Nowadays, when people think of bookstores in Suzhou, they often think of Eslite on the banks of Jinji Lake, which is like a red check-in cultural landmark on the Internet, with an endless stream of people. Feel the flavor of modern business in a high-looking space.
In the past, Suzhou people were not so particular about shopping for books and would either go to Xinhua Bookstore or Siqian Street Cultural Market.
The original Suzhou Cultural Market was near the South Gate, just opposite the Workers' Cultural Palace. In 2004, he moved to No. 117 Si Qian Street and has been living there ever since. I remember him as a student from Suzhou.
Before the development of online shopping, the cultural market could be said to be the holy place for buying books and cultural products in the entire Suzhou city. Nowadays, the cultural market only has three floors, so it doesn’t seem to be a big place. At that time, I felt that I wouldn’t be able to finish shopping in a whole day.
The first floor is the busiest and most heavily publicized signboard. There are all kinds of books piled everywhere. It should be difficult to look back among the books and the sea of ??people.
Most of the books on the first floor are textbooks. Every winter and summer vacation, before school starts, this place becomes a world for primary and secondary school students and their parents. From reading and writing for young children, extracurricular tutoring in elementary and junior high schools, to various professional examination materials, I suddenly felt that there were so many people with "bleak" futures when I was in elementary school at the time. Well! Is the study over?
What is gratifying is that in addition to various simulation papers and full-scale real papers, there are also many classic "extracurricular readings" that can heal young minds. Student romance novels and fantasy novels with gorgeous covers have become popular at that time. The most popular read on campus.
But this kind of book is regarded as a scourge by parents, and it is not a serious book in any case.
Half of the extracurricular readings are supported by "Reader", "Youth Digest" and "Yilin" recommended by teachers. The stories in them have become essential materials for many students' compositions.
Every time I got the "Reader" in the past, it would first become 34 pages
I thought that after the college entrance examination, I would be able to break away from the cultural market, and I would be liberated when I get to college.
The facts prove that it is simply too naive! CET-4 and CET-6, TOEFL, IELTS, Civil Service Examination... Sure enough, they cannot escape the scope of the first floor of the cultural market.
Compared with the first floor, the second floor of the Cultural Market is less lively. The elevator never seems to open and goes up like stairs every time.
The second floor is mainly for calligraphy and art professional supplies, and the third floor is mainly for stationery. There are fewer people as you go up.
The third floor once held traces of the youth of many boys and girls. Posters of celebrities and simple stickers can make the young faces glow with pure happiness.
I don’t know how many people bought Jay Chou and JJ Lin’s CDs, game discs, and movies here during their student days, and found their favorite products from the dazzling array of products. What a wonderful feeling it was.
At present, most of the stationery stores on the third floor of the cultural market take up the majority. Stores around celebrities have become a world of fresh meat. CDs of games and movies may have been pushed into the corner and are about to disappear.
The entire cultural market also has the most unique small bookstore, Hongwen Bookstore.
Some people also joked that other stores in the entire cultural market are "markets" and only theirs is responsible for "culture".
The changes of Hongwen Bookstore
Indeed, in the sea of ??teaching materials and best-selling books, this bookstore focusing on humanities and social science books is very special.
Such bookstores are called independent bookstores by readers.
In 2014, Suzhou’s most famous independent bookstore, Blue Bookstore, closed. At that time, I lived as neighbors for a while at Nanmen Cultural Market and Blue Bookstore. At that time, there was a lot of commotion in the circle of friends. Many old readers are filled with emotion. Is there room for a bookstore in such a big city like Suzhou?
However, no one expected it. But in the past few years, Eslite Bookstore, Zhongshuge, Sisyphus... one after another newer, more fashionable and richer bookstores have prospered the cultural market of Suzhou people. This may be a big era for big brands.
Compared with them, the cultural market is indeed old.
Those who live in the cracks should also seek new changes and ways out.
Suzhou Zhongshuge
Just like the cultural market of the previous era
People who really love reading will always like to visit bookstores, and the feeling of visiting bookstores will always be better than in The screen drawing on the mobile phone is more vivid.
Although there was once a small and independent bookstore that disappeared from memory, hiding in a corner of the city, living an ordinary life without competing with the world.
But we still like the surprise of wandering around the city and suddenly encountering a small bookstore. Maybe it's because I got the brilliant version of "Research on the Laws of Ninth-Rank Officials". Maybe it’s because I saw the translation of The Complete Republic. In addition, maybe it is because I get some quiet and deep time.
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