In the early summer of last year, when the sunflowers bloomed on the slopes of Fangshan Mountain, I took my mother to see the pink color all over the mountains and plains. In May again, Cotinus cotinus blooms again, and the refreshing and pleasant air, the blue sky of Beijing, comes with the joy of the May Day holiday. Invite a few girlfriends, go to see the flowers and check in together, stay at the "Sugflower Blossoms", and go to find the century-old sumac flower tree that I couldn't see last time...

Pink Girl's Heart Pofengling 3rd Cotinus Cotinus Flower Festival

The date with Pofengling is also a date between girlfriends once a year. When the mountains are full of pink, it is time to leave the noisy city and go to the mountains in the suburbs of Beijing to find a quiet vacation with girlfriends. The temperature during the May Day holiday this year is pleasant, and the air in the mountains is accompanied by the breeze, which made me, a difficult climber, climb up to 1,700 meters with ease.


I made an appointment with my best friend who lives in Yanjiao to meet at Beiguan, Tongzhou. We drove along the Sixth Ring Road, and arrived at Fangshanpo Fengling in less than two hours. Pofengling Scenic Spot is located 3km northwest of Huangshandian Village, Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan District, adjacent to Yuxu Palace in Baojin Mountain. The girlfriends arrived at the "Sugarwood Blossoms" homestay at the foot of the mountain one after another. After arranging the rooms, they couldn't wait to go up the mountain taking advantage of the fine weather in the afternoon.


Climbing up the steps, there are birds flying over the head for a long time, stop and go all the way, and look at the pink sumac flowers in various shapes. This flower is invisible and most tangible, like pink fireworks, surrounding the mountains. The peduncle of the sterile flower of the sumac flower, which is pink and feathery, forms a landscape like clouds and fog on the branches. From a distance, it looks like ten thousand strands of yarn winding around the trees. It has always been compared by literati to " Emerald emerald smoke collects "seeking old dreams" and "flowers in the fog", so Cotinus cotinus is also known as "smoke tree". Appreciate the "purple smoke" in summer and red leaves in autumn. Each sumac tree changes its colors and postures in different seasons, allowing every character in life to bloom the most beautiful charm.


It takes only five minutes to drive to Pofengling Scenic Spot from the "Sigma cotinus flower blooming" at the foot of the mountain. Walking on the mountain, you will be accompanied by a cool wind all the way. The mountain road in Pofengling is easy to walk, with neat and clean steps. Occasionally, we can see cleaners who go up the mountain to pick up garbage. They will greet us with a smile and show us the way. There are also horses pulling heavy objects up the mountain, which makes people feel that they are not in Beijing at all. In fact, it was only a two-hour drive, and I went to a new world of simplicity and nature.


Among the layers of green, pink sumac flowers are like clusters of jumping elves. As soon as the bright apricot and peach blossoms pass, the Youlan Valley in the west of Beijing immediately ushers in a romantic and boundless pink flower event-the third Cotinus Cotinus Flower Festival in Fangshanpo Fengling. Hidden in the bustling mountains and rivers of Pofengling, strolling on the bluestone road among pink sumac flowers, savoring the sweetness of love and the perception of struggle, painting and calligraphy is a romantic spring picture scroll of its own. In the spring, jump into the red dust of sumac flowers, find a good place to see the scenery, and enjoy the pink spring!


This year's Cotinus Cotinus Flower Festival lasts from April 28 to June 8, from mid-spring to early summer, spanning the most colorful May in Beijing. Compared with previous years, this year's Cotinus Cotinus Flower Festival will undergo a new upgrade, focusing on the two themes of "Spring Love Territory" and "Basket Heroes" to create more than ten unique interactive projects, providing people of different ages with brand-new Beijing-suburb-themed leisure experience. In the sea of ​​100,000 cotinus cotinus flowers, Xu Yiji is pink and romantic.


Walking among the sea of ​​green trees and flowers, you can feel the poetic Youlan Mountain in the painting. Climbing the "Ladder of Love" in Fengling, love never stops. It seems that all parts of the world will give the most beautiful interpretation of marriage, and different marriage ages also have different meanings and metaphors. The 3,000-meter uphill road on Pofengling has evolved into a ladder of love. From the paper wedding in the first year to the diamond wedding in the 60th year, you can find the touch of marriage every year in places with winding paths and flowers. . Waiting all the way to 1500 meters, what I saw was the "Liu Wedding" who had been together for 9 years.



As the sumac flower, which symbolizes the unchanging true feelings through the wind and frost, nothing can make people believe in the beauty of fate more than a romantic encounter under the sumac tree. The Cotinus Cotinus Flower Festival has joined forces with a large-scale dating platform in China to make Pofengling a brand-new destination for romantic dating and leisure, and dating activities will run through the entire festival.


