East of the Forbidden City, 12 hours of fun

10:00 Qianmen Street in search of the national trend elements

12:30 Fresh Fish Mouth

14:00 Royal Afternoon Tea under the Forbidden City Walls

16:00 Longfu Temple, Beijing's earliest hipster hangout

21:00 Hipster Nightlife on East Drum Tower Street

23:00 Old Hutongs and New Ways to Live in Nanluoguxiang Courtyard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        East of the Forbidden City, Our National Hipster Life

Where do you think of when you think of east of the Forbidden City?

Gulou, Houhai, Nanluoguxiang?

MAO, DADA, Yugong Yishan? (Beijing livehouse)

Fried liver, shabu-shabu, fried noodles?

All these are my memories with this area, both my childhood and my youth. If I were to tell you the stories of this neighborhood, I probably wouldn't be able to finish them in three days or three nights.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        My home is in the second ring road.

This is the place where I was born, and when I was a child, my family lived in the gray brick building where Duan Qirui's government used to be. The memories of my early childhood are really fuzzy, and when I looked at the old photos, I realized that I had lived in an ancient building, and then I moved out of that building in order to protect the old buildings. Once again back to the second ring road in the compound, although the old neighborhood have not recognized, but the old Beijingers of the old ways, see me holding the old photos here, or will come over to talk to you for a few words. I met a retired old man who told me the history of this old building with great enthusiasm. The compound where the old Duan Qirui government was located was the earliest site of Renmin University, and later moved to Zhongguancun, which became the family compound of Renmin University. 20 years of changes in the compound are not too big, and I can still remember running around in the yard as a child. Now there is a bar in the compound, a music classroom, and the famous LiveHoues in Beijing - Yugong Yishan. Nowadays, when I mention the word "Duan Qirui" to my peers, they all ask in unspoken terms, "Is there a performance today? It's probably become a favorite spot for Beijing's literary and artistic youth to visit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                12 hours of Peking chicks will bring you to experience the national hip culture east of the Forbidden City.

10:00 Learn fashionable Beijing opera, national medicine and national medicine museum study

When visiting Beijing, the starting point is rightly from Qianmen Street in the center of the city. Qianmen Street should be the place where all the people who come to Beijing will come to visit, but if you rush through, you may overlook the most trendy and inappropriate ways to play in this street. So next, I, a local Beijing girl, will take you to dig out all the trendy places hidden in this street!

Walking past the Xinghuayuan Bathhouse, there is a small carved building at the corner of Fresh Fish Mouth, which was once the Popular Theater Building, which still retains the function of a theater and has been renamed Tian Le Yuan. Listening to an opera here is a very trendy thing nowadays, after all, many fashion blockbusters are shot in this theater, and when international superstars come to Beijing to experience the culture of Beijing rhyme, they also come here to listen to the Beijing opera. Listening to a modified 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 costume and have a good time on stage.

In addition to listening to the opera, the theater was originally a net red card place, a variety of national tide of the set is a blockbuster shot, there are a lot of Chinese designer brand clothing, and even the international fashion week show national style clothes are collected here, where the light to see where addictive, change into the international fashion week clothing to walk around, is considered to be the most popular interactive experience. From time to time, there will also be a variety of non-heritage teaching activities, which almost let people forget the old theater, and again "live" up.

There is a pharmacy on Qianmen Street named Guangyuzuyuan, at first I could not remember what this Guangyuzuyuan is in the end, but the mouth reads and reads, suddenly popped up "Dingkundan" three words. And then ask my mother's generation, only to know that GuangYuYuan is in fact more than the opposite of the TongRenTang old pharmacy. And "Ding Kun Dan" and "Gu Ling Ji" are the signature pills that this old pharmacy has been able to inherit for a hundred years. Nowadays, the old shop not only sells commodities, but also spreads culture. In the Chinese Medicine Museum on the 3rd floor of the pharmacy, the historical changes of the pharmacy are recorded, and there are also a lot of specimens of Chinese herbs in the Chinese herbal medicine showroom on the opposite side of the store.

12:30 A spin at Fresh Fish Mouth, where the national trend of food is also fashionable

Going east along Qianmen Street is a hutong called "Fresh Fish Mouth", which is even more famous than "Dashilan" on the other side of the street. Because the canals in old Beijing used to pass through here, and the street entrance was directly connected to the canal terminal, this was a street selling fresh fish, and its name was Fresh Fish Mouth. At that time, the whole street was full of old shops, and you can still see the ruins of many old shops. After the restoration of Fresh Fish Pass, it is still a street of old-fashioned food, including dan dan noodles from Lili Restaurant, various old Beijing snacks from Jin Fang, fried liver buns from Tian Xing Ju, and siu mai from Duo Yi Ju, all of which can be eaten on this street.

