Speaking of Beijing's Shichahai, it is very friendly to the natives of Beijing. In the past, when the Three Seas were still forbidden areas, it was not easy for the residents in the city to find a place to enjoy summer and enjoy summer. Some were too far away, and some were abandoned. Only Shichahai is located in a downtown city, close to the residential area, and cool down, which is indeed a place that is not easy to get in the city. Over time, commercial clusters have become markets for summer consumption.

The entire waters of Shichahai were collectively called Haizi during the Yuan Dynasty. The front is close to the Beihai Palace Wall and the east is Mén. This is the location of Shichahai Market. The middle is called Houhai. This part has a great scenery and a large mansion. Then it goes to the northwest and passes through the Desheng Bridge, and it is Jishui Pond.

The area of ​​Shichahai is not large. The land is adjacent to the bustling city, and weeping willows are planted along the embankment. In summer, the sun is covered with the sun, and the breeze is gentle. Lotus roots and rock starch are planted everywhere in the lake pond. In midsummer, the water is green. The lotus is blooming. The roads surrounding this area are soaked in the fragrance of lotus. It can be said that the clear charm is inspiring and the dust atmosphere is extinct. Near the shallow water of the embankment, reeds are growing and reeds are covered. When autumn comes, it is full of silence and silence. Since it is established as a market, it may be fine at first, and it is a little fun to cool off. Later, there are many plays in the market, with gongs and drums being loud and loud, and tourists are crowded with each other. What attracts the charm is the teahouse and teahouse. In addition, there are lotus roots produced in this lake pond, which are now picked and sold. As well as several unique snacks in Shichahai, they are not seen elsewhere.

Shichahai tea sheds are all set among the willow lotus bushes. Reed mats are used to build up huts that are higher than the embankment. Below are solid wooden brackets, which are laid in the river mud, with wooden boards on top and reed mats on the top, which are like high platforms beside the water. The edges of the platform extend to the water surface, and fish swimming in the lotus pond are all in the eyes. This is the "sweet spot" of Shichahai tea shed to cool down. Although the equipment of the reed mats is simple, the interior layout is also comfortable. For more sophisticated, rattan chairs are all made of white cloth on the table, and tea is not expensive. This kind of tea shed is no less than ten places in the size of the embankment, and the guests are always full. Let’s talk about the unique snacks in Shichahai.

It is said that Suzao came from the Qing Palace and was a home-cooked dish in the Qing Palace. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the original chef passed this method to the people, and since then, Suzao ròu was found in Beijing. It is said that two kinds of soups are used to cook this kind of soup. One is the old soup and the other is Suzao soup. The old soup is boiled raw soup, which is removed and sealed after use, and can be used year by year. When used, new water and seasonings are mixed with new and old. The longer the longer the thicker the taste is, the more mellow it is, so it is called Lao Tang. There are many famous sauce products in Beijing that use old soup. Suzao soup is made of yào spices and soy sauce, and it is also added with new ingredients every day to replace it. It is said that its yào ingredients and spices are combined with them. It is said that its yào ingredients and spices are used.

The recipe is originally divided into summer, autumn and winter. The main ingredients are cloves, cinnamon, licorice, amomum, broad-skin, cinnamon, cardamom, etc. Boil in old soup and simmer thoroughly with Suzao soup, which is called Suzao. The raw materials of Suzao are nothing more than pigs and internal organs. The heart, liver, lungs, intestines and stomach are boiled together, and they are all dazzling. They are placed on the edge of the pot for everyone to choose and price according to the quantity. Then cut the ingredient into small pieces, pour the original soup, add seasonings, add wine or eat them with a fork, which is a famous dish in Shichahai Market, and those who like to eat are regarded as delicacies. Currently, this food is still available in Beijing.

The Shichahai Market sells Suzhou in a mattress, like a small restaurant. It has wine and vegetables, and also makes a "bread". It is a thick cake with multiple layers of eggs embedded between the dough cakes, frying it thoroughly in heavy oil and selling it according to the pound. It has enough oil and water, burnt fragrance and softness, and has egg aroma and cake aroma, which is delicious.

