On January 14th, the "Complex Life Festival" of the 2022 Good Life Festival, sponsored by United Investment Real Estate, was held at the Floating Arts Museum. The Complex Life Festival, initiated by DDC, means that Flight and Better co-hosted, this year ushered in the third edition, two world-class coffee events and BETTER ON MARKET, together with the first snow of Wuhan in 2022, as scheduled, together with complex life, abundant life.
As the only worker in the newsroom who has worked in the factory, I volunteered (bushi) to become the No. 1 employee of the BETTER ON MARKET assembly line, and used my diligent hands to complete the final process of the complex life festival blessing bag for hundreds of friends - to pack gifts into the blessing bag.
/ Better Limited Greeting Cards & Medals in the Lucky Bag, Have You Got It /
If you think that I have only moved bricks in the past three days, it is really naïve, and contemporary workers are still called workers without touching fish?
For example, while working in the assembly line, I kicked the shuttlecock with my colleagues 30 times and won a free cup of coffee completely on my strength!
Although I have been moving bricks for three days, the joy of touching fish is to be busy and idle, just like the "Complex Life Festival", which is a big carnival of busy stealing.
As the highlight of the "Complex Life Festival", the onlookers of the World Barista Competition and the World Flower Pulling Art Competition are almost crowded into the arena.
It seems that for this "marathon" race for three consecutive days, from morning to night, there are not a few curious babies like me.
/ The Changsha barista who came to participate in the competition for the third time has only one goal, that is, to get the ticket to the national finals /
/ Claiming to be an amateur barista in Wuhan, he ended up in the rematch of Lahua /
The game began, the barista put on the headset, showed a confident smile, the coffee has not yet begun to be made, the big guy's aura is already there.
As soon as the timer is pressed, the music sounds, each barista instantly switches to another mode, the barista will spend 10 minutes at the art bar to prepare his design work, and then the photographer will take a photo and send it to the judges, and finally the barista will make it on the operation table, and the degree of reduction of the flower pattern and the difficulty of the pattern and the effect of the milk foam are all within the scope of the scoring.
In the barista competition on the other side, baristas make 4 cups of espresso, milk coffee and their own creative coffee in 15 minutes, and at the same time, they also detail the precise proportions and production concepts, and finally the judges judge the taste, cleanliness, creativity, skills and overall performance of each work.
The first time I watched the coffee competition up close, I was more nervous than the baristas. I was also relieved to see the baristas finish the game.
/ Xu Ruifan from Guangzhou, a student at a university in Wuhan, made some mistakes in the preliminary round because of nervousness /
After the baristas finished the game, I took the opportunity to catch a few of them and talk to them.
To my surprise, many of the contestants came from Changsha, Hefei, Guangzhou, Suzhou and other places, and some even brought their own relatives and friends and "cafes", which is worthy of the festival pomp.
"It's the pressure, it's also the challenge, although the results of the competition are not all satisfactory, but the baristas who go out from here will grow a lot", Shen Yu is the judge of this CBC competition, she told me, she can feel the progress of the contestants this time, whether it is the creative concept or the understanding of coffee, it is more mature than ever.
How fierce the game inside the stadium is, how wonderful the market outside is.
After three days, I felt deeply that this is not something that can be clearly explained with a cup of coffee.
The taste of adding fruit, alcohol, and drinks to a cup of coffee is creative enough, and there is even a coffee with hot dry noodle flavor, I exclaimed: This is definitely a market, not a coffee fair!?
Of course, in addition to the local market in Wuhan, there are also coffee stalls that follow baristas from other places, which also makes this "complex life festival" more interesting.
/ Baristas from Hefei bring cafes to the markets /
From the first coffee stall in the market, to the last one, almost every time I talk to the stall owners, I can hear different coffee knowledge, such as the coffee beans in Baoshan, Yunnan And Colombia, how to choose filter paper for hand-brewed coffee, how to add the taste of fruit to the coffee...
By the end of three days, I was already drifting and thought I could open a café too.
I also found that almost every café has its own creative coffee, and the concept of making and understanding coffee are also very different, some want to create a comfortable environment, some want to make coffee as easy as drinking soy milk, and some want to hunt in coffee.
And my colleague was also curious, after drinking a special coffee called Fast and Furious, almost drunk.
Some stall owners joked: The café can't go on, so come to the market, and the rent of the market is cheap.
Some stall owners go out with friends to complete a coffee dream, no matter what, these coffee stall owners use the happiness of a cup of coffee to enrich their lives.
However, if you think that there is only coffee on the "complex life festival", you are wrong.
From New Year's greetings to wine estates, from music stories from classic records to the fun facts behind Turkish costumes... For stall owners, interesting creative products are on the one hand, and sharing stories and conversations is the joy of the "Complex Life Festival".
When it comes to sharing, I have to say that the complex life festival scene comes from Master Tian's flower sharing meeting, as well as the dressing teaching of fashion designer Xiaoman.
As a judge of the previous barista competition, Master Tian shared the history of Lahua and the details of the Lahua competition at the sharing meeting, and swept up the illiteracy of coffee whites such as me.
Remember, don't be surprised the next time you see leaves and heart-shaped flowers, these are basic operations, and pulling out small animals and swans is the advanced level.
/ Tian Zhibin (first from the left), known as Master Tian in jianghu /
/ Designer Xiaoman at the sharing session (first from the right) /
As for wearing, the designer Xiaoman standing in front of him at the sharing meeting is an excellent case of wearing.
Color, clothing structure, body shape are not the main points, beauty does not have to be linked to the price, the most important thing is to find their own style.
The Joint Investment Center also held a [Yun wai] product force and aesthetic model conference on this day, putting the design aesthetics of the space into life, so that the lifestyle can exude the breath of beauty at any time.
/ The best in the audience, you have no opinion /
What is the experience of a family of three to watch the game and visit the market, looking at this child should know, isn't this what a good life looks like?
There are not a few people who take pictures and punch cards, but there are also many real coffee enthusiasts. Identifying them is simple: stop in front of the stall, stare at the barista making coffee, and ask a question for half an hour.
As for those with social? Get started straight to the action.
According to the custom, every year's complex life festival can catch many fashionable men and women on the spot.
This year is no exception, being captured directly on the spot by photographers. Carrying our lucky bag on our back, the sense of fashion is immediately pinched.
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Everyone's definition of life is different, and when the various differences are mixed together, it becomes a "complex life festival".
If you don't have enough fun or missed this "Complex Life Festival", don't worry, the Good Life Festival turnaround battle filial piety, 1.21-2.6, the Wangdu Mountain Moon Cloud Dream Garden Life Hall of United Investment Real Estate will continue to exhibit the "Mobile Coffee Museum", while DDC Manager Yu Lu and CBrC judge Shen Yu will bring two coffee sharing sessions, in addition, there are aromatherapy DIY, Fan Deng book club activities.
The festival will eventually come to an end, but the end does not mean that we can easily fall into the boring life, as long as we continue to explore the joy of life, keep touching and walking, every day can be a "good life festival".
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