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/kloc-In the 9th century, there was no real city in Ningxia Plain, and the typical places where people lived were villages along the Yellow River. Borrow Stanley, the leader of the British Conservative Party? Baldwin's famous saying "Britain is the countryside, and the countryside is Britain", then it is easy to draw the conclusion that "Ningxia Plain is the countryside and the countryside is the Ningxia Plain". Nearly 200 years have passed, and small and medium-sized cities such as Zhongwei, Qingtongxia, Yinchuan and Shizuishan have appeared in Ningxia Plain. On the edge of the city, often in the countryside, even in the middle of the city, there are many obvious traces of the countryside. There is no very clear boundary between the city and the countryside. This kind of obscurity makes it easy for people living in cities to enter the life atmosphere of Ming and Qing Dynasties or even earlier from the life scene of 2 1 century as soon as they leave the city. This determines the life on the whole Ningxia Plain, which is filled with a strong rural life. Due to the obvious limitation of climatic conditions, in winter, it seems to be one of the places with the slowest pace of life in China ... whether it's an old man basking in the winter (the winter sun) at the gate of a farmhouse, a peasant woman who seldom plays cards or makes shoes and sews clothes for her family on a hot heatable adobe sleeping platform on a cloudy day, or idle people sitting around a small shop and drinking some Ningxia Plain in a rare heavy snow.
During the period from 65438+ in February 2006 to 65438+ in October 2007, Wang Mu Oriental Weekly, together with Kaiyuan Hsee, a well-known happiness researcher and a tenured professor at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, conducted a survey on general happiness in 3 major cities in China, including 4 municipalities, 22 provincial capitals and 5 autonomous regional capitals. The survey results of happiness in 3 1 city in China show that Yinchuan citizens' happiness ranks second, and happiness includes the overall subjective feelings of the interviewed residents about their cities, that is, the so-called overall happiness of the cities. It also measures citizens' feelings about every specific aspect of each city, including human feelings, transportation, opportunities to make money, convenience of life, entertainment, environment, public security, civic civilization and development in recent years. It is called the concrete happiness of the city.
Slow life of urbanites
On October 5, 2008/kloc-0 13, a wide ice surface appeared in the south of Yinchuan Beita, which has a history of more than 1000 years. Many citizens and their families skate here and play with gyroscopes on the ice. Yinchuan is a lake city beyond the Great Wall. In the past, there were 72 interconnected lakes. The rich water system not only makes Ningxia Plain the earliest rice planting area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, but also makes it rich in fish. 80% of the fish in Ningxia Plain are transported to other places, the aquatic product rate is over 90%, and the per capita water output ranks first in northwest China. People in Yinchuan who like fishing not only catch a taste of life, but also hold a national fishing alliance to invite fishing experts from all over the country to Yinchuan to taste the joy of fishing. After 65438+February, all the lakes around Yinchuan were frozen, which became a good place for Yinchuan citizens to play in winter. The gyro rotates on the ice, and adults and children rotate on the gyro in the cold of MINUS ten degrees Celsius, depicting the slow life of urbanites in Ningxia Plain.
Their "slowness" is not laziness, nor is it what Sevitt, a famous German time research expert, said: "Slow life is not so much a movement as people's reflection on modern life." It is our grasp of the rhythm and quality of life in an era when health is sold to time and pressure. Is to find a balance in life by slowing down.
