Health Times reporter Niu Hongchao/Photo Dong Yingyu/Wen
Eating dumplings, celebrating the New Year, and watching the Winter Olympics at the foot of the Great Wall are the visions of China when it bid for the Winter Olympics six years ago. Today, that vision is a reality. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year on February 5, the "New Atmosphere of the City of The Two Olympics - 2022 Chinese and Foreign Media Beijing Tour" hosted by the Beijing News Center in 2022 entered the Yanqing District of Beijing, and 63 media reporters from 32 Chinese and foreign media ate dumplings, watched the Winter Olympics, climbed the Great Wall, entered the homestay, enjoyed folk customs, and personally felt the strong local Winter Olympic atmosphere in Yanqing.
Chinese and foreign media reporters first came to the Liu Bin Bao Township Hesu Yao Guanling Homestay Cluster. As soon as they arrived, everyone was immediately attracted by a variety of Yanqing folk performances: stilt performances with stilts on stilts and walking and dancing; there were bamboo horse performances in Yongning Nanguan with endless variations on bamboo horses; and there were also wonderful performances such as big drums, dry boats (three boats), and lion dances.
Stilt show
Nanguan bamboo horse performance
Big drum show
Dry boat show
Lion dance performance
In addition to folk performances, there are also Yanqing craftsmen on the scene to show you traditional skills such as brand painting, silk embroidery, paper cutting, and face sculpture... A strong festive atmosphere comes to the fore. Foreign media reporters are full of interest in these traditional Chinese folk customs and intangible cultural heritage.
Yanqing craftsmen demonstrate traditional skills with the characteristics of the Winter Olympics
Hop Su Yao Guan Ling Homestay
In badaling town Shifosi Village Great Wall Landscape Homestay, the living room TV is playing the winter Olympic event live program, the day is the first day after the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, many reporters were attracted by the live event, and the homestay guests while watching the game while discussing. Some reporters climbed to the terrace on the top floor of the homestay, where the green mountains are wild, the Great Wall is winding, and the scenery of the Shuiguan Great Wall is in full view.
Foreign correspondent at the homestay.
Shifosi Village Great Wall Landscape B&B is adjacent to the Shuiguan Great Wall, on the basis of the original ancient village, ancient castle ruins, built an independent accommodation courtyard, where the history and culture is long, surrounded by mountains, beautiful environment, you can see the magnificent scenery of the Great Wall.
Experience the traditional custom of dumpling making
Near noon, the owner of the homestay prepared the materials and utensils for the reporters to make dumplings, so that foreign friends could experience the traditional customs of making dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Chinese and foreign reporters were steaming dumplings, cooking dumplings and eating dumplings while watching the majestic beauty of the Great Wall and the ecological scenery of Yanqing, and the fierce live broadcast of the Winter Olympic events was heard in their ears, and the whole homestay was filled with a strong Chinese New Year flavor and a strong Winter Olympic atmosphere.
Chinese and foreign journalists climb the Great Wall
In the afternoon of the same day, Chinese and foreign media reporters climbed the Badaling Great Wall, the most outstanding representative of China's Great Wall and the essence of the Ming Great Wall. It was winter, and the reporters stood on the Great Wall and looked at the surrounding scenery, feeling that "looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only the remaining recklessness; the big river up and down, suddenly lost and gushing." Mountain dancing silver snake, original chi wax elephant, want to compete with the heavenly public test" of the northern scenery.
Yanqing is one of the three major competition areas of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, with the three golden business cards of "Winter Olympics, World Garden and Great Wall", Yanqing's homestay industry has made great progress. Nowadays, the "Yanqing People's Home" homestays supported by the four major plates of "Winter Olympic People's Home", "World Garden People's Home", "Great Wall People's Home" and "Shanshui People's Home" are scattered all over the territory.