The mattresses in these small restaurants are mostly located west of the sidewalk, and behind the mattresses is the sunny west. At three or four o'clock in the middle of summer, sitting in the steaming mattress, eating greasy pig internal organs, drinking spicy-mouthed stool-burning knife (sorghum wine), sweating and chewing, which is not something that ordinary people with physical fitness can enjoy.

Lotus seed porridge. Another characteristic food in Shichahai is lotus seed porridge. The porridge is cooked with glutinous rice and is suitable for the thickness and lightness. The lotus seeds in the porridge can be counted on the porridge surface, and are decorated with various candied fruits. Add sugar, it is fragrant, sweet and glutinous, and it is brilliant. Therefore, it is called Eight Treasure Lotus seed porridge. Because it is summer, there is no need for hot porridge, and most of them are warm and cool, and they will not sweat when eaten, so it is very famous. At first, it was a load-carrying load, but later it was developed, and it also set up a shed and served as a delivery. You can call it for food in the tea shed.

Ace was helpless, so he followed the volunteer translator and took the two of them all the way. Anyway, he had never eaten authentic snacks himself. Of course, the volunteer translator had recognized these three people all the way.

The main thing is to recognize Ace. According to the Chinese people, they all saw that the blacks were the same. Dwyane and Pierce were of course no exception. This is good, and they have followed three. Ace originally wanted to leave the two oil bottles, but another one came. Ace's heart was not dead when they let them go, which was even worse.

‘Eat, eat, eat, eat, you guys to death’ Ace bit the ice cream in his mouth hard.

"I said Ace, what else is there to eat, what else is there to eat?" Pierce had a bowl of eight treasure porridge in his left hand and a pack of Suzao ròu in his right hand. He had never had time to eat it. He grew up eating hamburgers and fries like rotten things every day, which made him feel good now.

"Tsk, I haven't seen the world before." Dwyane said with pancakes stuffed all over his mouth, and in Ace's eyes he was not much better, just a fifty-step laughter.

"Ace, let's go and have something to drink. I'm a little choking," Dwyane said, and continued to eat it in his mouth.

"I said buddy, is there bean juice nearby?" Ace hit the translator next to him.

"Yes, but do you like to drink that Ace?" the translator asked weakly.

"Hehe, aren't they both thirsty?" Ace squeezed his eyes at the two people next to him in a bad mood. The translator smiled and understood. They both spoke Chinese, what can two black coal balls understand.

When Pierce and Dwyane heard that there was something delicious, they followed Ace and the translator happily. When they saw a group of people sitting around the stall, drinking and chatting.

They won’t underestimate this kind of small vendor. They just suffered this loss, but now they are still following the crowd. Regardless of whether it is delicious or not, they first look at whether there are too many people. If there are too many people, it means it is delicious.

Regardless of whether this thing is delicious or not, one person even made two bowls of it, and as soon as his cheeks were opened, he took a sip of it.

Before they could scold Ace, the group of diners sitting around were all laughing with their arms. It was funny that the three foreigners came over to drink soy sauce, and this was even more funny.

Ace was the most funny. She almost sat on the ground and laughed. Before they could chase her, Ace ran away.

"Let's go, this is over. Let's go to Wangfujing for a walk. That's not bad." Ace said, begging for mercy after being caught by the two of them.

"Where is that?" Dwyane said with his eyes wide open.

"Okay, okay, absolutely good, equivalent to the Fifth Avenue in New York, or the Champs Elysees. Of course, there are still a lot of delicious food," said Ace.

The translator around him also became excited and began to tell them about Wangfujing Street again. In fact, it was mainly to Pierce and Dwyane.

The Forbidden City was built in the Ming Dynasty, and the nobles built the royal palace here. According to the "Records of the Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty", it is called the Ten Wangfu Mansion, Wangfu Street, and there is a well-known high-quality sweet water well near and far on the west side of Wangfu Street. The place name of Wangfujing was obtained because of this.

In the Liao and Jin dynasties, Wangfujing was just an unknown village. After the Yuan Dynasty, the population gradually became dense. It was called Ding Street at that time. In the Ming Dynasty, ten royal palaces were built here, and Wangfujing began to take shape and was renamed Shiwangfu Street. In the Qing Dynasty, the Ten Kings were abolished and Wangfu Street was renamed Wangfu Street or Wangfu Street. In 1903, Dong'an Market was established. Lao Dong'an Market is the favorite place for Beijingers to visit. The "Beijinghua Hundred Seconds" published in 1909.

