The Spring Festival is approaching, and the 2024 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei New Year Cultural Tourism Series of "Happy Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Celebrate the New Year Together" has entered a climax. With the theme of "Happy New Year, Enjoy Beijing", Beijing has launched more than 7,000 activities in six series: "Cultural New Year", "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year", "Performing Arts New Year", "Ice and Snow New Year", "Parent-Child New Year" and "Beijing Suburbs New Year". Tianjin started with the re-ringing of the century bell of "Tianjin Bell" and "Ringing" of you, and took "China Red, Tianjin Flavor, Prosperous Year" as the theme of the Spring Festival cultural and tourism activities, and integrated and launched the ten series of activities of "Traveling in Tianjin" during the Spring Festival, the top ten tourist routes of "Walking in Tianjin", the top ten heart-warming services of "Love in Tianjin", 100 highlights of "Jincai", and more than 1,000 cultural and tourism activities. Focusing on the theme of "so close, so beautiful, weekend to Hebei" - winter tour to Hebei for the New Year, Hebei Province has launched a series of cultural and tourism activities to welcome the New Year in ice and snow hot springs, operas, time-honored brands, shopping markets, villages, ancient cities, folk customs, museums, libraries, and scenic spots. In the past few days, the reporter has visited Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in three ways to feel the strong New Year's flavor and the new atmosphere of cultural tourism in the three places.
Beijing: B&B courtyard
The Spring Festival in the small courtyard is hotly booked
Approaching the Spring Festival, the homestay courtyards on the outskirts of Beijing began to be dressed up. Hanging money, window grilles, couplets, lanterns...... The small courtyard surrounded by mountains and rivers is "wrapped" by the elements of the new year, and the ideals and aspirations of space life are wantonly stretched. Passers-by from all over the world slowed down and stopped here to find the tranquility in the bustling.
The B&B courtyards in Beijing have their own interests: the north and south houses of the log and blue bricks in Yanqing District, and the small building of the East Gate with the theme of the eight views of the Ming and Qing dynasties...... Tourists who go to the "Winter Olympic Town" and come to play in the snow on vacation have a key to enter the ideal life scene, and the Xichao and Hui-style oak trees built near the mountains in Pinggu District are red...... It not only carries the tranquility of Jinhai Lake in winter, but also makes the "poetry and distance" of tourists concrete...... It exhibits the traces of time for visitors and tells their own stories. "There is Tanzhe Temple first, and then there is Beijing City", Mentougou District integrates small courtyards, green mountains and coffee as one of Motuo, and you can see the only countryside with a view of the mountain scenery...... There is a quiet and rustic beauty under the rendering of the ancient temple, and the hot spring is the "happy hometown" in the cold winter, and the persimmon is red in the Zhujia family with a characteristic in Changping District, and the Yinshan Suji that is close to Yinshan Tallinn...... In this warmth, visitors from all over the world are welcomed, and the old carpenters in Huairou District who are finely carved and feel at home are also ...... Give tourists an ideal life "experience outfit".
"The Chinese New Year is just a few days away. Only this, Pan Pan, the person in charge of the country house, tore another page on the calendar. This calendar was just hung up after New Year's Day, and it was densely packed with order details. "Tianjin, two-bedroom, the second year of junior high school, Langfang, four large and two small, third year of junior high school. He pointed to the mark on the calendar and told reporters that the B&B has 4 independent courtyards, including 7 independent bedrooms, and the booking rate from February 9 to February 16 has exceeded 70%, "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is geographically close to each other, and Beijing's small courtyard has become the back garden of tourists in the three places for leisure and vacation." ”
This is the only country house
This B&B run by Pan Pan is located in Sangyu Village, Tanzhesi Town, Mentougou District, Beijing, and is renovated from an old house. In the courtyard, private soups, barbecue grills, tea houses and so on are readily available. Although there are still a few days to go before the Chinese New Year, the big red lanterns in front of the B&B are already hanging high, and fruits and roasted goods are also on the table. The reporter noticed that there was a dozen red paper and half-cut window grilles on the table in the front hall of the homestay. "It's almost the New Year, send a 'blessing' to each guest, and make it auspicious. As he spoke, he picked up the brush on the table and wrote a big word "Fu" on the red paper.
Near noon on February 5, I drove to Xindeli B&B in Siduhe Village, Bohai Town, Huairou District, Beijing, about 100 kilometers away from this country homestay, and Shan Xinli, who was responsible for cooking for many homestays in the village, was busy in the kitchen. "You try this fried Sidu River sweet chestnut, this is our local specialty, and many guests ask for it. According to her, the local area is located in a mountainous area, with a lot of sandy soil, and the chestnuts grown have a good taste, and this dish is very popular with guests from other places.
Whether it is a small farmhouse courtyard with a simple painting style, or a wild luxury private soup courtyard in the mountains and forests, the store will more or less integrate antique murals, classical furniture, Chinese style furnishings and other elements rich in Beijing culture into this "one side is free", so that there is an indescribable cordiality in the courtyard wall. In order to add a festive atmosphere, Pan Pan set up projects such as making tea and soup, boiling tea around the stove and handwriting blessing characters in the small courtyard.
