A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from the Beijing Park Management Center that on the second day of the New Year's Day holiday, the weather was fine, and the city's 11 parks and the China Garden Museum received a total of 376,600 visitors, an increase of 101.71% over last year and 53.4% over 2019. The top three were the Summer Palace with 103,800 visitors, the Temple of Heaven with 88,300 visitors, and the Zoo with 35,100 visitors.
It is reported that during the New Year's Day, the city's parks launched 26 cultural and innovative products, including 14 special meals for the park's festivals, handbooks and three-dimensional notes for the Summer Palace, Jingshan Palace door bags and dragon treasure dolls, national plant calendars, zoo zodiac seals, and Beihai, Taoranting, Yuyuantan and Zizhuyuan respectively launched special refrigerator magnets. Beijing Zoo Panda Gift Flagship Store, Temple of Heaven Qixi, Mifu, Beihai Park Yuxiuyuan Cultural and Creative Store, Summer Palace Zhichun Pavilion Stationery Store, Zhongshan Park Laijin Yuxuan, Zizhu Courtyard Zizhu Restaurant and other cultural and creative spaces are popular with tourists. Temple of Heaven Blessing Ice Cream, Beihai Gift Mallard Duck Series, and Zhongshan Winter Vegetable Buns have become the top 3 most popular cultural and creative items during the holiday.
In the Summer Palace, through the lattice window of the tea space of Zhichun Pavilion, you can see the entrance of Yulan Hall of Kunming Lake Ice Rink, and the lively and festive atmosphere on the ice rink is also in full view. Ms. Li from Jiangxi Province took her children and just sat down, and said excitedly, "We are southerners, and when we arrived at the ice rink, we remembered that everyone did not wear gloves, and there were booths at the entrance of the ice rink, which really solved the urgent need!" "We played for more than 2 hours, and everyone was already frozen, and we could drink new hot drinks at the tea and milk tea shop at the entrance of the ice rink, which was warm and intimate." Huang and his classmates from Beijing Union University said, "I come every year, but this year's ice rink in the Summer Palace is the most lively, and the catering facilities are obviously much better than in previous years." "In this year's summer summer ice season, a total of 10 types of warm food and hot drinks will be launched, and 4 seasonal service stalls will be reopened along the ice rink to provide tourists with hot food, hot drinks, gloves and hats and other winter supporting products, which are convenient for tourists to buy nearby.
The "2024 Wish Wall", which integrates classical and modern, at the West Second Gate of the Temple of Heaven Park, has attracted many tourists to stop and take photos here. According to the staff, this is the park specially launched for citizens and tourists to launch the "Temple of Heaven picks up light and you New Year's Eve" New Year's Day activities, visitors can receive a love sticker after buying drinks in the store, and make their New Year's wishes on the wishing wall. In order to welcome the New Year of the Dragon, the Temple of Heaven also launched a New Year's Day special drink with dragon wells and chrysanthemums "icing on the cake", whether it is the cup design in the shape of the New Year's Palace, or the fragrance of tea, are all loved by tourists, pick up a cup of special drink for the Year of the Dragon in winter, and run to the next stop warmly.
The "Solar Terms" Pavilion on the south side of the Science Museum of the National Botanical Garden (North Garden) is newly decorated, with flaming red lanterns, window flowers and many plants and flowers, making people feel a strong festive atmosphere in this winter. "Solar terms and vitality" is to follow the unique wisdom of the Chinese: "four times orderly, all things are sometimes; eat according to the time, drink according to the time". On the occasion of the arrival of the New Year in 2024, special winter teas: oolong ginger and ginger latte have been launched here, bringing warmth to citizens and tourists on a cold winter day. In the "Solar Terms" museum, there have been many tourists to check in and taste the winter special drink, some tourists said, "Freshly made tea and freshly ground coffee, the taste is unique, the spicy ginger and the fragrance of oolong tea, the thick fusion of coffee, rich layers, from the inside to the outside feel warm." ”
Taoranting Snow Mountain slide, chain bridge...... It is no stranger to those who grew up in the southern city of Beijing, and it carries the fond childhood memories of generations of children. In order to convey this feeling, Taoranting Park will launch two refrigerator magnets with different themes during the 2024 New Year's Day holiday: "Happy in Taoran Snow Mountain" and "Famous Pavilion Taoran Pavilion". "Daxue Mountain" refrigerator magnet, the main Taoranting Park Daxue Mountain slide elements, highlighting the shape and function of the slide, the process of using magnetic sliding, so that two children can slide freely on the "slide", vividly restore the unforgettable "childhood memories" of the old Beijing children. The Mingting series refrigerator magnet Taoran Pavilion integrates ice and snow and Mingting architectural elements into the design, and at the same time is embedded with pine and cypress evergreen plants, and the scattered snow adds winter charm, through the careful 3D metal casting and baking paint coloring process, the Taoran Pavilion, one of the four famous pavilions in China, is more colorful and exquisite, shining.
The reporter of Beiqing Daily saw that the dragon element has been arranged in advance in the Beihai Park Yuxiuyuan Cultural and Creative Store, and the overall decoration sets off the festive atmosphere of the New Year. Tourists are enthusiastic about buying cultural and creative products, among which the new product "Beihai Panorama Puzzle Fridge Magnet" is the most popular. This refrigerator magnet is spliced with four small Xiaoice box stickers with different views to form the shape of the White Tower, a landmark building in Beihai. "This fridge magnet is the abbreviation of Beihai Panorama! and the shape and texture are very good!" said one tourist happily.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Bin
Editor/Peng Xiaofei