"The author's age is high, the painting is exquisite, the text is delicate, simple and elegant, simple and sincere, the pen and ink are fragrant, and it is difficult to reproduce."
——Beijing Evening News
It was selected into the list of good books in "China Reading Daily", "Beijing Youth Daily", "Beijing Evening News", and "The Paper"
The Beijing Evening News's "Old Beijing Style" column won the 2020 National Newspaper Supplement Best Column Award
He Daqi's series of Beijing custom paintings has been serialized in the Beijing Evening News for many years and has a good reputation. This set of works was born out of the "Old Beijing Style" column of the Beijing Evening News, won the Best Column Award of the National Newspaper Supplement in 2020, and on this basis, the book supplemented many of the author's unpublished articles and pictures, with the Spring Festival customs of old Beijing (northern region) stringing together the traditional folk customs and various life memories related to the New Year, such as making flower lanterns, eating sugar melons, shaking empty bamboo, setting off fireworks, sprinkling lanterns, shaking lanterns, etc., starting from the Eighth Festival of the First Lunar Month, to the end of the second dragon in February. It restores the details and feelings of life that have been ignored and abandoned by the rhythm of modern life one after another, with a strong taste of the year, but also a heavy ancient meaning and nostalgia. The text is written in the first person, and the drawings are full of life and fireworks.
"Spring Festival in Beijing" (revised version) adds 10 articles and 11 pictures on the basis of the original version, adding more detailed Spring Festival customs such as window flowers, wearing red velvet flowers, ancestor worship, dumplings, pressing old money, empty bamboo, tea soup, factory book stalls, burning fire judges, and fighting ghosts in the Lama Temple.
