What is Shanghai?
What is Shanghai?
This is Shanghai ——
This is Shanghai ——
Lamp posts by the cafes on
FuXing Road
where sprinkles fell along
with the phoenix leaves covering
the pavements that some
playful children just fly by
The grandparents inside the
alleys
Sitting on bamboo branches
fanning themselves
Glaring at the steam from
the pots climbing to the ceiling
through the windows and
wide open doors
The photographs at the art
exhibitions in halls
Chattering, commenting on
the exquisite forms of arts
The conductor in Concert
Hall
This is Shanghai ——
It subtly merges the charm
of contemporary architecture and pace
With the relic of French
concession and Buddhist temples
It inevitably combines the
foreign ambitions of the past
With the local voices still
clamoring in Shanghainese here and there
And now for a life that is
full and fulfilling
This is Shanghai ——
It serves you pasta and
borscht soup when you stroll on Avenue Joffre
Sometimes stuffs you with fried dumplings and spareribs
with sticky rice
It
presents you with the lavish neon lights by the Bund
Yet
sometimes calms you down with a sip of barley tea with rose pastry
Then you
wander across the bridge with hundreds of pedestrians
From here
and beyond
Lost in
the crowd but found in paralleled affection for this city
This is
Shanghai.
©️ Written and pictures taken by: Michelle YuXin Wang 王裕昕 12.5.2018
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