2019 happens to be the year Blade Runner’s futuristic metropolis is set to exist.

At that time, “2019” was a futuristic feeling wrapped in high-tech, which was quite bizarre. On the other hand, we are familiar with the market life, often sparse. The two realities, side by side in the same dimension, are full of contradictions and confusion.

Now the “future” has finally arrived. In Chongqing (重庆), you can see the most homegrown version of the near future.

At one time, when we were talking about cyberpunk, we were talking about a pessimistic future. But Chongqing’s cyberpunk is, for the moment, a fresh game.

“Wild gas” building, modern and mysterious. Chongqing is damp and foggy all year round. It is like a secret city in the rain forest, known from a certain era as the “city of fog”.

Chongqing’s road is so intricate that it has become a no-go zone for have no sense of direction and the fear of heights.

The buildings are uneven in height and strange in shape, with various Bridges across the floors… The streets rise above the floors, and there will be tall buildings on the high roads. Chongqing has greatly reduced the scale of “tall”. Take the elevator to the 22nd floor, and you’ll even find a car speeding out the window.

Moreover, don’t trust the road ahead, no matter how difficult it may be to rely on navigation. Next thing you will know the thins is , the path could go into the ground, it could go straight into the air, it could take a big, sharp turn, it’s a pretty wild road but the simple usual one to the native of Chongqing.

Leave the road and return to the pedestrian walkway for a turn back that has never been to the past. There are so many steps that one or two hundred are common. Climbing up the ladder is like carrying on a traditional and pious pilgrimage.

And you will see the light rail habitually is actually run in the sky, through tall buildings, and housing friction. Just like the light rail line 2, in Plum dam station straight bucket to the house.

In order to cross the river and the mountains, Chongqing people can also take the cableway, which is the exclusive right of the Cyberpunk people.

When night falls and Chongqing lights up, it’s the start of cyberpunk. Light and colour temporarily cancel people’s inability to daydream about existentialism, and timely pleasure is the right way.

This sunshine is not much of the city, but developed a preference for cold light lamps. Coupled with the glass, which is mostly blue, Chongqing at night reflects the cold and depressed nature of science and technology, just like a dream science fiction city. But with just a little warmth, brilliance and dreams can be set alight.

Hongyadong stilted house complex of glinting red light, resemble an extremely happy place, hearsay it inspired “Spirited away” the setting design of big bath place, play inside and outside a reference, fantasy colour is more intense.

In the development of Chongqing, some original old buildings have been preserved. The “wild” of Chongqing architecture makes modern and “poor” coexist.

The traffic teahouse is one of them. The teahouse, still as it was in the 1970s and 1980s, is filled with unrelated but closely connected people.

Here, it is Chongqing civilian life breath most strong place, also be the important component of cyberpunk temperament. This also hits right at the heart of cyberpunk’s aesthetic, “High tech, low Life.”

Of the four major Cyberpunk capitals in Asia, Chongqing is the most acceptable place for us. Shanghai is too urbanized, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled city is almost gone, and Tokyo is too far away. Chongqing is just right enough, tear and healing to form a steady state.

Maybe one day, the stuff of science fiction will be the reality that surrounds us all.That day will come closer and closer, just as it is now well past “2019.”

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This brief introduction of my hometown just took me back to a month ago, when I was still at home with my family. I will miss my hometown and the wonderful memories it brings to me will support me every day of my life in London