According to the "2024 Spring Festival Homestay Travel Forecast Report" released by Tujia B&B, as of January 24, the number of advance bookings for homestays in popular cities during the Spring Festival has increased by 6.3 times compared with 2023. Xiaoyuan B&B is popular, with a three-fold year-on-year increase in bookings. As the "housekeeper" and operator of 35 B&Bs in Siduhe Village, Bohai Town, Huairou District, Liu Huimin, general manager of Beijing Zizai Natural Technology Co., Ltd., feels that "the New Year in the courtyard of B&Bs" is becoming a new trend. "Most of the B&B courtyards I manage are rented out in their entirety, and there are currently a few that have a 90% booking rate during the Spring Festival. She introduced that Siduhe Village is close to Mutianyu Great Wall, Yanqi Lake, Hongluo Temple and other scenic spots, and guests come here for the New Year, in addition to visiting scenic spots, but also in order to enjoy the quaint fireworks emitted by the village courtyard brick by brick.
Hebei: Featured Collection
Catch up with the big set to buy New Year's goods, and taste the New Year's flavor in the fireworks
As the saying goes, a small year is a year. If you want to say where the flavor of the New Year is the purest, you have to see the market before the year. Hebei Tangshan Hehuakeng Market New Year's Goods Collection, Baoding Yixian Nanguantou Collection, Shijiazhuang Yuanshi Nanzuo Collection...... The cheap prices and the original scene add a strong New Year's flavor to the cold winter.
At 6:35 a.m. on February 5, take the G4269 high-speed rail from Tianjin West Railway Station to Shijiazhuang, and then transfer to the bus.
Although it had just snowed in the morning, the villagers of Shiliba Village still spread out their stalls on both sides of the village road early, with mud-stained greens, green onions and cranberries, local handmade vermicelli, dried noodles, buckwheat noodles, rolling pins, baskets and baskets...... All kinds of rural specialties are dizzying.
"Boss, how much is this blessing word?" Li Haoran, a villager on Southeast Street in Nanzuo Town, was squatting beside the stall and carefully selecting. He introduced that Nanzuo Daji opens every lunar "one and sixth", and the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month is the last time before the Spring Festival, and he wants to prepare all the New Year's goods needed at home.
According to reports, because Nanzuo Town is located in the traffic artery of "East Out of the North China Plain and West into the Taihang Mountains", the masses in a radius of dozens of miles spontaneously came here to trade a long time ago. Now, there are thousands of stalls stretching for several kilometers every time Nanzuo Daji, and seventy percent of the goods are planted, bred or made by farmers themselves, known as "the first set of Taihang".
Nansa Daishu
"Handmade spinning tops, 12 yuan for small ones, 20 yuan for large ones. Du Dongchao, a 65-year-old local villager who was originally a truck driver, likes to do carpentry work after retirement, but he didn't expect to usher in a new opportunity in the village market. "Spinning tops were originally toys for children in the village, but now many people in the city buy them back as ornaments. He introduced, "Today, there are Beijing guests who directly bring logs to me to make rolling pins, and now I earn no less than driving a big car." "A basket made of wattles, a basket tied with branches, and a curtain made of sorghum stalks...... These handmade products that reveal wisdom in simplicity are in demand in Nansa Daji.
Handmade products make people love it, and freshly prepared delicacies are even more appetizing. "Puff puff", the fruit goes into the oil pot, "puff puff", the haggis goes down to the soup pot, "puff la", the sugar fried chestnuts start to tumble...... The unique "Hebei Taste" in Nanzuo Daji not only satisfies the taste buds of the villagers, but also attracts tourists from Beijing and Tianjin to come here to experience the taste of life in the food.
"There are about 1,800 stalls today, and there must be at least 30,000 people coming to the market. Li Hao, secretary of the Party branch of Nanzuo Town, Southeast Street Village, introduced that Nanzuo Daji has become "popular" on the Internet in the past two years. "Last year, the 1003 bus from Shijiazhuang city to Yuanshi County was opened, and it took less than one hour from the city to Nanzuo Daji. At the same time, short videos taken by tourists have gone viral on social media, making young people gradually become the 'new force' of the century-old market. He said frankly that as an authentic Nanzuo Town, visiting Daji has been his daily life since he was a child. Nowadays, more and more outsiders come here, and the dialects of Tiannan and Haibei float in their ears every day.
It is reported that Dongnanjie Village has applied for the registration of the "Nanzuo Daji" trademark, and the village collective has opened up the intermediate link from the rural market to the city through the selection of local characteristic products, through unified processing and packaging. At present, the first agricultural product store of "Nanzuo Daji" has been opened in Shijiazhuang City. Li Hao said: "We are planning to open stores in Beijing and Tianjin, so that everyone can taste our specialties. ”
As the Spring Festival approaches, the heat of the big market in Hebei Province continues to soar, and the Xingtai Yuan Street New Year's Goods Fair where you can enjoy the drama, the Qian'an Great Wall New Year's Goods Fair where you can enjoy the flowers, and the Hengshui New Year's Customs and Culture Fair that feels the charm of intangible cultural heritage...... The big set was filled with hot fireworks in the world.
