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Now Nanning is becoming more and more of a big city, with more and more high-rise shopping malls, and the city is becoming more and more beautiful, and Nanning is becoming familiar and strange. Some things have become better after reconstruction, while some things have disappeared forever. Those mottled memories are being swallowed up little by little, and the good things that once existed have been turned into endless regrets. Once those familiar places, miss the flavor, now where can still find?
A disappearing landmark
1. Beida Passenger Terminal
Beida Passenger Terminal is close to the city's fast inner ring road, Nanning City, as the construction of the Great Southwest Passage one of the highway transportation hub site. It used to be the most crowded passenger transportation station in Nanning.
Due to more serious traffic congestion during operation, especially during New Year festivals leading to high pressure on the surrounding road traffic. Beida Passenger Terminal was officially closed down in 2013 and relocated to Xixiangtang Passenger Terminal.
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The former Beida Passenger Terminal was a busy place, which has been abandoned there since it moved to Xixiangtang Passenger Terminal. It wasn't until November 2017 that the Beida Passenger Terminal was demolished, officially ending more than two decades of history. According to the renovation plan, you can see that the Beida Passenger Terminal will be transformed into a residential area in the future.
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2. Ethnic mall
Ethnic mall is located in the busiest Chaoyang shopping district, once had the hottest leisure and entertainment in Nanning, Nanning's earliest karaoke halls, but also Nanning people love to go to the mecca of bargain hunting. Previously, if the family to buy audio equipment and electronic products, the first thought must be to go to the Nationalities Mall.
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In July 2017, there was news that the Nationalities Mall was about to be demolished and relocated, and the original site or a new urban complex will be built. Accompanying Nanning people for 28 years, to say goodbye.
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My family still has the DVD player that I bought at the Nationalities Mall more than ten years ago, and I saved up my pocket money to buy all kinds of cartoon CDs at that time. With the popularization of the Internet, DVD players have long been obsolete. The time has changed, now Nanning more modern shopping malls, 28-year-old ethnic malls have faded away from the hustle and bustle, just like the DVD player by the era of elimination.
3. Chaoyang People's Footbridge
In 1985, Guangxi's first footbridge was completed in Nanning. At that time, Chaoyang Road, People's Road Department Store area has a very large flow of people, people in order to rush directly through the red light, resulting in a number of traffic accidents. In order to alleviate the problem of traffic congestion at the intersection, the Nanning government invested more than 500,000 yuan to build this footbridge.
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With this flyover, people almost no longer run the red light across the road, the traffic order is much better. In those days, there were also a lot of small commodities sold on the footbridge, eggs, buns, handicrafts and so on, all kinds of all kinds of, and the price is very cheap.
After more than 20 years of wind and rain, the footbridge has rusted badly, and it is technically not suitable for reinforcement. So the Nanning government decided to dismantle the flyover. When it had to say goodbye to the people of Nanning, many citizens went forward to take a photo to commemorate the event, and some wanted to walk on this flyover one last time.
4. China Cinema
China Cinema was built in the 1930s, is one of the oldest cinema in Nanning. 1932 by the Guangxi Governor Tan public house converted into a theater, then called the China Theatre, to show the main in September 1946 was renamed China Cinema. At that time, China Cinema was one of the largest cinemas in Nanning, and the whole theater could accommodate more than 2,000 people.
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With the continuous emergence of star cinemas in Nanning, Wanda Cinema, Red Star Cinema, Broadway Cinema and other advanced equipment, high quality service cinema opened one after another, the traditional old-fashioned Zhonghua Cinema is also in the competition in the slow decline. 2013 Eternal Era Cinema spent a huge sum of money on the renovation of Zhonghua Cinema City upgraded, the Chinese cinema has become more modern. It also became more modernized.
In 2017, with the Three Streets and Two Alleys project in Nanning, the China Cinema was also demolished. Nanning's Republic of China buildings are now one less.
5. Old Water Street
There are many different opinions about the origin of the name of Water Street. It is said that before the liberation, Walking Street, Huaqiang Road, the residents of the area have to pass through here to the Yongjiang River to pick water to eat, into a street water sparkling, and thus the name. Some people say, before Water Street because it is selling water, only "Water Street" name. Others say, Water Street is often flooded and waterlogged many years ago and named.
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No matter what the name of Water Street, Water Street represents, is a rich Nanning flavor. Water Street, representing the tradition of Nanning, is the most Nanning characteristics of the old city. In quite a long time, the water street food market business varieties, covering almost all the agricultural products, not only the color of the goods is superior, and the variety of Qi, the price is lower than other food market.
