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"Don't drink on Fridays, life is a wasted road; don't jump on weekends, turn into garbage on Mondays." This sentence is a well-known saying that many young people believe in. As a result, on Friday and weekend evenings, most of Beijing's bistros are always packed.
Some people use taverns as a peach blossom source for a short escape from reality, where they empty their minds alone or confide in their troubles with close friends.
There are also people in taverns who still can't get rid of their jobs, and when everyone around them is entertaining, they have to deal with some urgent work.
But there are also some young people who deliberately bring their jobs into the tavern. Under the paralysis of alcohol, the original estranged relationship at work was greatly reduced. There is no Party A or Party B here, and some are just peers who talk to each other and are in a similar situation.
Strange taverns support another world for young people, and here is the easiest reflection of their lives.
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Wang Chen, born in 1995, likes to drink, and if you count from the first drinking, he has a drinking history of nearly 20 years.
There is a custom in his hometown that if his lips are dry and skinny, he can smear some wine or sesame oil. So when he was a child, when his mouth was peeled, his father would dip chopsticks into some wine and smear it on his mouth. It also made him curious about alcohol, which he could drink a glass of beer at the age of 6 and a glass of liquor at the age of 10.
The first time Wang Chen went to the tavern was in high school, when it was more out of curiosity. "The bistro is nice and cool, even if you just order a beer." he said.
When you go to the tavern after work, your mood and purpose are completely different. "I often go to Qingba, order a glass of wine and drink slowly, just empty myself and don't think about anything."
In his opinion, staying in a tavern feels the same as hiding in the car after work. Young people's time is divided between work and chores, and there is very little time to really belong to themselves, and drinking in a tavern is a rare moment of relaxation. "This time belongs only to oneself, not to be disturbed by leaders, parents, and objects, I believe that every man likes such moments."
Entering the tavern, it seems to step into another world, they can temporarily leave the usual work and living environment. "In the tavern, no one cares who you are, you don't care who the other person is, everyone's concern is whether the glass is good or not." If you like to drink this wine, and I like it too, then we can have a drink together and talk about something fun. Wang Chen said.
In 2017, Yuyang University graduated and entered the workplace, and it was also from this year that he frequented the tavern. At school, he was more addicted to Internet cafes and rarely went out drinking. "Drinking is like surfing the Internet, it's a way to relax." He said.
Yu Yang likes jazz, some of the music of the bar is mainly jazz, and it is also a pleasure to drink alone. "Sometimes I read books, and most of the time I think about things in my work and life." If you go to the tavern alone, Yu Yang usually goes after dinner, sits there drinking wine and listening to music, and leaves for more than half an hour.
Zhu Tong, who is engaged in online education, fell in love with the tavern from last summer vacation. Before that, she could count the number of times she drank with one hand. Of course, she didn't go to the tavern last year to drink, it was all because she was overly stressed and wanted to find a way to solve it.
At that time, she had just entered the industry, catching up with the busy summer vacation, coupled with the turmoil within the company, and the whole person was under extreme anxiety and pressure. At that time, Zhu Tong was close to the brink of collapse, and every day he had a string in his head, and that string could break at any time.
She remembers going to the tavern with 3 colleagues, drinking while playing games, drinking more and more, and after drinking too much, she began to take turns to talk about her pressure and frantically complain about her situation.
On that day, it was more than three o'clock in the morning after they finished drinking. After drinking too much, alcohol brought Zhu Tong both physical discomfort and psychological pain.
After this time, Zhu Tong seemed to open the door to a new world, and later when drinking, she would take the initiative to find a feeling of slight smoke, "That feeling will make me feel comfortable, and inexplicably happy." ”
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Dim lighting, trendy music, and hidden consumers all mean that the tavern is a wonderful place to chat and talk about your heart.
In the past, when Sun Jie and her friends met, they were more likely to be in cafes and restaurants, but recently she and her friends have become more and more fond of dating in taverns.
In the vast city of Beijing, friends are scattered everywhere, and the frequency of meetings is not high. Therefore, every time they meet, they will have a drink and talk about things in life and work.
