Visitors can enjoy ice sports at the Shichahai Ice Rink.
Tourists enjoy the icefall at Changping Huyu.
With the footsteps of the Beijing Winter Olympics approaching, the winter tour to Beijing is attracting more and more people to participate. The collision of traditional ice and snow amusement projects and the elements of the Winter Olympics makes this winter's Beijing tourism more traditional, cultural and fashionable.
"The whole people on the ice and snow" has become a trend
On January 11, Beijing Shichahai Ice Rink was officially opened to the public, including two areas of Qianhai and Houhai, with a total operating area of 160,000 square meters. On January 16, the first weekend of the official opening of the ice rink, the reporter learned at the scene that all areas of Qianhai and the east area of Houhai are comprehensive areas, and the ice rink provides entertainment facilities such as single ice cars, double ice cars, and ice bicycles for tourists to choose from, attracting tourists who travel with their families. In order to prevent and control the epidemic, the nuclear load of the Shichahai Ice Rink this year is 10 square meters per person, and the number of ice rinks remains limited by 75%. As a veteran natural ice rink in Beijing, Shichahai Ice Rink has been sought after by citizens and tourists as soon as it opened. At around 3 p.m., there was a long queue at the entrance.
Peng Zhicheng, who lives near Zhao Dengyu Road in Xicheng District, is known as "Old Beijing". "When I was in school, every winter I would go ice skating with my classmates and friends, and the Beihai Park Ice Rink and the Shichahai Ice Rink were the ones we went to most often." Peng Zhicheng told reporters that for him, every winter, it is incomplete not to participate in ice and snow sports. This year, Peng Zhicheng took his grandson, who had just entered kindergarten, into the Shichahai Ice Rink, and the grandchildren rode ice bicycles and had a lot of fun.
The development of ice and snow sports in old Beijing has a long history and mass foundation. In 1925, Beihai Park began to open to the general public, and opened the ice rink in winter; in the 1950s, Shichahai opened a natural ice rink and provided skate rental services; in the 1970s and 1980s, the Shichahai Ice Rink and the Beidawei lake ice rink, the Beihai Park Ice Rink, the Zhongshan Park Ice Rink, the Summer Palace Kunming Lake Ice Rink and other natural ice rinks became the main places for Beijing citizens to participate in ice sports, and the popularity continues to this day.
Up to now, Beijing has successively opened the Ice and Snow Play Experience Venues in Municipal Parks such as the Summer Palace, Beihai Park, taoran Pavilion, etc., providing more than 40 kinds of ice and snow activities for citizens and tourists, and "ice and snow for all" has become a trend.
Winter tours on the outskirts of Beijing are colorful
In the suburbs of Beijing, the winter tour program is equally exciting.
With the decrease in temperature, the Huyu Natural Scenic Area, located in Huyu Village, Nankou Town, Changping District, attracts many tourists to watch the crystal clear and beautiful artificial landscaping - ice waterfall. Located in the northwest of Beijing, Huyu is cooler than the city, creating good conditions for the manufacture of artificial ice falls, which are spectacular along with the mountains. In Huyu, the reporter saw that many tourists chose to hike in the mountains, while walking to enjoy the ice waterfall landscape along the way, "not only to exercise, but also to enjoy the scenery." Tourist Mr. Bai said. In addition, there are ice climbing projects in the scenic spot, which can provide tourists with professional ice climbing equipment and ice climbing guidance.
Huyu IceFall also attracts many young tourists. On January 15, the reporter met a group of young tourists with an average age of 9 years old in Huyu, accompanied by professional teachers, to "walk on the ice" in Huyu: "adventure" on the slippery ice, take a slide on the Xiaoice waterfall, shuttle between mountains and rocks... According to the leading teacher, every year they will organize children to go to a suitable place in the suburbs of Beijing to "walk on ice". "This activity can not only make children close to nature and exercise their physical fitness, but also make them have a more emotional understanding of the winter in Beijing and the Winter Olympics."
In addition to Changping District, Fengtai, Yanqing, Fangshan, Mentougou and other places have launched their own unique winter tour products. For example, the Scenic Area of Gushan Village, Miaofengshan Town, Mentougou District, is "transformed" into an ice and snow theme park, providing a variety of rich and interesting ice and snow projects; the Fengtai District Culture and Tourism Bureau launched two winter tourism routes of "Ice and Snow Flower Viewing Shopping Tour" and "Ice and Snow Hot Spring Leisure Tour", covering ice and snow play, hot spring health, indoor flower appreciation, food, shopping and other elements, providing tourists with a one-stop cultural tourism consumption experience of eating, living, traveling and entertainment; Badaling Town, Yanqing District, held the first Winter Tourism and Cultural Festival and launched more than 20 activities. Focus on the display of Badaling Town's winter boutique tourism routes and high-quality tourism products, to provide tourists with a cultural and sports tourism feast with the taste of the suburbs of Beijing.
Night tours also have new highlights
In November 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the first batch of national-level night culture and tourism consumption agglomeration areas, and 120 agglomeration areas such as Qianmen Street in Beijing's Dongcheng District and Tianqiao Performing Arts District in Xicheng District were listed, adding many new points of view to Beijing's night tour projects.
Taking Qianmen Street, a traditional commercial street in Beijing, as an example, its format layout fully reflects the intersection of tradition and fashion, where there are both long-established brands such as Quanjude, Cheap Fang, Wu Yutai, etc., as well as experiential and fashionable shops such as cultural and creative halls and tide play experience halls. The 798-751 Art District in Chaoyang District is also a typical area for nighttime cultural tourism consumption. Relying on the advantages of culture and fashion design, it has continuously innovated the consumption form of night cultural tourism by holding characteristic art exhibitions, night art museums, youth drama festivals, international design festivals, train markets and other colorful cultural activities, and introducing new consumption formats such as designer brand discount stores. Gubei Water Town, located in Miyun District, is also focusing on creating night tour products, including lantern night tour of the Great Wall, lakeside dinner tasting of the Great Wall, rocking the Tang River To see the Great Wall, hot springs to appreciate the Great Wall, wine tasting and stargazing intoxication of the Great Wall, music feast listening to the Great Wall, Chang Swimming Pool To see the Great Wall, Pillow Dream Landscape and Water Great Wall, etc., rich activities, bringing a beautiful experience to tourists.
In addition, Beijing's major commercial complexes are also popular places for winter cultural tourism consumption. They not only provide convenience for night consumption and entertainment, but also become a new landmark for cultural tourism consumption in their respective regions. (Reporter Yin Jiewen/Photo)
People's Daily Overseas Edition ( 2022-01-19 Edition 12)
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition