I found on Xiaohongshu some pictures of Tangzhen (唐镇) taken in 1986, and realized some are on the road I cycle every day to work. So on National Day I set out to find these locations and if possible — reshoot them. Some locations are gone (or I couldn’t find them). Others were hard to shoot from the same viewpoint. But anyway, 国庆节快乐!
EDIT: As pointed out after sharing this on Reddit and Xiaohonghsu, the cars and some renovated buildings in this picture point towards the year 1996 or even a tiny bit later, rather than 1986.