Mountain life, the most beautiful B&B in the suburbs of Beijing

The fireworks in the mountains, the spring scenery in the wild, and I returned to the homestay at the foot of the mountain with a good mood. This year, my friends and I went back to the cotinus flower blooming where I brought my mother to live last year. How time flies.


The life in the mountain began quietly like this, the quaint courtyard was broken by the arrival of a group of good friends. The fur kid from my girlfriend's house became the darling of the audience, and everyone scrambled to hug her and take pictures with her. The little girl is also the most well-behaved Teddy we have ever seen, full of atmosphere.



The exterior of the small courtyard is simple and natural, but the interior is unique. The comfortably decorated simple Nordic style blows your face, and the off-white decoration also gives people a feeling of physical and mental relaxation. In addition to the comfortable overall design style, all the details are delicate and touching. The bedding is all made of cotton and linen, and the simple plain color is my favorite style. The cleaning and care in the bathroom are all made of Australian organic skin care brand Sukin. The wooden soap dispenser, log toothbrush, and wooden comb on the sink make people feel more at ease, as if they have not left home.


In the early summer season, sitting in the yard and brewing a cup of herbal tea, this is the taste of the mountains. The scenery of the small courtyard is infinite, you can see the vast greenery and smell the fragrance of green plants. In addition to clusters of pink sumac flowers, there are many persimmon trees, walnuts, peach trees, apricots, poplars, wild jujubes, wild pears, wild chrysanthemums, etc., which are idyllic and pastoral.


The butler service provided by Sumacia Blossoms is based on the hotel's butler service, but it is higher than that of the hotel. The housekeepers here are all village aunts who have undergone strict training. After being well versed in the service principles, they still maintain the enthusiasm like a blind date. The housekeepers and aunts are responsible for the daily life of the small courtyard, and are also responsible for making exquisite delicacies from natural ingredients in the mountains.


The butler-style service with just the right temperature makes "Sunflower Bloom" seem like another home. The housekeeper aunt, who is about the same age as my mother, gives people a sense of down-to-earth intimacy. The house in the courtyard is full of gifts from the mountains, and the butler's skillful hand has decorated the small courtyard in the mountain stream as beautiful as Alice's Wonderland of Flowers. Log-colored tables and chairs and pottery tableware are fully integrated with nature. Flowers and organic ingredients from the mountains are the protagonists on the table. The private house delicacies cooked by the housekeeper bring the simple taste of the mountain residence.


The wild hawthorn juice made by the butler himself is the most popular. It is spring, wild vegetables and Chinese toon in the mountains, mixed with tofu, full of the aroma of nature. There are also big bowls of stewed beef brisket with radish, braised pork ribs, and stewed beans, each of which is the taste of my mother.


When we checked in, the housekeeper aunt just fried the sanzi and the homemade cottage sticks, which were our favorites when drinking tea and chatting in the living room at night. There are also chai eggs and millet porridge for breakfast. These gifts from the mountains are full of strong Chinese-style human touch, and the mouth is full of the taste of childhood...


It’s the Cotinus Flower Festival. In addition to eating the original ecological food made by the housekeeper’s aunt in the Cotinus Flowers Blossom, you can also experience the farming customs in Pofengling. On the mountain, we also made rose cakes together, which was also a fresh first experience. Under the guidance of the chef, the small dough is wrapped into a rose cake that is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

You can also plant roses with your family on the mountain and pick them next year. In addition to making flower cakes, petals can also be dried to make tea, enjoying the most natural taste of nature.

The two consecutive spring dates and the blooming of sumac flowers are both pleasant and beautiful processes. Being able to live a pastoral life of growing flowers and vegetables in a comfortable small yard in a mountain stream in the suburbs is also the Chinese ideal life for all girlfriends. This May Day holiday, my girlfriends are living in seclusion in the countryside, watching the sumac flowers blooming, listening to the birdsong, smelling the fragrance of the flowers, quiet, peaceful, without worldly disturbance, everything is so quiet...

Pofengling Cotinus cotinus blooms

Transportation: Pofengling Scenic Spot, the main site of the Cotinus Flower Festival, is 50 kilometers away from downtown Beijing. It is about 17 kilometers from the county road "Xinsi Road" to the provincial road "Zhouzhang Road" to connect Zhoukoudian Town. The traffic is very convenient. Navigate to " Pofengling", or "Huangshandian Village", are very accurate. There is a bus "Fang 32 Road" connecting Zhoukoudian-Huangshandian.

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

Thanks to Coco portrait photography / @任紫玉@感感丹域cell

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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.