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Water Street not only carries the memory of Nanning's century-long trade, but also the birthplace of Nanning's traditional food culture. Some people say that the water street is the Nanning people's stomach, and now those old water street food are moved to various places, can no longer find the pure flavor of the old water street.
6. South Cotton Textile Factory
In the last century, the traditional industrial development of the most prosperous eighties and nineties, Beihu area gathered textile factories, cigarette factories, monosodium glutamate factories and other manufacturing state-owned enterprises. Each of these factories had its own living quarters, and the Nanning Cotton Spinning Factory was one of them.
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Nan cotton is the original Nanning Cotton Spinning and Weaving Factory, short for Nanning, in the old Nanning almost no one knows, is the eighties and nineties of the last century in the minds of the old Nanning brilliant industrial representatives. At that time, Beihu Road, Youai Road, Hengyang Road, Zhonghua Road, a large area, are the South Cotton Spinning Mill factory and living quarters.
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But with the country's economic transformation and reform, the transformation of unsuccessful state-owned enterprises one after another bankruptcy, prosperity is no longer, leaving a place of overgrown weeds and decay and depression. However, this piece of land will usher in a new life, the old city reform project will soon begin, the future of high-rise buildings here, witnessed the industrial age of Nanning, "nan cotton" will become history.
7. Linsheng Street
In Nanning, everyone knows Zhongshan Road, and how many people know that there is a Linsheng Street at the end of Zhongshan Road. But when it comes to Tianfu Xiang old friends powder many people suddenly realized that the original street is called Linsheng Street.
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Although it is in the center of the city, it does not fit in with the surrounding bustle. In the early years, Lin Sheng Street was very lively, and the alley also hid many old Nanning only know the food, representing the flavor of the old Nanning.
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Later, many people moved out of this alley, and Lin Sheng Street also gradually aged, or to say goodbye to the people of Nanning. Tianfu Xiang's head office moved away, the low old house was also demolished, Lin Sheng Street finally can only exist in the memory of Nanning people.
8. Round Lake Bird and Flower Market
When I was a child, I could go to the bird and flower market than to go to the amusement park is also happy. In addition to flowers, there are all kinds of interesting things, many people will come here to fight crickets, play with birds, in addition to flowers and potted plants, dogs and cats, there are many wild animals and antiques that are difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.
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Garden Lake Road Bird and Flower Market in the past is Nanning people recreation, shopping for flowers and pets in the first place, was awarded the "national key flower market" title. Although Nanning later had other flower and bird market, but still round Lake Road flower and bird market is the most popular, the most lively.
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Nonetheless, the Yuanhu Road Flower and Bird Market was demolished because of the need for the development of the Nanning Expressway development. Round Lake Flower and Bird Market was demolished on March 16, 2011, and one of Nanning's city's business cards disappeared.
9. Gui Theater
Like me, many of the 90s do not know Nanning original there is a Gui Theater, you may not think of where it is, nowadays the Department Store opposite the Diamond Plaza, its predecessor is the Gui Theater.
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In the 1950s, is the golden age of Guangxi Gui opera. Later, the Gui Theater not only performed Gui Opera, but also arranged all kinds of performances, Cantonese Opera, Peking Opera, opera appraisal, colorful tunes, drama, acrobatics, songs and dances, etc., and the attendance rate of each show was very high.
Later, as the cultural activities of Nanning people became more and more abundant, the Gui Theater also had to show movies mainly. 1988, the Gui Theater was planned to be demolished and rebuilt. From then on, the Gui Theater could only be seen in the old photos of Nanning.
Second, the disappearance of the village voice?
1. Nanning vernacular
Nanning has a variety of dialects, suburban areas speak Ping dialect, Wuming Yongning and other parts of the region say Zhuang dialect. But most of the old Nanning are still speaking Nanning vernacular." The "vernacular" is the common name for the Cantonese language, and the vernacular in Nanning is actually a part of Cantonese.
Although the Nanning vernacular has a history of several hundred years, fewer and fewer people in Nanning speak it now. The younger generation has adopted Mandarin as their daily language, and use it only to communicate with their families. We are becoming more and more fluent in Nanpu, but we are forgetting the vernacular that we grew up speaking, and we are not even teaching the next generation to speak vernacular.
A while ago, there was a popular chart on the Internet that showed the percentage of 6-20 year olds who could speak the dialect proficiently, and I got cold feet when I saw the column for Nanning. Only 13% of Nanning's children and teenagers are fluent in the dialect, which is one of the lowest in the country, and even lower than Shenzhen, a city of immigrants.
Looking at the stats for a few other age groups, one can visualize that proficiency in Nanning's vernacular is lower from generation to generation.
