Wangjing is as chaotic as it is tolerant; as divided as it is harmonious; as many problems as there are ways to solve them.

The rental has always avoided Wangjing, so Wangjing's **** enjoyment of the bike is as full of hair as the 90s. Head over the flying yellow leaves, cycling to work and go to school, in fact, the mood is not bad, just a and wearing yellow and blue uniforms and takeout TEAM grabbing the road to fight the speed of the arm wrestling came unannounced.

Smaller brother cultivated into a fine, rubbing your hair strands of the past, but also can not hurt you. Think about how many starry-eyed hungry people in the office building were fed in time thanks to their profound strength.

That's it, how much temper you have, and no temper. Wangjing toxic also have medicine.

From the entry of Beijing natives into Wangjing, to the appearance of Koreans and artistic youths, to the entry of science and technology innovators and media workers, Wangjing has always had a way of transforming all kinds of life into a high-class "international face".

1. Natives of Wangjing, landlords with millions of dollars in their hands

While Wangjing at that time was only called "the village northwest of Jiuxianqiao," the 1987 master plan for the Wangjing New Area eventually made Wangjing a modernized living community. The new plan for the Wangjing New Area in 1987 finally allowed Wangjing to make its debut as a modernized living community with the name of "Groundscape".

Early in 1988, Wangjing's first residential neighborhoods were built on a piece of peppercorn ground, the neighborhoods harmonic "Hua Jia Di". Subsequently, a vigorous real estate movement in Wangjing got up, the end of the century, Wangjing has a modern city shadow. But at the time, few people could have predicted that Wangjing would become such a hot spot.

In the early 1990s, the Beijing generation flocked to Huajiadi from all directions and lived in the first residential high-rise buildings planned for the new area. 1988, Mr. H, who came to Beijing to study medicine, stayed at Wangjing Hospital after graduation and has been living in the south of Huajiadi where his unit is divided. How many years have passed, and had lived full of teachers of the same Xili, left and right neighbors rent and sale of houses, and now there is only one-third left in the downstairs walk the dog can also be greeted a few words.

The original residents of the neighborhood for nearly 30 years are still living in the neighborhood, and are not jealous of the group of rich farmers who stood up after the demolition of the village of Dawangjing in 2010.

Before 2009, the villagers of Dawangjing relied on the "tile economy" to make ends meet. But overnight demolition and relocation of the villagers have a lot of money in their hands, compensation ranging from a few million to tens of millions of dollars. Buy a car, investment, are nothing. Bold and lucky villagers in time before the soaring prices, swept away the surrounding neighborhoods of the house, and even the end of the house are not left. If you have rented Wangjing Xiyuan, Atlantic New City, those apart from a certain such as the landlord may be in this batch of demolition households.

Nowadays, the second generation and third generation take the Beijing household, living in the oldest or the most foreign-style neighborhoods. You don't have to follow the trend of the Internet industry, and you don't have to take the national exam to get a household that can't afford to buy a house even if you have one. They can live a relatively easy and decent life in traditional fields such as hospitals and schools, but they are also studying in graduate schools, doctoral programs, and studying abroad, and they are all working hard. But then they work hard, the system of the race to pursue and the Beijing foreign students are different.

In the face of a large number of outsiders crowded, Wangjing people are optimistic, eating, drinking and entertainment rich life is fully activated. But they can't hear people say that Wangjing is not good and inconvenient, obviously the subway and public transportation are very developed.

The working life of the indigenous people has not been affected much, they always know what they want to do, not to mention money and hukou to give up what they want. Just like standing on the twisted streets of Wangjing, even if they can't tell north, south, east, west and west, the compass is in their hearts, and they never get lost without relying on some dog's map.