Photo / Sun Jie and friends order wine at a tavern
"In fact, the role of a tavern is equivalent to a university playground." Sun Jie thinks.
The tavern is also a social venue for Yuyang. "Friends are in different industries, in different fields, occasionally gathered in taverns, we will go to exchange information, talk about recent new situations, and even say whether it is possible to cooperate." 」
"Advise the king to drink a glass of wine, where life does not meet." This is Yu Yang's WeChat signature, which also represents his attitude towards life.
"Every time a colleague leaves, or a friend leaves the city, we drink together, and it has become a tacit understanding." He said.
He also likes to use alcohol to observe the true state of his friends. "The wine thing is wonderful, some people like to talk nonsense when they are drunk, and some people become very different people when they are drunk. I also want to see a more authentic side of my friends and listen to what they don't normally say. ”
Under the influence of alcohol, most people let their guard down. Therefore, the tavern is also a good place to inquire about news and bring partnerships closer.
After people work, they always can't avoid talking to some people outside the company and old colleagues about things. In this case, Zhu Tong will take the initiative to make an appointment in Qingba, accompanied by dim lights and soothing music to drink a little wine, and the two sides will chat more openly.
In Zhu Tong's cognition, talking about things at the dinner table is not a wise choice. "Restaurants in Beijing are two or three hundred yuan per capita, basically queued up during peak periods, you eat there, there are equal signs outside, that environment will force you to even speak very quickly, the purpose is quickly exposed, making it difficult for everyone to relax." Zhu Tong said.
In contrast, the tavern environment is more suitable for chatting. "Although it is also a public occasion, it just feels that the privacy will be much better than the restaurant."
This year, the online education industry was "one-size-fits-all", and Zhu Tong had plans to change careers. So she started contacting old friends and work partners to learn about the outside world.
But she and these friends had either not seen each other for a long time or were not very familiar with each other. "If you are at the dinner table, you always feel that the purpose is particularly strong, and the other party is also prone to be wary and hide some situations, they will consider which sentence to say and which sentence not to say."
At this time, the tavern becomes a good place to socialize. Under the impetus of alcohol, the relationship between the two sides is closer, and the other party will always reveal a lot of industry insiders and gossip to Zhu Tong. It was also from the news they revealed that Zhu Tong learned about the situation in other industries.
At this time, the relationship between them is no longer just an old colleague, or Party A and Party B, but more like a person with the same disease, you understand my situation, I understand your difficulty.
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"Hit workers" can't completely escape work, even in taverns.
Sun Jie had the experience of "the worst in the whole tavern". A few months ago, she went to the tavern alone to drink, and while she was drinking and listening to music, she suddenly received a work message and was asked by the leader to temporarily revise a copywriting.
She couldn't imagine how many people's attention she would attract when everyone was entertaining, and what kind of "social death scene" she would experience when everyone was entertaining. In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and afraid of being out of place with the surrounding atmosphere, she chose to use her mobile phone to secretly modify it.
Photo / On a weekend night, the Helens Tavern is packed
Yu Yang had also experienced such "desperate" moments. One weekend last fall, he and a few friends went to a tavern in Guangzhou for a drink, and when he was in high spirits, he was interrupted by work.
That day, the customer that Yuyang was connecting with had some problems and wanted to solve them with him. But in the noisy environment of the tavern, Yu Yang did not hear the WeChat prompt for the first time.
Out of professional habit, he would glance at his phone from time to time. When he saw the phone, there were already several missed calls and dozens of WeChat messages, all sent by several colleagues.
Almost as soon as he saw the missed calls and WeChat messages, his mood fell from the peak to the valley. At the same time, the first thought that popped into his head was "Trouble is coming."
For the next 40 minutes, the friends were happily playing in the tavern, and he was talking on the phone at the door of the tavern, and the whole mood was very bad.
In addition to those who are forced to deal with work, there may be more young people in taverns who are crazy about work, such as Zhu Tong.
In May this year, due to the turmoil in the online education industry, Zhu Tong experienced a painful time. "Everyone is in a bad state, everyone may be smiling and giggling on the surface, and they are very anxious inside, and I have to go to a psychologist."
