East of the Forbidden City, how to play in 12 hours

10:00 Looking for national trend elements on Qianmen Street

12:30 Fresh fish and Beijing-style food

14:00 Royal Afternoon Tea under the Forbidden City Wall

16:00 Longfu Temple, the earliest gathering place for trendy people in Beijing

21:00 Hipster nightlife on Gulou East Street

23:00 New living method in the old alley, living in the courtyard of Nanluogu Lane

East of the Forbidden City, our national trend life

Speaking of east of the Forbidden City, where do you think of?

Drum Tower, Houhai, Nanluogu Lane?

MAO, DADA, Yugong Yishan? (livehouse in Beijing)

Fried liver, hot-boiled pork, fried noodles?

The above are all memories of me and this area. There are both my childhood and my youth here. If I were to tell you the story here, it might take three days and three nights to finish it.

My home lives on the Second Ring Road

This is the place where I was born. When I was a child, our family lived in the gray brick building on the former site of Duan Qirui's ruling office. My memories of childhood were really blurred. When I looked through the old photos, I realized that I had also lived in an ancient building. Later, in order to protect the ancient building, I moved out of that building. Returning to the compound on the Second Ring Road again, although I no longer know the old neighborhood, the old Beijingers are enthusiastic. Seeing that I hold old photos here, I will still come and chat up with you. I met a retired old man who told me the history of this old building with great enthusiasm. The compound where the former site of Duan Qirui's ruling office was located was the site of the earliest Renmin University. It was later moved to Zhongguancun, and it became the family compound of Renmin University. The changes in the courtyard over the past 20 years are not too great. I can still remember running wildly in the courtyard when I was a child. Now there is also a bar and a music classroom in the compound. Next to it is the famous LiveHoues in Beijing-Yugong Yishan. Nowadays, when the word "Duan Qirui" is mentioned to their peers, everyone will tacitly ask,"Are there any performances today?" This has probably become one of the most popular places for Beijing's literary and artistic youth to check in.

12-hour Beijing Girls take you to experience the national trend culture east of the Forbidden City

10:00 Learn fashion Beijing opera, Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine museum

When visiting Beijing, the starting point is from Qianmen in the middle of Beijing. It is definitely right. Qianmen Street should be a place where all people coming to Beijing will check in, but if you swim quickly, you may ignore the most fashionable and in-game ways hidden in this street. So next, I, an authentic Beijing girl, will take you to dig out all the trendy places hidden in this street!

Walking through the Xinghua Garden Bath, there is a small carved building at the street corner of Xianyukou. It was once the public theater building. It still retains the function of a theater and is renamed Tianyuan Park. Coming here to listen to a play is a very fashionable thing nowadays. After all, many fashion blockbusters were filmed in this theater. When international superstars come to Beijing to experience Beijing culture, they also come here to listen to Beijing operas. Listening to an improved Peking Opera excerpt here is like watching a concert. There is also a stage in the theater building, where you can change into your own costumes and have an addiction on the stage.

In addition to listening to the opera, the theater is originally a place for Internet celebrities to check in. Various national trend scenery can be taken into a blockbuster. There are also many Chinese designer brands of clothing here, and even the national style clothes from the International Fashion Week catwalk are also collected here. Here, it's just fun to see. Changing into International Fashion Week costumes and walking around is the most popular interactive experience nowadays. From time to time, there will be various intangible cultural heritage teaching activities. This almost forgotten old theater is "alive" again.

There was a medicine store named Guangyuyuan on Qianmen Street. At the beginning of the day, he couldn't remember who Guangyuyuan was, but when he murmured, the words "Dingkun Pill" suddenly popped up. I asked people from my mother's generation again to realize that Guangyuyuan is actually an older pharmacy than Tongrentang across the street. "Dingkun Pill" and "Guilingji" are the signature pills that have been passed down by this old medicine shop for hundreds of years. Today's time-honored brands are not only for selling goods, but also for disseminating culture. The Guangyuyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum on the third floor of the pharmacy records the historical changes of this medicine store, and the Chinese herbal medicine showroom opposite there are also many specimens of Chinese herbal medicine.

At 12:30, the mouth of fresh fish turns around, and the national trend food is also fashionable

Eastward along Qianmen Street is an alley called "Xianyukou". This alley has a reputation earlier than the "Dazhalan" opposite it. Because the canal in old Beijing once passed through here, the street entrance is directly connected to the water transport terminal. This is a street selling fresh fish. It is named: Fresh Fish Mouth. At that time, there were time-honored brands on the entire street, and the ruins of many time-honored brands can still be seen. After the restoration, Xianyukou is still a time-honored food street. Lili Restaurant's Dandan noodles, Jinfang's various old Beijing snacks, Tianxingju's fried liver buns, unique Shao Mai, and old Beijing food. You can eat enough on this street.

14:00 Royal Afternoon Tea under the Forbidden City Wall

The Dongyuan Theater next to Donghua Gate is probably the only place where you can admire the golden tiles and red walls of the Forbidden City from the roof of the Forbidden City. Looking at the location of the Dongyuan Theater in the distance of the Forbidden City, Changpu River Park was historically part of the "Dongyuan". The Dongyuan was originally a royal garden built by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty. It was also known as the "Xiaonan City". It was once a royal garden where the royal family "hit balls and shoot willows" and hosted foreign envoys. After experiencing historical ups and downs, most of the historical buildings have been destroyed. The Dongyuan Theater is a large house covering an area of 2000 square meters rebuilt on this historical site following the specifications of a traditional courtyard house. The jujube trees in the courtyard of the theater are all over a hundred years old.

