"I had been imagining secretly that the heaven should be like a library. "

                                                             ——Jorge Luis Borges

t splendid Thames Town of the Songjiang district lies Zhongshuge. Its typical red bricks and pointed deep blue roofs seem to blend into surrounding European architecture. Handwritings in various languages on windowpanes before your eyes boast of their own quintessential cultures, reminding us of childlike graffiti or an artist's inspirational manuscripts.

When entering the sidedoor，you will feel mentally refreshing by the ocean of books. Nigger-brown bookshelves stand at both sides showcasing a variety of books by different publishing houses. Looking down, you will surprisingly find orderly book models lying there under the transparent glass plate. You can read books with various themes here for free, and here free hot water is also available. With the downy light sprinkles over the book pages, you may feel time has stopped and you are totally immersed into the feeling of reading.

On your left, cozy reading space called Jiugongge which is more like a private study is divided into nine rooms, each with its own four-character horizontal inscribed board and distinctive themes like history, politics and enterprise management. Holding your favorite book you feel free to sit on a couch beside the window or between the shelves to engage in reading.

When you get out of Jiugongge, go along the corridor and up the wooden stairway, it may suddenly occur to you that “Books are the ladder of human progress.”

Every study on the second floor equals an amazing palace if you believe.

You will first encounter “the forest under numerous stars” as you can see from the left picture above. You seem to be wandering under the sky as if in a dream with the soft lighting. Shelves of artistically irregular shapes encave books about design，architecture，photography and painting which are likely to spark the inspiration of poets，photographers，painters and designers.

After that, you will get into a pure white temple with hand-drawn tiered windowpanes and arches shelves lying on both sides. Desks in the middle are as neat as a new pin as well. You can leave behind frickleness here and calm yourself down to the long history of vast human spirit in a humble position.

Later, you will catch sight of a dark passageway. Maxims on the wall is all about wisdom, truth and love, which speak to us from afar to help us grow up.

At the end of the passageway, you will find it fantastic to stay in such a shiny palace. Sitting on the ground, you can watch soaring shelves with amazement and surprise and may even become speechless in front of so remarkable scenery around you. You exactly feel like floating in the ocean of books.

Soon after going downstairs by the sidedoor, there is children’s book house with its unique features. Colorful walls and a vivid cockhorse attempt to construct scenes in fairy tales. Little children can read happily with rich imagination here.

What a wonderful place with serenity! You definitely deserve enjoying it for the sake of youth, company and knowledge.