Chinese Cafe Culture Old Shanghai Cafe "exit sadly"

In the 1920s and 1930s, many luxury cafes that copied Parisian style sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, covering the streets of the French concession overnight. At that time, drinking coffee was the joy of life for the upper class and the intellectual class. The public coffee cafe, located on Duolun Road in Hongkou, bears witness to the elegant demeanor of the "left League" scribes. How many lively and interesting plots have spread from the "public space" in this city to the gossip of the street.

In his Shanghai style Qingkou, Zhou Libo vividly demonstrated the culture of "drinking coffee" of Shanghainese-"Arabian Shanghainese grew up eating coffee." Indeed, many old Shanghainese have the habit of drinking coffee, and those cafes in old Shanghai are specific and nostalgic in their lives. In Wang Anyi's novel "Song of everlasting regret", there are too many scenes related to "coffee", such as "the strong aroma of Brazilian coffee comes from the door of Lao Chang, and it turns back time." For example, Cumminson said that he seems to have been doing only one thing in the past few months, that is, waiting in line. Wait in line for dinner at 09:30 in the morning at the Chinese restaurant, then wait in line at the western restaurant at four o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes wait in line for coffee.

Now, many old Shanghai cafes have "walked out sadly". The feeling of "behind the delicacy and ostentatiousness, with a realistic and romantic sentiment" has gone forever, which makes many old coffee customers who are keen on Shanghai-style life fretting. Because now in many foreign cafes can not find that kind of Shanghai-style, sexy coffee shop feeling. It's not that we can't keep up with the times, but that the accumulation of a culture is slowly disappearing from our lives.