A 6-day tour of the imperial capital, a full guide on eating, drinking and having fun, staying in a courtyard hotel near Nanluoxiang

Beijing weather: sunny

Accommodation: Unnamed Courtyard Hotel

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The inn looks inconspicuous from the outside, but there is a cave inside. The layout is very cozy and warm. Haha, the guys in the inn are very enthusiastic and provide five-star service. The location of the inn is about 10 minutes’ walk from Nanluoguxiang. It is very convenient to go to various attractions , recommended~(

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It was too late to say it, and then it was too late. In the alley with no one in the Forbidden City, lying on the bluestone slab, Niu Coluqiu pressed the shutter.

Forbidden City

The bronze lions in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony are the oldest of the 6 pairs of lions in the Forbidden City. They were here when Zhu Di was here~~ The other 5 pairs were only in the Qing Dynasty.

Forbidden City

It seems that there are only 5 ridge beasts on the roof of the military plane (the one in the front is a fairy, not counting small beasts), and there are 10 small beasts on the palace with the highest level.

Forbidden City

The turrets of the Forbidden City under the setting sun, half of the river is rustling and half of the river is red. Half of the lake is frozen and half of it is water, which is really beautiful.
The uncles have already set up long guns and short cannons, waiting in the most suitable position, waiting for the sun to set.

Forbidden City

Climb to the Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan Park to overlook the entire Forbidden City.

Jingshan Park

In Jingren Palace, the special exhibition "My Home is in the Forbidden City", all the doors and windows in the palace were pasted with pictures of a bloody face.

Forbidden City

The Mutianyu Great Wall is really a beautiful place, without any tour groups, the blue sky can definitely show the majesty of the Great Wall to the greatest extent!
Niu Colu Ball Gagden Great Wall.

Mutianyu Great Wall

The quiet Beihai Park is no longer a royal garden, but has become a good place for citizens to do morning exercises.

Beihai Park

Frozen Shichahai, frozen dead wood, people playing ice hockey.

Shichahai

Maoer Hutong, listen to the old man riding a tricycle talk about the history of each house~~

Maoer Alley

The Temple of Heaven prays for blessings, the prosperity of the country and the safety of the people, and the harvest of the grain.

Temple of Heaven Temple of Heaven

Changchunyuan’s Xiaohangli Soup, I like the taste very much~~

Small pear soup

Siji Minfu's roast duck must be tasted, but one time is enough.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

I really like the fried noodles here, it's so strong

Door frame alley stewed for a century

I thought that the Imperial City in the Spring Festival was just like the Shanghai City, an empty city, but two days before departure, I saw the news that the tourist attractions in the Shanghai City were full, and I began to feel faintly uneasy.
The time for traveling to Beijing is from the third day to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, a total of six days and five nights
, One month before departure, I started to pray every day. Don’t run into smoggy days, and let me experience the legendary Beijing blue~~

flight information:
The air ticket booked on Ctrip, because the plane and the high-speed rail fare are almost the same, so I still chose the plane.
The flight on the morning of February 18 flew to Beijing, and it took 2 hours to arrive at the imperial capital at 11 o'clock; the flight back to Shanghai on the evening of February 23 basically took a complete 6 days.

It is between Xinjiekou Station of Metro Line 4 and Xizhimen Station of Metro Line 2, and is closer to Xinjiekou, with a maximum walk of 3-5 minutes. There is also a bus station there, which is directly accessible to Beihai Park, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and Jingshan Park. It may be that during the Chinese New Year, I did not feel the traffic jam in Beijing at all, and the bus was unimpeded all the way.
There are also many restaurants near the hotel, such as snacks at Huguo Temple, Qingfeng Baozi Shop, Ziguang Garden, door frame Hutong stewed for 100 years, etc., there is no problem solving breakfast

6 day itinerary

Day 1: Arrive - Nanluoguxiang - Shichahai - Houhai

Day 2: Summer Palace - Peking University

Day 3: Temple of Heaven - Tiananmen Square - Jingshan Park

Day 4: Mutianyu Great Wall

Day 5: Forbidden City

Day 6: Beihai Park - go home

The above is the actual itinerary, which is very different from the full itinerary in the plan. I really feel that I can't visit a few scenic spots in a day. With such an arrangement, I have more than 20,000 steps a day...

DAY 1: Nanluoguxiang - Shichahai - Houhai

The direct flight time from Magic City to Imperial City was less than 2 hours, and it landed smoothly at the Capital Airport at 11:00 in the morning. I read everyone's strategy before, and I think it is necessary to buy a transportation card for a stay of 6 days! Buy it at the airport, and just refund the deposit at the airport on the return journey, which is very convenient.

100 yuan to buy a card, deposit 20, recharge 80. The time when Beijing’s 2 yuan subway ride has long since ended, now Beijing is the same as Shanghai, the subway starts at 3 yuan, except for a particularly short distance, it basically costs 4 yuan to take the subway once.

From the airport to the urban area, you need to take the Airport Express Line, which is actually a subway, and it costs 25 yuan for a one-way trip from the airport to Dongzhimen. This is a bit of a pitfall. In addition to the maglev with a speed of 400 per hour in Shanghai, it costs 40 yuan, which is the normal subway fare from the airport to the city.

Dongzhimen Subway Station

The platform of Metro Line 2 is a bit old, feeling like the last century.

Dongzhimen Subway Station

Dongzhimen is a straight line to Xizhimen, get off the bus and walk a few hundred meters to the hotel.
After successfully checking in, open Dianping to search for delicious food around you. Although I have made a food guide before, it is just a general list, and I will adapt to the situation when I eat and what to eat on a specific day.
There is a Ziguang Garden at the entrance of the hotel, a bunch of Meituan takeaways, and Beijingers having a reunion dinner at the entrance and taking group photos. It is an old Halal store. There are not many tourists, so I decided to come for dinner in two days.
I'm not hungry, I happened to find a "Huguosi Snacks" 400 meters away, and that's it!

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Beijing was sunny and shrouded in a slight smog, and the streets were basically empty.

The Huguo Temple snack is a halal shop. The two ordered two beef biscuits, a meatball (it is said to be beef meatballs, but it tastes like lamb meatballs), a noodle tea, and a complete set of pastries (pea yellow, Aiwowo, donkey Rolling, Hawthorn Cake, Mochi). The pastry was not finished, it was packed. After eating hot pot at night, take it out as dessert.
It feels very strange here, many things are cold, maybe the weather is colder, the food cools faster~~

Huguo Temple Snack Bar

Knock on the blackboard!

The pastries are good, not as sweet as expected. I like Aiwowo and Hawthorn Cake the most.

The beef biscuits are cold, and the sauced beef is put inside. There is a lot of meat, it is very solid, and it is cost-effective.

I don't know if it's beef or mutton meatballs. It's not delicious and I don't recommend it.

Noodle tea, a traditional snack in old Beijing, is a paste made of millet noodles or millet noodles, and the surface is topped with sesame paste. It's better than expected, the sesame sauce is very strong, but not salty. I saw that the locals sprinkled sesame salt on top when they ate it, so I forgot it~~

Today is the first meal at Huguo Temple. Next, it will become our breakfast cafeteria... There are no pancake and fruit stalls for Chinese New Year, so Huguo Temple snacks have become the best place for breakfast.