After afternoon tea, it is also very pleasant to ride a bicycle from Donghuamen. Shuttling along the moat on Nanchizi Street, which is shaded by trees, you can ride a few blocks from Donghuamen to Wangfujing. From Wangfujing, you can directly take the Metro Line 5 to Beijing's oldest gathering place for hipsters. -Longfu Temple. Old Beijing, whether big or small, is concentrated in this square inch.

16:00 Longfu Temple, the earliest gathering place for trendy people in Beijing

Speaking of Longfu Temple, most people may not know that this is the birthplace of the trend in Beijing. Its fashion status at that time was equivalent to Sanlitun now. trendy people in the 1990s should still remember that if they wanted to find a fashion brand and high-end goods, they had to go to Longfu Temple. Longfu Temple can be regarded as the earliest gathering place for trendy people in Beijing.

The current Longfu Temple still attracts trendy people from all walks of life. This year, even the Cannes XR360 VR Film Festival, which debuted in China for the first time, chose the nineth-floor terrace of the Longfu Temple Building. This is not a simple ordinary terrace. It can be said that the courtyard houses in old Beijing have been moved into the sky. Now it can be said to be the most representative building of Longfu Temple. You can overlook the International Trade CBD towards the east, and the sunset towards the northwest of the capital is close before you.

Longfu Temple is now the first choice for holding activities in Beijing's trendy circle. On the summer night of the August weekend, there are activities one after another at the National Chao Book Fair, Yunzhong Line, and Cannes XR Film Festival. When it comes to book markets, Beijingers 'first reaction is the Ditan Book Market. The national trend book market in Longfu Temple is very different from the traditional book market. It includes literary and artistic books, wet photo studios, retro stationery, food, play, and wear.

The sky courtyard on the top floor of Longfu Temple Building is originally a place where trendy people in Beijing like to check in. Coupled with various irregular activities, people will think of this sky courtyard the first moment they mention Longfu Temple. The first weekend of August, just in time for a "party in the clouds", accompanied by the sunset, psychedelic electronic sounds and recitations by old artists, sitting on the large lawn in the sky, listening to cross-border music, Dancing under the red wall.

Recommended event for August: Cannes XR Film Festival

21:00 Trend nightlife on Gulou East Street

The night at the Drum Tower made many literary and artistic young people fall in love with Beijing instantly. It not only has the strongest authentic Beijing flavor, but also the most international cultural gathering. Whose youth has not been literary and artistic? The song "Bell and Drum Tower" used in use has evoked memories of many people. In the changing Beijing, every small alley has its own story, and our youth has been left here.

I still remember the day of the last performance of Live House -Mao on Gulou East Street. Probably all the loyal fans in Beijing came to say goodbye to it. Everyone drank together and took photos with the rusty iron door. The Internet celebrity film machine store in Cheniandian Hutong was moving. With one piece of news, everyone came to help. On the last day of the tavern's business, everyone drank beer in the open air and thought about the future...

Time has changed, and the nightlife in the Drum Tower still belongs to Beijing youth. Come to Yaoji stir-fried liver in the evening and play stir-fried liver, served with two or two steamed buns. After a full meal, you can enjoy a stroll in the square between the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower. Sit on the stone platform by the roadside of the Bell and Drum Tower Square with the old man walking around, watch the residents moving in the square, and quietly appreciate the life of the city people.

At 9 or 10 o'clock on weekends, you will find all kinds of handsome men and women dressed in cool fashion flocking to a place called "Gulou Garden" in small groups. Once, when he took a taxi, the taxi driver finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked,"What's in here? Is there any activity?" That's right, there is such a place on Gulou East Street. It can be said that on weekends, it becomes a gathering place for young literary and artistic people and fashion trendsetters. Every weekend, the DADA Bar and Temple in Gulou Garden hold various performances. To suppress the tension of the week, they come here to vent their feelings, drink and dance, and have no worries.

23:00 New living method in the old alley, living in the courtyard of Nanluogu Lane

After playing for a whole day, Beijing's alternative trendy and new ways of playing are coming to an end. However, the final highlight should be left to the end. Staying in a five-star hotel is no longer an alternative experience. But living in a courtyard house in a hutong is the most popular choice nowadays. In the alleys of Nanluogu Lane, there are many literary and artistic B & Bs that combine modern design elements and old Beijing courtyard houses. These places also have their own stories. The owners of many shops here also stayed because they like hutongs. It can be said that they try to be the most fashionable trendy people in the hutongs. The best thing they do is to turn the old courtyard houses into boutique B & Bs that can now produce fashionable blockbusters with just a photo.

Okay, Jingniu is tired after playing all day long. She has to take a hot bath in the courtyard bathroom with a patio and rest. The traditions and trends of the old Beijing City of Forty-nine continue to blend together. I am also a generation that has witnessed the slow changes here and grown up together. The past has become a memory, and the story under the red wall has not yet been completed.