Beijing, the imperial capital! An ancient capital with a history of more than 3,000 years, the vicissitudes of life and the change of dynasties have endowed you with a rich historical accumulation. Every Chinese has an imperial capital complex, and they all believe that they will set foot on this land in this life, and those who have been here firmly believe that one day they will return to the old place. Taste the capital city, read the taste of Beijing, just like what Cai Qin sang in "Reading You": I will never get tired of reading you thousands of times, reading you feels like March, romantic seasons, intoxicating poems...
Beijing, over 3,000 years of great changes, has given birth to rich cultural heritage: Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Badaling Great Wall, Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Lama Temple, Prince Gong's Mansion, Olympic Park, etc.! Every landscape is breathtaking, and every landscape tells its story. And what you have to do is to slow down and savor carefully.
Beijing, the imperial capital! An ancient capital with a history of more than 3,000 years, the vicissitudes of life and the change of dynasties have endowed you with a rich historical accumulation. Every Chinese has an imperial capital complex, and they all believe that they will set foot on this land in this life, and those who have been here firmly believe that one day they will return to the old place. Taste the capital city, read the taste of Beijing, just like what Cai Qin sang in "Reading You": I will never get tired of reading you thousands of times, reading you feels like March, romantic seasons, intoxicating poems...
Beijing, over 3,000 years of great changes, has given birth to rich cultural heritage: Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Badaling Great Wall, Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Lama Temple, Prince Gong's Mansion, Olympic Park, etc.! Every landscape is breathtaking, and every landscape tells its story. And what you have to do is to slow down and savor carefully.
schedule
Day 1: Xiamen - Beijing Take flight SC4677 of Shandong Airlines, take off from Xiamen at 17:05, and arrive in Beijing at 22:15. Stay at the hotel that night and recharge your batteries
Day 2: Visit the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven. The Forbidden City is adjacent to Tiananmen Square, so you don't need to take a car, just walk through the underground passage of Chang'an Avenue. From the Forbidden City to the Temple of Heaven, you can take bus No. 60, get off at Fahua Temple Station, and you can see the Temple of Heaven Park.
Day 3: Visit the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace. After visiting the Summer Palace, you can take bus No. 508, pass 3 stops, and get off at Yuanmingyuan South Gate Station.
Day 4: Climb the Badaling Great Wall and visit the Ming Tombs. From the Badaling Great Wall to the Ming Tombs, you can take the tourist line No. 879, pass 18 stops, and get off at Dagongmen Station.
Day 5: Visit Prince Kung's Mansion, Lama Temple and Olympic Park. From Prince Gong's Mansion to Lama Temple, you can take bus No. 13, pass 8 stops, and get off at Lama Temple Station. Lama Temple to Olympic Park
[About food]: Beijing roast duck, boiled lamb, fried belly, soy sauce, burnt rings, stewed, door nail meat pie, fire, donkey rolling, etc. Quanjude’s roast duck is famous all over the world. Four of us ordered a roast duck and four soups at the Wangfujing store. The total cost was less than 500 yuan. The chef sliced the duck on the spot. is too greasy. If you come to Beijing and want to eat authentic mutton mutton, you must go to Xiyuanju. It is located at No. 2, Qianmen Street. It is an old Beijing mutton restaurant worth visiting.
Xiyuanju old Beijing mutton is definitely not the popular Chongqing hot pot. The old Beijing mutton eats the quality of fresh mutton in clear soup. Put scallions, ginger, and wolfberry mutton into the pot for a few times, pick it up and wrap it in mahjong. Not to mention the full mutton aroma, the word delicious is the kind of taste that becomes more addictive the more you eat
[About specialties]: Vacuum-packed roast duck from Quanjude, eight pieces of Daoxiangcunjing, candied haws and Poria cocos cakes from Yushiyuan, pickles from Liubiju, Chinese medicinal materials from Tongrentang, old Beijing cloth shoes from Neiliansheng...you can buy them according to your needs Go back as a souvenir and send it to relatives and friends.
