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Whenever I think about where I can go to play in Xiamen, my friends feel very troubled. After all, there are only a handful of so-called scenic spots in Xiamen besides shopping malls, Zhongshan Road and Gulangyu Island.

Maybe it's because tourists who come and go in a hurry don't have much time to feel the breath of a city at all, but Xiamen needs to calm down to slowly appreciate its beauty. Therefore, those who travel have only a short encounter with Xiamen, and it is difficult to really walk into her.

I prefer to go to the fireworks-filled streets of Xiamen to explore the unique scenery of the city, rather than queuing, taking photos and punching cards in online celebrity.

I saw a sentence that day: "If prosperity is the face of a city, then the villages in the city and the old urban and rural areas hidden in the city are the lining of the city."

If you want to be really close to a city, it is not enough to stay on the surface, but also to see the lining. In these places, you can see all kinds of people, things and things, you can feel the breath of life, and you can even see the behavior behind civilization that is not within the scope of moral civilization for life.

Bashi is one of the "lizi" in Xiamen.

Over the years, this seaside garden city has given people the impression of being beautiful and livable. Few people have explored the appearance of old Xiamen behind a modern and civilized city.

However, the street blocks full of authentic Minnan flavor are also a part of Xiamen that can't be ignored.

Eight markets are called eight markets, which is the abbreviation of "the eighth vegetable market" in Xiamen. Before, Xiamen had the first to ninth vegetable markets. Most of the vegetable markets were demolished and disappeared in the process of rebuilding the old city and rectifying the surrounding environment of tourist attractions, and were replaced by modern buildings.

Only a few of the nine vegetable markets remain, and only the seventh vegetable market and the eighth vegetable market are well preserved. The "seventh vegetable market" is the "Datong vegetable market" among most people, and it is the food delivery hub of most vegetable markets in Xiamen today. The "eighth vegetable market", that is, the "eight markets", is called "Yingping Farmers Market", which is close to the port pier and is the largest seafood market hub in Xiamen.

In recent years, Bashi, which is full of fireworks, has gradually become one of the places where tourists approach Xiamen. Under the old arcade, there are countless vegetable and fruit stalls, seafood and meat stalls and authentic pastry shops in southern Fujian, noisy surrounding environment, crowded and humid roads, and air full of salty and fishy seafood ... This is the unique landscape of the eight cities.

Bashi, as a relatively complete vegetable market, is not only a good place for many Xiamen people to buy seafood, family banquet ingredients and buy new year's goods, but also a place for young people to taste authentic local food and find the taste of childhood.

"The taste of a city is in time."

"People who want to have dinner with you like to eat both ups and downs; People who want to take you home are on the way to the southeast and northwest. "

There are two impressive words in the storefront propaganda on Bashi Street.

the older you get, the more your tongue remembers what you ate as a child. Wandering in the streets full of countless familiar Minnan special foods, when the food I ate as a child suddenly reappeared in front of my eyes, I couldn't help but buy some to taste, recalling the taste that stayed on the tip of my tongue, which was familiar and kind.

when we grow up, we spread all over the world and go our separate ways. Most of us live in our own tracks, with little intersection. Rare gathering time and * * * delicious food always become extraordinarily expected and delightful.

Many times we go to enjoy delicious food, besides food, what is more important is the people who eat with us. We're not far from Wan Li, and we're tired of rushing to distant places to play. Besides the scenery, it's more important to have a good time with our friends.

Walking in the eight cities called "Food Map", there are several old shops that have to taste Chinese food. Eight-city authentic daily meals for a whole day. Although it is not a delicacy, it will always be a memorable place.

No matter at breakfast time, the Yaben wheat milk at No.158 Kaiyuan Road, the Yanwei ancient early pot paste next door, the traditional batter, Zheng Ji fried dumplings and the soybean milk at Hefeng Doufang.

At lunch time, friends-friendly snacks are the four best in southern Fujian-pig's foot noodles, Satay Noodles noodles, clear soup noodles and noodles with noodles. Or steamed buns on Hengzhu Road, meat sealed by Conghui Tongan and flat food by Lai Cuo, and fried bread in Huiyuan Bakery.

There are also Zhong Lijun's fried cakes, Huilin frozen bamboo shoots, Ajie spiced, ginger duck, Liangshan food stall and Zhu Ji hand-torn chicken.

In ordinary meals, the flavor of life is hidden. In my spare time, I make an appointment with my friends to Bashi, and I walk and watch all the way slowly. When I am tired, I rest and eat, which is also a very enjoyable thing.

In addition, there are Adi candied tea, Ajizai and horseshoe cakes from Jizhi Department Store. During the midnight snack, I went to food stalls, small bars and barbecue stalls with my friends to get together and talk about things.

having wine, meat, friends, stories, and spitting is one of the best things in life, but that's all.

"Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes." . Eight cities with noisy crowds are like a small river and lake.

Walking in Bashi street for the first time, besides sighing the lively atmosphere of the market, the quaint and dilapidated buildings around it are also places that can attract people's attention.

The wet, noisy and crowded vegetable market is particularly obvious in Bashi, a big seafood market. This is a completely different scene from Zhongshan Street, World Trade Center, Vientiane City and other modern bustling cities in Xiamen.

When you look up, you can vaguely see that people are still living in these old buildings through those broken attics and windows that have not been renovated for many years and are covered with dust. From time to time, you can see clothes hanging out from the windows that are open to the outside.

I'm used to the modernity and prosperity of Xiamen. When I first stepped into the eight cities, the scene in front of me gave people the feeling of entering a different world.

In the small rivers and lakes of Eight Cities, "Martial Arts Films" are being staged all the time. Every morning, when most people are still in a deep sleep state, the vendors in the vegetable market begin to be busy all day, and they don't close the stalls until the crowd dissipates and everyone begins to disperse at night.

They are like this, from day to night, day after day, year after year, even if it rains or winds, they rarely go out of business.

It is a unique trick of vegetable market vendors to "short Jin and short Liang", and "bargaining" is an essential step in vegetable market trading. Bashi, one of the largest vegetable markets in Xiamen, is no exception.

In order to earn more money, vegetable sellers spend a lot of time on tricks. In order not to be taken advantage of by others, people who buy vegetables open their eyes to distinguish authenticity, and both sides bargain, playing Tai Chi once and for all. Local people are used to it. If foreigners are not familiar with the culture here, they will be easily blackmailed when buying food.

The so-called Jianghu is just for living.

Bashi is a tourist garden city in Yu Haibin, but it is also an indispensable part of Xiamen with southern Fujian characteristics.

despite the high-rise buildings in the bustling center, the face of shopping malls and cinemas is close to the residential streets in the old city and the lining of the market.

Stroll through time, shuttle through the streets of Bashi, which has a dazzling array of meat and vegetable stalls, tea cake shops and delicatessens, feel the most distinctive market appearance of Xiamen, and taste the authentic food of old Xiamen little by little. You will realize more clearly what Xiamen really looks like.

The flavor of Bashi, with the streets and fireworks in Xiamen, hides the old days in southern Fujian.

no matter how long it has passed and how far it has traveled, people and things that have long been rooted in memory will never be dispersed.