Tianjin: More than 470 performances
"Performing Arts Dinner" welcomes the Year of the Dragon
Go to the big set, prepare for the New Year's goods, and then have a "performing arts dinner". During the Spring Festival, more than 30 major theaters and performing arts platforms in Tianjin will provide more than 470 diversified theatrical performances, including cross talk, opera, stage plays, concerts, children's plays, acrobatics and other artistic categories...... Just waiting for you!
At 7 o'clock in the evening of February 4, Zhang Huanbing and his friends from Langfang City, Hebei Province, walked briskly to the opera hall of the Tianjin Grand Theater. Half an hour later, a piano recital by Richard Clayderman will take place here. "We came all the way from Langfang to listen. Zhang Huanbing said that Clayderman was the enlightener who opened the door to his music, "I have been paying attention to the news of his performance, and the tickets for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Langfang is not far from Tianjin, and it is just a foot away." Ten minutes before the opening, about 1,700 seats on the 4th floor of the opera hall were full, and a wonderful audio-visual journey was about to begin.
Piano recital at Tianjin Grand Theatre
At the end of the two-hour performance, the audience was still unsatisfied. Mr. Wang, from Beijing, said, "It's really worth the trip." At nearly 50 years old, he listened to Clayderman's live performance for the first time, "The screen played movie clips that matched the track, and the piano was combined with the traditional Chinese pipa, and the performance of famous foreign movie interludes was added, which was so shocking!" said Mr. Wang.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Huanbing had already returned to Langfang. "During the Spring Festival, I will also come to Tianjin to watch dramas. He said on WeChat.
In addition to the concert, the Tianjin Grand Theatre will also present dramas such as "The Paint Is Not Dry" and "The Bridge of Silver Ingots" in the Spring Festival season. Xu Ronghui, manager of the theater's business planning department, said that most of the comedies staged during the Spring Festival were comedies, including comedies with Tianjin Renyi and dramas with Beijing characteristics, and more than half of the tickets had been sold.
Cross talk is the cultural imprint of Tianjin, and it is also one of the popular items for foreign tourists to come to Tianjin to "check in". According to the staff of Deyun Club, according to the practice of previous years, on the third and fourth days of the first lunar month, Deyun Club will launch a special cross talk performance with the theme of "Yongqing Shengping" at the Tianjin People's Gymnasium. "The lineups of the two performances are not exactly the same, and the well-known and well-loved comedian actors will take turns to appear on stage. Currently, tickets are all sold out. He said.
Watching big dramas during the Chinese New Year is a traditional custom for people to welcome the Lunar New Year. In the Happy Twist Folk Garden Theater, there will be 8 to 10 plays staged in rotation every year. "The Minyuan Theater is often watched by tourists from other places, among whom most of them are tourists from Beijing and Hebei. From the third day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month, we have prepared a number of performances such as "Blind Painting Artist" to attract citizens and tourists to come and 'check in'. Sun Wenyan, general manager of Happy Twist Tianjin, said that Happy Twist came out of Beijing, and there are many loyal "fans" in the local area, and many Beijing audiences will rush to Tianjin to watch their favorite plays.
From the third to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the immersive interactive drama "Happy Year of the Dragon - Spring Festival Dinner" staged at Jinwan Square is also exciting, which integrates immersive interactive dramas, intangible cultural heritage performances from the north and south, and flavor markets.
Ben Cheng's specialties have also appeared one after another. During the Spring Festival, Binhai Performing Arts Center, Fangte Happy World, Wanda Plaza, Aegean Shopping Park, etc. will hold various performances such as opera, cross talk, singing and dancing, and children's drama to accompany citizens and tourists to celebrate the New Year.
"Tianjin's theatrical performances are unique, emphasizing both tradition and the times, with diverse themes, both joy, temperature and depth. According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, compared with previous years, this year, Tianjin Municipality led Beijing Municipality and Hebei Province to jointly launch the "Happy Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Festival, Chinese Opera New Year" activity. From the Lunar New Year to the 15th day of the first lunar month, Tianjin's major opera troupes have selected wonderful opera repertoire, bringing nearly 50 wonderful performances of Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Yue Opera and other opera genres. At the same time, in order to create a strong Spring Festival atmosphere, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has carefully planned the "Tianjin First Bell" and "Ringing" You - New Year Welcome Flash Performance, which will be from the first day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month, by artists from Tianjin's professional art troupes, in airports, railway stations, large commercial complexes, and popular scenic spots, with the art form of Tianjin characteristics, to send the warmest Spring Festival blessings to friends from all over the country who visit Tianjin, showing the unique charm of the city's cultural heritage and artistic atmosphere.
Editor-in-charge: Jiang Saisai
Video camera: Zhang Xiaonan, Ning Guangjing, Zhang Zhaorui
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Inspector Zhang Xiaonan
Source: Tianjin Daily