"The people around me who have played in Changsha are all raving about it!"
More and more young people want to flock to this city of ultra-low prices, great fun, and explosive happiness - Changsha. The name, dear and distant, I left there almost a year ago.
I'm from Hengyang, Hunan province, and I've been studying + working in Changsha for 8 years, and I've never been to Changsha before that.
When I was a kid, I was envious of my parents for taking them to the Window of the World in Changsha and taking many photos. Finally, taking advantage of the opportunity to study in the university, I set foot on this land, and this time, is eight years.
In 2012, my uncle drove me from Hengyang to Changsha to study, and when I got off the highway, I grasped the window and looked out, as if I wanted to see enough of this future place I was going to stay at once.
It's the first time I've been to Changsha, and I'm not very familiar with the road, but the navigation wasn't that advanced at that time, so I relied on the car navigation, and somehow I was able to drive around in the university town.
All along the way for college students to create a variety of stores, snack stores, I was born to eat since the food is very greedy ah, secretly vowed to eat this street all want to eat again!
The older siblings are walking briskly on the road, and the youthfulness that comes with it y attracts me, and soon I will be one of them.
So, you know, what have I done in these four years. The school was a 40-minute walk from the Pegasus Apartments where we lived, which was strange, right? We describe ourselves as "a university without walls", with campus buildings scattered along the road, where learning and living blend naturally.
These 40 minutes have a lot of good memories! Every day after class to walk that road there is a bus stop called Fisherman's Bay City, one side of the road is full of all kinds of small stores, where I ate halibut rice, halibut rolls, cold dishes, fish noodles, grilled fish, hot pot, and a variety of cheap fruit.
The definition of Changsha for foreigners should be "the city of eating, drinking and playing".
Then, for food, I went to Taiping Street, Pozi Street, Huangxing Road Pedestrian Street, and in recent years, a new street, Gujin Street (they are all in the city center).
There are mostly branded stores to eat here, like: Wenheyou, Tea YanYueShi, Black Classics, One Lamp, FeiDaKitchen, Cooking Times, Wine Pickup Grill ...... These are unique Changsha restaurant brands, and I've eaten at all of them, and I recommend them all.
Of course, there is a famous Palace of Fire, is also the main Changsha snacks, just came to Changsha I was local people "warned", "here are pit foreign tourists, not good at all," so I have not eaten once. But the taste of different places, perhaps the local dislike of the taste of outsiders and like it?
Regarding food, the night market in the evening is the most fascinating to me. Right, Changsha is a city with nightlife.
Remembering an interesting story: once by plane at 11 pm to Changsha, about a hitchhiker back to school, on the way to meet a sparring partner, is a more than 30 big brother of the Northeast, due to the driver master of the airport routes are not familiar with, to find the Northeast brother of the terminal where the overtime of more than 20 minutes.
The phone, Northeast brother crackling voice urge fast to the weak brother anxious to cry, I heart also a burst of fear, later will not be on the car two people still have to fight it!
So, wait until the northeast brother on the car, I changed the usual poor speech, take the initiative to ease the contradiction between the two. Along the way, I learned that he was flying from Qingdao on business, and wanted to find a place to stay with the smell of Changsha at night. I immediately took out my unprecedented enthusiasm and said to him, you have to not come, you must first go to the city center, where eating, drinking, playing, living and traveling are very convenient ......
Finally, the northeast brother faded anger, under my recommendation, he got off the bus in the busiest of the liberation of the West. At that time 12:00 in the morning, roadside stalls crowded the streets of the daytime big car traffic, the northeast brother off the back with a sense of bewilderment.
I can't help but laugh: haha, you're a foreigner, let the fireworks of Changsha drown you out!
Plus night market, before the "stall economy" during the fire of a net red night market - Yangfan neighborhood, but I was in Hengyang, did not go, from the Jitterbug to see the crowds and bright or dark lights, inexplicably affectionate.
Because it reminds me of the night market that I have been to before with my coworkers - Dongguashan. This one is more frequented by locals and is not in the city center. There's a lot of online barbecue, hot marinades, and big meat sausages there, so it's a good place for a late night snack.
My coworkers and I ate Dandan hot brine the other day, and as soon as we sat down, we found a photo of Wang Sicong - the original male son also came to eat in this small city store.
Crayfish is Changsha night snacks around the terrier, however, large and small lobster stores I have eaten, most are not very satisfied, think the seasoning flavor is too heavy, over the original fresh flavor. It's better to eat my dad's, the soup is spicy and flavorful, and the aroma of perilla cinnamon anise leaves is refreshing.