After lunch, go to the first scenic spot in Beijing - Nanluoguxiang.

The subway aisle, the advertisement promoting Beijing is very cute~~

When I arrived at Nanluoguxiang, my heart was broken, and I wanted to cry without tears

This is what I saw!

That's a good way to rub shoulders, you don't have to walk at all, you can move forward at a constant speed when you are pushed by the people behind, and you don't need to buy things, because the queue at the door of every store will make you uninterested in the slightest.

But as witty as I am, I quickly adjusted my direction and went around Shichahai along Maoer Hutong.

Nanluoguxiang

As soon as you walk into the fork in Nanluoguxiang, the style changes suddenly!
You can walk slowly and feel the hutongs of old Beijing, or you can take a small rickshaw and listen to the history of Beijing and the stories of courtyard houses in hutongs from the master of the bike.
The rhythm immediately slowed down, there were no more noisy crowds, no more loud tour groups.

Maoer Alley

It used to be the former residence of the last empress Wanrong, who lived at No. 35 of Maoer Hutong before she got married.

Wanrong's Former Residence

Keep going, and you will see Shichahai at the end of Maoer Hutong!
Children in the south seldom see frozen rivers and lakes, and they are amazed!

Shichahai

The dead wood frozen in the water is always frozen in the most beautiful posture.

Shichahai

Half of the lake water condenses into ice, and half of it turns into water~~

Shichahai

The sun is setting... If it is not too cold, I can stay here for a long time.

Shichahai

After the beginning of spring, the ice surface gradually melted, and the original wish to play ice carts on the ice rink fell through.
On the ice rink, people spontaneously form a hockey team. It looks a bit dangerous, because there is a lake next to it.

Shichahai

It's too cold to play ice hockey, and then... I want to eat old Beijing hot pot! Jubaoyuan said to go~~ I found the one with the fewest people on "Delicious No Waiting", paid 2 yuan to get the number, and there were still more than 20 tables waiting in front of me.
It's a good thing that you don't have to wait for delicious food, and it can save a lot of time. Usually when you go to eat, you either get a number at home or at a scenic spot, and you can basically eat it when you arrive at the restaurant.

Eat a skewer first to warm up~~ There is a long queue at the gate of the barbecue season. Duck gizzards are 10 yuan a skewer, cold and not tasty; mutton skewers are 13 or 14 skewers, expensive and not tasty, without the taste of mutton.

Follow the winding alleys to the subway station.
During the period, I saw ofo and wanted to ride a bicycle, but found that there was no deposit here, and the lock could not be unlocked only by Sesame Credit. Fortunately, mobike has paid a deposit of 299, and the short-distance connections during Beijing rely on Mobike

The new type of Mobike, I have never seen one like this before, it is very easy to ride!

When we came to Jubaoyuan, it happened to be our number~~ Passing through the crowd, under the envious eyes of everyone, walked into the store swaggeringly, not to mention how cool it was!

This is also the mode of people following the crowd!
Happy to take a seat and order~~

Jubaoyuan

The hand-cut fresh mutton that ranks first in the review is gone. I ordered a lamb tendon, a machine-cut lamb, tofu skin, frozen tofu, lettuce, and 2 bottles of Arctic Ocean. The lettuce here is not the lettuce we usually use for cooking, but the lettuce for salad!

Jubaoyuan

lamb tendon

, Nima is already drooling while writing travel notes...

The sweet garlic is delicious, and the sesame sauce is also good. A little Kawasaki sauce in the rich sesame sauce tastes just right.

Jubaoyuan

After eating well, the flow of people at the door did not decrease at all, but increased. In the 6 days in Beijing, I found that it is really not easy to eat a meal. Every meal that is slightly better has to be queued for more than 1 hour...
In fact, the table turnover rate is very high. The waiters here are like clockwork, with the wind on the soles of their feet, and their hands and feet are very nimble. After eating a plate and put away a plate, the person has not left the seat, the table has been cleaned up, and the new pots are brought out

There is a row of hot pots burning at the door.

Jubaoyuan

Waking up too early in the morning. I am also tired today, the day 1 trip is over, I went back to the hotel to wash and sleep. Tomorrow is Monday, all major museums are closed, and Prince Kung’s Mansion is also closed, so adjust your itinerary to go to the Summer Palace!
Waiting for me is indeed a big smog day, well, I didn't miss anything! I never thought that this is the darkness before dawn, and what I will see next is the real Beijing blue.

DAY 2: Summer Palace - Peking University (unsuccessful)

Woke up early the next day, what I saw was a gray sky, and today the smog index was off the charts—heavily polluted!
However, you can't stay in the hotel when you go out to travel, you should continue to play~~
Qingfeng Steamed Bun Shop, let’s go

Qingfeng Steamed Bun Shop is next to Huguosi Snacks.
Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the new year's opening, and there is already a long line of people who bought breakfast.
Here basically only sells buns, buns with various fillings, pork scallions, beef scallions, dried plums, pork fennel, beef leeks, etc...
The size of the buns in the north is between the xiaolongbao and the big buns in the south. There are 3 buns in one serving. Two people ordered 3 servings, 9 buns, and they were not full.

Qingfeng Baozi Shop

Pidianpidian ran to Huguosi snacks next door and had another meal

Then take Line 4 directly to the Summer Palace.
Follow the WeChat official account of "Summer Palace", or download the "Summer Palace" app, you can buy tickets directly. There are also 112 scenic spots with graphic introductions and audio guides for 16 main scenic spots... Our next Tiantan Park, Jingshan Park, Beihai Tickets for the park are purchased directly in this WeChat public account, which is very convenient!

summer palace

Knock on the blackboard!

The Summer Palace was built by the filial Emperor Qianlong to celebrate his mother's birthday. It was originally called "Qingyi Garden". In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French allied forces. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace as a place for summer entertainment.

In the 26th year of Guangxu, the Summer Palace was destroyed again by the "Eight-Power Allied Forces", and all the treasures were looted. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace was destroyed again during the warlord melee and the Kuomintang rule. Really ill-fated!

Attention! Attention!

Ticket prices for the Summer Palace:

30 yuan (joint ticket 60 yuan) in peak season, 20 yuan (joint ticket 50 yuan) in off-season;

Tickets for the scenic spots inside can be purchased separately, 5 yuan for Dehe Garden, 10 yuan for Foxiang Pavilion, 20 yuan for Wenchang Courtyard, and 10 yuan for Danning Hall on Suzhou Street.

Since we couldn’t buy joint tickets on WeChat, we bought 20 tickets for the park separately, which was very sensible.

We take Line 4 to Beigongmen Station and enter from the North Gate. This is what I saw~~

summer palace

Even if pm2.5 exceeds 200, it still does not reduce everyone's interest in playing

Only the red city wall on the side watched this scene quietly...

According to the official website of the Summer Palace, the recommended time to visit is 3-6 hours. If it is really the first time, if you want to see the attractions and listen to the introduction, it will indeed take 5-6 hours.

