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This is a work that collects moments of memories. A senior reporter used his camera to record the urban street scenes and residents' lives in Hangzhou over the past 50 years. In that era when photography was expensive and scarce, these pictures were not only the life journey of this reporter, but also a portrayal of the journey of the city and generations of people, freezing a period of wonderful ups and downs of the changes of the times and major events in people's livelihood. People who lived through the 1970s and 1980s may reminisce about the old days; people born in the prosperous new century may want to know about the glorious years of their parents' generation. Only by clarifying the path we came on will we cherish the present more and be more determined in the direction of the future. The hurried morning light, dusty markets, water carrying burdens, and leaky roofs in the 1970s; the squares, new buildings, markets, and old streets in the 1980s; the demolished old houses in the 1990s, the last handicraft shops, tiger stoves, and foreign fast food; the millennium has pressed the accelerator button, with the bustling commodity economy, population mobility, and emerging trends. Time passes without realizing it, and time easily throws people away. The world we live in has undergone too many changes, and we need to stop at a certain moment, carefully put away the memories of these times and people, and slowly cherish them.