Chapter 268 I like to read Xiao Qian's "Talking about Beijing City"

Comrade Xiao Qian, a 76-year-old well-known writer and reporter who had wandered overseas for many years, recently published a series of short stories on "Talking about Beijing City" in the "Beijing Evening News".Because he is my little friend, I couldn't wait for his full text to be published, so I asked him for the manuscript to read.The subtitles of his ten essays are: "City and City", "Jingbai", "Yesterday", "Business", "Convenience", "Traces", "Festival Lantern", "Pleasure Street" and "Market". .These essays described the great capital of our great motherland from every aspect with sound, color, fragrance and taste... It aroused my memories of "yesterday" Beijing and made me smile with tears.Many things in the article are no longer within the scope of my conversation with the second and third generations, because they won't see or hear it!

But I know that many overseas compatriots, especially many elderly people, have fond memories, yearning and nostalgia for the motherland and Beijing in their childhood.The life of the old Beijing people - what to eat, play and use, the etiquette of the old Beijing people - what they said and did, all linger in the mind of "Old Beijing".I agree with the author's words at the end of the article: "After 49 years, our ancient city has also undergone a transformation. Now it seems that the transformation (urban construction) is not easy, brick by brick. Building the ground; but it is even more difficult to reborn (to change the social atmosphere and the mental outlook of citizens). However, that is the soul of the city pattern.”

It is said that this 20,000-word article will be published in the "People's Daily Overseas Edition". I hope that my nostalgic overseas compatriots can enjoy this article about the ancient times of the motherland written in smooth and playful "Jingbai" with me. Beijing article! November 20, 1985