Beijing has well-developed public transportation, and subway lines basically cover all scenic spots.
the next day
Today, I woke up early, because today I will visit the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and Temple of Heaven Park. Try to go before 10 o'clock. After 10 o'clock, a large number of tour groups will pour in, which will affect the tour experience!
When you come to Beijing to travel, you must go to Tiananmen Square to watch the national flag raising. When the five-star red flag rises slowly against the gentle breeze, the sons and daughters of the Chinese people on the Anmen Square that day sang: "Arise, people who do not want to be slaves, build us with our flesh and blood. The new Great Wall, the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time..." Excitement arises spontaneously! I kept shouting to get up early to watch the flag-raising ceremony, but I couldn't get up. Although I failed to catch up with the flag-raising ceremony and couldn't appreciate the solemnity of the national flag guards, the cloudless blue sky and the red flag fluttering in the wind are equally exciting!
Great Hall of the People! I used to see it on the "News Network". When I saw it with my own eyes, I always imagined that the national leader would suddenly come out and wave to everyone. Soldiers in green uniforms and masters of ceremonies in red cheongsams added a touch of color to the square.
Tiananmen Square under costumes! I went there in October, because the National Day has just passed, and the festive decorations on Tiananmen Square still exist. The colorful flowers create a festive atmosphere, which makes people lament the power of the motherland!
The Hall of Supreme Harmony, which is what we call the Golden Temple, is generally used to hold large-scale festivals and grand ceremonies! The largest existing wooden structure hall in China is also the palace with the highest specifications in the Forbidden City. It can be seen from its roof structure that it is a double-eave hipped roof! (Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace also have double eaves and veranda roofs, but the scale is not as large as the Taihe Palace)
The square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony is full of tourists.
In the Forbidden City, in front of each main hall on the central axis, there are huge white marble carvings, usually with cloud patterns, water patterns, and dragon patterns, symbolizing the majesty of the royal family. This is the stone carving in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and it is also the largest piece in the Forbidden City.
Since the main body of the Forbidden City is a wooden structure, fire prevention is particularly important, so such large copper vats can be seen everywhere. It is said that when the great powers invaded, they thought the tank was made of gold, and cut it with a knife, leaving mottled marks! (If it is not surrounded by guardrails, it is estimated that tourists will feel bright and smooth, and cover their faces!)
Exquisite Han white jade stone carvings
The architecture of the Forbidden City is quite particular. All the halls must be built on such a huge platform, which not only makes the building strong, but also highlights the majesty of the royal family.
Yikun Palace, one of the six east and west palaces, is the bedroom of Concubine Hua in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Is this Xuanwu? (Four Great Beasts: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu)
The gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony was squeezed for a long time, and the equipment was at risk of being squeezed, just to take this picture--! (Actually, I think the dragon carpet on the ground is the essence)
Qianqing Palace, the emperor's daily office, everyone has the impression that the emperor went to court in the Jinluan Hall (Taihe Hall), but it was not. Generally, it was in the Qianqing Palace, and later even in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Lafayette Cixi even worked in the Summer Palace.. ....
The interior scene of Kunning Palace, when I went to visit, the Forbidden City courtyard arranged the scene of the wedding of the emperor and the empress, with red and yellow as the main color, full of Chinese style!
temple of heaven
The Temple of Heaven is a place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties offered sacrifices to the heavens and prayed for a good harvest.
The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests was first built in 1420 in the park. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is a circular building with a diameter of 32.72 meters. It has a gilt-covered roof with blue tiles and triple eaves and pointed roofs. It is retracted layer by layer, with a total height of 38 meters. There are 28 golden nanmu pillars in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest. The four pillars in the inner circle symbolize the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the 12 pillars in the middle circle symbolize the twelve months, and the 12 pillars in the outermost circle symbolize the twelve hours and the stars of the week.
