Beijing Guijie Opening Hours: 24 hours Beijing Guijie Attractions Introduction: Guijie (Ghost Street) is the name that Beijing people call a restaurant street in Dongzhimen, Dongcheng District. It starts from the west end of the Dongzhimen Overpass of the Second Ring Road in the east and ends at the east end of Jiaodaokou East Street in the west.

There are many embassies in the surrounding area, which gives Guijie a unique geographical advantage. Every year, the profits generated by foreign guests alone for Guijie are as high as 35 million yuan.

On this 1,442-meter-long Dongnei Street, there are more than 150 commercial shops of various types along the street, including 148 catering services, accounting for more than 90% of all shops on Dongnei Street.

The density of restaurants is so high that there will probably never be another one in Beijing.

Regarding the origin of the name Guijie (Ghost Street); there are many different versions at present, but they are all groundless or hearsay, and the real statement can only be explained clearly by those old Beijingers living in Dongzhimen; during the Qing Dynasty, various city gates in Beijing were

It has a special purpose and cannot be used casually. Just like the imperial court must use Deshengmen to send out troops, Yongdingmen to withdraw troops, and Xuanwumen to execute criminals, Dongzhimen is only used to transport wood to the city and out of the city.

The city gate that transports the dead. Those people in their 50s who have lived on the edge of the city for generations still clearly remember the scene when they were young, calling friends to play on the city gate upstairs. Standing on the city gate, they looked at the city.

Inside is a straight dirt road where you can see the Drum Tower, and outside the city is an endless cemetery.

Since the city gate was the urban-rural juncture at that time, the original morning market naturally formed in the city gate. The vendors who mainly sold groceries, vegetables and fruits opened in the middle of the night and dispersed at dawn. The stall owners used kerosene lamps to light up the market.

The lights look dim in the distance, and the coffin shops and bar houses are located side by side on the entire street, hence the name "Ghost Market."

Coincidentally, after the market boom began, many merchants and shops on both sides of Dongzhimen Street also did a lot of various businesses, but none of them could do well. Even the only state-owned department store (later the former site of Jindingxuan

) had to close down, but then people discovered that the only good thing to do was to open a restaurant on this street, and the restaurants here were hardly visited during the day, but at night they were bustling with people and bustling with traffic, and there was a prosperous scene.

No one can explain whether it is because the ghosts come to the city to eat at night, as the local elders said, and this has led to such prosperity.

Due to the formation of the hot market, Ghost Street has become a household name in Beijing. Of course, many people have also seen the huge business opportunities here. Even the local government initially rejected the strong management but later supported it. The District Commercial Committee also named this place "East".

"Inside dining street".

However, the word ghost is not elegant after all, so the capable people of the Dongcheng District Committee thought hard about changing the name of the ghost street, but the bosses did not buy it because they were afraid that changing the name would damage the feng shui. It was right to do it; someone actually discovered it.

There was this "簋" with the same sound and different characters in the dictionary, and it could also be related to eating, so we started to publicize it and built a large bronze statue of "簋" at the end of the bridge on the ghost street side of the Dongzhimen Overpass, so there was

Now this civilized "Guijie".

Today Guijie has become a representative of Beijing’s food culture and a symbol of fashionable dining, as well as a yearning in people’s hearts, a place of joy, and even a source of conversation after dinner.

Many people's experience of "spending the night" began here; and people almost unanimously chose to spend all the exciting days in this city here, such as the successful bid for the Olympic Games, Chinese football going global, the Asian Cup defeat of Japan, etc.

People here stay up all night to vent their anger. Everyone sings, curses, drinks, shouts, hugs, and cries together. The whole street is restless every night. This is the current Guijie Street.

There are many famous snacks in Beijing, such as braised hotpot, fried tripe, sheep scorpion, etc. In recent years, a food street featuring spicy crayfish has emerged in Beijing. This street is Guijie.

Guijie welcomes diners from all over the world 24 hours a day with its civilian service.

Next, let’s go to Guijie to have a look.

Feature 1: Spicy crayfish Gui refers to a food container with a round mouth and two ears in ancient China. A street is named after Gui, so it is naturally a place to eat.

Spicy dishes such as spicy crayfish and spicy meat crab are the main dishes of Guijie.

The spicy and spicy aroma attracts many repeat customers.

Feature 2: Civilian service. It is understood that in Guijie, the price of a spicy crayfish is about 3 yuan. According to the consumption standard of 3 or 4 people, 40 lobsters, plus 3 or 4 side dishes, can guarantee the meal.

A good meal will cost about 150 yuan.

Feature 3: 24-hour operation. Eighty or nine years ago, there were only a few restaurants on this street. Because there would always be a group of customers coming for late-night snacks after 9 o'clock in the evening, several restaurants extended their business hours one after another. Later, they simply changed their business hours.

It has become open 24 hours a day.

Since its development, there are more than a hundred all-day restaurants on the street less than 1 kilometer long.

From six o'clock in the afternoon to four o'clock in the morning the next day, Guijie Street is the busiest time for business.

Guijie has become a part of Beijing’s night culture. Its significance has gone beyond the scope of restaurants and wine shops, and more reflects an aspect of the daily life of ordinary people in Beijing.