So those who go to the Summer Palace + Old Summer Palace + Tsinghua University + Peking University in one day, don’t know how to play...

summer palace

The first scenic spot that the north gate enters is Suzhou Street.

summer palace

It may be because of the relationship in the north, there is still a mountain in front of it, and the lake here is frozen very thick.

summer palace

Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan and liked the scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou very much, so he moved to Beijing, with a river in the middle and various small shops on both sides, including teahouses, restaurants, pawnshops, pharmacies, dim sum shops, jewelry shops and so on.
The concubines have nothing to do, they can go shopping here~~
In order to make Lafayette happy, Qianlong would let court ladies and eunuchs act as shoppers on the street, and even act as thieves, stealing Lafayette’s wallet, cosplay is also drunk...

Going forward is mountain climbing.

summer palace

Wonderland like...

summer palace

The buildings above belong to the four major continents. They are Tibetan-style religious buildings built during the Qianlong period. They were later destroyed by the British and French allied forces, and they were restored as they were after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Overlooking Kunming Lake, there is a vast fog.

summer palace

Horrible day, horrible photos...

summer palace

The famous Foxiang Pavilion looks round and flat, and it is impossible to enter. The Foxiang Pavilion is located in the center of the entire Summer Palace. It was built in imitation of the Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou, but it feels completely different from the Liuhe Pagoda?

summer palace

This small copper temple, because it is all made of copper, survived the fire.

summer palace

The scale of the small hall is not high. There are only three small animals, dragon, phoenix, and lion behind the fairy. Later, I saw up to 10 small animals in the Palace Museum~~

summer palace

Along the way, I didn’t take a good look at it. There were too many people. Everyone was driven forward by the volunteers, and they couldn’t stop. Once they stopped, everyone behind them had to stop. Therefore, the visit to the Summer Palace is the most regrettable part of the whole itinerary. There is no time to listen to the explanation and savor it carefully.

After climbing the Longevity Mountain, Kunming Lake is in front of it. Kunming Lake occupies three quarters of the entire Summer Palace. Some time ago, I read the news that the Seventeen-Arch Bridge on the lake was particularly popular. In the evening around the winter solstice, all photographers squatted here to take pictures of the spectacle of "golden light piercing holes".

summer palace

It's a pity that the winter solstice has passed, and the Seventeen-Arch Bridge I took is like this

I also hehe! ! !

summer palace

Walking along the promenade in front of Kunming Lake, this promenade is also famous, with a total length of 728 meters and a total of 273 rooms. It is the longest promenade in Chinese gardens. In 1992, it was recognized as the longest promenade in the world. Into the "Guinness Book of World Records". There are more than 14,000 paintings on every square beam in the corridor, including landscapes, flowers, birds, fish and insects, allusions to characters, etc. The figure paintings in the paintings are all based on Chinese classics.

All the colorful paintings are painted on the top of the beams and columns, which need to be looked up. When there is no one, walking the 700-meter long corridor while looking up at the paintings will definitely cure cervical spondylosis. But now, NO!
This is the traffic we are facing!

summer palace

Such! !

summer palace

Such! ! !
Thousands of grass and mud horses run wildly in my heart

summer palace

Qingyan Boat, commonly known as Stone Boat, is a large stone boat by the lake at the west end of the promenade, implying the meaning of "sea Qinghe Yan". It is the only Western-style building in the Summer Palace. When the weather is good, it should be very beautiful.

summer palace

The cute cranes in front of Le Shoutang seem to be wearing earphones.
Le Shoutang is Cixi's bedroom in the Summer Palace. I listened to the wild tour guide tell a lot of anecdotes about Cixi. I still like to listen to this kind of wild history.

summer palace

Feeling that there were more and more people, I really didn't want to go on, so I went out from the nearest east gate and left the Summer Palace to look for food.
People outside the gate... oh my god, it's already 2 o'clock in the afternoon...

summer palace

I was exhausted after not watching anything all morning, and I was going to have a good meal at noon. I took the bus to Xiaodiaolitang (Changchunyuan store), and found that there were still a lot of waiting seats ahead, and the lunch market no longer took the number... No way, there is a Camellia girl Yunnan restaurant next door. I read the reviews and the reviews are not bad , Thinking about eating two bowls of rice noodles quickly, after eating, go to Tsinghua University, which is short and tight~~

As a result, it took a whole hour and a half to eat two bowls of rice noodles! Tomato fat beef rice noodles, with two pieces of fat beef the size of fingernails floating on it! The waiter said that this year I don’t know what’s wrong, so many people came, the tea in the store was not served, the boiling water was too late to boil, and there was no place to pile up the plates...

Then I read the news the next day, saying that the number of tourists in the Summer Palace today is more than 100,000, an increase of 67% over the same period last year.

After lunch...it was almost 4 o'clock. I saw that Tsinghua University closed at 16:30, and Peking University closed at 17:00. Going to Tsinghua University (suddenly remembered, Brother Shui is also from Tsinghua University!) It must be too late, so the next best thing is Peking University

Back in the college entrance examination, I was entangled whether to fill in Tsinghua University or Peking University. Now I am still entangled in traveling, should I go to Tsinghua University or Peking University...

Some time ago, Xiao Dajin scolded Tsinghua’s Ph.D., a prestigious school is a powerful tool for the country, and students of a prestigious school should have the world in mind and have the ambition to govern the country, instead of asking what job do I want to find after graduation? Just want to see, what kind of existence are the college students of prestigious schools?

When it comes to Peking University, I'm so angry

The first door you come to, the South Gate, is not allowed to enter, so keep going.

Beijing University

Then walk through the southeast gate, east gate, and northeast gate all the way, and no one is allowed to enter~~
Walking around the outer circle of Peking University, if you don’t let me in, just tell me at the first gate, is it over? Let me walk around the field for a week, and then say no, what?

The staff said that it is already 16:25 and tourists are not accepted. But the big sign at the entrance clearly says in white on a blue background that the school gate closes at 17:00 and you cannot enter after 16:30. Do you think I can’t read the words?

Beijing University

The door is full of tourists who are reluctant to leave. Everyone finally came to Beijing once, finally got here, is it easy? My legs are broken, okay?
Look at the little eyes of this man full of resentment

Beijing University

Hey, there is no way, the arms can't beat the thighs. It's 4:30, it's impossible to go to Yuanmingyuan at this point, ride a Mobike, and go back to Xiaodiaoli Tang for dinner...Well, it's half an hour before lunch

When we arrived at Xiaodiaoli, we could go in before five o'clock. The chefs and waiters here are busy enough, and there is no time to rest at all. The lunch market just ended at 4 o'clock, and the dinner market started again before 5 o'clock.

The facade of Xiao Diao Li Tang, above is a fish tank~~

Small pear soup

The environment of the store is very good, antique, I like it!

Small pear soup

Small hanging pear soup, a big pot, divided into ordinary version (Sydney juice + white fungus) and upgraded version (Sydney juice + bird's nest), choose the normal version, 28 a pot, two people drink a lot, can have two or three Ten cups~~
The pot is kept warm with a small candle, and the more you drink it, the more viscous it feels. Maybe the white fungus is boiled, or it may be a psychological effect. Da Da An Li Xiao Diao Li Soup!

