's, KFC and pizza, which are not far from you. If you want to taste the local flavor, go to a local restaurant. You can try shredded bamboo shoots, Sanjiang stir-fried dishes and fried soup pots made of various local dishes, which will always make your index finger move and your teeth and cheeks stay fragrant. No one can monopolize the way of eating, and everything can be squeezed in, because there are always people who are willing to choose. It is said that London is a city full of choices, and Hefei is also full of choices in daily life. Don't be too wronged here.

Some people say that the traffic condition of a city can basically reflect the degree of civilization of this place. Indeed, the traffic situation in Hefei reflects the experience of pre-industrial civilization, industrial civilization and post-industrial civilization in the same time and space. In terms of transportation, there are enviable high-end cars such as Buick, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, as well as ordinary buses, trucks and taxis to meet the needs of the people. There are often slightly more advanced donkey-drawn carts or tractor-drawn carts rumbling all over the street. The lower the tools, the more daring they are, and they are not afraid to wear shoes barefoot, so that those high-end cars can only stay away from them. In terms of obeying traffic rules, drivers and pedestrians obey the rules and obey orders during the work of main roads and traffic police; In small streets and lanes, especially after the old policemen get off work, it is often the narrow road that meets the brave and wins. People walk in the cracks and cars are popular with people. Fortunately, everyone is very careful at this time, and there are few accidents.

Most people in Hefei are familiar with the commercial pedestrian street, which is a short east-west street located in the center of the city. Entering from the east and west ends will not make people feel anything special, but if you go on, you will find it interesting that among many modern buildings, there is a gabled small house in Qing Dynasty, which is the famous former residence of Li Hongzhang. Don't dwell on which restaurant you may mistakenly think is unique! Not far from the other side is a famous shopping mall specializing in bras, so that the lion in front of the Li family stares at all kinds of bras all day. Not far from here, it is the national key temple Mingjiao Temple. In front of the temple is a parking lot. Traffic and people are bustling, and many merchants and vendors are making noise. I wonder if it will disturb the monk's tranquility?

Hefei people have a strong sense of identity with popular things and a desire to seek common ground while reserving differences. Pop culture always gets a warm response in this city. The "trouser-pedaling fever" in 1980s made the female compatriots in Hefei, from old ladies to girls, wear the same trouser-pedaling. Later, the "hula hoop fever" made Hefei people taste the feeling of swinging; When billiards are hot, the billiards room in Hefei is often overcrowded, and even the streets and alleys are full of billiards tables and people swinging for fun. "Bowling fever" has made the bowling alley in Hefei a fire, and the rental business at the entrance of the bowling alley has been good; In that era of "karaoke fever", people rushed to the "karaoke" hall after work or rushed home to sing loudly and taste the feeling of being a singer. Many elderly citizens also sang old songs from previous years, as if they had returned to that era that moved them.

Some people say: Beijing is too big, Shanghai is too crowded, Guangzhou is too noisy, Chengdu is too cloudy, Shenyang is too dirty, Nanjing is too hot and Shenzhen is too nervous. What is Hefei? Hehe, few people have thought about it, and there are few clues to think of it. Maybe it's because Hefei is out of sight of most people. Loleit Lynn said: You should be the first, the best or different. These are three orientations for the growth of a person and a city. What kind of life does Hefei belong to? Being the first is too risky, too tiring, different and lacking confidence and strength, so we have to "make do". Shanghai's cosmetics, Guangdong's electrical appliances, Wuhan's clothing and Chongqing's hot pot have all been used by me to imitate the European style. Why not? It's comfortable to put all kinds of beautiful things into life, right? But Hefei people also take good care of their own things. If they buy a refrigerator, they will first consider the Meiling refrigerator made in Hefei, even if it is more expensive. This is a natural feeling and has nothing to do with local protectionism.

Hefei people are very open-minded, just like the most familiar mantra of Hefei people: "Good event?" They are good at explaining things in their own way and relieving the pressure of life. This is their philosophy of life. Compared with people in northern Anhui, Hefei people are relatively quiet; Compared with southern Anhui people, Hefei people have more temperament. Hefei people are easy-going and tolerant, and there seems to be nothing particularly unacceptable.

Maybe we can add adverbs like "comparison" in front of Hefei people to understand them and their lives. They are more personable, outstanding, good-natured, humorous, diligent, busy at work, happy in life, etc., and the shortcomings of Hefei people are reflected in the word "comparison". I used to be reluctant to add this word to Hefei people. I'd rather believe that Hefei and Hefei people are the best, but they are too impatient. Later, I learned that in fact, real life is such a state, not particularly poetic, nor particularly ugly.

