Crossing back to the ancients, visiting the temple fair to drink Laba porridge and eat traditional dishes, the taste of the capital is getting stronger and stronger

Entering the lunar month, the annual flavor of the capital has gradually become stronger.

At the end of the streets, shrewd shopkeepers quietly opened a special area for New Year goods. In the office building, the occasional fish-touching worker silently opened a ticket-snatching software. Many attractions in the city have entered the Spring Festival mode in advance, some parks have restored the "Palace Temple Fair" early, and some museums have new Exhibitions on the ground. Big red lanterns are hung up, and all kinds of New Year goods are lined up, which is really not lively.

Yuanmingyuan: How did the emperor visit the temple fair?

The famous people on the stage began to sing, and the hawker business offstage was busy. Shortbread from Gyeongfukusai, grilled sausages from Fushunxing, rice balls from Dexing, fried sauce noodles from Keiseokan, rock sugar gourds from Tenfukusai, and shops of all kinds...

Beijing Yuanmingyuan recently opened a new "Shiguang Trading Street", where guests can change into a costume at Huafuzhai, order a cup of coffee in the Western fantasy, listen to a Beijing rhyme drum in the Qingyin Pavilion, and then pick a cultural and creative product from Tianbao Building to take home.

The historical trading street is the palace temple fair where palace women and eunuchs dress up as merchants in the market every Year during the Spring Festival of the Qing Dynasty, for the princes and nobles to shop, to embellish the festive atmosphere and feel the folk customs.

Yao Yuanzhi, an official of the Qing Dynasty, recorded in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Bamboo Leaf Pavilion", "When the temple was high, there was a trading street in the garden every new year, and all antiques and clothes were estimated and teahouses and restaurants were prepared, and all the owners of the outer rooms had them... Every time you drive through the door of the store, the walkers call for tea, the shopkeeper reports the account, the treasurer calculates, and the crowd is mixed, thinking that it is a pleasure to visit the New Year. ”

Today, this "Royal Temple Fair" street, which was exclusive to the princes and nobles in history, has been restored for visitors to experience. There are nearly 30 specialty shops in the street, covering Beijing-style catering, dress-up experience, tea house, interactive experience space and other gameplay. It also cleverly used four-sided screens to create a magical organ cabinet, and designed an immersive experience space of "Square Kettle Shengjing" with light and shadow technology, making people feel as if they had crossed in a second and dreamed of returning to the ancient street.

Shoubo: Do you need to "rotate continuously" to celebrate the New Year?

On the occasion of the New Year, the Capital Museum in Beijing also unveiled the "Beijing Seasonal Culture Series Exhibition" to showcase the representative Spring Festival customs of the Beijing area.

Near Lapa Ba, drinking Lapa Porridge to pray for blessings is a common annual custom in various places. How does the most exquisite royal family boil lakura porridge? In the exhibition, a list of ingredients used in the porridge of the Lama Temple during the Jiaqing period is on display. According to this list, the Qing Dynasty people needed 13 kinds of ingredients to boil eight porridges: millet two stones, yellow rice two stones, japonica rice two stones, Jiang rice two stones, mung bean two stones, cowpea two stones, red dates 100 pounds, chestnuts 100 pounds, diamond rice 20 pounds, almonds 5 pounds, peach kernels 5 pounds, white grapes 2 pounds, brown sugar 150 pounds.

New Year worship is also a traditional custom of the Spring Festival, which is related to the "Ritual of Shuo Shuo" that existed in the Former Qin Dynasty. A list of Beijing officials' new year's greetings shows that every old New Year's Day, ancient officials were particularly "busy".

On display was a list of officials' advance schedules of people lined up with names. If you take a closer look, there are as many as 128 people on the "first day of worship", so do you have to rotate the New Year's eve? However, according to reports, not all the people on these lists will personally visit, and some officials can just send their names.

Every New Year's Festival, people do not forget to sacrifice their ancestors when they celebrate. According to an exhibition material, the Spring Festival ancestor worship in Beijing is mostly held on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the people's home is dedicated to the ranking or ancestor statue on the west wall of the hall house, and the sacrifice is performed after dusk, and then the family group sits to celebrate the old age.

Daoxiang Village: All kinds of New Year goods are on the shelves

In the Beijing Daoxiangcun store located in Dongzhimen, the reporter saw that the rows of fiery red lanterns have decorated the storefront, and the counter selling products has been transformed into an auspicious float shape.

All kinds of New Year goods have also been quietly put on the shelves. This year, the store launched the zodiac tiger cake "King Cake", as well as the "rich" and "expensive" two festive limited pastries full of beautiful meanings. Traditional pastries, rice cakes, lapa rice, jar deer and other delicacies add more choices to the Taste of the Chinese New Year. Cooked food such as sixi balls, rice noodles, and plum button meat will also be added to the flavor Chinese New Year's Eve table.

It is reported that this year, Beijing Daoxiangcun chose three stores for decoration, using elements such as Migong Pagoda and lion dance to present a miniature version of the temple fair. When consumers purchase New Year goods, they can feel the lively, festive and auspicious New Year atmosphere.