High-quality Coffee Culture Lu Xun and Public Coffee Cafe

Although he did not enjoy the store's signature drink, the public coffee cafe is still famous for Lu Xun's many trips. Gongfen was located near the tram terminal on North Sichuan Road in Shanghai at that time, opposite the Neishan Bookstore. It must not be the earliest coffee shop in Shanghai, nor was it the best coffee shop in Shanghai at that time. However, it is because the Chinese left-wing Writers' Union has become what later generations call "the most famous coffee shop of that era."

Mr. Lu Xun once wrote in the Revolutionary Caf é: "the towering foreign building in front of Kuo Street, the doorway is a glittering glass signboard, upstairs are our celebrities in today's literary and art circles, either talking or meditating." in front is a large cup of steaming proletarian coffee, but it is really an ideal paradise. " But Lu Xun himself does not drink coffee, he drinks green tea alone, so "I have never been to such a coffee shop."

But a year after the Revolutionary Cafe was written, Lu Xun went to the Public Cafe, which was close to his residence in Shanghai at the time, in order to attend the party of the League of the left. He still doesn't drink coffee, just a cup of green tea, and then every time he goes there, he still needs only one cup of green tea. Wei Mengke, an old writer, recalled that in terms of "coffee or tea", Mr. Lu Xun did not have any Western habits. Everyone else asked for coffee, but he asked for tea, and sometimes Xia Yan accompanied him to drink tea. Although he did not enjoy the store's signature drink, the public coffee cafe is still famous for Lu Xun's many trips. Gongfen was located near the tram terminal on North Sichuan Road in Shanghai at that time, opposite the Neishan Bookstore. It must not be the earliest coffee shop in Shanghai, nor was it the best coffee shop in Shanghai at that time. However, it is because the Chinese left-wing Writers' Union has become what later generations call "the most famous coffee shop of that era."

Yang Xianru recalled: "in the 1930s, Comrade Yang Hansheng used to take us to the activities of Leftist writers at the Public Cafe on North Sichuan Road. This is a coffee shop run by foreigners, so it is safer to inquire about room bags on patrol. " In 1934, Xiao Jun and Xiao Hong came to Shanghai from the northeast with manuscripts of their novels. They first went to the Neishan Bookstore to meet Lu Xun, and then Lu Xun took them to have a chat with public coffee. Coincidentally, Zhou Yang's wife also recalled that Zhou Yang had asked Zhou Yang to wait in the public caffeine, first went to the Neishan bookstore to find Lu Xun, and then the three of them had a long talk over coffee and tea in the small private room on the second floor of the public coffee. It can be seen that the only way for the literary youth at that time to meet Lu Xun was the Neishan Bookstore-the Public Cafe Cafe.