Beijing

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some people say

Beijing is China's New York

Because it has a kind of freedom deep in the soul

Because it has the right amount of narcissism

Because it has tolerance that penetrates into the bones

Because of its extremely diverse value orientations

Beijing

Maybe it's a city you won't like at first glance.

But it must be that you want to understand the city you integrate into after you have been in contact for a long time

this time

I want to take you to see the red bricks under Teacher Dong Yugan

I want to show you the Milky Way designed by the devil in architecture

I want to show you the home left by Kamprad, the most frugal billionaire

I want to experience the feeling of home dressed up by amateurs with you

I want to experience the combination of Beijing-Hong Kong culture with you from south to north

red brick Art Museum| Red brick on the left hand and garden on the right hand

▲ I want to give a lot of praise to the red bricks and to this particularly soft garden-style art museum that presents Chinese style. The combination of different styles of red bricks and blue bricks does not seem to be inconsistent here. They blatantly publicize their own temperament, attracting various exhibitions to be held here, quietly here, waiting for batches of people who come here to admire it.

▲ The neat and uniform boxes will make you feel that this is a building with a strong sense of ceremony.

▲ After entering the arena, small red bricks of varying heights are scattered around the amphitheater for people to rest. When there are few tourists, panoramic views are taken, and any shutter is a large picture.

▲ The large floor-to-ceiling windows echo the red bricks on the entire side outside the window, creating a timed movie scene. As long as you stay there, it will be a freeze-motion shot.

▲ The perfect intersection of light and space makes every corner of the Red Brick Art Museum a scene. You can not help but imagine what the four seasons here are like, and what it is like here every moment when the sun rotates from east to west. In the process of taking portraits, direct flashing is rarely used. Generally, flashing is used with the help of reflectors or wall reflections. This not only achieves the effect of filling light, but also makes the light of the flash more soft and natural. This time, Speedlite470EX-AI is used. This flash does not require manual adjustment of the flash angle and flash volume output of the top-mounted flash, which largely solves the problem of the output of the light amount and the selection of the flash angle.

▲ Walking from the exhibition hall to the backyard, there are many stairs to climb, and you can experience the fun of climbing the roof when you were a child. Red bricks and blue bricks also begin their transition here, from the unpredictable changes of light and shadow to the charm of Jiangnan gardens.

▲ The moon cave door connected to each other is a must-check place for red bricks. The intersection of light and plants is vividly expressed in the blue brick garden.

▲ Walking on the red brick at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, you only need to turn around and the sun will kiss your cheek. During the backlighting time, press the AI.B button, and the Canon 470EX-AI automatically completes metering. A very convenient thing is that after gently pressing the shutter twice in a row when the horizontal shot changes to the vertical shot, the 470EX-AI adjusts the flash angle based on the camera's vertical shot status.

art| Those niche exhibitions that stay quietly in red bricks

◆ I don't know when the popularity of niche craze became popular, but people began to be keen on pursuing some niche and unpopular things. I am also a member of this group. I don't have strong artistic cells, only inner sitcom, and have a paranoid pursuit of areas I don't understand. Art exhibitions are also one of them.

▲ The little sun that explodes the circle of friends is one of the works in this exhibition ~

▲ The use of single-frequency lights turns all colors entering the room into yellow and gray, creating a sense of magic in Blade Runner 2049.

▲ Japanese artist Izumi Kato's first large-scale solo exhibition in China-Kato Izumi's "Untitled" Fabric Series

▲ Kato Izumi's works have distinctive characteristics-their contours are universal, sometimes hermaphrodite, with long limbs and cunning posture. They blend with plant attributes, as if they originate from a heretic spiritual world and have the original power that grows on the land.

▲ These universal and vivid visual images are independent of the dualistic division of visual art history between the East and the West, presenting a view of nature derived from local culture and with religious attributes. In the artist's fictional world, these creatures are both cordial and unfamiliar, standing quietly in front of the audience in various forms.

▲ Along the corridor up the steps, Andreas Moué 's photography works are lined up side by side on the wall.

▲ The steps are always a good place to take photos. Every time the steps turn around, it feels like you are on the Avenue of Stars.

Galaxy Soho| If you can't see the stars, I'll take you to the Milky Way ~

◆ The Milky Way in the capital is located at the southwest corner of Chaoyangmen Bridge in the East Second Ring Road. Poi/5423316.html Galaxy SOHO at night falls is shrouded in a thin white light like several spacecraft ready to take off at any time, about to sail for the depths of space...

