Fuzhou is a water-related city, and we always like to walk along the river in our leisure time. The river flows, bringing up the ripples of light, and time lies at the bottom of the river without a trace, from morning to night.
So we often use the river as a metaphor for time. It is constantly changing, running constantly toward the ocean; but it is still, slow and leisurely with the memory of eternal longevity.
I still remember that a reader left a message saying: I like a person in warm weather, quietly emptying against the wide Minjiang River, or walking or stopping, enjoying the time that feels almost stagnant.
However, the riverscape is less lively and fireworks, and it seems deserted. Today, on the north bank of the Minjiang River, the soon-to-open Binjiang Citizen Square opens the border between natural scenery and modern cities.
From the soothing and vast river scenery to the Riverside Citizen Square, the boundaries of leisure and efficient life have been opened up. Wasting time comfortably in such a landscape is undoubtedly an interesting answer to a better life.
What is the good life you aspire to?
Maybe on a sunny afternoon, just after a heavy rain, I finished a tense job. Suddenly, I wanted to take a walk, so I left the Station at the Xiangban Subway Station and walked towards the vast river that I had in mind.
At this time, the sun was just between brilliant and bright, and in the small shop in the distance, there was a burst of light music, holding a cup of freshly bought coffee or milk tea, and suddenly relaxed and walked into this hanging garden.
Binjiang Avenue traffic is surging and occasionally there is a cracking sound, but it is clear from this place, and the fresh and elegant business entertainment and leisure and the park are seamlessly switched, maybe you will think of Li Juan's sentence in "Yangdao":
"Here, the world that truly belongs to me is only as wide as the road under my feet. I will not leave this path one step at a time. I never needed a wide road, and it was enough to be able to turn sideways." After turning sideways again and again in the challenges of life, it is also necessary to have some spiritual corners to relax and release this calmness.
Peace comes from a full and firm inner world, a homecoming on weekdays, a place to rest when we are tired, and we repeat ourselves in such a city life, with panic and joy.
Take a sip of coffee, its flavor is scattered in the mouth, the mind is also open-minded, and the sunset in the distance slowly sinks into the valley.
If you like flowers, just right, you can touch the natural germination here.
Here are all seasons, there are no pieces of trees, more, is a green space dominated by lawns, and in an inadvertent place, it is a blooming flower bush. The Bauhaus-style building in front of it, the petty bourgeois Binjiang Citizen Square, has a kind of orderly and solemn beauty.
In the terrace park, there are a variety of precious plants, such as red fruit holly, pile scenery multi-treasure tree, single pole autumn maple, and Fuzhou spring special landscape - yellow flower bluebell.
In the spring of Fuzhou, it represents an overflowing vitality.
△ Yellow flower bluebell
Binjiang Civic Plaza, known as the "Terrace Garden", will connect the parks around Minjiang Park, connecting us to the city life that gradually awakens us and returns to the familiar fireworks of the world.
Walking in the square, tired of walking, good to have a good place to stop next to it. It connects to the second floor terrace of ART MALL of Rongqiao Center, and we enter a unique "art shopping mall" from the "city back garden".
Art, commerce, and parks complement each other, and for the first time they've been so close. Three sides of the same body, like a surprise that city life has to offer.
Here, we can not only feel the convenience and refinement of modern city life, but also enjoy the slow life in the park, and art mall has always been adhering to the artistic pursuit.
What does it mean for an urban art public space? It always seems to invisibly activate people-to-people stories and interactions, evoke people's love for the city, and thus become a unique spiritual corner for many people, including me.
This "art business center in the park" brings together the elements we love – natural scenery, leisure and entertainment, artistic temperament, and this wonderful chemical reaction has changed over the course of three years, influencing the temperament of a city, enriching daily life and broadening our horizons in different fields.
If this era is still restless, there is nothing more to soothe the wrinkles of the heart than to sink down and read a book and eat a delicious meal.
After all, even Mr. Cai Lao said, "I have been studying the meaning of life for most of my life, and the answer is to eat and drink."
At ART MALL, you can eat all over the world.
Spend a wonderful afternoon drinking English afternoon tea at DOUBLE TIME, indulging in the romance of the streets of Paris in the French cuisine "Yi Feast", or tasting the mystery of the southwest frontier in the Yunnan cuisine of Miyun Yunnan...
We who don't like the same, want to fill the blanks of life with novelty, and here, it is the embodiment of a diversified "quality life". Let your taste buds travel the world!
