The childhood of the centennial Ren Renjin began in Hongkou Minhang Road and Guangdong morning tea shop | Share before bedtime

On September 22, the famous publisher, writer, and translator Ren Ren Ren died in Shanghai at the age of 100. As the father of "no mind" and "unhappy", he translated the classics of children's literature such as "Charlotte's Network" and "Andersen Fairy Tale", with a total number of more than 10 million words. The works have affected the growth of several generations of Chinese children.

Another identity of Ren Renyun was the descendant of Guangdong immigrants born in Shanghai. When he grew up in Shanghai Hongkou, he was influenced by the exotic culture brought about by a large number of foreigners on this land, and was infected by the friendship of the same hometown condensed by the Cantonese people. The experience constitutes his later understanding of the world.

In 1923, the house of wooden shops and paper banks was opened at Minhang Road, Hongkou District, adding a son -Ren Renqi, that is, Ren Renkun, which was later named by the world name.

His birthplace was near the four or five shops of the east of the Hongkou District Public Security Branch of the Hongkou District Public Security Branch of Wusong Road, near Emei Road.

Behind this row of shops is a Dalong, the other end of the inside is Tanggu Road, and Nongtangkou faces the famous triangle small vegetable field at the time.

Ren Ren Rong remembered when he grew up, Cantonese loved to drink porridge. In his childhood, there were two or three Cantonese porridge shops near Tie Road. "My brother and my Guangdong fellow often invited me to drink tea from Guangdong tea houses upstairs from the railway small cuisine, eating Guangdong snacks and listening to Cantonese music. There, I have eaten salty pancakes I love to eat" — a kind of soft and salty, taste Like bread circles, big cake -like snacks with southern milk flavor.

In the mouth of the old school, this so -called "iron road" is today's Henan North Road.

"Iron Road" is not a road for steel, but it is named after the railway -in 1876, Ying Shangyi and Yang Xing and other Wusong Railway are laid here. This is China's first operating railway. The following year, the Qing government redeemed the railway and then demolished. In 1898, the Songhu Railway built by the Chinese government was completed, which roughly followed the original Wusong Railway, so it was officially opened to traffic in the fall. At the beginning of the road, from Shanghai Station (now Donghua Road, Jing'an District) to Wusong Cannon Taiwan, it has a total length of 16.09 kilometers. It has 5 stations including Shanghai, Jiangwan, Zhang Huazheng, 藻 藻 浜, and Artillery Taiwan. The arrival of the train directly drives the prosperity along the line. For a while, along the northern road of Hongkou, it became one of the well -known Cantonese gatherings in Shanghai at that time.

Ren Ren Rong's father is Cantonese. Ren Ren Rong grew up in his father's shop, and also went to the same area to play with paper shops in the same location to play with children of his fellow villagers. At the time of Kaimeng, he enlightened in the private school of Cantonese in the same location and saluted Confucius. If he is willing, he can always speak Cantonese to Cantonese, eat Cantonese food from Cantonese, and listen to Cantonese opera in Tongxiang. He does not even need to learn Mandarin and Shanghai dialect.

Wuchang Road in the same area was also a Guangdong Street at the time. There were many people living on the street, and there were many shops with Guangdong characteristics. There is a big restaurant on the street, pronounced "Guangdong Commercial Tower". The wedding funeral at home in this area did not go to the big restaurants on Nanjing Road, and most of them set up a banquet here.

For Ren Renong, it was a big deal to pass the Suzhou River as a child. So far, I only remember that adults had hugged him at the Dadong Hotel in Nanjing Road to eat a western meal, and went to the old Tian toad stage on the original site of the original site of the new building in the new building of the day of the Nanjing Road. Once "Feng Shen Bang". That's it. And other fun things in childhood were completed in the small world of Minhang Road--

For the first time in my life, I watched a movie in Hongkou Cinema. Soon after, Hongkou Cinema opened a new movie theater to the road, that is, the current victory cinema.

Compared to those more well -known commercial streets in Henan, Suzhou, Hongkou Minhang Road and Emei Road are not too eye -catching, but this crossroads are some kind of magic for Ren Rongyun.

At the southeast corner of this crossroads, it is now a building, but in the 1920s, there were no buildings there, just a large open space. People from the Five Lakes and Four Seas have gathered in the surrounding area and entrepreneurship, which also brings various genre aesthetic fun and entertainment needs. During the day, this open space sometimes comes with monkeys, sometimes it comes with fists, sometimes coming to perform a puppet show, and sometimes it is a stall of Wuxi Dafu.

