Shanghai’s city government, media, and academics competitively discussed Shanghai’s urbanism and started to change Shanghai’s image to a popular and sophisticated one that was different from other areas. After 2000, it was known that modern Shanghai’s downtown history of colonialism and cultural resources, through the ‘Shanghai developmental model, ’ transformed the spirit of Shanghai into a modern and beautiful urban regeneration. In the background was the cultural ambience that represented the ‘old Shanghai nostalgia’ and the ‘zhangailing phenomenon’ in the mid-1990s as the influences of globalism began to deepen. Today, the appearance of the ‘modern Shanghai nostalgia' actively memoirs modern Shanghai, which made the change of longing for rural places interchange with city development after reform and opening. In order to understand Shanghai's teahouse culture, this study will look into laochengxiang Shanghai laojie’s teahouses, shikumen homes in old French settlements, and teahouses with flower gardens. New urban regeneration to preserve history and culture started in this area and it mirrors specific features of Shanghai's teahouse culture through the 'modern Shanghai nostalgia.'