△DOUBLE TIME
△ Xuanhe Yimi
After a full meal, dessert milk tea is always reluctant to put down, they are packed in another stomach. Casual dining such as 85°C and Berry Super Crazy has been waiting here for a long time.
And the big dream bookstore, not tired of life, three points lazy and other brands, but also a perfect interpretation of the "small and fine" positioning here.
As early as half a year ago, a new round of brand optimization and upgrading was carried out here, adhering to the proposition of "good supply" and constantly enriching the shopping mall scene.
Here, there's the Starbucks we're familiar with, sipping a cup of coffee, relaxing on the couch, watching the people coming and going outside the glass window, and another good time to have a fulfilling afternoon.
Obsessed with technology and cutting-edge goods, you can also get started with the latest products at the conference in the Nankai Huawei experience store, whether it is screen effects or shooting upgrades, only when you get started can you have the most real experience.
There are also fresh cats and paella, Ichigo-tsutsunaki, Japanese ramen, Dazhuang Beef Shi, Jane, Charishi, and Beautiful Countryside, and as they continue to settle in, ART MALL has become more and more diverse, just like the strange activities here.
△ A dolphin Xuan
△ La Q tapa Spanish restaurant
My favorite place for the whole ART MALL is the atrium on the ground floor.
Over the past year, many interesting themed exhibitions and small music LIVE have been held here. The first floor atrium is also the first photo of ART MALL and people after entering the main entrance, every time you come to ART MALL, you will be overwhelmed with freshness and fun, and the moment the automatic door opens, it feels like opening a well-prepared gift. It allows us to get out of the sameness and experience more of the world.
In the "Healing Museum", the hall is divided into a broken heart, where infatuated men and women heal their love with memories; in the "Love with Words lyrics exhibition", here is well aware of the lack of language today, so they use lyrics to let everyone see the poetic love in their hearts on the day of 520.
△ Healing Museum
I still remember that on this day, there was an old couple married to a diamond, holding a balloon, taking a group photo on the farewell wall, as if I could see the two of them sixty years ago, when they took wedding photos in the photo studio.
△ Romantic office
At Wood's Tork Beer Festival and "Hip Beer" youth parties, we give our brains to alcohol and have them secrete dopamine and endorphins that represent pleasure along with the reward mechanisms of the blood stimulation of the brain.
Together, we reject the immutable industrial alcohol and look for the craft beer that belongs to your taste.
△ Wood Eats Tolk Beer Festival
In the Modern Times Coffee Life Festival, here are the city's excellent independent cafes, let the cup of coffee, detonate the planet on our taste buds.
Christmas night market, shuttle ride back to old Shanghai, indie band concerts...
As a corner of fuzhou people's artistic and cultural spirit, ART MALL is a stage specializing in art and activities. It is also constantly speaking out, bringing us a new artistic experience.
△ "Modern Times" Coffee Life Festival
As the most special part of ART MALL, art, can be seen everywhere here, in the mall art installation, when passing by, everyone is not sloppy, but staring for a while, often looking at the new.
I think that artistic edification is so subtle. Parks, commerce, and art all converge into ART MALL's interpretation of the slow life along the river.
As an art business center, ART MALL expands people's stereotypes with exhibitions, from which they see different boundaries.
In the photography exhibition "Yesterday's China - Thirty Years of Photographing China", we saw the changes of the times through the objective perspective of French photographer Yan Lei.
△ "Yesterday's China - Thirty Years of Photography in China" photography exhibition
"Urban Peach Blossom Garden" contemporary sculpture exhibition, "Rongpin Refresh" and other exhibitions, bring us into the field of contemporary art, to understand the era we are in through art, vague, unclear, but positive, majestic era.
In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. This is the self-cultivation of an art business center.
△ "Fusion Frequency and Refresh" exhibition works
Gibran wrote in the poem, "If you sing the praises of beauty, even if you are in the heart of the desert, you will have an audience." And ART MALL, located on the bank of the Minjiang River, its audience will surely find a better echo.
In the distance, the sky garden on the second floor terrace connects the major parks on the banks of the Minjiang River, and you can reach here by a walk from the river, or start from dinner and slowly stroll to the river. The breeze is gentle, and the water waves are not happy.
Unconsciously, this urban public space, which coexists with art, is constantly changing, and in a more people-friendly posture, it is integrated into the leisure life of all Fuzhou people, a diversified and rich leisure life.
It is both a park and a symbol of the city's convenience and efficiency, as well as a place for us to seek detachment in art.
When you step into it, you will find that beauty is thriving.
Art MALL artwork at Rongqiao Center will be updated soon
Let's look forward to another change in it
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