Although these statistics are not necessarily 100% accurate, we can really feel the dying of Nanning's vernacular in our lives. Walking on the streets of cities like Chengdu, Chongqing and Guangzhou, what you hear is basically Sichuanese and Cantonese, while in Nanning everyone prefers to speak Nanpu.
? Third, the disappearing technology?
In the hearts of the old generations, there is a craft to go around the world. So in the streets and alleys of old Nanning, you can often see some traditional handicraft work. Our generation doesn't care so much about handicraft work anymore, do you still remember those old techniques that disappeared in the streets of Nanning?
1. Grinding knives
More than a decade ago in the old streets and alleys can often be heard "grinding knives cackling" yell, high-pitched long yell became a unique note on the street, but also become the childhood memories of several generations.
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My grandmother's kitchen knives are almost as old as I am, and when they get dull, they are sharpened, and then they are as good as new. Perhaps the business of knife sharpening is very inconspicuous, but it is one of the jobs closest to the lives of the people. Now there are not many knife sharpeners, an old industry is gradually shrinking, this may be the industrial age and traditional craft irreconcilable contradictions.
2. Shoe Repair
Now if the shoes are bad, the first reaction must be to re-buy a new pair. But in the heart of the old Nanning, the shoes are bad should be taken to make up, make up a good re-wear. In the past, there were a few shoe repair stalls near the old streets, a small chair, put the tools on the ground to start repairing shoes. In the past, when shoes were broken, my mom would take them to the side of the road to make up for it, and a pair of shoes could be worn for several years.
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Now we will not go to the shoes, bad to throw away a pair of replacement, and do not realize that the shoes gradually disappeared in the streets of Nanning, shoes stalls have become a memory that exists only in childhood.
3. Pulling the noodles
There is a popular riddle: "Four feet touch each other, four eyes face each other, a person bites the root of the teeth, a person in the enduring pain." This is the story of "Bunmyeon", a traditional Chinese ritual in which a person's face is pulled to the ground. The Amu, who specializes in face-pulling, plucks the sweaty hairs from the woman's forehead and temples with a thread and fixes the curved crescent eyebrows.
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When I was a kid, I used to see Bunmyeon in the Chaoyang Square area. In the past, Nanning girls who loved beauty loved to pull the face, the Amu hands, a few threads can make the face radiant. Later, with the development of modern beauty technology, pulling the face also gradually disappeared in the city.
4. Tailoring
My grandmother told me that in her time, only on New Year's Day could she find a tailor to make new clothes, and she could be happy for a year with a new dress. In my mother's generation, almost every family had a sewing machine, because the popular dowry at that time was a sewing machine, a bicycle, a radio and a watch.
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Nowadays, it is more and more convenient to buy clothes, you don't even need to go out of the house to buy clothes, and many stores also provide the service of altering clothes. People no longer need to find a tailor, this line of work is also so slowly decline, the need to do clothes alteration of clothes are not many people.
? Fourth, the disappearance of the old objects?
1. Wanli beer
Wanli beer is a real old brand of Nanning, Nanning consumers localization complex is very strong. At that time, every family drank Wanli beer, and most Nanning people witnessed the splendor and decline of Wanli brand.
In 2001, Tsingtao Brewery acquired Wanli Brewery and quickly implemented a brand replacement strategy, directly replacing Wanli with Tsingtao Brewery Popular. Once Nanning people familiar with Wanli beer no longer exists, but still remember that "traveling thousands of miles, drink Wanli beer", accompanied by Nanning people through the course of growth.
2. Iron Bird Soy Sauce
Iron Bird was founded in the Xianfeng years, the most prosperous period is the 80s to 90s, at that time the annual sales volume reached more than 10 million. I remember when I was a child, every family used Iron Bird soy sauce, and later there is Iron Bird yellow skin sauce, is Nanning people eat rolls of flour, flour dumplings standard. It is the flavor of childhood, three or four dollars a bottle, cheap and big bowl.
Now Iron Bird has been losing money for years, and the operation has been very difficult. Recently, there has been news that the iron bird soy sauce will be discontinued, as Nanning people I can not help but regret, over the years, the iron bird has become a memory of Nanning people, the flavor of the childhood may never eat again.
3. Duo Li electric fan
Duo Li Electrical Appliances Limited Liability Company's predecessor is the Nanning Electric Fan Factory, so far there are decades of history. Now, people get rid of the summer cooling is the first choice of air conditioning, do you remember the childhood summer are in the big sunflower fan and Duo Li electric fan accompanied by spent.
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Until now, my family still has such a fan, with a dozen or two decades has not been bad, the quality is very good, although the summer may not be taken out to use, but can not afford to lose, perhaps this is a kind of sentiment. Development to the present, Duo Li has not only the production of electric fans, but also the production of hoods, bath warmers, electronic sterilizer and other household appliances.
