Today, I will share with you this excerpt from"City Monsoon" "Special Issue" - in Minhang, Meet Shanghai".The book "Facing the Wind, Rushing into the Fairy Tale", looking for fairy tales and feeling innocence in the Miracle Garden of Pujiang Country Park.
Catch the wind and plunge into a fairy tale
Zeng Ping. When I was a child, I always imagined that one day I would be able to enter the fairy tale world, in a beautiful and dreamy castle, put on a gorgeous costume, hold a magic wand, and start a wonderful adventure with my friends. After looking for a long time, I was surprised to realize that there was nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it turned out that there were these in the miracle garden of Pujiang Country Park. Take the rail transit line 8 to Shendu Highway Station, and walk from Exit 2 for about 10 minutes, you will come to the No. 1 gate of Pujiang Country Park, which is also home to the famous Miracle Garden.
The Miracle Garden is not so much a garden as a fairytale paradise full of romance and dreams. In an instant, it is as if you have fallen into Alice's dream, and when you enter the park through Gate 1, the fairy tale castle is presented in front of you. Here, it has a nice name called Flower Elf Castle and is the most iconic building of this garden. The entire castle is full of European and American style, and the columns and spiral escalators are decorated with colorful mosaic fragments in a random collage, which is beautifully detailed, like the magic of the Spanish architect Gaudí. The pale pink façade is inlaid with colorful flowers throughout. The polygonal corners of each castle are hung with large pink "hydrangeas" that flutter in the wind, which is probably why the castle is called the "flower fairy". Let us, the tourists, large and small, put aside all their troubles here, incarnate the characters in the fairy tale, let go of themselves and plunge into the fairy tale world, and start a wonderful trip.
Along the sides of the castle, there are two symmetrical "sky bridges", standing on the highest point of the Flower Elf Castle, overlooking the entire garden carpet. It is composed of different flowers and sculptures, just like a painter's freewheeling paintings left in this area, carefully designed with different color blocks of flowers to form a large area of geometric patterns, or circles, or diamonds, or hearts, bright colors in front of the eyes, jumping, and finally into a colorful and spectacular wide tapestry, like a peacock in the opening of the screen for the garden.
The breeze brings the scent of flowers, which is refreshing. In this world, there is no difference between parents and children, and the majestic parents on weekdays have also unloaded all their burdens at the moment, incarnated into a "big child" full of innocence, they are around the goldfish game stall together to see who catches more, behind the "click" shutter sound that keeps ringing on the side, it is natural that another accompanying parent is capturing the smile on the children's cheeks.
The sound of children's laughter was heard in the ears, and a group of little ones happily chased the colorful butterflies with butterfly nets in their hands, and reaped the joy with the small nets.
Facing this fairytale paradise of art and flowers, facing the breeze, "children of all ages" threw themselves into its arms without hesitation. Standing on the castle, you can see the beautiful scenery in the garden, and the children are like cute elves, running back and forth on the garden carpet, frolicking.
Walking through the carpet and entering the dinosaur kingdom, with a low roar of the Tyrannosaurus rex, ushered in a new "adventure", when the sound came from the stereo, the children happily stroked these dinosaurs, or got into the dinosaur eggs, or sat on the dinosaur's tall back to look down on the world, or carefully observed the dinosaur egg ......Just enter the fairytale paradise and endless fun is waiting for you to explore.
Blooming flowers and a comfortable mood. In the Miracle Garden, you can see the blue sky and white clouds when you look up, you can smell the fragrance of plants and trees when you look down, wander among the flowers to watch the butterflies flying, and enjoy the most innocent childlike fun of life.
Since its inception in 2013, City Monsoon has gone through ten years. Integrating culture, life, fashion and information, it interprets the urban culture with rich heritage from a high-grade, all-round and multi-perspective perspective, and tells the story of the city in the development process. "Urban Monsoon" is a story about water and salt, "with which comes the spoonful of salt that dissolves in the water and disperses in the air, or the old and the present, or the breath of the past and the present." If this evokes a faint memory of that little spoonful of salt for you and me, it is already the deepest part of this monsoon that it has managed to reach.
Ten years have passed, and now I am starting again, walking in the streets and alleys of Minhang, walking through the gaps of time, and compiling the original book with a new perspective and mentality"City Monsoon" "Special Issue" - in Minhang, Meet Shanghai".A book, and finally hand over this key to open Minhang to your hands. It is hoped that through these words, readers will have a new understanding of Minhang, understand the civilization and cultural genes of Minhang and Shanghai, revisit the genetic inheritance and urban spirit of Shanghai, and look forward to more readers falling in love with this city by walking into Minhang.
*: Minhang today.