2. The Rise and Fall of the Korean Wave

The Korean presence in Wangjing has a long history, from the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992 to the Asian financial turmoil of 1997, when the dispatched "Korean cadres" and immigrant "Korean students" gathered in the city. Korean students who were dispatched and immigrants who studied abroad gathered in Hwajiadi, a neighborhood between the Korean Embassy and the airport. Later, a large number of "Korean businessmen" came to lower-cost China and moved into Wangjing's Xiyuan 3 and 4 districts, and after 2002 a flood of Korean families moved into Wangjing's high-rise developments as Korean companies such as LG, Samsung and Hyundai moved into the area.

Wangjing is as well-known to Koreans as San Francisco's Chinatown is to the Chinese, and it's like coming home. At a time when sea-buying and overseas trips were still undeveloped, Wangjing fulfilled everything people imagined about Seoul, with K-pop, Korean dramas, Korean makeup and Dongdaemun clothes. Young people rushed into Korean supermarkets and swept up ramen and soju.

But the financial crisis and the Saad incident brought the Korean wave down twice, and the 2008 storm that made the won cough and Wangjing catch a cold also wiped out 25,000 of the 70,000 Koreans. The half-dozen authentic Korean restaurants that remain are a small source of comfort for Park and the brothers who stayed behind. As in Korean dramas, the ritual of ending a tiring day must be to clink a few cups of soju with a good friend. In Park's words, "Korean dramas didn't even dare to make up this kind of story because of the turmoil that year."

Sad's entry into South Korea has depressed traffic to Korean restaurants and forced down Lotte Mart in Wangjing. Koreans in Wangjing have experienced another depression.

"Not many in my class stayed to work." Xiao Jin, who graduated from Tsinghua University last year, has a Korean boyfriend who works in Wangjing, and his family moved into Wangjing with Samsung's arrival. She wanted to find a job after graduation and settle down in Wangjing with her boyfriend. "But now the situation is not good, a lot of [Korean] people go to study or go back to South Korea, there are not many good restaurants", Gap a year of Xiao Jin finally went to the United States for graduate school, "boyfriend and elders did not go, or a sense of home, after graduation and then we'll see, I kinda want to come back. "

Between the ebbs and flows, the decline of Wangjing's Korean culture is an indisputable fact.

3. Artistic youth, the group you can't afford to mess with

Possibly because the name sounds too much like "Painter's Ground," and perhaps because the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) relocated to its new campus in Huajiadi in 2001, many of the biggest names in the contemporary art world can't get around Huajiadi when they recall around 2000. The artist's name is "Huajiadi".

In "Autobiography of the 1990s," Zhang Xiaogang recalled that on the National Day of 1999, he came to Beijing with a bag and 20,000 yuan in cash, and landed in a 60-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in Huajiadi Xili. At that time, the landlord could not have imagined that this Yunnan brother, a graduate of Sichuan Fine Arts, would become the first of the four kings of Chinese contemporary art (oil painting) as the art market exploded, and topped the Hurun Art List in 2009 with a sale price of 301 million yuan.

"Me, Chen Wenbo, Song Yonghong, and Ma Liuming were in Huajiadi, renting ordinary apartments and converting them into studios after knocking down the partition walls." In Zhang Xiaogang's own words, "Keeping in the urban-rural interface, it's easy to come to people, and I didn't realize there were really so many opportunities this way. "

Qiu Zhijie moved here in 2000, after which several buildings in Xili were inhabited by two dozen contemporary artists. There were performance artists, video artists, feminists, and those who later became independent curators.

At that time, the free artists were so poor that Qiu Zhijie assigned more than a hundred keys, and the house was transformed into a mobile dormitory.

The early 2000s were the typical golden age of Huajiadi, when everyone ate and drank, supported each other righteously, and at the same time flirted cruelly with each other, and, with the help of human kindness and storytelling, we became a revolutionary family. Talking about art and the times, gradually getting out of the dilemma.

Painter's Ground was the first group of painters to be located in an urban area, and witnessed the transformation of artists in the 1990s from escaping from the times and hiding in the countryside, to facing up to the development of the times and responding positively to the changes in urban life. There is a spiritual bloodline between the first and the second generation of Hua Jia Di artists, and in order to strengthen their personalities, they are introspective and awakened to the world with the sharpest perspectives in both tradition and modernity.

