The beauty of Xicheng: The scenery of modern and traditional interweaving is recommended and introduced by Shichahai, which is attracted by the large and gorgeous lakeBeihai Park, suitable for boating and visiting the park;Jingshan Park, the imperial garden of the Ming and Qing dynasties;Beijing Grand View Garden, the filming location of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions";National Centre for the Performing Arts, with a tour of architecture and unique musical instruments;Geological Museum of China, the largest museum in Asia;Beijing Zoo, learn about the wonders of animals;The Capital Museum, which focuses on exhibitions with unique Beijing characteristics;Jian Jian Hong Tzu Chi Temple, the seat of the Buddhist Association of China;Taoranting Park, a modern new urban garden.
Introduction to the attractions in Xicheng District
Shichahai refers to the three lakes of Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai and their adjacent areas, which have a large area of beautiful lakes, and are also a famous historical district in Beijing, where many former residences of celebrities, palaces and other historic sites are scattered among them, as well as all kinds of food close to the lives of ordinary people, and Houhai Bar Street is an old resort for the nightlife of Beijing.
When you first arrive in Shichahai, you must be attracted by the large and gorgeous lake at first sight. In summer, the lake is very cool, lotus flowers are in full bloom, and you can enjoy the lake view from a boat. There are many wharves along the lake, such as Qianhai's Good Dream Jiangnan Wharf, Lotus Market Wharf, Houhai's Wild Duck Island Wharf, Liuyin Zhengdu and other wharves, all of which can be sat on cruise ships.
Pedal boats and hand rowing boats can have fun by themselves, and the boat fare ranges from 40 to 60 yuan per hour according to different boat typesIf you are sightseeing, the boat will take you around the lake, about 1 hour or so, the boatman will also explain the attractions of Shichahai, and the reference price of the boat is 50 yuan.
In winter, when the lake freezes over, the boat is closed, but you can enjoy the winter scenery. When the ice reaches a certain thickness, the lake will open up the Shichahai skating rink, the reference price of admission is 20 yuan, and the rental of skates and ice bikes is also provided, which is not expensive, but requires a deposit of 100-200 yuan.
The ancient buildings around Shichahai make the scenic spot still retain the characteristics of old Beijing. There are Huitong Temple, Deshengmen Arrow Tower, Prince Alcohol Mansion, Guanghua Temple, Silver Ingot Bridge, Bell and Drum Tower and other scenic spots.
One of the most famous is the mansion located in Heshen on Qianhai West Street - Prince Gong's Mansion. In addition to a glimpse of the mansion of the Qing Dynasty ** Heshen, there are more than 10,000 "Fu" characters hidden in the house, and the Kangxi Yubi Fu Character Tablet allows tourists to wait in long queues to see the real face.
If you are interested, you can also turn to the tobacco bag diagonal street to visit the Daqing Post Office, which marked the birth of China's modern postal service, and knock a few exquisite postmarks at the post office as a souvenir, of course, you must buy a postcard from the post office before stamping the postmark.
Address: No. 49, Di'anmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Let's swing the oars and the boat push away the waves....This is exactly what is described in the well-known song. Beihai is located on the northwest side of the Forbidden City, and is collectively known as the Three Seas together with the "China Sea" and "South China Sea". The park was once a royal garden, with pavilions and lush trees along the lake.
Beihai Park currently has more than 100 varieties of lotus flowers, and more than 1,200 pots of lotus and various aquatic plants are maintained annually. From June to August, you chase me in the morning, noon and evening, and compete to open up.
Here is also a park with the charm of old Beijing under the roots of the imperial city, and there will be old people here in the morning to exercise and walk birds;In the afternoon, the evening is more suitable for boating in the park. Come to Beihai Park, you can admire the exquisite buildings left by the imperial dynasty;You can also sit down by the lake, chat with the old people around you, listen to them tell the wild history of the Beijing royal family, and talk about those dusty pasts;You can also blend in with the crowd of people who kick shuttlecocks and shake empty bamboos, and ask them for advice or two, perhaps, this is also a way to integrate into the life of old Beijing.
