Traveling in Beijing, Hutongs, Gardening and Contemporary Art

Beijing weather: sunny

Accommodation: Unnamed Courtyard Hotel

Comments: The location is very convenient, you can walk to various nearby attractions, the oldest old hutong in Beijing, and meet new friends from Taiwan and Shenzhen, drink tea and eat supper together, an unforgettable trip to the hutong

overall itinerary

Day 1: Wudaoying Hutong - Jianchang Hutong - Guozijian Street - Baochao Hutong... Ya'er Hutong - Shichahai

Day 2: World Horticultural Exposition

Day 3: 798 Art Center

D1: Lost in the old Beijing Hutong

After getting off the plane and checking in at the hotel, take the subway to Lama Temple Station, and start the hutong tour from Wudaoying.

Wudaoying Hutong

It’s just that Wudaoying seems to be not much different from the antique streets in other cities. There is a row of milk tea shops and Yiwu small commodity stores, and cars are parked in the other row.

Wudaoying Hutong

Then I turned into Jianchang Hutong, and there was a lot of life, but many banners kept reminding me that every old lady and grandfather who chatted here was probably a billionaire.

Wudaoying Hutong

Guozijian Street

Turning from Jianchang Hutong to Guozijian Street, there are many big houses at first glance, there are many online celebrity shops such as Dongliang, Fanji, Lost&Found, etc. A straight man felt embarrassed when he went into the shop, so he took a photo at the intersection Nice photo.

Guozijian Street

Fangjia Hutong

After coming out of Guozijian, I turned into Fangjia Hutong again, and there are very few online celebrity shops here. Many alleys are shaded by trees, and walking inside feels quiet and beautiful.

Fangjia Hutong

Baochao Alley

Soon it was past 4 o'clock, the primary school students were out of school, and the alley was full of children's chirping and laughing, and it felt full of human fireworks.

Baochao Alley

On the way, I heard a mother asking her daughter how to speak English in a certain scene, and the old lady next to her told her old girlfriend that the children were hungry, so why should they teach English...

Baochao Alley

Turn around and walk to the non-staple food store on Zhaofu Street. In fact, it is the grocery store where I bought rice, oil and salt when I was a child. The daily life of the old grandpa and the old lady slipped out after staying for less than a minute, and took a photo of their visit at the door.

Zhaofu Street Non-staple Food Store

Coming out of Zhaofu Street is the Bell Tower Square, where many old grandpas and old ladies are playing shuttlecock, playing chess, visiting their grandchildren... Enjoying a happy and energetic retirement life, there are also foreign friends taking pictures with telephoto cannons.

beijing bell tower

Opposite the Bell Tower is the Drum Tower. The National Day is coming, and the flowers are very beautifully dressed, and there are foreign Internet celebrities taking selfies.

beijing bell tower

The sun is about to go down, and the shadows of the leaves are printed on the red walls and black tiles, with the rare blue sky in Beijing set off behind.

beijing bell tower

However, I was hungry and didn't have much mood to appreciate it. The delicacy of old Beijing attracted me to go straight to Ya'er Hutong.

Ya'er Liji's bowl of sheep tripe soup, two siew rao, plus a bottle of Arctic Ocean, it is really wonderful.

Crow's Alley

Shichahai

Continue to wander along the Ya'er Hutong, and come to the Yindian Bridge by the Shicha Seaside.

Shichahai

Then, my god, the legendary Houhai Bar Street suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. It was like a row of old antique buildings on the lakeside road of Zhongshan Park in my hometown. The bar with the old disco light show is actually the most responsible place in the imperial capital. Shengming, walk out of the bar street of countless famous singers?

Shichahai

Feeling not full, I turned into Fangjia Hutong again and walked towards South Tongluoguxiang. He kept passing by the gates of mansions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nanluoguxiang

Originally, I wanted to eat a bowl of authentic noodles at Brick Factory No. 69, but unfortunately there was a crowd of people queuing up, so I took a photo and left.