Fa Jia Di has formed a culture that is the spiritual territory of many art students. With the Central Academy of Fine Arts as the center of the circle, there are at least a dozen studios within a 3-kilometer radius. Art school students, art students, all piled up in the neighborhood, as if living in Huajiadi, can be written into the history of local art in China.

The studio environment is much better now, but the cost of training is also prohibitively expensive. Droopy slippers, aprons and sleeves, day after day, facing all kinds of models, temperatureless plaster casts and still-life combinations, the eyes must be more accurate than a ruler, and the color sense must be on par with that of Monet, in order to have any hope of breaking through. Pressure to the point of failure, go out and follow the barbecue smell went to the most authentic eyes Wangjing small waist, jerked hundreds of skewers, full blood resurrection.

Artists I advise you easily do not mess with.

They bear the unbearable weight of young life. They can sleep on straw mats and design skyscrapers; they can wear tattered clothes and dresses, but they can also appear on the four major fashion weeks; they can sit in a chair that costs five dollars a chair, but they can also afford to win the Red Dot Design Award. The scariest thing is that they can capture all kinds of extreme looks of you, such as depicting the divinity of you eating a hot dog all over the place.

Of course, Wangjing's artistic lineage owes more or less to its next-door neighbors.

4. Science and innovation: gold or chicken feathers

Wangjing, which was promoted from a rural area to a quasi-CBD in less than two decades, has a temperament that seems to lend itself well to entrepreneurship.

Since 2012, many entrepreneurs in the Internet industry have come here with full of creativity and full of energy, activating Wangjing's circle of science and technology innovators. Cheap rent is one aspect, and moreover, they want to avoid Zhongguancun and Xi'erqi, which are occupied by Baidu, NetEase, Sohu and Aichi.

Wangjing SOHO has witnessed the migration of the Internet industry around Wangjing, and has also raised the rental and sale prices of neighboring office buildings. Pan Shiyi also expected such a high percentage of Internet companies to move in, with T3 even reaching 90 percent.

But in the end, the Internet industry is a competition with a lower elimination rate than that of an art exam, and it's an era of seeing his tall buildings rise and collapse. The earliest batch of Internet companies stationed in Wangjing SOHO may also be left with Stranger Technology.

The "code-sweeping street" between SOHO and Kirin Society left the most magical chapter in the history of Internet entrepreneurship. As long as the code attention to WeChat, you can get a box of paper towels to a thermos of gifts ranging in value. At that time, the SOHO office workers, skipped a circle sweeping a street, we know what new companies appeared. But the gift of money burning way to push the ground but burned out most of the O2O startups.

8:00-10:00AM

Wangjing, Wangjing East, Wangjing West, Futong several Wangjing subway station, 14, 15 line to send a steady stream of people, but also feed the early morning stores and convenience stores along the road.

The entry of large companies, Meituan, which has stood firm amid the ups and downs, Uber, which moved into Poly International Plaza in 2015, and O2O fresh food e-commerce companies led by Daily Fresh have attracted countless relevant talents and formed Wangjing's science and innovation circle.

Through the big waves of entrepreneurs, back then, who's takeout box is not as many as the App in the phone, who did not top SOHO think about their companies become unicorns. Even the successful ones left behind, still live a diligent, after all, the Internet is too fast.

Scientists will be entrepreneurial and research entrepreneurship into a way of life, eat by takeout App, go out several kinds of taxi software to take turns with snacks for daily use are delivered to the home, a cell phone can live in the wind and water. They have their own side of the show, after all, Wangjing people want to modern foreign style; but also health, time permitting to drill into the gym to practice, the body is the first capital of the Internet well.