14:00 Royal Afternoon Tea under the Forbidden City Walls

Donghuamen next to the East Garden Theater Building, can be on the roof of the Forbidden City to enjoy the Forbidden City's golden tiles and red walls, that is probably the only place. Looking at the location of the Forbidden City's East Garden Theater - Calamus River Park, historically part of the "East Garden", East Garden is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Di, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Garden, also known as the "Small South City "It was once a royal garden for the royal family to enjoy "shooting willow" and entertaining foreign envoys. Through the wind and rain of history, the vast majority of historical buildings have been destroyed, East Garden Theatre, is in this historical site to follow the specifications of the traditional courtyard rebuilt to cover an area of 2,000 square meters of the mansion. The jujube trees in the courtyard of the theater are all 100 years old.

After afternoon tea, it's a pleasant ride on a bicycle from Donghuamen. Along the moat, you can ride along the tree-lined Nanchizi Street, and after a few blocks from Donghuamen, you can get to Wangfujing, where you can take the subway on line 5 to Longfujing Temple, Beijing's oldest hipster hangout. The old Beijing city is not so big, but all the essence of the city is condensed in this square inch.

16:00 Longfu Temple, Beijing's oldest hipster hangout.

The first thing you need to know is that you're not going to be able to find the right place for you to go, but you're going to need to be able to find the right place for you to go, and you're going to need to be able to find the right place for you to go.

Nowadays, Longfusi still attracts all kinds of hipsters. This year, even the Cannes XR 360 VR Film Festival, the first of its kind in China, was held on the 9th floor terrace of the Longfuji building. This is not simply an ordinary terrace, it can be said that the old Beijing courtyard house has been moved to the air, and now it can be said that this is the most representative building of Longfusi Temple. To the east, you can overlook the China World Trade Center CBD, and to the west, the sunset of Beijing is just around the corner.

Longfu Temple is now even the preferred place to hold events in Beijing's hipster circles, with the National Tide Book Market, Queuing in the Clouds, Cannes XR Film Festival, and one event after another on summer nights on weekends in August. When it comes to book markets, the first reaction of Beijingers is the Ditan Book Market, but the Longfu Temple's National Book Market is very different from the traditional book market, with literary books, wet plate photo booths, vintage stationery, food, fun, clothes, and everything in between.

The Sky Courtyard on the top floor of Longfusi Mansion has always been a favorite spot for Beijing's hipsters, and with the various activities held from time to time, people will think of the Sky Courtyard as soon as they think of Longfusi. The first weekend in August is the "Party in the Clouds", where you can dance under the red wall with the sunset, psychedelic electro music and old artists' recitations, sitting on the sky lawn, listening to cross-border music.

Recommended Event in August: Cannes XR Film Festival

21:00 Hip nightlife on East Drumtower Street.

The night in Gulou has made many literary and artistic young people fall in love with Beijing instantly. There is not only the strongest authentic Beijing flavor here, but also the most international cultural convergence. Who hasn't been artistic in his youth? The song "Bells and Drums" by He Yu has brought back many memories. In the changing Beijing, every small hutong has its own story, and our youth has stayed here.

I remember on the day of the last performance of Mao, the Live House on East Drum Tower, all the loyal fans of Beijing came to say goodbye, drink together, and take pictures with the rusty iron door. On the last day of the bistro's operation, everyone came to help with the move of the popular film machine store in the carriage store's hutong. On the last day of business, we drank beer in the open air and thought about the future. ......

Time has changed, and the nightlife of Gulou still belongs to the youth of Beijing. In the evening come to Yaoji Fried Liver to play fried liver, with two or two buns, after a full meal in the square between the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower to skate food. Sitting on the stone platform on the curb of the Bell and Drum Tower Plaza with the old man walking, watching the residents moving in the plaza and quietly enjoying the life of the city people.

On weekends at nine or ten o'clock in the evening, you will find all sorts of fashionable and cool fashionable handsome men and women, in groups of three or five flocked to a place called "Drum Tower Garden". Once I took a taxi, the cab driver finally did not hold back his curiosity and asked, "What's going on here? Is there any activity here?" That's right, Gulou East Street has such a place, it can be said that on weekends, this place has become a gathering point for artistic youth and fashionable hipsters. Every weekend, DADA Bar and Temple in Gulou Park will have a variety of performances, and all the tensions of a week of repression will come here to vent, drink and dance without worry.

23:00 Old Hutongs and New Ways to Live in Nanluoguxiang Courtyard

After a full day of fun, Beijing's alternative and trendy new ways to play are coming to an end. But the final show, but also to stay at the end. To say that traveling to live in a five-star hotel, long ago is not what alternative experience. But living in a courtyard in the hutongs can be considered the most popular choice now. In the hutongs of Nanluoguxiang, there are a lot of modern design elements and the old Beijing courtyard houses and the integration of art and culture B&B. These places have their own stories, and many of the owners of the stores here stay because they like the hutongs, so they can be said to try the hutongs of the most trendy hipsters, and they do the most awesome thing is to design the old courtyard into a boutique bed and breakfast, which can be a fashionable blockbuster with a single shot.

Well, after a long day's play, the Beijing girl is tired and needs to take a hot bath in the courtyard house bathroom. The tradition and popularity of this old Beijing Si Jiucheng are still continuing to blend with each other, and I am also considered to be a witness to the slow change of this place, together with the growth of the generation. The past has become a memory, but the story under the red wall is still unfinished.