If you are lucky enough to have a friend who is from Changsha, you can't go to his house without homemade spicy crawfish. However, if you have to recommend a store, the flavor is still the best in Baling Yikouxiang.
The night market in Changsha is actually all over the streets and alleys, no need to deliberately look for, you just walk into a slightly larger neighborhood, you can find a variety of stalls, are the taste of Changsha. When people come home late, see these stalls, eat a couple of mouthfuls, tiredness and loneliness can always be swept away.
I used to have the experience of working night shifts, often and colleagues from work at two or three o'clock in the morning, to eat barbecue, spicy hot, deep-fried skewers ......
And I now stay in the place is a riverside town, when I first came here, I was very surprised that after eight o'clock in the evening, the main road almost no one saw, not to mention the night market, vendors are rarely seen. The vendors are rare. Go around the city center, although there is a small night market, but the flow of people really can not be compared. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product or service, and then you can get it back.
Perhaps they also nestled in which indoor enjoy the night life, and Changsha's night life is outward, pro-people, passionate.
I'm really a foodie, I can't stop talking about food. I'd like to continue to break down a little bit of the fun.
I am a cool amusement park people, so the sophomore and students ran the Window of the World, but the roller coaster there can not satisfy my heart this love stimulation ~
Fortunately, behind the next door to Zhuzhou and opened the Fantasy, while the school spring tour hard to play a couple of times, where the roller coaster, the hammer, the jumper, let me in the air to enjoy the dumping, it is really love and fear!
On the rides, dipped in the light of the school, I played the three bears again - an indoor ski resort. I'm not a good sports cell, and do not want to spend money on a coach, did not learn, but it is still very cool to experience.
The funniest thing is that there also met a few specially from Jiangxi high speed train over to play skiing old cousin, afterward they had to treat us to take to eat crayfish.
These two years and opened the oversized Xiangjiang Joy City, play water, play snow ...... have seen jitterbugs on the promo, very heartwarming, but just opened that will be too many people did not get to go into, and now I want to go is also more difficult.
Changsha also has two must card attractions, what Orange Island head, Yuelu Mountain, I also come to chatter.
First of all, Orange Island head, and college roommates first went to the time, is to take pictures, she in order to practice photography skills, I in order to stink beauty. There is a large lawn there, often see couples here to take wedding photos.
My current WeChat avatar was taken at that time, and I haven't changed it until now, but you can't tell it's Orange Island from the avatar.
At the head of Orange Island is the famous Mao Grandpa statue, which is really huge. Standing there, there is really a "independent cold autumn, Xiangjiang River to the north," the vast momentum.
Before, every Saturday night, Orange Island will have a large fireworks show, each 30 minutes, when there are all the black people, most of the college students, I read the time, but also often go to the hilarious, both to see the fireworks, but also to see the people.
In passing, the famous Strawberry Music Festival will also be held here, although I was not willing to spare the tickets, think about it, quite silly ~
In fact, my favorite is not the Orange Island head of the island, but the long banks of the Xiangjiang River, a piece of golden rapeseed flower field, walk into it, you can also find near the water's edge, the long water grass covered by a small clear water ditch. This is a rare natural atmosphere around the CBD.
I am a person who loves to ride a boat, not the big cruise ship, not to mention the small boat in the park, I love the small wooden boat, the kind of no canopy, manual paddling of the small wooden boat. That day happened to find a leaf, asked the boatman, over to the other side of the river to 5 yuan, then think about taking the bus as long as 1 yuan 4, and I'm not to cross the river, gave up ...... think about the University of me, really stingy!
So what poetry and faraway places, hurry to earn enough money, or you do not even spare the scenery in front of you!
And then came to Yuelu Mountain, I went to the number of times is not much, this small mountain in fact, more than 400 meters, compared to the hometown of Nanyue Hengshan really is nothing. But this small mountain is also interesting, will play the people will choose the fall to see the red maple on the mountain, play a play above the zip line.
People who love to study can go to the Yuelu Academy, one of the "four great academies", which requires a ticket, Hunan University student ID card can enter for free. I was lucky enough to follow my studious roommate in to listen to a class, which seemed to be about nationalism, and I forgot the specifics, but I only remembered that the lecture hall was called "Minglun Hall".
If you take the main road, it's about a 40-minute climb up the hill. Once, I stumbled upon a path from the back of the Faculty of Letters that led up the mountain, and one section was a small, almost straight stone staircase, which was a bit scary to stand on and look down.