Small pear soup

Cheese fish is also a favorite, with a strong milk flavor and a soft and smooth milk pudding taste, as long as it is a girl will like it!

Small pear soup

The small fried pork liver is not as delicious as the fried pork liver in Shanghai. It may be because it is fried. It is a bit hard. I like to eat more tender pork liver.

Small pear soup

The deboned chicken was originally thought to have no bones, but it is not, the bones are lying on the ground, and there is no particularly delicious feeling. It's also possible that I just had lunch more than half an hour ago... I feel like I'm eating any staple food now...

Small pear soup

Pear ball shrimp, one word, sweet! It's really too sweet. The pear balls wrapped in batter and the shrimp wrapped in batter are really sweeter than Suzhou dishes, and they are packed with the chicken on top.
I found out that there is no charge for takeaway boxes in Beijing restaurants, maybe it is to encourage everyone not to waste, and ask for a CD-ROM plan.

Small pear soup

I packed the unfinished pear soup in my own thermos~~ There are also empty bottles here, and you can take away if you can’t finish it!

Small pear soup

After breakfast and dinner, I went back to the hotel early. I have walked 2W+ every day for the past two days, which is a bit excessive!

At night in Beijing, heavy smog continued.
The news said that the weather will improve starting tonight and the smog will gradually dissipate. I hope it is true.

When I arrived at the hotel, I lay on the bed and watched tomorrow’s itinerary. Before coming to Beijing, I made an appointment online for the Forbidden City (tickets: 40 yuan + Treasure Museum 10 yuan + Watch Museum 10 yuan), a total of 60 yuan per person.

Please note! Please note! Please note!

The Forbidden City currently only accepts online ticket purchases, and you cannot buy tickets on the spot. The number of people entering the park is limited to 80,000 per day.

I saw many people writing on Weibo that they could not buy a ticket when they arrived at the Forbidden City, so they could only leave with regret. During the holidays, 8W tickets are easily sold out, but like train tickets, a few tickets will pop up from time to time, and you can buy them if someone refunds them. Tickets for the day can be refunded before 20:00 on the same day, and the ticket can be changed once.

The news saw the popularity of the Forbidden City these days, the entrance of Wuwu was crowded with people, and 8W people occupied the square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony like ants. Thinking that we still have time, we can change it if we can, so we decisively changed the ticket on February 20. On February 22, which is the first day of work, I hope there will be fewer people, after all, everyone still has to go to work.

The Forbidden City has changed the ticket, moved the itinerary of the Temple of Heaven forward, and will go to the Temple of Heaven + maneuver tomorrow. The previously planned itinerary was too full, and I couldn’t finish it at all, so I was flexible~~

DAY 3: Temple of Heaven - Tiananmen - Jingshan

Waking up early in the morning, blue sky, white clouds and sunshine

, the weather forecast did not lie, PM2.5 suddenly dropped from 200 degrees yesterday to 35!

Even if you look up and the sky is full of dead branches, you can't hide the blue sky!

Take the subway to the Temple of Heaven Park, and bought a joint ticket in the WeChat official account of the Summer Palace. It is 28/person in the off-season, which is still very cheap. I feel that tickets for scenic spots in Beijing are not expensive, maybe the emperor does not need to rely on tickets to support economic development. Compared with many provinces where there are more than 100 tickets for a big mountain and more than 100 tickets for cable cars, the ticket prices here are very conscientious.

We enter from the south gate and exit from the north gate. The tour route: South Gate - Circular Mound - Huangqiongyu - Danbi Bridge - Zhai Palace - Shenyue Department - Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests - Emperor Qiandian Hall - Long Corridor - North Gate, which is the original The emperor's route.

The Temple of Heaven was also built when Zhu Di came to Beijing. Later, it was rebuilt during Qianlong and Guangxu. It was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties worshiped the emperor and prayed for a good harvest.

temple of heaven

The Circular Mound is divided into three floors, inside, outside, and inside, and each floor has 9 steps to go up. Each floor is surrounded by finely carved white marble railings. The numbers of the railings are all 9 or multiples of 9, the innermost layer is 72, the middle is 108, and the outermost is 180.

In the very center of the innermost layer, there is a Tianxin Stone. The periphery of Tianxin Stone is surrounded by fan-shaped stones, that is, 9 multiples are increased. The first circle is 9 yuan, the second circle is 18 yuan, the 9th circle is 81 yuan, and then the middle floor starts from 90 yuan, which is really amazing!

9 is of great significance to the Chinese. The emperor is the emperor of the ninety-five years and lives in the nine heavens. So, everything has to be represented by 9.

The blue glazed tiles and red walls outside the Circular Mound.

temple of heaven

This tall iron pillar was originally a candle on the top. Maybe you have to get up early to worship the sky, and the sky is not yet bright!

temple of heaven

The first impression of the Temple of Heaven is blue! Boundless blue~~blue sky, blue glazed tiles everywhere!
There is no one in this angle!

temple of heaven

This is Huangqiongyu, which is the place where the Circular Mound Altar is dedicated to the gods. Its periphery is the famous echo gallery. Because the surrounding walls are very round, the wall surface is smooth, and there is no adhesive used between the bricks, so the sound reflection is very good. Two people standing inside and outside the wall can hear their voices. very clear.

So when the emperor was offering sacrifices to the heavens, the sound would spread far and long, giving people the feeling that they were acting in accordance with the heavens~~

temple of heaven

A photo of Niu Guluqiu Gege standing on the windowsill with Huang Qiongyu.

temple of heaven

Continue to go north and you will find the Prayer Valley Altar. it's nice to have no one

temple of heaven

Where there are no people, there needs to be a smug look here!

Temple of Heaven Temple of Heaven

Surprised again! ! ! Still, naivety is blue! ! !
The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is built on a three-story white marble round platform, which is very imposing.

temple of heaven

Inside the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests. It's very Qing Dynasty style, colorful and colorful, it reminds me of porcelain mother

temple of heaven

Once again, it feels really good to take pictures in places where no one is around

temple of heaven

The visit to the Temple of Heaven ended at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, and I did not visit the entire Temple of Heaven Park, so I left the park in about 2 hours. It's still early, I took the account of Siji Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant on "Delicious No Waiting", and I will eat the big meal at noon today~~

Siji Minfu is the most famous store in the Forbidden City. The view inside is directly facing the turret of the Forbidden City. You can watch the sunset while eating roast duck. It is wishful thinking to make a reservation at this time of the Spring Festival. So I chose the Qianmen Dashilan restaurant. Seeing that there were more than 20 tables in front of me, I thought that I could almost eat it in the past, but I waited for more than an hour, and continued to finish lunch at 3 o'clock.

The birthplace of Erguotou~~

The pedestrian street at Qianmen is more distinctive and better than Wangfujing.

The candied haws in Daoxiang Village cost 10 yuan a bunch, which is much more delicious than the 5 yuan candied haws bought on the street later~~

Finally climbed to the roast duck restaurant, a bunch of people lined up at the door... automatically entered the ranks of the queue. There are a lot of food in the queue, such as soy milk, orange juice, red date tea, crispy rice, cucumber and tomato, I can’t stop eating... Maybe it will take a long time.