Looking up at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest from a close distance, the beautiful painting decoration, ingenious mortise and tenon structure, almost perfect circle, and triple roof all make people sigh the superb skills of the ancestors.
Qianmen Street
When you arrive in Beijing, how can you not taste the snacks in Beijing? Stewed, fire-roasted, fried liver, fried belly, soybean juice. . .
Go to Dashilan, Qianmen, Beijing, etc., and you can taste all the delicacies of the capital.
Qianmen Street is one of the more representative places in old Beijing. The more famous Quanjude in Beijing, Xiyuanju Old Beijing Shabu Meat and other famous shops are here, and there is also a snack street.
This looks like a crystal shrimp dumpling in a Hong Kong-style tea restaurant
In addition to these snacks, it is worth mentioning that Beijing's hot-boiled lamb
Old Beijing hot pot belongs to a branch of Chinese cuisine, which is Halal cuisine. For many beautiful things in life, many years later, we will still have deep memories, especially food. Although the standard of living has improved now, sometimes we still recall the food we ate and the taste of the past. The hot pot in the north, especially the mutton in Beijing, besides the exquisite ingredients and unique dipping sauce, is more important because she has the feeling of old Beijing and childhood memories.
As soon as you enter the door, you feel that the decoration is very distinctive, with an antique decoration style
When we arrived, it was almost full, and the waitress led us to the table.
The oldest hot pot in Xiyuanju, the kind with a chimney in the middle and soup around it, and charcoal is thrown in from the chimney in the middle. When it comes to how to eat, it’s very interesting. Nowadays, people eat hot pot and pay attention to using serving chopsticks. Many people say that if they don’t use serving chopsticks, they will feel unbearable. It was not like this at that time, there was no so-called public chopsticks, everyone had a pair of chopsticks in their hands, and they ate together, feeling happy.
The mutton used by Xiyuanju comes from the designated pasture in Sunit, Inner Mongolia. From lambs less than half a year old to standard fat sheep in their early one year old, the quality is very high. The biggest feature is the tenderness and firmness of the meat, which ensures the excellent original taste of the mutton. This kind of clear soup mutton is the biggest test for the quality of mutton. The picture below shows the fresh mutton cut by hand by meat cutters. There are strict regulations on the size and thickness of each piece of meat, and the requirements for knife skills are very high.
Homemade fresh melon strips, very fresh and tender
My own hundred days sheep
Sauces are of course indispensable for hot-boiled mutton. The sauces used in Xiyuan’s residence at that time were divided into seven types, namely sesame paste, soy sauce, rice wine, chopped leeks, chili oil, shrimp paste and fermented bean curd. The master of the material is carefully prepared
A piece of fresh and tender meat, pick it up and rinse it, rinse it again, stick it with the dipping sauce, and you can enjoy it
The waitress has been patrolling to add soup to everyone's hot pot.
After a delicious meal, the sky has darkened, and the night view at the front door is great.
third day
summer palace
Today's task, visit two imperial gardens: the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace
The Summer Palace: Formerly known as Qingyi Garden, it is a large-scale landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace and royal garden. It is the "Royal Garden Museum" and a national key tourist attraction.
The Seventeen-Arch Bridge connects the small island in the middle of the lake in Kunming. I remember that I used to learn a text called "The Summer Palace" in elementary school, which focused on the introduction of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge!
Wenchang Courtyard, the largest of the six Chengguan buildings in the Summer Palace, Wenchang Courtyard Museum is the largest and highest-grade cultural relic exhibition hall in Chinese classical gardens.
In the courtyard, the exquisite corridor
The plaque of the Buddha Fragrance Pavilion, Lafayette wants to live forever, the plaque is directly named - Wanshou Boundless...
