Shanghai Xintiandi (The New World)
Are you still in a boring city life? Do you want to get some new interesting program in your spare time? Please come to Shanghai Xintiandi! It will give you the whole city life from ancient to modern.
It is accepted that Shanghai Xintiandi is the best place for tourist to appreciated historic culture and modern life in Shanghai. It's also the liveliest area in the city and a must for your Shanghai tour. Shanghai Xintiandi is constructed as old buildings. It maintained the Shanghai's early 20th Century style and it revealed old Shanghai feeling. But inside the Shanghai Xintiandi, it's a modern city, each part of which shows us it is the modern age, and it offers the modern townsmen's life style, emotion feeling and consuming experience.
Shanghai Xintiandi changed the history of the Shiku Gate. It pours new living element into the Shiku Gate which is going to decompose. When you're walking in Shanghai Xintiandi, you may find the time seems to be drawing back. That the wall is painted in alternate red and green and the gate is engraved into pediment makes the tourist feel staying in the street in early 19th Century. When going through the gate, you will find that the alternate wall in the house is pushed down, and become a big room in the whole floor. There is central air conditioning system inside. The western-style fireplace, elegant sofa, old fashioned square table with eight seats and fauteuil in Chinese style are so closed, and groggery, coffee bar and teahouse, Chinese restaurants are in neighborhood. Outside there is the old Chinese landscape, but inside there is modern live style. A wall divides two entirely different worlds.
That must be the most interesting visit in your Shanghai tour, but where is it? Shanghai Xintiandi is conveniently located right in the center of cosmopolitan Shanghai. It is close to Middle Huaihai Road and Taicang Road, bordering upon South Huangpi Road, Madang Road and Zizhong Road.