Climbing up the stone stairs is a bit of a struggle, but you're almost at the top when you're done, which is a lot faster than usual, and it's the kind of path that fits the mood of the mountain compared to the gentle, spacious asphalt avenues.
In addition to the must-hit attractions, if you are a literary youth, you can search the bookstore online, I've been to my roommate took me to Carver's bookstore, the bookstore is small, the book is also niche, not the kind of bookstore most conspicuous place full of tutorials;
You can go to the Hunan Provincial Museum, to appreciate the folklore of Hunan.
You can go to the Hunan Provincial Museum and enjoy the folklore of Hunan. Of course, the most novelty is the ancient corpse of Mrs. Xin Zhui, which was the wife of a prime minister in the Han Dynasty, and the dried body is very well preserved, so I don't know how Mrs. Xin Zhui would feel if she knew that so many people were viewing her remains in the future.
You can go to the Xie Zilong Art Museum, understand the art of words can appreciate appreciate, do not understand the art of photography is also possible, before the jitterbug uploaded by the security guards will take pictures is here;
You can go to the Dragon Pond bar street, work and colleagues have been to drink, listen to the song, full of how much consumption can be up to their own singing, I sang a song of a dream a "dream", but also recorded a video, also saved the video. I also recorded a video and saved it for a long time, but because of the lack of memory, I still deleted it ......
You can also watch the performance information online in advance, and was once taken by a college roommate (that is, I took me to Yuelu Shucheng and bookstore that) to 46 (a small bar, often with bands) to listen to the low absinthe of a small The only time I've ever been to a show was when I saw this niche folk music.
You can also go to the Lake Merced Theater, which has big operas and small plays, and where I once saw Meng Jinghui alone for two plays.
Speaking of plays, I think back to my college days, when our school's Chu Soul Drama Club, in which my college classmates acted in "White Rose and Red Rose," was performed at the Hunan Grand Theater (or the Tianhan Grand Theater, I can't remember).
That was the first play I ever saw, and it was really quite a shock. The actors didn't rely on microphones, but their voices echoed throughout the theater, and you felt very natural, not out of place. It turns out that when you pass by the classroom, you often hear members of the drama club practicing their voices there, so I guess that's how the basics are practiced.
When I was working later, I had the chance to sign up for a free show at Hunan Agricultural University (that's the university where Yuan Longping's grandfather was), the Rainbow Drama Club's play "Waiting for Godot", which was performed in an alley called Aimin Road, where there is a very small, very small Renaissance Theatre, and I walked into it to find that the environment was very good. It's very nice. It's really hidden, you can't find it if you don't go looking for it, it's kind of hidden in the city.
The university community theater, whether it is the level of adaptation or performance level, its viewability in my layman's view, no less than the professional level.
It's just that such opportunities no longer exist.
Another place worth mentioning is the Kaifuku Temple. The first time I went there was to ask for a fortune in marriage, and coincidentally, I shook out a current boyfriend that night.
So this year's Qingming Festival I deliberately went again. The same, the door first cast the wishing pool, 10 coins in 3, seems to be a successful career and in and out of the peace it, and a forget.
The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do it in a way that's easy to understand.
The name of the company is "The Crown", which means "The Crown" in Chinese.
The sign writer said, "I'm going to have a great career next year.
I've been in the water for a long time, so I want to have a good year this year!
To be honest, most of the young people go to temples, and the same goes for the Jixing Temple in Nanjing. It feels like not many Chinese people actually believe in Buddhism, and most of them go there because they want something.
However, when I went to Lushan Temple once, the walls of one of the temples were covered with visitors' prayers. There was one that struck me the most, and it seemed to read: May my unborn child be happy and joyful in heaven! I seem to understand such prayers better.
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Having said that, if I want to use one word to describe Changsha, I really can't think of the most accurate one, because she is too rich, young, old, fashionable, literary, delicious and fun, happy, livable ......
After leaving Changsha, a lot of news about Changsha can only be learned from the Internet and the circle of friends. The internet and the circle of friends have learned, for example: Changsha's traffic lights on Valentine's Day turned into a heart-shaped, crosswalks in the Women's Day painted pink, a foreign first tea YanYueSe, WenHeYou queue number of people over the table, the scalper to take advantage of the opportunity to speculate on the dumping of the ......
All of these make people feel more and more that this is a rising city, she is young and creative, she is warm and understands the heart.
So, Changsha is a good memory for me, and it can be a good experience for you.
Shenbi
Continuous water retrogression
Buddhist writing
Longing to be cured
Also look forward to curing you
Public number "from the young female teachers of the spit"