There is a poem in Zhuzhi Ci. There is a single saying that it is "newly opened markets, and it is easy to buy goods at will. If you talk about prosperity, please go to Dong'an in the city." This shows the status of Dong'an. In 1915, when Beiyang Zhengfu drew the "Detailed Picture of the Four Suburbs of Beijing", it divided this street into three sections: the northern section is called Wangfu Street, the middle section is called Eight-sided groove, and the southern section is called "Wangfujing Street" because of a sweet well, which is collectively known as Wangfu, and it becomes "Wangfujing Street".

Just like the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysees Avenue, Beijing Wangfujing Commercial Street has long been famous. For many Chinese people, visiting Wangfujing and climbing the Great Wall is an indispensable agenda. From when, traveling and shopping no longer crowded into the crowded city center. Various grades of shopping malls, shopping malls and supermarkets near their residence allow people to enjoy the benefits of material rich commodity economy and society. Wangfujing Street has almost become synonymous with people talking about the era of material poverty. Wangfujing Street has become increasingly blurred in the minds of the Chinese. Therefore, Wangfujing Street has been determined to change its appearance. Since 1992, Wangfujing has begun to quietly change its appearance. In August 1999, after experiencing the "eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan", it finally met the world with a new look.

The rectification plan of Wangfujing Street defines it as "Beijing's first commercial street". The business style is mainly "modern" and "new". The renovated Wangfujing Street, from Jinyu Hutong to the southern entrance of Chang'an Street, is distributed on both sides of the 810-meter-long street. In addition to the original department store, Arts and Crafts Building, Muslim Building, Foreign Language Bookstore, Union Shopping Mall, and New Dong'an Shopping Mall, a new department store building, Donghua Clothing, Minghui Building, Friends World, Danyao Building, Oriental Plaza, etc., six large shopping, entertainment and business comprehensive shopping malls, are unique in Beijing.

People walking on Wangfujing Street can see that the 810-meter-long main street is spacious and flat, the ground paved with red granite is clean and tidy, and there are no partitions of curbs on the road. The wires that were as dense as spider webs in the air disappeared from people's sight and turned into the underground. Walking on Wangfujing Street will make people feel the designer's meticulous care. When you are tired, there are independent seats on the street that allow you to sit down and rest at any time. If you want to make a phone call, nine groups of eighteen IC card phone booths on both sides of the street will facilitate your contact with friends; one trash can every 40 meters allows you to dispose of the garbage in your hands at any time; if you want to ask for directions, the small and small signs on the street will give you guidance.

Today, this international central commercial street full of modern atmosphere, high taste and high standards is a friendly sister street with the Champs-Elysées in France, which has continuously improved its international status. Department stores, Foreign Language Bookstores, Danyao Building, Gongmei Building, Wangfu NV Sub-department Stores, Muslim Buildings, New Dong'an Market and Sheng Xifu, Tongshenghe, Donglaishun, Quanjude, Silian Hairdressing, and Baicao Yào Stores form this 810-meter modern commercial street full of commercial spirit.

The shops with unique decorations have gathered hundreds of domestic businesses and well-known overseas brands. The dazzling array of products and lifelike sculptures have re-enlisted this 700-year-old old street, allowing 500,000 people to gather here every day to see the charm of her people.

Wangfujing starts from Dongsixi Street in the north and ends at Chang'an Street in the south. It is only more than 1,000 meters long. It is the famous "China's No. 1 Street" and is also a must-visit place for tourists to visit Beijing. In 1999, the three sections of Jinyu Hutong from Wangfujing Street were planned as pedestrian streets and formed into sister streets with the famous Champs Elysées in Paris. From then on, the pedestrian streets of lùtian Café were scattered in summer. The pedestrian streets of the Beer Festival became a simulation and imagination of the continent.

Just like the Bund is an architectural exhibition hall in Shanghai, it gathers various department stores on Wangfujing Street, and it also shows the consumption landscape of Beijing in different eras like fossils piled up in different rock formations.