At the North Tower Lake, there are also many old people enjoying another wonderful enjoyment brought by winter in the warm winter sun. They may not know that Yinchuan has an annual sunshine of 3,039 hours, 34 hours more than Lhasa, which is known as the "Sunshine City", and the sunshine percentage reaches 69%, ranking first among the provincial capital cities in China. The good climatic conditions of long sunshine and large temperature difference between day and night have promoted the vigorous development of traditional dominant agriculture, forestry and fruit industry, and it is one of the important commodity grain bases in China 12. 1.2 million mu of wine grapes, together with a number of rising wine production enterprises, won the title of "Bordeaux of the East" in the international wine production industry. Yinchuan people sometimes drink wine with their fists like beer when they are in high spirits. The abundant grain on the plain also provides rich raw materials for brewing all kinds of liquor here. As a result, there will be such a situation here: the elderly are sipping "Old Yinchuan" and other white spirits with wine glasses, the young and middle-aged people are drinking "Xixia Beer" and "Shahuchun" at the barbecue stalls next to the summer street, and the white-collar workers with good economic income are drinking the local "Helan Mountain" and "Xixia King" in the bars on the lakeside street.
After living in Yinchuan for a period of time, many foreigners will feel that Yinchuan is like a paradise, and the fast pace outside has nothing to do with it. This is a city suitable for lazy people. Most people in this city live a comfortable life of contentment, with a little leisure and a leisurely expression. Because it's quiet, there is no worry about people crowding here, and there is no disturbance caused by noise and complexity. People generally like to wander in the streets, especially on weekends. Many people will go shopping with their families or friends in twos and threes in specialty stores or in several large shopping places located in Xinhua Street, Pedestrian Street, Ladies Street and Men Street. On summer nights, men drink at roadside barbecue stalls and don't make moves. Instead, he took the dice with cultural scenery that came from northern Shaanxi but was "processed" by the local people and slowly swayed in the dark. In the battle of wits, the two sides played games such as "bragging", "digging holes" and "taking off pants".
Yinchuan in seclusion
"Ningxia Chuan, two-pointed, east of the Yellow River, west of Helan Mountain, Jinchuan Yinchuan Miliangchuan. Millet yellow, Shandandan flower, the Yellow River is rich in water. Both sides are rich. I hope that eating does not depend on the sky, and the rice comes to the mouth. " Su Yang, a native musician in Ningxia, sang the Ningxia Plain in The Biography of Ningxia, and the biography of Ningxia was also imagined by more and more people through his music album There is Only One Ningxia.
People living in provincial capital cities, among the many requirements for the city, quiet is the first. The tranquility of Yinchuan ranks among the best in China's capital cities, and is known as the "Quiet Capital of China". Especially after entering the 2 1 century, many cities have lost their quietness in their development, but the cities have always maintained their own quietness. In 200 1 year, among the 46 cities that participated in the national key environmental quality assessment, the regional environmental noise was only 50. 1 dB, making Yinchuan the quietest city in China. 50. 1 dB indicates that the regional environmental noise in Yinchuan is equivalent to that in special quiet areas such as sanatoriums or senior villas. The city has been developing quietly for several years.
Compared with many cities, Yinchuan Avenue has fewer people, fewer cars and fewer high-rise buildings. Standing at the crossroads, you can see the scenery in several directions in the southeast and northwest at a glance, without the sense of squeezing brought by tall buildings in big cities. Especially looking west, Helan Mountain, which is close at hand, gives people the feeling that they can always see it all year round. Especially from late autumn to spring, in the past six months, the white snow on the top of Helan Mountain often makes people standing in Yinchuan feel that they are standing in Golmud to see Kunlun Mountain. At this time, the atmosphere of this small town will slowly immerse people's hearts. Even if you go to Yinchuan's "vegetable heart"-the most prosperous pedestrian street on weekends, you won't feel crowded.
Quiet and clean are always linked. On the streets of Yinchuan, it is rare to see the scene of waste paper, plastic bags and other rubbish flying all over the sky in the north, even in the annual sandstorm weather. Yinchuan is always so quiet. If Beijing is like a wise old man, Shanghai is like a bejeweled lady, Xi 'an is like an old man who has lost his glorious memory, and Lanzhou is like a young man, then Yinchuan is like a quiet little girl, standing quietly in the desert on three sides of the northwest, but always facing the sky, showing a clean face and elegant temperament.