Look at the posture of the chef!

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

The chopstick rest is a pair of white porcelain ducks.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

Appetizer oranges before meal~~

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

The first fried noodles in Beijing. Siji Minfu is divided into two types: roast duck restaurant and fried noodle restaurant. The roast duck shop serves fried noodles, but the fried noodles shop does not serve roast duck. Don’t get it wrong! ! !

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

After all the materials are arranged, it looks so beautiful

The taste is also very good, sweet sauce, but the amount of noodles here is very small, you can only taste the taste, don't expect to be full.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

The two of us ordered half a duck. If you order one, the chef will come to you and slice the duck on the spot.
If you order a duck, you can pay 20 yuan to make a salt and pepper duck rack. If you order half a duck, you can buy it alone, regardless of the price.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

The roast duck is here! The upper layer is pure duck skin, and the lower layer is the skin and meat.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

The duck skin is dipped in white sugar, and the first mouthful feels full of oil. As expected, the name is well-deserved.

I still like to use duck cakes to wrap duck skin and duck meat, sweet noodle sauce, cucumbers, and golden onions are delicious, not greasy, one bite at a time, and the taste is very rich.

A whole duck here is 198, half a duck is 108, you have to buy duck cakes and small ingredients separately, about 5-6 yuan per serving, if you want to eat more ingredients, it is best to buy one per person.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

Baylor's barbecue is lamb. There is a little less meat, too many golden onions, and it is not as delicious as Xibei's sizzling lamb.

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

As a dessert, almond tofu is delicious and soft, but it is really pocket-sized. When you put a spoon on it, two spoonfuls will disappear! ! !

Four Seasons Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant

Since it's already 3 o'clock after lunch, it's too late to go to a complete scenic spot, so let's just stroll around. First walk around in front of Tiananmen Square, and then go to Jingshan to take a panoramic view of the Forbidden City.

Tiananmen Square

From a distance, the street is empty, but from a close look, there are densely packed people in front of the square.

Tiananmen Square

People's Heroes Monument.

Tiananmen Square

The legendary Great Hall of the People is not as good as seeing it.

Tiananmen Square

All the red flags flying in the whole square are solid colors, but only this one is the five-star red flag!

Tiananmen Square

This is the second time I have come to Tiananmen Square, mainly because...ahem... two party members who have been in the party for more than 10 years, came to Beijing to show their patriotism!

Tiananmen Square

Finally, please note

Precautions in front of Tiananmen Square, please allow time for the security check and bring your ID card. Even if you walk around in front of the door, the necessary procedures are still unavoidable.

Leaving Tiananmen Square, you can take bus No. 5 on Chang'an Avenue to the main entrance of Jingshan Park, which is very convenient. Originally, Jingshan was connected to the Forbidden City to play together. After visiting the Forbidden City and coming out of Shenwu Gate, Jingshan Park is directly opposite. But I am worried that my legs will be useless when I come out of the Forbidden City, and I will not be able to climb the mountain, so I put it on today. At exactly five or six o'clock, it is also good to look down at the Forbidden City and watch the sunset.

Tickets for Jingshan Park are 2 yuan. You can buy it directly at the gate, or you can buy it on the WeChat official account of "Summer Palace" mentioned earlier, which is very convenient.

Jingshan Park

Jingshan Park is located on the central axis of Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, facing Beihai in the west and across the street from the Shenwu Gate of the Forbidden City in the south. It was the royal garden of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Jingshan Mountain in the center of the park is formed by piled up soil and was once the commanding height of the whole city.

Jingshan Park

Everyone crowded into the small Wanchun Pavilion to take a panoramic view of the Forbidden City. At this time, there are far fewer people. I lost a little bear here. If students who came later saw a little bear sitting on the ground in the park, looking forward to seeing the Forbidden City, please contact me! ! !

Jingshan Park

It's this little bear in a beach shirt with Rivon embroidered on the sole of his foot. If you see him, please let me know

Jingshan is Moldy Mountain, it is true!

Jingshan Park

Panorama.

Jingshan Park

Fiery sunset. I later learned that the White Tower on the right side of the photo is located in Beihai Park.

Jingshan Park

Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to welcome the God of Wealth, and I ate dumplings tonight. The pasta in the north is really delicious. The dumplings are freshly made, and the skin is so tough and chewy. I ate three flavors of pork fennel, pork cabbage, and beef shepherd's purse, all of which were very good.
This store is called "Dupin Dumpling Village". It looks like an inconspicuous store, but it is quite big. There are basically no tourists, and all locals go to eat. The environment is average, broken and dirty, and the taste is really good.

After eating the dumplings, go back to the hotel to continue the strategy of the next day. Climb the Great Wall tomorrow, flighting~~

DAY 4: Mutianyu Great Wall

"The Great Wall is unique in Mutianyu". Compared with the crowded Badaling, which was developed very early, I fell in love with Mutianyu immediately.
The Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou, Beijing, 73 kilometers away from the urban area, which is almost the distance from the center of Shanghai to Nanhui. Because the distance is long after all, no travel agency will go there, and all the people who go there are individual tourists. There are not many people in the tourist photos before, very good!

The easiest way to go to Mutianyu is to take the shuttle bus from the Beijing distribution center. Tickets purchased online are 60 yuan round-trip, and the one-way journey takes about 1.5-2 hours. There was no traffic jam at all during the Chinese New Year trip, and we arrived in less than an hour and a half.

Address for single-purchase round-trip tickets (60 yuan):
http://www.bjlyjszx.com/tour_show.jsp?id=8037&amp;amp;sale_type=1

Round-trip bus plus tickets (90 yuan):
http://www.bjlyjszx.com/tour_show.jsp?id=8033&amp;sale_type=1

The departure point is at Qianmen Tourist Distribution Center, just come out from Exit C of Qianmen Station of Metro Line 2. You can also buy tickets directly on the spot, but you may not be able to buy them if the car is full, so it is best to buy them online in advance, which can be 10 yuan cheaper.

Mutianyu Great Wall

The departure time to Qianmen is 9:00, and the return time to Mutianyu is 15:30. Excluding the time on the road, it took about 4.5-5 hours to play there.

After getting the ticket, the next step is to buy the ticket.
We bought on Ctrip:
1. Big ticket + ferry ticket (54/person)
2. Up and down cableway + slide ticket (105/person)
The prices bought on the spot are 55 and 120 respectively, which are slightly cheaper on Ctrip.

The big ticket for the Mutianyu Great Wall is 40, and the gate is still a long way from the foot of the Great Wall. First cross a small commodity street, selling souvenirs, and then walk to the ferry station. There is still an uphill road of about 3 kilometers, so if you want to play on the Great Wall for a while, it is strongly recommended to take a car, otherwise you will be exhausted before you see the city wall.

Well, after getting off the ferry, the Great Wall is right in front of you.
There are a total of 20 beacon towers in Mutianyu, and the one you arrived at is No. 1. You can walk up the Great Wall, or you can take a cable car/ropeway up the mountain first (the price is the same, both are 100 one-way, 120 round-trip). So, of course, you need to buy a round-trip ticket~~

The cable car/ropeway is operated by two companies. The difference is:
Cable car: 6 people per car, closed, both up and down are cable cars, reaching Beacon Tower 14.
Cableway: 2 people per car, open type, you can choose to go up and down the cableway, or you can go up and down the cableway (it’s fun, recommended for wall cracks) to reach Beacon Tower No. 6.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Sitting on the cableway, look at the slideway under your body~~

Mutianyu Great Wall

Slide, see slide again! !

