Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2017 | Page 44

buildings had perfectly become one part of this incredible image . The incredible buildings , Japanese , UK ’ s building take me back into the pass of the Bund , a long tale . Long time ago , Shanghai was just a little city with a small harbor , strong , brave fisherman coming back from the blue sea . With the improve of international relationship , more and more expensive trading happened . International buildings start standing on the side . Famous building , the Custom house . It is a Doric Order building , with brown color outside , the classic clock , it is tall as 10 level high . The clock was copy from the clock of Congress building . It was built in America , transfer to Shanghai and assemble at the Bund . It was rebuilt in 1925 , and it became one of the graceful house at the Bund . The clock was also one of the most famous clock in world . Back into time , the Bund was having lots of concession . For one example , HSBC bank is called the prettiest building at the bund . Was built at 1927 , in world war 2 , Japanese had use it for their bank , it had been use in many ways , it is also a building with histories . In night , it still has the most beautiful light all over the bund . The amazing bund is harbor is one of the characteristic of Shanghai , one of the greatest scenery in night over the world . I had leave some great times over there .
The bund was just one of the tales to tell , its tales are just a tip of the iceberg . For Shanghai , more stories can be told , Stone Gate House , a place with full of memories of my grandparents , they were born and live in the Stone Gate House , an alive book of telling the old Shanghai . The appearances of the Stone Gate House are fascinating , built with hard stone walls , brown wood door , the facts are , above the brown , black doors , western art are shown perfectly with the Chinese houses . Just like bleed into one with no offence . They had shown the art of western and eastern at same time , with the relationship between , interesting games and tales had begun in this place . Games had been created at here , “ build the house ”,” spin a top ”, “ playing marbles ”. Laughing , chatting and cheering all over the place . My grandparents had a great memory at there . My dad also , he had play the marbles and these kind of games everyday , the rules are easy . Draw a circle , marbles at the middle , you use you own to hit it out and you can have the marbles you hit outside , however , if it stays inside you lose the marble . So on , there are still bunch of games , passing one by one , one to ten , ten to hundred and so on , now there are still people that plays them . All these games are fun to tell , back to the houses , the stone houses usually have small rooms , usually two to three families in one house . They live together , help each other , even eat together . Well , most of the time , there is a small yard in the middle of the house . “ Children play over there at afternoon ” said grandpa . The temperature of the house is warm , no matter what time , hot summer and cold winter , always warm like a giant above , protect and make warm around .
When talk about games , it remains me about the festivals and the games , activities and foods .
Many festivals are created in China , for Shanghai , we use to have Moon Festival and Spring Festival . Me and my family usually sit at the yard of our house , watching the full moon and enjoy the