The corridor of the Summer Palace, the corridor of the Summer Palace is between the southern foot of Longevity Mountain and the north shore of Kunming Lake. It has a total length of 728 meters, a total of 273 rooms, and 548 pillars. The promenade is well-known for its exquisite architecture, twists and turns, and extremely rich color paintings. It is the longest corridor among ancient buildings and gardens in my country.
The theater building with a three-story structure can perform fantasy plays, and can go to heaven and earth! Cixi's extravagant life is amazing!
On the Foxiang Pavilion, overlooking Kunming Lake, you can have a panoramic view of the Summer Palace!
Old Summer Palace
Yuanmingyuan, built in 1709, is adjacent to the Summer Palace and consists of Yuanmingyuan, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, so it is also called Yuanming Three Gardens.
The garden covers an area of more than 340 hectares, with a construction area of 200,000 square meters and more than 150 scenes. It is known as "the garden of ten thousand gardens". The Qing emperor came here to escape the summer heat, listen to the government, and deal with military and political affairs in midsummer, so it is also called "Summer Palace". In 1860, the British and French allied forces burned and looted the Old Summer Palace, and it was finally turned into ruins.
The ruins of the Western Building, the appearance of the British and French allied forces after looting, just imagine how magnificent it would be if it had not been burned.
Maze, this is the place where the emperor and his concubines play games. It is said that the old emperor will play hide-and-seek with his concubine here. Can the old emperor catch the twists and turns? Cover your face!
fourth day
Badaling Great Wall
If you don't reach the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and if you get to the Great Wall, you are not necessarily a hero, haha!
The Badaling Great Wall, located at the north entrance of the Shanguangou Ancient Road in Jundu, Yanqing District, Beijing, is an important part of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and the best preserved section of the Great Wall so far. It is the essence of the Great Wall.
The Great Wall, like a dragon, winds between the mountains!
The holidays are staggered, and there are few tourists on the Great Wall. Whether it is sightseeing or taking pictures, everything is so casual.
When you visit the Great Wall, try to take the garbage with you as much as possible, let alone throw it away at will. The sanitation workers climb up and down every day to clean up very hard. In order to create a good travel experience for everyone, consciously protect the environment.
Quanjude
When you come to Beijing, how can you not experience an authentic Beijing roast duck?
The master sliced the duck on the spot, and he was skilled in the technique. After a while, there was only a duck left!
The master puts the duck skin on one plate, the belt meat on one plate, and the pure meat on another plate, and the duck rack can be packed for you to take away.
Lotus leaf cake, wrapped in roast duck, shredded green onion, and sweet noodle sauce, take a bite, and your mouth will be full of oil~
fifth day
Prince Gong's Mansion, the largest royal mansion in the Qing Dynasty, used to be the residence of Heshen and Yonglin successively. In 1851, Prince Kung Yixin became the owner of the house, hence the name of Prince Kung’s Mansion.
According to legend, when Heshen built the mansion, he imitated the imperial palace, so the existing Prince Gong's mansion is extraordinary. It is said that Emperor Jiaqing copied Heshen's house and was convicted of this crime!
The back garden of Prince Gong's Mansion is comparable to the imperial garden of the Forbidden City! Such extravagance, how could Emperor Jiaqing tolerate you!
Lama Temple
Lama Temple, the residence of Yinzhen, Prince Yong, the fourth son of Kangxi. In the ninth year of Qianlong, the Lama Temple was changed into a Lama Temple, and the Minister of Prime Minister Affairs Wang was appointed to manage the affairs of the palace. It can be said that the Lama Temple is the highest-standard Buddhist temple in the country in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
Lama Temple has an elegant environment, which makes devout worshipers feel as still as water!
National Olympic Sports Center
The Bird's Nest, also known as the National Stadium, is the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It is so named because it resembles a bird's nest!
Water Cube, the National Aquatics Center, the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is now one of the landmark buildings in Beijing!
In fact, these two scenic spots, you only need to look outside.
Happy journey, so far!
The pace of walking, but never stopped! ~~
