Asking for directions is in Shanghai.

This is purely an immature idea of a 16-year-old child who travels to Shanghai on holiday.

When I first arrived in Shanghai, I saw Shanghainese's disdain for tourists asking for directions, and I couldn't help thinking of a joke: Cantonese people think that foreigners are poor, Shanghainese treat the floating population as a redneck, and Beijingers treat tourists from all over the country as "inferior".

A simple old joke brilliantly tells the great differences and different "visual differences" among the three places.

In fact, I came to Shanghai from Beijing with this "poor vision", so I was naturally hit hard-because, for the first time in 16 years, I saw that there are still people in this world who think they are more awesome.

In my opinion, Shanghai's proud and disdainful capital comes from the unattainable buildings built on their site, but not necessarily belonging to them.

I admit, anywhere in Beijing, you can't find such a magnificent tall building as Lujiazui; I also admit that after reading these high-rise buildings, there will be an unpleasant feeling that Beijing's buildings have lost the right to be named buildings; I also admit that if you take pictures with the beautiful high-rise buildings in Shanghai as the background, you can't take pictures for three days and three nights; Looking at the scenery on CCTV building, you will definitely feel tall, but you are not standing on the Oriental Pearl-because the "gap" between the elevation of those buildings and the Oriental Pearl is very small.

But in my opinion, accustomed to neat buildings, Shanghai's buildings are so scattered that I feel "different". Comparatively speaking, I prefer Beijing's architectural style and am more used to it. It even makes me have an abnormal impulse: I want to jump from the Oriental Pearl, kick down all the surrounding buildings like building blocks, and then stack them up again according to the Beijing-style planning map ... I know that in this world, apart from Beijing, only Dubai will plan the city so regularly, so we are "different". But I think I'm not the only one who has this so-called abnormal feeling, right? Ha ha.

There are many buildings in Shanghai, and the buildings in Shanghai are beautiful. The buildings in Shanghai are very strong and will not be blown down by the typhoon. About the pride of Shanghainese, I think that's all. But sadly, too many Shanghainese are just blinded by this pride.

When you ask a Shanghainese the name of a building behind him, he doesn't even look back. When he left you, he said "I don't know" in Shanghai Mandarin, and then you saw a huge advertisement next to him, "Strive to be a civilized and lovely Shanghainese", and then you were answered by a foreigner. Can you imagine what that feels like? Or, if you want to take a photo and ask someone to press the shutter for you, in a place where there are so many people in legend that pregnant women can miscarry, no local people want you to take away shanghai story, whom you are proud of, without blowing off dust, but you want to ask a foreigner to say, "couldyoumindhelpingme?" Can you imagine what that feels like? By this time, I finally understand that I don't know if I have been lucky for a long time. How easy it was for me to get the answer when I asked for directions in Beijing. Of course, I also met an answer in Shanghai and received a smile. Then, I am really grateful to those Shanghainese, and others have shown their brilliance even more.

Once, I felt like this: Beijing = the capital ≈ the center of China, ∵ contact with foreign countries is not as frequent as in Europe, ∴ the world ∴ China ∴ Beijing = the center of the world. It seems a little scary to write it down simply and clearly, but as an ordinary student, I really think so. I think there should be many students of the same age who think so, right?

However, what is more frightening and simpler is what most Shanghainese may exaggerate: Shanghai ≌ the world.

Even contact with some Shanghainese, from their eyes, their language, or some words spelled intentionally or unintentionally by people who can write articles in Shanghai, makes me feel inferior. We aliens or paramecium don't deserve to enjoy the same life as them. We are all country bumpkins ... I wonder if China people will think: We are all their services and the place where we live.

Of course, in any case, each city has its own advantages and disadvantages. I did write these words with some grievances. But looking back, I have to admire some places, such as magnetic card subway tickets and unmanned ticket vending machines (in fact, I once had the idea of bringing a subway ticket back to Beijing). Similarly, maybe some Shanghainese are full of complaints about Beijing, and maybe they will hate asking for directions in Beijing. When he asked, he got ten answers, right? Hehe (teasing).

With a slightly contradictory mood, I watched the night view of the Bund in Great Shanghai. I'm thinking about the big Shanghai behind this charming night. I think Shanghai is indeed an economic metropolis in China and even the world, but the economic pagoda should hold up shining morality!