A Spring City, a Writer's Second Hometown - 36Kr

In the height of summer, the author revisits Jinan through Lao She’s former home, Baotu Spring, Five Dragon Pool, and Qushuiting Street, tracing the places where he lived and wrote in the 1930s.

The piece links Lao She’s works and personal history with Jinan’s spring-city landscape, highlighting the city’s cultural meaning as his “second hometown.”

It also observes how the old town’s springs, narrow lanes, and pomegranate trees look today amid tourism development and urban renewal.