Brick Factory No. 69 Jajang Noodles

I passed by Wenyu Cheese, an online celebrity shop, and bought a bowl of traditional Palace Cheese. It felt completely different from the ones I bought in other cities. It tasted like watery tofu, but it was indeed sweet and delicious.

Nanluoguxiang

I checked my phone. I have walked more than 30,000 steps today. Tired and hungry, I went to Beixinqiao to order a mutton skewer and Yaoji fried liver. It looked a bit dark, and I couldn’t fall in love with the taste. .

Nanluoguxiang D2: Garden Expo, Chinese Style, World Style

The 2019 World Horticultural Expo will be held in Beijing, and it will end on October 7th. This kind of opportunity that can only be encountered once in a lifetime must be joined in the fun.
In the golden autumn and September, the weather in Beijing is also particularly good. Blue sky and white clouds, green trees and a plastic bird, perfect!

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

There are also exhibitions of some contemporary artists here, such as this one "Farewell My Concubine".

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

2019 China Beijing International Horticultural Exposition

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

Yongning Pavilion is the commanding height of the entire Garden Expo. You can see the side of the Zhongyuan Pavilion and an antique residential building below.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

It is a natural ecological area from the Yongning Pavilion, mainly to avoid the flow of people, it is very quiet here.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

Tired of going around, there are not many people in the International Pavilion. The zenith of the International Pavilion is filled with white petals, echoing the theme of the Expo.

2019 China Beijing International Horticultural Exposition

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

After entering, the characteristics of each country are displayed in the form of silhouettes.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

The pavilions of various countries are selling their own special gifts.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

In the International Pavilion, there is also a Chinese chrysanthemum exhibition. Cranes and Phoenixes, the horticultural version of Qingming River Scene...

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

Bonsai version of the fairyland on earth

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

After coming out of the International Pavilion, I walked into the China Pavilion. There were too many people and flowers, and flowers from different provinces were competing for beauty. This situation is already a little short of words, and the ability to express words is infinitely close to the copywriting of my parents' circle of friends.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

The buildings of the Garden Expo are full of sense of design, and it is a blockbuster of modern architecture with just one shot

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

In the wall of seeds, several small seeds are hidden in each small hole.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

This is the oracle bone inscription of art.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

Finally, time was running out, so I hurried to the botanical hall.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

There is a teamlab exhibition area, which is not a little worse than the exhibition in Guangzhou. Anyway, this is not the focus of the Botanical Museum.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

Walking into the botanical hall, you will find that this is a super-large greenhouse that cultivates various plants.

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

One flower one world, one leaf one bodhi

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition

2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exposition D3: Joyful Contemporary Art Exhibition

Living in the cultural desert in the south, I have always been very interested in things like art exhibitions. It is said that the new landmarks in Beijing are already the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, 798...so I moved directly to the 798 Art Center on the third day. In the evening, I went to the countryside to do as the Romans do. It is said that the mutton sent from Inner Mongolia is really delicious.

Beijing 798 Art District

I slept until 9 o'clock and went out to go shopping. Most of the museums were useless, so I went to the Creative Plaza to take a punch-in photo.

Beijing 798 Art District

Passing by Zhonger Road, it is really suitable for me who is in Secondary School.

Beijing 798 Art District

The sculptures on the side of the road are a bit scary.

Beijing 798 Art District

Young Three Kingdoms is the earliest store opened, and all the characters of the Three Kingdoms are cute.

Beijing 798 Art District

The huge chimney reminds that this place was a heavy factory not so long ago.

Beijing 798 Art District

There is also a Diary of a Broken Love History Museum.

Beijing 798 Art District

There is really a train in Locomotive Square, and it is said that it was the "upstream 0751" that transported fuel back then.

Beijing 798 Art District

At around 10:00, various exhibition halls opened one after another, and the first exhibition to see was "Big Fire House". The curatorial preface is as follows: "'Big Fire House' represents topics related to desire, and related thinking about the mental state of modern people."

Along the way, we passed Baochao Alley, Pure Land Alley, Liulisi Alley, Fensiting Alley... It was already a little hard to tell the east, west, north, south, and middle.

