Daily Life with the Taste of Old Beijing, edited by Yang Xiaosheng and jointly edited by 26 famous writers, tells the hutong life and historical memory of old Beijing in the form of "Good Beijing: Beijing Written by Writers". They will show the history, culture, time and full of fireworks of the ancient capital of old Beijing with strong traditional concepts and exquisite brushwork full of memories.
The book is based on the daily life of old Beijing told by 26 famous writers and artists in three generations. The contents are divided into seven categories: talking about food, talking about cities, remembering trips, commenting on people, reading interesting stories, talking about memories and talking about vegetation. Beijing's food culture is a unique slow cooking life, and it is an unrepeatable taste of old Beijing.
If you don't know Beijing and can't taste it, you might as well read Chen's Taste of Beijing, including shabu-shabu, pot-stewed, roast duck, sour plum soup, soy sauce garden, lotus market, barbecue season and red lanterns of Tianqiaole. The Beijing flavor of eight essays is enough to make you memorable. Just like the taste of Beijing in Chen's eyes, heart and cognition: the taste of Beijing is high in the temple and deep in the hutong; In the official display, but also in the joy of civilians; In the accumulation of history, it is also developing now. Colorful, deep and boundless.
The ancient city of Beijing is like an old photo carved into a camera, and its rich history and culture inherit the memory of the next generation. As a characteristic scene of old Beijing-Hutonger, its history is profound and long, and many narrow and miscellaneous Hutongers have become the old days of old Beijing. Liu Yida once wrote a sentence in an article: Hutong is the root of Beijingers, and quadrangles are the soul of Beijing.
Liu Yida's "Hutong Taste" describes the characteristics of Beijing Hutong and his real feelings about Beijing. This is what every Beijinger will feel, and it is also the smell of fireworks hidden in the ancient city of Beijing. Those old Beijing hutongs, which are composed of street names such as Fang, Xiang, Xiang, Wan, Yuan and Lu, are just like dolls. The big hutong is covered by small hutongs, which are numerous and narrow, miscellaneous and miscellaneous, but full of unique hutong flavor.
There is a city in everyone's memory, which contains the memory of childhood, the imprint of the times, the life in the hutongs and the initial fireworks.