(Author: Lin Gufang, Taipei Academy Chief)
A few days ago, a student moved to Hong Kong in the early years. Because of my cause, I fell in love with Yongkang Street. The students who opened the shop here in the past two years have quietly collected the store.In Taiwan, I refer to Yiyi Zhiqiu from Yongkang Street.
Taiwan talks about cultural and creative, and the most beautiful scenery is a person. A few years ago, Yongkang Street was a representative in the eyes of outsiders, especially mainland cultural people.Here, Taipei's lane culture has been developed to a height, and it is the words that mainland friends like to quote me to say that Taipei said: Within ten steps, there must be grass;
The lane culture of Yongkang Street is indeed different from the general. Although the lanes are generally the trajectory of life and the closeness of human feelings, Yongkang Street focuses on the aesthetic taste from the traditional.Pushing the door of the small apartment, it may be full but not expensive, and it can also be used.
Because of such a strong and aesthetic atmosphere of life, although the streets are small, although the alley is narrow, it has attracted many intentional visitors. In the past few years, friends in mainland China ended up.Lives also brought back to Taiwan's warmth and brought back the cultural life they imagined.
More than that, Yongkang Street's attractiveness to mainland friends, but also from the cultural temperament created by special geographical and historical in Taiwan. Here, mainland friends can appreciate the Chinese humanities flowing from utensils and life.Seeing the characteristics of Japan's simple and simple, longer than details, it is this color of both Chinese and Japanese.
Indeed, why was it just a cultural symbol of Taipei in the past? It is also a microcosm of high -quality culture in Taiwan. Life, nature, simplicity, humility, and attention have depth.EssenceAnd the rise of the spray economy in the mainland in recent years, many elites have begun to pursue natural Chinese cultural life, and have also begun to promote the spirit of Japanese staff. These can see specific and micro examples on Yongkang Street.Then.
But once a time, the situation changed.The initial changes appeared 3 or 4 years ago. Due to a large number of tourists pouring in, the rent became expensive, and Yongkang Street gradually became a snack street. It turned out that the shops with high cultural meanings could only improve to a smaller and more biased nearby nearby.Lane; in the past two years, because of the frozen two sides of the strait, Luke could not come. These merchants also had the door, which recently closed the door.It turned out that a street outline reflected in Taiwan's cultural charm was almost disappeared.Although the crowd is still prosperous, although the tourism propaganda still uses Kang Qinglong as the demand, the original content has been lost.
What about it?I really want to say that the short -sightedness of sightseeing.In recent years, Taiwan seems to have been a big snack country, media, publishing, and even the government's demands.Another shallow disc from culture.Cultural and creative innovations often only become a little luck, but do not start from a deeper cultural base.
But cross -strait policies also play key roles here.
How can Taiwan ’s de -Chineseization only make this kind of culture be not valued, and the attraction of Taiwan’ s attraction to Luke quickly reduces Taiwan ’s most powerful niche; at the same time, Japan welcomes the arrival of tourists in the mainland.Mainland friends are more and more learned directly in Japan. The charm of the integration of Chinese and Japanese culture presented by Yongkang Street, and the experience of providing the same text and the same kind of mainland friends is also omitted.
For these changes, some people may say that it is a small street!Why care.Indeed, Yongkang Street is a small street, and the rise and fall of the street is only the corner of the city, but because of its unique characteristics, its changes reflect the overall changes in Taiwan: under the Chinaization, the light of culture;Just look at today, the emergency effort of sightseeing: Xiaoying, the small and thin economy; when the self -feel is good, it covers the loss of advantages with the fun of the floating surface; in the lack of prospects, the consumption of culture has shrunk.
In the end, there was also the baby bead without knowing it, so that his niche was lost, and his children could only fight alone and even fell in other places.
Indeed, the closing door does not do a response. Another response is to deal with Luke's to Japan. Some people simply close the door and go to Nara and Kyoto to open a store. In recent years, Japanese house prices are relatively cheap.It's still a good choice.
However, a few stores may find spring in a foreign place. Mainland students who love Taiwan can also close the store, but what about other people?