Mutianyu Great Wall

Slide, see slide again! ! It is still an adult holding a child and sliding down together, which shows that there is no risk factor.

Mutianyu Great Wall

After jumping off the ropeway, it is Beacon Tower No. 6, and began to climb all the way up.

Mutianyu Great Wall

right! You read that right, there are so few people

Mutianyu Great Wall

I contracted this section of the Great Wall

Mutianyu Great Wall

Sitting on the Great Wall, no one, no one, oh no

Mutianyu Great Wall

right! You read that right, the sky is so blue

Mutianyu Great Wall

One pane, covered with dead branches.

Mutianyu Great Wall

I don’t know who wrote it on the city wall, Long live China.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Niu Hulu Ball Gege~~

Mutianyu Great Wall

Shuttle inside the enemy building.

Mutianyu Great Wall

i am the princess in the castle

Mutianyu Great Wall

There are quite a lot of crows in Beijing, and they are always screaming overhead.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Seeing how hard you work, let me show you a shot

Mutianyu Great Wall

We climbed from No. 6 to Beacon Tower No. 14. It was almost time. I was afraid that it would be too late. After all, we had to take the bus at 3:30 to go back to the city.
The white clouds began to come in groups of twos and threes, a whole tour group!

Mutianyu Great Wall

It's starting to cloud over

Mutianyu Great Wall

The whole weather from sunny to cloudy~~

Mutianyu Great Wall

Covering the sun with clouds, such a Great Wall always looks desolate.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Looking from both sides of the No. 6 Beacon Tower, there are actually two completely different scenery.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Is the mountain on this side facing the sun? Lush and pine trees.

Mutianyu Great Wall

There are message walls in various countries and languages. Everyone wants to record this beautiful moment.

Mutianyu Great Wall

When you arrive at platform 6, you can choose the cableway or the slideway to go down the mountain. Of course we didn't say anything and jumped on the car on the slide.

Mutianyu Great Wall

The slide is not a slide, but a small car with a handbrake in the middle, accelerating forward and braking backward.
In fact, the acceleration rate is not fast. And from time to time there is a sign saying please slow down, and there are curves, so I can't go any faster.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Like traveling through a time tunnel!

Mutianyu Great Wall

It's really fun and enjoyable. If I still have a chance to go to Mutianyu again, I will definitely not take pictures or videos when I slide down. I will speed up and experience the feeling of getting off the car super fast!

After getting off the slide, continue to take the shuttle bus, then cross the street for snacks and shopping, and come to the gate. At 15:30, the bus from the tourist distribution center departed on time and returned to the city.

Tips for a day trip to the Great Wall:

1. If it is a round trip on the same day, the time is limited. It is recommended to take the tourist bus at the distribution center and buy a large ticket + round-trip ferry ticket + round-trip cableway/slide ticket. Don't be afraid that there is no place to use your strength. You can climb as far as you like.

2. There is no food, drink, or place to pee on the Great Wall. You need to bring your own dry food. There are many restaurants at the entrance of the gate, such as Burger King Subway Yoshinoya, etc. The price is the same as outside. You can buy or eat a little before going up the mountain. There is basically nothing to eat when you go up.

3. In fact, climbing the Great Wall is okay, not as tiring as imagined. Because it is winding, it is not blindly going uphill.

It was almost five o'clock when I returned to the front door from Mutianyu. Last night, I had already planned to go to the door frame alley near the hotel.
It was past 6 o'clock, and there was already a long line at the door, but because it was a snack, the table turnover rate was high, so I went in to find a seat and waited for a while, and I ate it immediately.
Two people ordered 4 skewers of mutton skewers, 1 serving of stewed noodles, 1 serving of fried noodles, 1 serving of fried belly, 2 bottles of Arctic Ocean, 130 yuan.

Door frame alley stewed for a century

A bottle of Arctic Ocean for 4 yuan is half cheaper than the 8 yuan a can of the previous hot pot restaurant.

Door frame alley stewed for a century

The fried noodles are not bad, there is a lot of sauce, and the noodles are very tough. It will be a bit salty if you pour them all together. You can put half of them first according to your taste.

Door frame alley stewed for a century

I only eat heart, gizzard, and liver for offal, so I really have no way to eat braised stew. Seeing the lungs full of holes, and the fat and greasy large intestine, there is still a layer of fat from the large intestine floating on the soup... I just ate the tofu and fire silently, leaving a large bowl of lungs and intestines.
For students who are good at this mouth, they will definitely give us two big eyes!

Door frame alley stewed for a century

10 yuan a bunch of mutton skewers?
Quite expensive...I found that the mutton skewers in Beijing are a bit expensive.

Door frame alley stewed for a century

The belly must be eaten with sesame sauce, it feels like eating hot pot. Generally, there is no particular favorite.

Door frame alley stewed for a century

After dinner, more than half of the itinerary in Beijing has passed. Tomorrow is the long-awaited one-day tour of the Palace Museum, silently praying that there will be fewer people, although 80,000 reserved tickets have been sold

Since 2017, the Forbidden City has implemented an online ticket purchase mechanism, which can be purchased online 10 days in advance. There is a chance to change the ticket, and you can refund it if you don’t enter before 8 pm that day.
The URL is as follows:
https://gugong.228.com.cn/
We moved back the itinerary of the previous two days. We didn't expect that there were still so many people, and we were tired. I can only get up early to catch an early show~~

DAY 5: The Palace Museum

In order to enter the Forbidden City in the morning, you have to line up at the door without opening the door. So before 7 o'clock, we went to the restaurant of the hotel, and my aunt said that the dishes were not ready yet, so we could eat them first.

The tablecloths had not yet been spread. To be honest, the breakfast at Orange Hotel is really good! As long as 20 yuan, milk, coffee, juice, fruit, bread, hard-boiled eggs, yogurt porridge, buns, and wontons are all available.

In order to avoid the strict security check (because it takes a lot of time), we decided not to enter the Forbidden City from Tiananmen Square, but to go around from the Zhongshan Park next to it. Although it took a long time to walk, at least we could control the time by ourselves.

The street is so quiet in the early morning (it's not too early in the morning, it's already close to 8 o'clock).

Forbidden City

Thick ice on the lake.

Forbidden City

Walking through a corner and arriving outside the Meridian Gate, the tranquility was instantly broken

Those who promised to enter the palace early in the morning and shoot blockbuster movies without anyone are all lies

Forbidden City

The gate of Wuwu was like the gate of the palace ministers waiting for the court in ancient times. After waiting for an hour, they were finally put into the gate of the palace.
By the way, the order here is too bad, the staff and volunteers don't know how to get tourists to line up, maybe they really don't have experience in dealing with such a large passenger flow, so they called the firefighters.
Otherwise, it would be very convenient to just pull out a serpentine team casually!

