In the suburbs of Beijing in June, the scorching sun did not dampen the crowds of tourists at the foot of the Simatai Great Wall.

Gubei Water Town, which has been highly acclaimed and popular since its opening, is seeing her true face for the first time in her more mature young youth.

A romantic recitation of the Great Wall starry sky, a rare Great Wall yoga, a morning tea on a cruise ship under the Great Wall...

The tranquility and beauty of Gubei Water Town set off the grandeur and magnificence of the Simatai Great Wall. It is at the foot of the Great Wall and also a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is romantic but not artificial. The days and nights of Gubei Water Town, such a fairytale-like unreal beauty, are being staged vividly...

Great Wall Yoga Ride Incredible Morning Energy

The high popularity of Gubei Water Town starts from the cool morning. Accompanied by the fragrance of plants and the singing of birds, a healthy lifestyle starts the residents full of energy throughout the day.

Breakfast on the cruise ship at the foot of the Great Wall, yoga, cycling, incredible whimsy come true here one by one, not only makes foreign guests happy, even Beijing girls are hooked. Such a representative Chinese element, if a foreign friend travels to China, can he find a better recommendation than this? !

The designers of Gubei Water Town are really a group of lovely dreamers. Everyone who has experienced yoga on the Great Wall and morning tea on a cruise must want to give the designers of these projects a big hug. Get up early in the morning, follow professional yoga instructors, and practice yoga one by one in the most ceremonial venue, completely integrated with nature.

Or ride along the winding curves of the Great Wall in the sweet morning air. Even people who don't have sports cells will fully enjoy this unique and rare experience.

Morning tea on a cruise ship is also a good choice. Taking advantage of the cool weather, take a well-prepared morning tea boat and start boating from the foot of the Simatai Great Wall. Enjoy the panoramic view of Gubei Water Town while having breakfast.

The early mornings in June are very friendly to tourists. Not only are there clear blue skies, but the temperature is also suitable for various sports. The birds singing in the mountain stream applaud the yoga and cyclists, and the naturally ripe mulberries on the branches are the sweetest I have ever eaten. I promise.

Of course, you have every right to stay in bed and not go out. In the early morning of the bed-ridden Mucheng Hotel, the electric floor-to-ceiling curtains were slowly opened, and the breakfast ordered the night before arrived as scheduled. The green hills embraced a new morning sun, and embraced me like a child, being cared for.

Walking in the water town pays tribute to the dream maker in the dreamland

The tranquility and beauty of Gubei Water Town set off the grandeur and magnificence of the Simatai Great Wall. This is a town so beautiful that it is unreal. At the foot of the Great Wall, a group of guys who dared to dream created a miracle like a fairy tale.

The old houses that have been moved over tell their own stories at the foot of the Great Wall. Every brick, every tile, every plant and every tree, all incorporate the unique charm of Gubei Water Town. Everywhere you go is a well-designed scenery, and everywhere is so perfect that it attracts beauty-loving girls to check in and take pictures.

Girls wearing Hanfu are common in the water town, and the shops that rent Hanfu are always very popular. The elaborate dress from head to toe, and meticulous hair accessories are also the distinctive features of Hanfu rental here. No detail is overlooked, and perfection is also in line with the consistent style here.

There are many cultural and creative shops, and many small museums of intangible cultural heritage and folk customs can be seen, which makes people overjoyed.

In the Shadow Puppet Museum where production, performance, and sales are integrated, the children are sitting in front of the stage and looking forward to the start of the shadow puppet show, but we linger in the commodity department. The handmade shadow puppetry of about 100 yuan is really a cheap gift for foreign friends. I’m going to Switzerland next month, I’ll buy a few to take with me, I’m sure my Swiss friends will like it.

Handmade Experience Love Tie Dye

Living in Gubei Water Town, I was so busy that I couldn't stop for two days. Various hand-made experiences such as kite making and painting tested the hearts of Geminis. I have always liked tie-dye, and friends who know me well know it. It can also be said that I am grateful for all the handmade clothing. So among the many experiences, I went straight to tie-dye.

As the name suggests, tie-dyeing is to tie the fabric into a certain pattern, dip it in the dye, and untie the fabric to form a pattern naturally. There are hundreds of variations of flower tie, full of creativity and imagination. The pattern of each piece is absolutely unique. Plants such as isatid root are gradually made into colors, and they are transformed into ever-changing patterns on the cloth, like stars and seas, mountains and rivers, and like firewood burning ice.