In this case, she began to go to the tavern again, and to find some other way to arrange it.
"I do these things to make myself happy, not to be immersed in the negative emotions of 'how is the education and training industry' and 'I'm going to lose my job'. And during this time, all the colleagues around the work is not smooth, and we can't always hug each other and cry. The number of times he went out to play was more, and Zhu Tong's anxiety was also alleviated.
Zhu Tong usually drinks with his best friends, and after drinking, he will not go home by himself, but will go to live with his friends. Because if she goes home, that feeling of loneliness and anxiety will find her again.
Zhu Tong saw that many colleagues around him had to go to the tavern every Friday after work to have two drinks, or to bungee. Even the company's programmers are not as boring as everyone thinks. "They're all dressed up very fashionably, going for drinks and bungee jumps after work."
A colleague once told her a sentence, "Don't drink on Fridays, life is in vain; don't jump on weekends, turn into garbage on Mondays." She thought so.
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The young people who enter the tavern seem to be pressed one by one, and they boldly try all kinds of novel ways to play inside.
Yuyang has a group of colleagues in 1998 and 1999, whom he calls "little friends", and the latter also jokingly calls Yuyang "old man".
Sometimes, Yu Yang also went to the lively bar with this group of "children". "I didn't go to this kind of occasion before, but now I want to feel the atmosphere and don't want to make myself old."
Such occasions are more relaxing, and in this noisy environment, whether it is chatting or drinking, it will give people a feeling of stress relief.
Yu Yang is doing business work, and relatively speaking, he will be more rational and restrained. But on that occasion, he could let go completely. "Everyone is yelling and shouting, and I can take off my usual disguise without any worries, but I actually think that state is more like when I was younger."
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However, while a group of people are tired of the tavern, some senior drinkers are also speeding up the escape.
Chang Lei, who has studied abroad, feels that foreign bars are more friendly to consumers who drink and entertain. After returning home, he rarely went to the tavern again. "It's a bit expensive and noisy, and the atmosphere before is gone." he said.
Chang Lei said that many people go to Qingba just to chat with friends or talk about things. However, more and more clear bars will have bundled consumption, and salespeople often take the initiative to promote wine, which greatly affects the consumer experience.
Therefore, every time he wants to drink, he will ask a friend to come to his house, so that he can drink to the fullest and is not easily affected by the surrounding environment.
This is also Wang Chen's current state. In addition to the environment, another thing that disappointed him in the tavern was that he rarely met a drinking friend with tacit understanding.
The year before, he had met a drinking buddy at a tavern, and they were separated by a seat, and both of them were drinking alone. When the other party was ready to leave, Wang Chen did not resist taking the initiative to go over and talk.
That day, the two talked until more than 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. "At that time, we talked about each other, and whether the other party listened or not, we had a very comfortable conversation."
Until now, Wang Chen didn't know what the drinking friend's name was or what kind of work he did, but that feeling at that time was still in his memory.
But since last year, Wang Chen has gone to the tavern to find that he has not met such a drinking friend. Since then, he has also been reluctant to go to a tavern, preferring to buy a case of beer or steal a bottle of liquor that his father has treasured for many years and drink it at home.
"Nowadays, there are more and more people going to Qingba with the purpose of talking and making friends, and in the lively taverns, in addition to the people who jump on the stage, many people are toss, which is the so-called 'atmosphere group'." Wang Chen said that this has changed the nature of the tavern, and it is difficult to impress a senior wine friend like him.
Attracting a group of people, and then being abandoned by a group of people, this may be an inevitable stage in the development of the tavern. With the listing of the "young people's tavern" Helens in Hong Kong, the taverns scattered across the country have also attracted more people's attention, and there is more and more discussion around the "night consumption space for young people".
Nowadays, the tavern is becoming more and more lively, like a huge container of colorful colors, carrying the emotions, secrets, laughter and tears of countless people... Step into the tavern and welcome to the "night amusement park" for young people.
*The characters appearing in the text are pseudonyms; the inscription in the text is from the photo network, based on the VRF protocol.