People and life in Hefei are simple, not pure enough and not gorgeous enough. On the one hand, Jian Pin's life is horizontal extension, on the other hand, it is vertical extension. Horizontal simple spelling is the richness of life content and the diversity of lifestyle. For example, foreigners wave chopsticks to eat "Aunt" jiaozi, and China people munch on American steaks with knives and forks; For example, Xiao Zhang is wearing a Tang suit, drinking coffee in the office with shoes on his feet and reading foreign materials; For example, Xiao Li, who has red hair and six earrings, may be studying undergraduate. Vertical spelling is the division of space, the refrigeration of emotions, the overflow of face and the decline of feelings. Walking into Hefei, you can see: beggars are sitting on the Sipailou overpass in the center of Hefei; In the bright shop of McDonald's, people leisurely drink coke and scan the migrant workers who eat lunch boxes outside the glass wall; All kinds of garbage left by pedestrians near the famous Gu Jing Saite Hotel in Hefei; Security guards in residential areas with various western names keep out people who don't belong there.

Simple living of Hefei people is a choice given by history and reality, and a compromise after the confrontation between agricultural civilization, industrial civilization and post-industrial civilization. This is a city born in agricultural civilization, so agricultural culture has become the deepest brand here, a local tone. In the 1950s and 1960s, in the eyes of many people, Hefei was a big city. In order to enter such a big city, they even walked back and forth barefoot for two or three hundred miles. Some businessmen come here to trade with a load of one or two hundred catties. Decades later, they will come here again, but Hefei is no longer their destination. They still have bigger cities to go to, and when they return to their hometown, they will no longer relish stories about Hefei. Many people went out, and many people who walked by the pier finally chose this small town, perhaps because of strong homesickness, perhaps because Hefei put many wonderful lives in the outside world into its own landscape.

Aristotle said: "People come to the city to survive, and stay in the city for a better life." However, in this era of drastic changes, people's lives are so different. Even in the same city, their lifestyles and living conditions are very different, and they often have their own definitions of life. Behind the cover of Engel coefficient, the expanding Gini coefficient tells the truth. There are not only high-rise luxury houses, fancy cars and delicious food in the city, but also drivers, street scavengers, low shacks, night economy and so on. An urbanist said, "The bigger the sunny side of a thing, the bigger the shadow it leaves." Perhaps this is the paradox of urban development. People living in this city seem to be poisoned by the flower of love. The more they love the city, the more they feel pain for it.

This is an era of simple spelling, an era of "simple spelling fever". Simple spelling makes life in Hefei more charming and colorful. Here you can realize your dreams and satisfy your desires. Simple spelling makes life in Hefei even more embarrassing, and many incongruous and unacknowledged things are put together for no reason, forcing * * *. Simple spelling is lively, open and colorful. You can give up or choose. Simple spelling is also superficial, temporary and helpless, and it is a rootless panic. In the face of such city life, are we happy to applaud or sad? Are you in or out?

It doesn't really matter who's fighting for our lives. The important thing is that this spelling method is very contagious. It is very popular in our time, and it is not fatal. It will only make a city greedy and develop rapidly. Have color, but lose temperament; Grasp the present, but lose the memory. Hefei is growing, and the space of urban life is expanding rapidly, more and more rapidly. In the roar of bulldozers and excavators, in the labor of construction workers, the suburbs around Hefei have become urban plates, entered the life vision of urban people, and been pieced together into a new city map. The quiet fields are gradually surrounded by people, chased by sounds and submerged by various factories and restaurants.

At this time, I suddenly remembered a famous sentence left by Jiang Kui, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, when he visited ancient xiaoyaojin in Hefei: "I am afraid of autumn scenery in pear flower falls. I'm afraid I'll leave an autumn. Only the pond is green. " Nowadays, Xiaoyao has become a scenic spot in Hefei. Today, Hefei is one of the national garden cities. Although the scenery has been cut and treated, it still retains a sense of freedom. Writer Han Shaogong said: Any distance is the distance that people feel. There is a sense of touch in the distance, the pain is long, and the escape is short; There is a vision in the distance, with a long sense of strangeness and a short sense of familiarity; There is hearing in the distance, richness is long, and blank is short. Life in Hefei is a long and short sentence written. Everyone who lives here is a writer. They savor the life here and feel the distance from their ideal life and the city.