4. Tongle milk
Tongle milk is an old milk brand in Guangxi, has a history of more than 60 years, nurtured several generations of Guangxi people. I remember that in the past, as long as you order milk, you will be given a milk box at home, and someone will deliver the milk to your doorstep every morning. You could drink fresh milk as soon as you opened your door.
Now very few people will order fresh milk to drink, more is to go to the supermarket to buy a few boxes home to hoard. And the children's milk is also more and more rare, now Nanning people are more familiar with the Huang's, Shibu these brands, but forgot to accompany us to grow up with the children's milk.
5. Yongjiang soap
Nanning Soap Factory was once Guangxi's largest detergent business, when the main product is this small piece of Yongjiang soap. 21st century, the factory closed down, with a history of seventy years of business went up in smoke. Later, Yongjiang soap by Nanning Xiangchen daily chemical limited liability company production.
Twenty years ago, Yongjiang brand products are the best-selling daily necessities wholesale store, but now the market has basically not seen.
6. Lotus MSG
Lotus MSG used to be a household name in Guangxi, every household kitchen will have such a bag of transparent packaging of MSG, which was born in Nanning MSG plant. 2011 Beihu Road Lotus MSG plant was demolished, the original all over the Nanning supermarkets and small stores of Lotus MSG plant just fell down.
Now the Lotus MSG printed with lotus has rarely appeared on the market, in the large supermarkets and old neighborhood stores are no longer its figure, as the memory of the old Nanning people so disappeared.
V. Disappearing snacks
1. White lemon soda
When I was a kid, my favorite drink was not Coke or Sprite, but Nanning's native white lemon. At that time, it was also popular to say "white lemon, Bo you confused". It was packaged in glass bottles like beer bottles and cost one dollar for a big bottle, which tasted a bit like Sprite and had a bit of lemon flavor.
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At that time, adults drank Wanli Beer and children drank White Lemon, which is the childhood memory of every Nanning people. At that time, it was still a luxury to drink drinks, and to drink a bottle of white lemon was like getting the whole world. Unconsciously, the white lemon disappeared, and now I want to drink can not be bought, it is really nostalgic.
2. Powerful throat tea
In elementary school, when it came to the classroom, everyone would run to the kiosk to buy 50 cents a cup of throat tea, drink up the throat cool, and the spice bar is simply the standard match between classes. After the gym class sweaty time is not to buy water, but a cup of iced throat tea.
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This throat tea can be said to be one of the essential snacks when Nanning people go to school, and now in the small store around may still be able to buy. Still the original flavor, the original price, memories are full.
3.6:30 soybean milk
50 cents a bag of 6:30 soybean milk, daily breakfast must. Now you can't find this kind of bag, the market has become a glass bottle. But I think the bagged 6:30 is more like the feeling of childhood.
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4. whistle mints
When I was a kid, two for a dime, two pieces of sugar can be like buttons on each other, there is a hole in the center. Put in the mouth, not melt before you can "boo boo boo" blow a few minutes. At that time, eating whistling candies was very exciting. Be sure to listen to the largest number of time to put in the mouth, while blowing while eating.
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5. big bubble gum
This must be 80, 90 years after the essential snacks as a child, a dime a piece, two eat together can blow big bubbles. Elementary school, if who will not blow bubbles surely by classmates laughed to death. Also often race who blew bubbles big, the result was sticky face is bubble gum.
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In 2007, the big bubble gum group was acquired by Wrigley, accompanied by a whole childhood of the big bubble gum also disappeared, can only be left in the memory of childhood.
6. doll face ice cream
Doll face ice cream, also known as flower face, is a mixture of cream and cocoa, a few cents. Cocoa-colored hat, eyes and mouth, cream-colored face. In the memory so far that is the most delicious ice cream, then always consider the first hat or face, eat a can be happy all day. When I was a child, I ate all the canned goods produced by Nanning Cannery, and now there is no longer. But Yili came out with a similar, 2 dollars a.
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7. Figs silk
Minimalist style of black and white packaging, "fig" three big words. Sweet and sour figs, always bring back memories. 80, 90 after the top ten nostalgic snacks, as early as more than a decade ago, almost every roadside store can see its figure, as a child every day to spend a dime to enjoy.
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Nanning used to be so small, even Langdong are vegetable fields, now Nanning is very big, everywhere is a building. Now Nanning has long been not what we remember, we are surprised every year at the changes in Nanning.
Nanning, the city, is disappearing, but at the same time, it is also growing with us.
The city is disappearing, but at the same time, it is growing with us.