I have always been confused. What is the difference between Shancheng and Shudu?

See all the ethnic minority customs, come to the mountain city and experience the charm of municipalities for yourself. To be honest, Shu can satisfy all the desires of Johnson for a city: mountains and water, commercial and food, developed and traditional, lazy and leisurely.

The feeling of belonging that comes to your face when getting off the plane always makes you feel like you are half a local.

The latest and most popular hip-hop variety show has also been influenced by Johnson and learned a sentence: This is the fog city!

The first stop is to sit on the Yangtze River cableway that once crossed the river like a bird in "Hotpot Heroes". Opposite is the lush Nanshan Mountain, and the morning bells and evening drums of Laojun Cave are next to you. When the lights are on, look back and look at the prosperity of Yuzhong. Neon lights melt in the deep night, and the prosperity of the day will come to an end behind you.

I finally realized that in this city, hot pot is indeed a life choice that you cannot escape.

Under the gloomy sky, when the humid air is weak and weak, a refreshing hot pot will be enough to let your sweat take away your fatigue. The hot pot restaurant is like mushrooms after the rain, scattered in various humid corners of the city: the roadside ladders and the overpass, in residential buildings, the door of the dirty vegetable market and the turbid river water, and it may even be on the river.

So no matter after the rain, summer night, or on the hot noon on the hot sun, no matter how remote and dilapidated the store is, there will always be a group of people sitting by the hot pot without regrets, sweating and laughing loudly. Good hot pot restaurants are often greasy, which is an irrefutable truth.

Just as I stepped into the hot pot restaurant gate, a hot steam was filled with the strong fragrance of butter and steamed a thin layer of water vapor on the door. I carefully stepped on the smooth ground, avoiding the messy green beer bottles on the ground, and walked to the depths of the store, picked a bench and sat down.

The arrogant little girl brought a big cast iron pot with a light weight, filling the bottom of the red soup pot that had already condensed into red and white blocks. With a bang, the gas stove was lit, and the blue flame suddenly rushed up, and the condensed bottom slowly turned into a pot of red soup in the high temperature.

At the same time, the young girl in the shop lined the dish of seasoned salt, MSG, vinegar, and freshly chopped garlic paste on the table. While chatting and using it, everyone at the table passed on each other. One of them lowered his head and outlined classic dishes such as fresh tripe Wuchang fish old meat slices lunch meat duck intestine bean skin lotion, and hemp heart on the thin menu as usual.

When serving the dishes, first arrange the meat dishes around the hot pot, then place the vegetarian dishes on the vegetable rack next to the table, and finally drag a few beer into it. At this time, everyone around the table smiled and raised their hands and held their chopsticks to reach into the pot, sweating profusely in the steaming mist. The night of a mountain city people began.

Eating hot pot has a very strong sense of ritual for the locals. Hot pot in other regions is just a general term for the diet of various soups and cooking dishes. But here, it has never meant only a mysterious call from chili peppers and butter.

The hot pot is filled with eel, pig brain, hairy and crispy meat. A successful hot pot will never be eaten by one person alone or by two people. But often 48 people sit around a table, roll up their sleeves and reveal their shirtlessness, and kick off with loud noises.

Such invitations usually occur in the afternoon, either because the weather is dull, because of the boring, because of the boredom, because of the gathering of friends, or because there is nowhere to go. The invitation often starts with a crisp word "leave" and reveals a meaningful look.

If the invitee returns with a clear expression, both parties will agree to agree. The invitee nodded and said, "Eat hot pot." The invitee will get up and answer at the same time: Let's go.

After eating and eating, I just find a senior tour guide and take it around. Every brick, tile, grass and tree also exudes its unique charm. The people's habits and livelihoods everywhere in the streets and alleys are proofs and commemorations left to the times. Those old times that cannot be returned are full of memories.

When we arrived at Shibadi, a street on the Yuzhong Peninsula, it is said that it best symbolizes the real mountain city. Although Shibadi can't escape the footsteps of urban construction and has completely disappeared, it still cannot be ignored, because if we want to appreciate the old Chongqing, the real mountain city, this is the best textbook.

Ordinary people live on both sides, and the streets exudes a strong sense of market atmosphere. Those who clean their ears, pedicures, carpenters, tailors, sesame cakes, and needlework and mahjong are presented in front of them without any concealment.

In fact, the mountain city is divided into the upper and lower half of the city. The Eighteen Steps are an old street that leads from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. This old street is paved with stone steps, connecting the bustling commercial area on the top of the mountain with the old city on the riverside at the foot of the mountain.

It was probably during the Ming Dynasty that there was a water well here, and nearby residents all ate the water from this well. This well was exactly the eighteen steps away from the residents' residence, so people called it the eighteen steps.

Standing in front of the Jiefang Monument, this place has been bombarded for more than six years, and the extensive bombing in its area has been frequent and severely injured. Under such a disaster, the people's determination to never bow to suffering has moved the world.

Today, the Jiefang Monument has been submerged among tall buildings and looks very short. However, the commercial and entertainment centers developed around it have become the heart of the city's economy, and its popularity and status are undoubtedly in Chongqing and even the entire southwest.

In addition to food, there is another thing that interests Johnson, which is the legendary awesome.

This place is built on the mountain in the blending of the two rivers. Not only do you need to walk through the streets and alleys, but you also need to climb up hills. Therefore, a special group is created, and everyone holds a stick in their hands. They are called a stick.

They used sweat and rods on their shoulders to record the development of the mountain city. According to research, due to the high mountains and steep slopes, there were good things to do at the end of the 19th century, and even formed a large-scale bureau.

In the 1920s and 1930s, when local industry leaders withdrew from the world, they would enshrine the shoulder rope, wooden pestle, and shoulder pads they used when they entered the industry on the shrines of the ancestral halls, allowing them to enjoy the worship of their descendants.

The Dunkielton retreat that took place on the Sichuan River in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan was a feat of rebirth of the national industry in the war, thousands of bombarded and carried their shoulders and grinding, and together with the Minsheng Company's fleet, they completed the feat of rebirth of the national industry in the war.

The cargo owners beat their hands in front, and the carts are carried with them closely. Chongqing people are not afraid of the carts ridding things. Most of them are honest and trustworthy and have their own professional ethics. They work from rural areas to cities, relying on their own hands and pairs of shoulders. Their hard work provides convenience for thousands of households.

When you go out, you climb up the hill, get off the boat and move things, and it becomes a problem. Locals are accustomed to this lifestyle - from buying furniture and appliances to buying a few kilograms of meat, if you don’t want to do it yourself, and someone will come to you with a loud sound.

Unfortunately, the once prosperous Shancheng Bangbangjun is now gradually disappearing. With the development of society, the rise of service industries such as urban logistics, distribution, express delivery, etc. has compressed living space. The diversification of employment channels has made more and more young people unwilling to follow the footsteps of the previous generation.
Chapter completed!