A Great Summer Retreat in Nanjing—A Night Visit to Junhui Book House

📚When it comes to staying warm in winter and cool in summer, a bookstore is definitely a good choice. And a bookstore with a literary atmosphere can calm down the hot and restless heart even more! What's more, there's an added touch of retro here! Heading east from the Zhonghua Gate Castle, you'll find 'Lao Mendong', which means 'east of the old city gate'. It is actually a historical and cultural district, starting from Jiangning Road near Yuhua Gate in the east, stretching to Zhonghua Gate Castle in the west, from Changle Road in the north to the Ming City Wall in the south. The main entrance today is at the end of Gutong Alley, south of Changle Road! 📍Located in Lao Mendong, Junhui Book House is also a pioneer! It is situated at Bianying No. 2 on the west side of Lao Mendong. ⏰Business hours: 11 am to 9:30 pm. 🏯Located on the west side of Lao Mendong, at Bianying No. 2, it is the first household you encounter when entering Mendong along the Zhonghua Gate Wall. With its flying eaves and carved stones, the steps at the entrance are more like a courtyard, a century-old house with the style of Huizhou architecture! Step inside the hall, and you'll see a two-story wooden loft with carved beams and painted rafters, exuding an ancient charm and historical flavor!! 📚Entering, you'll see the traditional Chinese character for 'book' carved out on the screen, with tall bookshelves on both sides neatly filled with books. Combined with this ancient background, it's like a different world! Walking on the creaking wooden stairs is like tracing the marks of time. On the second floor, screens divide the space into reading rooms or cultural salons. Order a hot drink or snack at the bar, pick up a book, and you can sit for a long time, serene and elegant! 🕋Wooden stools, sofas, long reading tables, and a duplex hollow design, looking down from above at the surrounding carved hollows, it feels like being in an era of profound knowledge and literature. No wonder this place has also become a must-visit hotspot for tourists in Lao Mendong! Besides books, there are of course all kinds of little trinkets and souvenirs. Take a moment to write a postcard and send it to a distant friend or your future self through the red mailbox, or choose bookmarks, photo albums, and cultural and creative products as gifts for friends. 🔮Smelling the elegant fragrance of books, stepping with poetic grace, searching for the roots of culture, here you'll find books with stories, and stories within books!