First, Shanghainese are very meticulous. It is said that northerners are "coarse in the south and fine in the north", northerners are generous and southerners are delicate. When it comes to delicious food, Shanghainese are definitely the best. Mr. Ma Weidou commented that Shanghainese are "sophisticated", that is, every stitch and thread can be exhausted and every penny can be clearly marked. It is more appropriate to use the word "penny wise and pound foolish".
Mr. Ma Weidou said that what impressed him the most was the story of "half two food stamps". In the north, there is almost no such unit of measurement as half a catty. Everyone sells things by the catty. Generally, they buy two or three Jin directly, at least one Jin. In Shanghai, there are quite a few things you can buy with half a stamp-a small wonton, a small moon cake and so on. If a northerner goes to Shanghai and says "a catty of wonton" to a restaurant, he will be served twenty bowls of small wonton.
This funny story also tells the details of Shanghainese. Mr. Ma Weidou also experienced another thing personally. He said that when you make a phone call from a public phone booth in Shanghai, you will be very close to people, especially the old lady. She will answer the phone as soon as you hang up, so that you can save yourself the phone bill. Mr. Ma Weidou's humorous description vividly describes the details of Shanghainese.
Second, Mr. Ma Weidou thinks that Shanghai is the city with the best combination of eastern and western cultures. Regarding the argument that Shanghai is the best combination of eastern and western cultures, Mr. Ma Weidou compared Shanghai with Tianjin and Beijing. Mr. Ma Weidou believes that Shanghai is the best city to integrate eastern and western cultures, Tianjin is the best city to integrate local culture and foreign culture, and Beijing has maintained its own consistent oriental culture without integrating with the outside world.
Because Shanghai is a famous coastal city in China, it is also one of the first cities to contact with western culture, which is very good for the integration of Chinese and western cultures. Modern Shanghai is famous for its ten-mile foreign exchange, which will be opened to the outside world. Shanghai was the first to accept the most advanced factors in the world, including dresses, telephones, cars, small foreign buildings, etc.
Today, Shanghai is still an internationally famous metropolis. The western culture left behind was accepted by Shanghai and closely integrated with the eastern culture, forming Shanghai where Chinese and western cultures are now blended. From the Bund Huangpu River to Nanjing West Road and then to Huaihai Middle Road, Chinese and Western architecture and decoration can be seen everywhere. Shanghai is known as a "city of constant innovation", and its innovation and development are its flamboyance. This international metropolis has its own charm, and it is comfortable between the charm of the East and the strangeness of the West.
Third, Shanghainese are rich. To put it bluntly, Shanghainese are very rich. This is recognized and self-evident. How rich are Shanghainese? Take a humorous analogy-if you want to buy a suite in Shanghai, an ordinary citizen in an ordinary city may not be able to buy it even if he works for ten lifetimes. This is not an exaggeration. Shanghai is indeed an inch of land and gold, and sky-high sports cars can be seen everywhere on the streets of Shanghai.
The reason why Shanghai is so rich is actually related to its earliest exposure to the most advanced factors in the world. A large number of foreign capital inflows and industrial establishment in the early days were the basis of Shanghai's basic prosperity, and Shanghai, as an economic hub city, should be rich. If you go to Shanghai and see those tall and magnificent buildings, you may think they are places of interest and private houses left over, but in fact they are probably banks.
In this way, Shanghainese naturally have deep pockets because of this capital. With a rich material base, Shanghainese have a higher standard of living, and they need the best and most advanced food and clothing. Ordinary things can't enter the eyes of Shanghai people. Of course, by the same token, ordinary people can't get into the eyes of Shanghainese. Many people say that Shanghainese are xenophobic, but in fact they are closer to people's materialization and widen the gap in material basis.
In a word, Mr. Ma Weidou's evaluation of Shanghai and Shanghainese is particularly in place. As a Shanghainese who lives in Beijing all the year round, he can feel that Shanghai is actually integrated into Mr. Ma Weidou's body, just like others describe Mr. Ma Weidou-he saw the opportunistic oblique cutting of hairtail in Shanghai Hotel and thought he was "insulted", but how can a real northerner care about this detail delicately?