Qian Grain Meishu Cafe in Beijing Hutong

Coffee has two temperaments, one as fanatical as wine, the other as introverted as tea, thick but not thick, fragrant and slightly bitter. Cafes in Beijing, especially those in hutong, are more inclined to the second temperament. On a warm afternoon, order a cup of coffee and wait for time and time in the depths of the hutong. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the sun shines on the vicissitudes of the old Beijing hutong, making people confused in time and space: did the poet next door walk here a hundred years ago? Before we have time to think about it, a cry in the alley, several aunts and hawkers began to bargain, a thick Beijing accent will let you find that this is the real taste of Beijing coffee.

Area: Beijing urban area suitable for people: all people

Travel difficulty: easy to fit days: 1 day

Cost budget: 100 yuan suitable time: whole year

Money and Food Beautiful Tree House: the Story outside the Coffee Cup

How many flavors does a cup of coffee have? Instant coffee, fancy coffee, sugar, milk, sweet, astringent, bitter ~ some people drink coffee in order to relieve fatigue, some people are infatuated with the aroma of coffee, and some people will never forget the taste of a cup of coffee because of one person.

The soft time of Qian Grain Beauty Tree Pavilion (author: cat Card)

I am not a coffee drinker, if not to refresh myself, I seldom drink coffee, even if I drink it, I seldom have the patience to choose every coffee bean, slowly pour out the aroma, and serve it to the person who cares about the aroma of a cup of coffee.

There are so many things in life that we need to move forward and catch up with. I think I am a layman. I need to spend a lot of time to make a lot of money, to exchange my life for a meal, the shelter of a rental room, a decent status, rather than a week's meal in exchange for a cup of coffee. There is an art cafe called Qianfeng gallery in Qianliu Hutong in Beijing. The introduction says that it provides coffee and gourmet food, courses related to the quality of life, simple and unique space, and provides static exhibition space for designers and photographers. Plan related exchanges, lectures and other literary courses.

Drinking coffee is not the most important thing, and what kind of people, where to drink coffee, drink what story, just point to the hearts of the people. This money and grain gallery is built in the money and grain hutong of the former residence of celebrities, and it also brings a shack, but the elegance of my Dexin. The devices in the house are all old toys from Panjiayuan secondhand Market or other places. I do not know how many celebrities have stroked them. The cups, dishes and plates sold with them are exquisite and elegant. The pebbles lie smoothly in the water tank. Magnolia plum eyebrows are everywhere, not to mention the notebooks spread out on the table. Just looking at the title page is like looking for bosom friends and illustrations of old objects. The handwritten rubbings of thunderstorm, the rugged old branches, and the sketches of the empty buildings at dusk remind people of a sentence: "Life is a blank book that is pre-bound and numbered, and the disturbance caused by past events is like writing a page so hard that ink marks permeate the next few pages and cannot be erased."

Many outsiders have come all the way to Beijing to cross the hutongs, wondering why the hutongs in Beijing are all gray walls and tiles. In fact, as long as you are willing to make some efforts, connect a few hutongs, and then chat with the old residents there for a while, you will find that every hutong has a leader, hiding dragons and tigers. There were two famous people living in Qianliu Hutong: one was Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty, and the other was Zhang Taiyan, a thinker of the Republic of China. In the Ming Dynasty, Qiantang Hutong was not called Qiantang Hutong, but Qiantang Hutong. It got its name because it made money here in the Ming Dynasty and worked as a palace hospital in the Republic of China.

Unfortunately, the former homes of celebrities have been demolished one by one, and even the old Beijingers are about to forget which celebrities they once lived in the hutong where they grew up. People who really know Beijing will know: the symbol of Beijing is the tortuous and deep hutong, the warm and tranquil quadrangles, and they are the real representatives of Beijing. In Chen Kaige's short play "the depths of a hundred Flowers", an old hutong that no longer exists in the old Beijing city has become a regret that can no longer be remedied under the director's camera. A film critic wrote: "it is the wish of the people to move to high-rise buildings. In the name of modernization, tradition is groaning under the bulldozer, while the traveller's late return is looking for something in his native land and looking for the roots of his ancestors." this feeling of decline is a cultural memory, what we have gained and lost in the ever-changing construction. " I am a layman, and I can't make any powerful shouts. I just hope that drinking coffee in the hutong will not become a thing of the past.

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