Chapter 46 "Hollywood" is rooted in "Hollywood"?

I have been in Hong Kong for a long time, and I am not afraid of the thousands of miles of roads under my feet if I know how to use "buses". What I am afraid of is that the mainlanders don't understand and don't care that every road is actually covered with history—— Take the "jingle car" as an example. From a utilitarian point of view, Hong Kong's "jingle car" has been nothing more than a means of transportation for ordinary people for a hundred years. The railway track is actually a quiet "informant" to anyone. From time to time, it can bring people back to the old streets, old buildings, and old markets more than a hundred years ago, and present the modernized world in front of people's eyes. The ruined city of Hong Kong has become a huge history museum.This museum has no fixed entrances and exits, but entrances and exits are everywhere; there is no opening and closing time, but the door is always open to interested people.The only thing is that there are no ready-made wall charts and explanations for any "exhibits" in the museum, and everything has to be visited and sourced by the curious. This fascinates me infinitely and occupies almost all of my spare time.

In the middle of 2005, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, before running for the next Chief Executive, deliberately went back to an old street in Hong Kong where he lived and left a good impression when he was a child - "Hollywood Road", visited and nostalgic.In his childhood, he rode a bicycle, played table tennis, and grew up stepping on stone steps.Among them, the bicycle is the most common bicycle, and the training grounds are small alleys; Ping-pong is also played outdoors, with the simplest table tennis table and the cheapest table tennis racket, but the "Chief Executive" produced by Hong Kong people is here. Gradually grew up in this market atmosphere.Tsang Yam-kuen's actions caused many people in Hong Kong to look back frequently, and Xiao Luzai also tilted his head and asked the adults: Where is "Hollywood"?what is itIs it the "Hollywood" of America?

That’s right, the American film kingdom “Hollywood” is translated into Chinese characters as “Hollywood” in Hong Kong. These three words are not bad at all. The first time I walked into “Hollywood”, it was the same when I saw the road signs reaction.However, Hong Kong's "Hollywood Road" is not named after the United States, although many roads in Hong Kong, such as Bonham Road, Robinson Road, MacDonald Road, Kennedy Road, Hennessy Road, Des Voeux Road, Dundao, Stubbs Road, etc. are all related to the names of the Queen and the King of England, especially the 28 Hong Kong Governors who were stationed in Hong Kong by the United Kingdom for more than a hundred years, but "Hollywood" and "Hollywood" are a little bit different. It doesn't even matter. "Hollywood" is a kind of banyan tree (Hollywood), and "Hollywood Road" is naturally named (Hollywood Road) because of the tall banyan trees growing there in the past.

Many mainlanders today, including of course the old immigrants from Hong Kong over the past few decades, have various stereotypes about Hong Kong, but those perceptions were not always correct from the very beginning.After I arrived in Hong Kong, many things in Hong Kong were often taken for granted at first, such as "Hollywood". The real story, I don't know that "Hollywood Road" used to be lived by our own people in China. I didn't know that it was the first old street since the opening of Hong Kong. Today, in "Hollywood", people can still see time-honored Chinese brands everywhere: the "Tan Guoguang Leather Shoe Store" that makes handmade Kung Fu shoes, and the "Lianxiang Building" that looks like an old-fashioned teahouse. There are almost 80 of them. "Jiuji Beef Brisket" restaurant with a history of more than 1000 years, "Gongli Real Material Bamboo Cane Water" with old hand-painted advertisements posted at the door, and "Zhenlong White Rice", etc. In addition, "Hollywood" also has a Founded in 1847, the Man Mo Temple is still full of incense and smoke.

One day, I really went to "Hollywood" on purpose, to search for the old and new.how do I say this? On the one hand, "Hollywood" is full of Chinese history and Chinese flavors. It is said that in addition to "time-honored brands" and "Wen Mo Temple", there is also a world-famous Chinese antique distribution center around it. Many antique shops are piled up everywhere. It is full of wood carvings, stone carvings, Buddha statues, god statues, porcelain, jade, gold, silver and bronze wares, not to mention the four treasures of the Chinese study, calligraphy and painting, and the central hall. Seeing the western style and smelling the exotic atmosphere makes people have to feel the characteristics of the pervasive and integrated atmosphere of Chinese and Western cultures in Hong Kong, so when I go there, I want to "seek the ancient" and "explore the new".

Yes, under the Taiping Mountain in Hong Kong, many ancient streets are like "Hollywood", which not only carry the long-standing ethnic atmosphere of the Chinese nation, but also witnessed the vicissitudes of the century of British rule in Hong Kong.Once there are one or two realistic cries of traditional Chinese culture in the nostalgia, the strong "national quintessence" will also ignite a strong desire for the market—— In "Hollywood", I saw many Chinese and many foreigners.Foreigners here just pick up a few "old antiques" that can represent the history of the East, bring them back to their hometowns in the West, and place them on the fireplaces in their living rooms for commemoration and interest. He can speak foreign language, and the purpose of selling genuine and fake "antiques" is also very straightforward, just to make money.

I heard that a gray-haired and bearded shopkeeper chatted happily with customers of various skin colors in the "Hollywood" shop on weekdays. While talking about the past and the present, he put white money into his Tang suit pocket. As for his real identity, I found out later that he is actually a university professor. "Hollywood" is not "Hollywood", but "Hollywood" is deeply influenced by the Western culture represented by "Hollywood".Hong Kong people do not hold Chinese history and Chinese culture firmly in their arms, let alone hide them in their boudoirs. People want to let history and Chinese traditional culture see the light every day, and it is best to spread them all over the world with the sea breeze. It would be nice to have it integrated into an active real "market".