This is Shanghai

🌟 Two stories of Shanghai: one side is dazzling neon lights, the other is the passage of time 🌉 The Huangpu River crossing a century The Huangpu River is like a time dividing line, splitting Shanghai into two. Standing on the Bund and gazing at Lujiazui across the river, you can faintly see the transformation of this city from a fishing village to an international metropolis. After the port opened in 1843, the Bund's international architectural complex rose up, with 52 historic buildings of various styles, like a three-dimensional encyclopedia of world architecture. 🏙️ The bustling code of Nanjing Road This "China's No.1 Commercial Street" holds many legends: in 1920, China's first Western-style department store, Wing On Company, opened here, and neon lights first lit up Shanghai's night sky; in 1934, when the International Hotel was completed, it dominated as the "Far East's tallest building" at 83.8 meters for half a century. Walking here today, you can still smell the old Shanghai life in the pastry aroma of the time-honored brand "Shen Dacheng." 🕯️ The silent cry of the Sihang Warehouse This gray building by the Suzhou Creek holds the tragic memory of the 800 heroes who bravely defended against the enemy in 1937. The 5-meter-high bullet marks on the west wall are still clear, like a code crossing time and space, telling the story of that fierce four-day and four-night battle. It is especially recommended to visit at dusk, when the sunset glow shines on the bullet holes, making the whole building seem to glow. 🏛️ The hidden map behind the Bund Turning into a small alley on Jiangxi Middle Road, you will encounter another Shanghai: the aroma of coffee drifts from red brick old foreign-style houses, 1930s-style new lanes where old Shanghainese buy groceries in pajamas, and the stone gate courtyards still retain the traces of life from the "Seventy-two Tenants." In the café renovated from the former site of the Shenbao Newspaper, running your fingers over century-old tiles, you can touch the "gorgeous yet desolate" era depicted by Eileen Chang. Shanghai has never been just one face; she is both the indigo-dyed cloth drying in the lanes and the never-extinguishing light show of Lujiazui. The most charming thing about this city is that it lets you hear both the gramophone playing "Evening Primrose" and the notification sound on your phone, completing a romantic dialogue with history in the intersection of time and space.