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New Year in the lane
For generations, New Year in Shanghai's lanes was loud and shared: firecrackers in the alleys, neighbors calling on each other, children collecting red envelopes from door to door. As families moved away and lanes were cleared, many such communal New Years ended, and firecrackers were banned inside the outer ring road from 2016 for safety and air quality. In lanes facing redevelopment, residents sometimes hold a last communal meal, setting up tables in the alley as they did in the past. For those who have lived there for decades, it is a farewell to the place and to a way of living together. 老陈's toast and his goodbye at midnight close the second part of the film. From here, the story is the move.