Address: No. 1, Wenjin Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Jingshan Park, west of Beihai, south and the Forbidden City Shenwu Gate across the street, is the Ming and Qing dynasties of the imperial garden. The Jingshan in the center of the park is made of mounds of soil, which was once the commanding height of the whole city, and is one of the oldest and most well-preserved palace gardens in China. The total area of the whole park is 23 hectares, of which the flower lawn covers an area of 1,100 square meters, and there are scenic spots such as Qiwang Tower, Wufang Pavilion, Shouhuang Palace, Yongsi Palace, and Peony Garden. The garden of Jingshan is characterized by tens of thousands of flowers such as peonies and peonies. Jingshan has peony exhibition in spring, lotus flower exhibition in summer, autumn fruit and autumn chrysanthemum exhibition in autumn, three seasons of flowers, four seasons of pines and cypresses evergreen.
Address: Jingshan Park, Jingshan Front Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Located in the southwest corner of Beijing's Second Ring Road, the Grand View Garden is a garden built in imitation of the description in the classic masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions", and is also the filming location of the 87 CCTV version of "Dream of Red Mansions" TV series. Visitors can come here to find scenes from the play, learn about the culture of the Red Mansion, and enjoy the beautiful scenery in the park.
The area of the Grand View Garden is not large, the length and width are about 300 meters, and it takes about 2-3 hours to walk around the park. The scenery in the garden is very elegant, there is the style of the courtyard of the big family in the south of the Yangtze River, the pavilions and pavilions, the small bridge and the flowing water, walking in it makes people feel refreshed and happy, and tourists can also pay to wear ancient costumes to take pictures, which is very interesting.
In many buildings in the park, there are wax figures of the characters of the Red Mansion, imitating their life scenesThere is also a cultural and art exhibition of Wenlou, where you can systematically understand the culture of Dream of Red Mansions.
In addition to visiting the scenery and understanding the culture, the Grand View Garden also has a lot of activities every year, the Red Mansion Temple Fair from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month of the year is very grand, and many theme programs such as the provincial concubine, Bao Dai's marriage, Jia's mother's birthday will be staged every day, as well as folk art such as sugar people and face painting, which is very lively.
In addition, the evening activities in the summer (May-October) night will include the Red Mansion cultural and artistic performance, shadow puppet performance, large-scale ** fountain performance, laser water curtain movie "Dream of the Red Mansion", etc., which are also worth experiencing.
Address: No. 12, South Caiyuan Street, Xicheng District.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts of China is located on the west side of Tiananmen Square, and the building is in the shape of a droplet, with a novel shape, and it is particularly beautiful when it is lit up at night. Visitors can see the architecture and unique musical instruments, and they can enjoy the opera in the public area during the festival from April to July every year.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts has five floors, including an opera house, a hall hall, a drama hall and a small theater. Visitors can enter from the north entrance, pass through the east and west exhibition halls, and take the direct elevator to reach the performance halls.
The Opera House is the most magnificent building in the National Centre for the Performing Arts, with a gorgeous golden color as the main color. It mainly stages operas, dance dramas, ballets and large-scale theatrical performances. It is worth noting that the opera house's zigzag stage is fully functional and can be used to quickly change sets, which is amazing. The opera house performs operas, ** operas and other plays of domestic and foreign groups all year round, and the specific performance arrangements are detailed on the official website.
* The hall is white and solemn, the tone style is quiet, fresh and elegant, and large-scale symphonies, folk music and other first-class performances are performed. **The pipe organ in the hall is elegant, full of timbre, and is currently the most plugs, the most pipes, and the richest timbre in China, which can be described as the "treasure of the town hall". *The hall building has invested heavily in creating acoustic effects, and it is a pleasure to enjoy a performance here.
The drama hall is a theater with national characteristics of the National Center for the Performing Arts, with Chinese red as the main color and silk walls to set off a traditional and warm atmosphere. It mainly stages dramas, operas, local operas and other performances.
The Small Theater is a multi-functional theater with a variety of characteristics of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, with a fresh overall tone and elegant style, which can hold performances in various art categories such as chamber music, small solo singing, small theater drama, small theater opera, modern dance and so on.
In addition, there is an exhibition hall with an area of 1,200 square meters on the east and west sides of the north entrance of the Grand Theater, and various art exhibitions are held all year round, so you can visit if you are interested.
Address: No. 2, West Chang'an Street, Xicheng District.
Founded in 1916, the Geological Museum of China is the earliest public natural science museum in China, and has become the largest museum in Asia with a long history, large collections, high rate of treasures, exquisite display and fruitful scientific research achievements.
According to the structure of the earth's sphere, the museum is arranged with five basic exhibition halls, including the Earth Hall, the Mineral and Rock Hall, the Gem Hall, the Prehistoric Biology Hall, and the Land and Resources Hall. There are also two temporary exhibition halls to track hot issues in geoscience and update the exhibition content at any time.
