The 120-year-old Daqing Post Office, a new landmark in Shanghai's ancient town, has been transformed into a new space!
🧚♀️I went to the ancient town of Zhujiajiao in Qingpu, Jiangnan, over the weekend and found another new landmark in the old street of the ancient town, which is the Zhujiajiao Daqing Post Office that has a history of 120 years and has been transformed into a 'new cultural space'!
📬The Zhujiajiao Daqing Post Office, which was established in 1903, is the only remaining site of the Daqing Post Office in East China. The iconic red brick and gray tile building, as well as the Qing Dynasty bronze dragon mailbox outside the post office, record the vicissitudes of time and are still in use today, with mail being collected every day.
💚The renovated Daqing Post Office retains its original charm while incorporating modern elements. The green national style color of the decoration is in harmony with the color of the mailbox, representing a fusion of traditional culture and new Chinese national aesthetics.
🏣The interior space has been functionally reshaped, with the layout including a Daqing Post Office cultural and creative area, a letter museum, and a corner living room.
💌In the cultural and creative area on the first floor, there is a grandmaster's chair and a long table with letters and ink. With stamps and postmarks, it feels like a return to the bygone era of letter writing.
📮Here you can mail to your present or future self, which is quite meaningful. For those who like to collect stamps, there are also many free stamps available.
📇Entering the second floor exhibition hall, you will find a letter museum themed 'Long Time No See', with walls full of yellowed letters, family letters, small notes, etc., as well as old items from the Daqing Post Office and artworks by contemporary artists.
📽️Further ahead is the 'Corner Living Room'. The steps are arranged in a tiered manner, and the large screen in front is at the perfect viewing distance. You can enjoy the aesthetic feeling brought by the space. If you love reading, you can lie on the lazy sofa and immerse yourself in the world of literature.
🍵There is also a riverside terrace where you can enjoy tea and rest, and appreciate the daily life of the ancient town residents, known as 'water pillow Jiangnan'.
💯If you visit Zhujiajiao on the weekend, you can visit this old building that has been rejuvenated in the flowing water, and send a letter to your future self!
Zhujiajiao Ancient Town is quite far from Shanghai, but now it is connected to Metro Line 17, so it is very convenient to go to Zhujiajiao Ancient Town. Zhujiajiao Ancient Town Daqing Post Office is an old building, a bit like the old Shikumen house in Shanghai. Now the post office buys some cultural and creative products.
The Daqing Post Office, formerly Qing Guangxu, was opened in 1896, and Guangxu was officially established as Zhujiajiao mailing agency branch in 29 years, which was one of the 13 major post offices in Shanghai at that time. The upper and lower floors, the first floor is the original surroundings, the eyes are blooming, the postcards sent are stamped with the stamp of the Daqing Post; the second floor is a collection of postal introductions from the dynasties and the original manuscripts of the precious postcards and letters from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, which is also an exhibition. More interesting is the Qing Dynasty copper cast dragon post box still in use outside the post office. There is actually a surrounding coffee, I like it too much. I want to taste slowly, I want to stamp, I want. . .
Located in Zhujiajiao Scenic Area. The post box at the door is very distinctive. Some postcards, crafts and postmarks are sold inside. Witness the history of the magic city becoming a super-first-class metropolis step by step. There are also some time-space mailboxes in the back door Linhe, which can be sent to the future 2333
I sent myself a postcard, it felt different.
The Nth punch-in trip of the weekend [Zhujiajiao Ancient Town] still received a variety of surprises, found many newly opened shops, and many new Dengxi! For example, this [Zhujiajiao Daqing Post Office Cafe], which opened only a year ago, is really good to go shopping and drink. 👉 The coffee shop is opened at the old site of the 120-year-old [Zhujiajiao Daqing Post Office]. It feels like sitting in the old post office and drinking coffee. It is really different! 👉 The [Coffee Rice Soup] exclusively sold in the new store is unexpectedly not poked. Drinking coffee with fragrance and sweetness is entirely because of the blessing of Qingpu local high-quality rice, the boiled rice soup is thick and sweet, this natural good taste, seconds kill the vast majority of other syrup special! 👉 Coffee is made in the riverside stove in the ancient town of Millennium, and the experience is full. 💯👉 Once the car and horse were slow and the letter was long, and now the future time post office, different times, the same romance. 👉 In addition to the need to buy tickets to enter some exhibition areas on the second floor, other areas are fully open, and you can also see a lot of introductions to the history of the postal service.