Forbidden City

As soon as you enter the door, you can see the place where you can rent a guide. 20/person, the price is reasonable, and it looks good. It is a mini map of the entire Forbidden City. It is GPS positioning and Bluetooth sensing. Wherever you go, there will be relevant explanations that will be played automatically.
There are several versions to choose from, and I listened to the essence version and the story version. The story version is narrated by Wang Gang, adding a little story on the basis of the official history.

Forbidden City

It can be clearly seen on the map that after the Meridian Gate is the Taihe Gate.

There are many people in the square, and there are tour groups everywhere. Make a quick decision, don't follow the central axis, and go east and west. Generally, tour groups only visit the central axis, and there should be few people in the side shops on both sides.

Forbidden City

Well, that's the decision, we want to take the lead~~
No one was photographed because the place was blocked and no one could get in.

Forbidden City

With such beautiful scenery, why do you embarrass yourself and squeeze yourself on such a narrow central axis?
I don't remember what kind of palace it is, I just think it's too dazzling in the sun.

Forbidden City

Crossing from the west line to the east line through the central axis, the huge flow of people scared the baby to death.

Forbidden City

The photo I like very much, taking advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when no one is there, I lie on the bluestone board and press the shutter for Ge Ge.

Forbidden City

The spine beast reflected on the red wall~~ so beautiful. There are not so many tourists here, and the original color of the Forbidden City is slightly restored.

Forbidden City

Chengqian Palace, one of the East Six Palaces, was once lived here by Concubine Dong E, who was deeply loved by Emperor Shunzhi.
There are only Chinese characters on the plaques in the main halls of the Forbidden City and the Outer Court. When Yuan Shikai ascended the throne, he sent people to delete all the Manchu characters and move the Chinese characters to the middle. The inner court of the Qianqing Palace and the plaques on the east and west side halls are written in both Manchu and Chinese languages.

Forbidden City

The red wall is still there, but the beauty has already turned into bones.

Forbidden City

The back of this chair is made of antlers~~ There is a royal hunting picture behind it.

Forbidden City

In Jingren Palace, the special exhibition "My Home is in the Forbidden City" is being held. Various cute elements

The Little Emperor with Mung Bean Eyes

Forbidden City

Gege goes back to her mother's house, let's take a picture together.

Here is nearly 600 years of history, 720,000 square meters of space, is the emperor and his family

, are many court ladies and eunuchs, bodyguards protecting the emperor and his family, and also the home of kittens.

Forbidden City

The window paper has been made into a cute style~~ There are also kittens!

Forbidden City

It's a pity that I didn't see the legendary imperial cat in the Forbidden City this time. I guess I was scared away by such a large passenger flow~~

Forbidden City

Ge Gexin said, why so many people come to visit my house, I don’t understand

Forbidden City

Royal tree~~

Forbidden City

Fun Rubik's Cube with long poses.

Forbidden City

Panorama of the Forbidden City in comic version. There are little yellow ducks swimming in the moat

Forbidden City

"Golden Wire and Iron Wire—Ge Kiln Porcelain Exhibition" is being held in Yanxi Palace. In the history of the development of Chinese porcelain, Ru Kiln, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln, Ding Kiln and Jun Kiln are collectively called the Five Famous Kilns. There are many collections in the Forbidden City.

Forbidden City

Only then did I know why the name of the exhibition is called "Golden Wire".

Forbidden City

A volunteer grandma in her 70s is introducing each exhibit in detail. After I retired, I have been a volunteer in the Forbidden City for more than ten years. I appeal to everyone to watch less mobile phones and read more books to learn more about Chinese history and culture. Everyone around was in awe and applauded after the explanation.

Forbidden City Forbidden City

The unfinished building in Yanxi Palace is also the only Western building in the Forbidden City-Lingzhaoxuan. How many harem and concubines have the hearts of princesses and maidens carry on this?

In fact, the real reason for the construction is that Yanxi Palace often catches fire, so I want to build a water hall here to suppress the fire, and enjoy fish and flowers by the way.

Forbidden City

The preliminary idea of this palace is to use glass as the wall, put water in the interlayer of the glass wall, raise goldfish in the water, and the bottom floor is also paved with glass. It's like the undersea tunnel in the aquarium now, and it's still European style!
It's a pity that when it was built, it was already the age of the little emperor Puyi, and the national treasury was empty. After half of the construction, there was no money to rebuild it. When Zhang Xun was restored, he was hit by a cannon again.
But even if it's just such an unfinished building, it's so beautiful! ! !

Forbidden City

After leaving the Palace of Yanxi Palace, I have almost finished shopping in the East and West Zodiac Palaces. It’s past noon, so I’ll take a little rest and eat the biscuits and beef jerky I brought (because even the restaurant has a long queue), and the next goal is the Clock Museum. and Jewelery.

As soon as you enter the gate of the Clock and Watch Museum, you can see two separate sides: the Chinese-style copper pot hourglass and the Western-style big self-ringing clock.

Forbidden City

In fact, since Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Western mechanical clocks and watches have been very popular, and this copper kettle hourglass is just for show.

Forbidden City

The collections in the Clock and Watch Museum are extremely luxurious, and the mechanism design is exquisite. It feels that the ornamental value has far exceeded the practical value. It seems to watch every clock running. I saw in the documentary "I am repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City" before, the staff of the Forbidden City repaired those organs, and the whole one is smart and free, which is much more exquisite than the current music box.

Forbidden City

This writer's clock was Qianlong's favorite. When it retired to be the Supreme Emperor, it was specially moved to his palace to play with at any time. When the clock is running, the person at the top will pull out a banner "Longevity without Borders" and pour ink on the foreigner's inkstone below, and he will be able to write the eight Chinese characters "Eight Directions, Nine Earths Come King" neatly , and the pen.
I saw this video in the documentary "Forbidden City 100", it's really awesome! ! !

Forbidden City

The whole house is full of clocks, and the lotus pond in the middle, it is said that as the clock goes, the lotus will gradually bloom from the flower bone to the flower~~ Unfortunately, I can't see it.

Forbidden City

Full of shock and regret (I didn’t see a single running clock), I left the Clock Hall and entered the Treasure Hall. Because it was getting late and there were too many people, we didn't stay long in the jewelry hall, because there were also the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Central Harmony, Hall of Preserving Harmony, Palace of Qianqing, Hall of Jiaotai and Palace of Kunning on the central axis. Didn't see any of them.

The small garden that Emperor Qianlong made for himself after his retirement is now completely enclosed and turned into a jewelry hall (including the Shigu Hall).
Compared with his father, Yongzheng, who is diligent every day and can be called the most diligent in the history of the Qing Dynasty (he was the emperor for only 13 years, and was exhausted at work in the end), Qianlong lived too long and was already an emperor. Don't want to be any more. Finally, when I was in my 80s, I gave up the imperial throne to my son Jiaqing, and I ran to such a good place to look at flowers every day, appreciate Chinese characters, write inscriptions and postscripts, and play with clocks and clocks. Enjoyment is what you will enjoy

Forbidden City

There are sundials in front of many temple gates. The scales on the ancient timekeeping tools are still clearly visible.

