Shanghai Bund, Part Of Old Shanghai China, Place To Stroll And Meet Friends.
The Bund Shanghai China is a place to be in the cool evenings, when there is time to sit and chat with friends, or just take a stroll alongside the Huangpo River. It was a peaceful place to be, for a western man, sitting on a low wall amongst some other Chinese people. Along the Bund came a Shanghai young boy, who stopped to talk to the western man. The Shanghai boy had a partly amputated arm that he showed to the Western man, and no spoken words were needed to understand that the boy was seeking some form of charitable donation. The meeting between the Shanghai boy and the western man, soon attracted the attention of others taking their evening stroll on the Bund. They stopped and watched with some amusement, and it is safe to assume that the boy was known for his approaches to any promising foreign visitor to the Bund. Any such incident, whether in Shanghai China, in London UK, or New York, USA, would present a dilemma. What is the best thing to do? Give the boy a handout so that he would walk away and leave you to enjoy your evening on the Bund, or get up and walk away, leaving the boy to approach other visitors to Shanghai?
Peaceful Evening On Bund Shanghai Shattered By Klaxon Of Ship On Huangpo River.
The Bund is situated alongside the Huangpo River which gives inland access to passenger ships and ships of cargo. It is not unusal to be sitting on the Bund enjoying the evening air, to have a blast of a klaxon from a passing ship shatter the welcome peacefulness. For any visitor to Shanghai, an evening cruise on the Huangpo River, is a worthwhile and interesting experience. From the cruise ship a different perspective of the Shanghai skyline is seen, the Peace Hotel with its distinctive tower, and other buildings of western architecture. The Bund itself with its line of street lamps shining brightly and other twinkling lights, takes on a fairy like appearance, enhancing its attractiveness for the tourists and for the Shanghai people themselves. Old Shanghai has many special and charming features, that are inevitably, likely to change in years to come. The development of Pudong has already given Shanghai a different position in China.
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The word "Bund" means an embankment or an embanked quay, and comes from the Urdu word band, meaning an embankment, levee or dam (a cognate of English terms, bind and band, German term, bund, etc.). The term was brought to India (where it came to be pronounced as "bund") by either the Mughals in at the beginning of the 16th century, or possibly, by the Baghdadi Jews like the family of David Sassoon, and thence to Shanghai by the family of Victor Sassoon. There are many "bands" to be found in Baghdad, even at present. There are numerous sites in India, China, and Japan which are called "bunds". However, "the Bund" as a proper noun almost invariably refers to this particular stretch of embanked riverfront in Shanghai.
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