However, what Beijingers are more in love with is the Beijing Department Store, which opened in 1955. In the era of material shortage in the past, shopping at the Beijing Department Store, which is known as the "first store in New China", is like dining at a nearby Beijing hotel. It is one of the few events that are far from the normal track of life and must be extremely cautious and even full of expectations. Therefore, Beijing Department Store is like the Jinxiaolu Market to Kyoto people, full of symbols of the joy of the New Year. Even if Oriental Plaza is novel and grand, it still cannot replace the position of Beijing Department Store in the minds of Beijingers.

In fact, if you want to say that the history is long, Dong'an Market is truly worthy of it. In the 29th year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to rectify the appearance of the outer street of Dong'an, the Qing government gathered nearby vendors in the abandoned Eight Banners Soldier Training Farm, thus forming the Dong'an Market, which was also the commercial street in Wangfujing in the future. The rebuilt New Dong'an Market is of course no longer the same as before, but in the essays and memories of the older generation of literati, it can still be seen that Old Dong'an gathers the lively scene of Jixiang Theater, bookstore, restaurant, and hawkers. The shops in Dong'an Market were mostly not here when they were present, only Donglaishun on the fifth floor, Old Beijing Street on the first floor, and a Chinese time-honored street, with statues placed in front of New Dong'an, leaving behind some clues about the past.

Sometimes the trick of history is not to disappear or forget, but to allow something to exist in an unexpected way. In fact, the most European style of Wangfujing is not the pedestrian street, but the Catholic church "Dongtang" that has stood here since 1655 and was later rebuilt due to earthquakes and fires. Now "Dongtang" still has a fixed time to celebrate Mass, but because of its classic European architectural style, it has become an excellent place to take wedding photos. The nimble wedding photo operator simply places a pink antique car outside the "Dongtang" as the background. This kind of scene of a religious temple combined with a beautiful woman in a fragrant car is like a respected old man wearing a pink bow tie, which has an amazing sense of joy.

Wangfujing Street turned out to be the residence of the prince. There is a well in the prince's mansion, and there is a exquisite pavilion on the well. The well entrance is a round hole chiseled from a large stone, and the edge of the well is very high. The south of the well is the courtyard of the royal palace. Although there were many wells in Beijing in the early years, there were not many sweet water wells. When a drought occurred, many wells were gone. One year, after a severe drought that had not been encountered in a century, almost all the wells of all sizes in Beijing were dry, and the four seas were dry enough to have only the bottom water. The rich family used a car to go to the yùquan Mountain dozens of miles away to pull water, while the poor family had no water, so they could only rely on their shoulders.

Some people have to pick a hand. Some people rely on laying mud and water from the bottom of the well to survive. At this time, there were only a few wells that were still water, and Wangfujing was one of them. Wangfujing not only had water, but also sweet. The prince was very happy, saying that this was because his ancestors were blessed and had great fortune, and the house and the well were on the dragon vein. However, the prince was very cruel. Not only did he not give water to everyone to save disasters and survive, he also ordered the old man to guard the well and not allow people to fetch water. This old man looked kind-hearted and dissatisfied with the prince's actions, so he secretly gave people a lot of convenience.

.He sent a signal to the people who fetched water outside the alley every morning and evening, and everyone quickly fetched some water and left. Finally one day, the prince discovered this and angrily interrogated the old man Mén. The old man smiled and said, "Yes, Prince, I have someone to fetch some water. But I am thinking about the prince. You think, in the future, the mansion will inevitably hire people to transport grain and carry rice. If everyone nearby is thirsty, where will anyone work for the mansion? If the prince does not agree, I will never let anyone take another drop of water in the future." The prince heard him say

It must be reasonable, so I turned a blind eye, closed my eyes, and stopped pursuing it. People felt and respected the old man very much. From then on, more and more people came to Wangfujing to draw water, and people living in the distance also came to hear the news. In this way, the name of Wangfujing spread far and near. Later, when people mentioned this area, they all called Wangfujing north, Wangfujing south, Wangfujing east, and Wangfujing west. Later, Dong'an Market moved here, and it gradually became a prosperous commercial area, but people still used to call him Wangfujing here. For this reason, Chen Yunhe wrote the poem "Wangfujing".

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