Wandering in Beijing, Hutongs, Gardening and Contemporary Art
Beijing weather: sunny
Accommodation: Weiming Courtyard Hotel
Comments: The location is very convenient. You can walk to various nearby attractions, including the oldest old hutong in Beijing. I also met new friends from Taiwan and Shenzhen. We had tea and dinner together. It was an unforgettable trip to the hutong.
Day 1: Wudaoying Hutong-Jianchang Hutong-Guozijian Street-Baochao Hutong... Ya 'er Hutong-Shichahai
Day 2: World Horticultural Exposition
Day 3:798 Art Center
After getting off the plane, you can take the subway to Yonghegong Station and start your Hutong Tour from Wudaoying.
However, Wudaoying does not seem to be much different from the antique streets in other cities. There is a row of milk tea shops and Yiwu small commodity shops, and cars are parked in the other row.
Then I turned into Jianchang Hutong, which gave me a lot of life, but many banners kept reminding me that every old lady and grandfather chatting here was probably a billionaire.
Turning from Jianchang Hutong into Guozijian Street, you can see many big houses at a glance, including many online celebrity stores such as Dongliang, Fanji, and Lost Found. A straight man walked in and felt so embarrassed that he took a picture far away from the corner of the street. A white photo.
After coming out of the Imperial College, I turned into Fangjia Hutong, where there were very few Internet celebrity shops. Many alleys are covered by shade of trees, making it quiet and beautiful to walk in.
Soon it was past 4 o'clock, the primary school students had finished school, and Hu Tongli was filled with the chirping laughter of children again, feeling full of the atmosphere of fireworks in the world.
On the way, I heard a mother asking her daughter how to speak English in a certain scene. The old lady next to her told her old friend that the children were hungry, so how to teach English...
Walking around all corners to the Zhaofu Street Non-staple Food Store, which is actually a grocery store where I bought daily necessities, rice, oil and salt when I was a child. There is also a strong smell of pickled mustard. People like me, who obviously look like tourists, are afraid of disturbing the daily life of the elderly people who are purchasing specially. After staying for less than a minute, I slipped out and took a photo of my visit at the door.
After coming out of Zhaofu Street, there is Bell Tower Square. Many old grandparents and old ladies are kicking shuttlecock, playing chess, and wandering grandchildren... enjoying a happy and energetic retirement life, and there are also foreign friends holding telephoto cannons to take photos.
Opposite the Bell Tower is the Drum Tower. The National Day is approaching. The flowers and brocade are dressed very well, and there are also foreign Internet celebrities taking selfies.
The sun is almost setting, and the shadows of leaves are printed on the red walls and black tiles, and the background is also set off against the rare blue sky of Beijing.
However, I was hungry and not in the mood to appreciate it. The delicious food of old Beijing attracted me straight to Ya 'er Hutong.
A bowl of mutton tripe soup from Ya 'er Li Ji, two pieces of roasted rice, and a bottle of Arctic Ocean, is so beautiful.
Continuing to stroll along Ya 'er Hutong, I actually came to Yindian Bridge by the Shicha Sea.
Then, oh my god, the legendary Houhai Bar Street suddenly appeared in front of me. It was like a row of old antique buildings on the lakeside road of Zhongshan Park in my hometown. The bar with an elderly disco light show was actually the most unpopular bar street in the capital. It was a bar street where countless famous singers have emerged?
Feeling that I wasn't full, I turned into Fangjiahu Tongli and headed for South Tongluogu Lane. Keep passing by the door of luxury houses worth hundreds of millions of yuan.
I originally wanted to eat a bowl of authentic Zhajiang noodles at No. 69, Fangzhanchang, but unfortunately I encountered a crowd queuing, so I took a photo and left.
Passing by the Internet celebrity shop Wenyu Cheese, I bought a bowl of traditional palace cheese. It felt completely different from the ones I bought in other cities. It tasted like tofu, but it had the sweetness of cheese and was super delicious.
I checked my mobile phone and found that I had walked more than 30,000 steps today. Tired and hungry, I rushed to Beixinqiao and ordered a mutton kebabs and Yaoji fried liver. It looked a little dark, but I couldn't love the taste.
The 2019 World Garden Expo will be held in Beijing and will end on October 7. You must join in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
In the golden autumn of September, the weather in Beijing is also particularly powerful. Blue sky and white clouds, green trees and a plastic bird, perfect!
There are also exhibitions of some contemporary artists here, such as this painting "Farewell My Concubine".
Yongning Pavilion is the commanding height of the entire Garden Expo. You can see the side of the Central Garden Pavilion and the antique houses below.
It is a natural ecological area from Sir Yongning, mainly to avoid people. It is very quiet here.
I am tired, but there are not many people in the International Pavilion. The ceiling of the International Pavilion is filled with white petals, echoing the theme of the Expo.
After entering, the characteristics of various countries are displayed in silhouette form.
Exhibition halls in various countries are selling small gifts with their own characteristics.
There is also a Chinese chrysanthemum exhibition in the International Pavilion. Crane and Phoenix, a horticultural version of the Qingming Festival Riverside Picture...
Bonsai version of the fairyland on earth
Coming out of the International Pavilion and entering the China Pavilion, there were too many people and flowers. Flowers from all provinces competed for beauty. This situation is already a bit out of words, and its written expression ability is infinitely close to that of my parents 'circle of friends.
