{"id":956,"date":"2023-07-30T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2023-07-30T21:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:53:33","slug":"why-do-shanghainese-love-paidui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Shanghainese Love “P\u00e1idu\u00ec”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although Mid-Autumn Festival has a few days to go, Shanghainese cannot help to\u00a0line up(\u6392\u961f p\u00e1idu\u00ec<\/strong>) for purchasing mooncakes one month earlier. In the morning on weekdays, middle-aged aunties and uncles are already in lines for hours waiting for the fresh baked\u00a0mooncake. Queuing seems to become one of people\u2019s survival skills in Shanghai. If you want to experience something new and famous, you have to observe this convention\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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 <\/strong>Is it worthwhile?<\/strong>
Two hours for a cup of milk tea; one hour for a loaf of bread; Sweet green rice ball in spring while mooncake in autumn\u2026Queuing has become a kind of pre-eating ceremony. “I feel that the food got after waiting in line is really better.” Such comments are not rare in posts of social media. The baked mooncakes are supplied almost every day in a year. Why do people still go in line waiting a fresh baked one for three hours or more? <\/p>\n\n\n

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If you think it just because Shanghainese people are influenced by Internet Sensation, you are wrong. Among them of course, some people like join the fun of what most people do. However, before the era of online marketing, people have been addicted to food queuing. What is overlooked is that old Shanghainese are particular about \u201ceating\u201d.
What exactly are they looking for?<\/strong> There is a food map of Shanghai in the heart of every local:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Xi\u0101nr\u00f2u yu\u00e8b\u01d0ng <\/strong>y\u00e0o ch\u012b Gu\u0101ngm\u00edngc\u016bn<\/strong> de\u3002\u9c9c\u8089\u6708\u997c<\/strong>\u8981\u5403\u5149\u660e\u90a8<\/strong>\u7684\u3002Fresh baked meat mooncake<\/strong> should be eaten from Guangmingcun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Xi\u0101nn\u01cei d\u00e0ng\u0101o <\/strong>y\u00e0o ch\u012b H\u00f3ngb\u01ceosh\u00ed<\/strong> de\u3002\u9c9c\u5976\u86cb\u7cd5<\/strong>\u8981\u5403\u7ea2\u5b9d\u77f3<\/strong>\u7684\u3002Fresh cream cake<\/strong> should be eaten from Hongbaoshi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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B\u00e1izh\u01cenj\u012b<\/strong>\u00a0y\u00e0o ch\u012b\u00a0Xi\u01ceosh\u00e0ox\u012bng<\/strong>\u00a0de\u3002\u767d\u65a9\u9e21<\/strong>\u8981\u5403\u5c0f\u7ecd\u5174<\/strong>\u7684\u3002Boiled chicken<\/strong>\u00a0should be eaten from\u00a0Xiaoshaoxing<\/strong>.Shanghainese\u2019s passion on eating is reflected on the obsession with\u00a0time honored brands(\u8001\u5b57\u53f7 l\u01ceoz\u00ech\u00e0o<\/strong>). That is what we say the brands having\u00a0long history and famous. Especially the old generation has a deep\u00a0sense of brand identity(\u54c1\u724c\u8ba4\u540c\u611f p\u01d0np\u00e1i r\u00e8nt\u00f3ngg\u01cen<\/strong>).\u00a0
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The history of queuing<\/strong>\u00a0Queue is a modern product of human civilization. The form of “one by one” symbolizes rules and equality. Everyone has to follow the rule of “first come, first served\u201d(\u5148\u5230\u5148\u5f97 xi\u0101n d\u00e0o xi\u0101n d\u00e9<\/strong>).\u00a0Shanghainese\u2019s complex for lining up or abiding by rules has a long history. Since Shanghai\u2019s opening as a commercial port in 1843, concessions of Britain, United States and France have been established, where foreigners were responsible for construction. Among the first who came to do business in Shanghai loved queuing up: the British. It is said even when they were alone, they would wait in a neat line. The concessions became a window for locals to learn western culture at that time, which laid the foundation for the city with the highest degree of modernization in China.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s\u00a0fair and\u00a0square.<\/strong>\u00a0Queuing is not a special offer, not\u00a0pulling up strings, not a private deal. Being able to stand in\u00a0a line is an option. As long as you are willing to pay time and energy, you can eat, see, hear and buy. \u201cNo pain, no gains\u201d is a philosophy of life that has been long accepted by Shanghainese. The success achieved through personal striving will receive a more positive evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shanghai people fond of queuing in the final analysis is that they like civilization and fairness. \u201cI can’t make it today. If I come earlier next time, I’ll probably be able to buy it.\u201d If everything can be solved waiting in a line, who will not try it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Mid-Autumn Festival has a few days to go, Shanghainese cannot help to\u00a0line up(\u6392\u961f p\u00e1idu\u00ec) for purchasing mooncakes one month earlier. In the morning on weekdays, middle-aged aunties and uncles are already in lines for hours waiting for the fresh baked\u00a0mooncake. Queuing seems to become one of people\u2019s survival skills in Shanghai. If you want to experience something new and famous, you have to observe this convention\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[5,43],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}