To experience tie-dyeing in Yongshun Dyeing Workshop, first choose the pattern, and then choose the form of tie-dyeing. Usually, the experience provides a 70 yuan handkerchief, and I chose a 180 yuan scarf. Use wooden splints or stones to draw out the graphics you want, and then soak them in the dye vat for two minutes. After washing off the floating dye, the scarf unfolded, and the image I imagined appeared in my hand, and I felt a great sense of satisfaction in my heart.

The blue river I dyed is indeed a clear stream among the colorful cloths in the dyeing workshop. In fact, I have several tie-dye scarves with similar patterns and colors, and I even had one in my bag at the time, which was slightly darker than the one I just dyed. That tie-dye was from Chiang Mai.

Sometimes it is like this, looking through the closet, it seems that there are many pieces of similar style of clothes, looking through the years, it seems that the friends and men I like are also the same type. When you buy and buy, you buy the same thing; when you love and love, you love the same person. The more you live, the more you understand life, and the more you understand yourself.

The tie-dye technique has a long history and is distributed in Chengdu, Yunnan, Nagoya, Japan, India, Thailand, and Africa. Yunnan tie-dye is also an intangible cultural heritage of our country. In Yongshun Dyeing Workshop in Gubei Water Town, there are not only tie-dyeing DIY workshops, but also a small museum and theme store. It truly integrates cultural significance, hand-made experience and shopping, and fully understands weaving and weaving in one stop. The whole process of dyeing.

The clothes and accessories sold in the tie-dye theme store are all from the dyeing workshop here, and each piece is a unique handmade masterpiece. These lovely blue skirts made me reluctant to leave for a long time.

Afternoon tea on the top of the mountain is beautiful as far as the eye can see

Stepping on the stone road full of stories, walk up to the coffee shop next to the church on the top of the mountain, where the wind chimes and garlands are swaying in the sunshine on the top of the mountain. Just now, it was a water town in the south of the Yangtze River with blue bricks and gray tiles, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the small church on the top of the Mediterranean Sea. This is a little secret between Gubei Water Town and tourists. As long as you have an exploring heart, you will find surprises and find that everything you see is beautiful.

There is a large telescope on the viewing platform behind the wind chime, through which you can overlook the plants and trees in the town, and you can also look up to the Simatai Great Wall on the mountain in the distance. The chapel is peaceful and beautiful, where time stands still.

The breeze is carrying the fragrance of plants, and the corner of the top of the mountain is the most beautiful cloud cafe in the water town. The location overlooking the scenery is extremely sought-after, and the girls enjoy the afternoon tea among the mountains and rivers. A cup of refreshing matcha latte and a sweet macaron. Looking up at the mountains and the Great Wall, the ideal mountain life is nothing more than this.

It's not a bad thing to leave the distant city and occasionally deliberately bask in the sunshine. The girls who love Gubei Water Town all have the delicacy of loving life, but they are not flowers in the greenhouse.

Overnight at Gubei Mucheng Hotel: the complexity and simplicity
The simplicity and complexity of staying overnight in Gubei Mucheng Hotel If you want to stay overnight in Gubei, there are really too many choices. Under the starry sky of the Great Wall, there are antique inns, international standard Gubei Water Town Hotel, and Tibetan Huotang Hotel with style and style. And what I love more is the Mucheng Hotel and Hangu Villa Boutique Hotel in the valley.

In the Hangu Mountain Villa Boutique Hotel next to the Mucheng Hotel where I stayed, a grand opening ceremony of the Great Wall Starry Sky Tent Camp attracted many friends. The media friends in the circle of friends flocked here, and the cocktail party and BBQ dinner became a dance floor where friends met unexpectedly.

Keiko, a friend who met by chance, even booked one of the ten tented hotels. Happily crawling into my tent, as if returning to a beautiful childhood, smiling like a little girl, it's so good.

And I chose the favorite Mucheng Hotel. In the dense valley at the foot of the Simatai Great Wall, amidst the greenery full of birdsong and flowers, the perfect minimalist mountain dwelling time flows silently here. The minimalist atmosphere with "blank" geometric design and off-white as the main color gives people a sense of tranquility and comfort.

On the other hand, there are capsule coffee machines, fresh green flowers, welcome fruits, exclusive customized toiletries with individual plastic packaging, Made in Japan toothpaste, evening turn-down service with hot milk and cookies, room breakfast service, etc. The details, one after another throughout the day, make people feel that they are cared for from morning to night.