Hundred years ago in Shanghai, "Modern" became a footnote of her, but in the open space where this resonation home was located, these old -fashioned dramas with the atmosphere of the old days and lakes were kept. Ren Ren Rong was unforgettable. Here he saw the "Drama" in the Shanghai dialect. The puppet show was also sang, singing in northern Jiangsu, and Zhang Hui's novels described in the rivers and lakes that sold plasters and fists, and he saw it with immature eyes. At the home of Minhang Road, as long as he heard the sound of gongs and drums there, the children would quarrel to see, and adults always took it to see.

By the time of the night, the black light was dark, silent, and there was still a open space here. Everything that happened during the day was a dream, and this dream stayed in the memories of Ren Rongyun like childhood.

Children's Ren Ren Rong

Cantonese loved to eat. In Ren Rongyun's memory, Minhang Road evoked his memories of his mother's crafts:

He likes to eat sausage, but does not like to eat fat. So his mother made a fat, lean sausage for him. "A sausage, my brother and I have a meal. The thin sausage that made like my mother can't buy it." He also likes to eat beef jerky, lamenting that the beef jerky in Shanghai is not powerful, because "Guangzhou's beef jerky is the jerky A large piece, a large piece of beef jerky is small and small. Guangzhou's beef jerky is delicious and the beef jerky in Shanghai is not so delicious. One, slowly chew. Guangzhou beef jerky cannot be eaten in bed, two ways to eat. After graduating from elementary school, returning from Guangzhou to Shanghai, Guangzhou beef jerky can not be eaten, you can only eat Shanghai beef jerky. "

He still remembers the hawker on the street to sell wonton on the street late at night for people who rubbed mahjong to eat supper. However, Guangdong Wonton is meat wonton, shrimp meat wonton, Shanghai Wonton and vegetable meat wonton, as well as gauze wonton, Big Wonton, Xiaoyong, and so on. "When I was a kid, adults took me to a bowl of wonton upstairs on the triangle, and I was so happy."

Of course, Shanghai not only has Cantonese cuisine, but also has more food.

After an adult, Ren Renun "often goes to the children's book bureau to eat the cheap and good yellow vegetables of the Beijing Restaurant Hall, that is, a slippery egg. There is also a Yuebin Building on Hunan Road, which also sells Beijing cuisine, but I eat there, but I eat there After a high -priced shrimp, the chef also came out to see which customer eats such high -end dishes. Seeing that I was eating alone, he couldn't help but pull up his thumbs up to praise me. "

In Lao Zhengxing, "often a plate of braised turtles, and one person ate it cleanly, leaving only bones." When I went to Huaihai Road, I did not forget to patronize the "Russian Western Croissance Society next to Paris Cinema". Later, I went to the Red House to eat the Song soup, and liked to put a poached egg on beef cake. When he was working on the translation agency, he saw a Meixin soup group on the North Shaanxi Road.

At the age of five or six, he returned to Guangdong with his parents. When he returned to Shanghai in 1938, he wore a Guangdong short shirt and only spent a bite of Cantonese.

At that time, there was a school Lingnan Middle School facing Cantonese in Shanghai. It was temporarily moved to the fourth floor of Daxin Company (now a 1001 store) opened by Cantonese businessman Cai Chang. After studying on the fourth floor of Daxin Company, Lingnan Middle School was suspended. Since then, he has entered the Tinses Middle School, who is also in Hongkou. There, he met his classmate Sheng Junfeng (that is, translator grass baby). He here is exposed to foreign languages, more cultures outside Guangdong culture, and since then, he has gradually moved towards the translation cause.

In 1942, he graduated from the Department of Literature of Daxia University and began to work in literature. In 1950, he worked at the Xinhua Bookstore East China General Branch in 1950. In 1952, he worked at a Children's Publishing House. In 1973 He works at Shanghai Translation Publishing House.

In his life, this innocent translator does not forget the taste of Cantonese.

At the age of 98, he also wrote a regret that he could not eat taro shrimp in Shanghai:

"I love to eat taro shrimp, and I wrap the shredded taro with rice noodles. The taro silk is delicious, and it is even more delicious when fried. Pinch into pineapple -like balls, wrap rice noodle skin, stick to sesame seeds and fry it out), and eat it for the year, and eat the taro shrimp. "He said," The remaining oil pot left after fried Soup, eating taro shrimp, drinking mustard soup is a perfect match! After arriving in Shanghai, enjoy the blessing of eating taro shrimp drinking mustard soup. Marry a Shanghai wife, let alone understand this! "

May the old gentleman no longer be blocked by time and space. When he was young, he returned to his childhood. He returned to Hongkou's childhood. When he ate everything, he wanted to eat it, and he could eat his mother's own hands. Only love, only lean meat sausages.

Liberation Daily · Shangguan News Original manuscript, reprinting without permission

Author: Shen Yilun

WeChat editor: Antong

School pair: Xiaochuan

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