Beijing

1/17

Returning home from a two-month solo backpacking trip. I met a little brother from Beijing who I met in Chiang Mai two months ago. I haven’t been in Beijing for too long. He took me to visit many alleys and small shops that I have never been to. The hutongs in Beijing in winter feel more Beijing-like than in summer, which is still the way I remember when I was a child. There are bare branches, and from time to time, a group of birds fly across the sky. No matter how cold it is, you can always see grandpas playing cards, chess, mahjong and onlookers on the street. The slogan advocating relocation is particularly funny, rhyming and neatly contrasting.

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Compared with delicious Mediterranean food and desserts that are so exquisite that I can’t bear to eat them, I think I prefer to eat Huguosi snacks similar to street stalls. My favorite is pea yellow and sugar fire, and Ai Wowo and donkey rolling are also good. Before when friends from other places heard that I was from Beijing, they would always ask "Do you like to drink soybean juice?" I was always embarrassed and didn't know how to answer this question, because I had long forgotten what soybean juice tasted like. In order to wake up my memory of bean juice, Zuijian tasted it, and now I can answer everyone seriously and responsibly, "It's too fucking bad!" I have to eat a few more pea yellows to suppress my shock.

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1/19

Thank you, dear sisters, I even chose a vegetarian restaurant to celebrate my birthday. I ate all kinds of fake "meat", and even the eggs in the longevity noodles were made of soy products. Before going out for dinner, my parents seem to have completely forgotten that today is my birthday. As soon as I entered the house, my dad ran out of the house eagerly to greet me and said, "I'll wait for you to come back...", I thought he went on I want to say "I celebrate your birthday", but people say "Just wait for you to come back and help me find out why this printer can't print?". Not going to remind them, see when they remember. This is pretty good, but the older I get, the less interested I am in celebrating my birthday. Thank you to all my old and new friends who have made me more independent and strong and who have given me selfless help this year.

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1/20

Originally, I came to Niujie today with my friends only to be greedy for candied gourds, but when my friends were waiting for me, they lined up for Yibao lotus leaf cakes. The cakes and kidney bean cakes are really delicious! Yibao and Baiji Snacks lined up tens of meters away. After eating Tianerhao, I originally planned to go for a run at the Temple of Heaven, but I changed to Taoranting Park, which is closer. I can’t remember the last time I went there. . The park is full of people, and people are carrying out a variety of colorful entertainment activities: dancing Xinjiang dances, singing solo, skating, skiing, playing chess, and kicking keys. There were too many people, and I couldn't run. It took half an hour to run to warm up. I was still not used to running outdoors in winter.

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1/23

This is the first time I went to the Caochangdi Art District in Wangjing. Saw a lot of old objects, childhood memories. The dance ban notice in 1980 became more and more ridiculous. Didn’t you expect square dancing now?

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1/27

I went to Qianmen 23 to listen to a concert of a brother and sister jazz band from New York. I went to Niujie again the next day. There was still such a long queue for Baiji rice cakes on Niujie on weekdays. I suggest you go to Baiji in the alley. It is a family, and they are all made and sent to Niujie There are far fewer people queuing at that one, and the unit price is one yuan cheaper. Rice cakes with glutinous rice, donkey rolls, sugar fire, hawthorn cakes, and pea yellows immediately compare the Huguo Temple snacks. However, eating too much rice cake is really stuffy, and it is not easy to digest. Go to the first blog to see how to eat.

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2/1

Went to the Laohuihui snack queue to buy old Beijing snacks such as sugar fire, and then strolled with friends from Baita Temple, Miaoying Temple, and Xishiku Catholic Church to Beihai Park in the cold weather. Slowly digging into many places in Beijing that I haven't been to, and at the same time looking for childhood memories.

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2/2

It’s been a long time since I’ve run for so long, and I’m so cold that I don’t even know what it means to be cold. Yuyuantan Park in winter is still so lively: people dancing, playing Tai Chi, playing badminton and volleyball, and seeing the place where my parents come to skate every day, I especially admire the elders and aunts who swim in winter. Gathering with friends at night, I didn’t eat ice cream in Taiwan, so I came back to make up for it.

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2/3

I went to Qianmen with my friends to watch a shadow play. Then I took my parents to a self-service vegetarian restaurant for dinner.

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2/4

Although all friends in Beijing disdain temple fairs: there are too many people and boring. But after all, I haven't celebrated Chinese New Year in China for nine years, and what I look forward to most is the temple fair. In the early morning, I rushed to open the door and entered the Temple of Earth Temple Fair, and then finished my nostalgic shopping before a large number of people entered the park. It is indeed no longer the bustling temple fair with the old Beijing flavor that I remembered when I was a child, and even the entertainment items are gone. No matter what, this time I came here to forget this thought, and I won't think about it again.

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2/5

On New Year's Eve, I asked to make dumplings, but my dad refused because he thought it was troublesome. I was so devastated that I didn't eat dumplings, and I went to the temple fair early in the morning. When I was about to finish shopping, I suddenly received a message from a good sister, asking me to go to her house to make dumplings, and my uncle and aunt even specially made vegetarian stuffing. I still live up to my reputation as a Beijinger. The dumplings I make look pretty good, and I even help roll the skins. The egg dumplings with vegetarian stuffing and chives are so delicious that they taste like meat, and you can feel the taste of the New Year and the sense of satisfaction after taking a bite. Adding dumplings to the temple fair, this year's Chinese New Year in China is complete!

2/6

I'm sorry for such a blue sky if I don't go out for a run! Today, I changed to Chang’an Avenue. The closer you are to Tiananmen Street, the more guards there are. If you don’t bring your ID card, you may not be able to enter Tiananmen Square. Turn left on Fuyou Street and stop by the back door of the Forbidden City. Who said that no one comes to Beijing during the Spring Festival? ! There is nothing but people in the Tiananmen Square of the Forbidden City. I can’t run at all. If I run too far, I probably won’t be able to run back. I’ll just take the subway home. Frozen to death, go home and drink tremella and red date soup, it's comfortable! Recently, I found that the colder the weather, the faster I ran.

Po Wu made another dumpling, learned how to knead noodles from my aunt, and made vegetarian stuffing by myself. This time it was all done. I also ate the fried shrimp crackers and spring rolls that I had to eat during the holidays when I was a child. The family has enough taste for the New Year.

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2/11

I eat delicious food with my friends during the day, and rarely go to a bar with my friends at night. Tian'erlan continued to run, and watched my parents go skating by the way.

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I heard that my big Beijing has not had such a heavy snow for several years! There were too many people who wanted to see the snow scene, and finally went through the security check to enter Tiananmen Square. As a result, the tickets for the Forbidden City were sold out. . .

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"If you don't do some things now, you will never do them in your life." – "A Ride to Berlin". Looking at the news today, there is too much garbage. In order to protect the ecology, the Everest Base Camp announced that it will be closed indefinitely. Thanks to a few donkey friends who carpooled to Lhasa on 318 at that time, they dragged me to the Everest Base Camp that I didn't plan to go to. If you don't do some things at the time, you may not be able to do them when you want to do them.

2/14

In the Confucian Temple Guozijian just in time for the heaviest snowfall, it is really beautiful, and there are much fewer people than the Forbidden City.

Archery is still very interesting, rock climbing is pure masochism, the calluses on the hands come out, and new flesh is seen again. I'd better run and swim. When I was running recently, I revisited all kinds of imprints from my childhood along the way: the area in elementary school and junior high school, my grandfather’s house, Yuetan Park, Yuetan Melody where my junior high school reunions often go, and Wantong New World where I went to visit when I was free in junior high school.