▲ Roundness and flow are the main designs of Galaxy SOHO, giving people a soft sense of tranquility.

▲ Opposite Yinhe SOHO is Chaoyangmen SOHO. The office building can enter and exit freely without obstacles, and the sixth floor is a good base for taking reflections.

▲ The works of the SOHO series are always full of design. They are different from previous cubicles. When you look out through every glass, you seem to be able to see the future.

▲ Zaha's buildings always have endless angles. Even if it is a familiar place, new things can be unearthed.

▲ Walking in Galaxy SOHO, you can't help but be attracted by its mysterious atmosphere. The light was weak at night. After the flash was installed on the camera, the only thing I did was to adjust the Canon 470EX-AI to fully automatic mode, and then press the AI.B button. With such a convenient operation, there was almost no need to use the Canon 470EX-AI during shooting. Perform any manual intervention and complete this shooting entirely in fully automatic mode.

▲ Most of the impressions given by the Imperial Capital are very square. In a straight city, curved buildings are always unforgettable.

IKEA| It's a windy city. People who come home late must have a home.

◆ In 1998, IKEA settled in China and opened its first store in Xuhui District, Shanghai. In the blink of an eye, 20 years have passed, and IKEA has 25 stores across the country. Today, IKEA is an Internet celebrity check-in place that collects home shopping, eats and rests, and can get closer. It is also a good place for us to spend most of the day hanging out.

▲ IKEA's structure and layout in every city are similar. The bottom-level warehouse store has become a check-in base for major photography enthusiasts due to its simple industrial style.

▲ What is piled up on both sides seems not to be commodities, but what everyone thinks of home.

▲ What you can hold in a big shopping cart is your longing for home.

▲IKEA says IKEA is your home.

▲ Have you ever thought about what your home looks like?

▲ It seems that everyone goes through a period of confusion about what home is.

▲ And now I seem to understand that home is a place that makes you feel at ease.

▲ IKEA, which is famous for its experiential marketing, always makes people feel how great it would be if my home became like this through store layout and spatial displays.

homestay| It is a gentle place, it is a whisper of tenderness

◆ B & Bs have become popular in recent years, and they have become a new place to combine hotel check-in and photo taking.

▲ When you choose to stay in a B & B outside, you will always be more biased towards LOFT. For indoor shooting, light is also used a lot. This time, a portrait weapon, Speedlite470EX-AI, was installed. Press the AI.B button to automatically measure the shooting distance and the distance of the flashing, and automatically adjust the flashing angle. After the actual shooting was over, I still saw the photos that I got, which still surprised me. There was almost no under-exposure or overexposure in terms of exposure.

▲ I like the room with an attic, like the warmth of wood, like the dotted lights, like the gentleness of pink, like you.

▲ The city will generously light up all night long, so that people who return late will not get lost.

▲ And I prefer the dotted light in the house, which makes people feel at ease and comfortable. During this real shooting process, the fully automatic mode of the Canon 470EX-AI flash makes it easy to start shooting even for a white light, so it will give the photographer enough sense of security and make complex flash adjustments easier.

▲ Invisible stars in the city, let's turn around and look at them on the sofa.

▲ You will feel that light is a very magical thing, and a bright place always makes people yearn for it.

▲ The light held in the palm of your hand is like love, warmth, hope.

jinggang Metro| Di is a Hong Kong-style subway card from the capital

◆ This is Beijing, which has a history of more than 3000 years of city construction and a history of more than 857 years of capital construction.

This is Beijing, this is a rough city, but there is also a sense of tolerance deep into the bones.

Even a subway line can perfectly combine the history of the Imperial Capital with the style of Hong Kong, but it makes you feel awkward.

▲ It was confirmed that the platform was Line 4. It was correct ~

▲ Beigong Gate refers to the north gate of the Summer Palace. During the Qianlong period, it was the main gate of Qingyi Garden. Sitting south and north, it is a two-story gate building with seven rooms wide. Since the south of Qingyi Garden is Kunming Lake and there is no gate, the north is regarded as the top, so the north gate is the main gate, which is called Beigong Gate.

▲ During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhongnanhai was called Xiyuan, and during the Kangxi Dynasty, Changchun Garden was called Xiyuan. The so-called Xiyuan now is broadly called the Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, Yuquan Mountain and other royal gardens in Haidian.

