Driven mad by questions! The backstreets of Changsha are etched with the stories of years gone by

🏯✨ Memories of the old streets within Changsha city are mostly occupied by well-known names such as Taiping Street, Chaozong Street, and Wenmiao Ping Street, yet the Shijiantou Alley, surrounded by high-rise buildings, seems like a part of Changsha city where time stands still. 👵🏻✨ There are no coffee shops beloved by the youth here, no fashionable and bright storefronts. These winding old streets seem unchanged for decades, and it is these old streets, brimming with the pure essence of life, that represent the ancient memories of Changsha, silently engraving the stories of the years. 🏯✨ Walking slowly into Shijiantou Alley, one discovers many ancient and strange buildings. Those oddly shaped two-story buildings have been silently existing for decades, and the corner buildings with blue ceramic tiles are completely out of place compared to today's skyscrapers. 🏯✨ Deep in the alley, there are several old houses left from the Republic of China period, which are now protected as immovable cultural relics of Changsha city. It's rare to find such a breath of fresh and elegant air from the Republic of China in the old districts, with the ancient wooden window lattices and mottled wall bricks and green tiles, as if stepping into an old, yellowed photograph. 👮🏻‍♀️✨ The small courtyard deep in the alley in picture 4 exudes a unique temperament and a profound historical accumulation. The compact layout of the two-story buildings is very rare nowadays, and perhaps it won't be long before they collapse on their own and fade from people's sight. 🏞✨ The Bamboo Benefit Hall in picture 9, an old building from the Republic of China built in 1917, has a very imposing front. The delicate Republic of China-style Chinese reliefs are elegant and grand, and the mansion's four corners extend outward with exquisite small attics. 🏞✨ Although the faded large characters on top of the entrance to the Changsha Light Bulb Factory are still clearly visible, the light bulb factory is long gone, and what operates inside now is a printing factory that has been open for a very long time.