Simplicity and complexity, more and less, harmony and balance, the perfect oriental charm, sings leisurely in this space made of logs and white stone...

Encounter Zhang Chu Wang Luo Dan Great Wall Starry Sky Reading

As for another grand event that attracted most of the capital's media circles and literary youths, it was the Simatai Great Wall Starry Sky Reading held at night in Gubei Water Town. The reading session initiated by Shi Hang has been held many times in the small theater of the Drum Tower, and his friend Lu Xia also participated. The lineup of this recitation meeting is even stronger, including Zhang Chu, Cheng Fangyuan, Wang Luodan, director Li Yu, Xing Jiadong, Shi Hang, etc. Just the appearance of Zhang Chu's name under the Great Wall and the starry sky is enough to attract people.

As night fell, the lights on the Simatai Great Wall gradually lit up, lighting up the entire starry sky and every heart that loves literature and art. The girl with the lantern softly guides the way up the mountain at every bend, and a small tent has been set up on the beacon tower at the top, with pink balloons and guitars, music and poetry flowing in everyone's heart. Everyone was seated one after another, and another dreamy curtain was about to open under the starry sky of Simatai Great Wall.

Cheng Fangyuan read Sanmao's "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" she bought in 1985, Zhang Chu read the lyrics of her new song "Moonlight and Soul", Wang Luodan read the poems written by children who had blown up their circle of friends some time ago, On the contrary, it arouses the most sympathy and emotion. The winding Great Wall is wrapped in the night, and stars are jumping in the mountain stream. In paragraphs of reading and writing, everyone is sorting out their past. Outside of Sanmao's writing, Cheng Fangyuan went to the remote Sahara. Outside of Sanmao's words, we keep walking...

Some people are never tired of vanity material, while others know how to conserve energy and enjoy life. These are Bai Baihe and Wang Luodan, two seemingly similar but completely different girls. This reading is like the best Children's Day gift. It tells us that those who are pure in heart and love the distance will always have clear eyes, and the clean child will always live in their hearts.

Romantic to the Bone Gubei Night

Compared with the well-prepared Great Wall starry sky reading, the night view of the water town is casually romantic, but romantic to the bone. Many people go to Gubei Water Town to find its beautiful night view, and some friends read my Moments during the day and remind me not to miss the most beautiful lights here.

The lights on both sides of the river illuminate the entire Simatai Great Wall. On the cruise ship in the river, couples bathing in love snuggle together; in the chapel on the top of the mountain, the singing of poetry is melodious;

Down the mountain, on the small square in the water town, the Peking Opera performance in the big theater and the Great Wall reflect each other, a sense of national pride burns silently in my heart. My companion took me to the archway, waiting for a drone Kongming lantern show.

As soon as the style of painting changed, Westlife's "Beautiful in white" suddenly floated in the square, the singing sounded, and the warning of extreme romance sounded in my heart. The countless Kongming lanterns in front of the eyes were precisely lifted off the ground with the drive of the drone. Pairs and rows, accompanied by music, danced in the air, lined up with the words "2019", and then landed on the mountainside at the foot of the Great Wall. The singing was repeated twice, and the short period of 7 minutes was an unforgettable happy memory for the lovers in the square. In just 7 minutes, my eyes were wet.

For three days and two nights, only by experiencing it personally can one appreciate the dream and beauty here. In 1889, when all the French were laughing and protesting the completion of the Eiffel Tower, which was incompatible with Parisian architecture, how could we know the significance of the Eiffel Tower in France a hundred years later; how can we know the significance of the Gubei Water Town today? Represents the Chinese symbol, which has far-reaching influence in the global market.

In this unrealistically beautiful town, at the foot of the Great Wall, a group of guys who dared to dream created an unreal fairy tale miracle. This miracle is still fermenting day by day, as long as you have been here, you will naturally understand.

Original text / Coco Hu Bo Please do not reprint without authorization

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Coco Huber

Global traveler, well-known travel self-media, KOL, photographer, travel columnist, senior travel media person, travel blogger contracted by Sina Weibo, gold medal author of Sohu, tourism ambassador of Okinawa, Japan, contracted traveler of Huayi Brothers, "Wine and Sex" Producer of "Tour" series of travel video programs, and lifestyle director of "Ruizu" magazine. His works are often seen in travel and life magazines such as "HNA", "Ruili Clothing and Beauty", "Travel World", "Tide Star" and so on.