![]() Nanjing Road is located in the city center, running in a west–east direction. The two roads met on the northern edge of the Shanghai Race Club. Today's Nanjing Road West was formerly Bubbling Well Road, an extra-settlement road built by concession authorities outside the concession proper. The former Nanking Road lay entirely within the Shanghai International Settlement. Before the adoption of the pinyin romanisation in the 1950s, its name was rendered as Nanking Road in English. In some contexts, "Nanjing Road" refers only to what was pre-1945 Nanjing Road, today's Nanjing Road East, which is largely pedestrianised. Today's Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West. The street is named after the city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province neighbouring Shanghai, and the former national capital of the Republic of China. It is one of the world's busiest shopping streets, along with Fifth Avenue, Oxford Street, Orchard Road, Takeshita Street and the Champs-Élysées. As for the solemn procession of monks and women with cartons of scrap-he was totally baffled.Nanjing Road ( Chinese: 南京路 pinyin: Nánjīng Lù Shanghainese: Noecin Lu) is a road in Shanghai, the eastern part of which is the main shopping district of Shanghai. Our Chinese guide -whom we met up with later-said the joss sticks and bowing had no religious significance. They carried boxes of scraps of paper that they tossed into the incense burners, then returned to stand by the monks and all processed out solemnly. When we descended, we saw a procession of monks, followed by a procession of older women in street clothes. Then one could ascend a long flight of stairs, where the central portion was a path of carved relief sculptures, intricate and beautiful, and reminiscent of the one in the Forbidden City, At the top was a loggia that connected four large temples, each one with a different Buddha, an altar of similar stylized food offerings. ![]() There was also an immense jade stone that insured good will. Jing-an has a large central square where people were lighting sticks and bowing in different directions to insure good luck. This huge golden temple is elegant and much larger than ones I had seen years ago in Hong Kong and Japan. Definitely, worth an hour of the traveller's time. Well, a man's gotta do.Īll in all, I just loved this little park - and obviously it's a popular spot with the locals. Now and again, someone watching would disappear and openly relieve himself in the bushes. It was quite intense a lot of murmurs of encouragement from the onlookers. ![]() Eventually, came to three or four fixed tables, with inveterate gamblers, playing cards. I was toe tapping (the music was really good) and had a big grin on my face what lovely people really having fun. ![]() Open air, company, exercise - what a tonic for senior citizens. There was a loud-speaker at the side of this organised activity, accompanied by an elderly gent beating the rhythm (perfectly) on a couple of bamboo sticks. I wandered in and, out of the blue, came upon couples dancing! Mostly elderly some middle-aged. It's lovely to see such a quite and peaceful place in the midst of all the busyness of a huge, bustling city, crowded with huge multi-storey buildings which, admittedly, are gob-smackingly impressive. I spent some time one morning in this small but beautiful park. ![]()
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