The nostalgic hut in the depths of the old alley next to Chunxi Road has accumulated the warmth of generations.
mottled walls, continuous broken tiles, and empty birdcages on the roof, each holding the old feelings, have become eternal in the ever-changing city, carefully nurtured for the daily fireworks, and formed the beauty outside the order.
along the long lane, following the soft tone of Zhou Xuan, I found a log cabin with accumulated years. Time is its curtain, and opening it is people's old dream.
Climbing the steep iron ladder, the fairy cabin stood quietly in the early morning sun, and the wisteria around the window was already full of rich autumn fruits.
A Cong told us that every season here has a different scene, with lush foliage in early summer and withered leaves in winter, which is another scene.
In this small world of seven or eight square meters, memories of many eras are treasured.
China-made cameras such as Oriental, Seagull, Phoenix and QINGDAO flash are displayed on the cabinet. The tapes and DVDs of the 197s and 198s are still circulating in the tape recorders and DVDs. Albums, graduation memorabilia, comic books and video periodicals have serialized the feelings of several generations.
In the 198s, the old retro table lamps, clocks, fans, telephones, leather boxes and tea sets looked ordinary, while in the 199s, the game machines and army chess evoked childhood fun.
When I opened the tin pencil case I used as a child, there was an addition and subtraction multiplication table attached to the back, and lovely stickers were stuck. The old photos cut from Kodak Photography gradually turned yellow in windy days.
The old things in the cabin are put aside at will, and they don't want to look like a grocery store. There is no profit, no sale of old things, and no concept of guests. Coming to the cabin is like coming to a friend's house, where we can open our hearts and talk intimately.
two years ago, a group of congenial friends set up a cabin with the original intention of keeping old things and looking for the sound of the times. Low-key and beard this acquaintance, * * * with efforts to build a cabin in my heart.
infatuated with the low-key folk band, she likes the old dramas and old things appearing in the MV. She named this place "Fairy Cabin" in nostalgia according to the lyrics of the band of Cuiping Sewing Academy.
Beard, who is deeply influenced by his uncle's nostalgia, likes the expressions of movies and songs in the past. They are ups and downs, just as emotional as Chinese teachers teach students to read aloud, but now the emotion of dialogue between people has degraded. He hopes that the cabin can take some emotional routes and create a field with a sense of the times through it.
"In the cabin, time is slow." A Cong, who is lively and friendly, likes the slow life here. For her, the happiest thing is to make many interesting friends through the cabin.
The imaginary cabin must be homely and warm. They traveled all over the old streets of Chengdu and finally found the ideal place.
The small single room hidden above the attic happens to be a gentle and intimate wooden structure, surrounded by windows. The sunlight falls into the room, and the numerous branches and leaves of wisteria are pruned, just like sitting under the blue sky.
"At that time, I thought this cabin was too big, but now it is just right." The beard smiled and said, "If this cabin is too big, the things on the back will have a distance from us. Because it is small, it feels warm and intimate."
Because of "smallness", only seven or eight people can be accommodated here. Seven or eight people happen to create the warmth of home, and because of "smallness", we are closer to each other.
The log cabin is hard-won. All the memories are filled up little by little in painstaking efforts. Low-key and bearded people are searching for old things everywhere. They are carrying heavy old cupboards and climbing the stairs. The steep and dangerous ladder is hanging in the air. Neither of them dares to relax. The process is long and arduous.
They seldom go to the second-hand market to find old things of unknown origin, hoping that everything has its own story and origin, just like their own.
Most of the collected objects are used and left behind by themselves, and some of them are given by friends and carefully preserved. Maybe friends will feel deeply when they see their things still here decades later.
They don't want to collect some things as decorations and simple nostalgia to fill the cabin, but collect some things that can continue to be used in their lives. Radio, video camera and record player can be used now. The cabin is alive and has a life temperature.
A log cabin is like a home left over from the last century, where many ordinary and warm days lived. Because of this simple and real homeliness, it is easy for the cabin to gather friends. When tired from work, seven or eight people sit together, drink tea, chat about homeliness, share stories and legends of old Chengdu, truly integrate into daily life and feel the content of the old days.
listening to old songs in a cabin full of retro temperament has a different feeling. The operation of fingertip keys brings a strong sensory experience. Zhou Xuan's Night in Shanghai and Full Moon Flowers are both ancient and modern, while the 21st century's Deep Rain and Little Girl under the Street Lamp bring people into a nostalgic situation, leaving Teresa Teng's tenderness in my ears.
There is a movie-watching activity once a week here. Movies are shown to you on old-fashioned TV sets in an unconventional way. Most of them are China movies, most of which are old movies from 197s, 198s and 199s, dating back to 193s and 4s.
A Cong made tea for everyone, and after chatting, they entered the state of watching movies together. The plot of the old movies is not as tortuous and complicated as that of the contemporary movies. It is simply narrated, and each frame is a picture of life, from which we can deeply feel the living environment and emotional experience of an era.
Beard said, "Sometimes when I watch a movie, I sit by the sea drinking tea, open the window of the cabin, and the breeze blows, as if I were sitting by the sea." ? There is a kind of "freeze-frame" effect here, which is to reproduce the old scene and make people remember forever. Opening a nostalgic theater in a log cabin seems like sporadic years abound, and there are so many old movies that I don't know when to reminisce.
the 198s and 199s are in a transitional period, which is an era of accelerated modernization and rapid elimination.
In the old days, Chengdu was leisurely and comfortable, and there were tea shops all over the street. People drank tea and played mahjong and lived in style. Now that the city has been re-planned and demolished, some old streets and lanes are gradually disappearing from people's vision, and the way of speaking of old Chengdu people is gradually being submerged in the changes of the times.
The cabin wants to carefully preserve things that have been eliminated by time, collect information and images about old Chengdu, and continue the lifestyle of old Chengdu.
It hides in the old lane, keeps quiet in the noise, cultivates a slow mind, and reaches a tacit understanding with the leisurely tone of old Chengdu. Cats and dogs are lazily strolling in the old alley, and several vertical and horizontal hangers are hanging yesterday's innocence, and the fragrance of the kitchen is close to people's hearts.
They chat at home, listen to music and watch movies after dinner, and don't ask about current events. Time is connected in a line in trivial daily life, only those small days that are chattering and trivial.
In the second half of each year, the cabin will also hold outdoor activities and go hiking in unknown towns in the suburbs of Chengdu.
Visit alleys, climb mountains, and go to the township dam head to catch the show, learn about local songs and books, truly integrate into local life, feel strong local customs and humanistic atmosphere, and inherit Chengdu folk culture in this form.
"In the past, we went to a small town in the south of Shuangliu and took a group photo in an old clock. We didn't go there in a low-key way, so we posted a low-key childhood photo, which was very interesting." Beard looked at the photo in the photo frame and smiled. At last, the cabin had its present appearance in the form of accumulation.
The log cabin is a concentrated place for people to find out the true feelings in the old days and find the times in real memories.
after the baptism of time, these beautiful old things have been endowed with deep feelings. They once existed and became the epitome of an era, which is worthy of our treasure and nostalgia.
They should not only remain in most people's memories, but also be revived in life, not living in the past dimension, but going deep into the present, so that people can get compensation in their subsequent emotions.
I have been to the cabin, and I may hear such a sigh.
"This is a song my father has heard, and I really want to listen to it again. This is tea I had with my beard, and I really want to have another drink."
Fairy Cabin
Address: Xizigong South Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu
Tips: Please make an appointment in advance to go to the cabin
- Editor of this issue: Yiman-
Photography | @-Zhang Lingfei.