Some people say that the alley is the soul of an old city walking through the alley, stepping on the stone slabs and touching the old brick wall, as if time is flowing in front of us. This time, our steps are stopped in the narrow alley to search for the real and ordinary taste o

Some people say that
alley is the soul of an old city
walk through the alley, stepping on those stone slabs
touching the old brick wall, as if time is flowing in front of you



This time
Our steps stop in the narrow alley
to search for the real and dull taste flowing in the homes of ordinary people in Shaoguan

Cloud Dragon Pavilion Street


There is a nursery rhyme circulating in old Shaoguan: "A thousand years of bows and arrows shoot clouds and dragons." "Wannian" is the name of a well. According to legend, there are eighteen wells in , Shaozhou city, one of which is located on Gongjian Street. Legend has it that this well is connected to the South China Sea Dragon Palace, which is the oldest, deepest and clearest well in Shaoguan. Therefore, it was later named "Wannian" by Emperor Qianlong. Now, this well is missing...

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Cloud Dragon. According to legend, when Yu Jing, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born, the golden dragon rolled down the clouds, and the people said that he was the reincarnation of the golden dragon. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Yong, the governor of Shaozhou, built a Fengcai Building to commemorate Yu Jing, and also built a Yunlong Pavilion here. Yunlongting Street is named after this.





Pavilion on Yunlongting Street no longer exists, but the names of the streets are left behind. Although the pavilion has disappeared, it is a pity that the old taste here has been preserved.


Speaking of the old flavor, we have to mention 0,000 Jiale . It was founded in the Cultural Palace in 1982, later moved to Jianguo Road, and moved into Yunlongting Street in 1994. The founder's mother-in-law is already in her 90s this year, and now she is her junior managing Wanjiale.



has gone through more than 30 years of spring and autumn storms, and what remains unchanged is the taste of the past. Here we have been silently adhering to the traditional hand-made technology.


sesame paste is the signature of this. Steamed rice dumplings, radish tofu, floating peels, and sour radish. These seemingly ordinary foods bring so much delicious taste to the old neighbors.




Dongjiang Tofu Shop is also a time-honored brand. Although it is not as early as Wanjiale was founded, it has a history of more than 20 years. It mainly focuses on tofu, tofu, soy milk, sugar water... The soy milk here is very fragrant. If you want to try pure soy milk, you must be right.


Even at noon, many people passing by like to visit, and often they will see long queues. You can imagine how deeply the delicious food in his house is!




There are also various specialty shops here: Pengjia tofu, which specializes in tofu in Hunan and Northeast China; stores that specialize in Hakka snacks, bamboo glutinous rice dumplings, peanut cakes, radish cakes, , taro shreds and other Hakka snacks can be found here. The key is that the taste is very positive~


Fei Aunt Chili Sauce, a blessing for spicy people, cans of homemade Shaoguan local chili sauce, red peppers and green peppers, and you can have a good meal. There is also a stall at the end of the alley of
. There is a stall specializing in aiji . The aiji 10 yuan per kilogram is sweet and salty. Passing by, it makes people saliva circulate in their mouths.





passed Yunlongting Street and found Ruyi Jade Shop, which also retains the traditional hand-carving craftsmanship. The craftsman holds fine tools in his hands and carries them carefully, as if he sees that there is no large machine production in the 1980s and 1990s and the purely handmade ones are very nostalgic.


If there are still broken jade in your home, don’t throw it away, you can use it here to repair it; if you want to customize the bracelet, the master can also tailor it for you as required.


Yunlongting Street also has many Qingbuliang and local specialties. Although there are not as many as Xinglong Street, there are many varieties. Stores and stalls are sold.



not only has common mushrooms, fungus, red dates, Codonopsis pilosula, but also five-finger peach, wolfberry stick, and gangren dried... These rare local specialties can also be found here. I bought some to prepare at home and made soup~


walk in the walk, and I found an interesting barber shop. Just looking at the name makes you feel a sense of time. Without the high-end decoration of a modern urban barber shop, you still retain the simple decoration. Every mirror is all aroused people's memories of the popular haircuts in the 1980s and 1990s.



When we arrived in the second half of Yunlongting Street, there were fewer people coming and going, and it became much quieter. Walking on the road, you can truly feel the style of ordinary people's homes, and the little bits of life in Lao Shaoguan are spread out here. Deep in the alley, the mottled old houses can still be seen vaguely, showing a little vicissitudes and coldness. The blue bricks and green tiles are incomplete and rusty old windowsills, and the green moss is clearly visible on the roof. This is a trace left by time and a trace left by time.






Although the old house is old, there are still many elderly people who stick to it here. A small seat was placed in front of the door, and she sat alone against the wall with her eyes closed. Occasionally, an old man walked by, walked step by step, and passed by. Looking at his white hair, it not only made people sigh at the cruelty of time.



Walking to the end of Yunlongting Street, there seemed to be a trace of relief passing by in my heart. On the red brick wall covered with moss, there are still chimneys attached to the wall. At noon and evening, curling smoke from cooking fires floated through the cigarette drum, and the strong smell of food came out of the house, and the feeling of a small family instantly surged into my heart.



green plants grow freely on the roof, with a unique elegant and elegant atmosphere; in the bird cage in front of the door, the birds leapt and sang everywhere, which was even more interesting; the bicycles I rode back were leaning against the wall covered with moss, making it more quiet and peaceful. Looking at all this in front of me, for some reason, my heart was particularly calm.



Here is far away from the hustle and bustle of the downtown city, and everything is so peaceful. Walking here, you won’t be impetuous or upset, as if you have a quiet conversation with time.



, go through here, slow down and don’t rush to enter another world that is colorful immediately. From the mottled walls and stones, the old flower windows, and even the broken old house, experience the elegant charm of thousands of years ago.

Thanksgiving has left so much historical accumulation in this space where every inch of land is valuable, allowing you, me, him, and her who occasionally break into it to reap unexpected joys and embark on a long-lost journey of meditation.


walks through the long and quiet Yunlongting Street, from lively to tranquility, from the real city to the ideal old street. Unlike the rapid development of the city, the pace here is slow and down-to-earth. If you have time, you might as well come and have a walk and feel the years are like songs...


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