Forbidden City

After coming out of the Jewelry Hall and returning to the central axis of the Forbidden City, it was almost 3 o'clock, and the number of tourists decreased significantly, and the shadow of the tour group could no longer be seen.

Forbidden City

A slightly empty square.

Forbidden City

There are 5 ridge beasts on the corners of the military aircraft hall, except for the immortals.

Forbidden City

Silly Niu Colu Ball Gege

Forbidden City

There are so many older sisters in the palace waiting to get married~~

Forbidden City

At 16:30, Gege was kicked out from the Shenwu Gate behind the Imperial Garden... Sure enough, the water poured out by the married daughter was not allowed to stay for a minute

Forbidden City

Looking at Shenwu Gate from a distance, the setting sun reflects on the frozen lake, covering the Forbidden City with a layer of golden clothes.

Forbidden City

The turret is the largest building among the 9,999 and a half houses in the Forbidden City. It is known as "the treasure of the Forbidden City".
As we all know, the Forbidden City has four gates, namely the Meridian Gate in the south, the Donghua Gate in the east, the Xihua Gate in the west and the Shenwu Gate in the north. As for the 4 turrets, the two turrets in the south cannot be seen, so only the northwest and northeast turrets next to Shenwu Gate in the north can be photographed.

Sunrise or sunset, which turret to choose for shooting? Note here:
Sunrise shoots the northwest turret, and sunset shoots the northeast turret. Since the direction facing the sun is backlight at sunrise and sunset, it will produce a large light ratio, so in the afternoon, the northeast turret is backlit, the northwest turret is well lit, in the morning, the northwest turret is backlit, and the northeast turret is well lit.

Forbidden City

In fact, the straight-line distance between the two turrets is not particularly far. If you go out of the Shenwu Gate, if you walk to a turret and find that there are people waiting early with long guns and short cannons everywhere, then congratulations, you are on the right track! Otherwise, go to the other corner. Anyway, the closing time of the Forbidden City is 4:30, the sun has not set yet in winter, and it will be even later in summer, so you may not be able to take pictures of the sunset.

A turret photo taken in dusk mode. The sun won't set until after 6 o'clock, and there is still more than an hour left. We didn't have time to wait, and besides, we didn't have lunch after walking for a day. The omelet rice classmate was hungry, so he was going to go home for dinner.

Forbidden City

Continue to take the No. 5 bus back to the hotel, simply pack up, and go to the Ziguang Garden opposite the hotel. This store has basically never appeared in the travel guide. It seems that the food is all locals. It is similar to old stores such as Meiyuan Village, Guangming Village, and Dafugui in Shanghai.

Cumin mutton, a big pot full.

Ziguang Garden

Mushu pork, I really don’t understand why the Mushu pork here is only composed of eggs and meat. In my impression, Mushu meat also has black fungus, enoki mushroom, day lily, etc., but 50% of it here is meat, which is too rough.

Ziguang Garden

Chicken shreds in Beijing sauce, because this is a halal store, there is no shredded pork.

Ziguang Garden

The dishes here are really big, and everyone is here for the New Year's Eve dinner. 2 people can't order many dishes, and what we ordered wasted a lot.

Ziguang Garden

Homemade yogurt looks like solid old yogurt and tastes good.

Ziguang Garden

Tomorrow is the last day in the imperial capital, and there is not much time to play on the plane in the afternoon, let’s go to the nearest Beihai Park~~

DAY 6: Beihai Park

Breakfast continues to be settled in our Huguo Temple cafeteria~~
Beef biscuits and sugar pancakes, my favorite

Huguo Temple Snack Bar

Have a good breakfast, take the No. 5 bus, and go to Beihai Park!

The Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck. Beihai Park in the morning is very quiet, only the sound of ducks quacking, and the music in the park, "Let's swing the oars, the boat pushes away the waves, the beautiful white tower is reflected on the sea, surrounded by green trees and red walls" . There are no crowds and hustle and bustle of other attractions.
Well, the white tower in the lyrics is in the distance, so I realized it. I sang the birthplace of a childhood song, it turned out to be here~~

Beihai Park

Nearby is the surface of water, and far away is the surface of ice.

Beihai Park

A neat row of little yellow duck cruise ships. It's almost spring, and it's time to scull again.

Beihai Park

The surface of the lake was calm, without any ripples.

Beihai Park

Yuanyang, Yuanyang, why are you alone? Is it too young to have a girlfriend?

Beihai Park

The empty temple is very quiet.

Beihai Park

There are so many people in front of the "Nine Dragons" Wall of the Forbidden City that it is impossible to get close to it. There is no one in front of the Nine Dragons Wall here, and the little sparrow has been sitting on the dragon's nostrils. I feel that the dragon's eyes are wide open, but the helpless expression on his face is fun.

Beihai Park

I didn't make too many stops in Beihai Park, so I came out. The big ticket for the park is 5 yuan, and there is an additional fee for climbing the Baita Tower. The whole park is relatively large, and it takes several kilometers to walk, and it is necessary to climb the mountain to climb the Baita Tower. It feels good to walk around the lake and have a look, and there is no need to climb the tower.

At noon every day, many elderly activity groups came to the park. Those who play Tai Chi play Tai Chi, those who dance square dance dance, and those who kick shuttlecock kick shuttlecock.

Beihai Park

small apple group

Beihai Park

group shuttlecock group

Beihai Park

After leaving the park gate, there are small vendors selling candied haws for 5 yuan a bunch, which is really not delicious. Yesterday, the 10 yuan skewers in Daoxiang Village were much more delicious~~

For the last meal in Beijing, there was not enough time, so I left it for "Haiwanju", because there was no one queuing up...

Haiwanju

I was really crying because of this mustard dumpling. No wonder Xiaoer brought a basin of noodle soup before the food was served! It turned out to have been expected a long time ago~~

Haiwanju

Fried sausage, one of the most popular snacks in Beijing, will give you a bowl of garlic sauce to dip it in. There is no taste, it feels like fried flour, which is not good.

Haiwanju

The taste of fried noodles is not bad. I have eaten fried noodles three times in "Siji Minfu", "Menjia Hutong" and "Haiwanju", and I like them all. This kind of noodles is better, very strong, not as thin as Su-style noodles.
After lunch, I bought some snacks from Daoxiang Village and went back to share, then I was going back to the hotel and went to the airport.
On the way back to the hotel, I went to "Huguo Temple" again. How much I love their dim sum. Afraid that I didn’t eat much at noon and would be hungry in the afternoon, I bought 4 Aiwowo~~ It was much bigger than the Aiwowo in the snack platter I ate at the hall. I like the soft, waxy, sour and sweet taste.

Huguo Temple Snack Bar

The transportation card was refunded at the airport, and the 6 days in Beijing were exactly 100 yuan per person (including a deposit of 20 yuan, and a one-way airport express train of 25 yuan). I spent money to buy a return express ticket separately and arrived at Beijing Capital Airport smoothly. I always feel that the Capital Airport is not like the Capital Airport, and it is weaker than Pudong Airport haha. I heard that the imperial capital is going to build a new airport, and it is much closer to Hebei than to Beijing.

, has been criticized by many people.

The 6-day tour of the imperial capital is officially over, and the regret left is to come back again next time~~