Alleys are usually submerged in crowded downtown areas, so they don't go with the flow, follow the trend, attract people's attention with red flowers and green willows, and stare at people coldly with cold eyebrows.
Alleys are always head-up, a state of peace. Looking at the alley for a long time, like a philosopher who sees through the world of mortals, his mind is highly concentrated. Alleys will not rise because of the high tide, nor will they collapse because of the low tide.
Alleys are always alleys, unpredictable and unpredictable. The magic of the alley sometimes makes people feel that time is no longer moving forward, but a kind of stillness, an eternal stillness, just like a pool of transparent water, always transparent and spotless. Just as the avenue is simple and clear, it has a strange power, and there are always endless things to play with, just like a famous book, which makes people feel that they have been reading and are always new.
Tomb-Sweeping Day arrived, and there was a cash cow with scissors in the alley, every year; The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and the smell of burning mugwort leaves is floating in the alley, season after season; When the Double Ninth Festival arrived, the florist called Jin Juhua's voice from the alley. Laba Festival has arrived, and the aroma of Laba porridge still wafts out of the alley in Song, Yuan and Ming and Qing Dynasties. The annual Spring Festival has arrived, and the wealth in the alley is uneven, and dignitaries, relatives and friends still come and go; Girls still need flowers, boys still need guns. I don't know when our ancestors made the rules. Anyway, the sun and the moon in the alley never seem to change. Even at the moment of great changes, that is, the moment of changing dynasties, people's essential life has not changed except for some subtle changes in clothes and costumes. All the major changes seemed to converge in the alley, because it was too quiet. The alley is filled with the flavor of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, not the political flavor.
In the alley, talk about being affectionate with children, talk about men having houses and women having homes; Men are married, women are married, husband and wife, father-in-law and sister-in-law, sister-in-law are welcome to send each other. Being in an alley will always make you feel the smell of fireworks and China. In the alley, we don't play intrigue, attack the market, land, property market or futures bonds. Instead, we played a short-lived friendship between parents and neighbors. "A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor." Playing in the hutong is to respect ghosts and gods, remember relatives and ancestors, respect parents, be filial to father and son, love couples, have children, and play with family happiness, loyalty, family heirloom, benevolence, courtesy and wisdom.
Alleys, always so small, so long and narrow, winding and winding, are also woven with countless people in the center of the web like spider webs; But in this net, the alley is also like a plain clothes cheongsam, independent and detached; Alleys are intimate but not intimate, alleys are independent but not arrogant, and alleys always keep a proper distance in a kind of tranquility. Perhaps it is because of this small distance that the alley is full of eternal peace and magical charm.
As a result, the alley has become a legend in China culture, with poets praising, painters gazing and philosophers meditating. In the alley culture, there are budding love, poetic formation, melancholy complex and confused mind. Walking in an alley is like walking in the long river of years. If you are not careful, it seems to become a soft image.
Alleys, quiet alleys; Alley, lonely alley. In the dust of years, it will bloom into a quiet lotus forever. No matter how the world changes, the alley always stands aloof in front of the world with that independent face.