The museum has a collection of 200,000 specimens, including a series of dinosaur fossils such as the famous giant Shandong dragon and Chinese dragon bird, as well as famous ancient human fossils such as Peking Man, Yuanmou Man and Cave Man, as well as a large number of precious prehistoric fossils such as fish, birds and insects. There are also the world's largest "crystal king", giant fluorite calcite crystal cluster specimens, exquisite azurite, cinnabar, realgar, orpiment, scheelite, stibnite and other Chinese characteristic mineral specimens, as well as a wide variety of gemstones, jade and a large number of national treasures.
Address: No. 15, Xisi Mutton Hutong, Xicheng District.
Beijing Zoo is located in Xizhimenwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and is one of the largest urban zoos in China with a complete range of animal species, with a history of more than 100 years since the 32nd year of Guangxu. The zoo is divided into three areas: east, south and north.
Giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, Siberian tigers, white-lipped deer, elk, pony and red-crowned cranes are rare animals from China, as well as representative animals from all over the world such as chimpanzees from Africa, kangaroos and jaguars from Australia, Mexican manatees, European bison and other animals. There is also an amphibian reptile pavilion, which is divided into two floors, and exhibits more than 100 species of reptiles from all over the world, including one of the world's largest crocodiles, the bay crocodile.
At present, the peony garden of Beijing Zoo covers an area of 1,500 square meters, located on the east side of the current waterfowl island, west of the Fengfeng Hall, this peony garden takes the peony pavilion and the ring corridor as the main building, and the peony in full bloom from late April to early May every year contrasts with the ring corridor. In the middle of summer, the pink lotus flowers and dark green lotus leaves in the water of the lake by the pavilion reflect each other, becoming a unique scenic spot in the garden. Nearly 400 peonies are planted in the peony garden, and the peony varieties at home and abroad include 54 varieties of 10 color systems after preliminary identification, mainly for the two major varieties of peony in the Central Plains and peony in the south of the Yangtze River.
There is also a science museum in the zoo, which is dedicated to weekend animal classes for preschoolers. Under the guidance of the teacher, children can get close to the animals, listen to the stories that happen to them, and learn about the magic of animals through various activities such as games and crafts.
Address: No. 137, Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing.
The Capital Museum is a large-scale comprehensive museum in Beijing, integrating collection, exhibition, research, archaeology, public education and cultural exchange. The Capital Museum focuses on exhibitions with unique Beijing characteristics, and the basic display of "Ancient Capital Beijing" here focuses on the display of unearthed cultural relics in Beijing, and shows the history of Beijing's culture and the development of the capital city to tourists in detail. The types of cultural relics in the Capital Museum include bronzes, ceramics, Buddha statues, jade, gold and silverware, coins, calligraphy, painting, weaving and embroidery, cultural toys, etc. Address: No. 16, Fuxingmenwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Guangji Temple was built during the Jin Dynasty and is now the seat of the Buddhist Association of China. There are many cultural relics and historic sites in the temple, especially the huge finger painting of the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Guangji Temple was very valued, several generations of emperors had been fortunate to make incense, and some also set up a monument for the inscription poem, or rewarded the plaque, so the status is very high. There are many precious cultural relics in the temple, such as the Buddha's tooth relic, the third Buddha of the Ming Dynasty, the white marble ring platform built in the Kangxi period, and the bronze treasure tripod in the Qianlong period.
There is a huge finger painting on the back wall of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, which is painted by the fingers of the painter Fu Wen in the ninth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1744) by the order of Qianlong, and is called "Shengguo Miaoyin Tu". The painting is 5 meters high and 10 meters wide, and it is the largest finger painting mural in China. Interestingly, the audience also includes Chinese historical figures such as Guan Yu, Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, and Budai Monk.
Address: No. 25, Fuchengmen Inner Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Taoranting Park is a modern new urban garden that integrates ancient and modern gardening art and highlights the "pavilion culture" of the Chinese nation. The park covers an area of 5656 hectares with a water area of 1615 hectares, in the park there are Shengchun Mountain House Scenic Area, Huaxia Famous Pavilion Scenic Area, Tao Ran Jiajing Scenic Area, Tao Ran Jiajing Scenic Area, Tanying Liujin Scenic Area and other unique scenic spots;Among them, the famous Taoran Pavilion is located in the Taoran Jiajing Scenic Area of the Lake ** Island, and there are many famous historical sites around the Taoran Pavilion.
Address: No. 19, Taiping Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (north bank of the moat).