Wangjing's science and technology companies do not seem to be very ambitious, all aimed at making achievements in various fields, games, life, education, fresh food e-commerce and so on. Until Alibaba's sign went up on the Greenland Center building, concentrating its UC, Youku, AliFilm and AutoNavi, outlining the Internet ecosystem from Futong East-West Street to Wangda Road.

While overtime is the norm in Internet companies, the pace and intensity of work varies by department. For example, the last spoonful of food in the cafeteria is always reserved for the technology and product departments. Companies without a cafeteria also do not panic, there are always people working overtime together to put together a single, waiting for the takeaway boy to save.

5. Creative media group, bring their own flow of the playwright

Staying up all night is the norm, coffee and milk tea Qi renewed, but to always stay awake decisiveness and thinking power. The sense of smell to chase hot spots must be more than the dog, but can not even bones with a bit of meat without picking swallowed into the stomach. Obviously work day and night, regardless of the hour, but always fantasize about the weekend exquisite afternoon tea, and once the weekend wants to retire.

They ate spicy hot writing hundred plus to million plus reading volume of the manuscript, pissed beef meatballs in the tongue burst the moment, a wonderful sentence will be in the next second mouth to mouth.

11:15PM

Wangjing under an office building, new media workers M waiting for a cab, and it is easy to call a taxi at this time. She rented a one-bedroom apartment outside the Fifth Ring Road for the sake of cheaper rent, so it's a good thing she can get reimbursed for working overtime until this point for a taxi. Can't wait to get into the heated car, shivering in the cold wind, brushing the background. After all, data is money, counting performance, M thought after paying next month's rent should also be able to reward themselves a bag.

Manipulating words and pictures, interpreting the warmest topics of the times in all walks of life, and figuring out the readers' minds are the best hands in operation, and they work in the new media. In the explosive dissemination and iteration of the rapid information, they want to get a little attention and discussion of you, points and big hair have to be a piece of shaking down.

One article after another, they have honed the most pioneering accent of this era in the physical reality. You'd think that new media people at a dinner party would be able to talk at the drop of a hat. Wrong, what they have is a deep, introspective side that absorbs everyone's dog-eared gossip, so maybe a story about you and your boss tearing each other apart is already on the cards.

Besides Mimeng, Du Shaofei and other traffic self-publishers who chose Wangjing, there's another class of creative workers who firmly believe that paper media is the best fit for headline content who have seen Wangjing's literary potential and circled the place to create a fashionable ethos unlike the flagship store on Sohwa Road.

Unlike the "grassroots" media that have risen from the ashes, they have localized their content with the golden light of internationally renowned media. Participating in top fashion conferences, design forums and various parties, and conversing with internationally renowned fashion designers, they push the heads of Cucci and Sandro into the public eye, with the goal of bringing you to recognize the fashion culture and value underneath the logos and price tags. They are sitting on stars with over 100 million dollars of traffic, mastering the most textured lenses and make-up techniques, and they are willing to save even Wang Ju.

End of the year planning for the coming year, the beginning of the year to summarize last year. Can not stop all year round, three days crying for retirement, attending celebrity banquets ball is true, but the hardships of entrepreneurs, the plight of media practitioners is also true. But for China's aesthetic and art design market dedication, they are willing to suffer.

In fact, the local wind is also considered to be a part of the media practitioners in Beijing, but with your support along the way, overtime coding, starvation to do the picture is really nothing.

Wangjing fission history of this drama, although it is doubled speed play, the progress bar obviously still hold up. I hope you're still smiling and saying hello to the camera at this point as much as you were at the other.

References:

1. Jin Deshi, "A Brief Discussion on the Planning of Beijing's Wangjing New District".

2. Zhou Wenting, Liu Yungang and Quan Zhiying, "The Formation and Development Evolution of Korean Ethnic Settlements in China in the Context of Globalization--Taking Wangjing in Beijing as an Example".

3. CCTV9 Wangjing, Huanwu Horizons.

4. Tang Xin, "Hua Jia Di .......1 Talks of People Who Experienced the Development of Chinese Contemporary Art from 1979-2004".