The experience and the view through the childhood will definetely cast the effction in one's growth. Some master has ever made this conclusion. I strongly uphold him.
In the old Shanghai, most child lived in the lane. It is a kind of complicated architecture. Residents in the lane are forced to share many privacy room with others and it leads to be the public for some of your personal life, such as ketchup. The lane was bore in the poor caste and for the poor caste. So, they are used to this kind of living style. For most of them, a living space in shanghai is so appreciated.
But for a child , it has many unaccoutable ingredients in the lane to affect their life and mental. They used to play with all kinds of the peers. they have to face various family spat even the blame from the neighbor.
But such environment also equip them the capacity to be more eligible in the complicated social environment of the adult world. To some extent it is a kind of preparation for them to adapt the outside and future world of society.
Honestly, the shanghai adolescents has the distinct eyesight and social skills compared with the rural or town couterparts. It is obvious to find out the reason.
A city is decorated by the architecture and it also reversely to affect the city's life as well. No one can resist it and deny this outcoming. you may dislike some building and feel it uncomfortable even tedious. but you can blot your eyes out when you go across it. It is part of the city. Futhermore, it may be the reflection of some aspect of the city character. when the visiter come to a new place, it is most likely to judge the city by its apprance, the architecture.
In conservative Peking, the forbbiden city and the hutong are her face and soul which is charming and amazing for hte foreigners. In modern Hongkong, the giant skyscaper tell the world, how fabulous life in this habour.
