A Small Restaurant by the Canal

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through the city. In the old streets of Rencheng, Jining, the fireworks of Xie Jiajun's jerky rice have been floating for decades. Xie Changan grew up here, guarding a small restaurant and tasting all kinds of meat, glutinous rice soup, pancakes, and hot tofu. A bowl of food contains the joys and sorrows of the neighbors. From the canal docks in the 1980s, to the demolition of old streets and the relocation of people. Generations come and go, and the popularity of the small restaurant rises and falls. This is not a vigorous legend, it is just the half-life of ordinary people on the bank of the canal, the fireworks memory of an old city.