▲ Xinjiekou in Beijing has a longer history than Xinjiekou in Nanjing, dating back to the early Ming Dynasty. Xinjiekou, Beijing, was a water transport terminal on the Grand Canal during the Dadu period of the Yuan Dynasty. There was a water area called Jishuitan. Water transportation was the most developed mode of transportation at that time, so this area was very prosperous, similar to the area around the railway station today. After the baptism of history, Xinjiekou is not as prosperous as it used to be, but there are still places worth exploring. For example, when you come out from the southeast entrance of Xinjiekou Station on Line 4 and walk 300 meters east, you will find a magnificent Chinese bookstore. Friends who like old books can come here to read and exchange ~

▲ Taoran Pavilion is a famous pavilion in the Qing Dynasty and is now one of the four famous historical pavilions in China. Taoranting Park and Taoranting area are named after this pavilion. Taoranting Park is the first modern garden built by the Beijing City Municipal Government after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The famous Taoranting, Compi Nun and other buildings are located here.

▲ Ping 'anli was called Taifingang in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhuangwangfu in the Qing Dynasty. It was destroyed by fire in 1900. It is said that someone once dug up gold here. In order to obtain the treasure, Li Chun, a warlord of the Republic of China, and his brother bought this palace from the last Prince Zhuang. However, when the old building of the palace was demolished, no treasure was dug up, and then the house was rebuilt here. The style was a combination of Chinese and Western houses and gave it a very auspicious name, Ping 'anli. Since then, the neighborhood has also been widely known as Ping' anli.

▲ Majiapu (Pü) is located southwest of Beijing. It was once a famous village in southern Beijing in history and is now an administrative village in Nanyuan Township. Majiapu was the earliest railway terminal in Beijing and the first place to connect trams. Majiapu was originally named Majiapu, which was paved through the castle and was originally a post station. Majiapu was established as a village around the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It is a large village. It is located in the south of the capital. During the Qing Dynasty, it was close to the Nanyuan Royal Garden Wall. Majiapu was in the northwest of the Wall. There were 13 corner gates in Nanyuan. The former site of the corner gate of Majiapu was at the west entrance of South Majiapu Street. The corner gate of Nanyuan no longer exists, except for the place name of Majiapu Corner Gate (now simplified as Corner Gate).

▲ Jiaomen is located 3 kilometers southwest of Yongdingmen Gate in Fengtai District, Beijing. It is a temporary door outside the ninth gate of Gunanyuan Garden. It is specially designed for nearby tenants to enter the garden. Jiaobao Village to the west of the village was the northwest corner of the Nanyuan Wall at that time. Different from the nine gates through which the emperor entered and exited (such as the north and south red gates), the corner gate only has a small door and a shift room. The place names of Jiaomen and Jiaobao are a sign of the scope of the Nanyuan Wall.

▲ It is said that the Gongyi Estate was originally called Gongji Estate. In the late Qing Dynasty, an official surnamed Gong occupied hundreds of hectares of land here and hired dozens of people to cultivate it. It was called Gongji Estate. Later, as the area of the manor expanded, the number of people employed also increased, gradually forming a small village called Gongjizhuang. Around the 1920s and 1930s, Gongji Manor was gradually abandoned, while the farmland was continued to be cultivated by local villagers. Therefore, Gongji Village was homophonic as Charity Village. In 2000, an overpass was built on the Fourth Ring Road northwest of Gongyi Village, called Gongyi West Bridge.

▲ Lingjing Hutong is located between Xidan and Xisi. It belongs to the Xidan commercial circle and is a very prosperous area. It used to be the widest hutong in Beijing, with a width of 32 meters (the longest is Dongjiaomin Lane, the widest is Lingjing Hutong, and the narrowest is Xiaobaokou Hutong). However, the Lingjing Hutong now cannot be regarded as an alley, because some parts of it used to be narrow and some parts were very wide. Now the narrow parts have been widened into roads more than ten meters long. Many residential buildings have been built on both sides of the alley. Therefore, this Lingjing Hutong has long existed in name only.

Be like yourself in the huge imperial capital

Glancing at the impressive year 2018 on the calendar, I realized that I had lived in the Imperial Capital for four years. I didn't know how long I would leave. I just wanted to record my years in Beijing while I was still here. I wanted to make a collection in Beijing to load my own years.