Crow's Alley

Shichahai

Although it was a working day, the Garden Expo was still crowded with people, and those who feared crowds still ran to the gardening town with less crowds. This place mainly displays the characteristic dwellings along the Guishui River in ancient times.

Beijing 798 Art District

It feels like a student of an art academy got impatient and just scribbled paint on the line draft.

Beijing 798 Art District

Then turned into the blacksmith camp, tin toys are always boys' favorite, especially this steampunk style.

Beijing 798 Art District

The next exhibition is steampunk style again, with Kamada Koji and his star baby team. Now Chaowan is also very hyped, and the prices in stores outside the exhibition are not bad, starting at 1K.

Beijing 798 Art District

I ate at a western restaurant with a glass room at noon

Beijing 798 Art District

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

What follows is a human guide to the UCCA. The entry is a pile of half-burned newspapers.

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

There is also the life course of a brick, the artist held it to watch a Spanish movie, took it on a bus, and finally threw it into the Yangtze River by boat. Why is it a bit like the way vloggers record boring life live broadcasts now, but it’s more boring than vloggers and then it becomes a contemporary art exhibition.

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

The photo exhibition with foreigners walking around the hutong is normal, but the room next to it that restores the artistic youth in the hutong is very neurotic. In particular, there is an old TV that has been broadcasting an MV from the 80s, the magical melody, and the lyrics, "Enjoy art, make you and me comfortable... Boom, don't cause trouble... World peace, rely on you and me... ..." It really has the potential to become a brainwashing network divine song.

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

In particular, I ran back to read the curatorial preface, which was roughly described in this way—in the 1990s, facing the virtual focus and rupture of value... The artist’s reflection and exploration of propositions such as self-identity, female consciousness, urbanization, mobility, etc., show his Multi-dimensional "unfinished" cultural landscape...

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Out of focus, multiple dimensions, unfinished cultural landscape. . . I know the words, but I don't know what they mean. I said it was very convenient, and I clearly realized that the gap between myself and the art world lies in the ability to fool around with copywriting...

Beijing 798 Art District

Seeing an exhibition of "one belt and one deer", it seems that contemporary artists are also very politically aware.

Beijing 798 Art District

Long March Space

Walking into the Long March Space Gallery, you will be overwhelmed by the densely packed hundreds of oil paintings. At first, I thought it was an exhibition of many contemporary painters, but later I found out that it was Wu Shanzhuan's solo exhibition "Today Later Became a Festival".

Long March Space

It is also very interesting to study each painting carefully, especially the title of the painting.
Say "look up at the sky with five eggs and 15 scrambled tomatoes", "I use merchandise in merchandise", "all stars die in the sky"

Long March Space

Well, the ability of contemporary artists to elevate their works through titles is really strong.

Long March Space

Beijing 798 Art District

Next is the overlay relationship and overflow relationship of Zero Art Center. Well, it's the kind of words that I know every word and combine them together and don't know anything. Today is a day of illiteracy.

Beijing 798 Art District

The last thing I saw was the "Ukiyo-e" exhibition. It is said that Van Gogh mentioned in a letter to his brother that "all my works are based on Ukiyo-e to some extent..."

Beijing 798 Art District

Ukiyo-e mainly uses the method of line drawing and printing plate to show the folk customs of the Edo period.

Beijing 798 Art District

Of course, the curatorial manifesto is still full of mist...
Those secular eyebrows and eyes sealed by Ukiyo-e,
If you look at it carefully, it will be alive again.
If everything will return to nothingness in the end, let's experience these joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys carefully with the secret perception.
In fact, it has the same meaning as "expressing the folk customs of the Edo period", but it is very profound, right?

Beijing 798 Art District

Today, I also learned a bunch of new artistic terms such as "blind painting theory", "uncertain modification", "immeasurable and burden", and I feel that the copywriting of Moments for the next whole year has been contracted.

Beijing 798 Art District

Yihe Yayuan

At the end of the day, the whole person is full of the spirit of contemporary art. In the end, let's have a superb creative roast duck (sticky popping candy...) to fill my mortal stomach.

Yihe Yayuan

2019 China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition