People's Literature Publishing House Kai Wen Chuang Cafe recommended by Beijing characteristic Cafe

Most of the literary creation is closely related to coffee, such as the well-known Harry Potter series was born in Edinburgh Elephant Cafe. The Elephant Cafe looks nothing special, but because JK Rowling wrote a science fiction masterpiece here, Elephant Cafe has become a "pilgrimage place" for many Harry Potter fans.

On the evening of January 18, the people's Literature Publishing House, with a deep literary foundation, posted an article on its official account on Wechat that the publishing house's cultural and creative department would open a cafe, a cultural landmark in the minds of Chinese intellectuals. It is also the seat of the humanities society, Chaonnei.

In the article, the Humanities News Agency also said that the plan to open a coffee shop had been conceived for a long time, but due to the epidemic, the plan could only be shelved again and again. With the arrival of 2022, in order to surprise everyone, they also made up their mind to open a cultural cafe. The storefront of the cafe is small, only more than ten square meters, hoping to be a small literary landmark belonging to humanistic readers.

As the beginning of the publishing cause of new Chinese literature, the products in the coffee shop may present more interesting core of Chinese literature in the form of drinks. The ice mackerel in A Dream of Red Mansions, the spring of Qin Fang and the tea of maple dew; the half-pillow pine wind tea of Journey to the West is unripe and full of spring; a pot of mocha meets and Zhang Fei pokes a latte hole in the Romance of the three Kingdoms; the Tokyo Royal Street Tea House in the Water margin is integrated into the literary background. Even through the words in some literary works such as the appearance of officialdom and the Sea Flowers of iniquity, the coffee formula of the late Qing Dynasty is reproduced.

Compared with today's more and more online celebrity coffee shops, I hope this coffee shop can not only have a shell, but also have a more significant core, which can bring a good literary experience for everyone.

At present, the coffee shop is still in the preparatory stage, and the naming right of the coffee shop has been handed over to the readers. In order to crowdfunding a shop name, the name of the store should be 3 to 7 words, and even released a coffee shop year-round drinking membership card.

It may also be a good start to promote coffee from literary works and use coffee to let more people know about literary works. This kind of coffee shop with a base is more or less meaningful than a cafe decorated with "Syrian style". All kinds of online celebrity cafes, the so-called "Syrian style" is to destroy the original good decoration to pieces, showing a look of war-ravaged, sprinkling salt on the wounds of war-stricken people in their hometown; and those animal-themed cafes, that is, enslaving animals to work for themselves, is not much different from the slave society.

And that kind of online celebrity cafe, after taking photos and clocking in, there is no point in spending any more. The cafe under preparation by the Humanities Society, even if it hopes to become a member of the online celebrity sign-in points, literary works have always been the core of the Humanities Society. There are thousands of kinds of literary works, even if it is a book, different readers also have their own unique views.

It may be a good place for leisure to open a cafe where different literary orientations and ideas collide where literary works are born.

Picture source: official account of people's Literature Publishing House, Internet

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