Beautiful China 美哉中华 - 5

豫园, 9/30/2007

上海也有园林。当然，老城区里更为有特色的是，在石库门之中的新天地。欧洲式的搞法，怪不得外国人都喜欢。当然多数的老建筑还是按中式典型做法——抹消处理。为什么说抹消是中式做法呢？可能是因为我国文物丰富吧，那些不好的，脏、乱、差的，直接铲平了多干净……

There are also gardens in Shanghai. But the most beautiful thing in the ancient city is the Xintiandi built upon Shikumens. This is a typical European urban construction mind, also one of the causes of that many foreigners like living here. Of course the large amount of remains are just cleaned from the map, by the typical Chinese way. Why call this typical Chinese way? Just because we have so many relics, much more than anywhere else in this world. So we have to choose, which one is not worth to keep...

新天地, 4/3/2007