The buildings of the Expo are all full of design, and you can see a large piece of modern architecture with a casual photo.
In the wall of seeds, there are several small seeds hidden in each small hole.
This is the oracle bone inscriptions of art.
There was not much time left, so I rushed to the botanical museum.
There is a teamlab exhibition area, which is not a little worse than the exhibition in Guangzhou. Anyway, this is not the focus of the botanical museum.
Walking into the Botanical Museum, you will find that this is a very large greenhouse that cultivates a variety of plants.
One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi
Being in the cultural desert of the south, I always have a great interest in art exhibitions. It is said that the new landmarks in Beijing are already the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and 798... So he moved directly to the 798 Art Center on the third day. In the evening, I even went to Rome and did as the Romans did. It is said that the mutton sent from Inner Mongolia is really delicious.
I slept until 9 o'clock and went out to shop. Most of the museums were useless. I went to Creative Plaza to take a check-in photo.
Passing through Middle 2 Road, it really suits me in Secondary 2.
The sculptures on the roadside are a little scary.
Young Three Kingdoms was the earliest store opened, which brought all the characters of the Three Kingdoms to life.
Huge chimneys remind us that not long ago this place was a heavy factory.
There is also a History Museum of Lovelorn Diary.
There is really a train in Locomotive Square. It is said that this "Upstream 0751" was the one that transported fuel back then.
At around 10 o'clock, various exhibition halls opened one after another, and the first exhibition to see was the "Fire House". The preface to the curatorial exhibition goes like this: "'Fire House 'represents topics related to desire and related thoughts on the mental state of modern people."
Along the way, we passed Baochao Hutong, Jingtu Hutong, Liuli Temple Hutong, and Fensiting Hutong... It was a bit confusing to distinguish east, west, north, south and middle.
Although it was a weekday, the Expo was still crowded with people. People with phobia of crowded crowds still ran to the gardening town with relatively small crowds. This place mainly displays the characteristic houses along the ancient Guishui River.
It feels like an art school student getting tired of painting and scribbling paint on the line manuscript.
Then he turned into the blacksmith camp. Tin toys will always be boys 'favorite, especially this steampunk style.
The next exhibition is steampunk again, with Koji Kanada and his Star Baby Team. Nowadays, trendy toys are also very popular, and the prices of stores outside the exhibition are okay, starting at 1K.
I ate at a Western restaurant with a glass room at noon
Next is the Urens Center for Contemporary Art. Getting started is a pile of half-burned newspapers.
There is also the life course of a brick. The artist held it to watch Spanish movies, took it on a bus, and finally threw it into the Yangtze River on a boat. It's a bit like the current form of vlogger recording boring live broadcasts of life, but it's more boring than vlogger and then it becomes a contemporary art exhibition.
A photo exhibition of taking foreigners around hutongs is still more normal, but it is very neurotic to restore the room where the artistic youth lived in Hu Tongli. In particular, there is an old TV station that has been broadcasting a MV from the 1980s, with the magical melody and the lyrics,"Engage in art, comfort you and me... Prosperity, no trouble... World peace depends on you and me..." It really has the potential to become a brainwashing Internet song.
I went back to read the preface to the curatorial exhibition, which roughly described it like this-in the 1990s, faced with the false focus and rupture of value... the artist's reflection and exploration of self-identity, female awareness, urbanization, mobility and other propositions showed its A cultural landscape with multiple dimensions...
Virtual focus, multiple dimensions, unfinished cultural landscape... I know all these words, but I don't know what they mean. I expressed my sincerity and clearly realized that the gap between myself and the art world lies in my ability to deceive copywriters...
Seeing a "One Belt and One Deer" exhibition, it seems that contemporary artists have a high political awareness.
Walking into the Long March Space Gallery, I was shocked by the dense number of hundreds of oil paintings. At first, I thought it was a collection of many contemporary painters, but later I discovered that it was actually Wu Shanzhuan's solo exhibition "Today Later Becomes a Festival".
It is also very interesting to study each painting carefully, especially the title of the painting.
For example,"Looking up at the sky with five eggs and fifteen tomatoes fried","I use commodities among commodities","All starlight dies in the sky"
Well, contemporary artists have a really strong ability to elevate their works through titles.
Next is the superposition relationship and spillover relationship of zero-art centers. Okay, it's the one where I know every word combined and I don't know anything. Today is a day of illiteracy.
The last thing I saw was the "Ukiyo-e" exhibition. It is said that Van Gogh's letter to his brother mentioned that "all my works are based on Ukiyo-e to some extent..."
Ukiyo-e mainly uses line manuscripts and overprints to show the folk customs of the Edo period.
Of course, the curatorial declaration is still confusing...
Those worldly eyebrows that have been sealed by the ukyo-e,
If you stare attentively, everything will be alive again.
If everything ultimately returns to nothingness, let the present experience these joys and sorrows carefully with your stealthy perceptions.
In fact, it has the same meaning as "expressing the folk customs of the Edo period", but it seems very profound, right?
Today, I also learned a bunch of new artistic terms such as "Blind Painting Theory","Uncertainty Modification", and "Boundless and Responsibility". I feel that all the pretentious copywriting in my circle of friends has been contracted for the next year.
At the end of the day, I am full of contemporary art, and finally I would like to have an amazing creative roast duck (sticky with jumping sugar...) to enrich my mortal stomach.
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