In the past, Suzhou people paid little attention to scouring for books and buying books. They either went to Xinhua Bookstore or Siqian Street Cultural Market.
The original Suzhou cultural market is near the South Gate, just opposite the Workers' Cultural Palace. I moved to Siqian Street 1 17 in 2004 and have lived there ever since. I remember I was a student from Suzhou.
Before the development of online shopping, the cultural market can be said to be a holy place for Suzhou to buy books and cultural products. At present, the cultural market has only three floors, and the place seems to be small. At that time, I didn't think I could finish shopping all day.
The first floor is the most lively and advertised signboard. There are all kinds of books piled up everywhere, and it should be difficult to turn back among books and people.
Most of the books on the first floor are teaching materials. Every winter and summer vacation, before school starts, it becomes a world for primary and secondary school students and their parents. From children's reading and writing, to extracurricular tutoring in primary and junior high schools, to various professional examination textbooks, when I was in primary school, I suddenly felt that my future was "dim"-too much. Ah! Is the research over?
Fortunately, there are many classic "extracurricular reading materials" that can heal young minds, in addition to various simulation papers and real questions. Students' love novels and fantasy novel with gorgeous covers became the most popular reading materials on campus at that time.
But this kind of books are regarded as a scourge by parents, and they are not serious books anyway.
The Reader, Youth Digest and Yilin recommended by teachers hold up half of the extracurricular reading materials, and the stories inside have become the necessary materials for many students' compositions.
In the past, every time I got the reader, it would become 34 pages first.
I think after the college entrance examination, I can get rid of the cultural market and be liberated in the university stage.
The proof of facts is simply childish! CET-4 and CET-6, TOEFL IELTS, civil service exam ... Sure enough, you can't escape the scope of the first floor of the cultural market.
Compared with the first floor, the cultural market on the second floor is not so lively. The elevator never seems to open, but always comes up like a staircase.
Calligraphy and art are the main things on the second floor, and stationery is the main thing on the third floor. The more people go up, the fewer people there are.
The third floor once carried many traces of youth of boys and girls, a poster of Zhang Mingxing and a simple sticker, which also made young faces glow with pure happiness.
I don't know how many students have bought CDs from Jay Chou and JJ Lin, game discs and movies here, and found the best products in their hearts from the dazzling array of goods. What a wonderful feeling.
At present, stationery stores on the third floor of the cultural market account for more than half, and the shops around the stars have become the world of small fresh meat. CDs of games and movies may have been cornered and will soon disappear.
There is also a small bookstore with the most unique style in the whole cultural market, Hong Wen Bookstore.
Some people joked that other shops in the whole cultural market are "markets" and only their home is responsible for "culture".
Changes of Bookstores in Hong Wen
Indeed, in the sea of teaching AIDS and bestsellers, this bookstore dedicated to humanities and social science books is very special.
Such bookstores are called independent bookstores by readers.
20 14 The Blue Bookstore, the most famous independent bookstore in Suzhou, closed. At that time, I worked as a neighbor in Nanmen Cultural Market and Blue Bookstore for a while. For a time, the circle of friends set off an uproar. Many old readers are filled with emotion. Is there room to open a bookstore in such a big Suzhou?
However, no one thought of it. But in recent years, Eslite Bookstore, Zhongshuge, Sisyph ... one after another newer, more fashionable and richer bookstores have prospered the cultural market of Suzhou people. This may be a big era for big brands.
Compared with them, the cultural market is really old.
The party living in the cracks should also seek new changes and ways out.
Suzhou Zhongshuge
Just like living in the cultural market of the last era.
People who really love reading will always like to visit bookstores, and the feeling of visiting bookstores will always be more vivid than drawing screens on mobile phones.
Although there was once a small and independent bookstore that disappeared in memory, hiding in a corner of the city, living an unremarkable life without competition.
But we still like to wander around the city and suddenly meet the surprise of a small bookstore. Maybe it's because I got the gorgeous version of "Research on Nine Grades of Official Law". Probably because I read the translation of Complete Utopia. In addition, perhaps it is because of the tranquility and depth of time.
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