It is such a pleasure meeting Noemi and her daughter from Saint-Fargeau, France, who share the same passion and love for anicent architecture and cultural heritage. Noemi invited me and my two girls to visit her Castle in Saint-Fargeau! She is my Queen of Castle. 🙂
Listen to What Joyce and Tomash Said about the Beijing Way Experience
In this whole world, among so many lives, we met in this unique place Beijing. I believe in destine. I am very happy and touched seeing you two enjoying the Beijing Way Experience, caring each other so much. Thank you very much for joining us!
Spring Festival Special Edition, Interview by Touch Beijing
I am very proud to join an interview on Feb.7, Spring Festival Special Edition, by Touch Beijing, Beijing Foreign Language Radio Station again. Listen to Yuhua to share about our precious moments about Chunjie! Many thanks@Kat@Maggie! We did make home this year and gave Mom and Dad a surprise! 我非常荣幸再次受邀参加北京外语广播电台”Touch Beijing”春节特别节目访谈。和大家分享和讲述我的家，和春节的那些事儿。
Here is the link to the broadcast: http://www.am774.com/hf/2019-02/07/cms944754article.shtml
An interview by Touch Beijing, Beijing Foreign Language Radio Station
As Founder of the Beijing Way Experience, I am very honored to be invited as Guest Speaker at Touch Beijing, Beijing Foreign Language Radio Station, on December 11, to share my passion and love for Beijing, and the story of the Beijing Way Experience! Here’s the link to the broadcast (from 29 mins) if you want to listen to the interview 🙂
http://www.am774.com/hf/2018-12/11/cms924023article.shtml
What do you think about Traditional Chinese Medicine, Massage & Wisdom?
Dr. Sue Lee, in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt, report from the scene. 🙂
Moments of the Beijing Way Experience
It says that those who have tried Douzhier will become real Beijingers. Congratulations to Sally and Ina!
I guess it is not easy to entertain a Mother-in-Law all the time! What a spontaneous play!
It is such a beautiful moment@the Smallest Hidden Hutong Museum in the world.
Jing Music of Nearly 600 Years
There are so many things changing so fast in our life, but some are simply not. The nearly 600 years Jing Music at Zhihua Temple in Beijing is one of the things that stay.
Originated from the Ming Imperial Court and introduced to Zhihua Temple in 1444, Jing music has remained as it was nearly 600 years ago!
The Beijing Way Experience is proud to present to you one of the three precious records of Jing Music tunes, recorded respectively in 1991, 2003, 2017. Great thanks go to our friend Wang Hui, one of the 27th generation musicians.
*Qingjiangyin, recorded in 1991, performed by Monk musicians of the 25th and 26th generation.
Throughout all those years, Jing Music has been carried on from generation to generation by Monk musicians. It touched my heart.
Good news, there will be a once in a year opportunity to listen to live Jing Music and a variety of ancient Chinese music on June 8, 9, 10 at Zhihua Temple Musical Festival.
Tickets are free of charge. Reservations by phone call at 6525 3670. Seats are available but running out fast!
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Date |
Concerts | Hours | Seats |
| June 8 | 1st | 19:30 | Fully booked |
| June 9 | 2nd | 9:30 | Available |
| 3rd | 14:00 | Available | |
| 4th | 19:30 | Fully booked | |
| June 10 | 5th | 9:30 | Available |
| 6th | 14:00 | Available |
I will bring my two girls to the 5th concert on June 10. Hope to see you there!
* Note: Record of Jing Music tune in 1991 is provided by the Beijing Museum for Cultural Heritage Exchanges.
Let it flow
We do not intend to make any beautiful moment at the Beijing Way Experience, we are the beautiful moment. We let it flow. Enjoy the beautiful moments captured during our Beijing Way Experiences.
Get on the rooftop and touch this hundreds of years old mythical animal figurine with your hands.
Sitting together at Gandpa Li’s home like a family gathering, gaze at more than three hundred years old well-preserved ceilings.
One of the few Shigandangs remained in Beijing, a stone tablet erected at the entrance of a lane to drive away misfortune or evil spirits.
Immerse into a world of Chinese ceramics, and get touched by Uncle Qu’s spirit.
We deserve the best, don’t we? Absorb the essence of the Chinese wisdom and health, treat self a little better from small things in daily life.
Let it all flow naturally. Hope to see you at one of our Beijing Way Experiences!
Enjoy the Spring!
Live and Play Like a Child
This is one of the heart-touching moments captured at the Beijing Way Experience.We live and play like a child. The world is so big, with so many different faces, different places, whereas the world is also so small, we all have the same heart, a child-like heart.The intimacy between people, the most deep and soft part is kept in everyone’s heart.
这是“北京味儿体验”打动人心的时时刻刻。我们活着，玩着，像个孩子一样。这个世界好大，有那么多不同的面孔，那么多不同的地方。但是这个世界又好小，我们都有一样的心，一颗孩童般的心。人与人之间的亲近，最深最柔弱的那部分保存在我们每一个人的心中。
A few years ago, Kai and I went to Paris and stayed overnight at my friend Matilde’s home, right next to Versailles. We walked to her apartment at dusk, it was a very old apartment, I still remember the creaking steps nowadays. We had a “Cheese banquet” at home and Matilde strongly recommended us to try all her favorite cheese. Even we were not big fan of cheese, we started to like it. We tasted wine, sang songs, played with her little boy Mael, and even talked with him with my little French. By the time we woke up the next morning, a room key was left to us and Matilde went to work already. It was one of the most beautiful memories in our life.
几年前，老赵和我去了趟巴黎，在我的朋友Matilde家过夜。她家所在的公寓，毗邻凡尔赛宫。黄昏时分，我们溜达到这幢老房子前，我至今还记得爬楼梯时，咯吱咯吱的响声。我们在家里享受了一顿奶酪大餐，Matilde极力推荐她所热爱的各种口味奶酪。尽管我们对奶酪没有那么有赶脚，架不住她的热情，也开始喜欢尝试。我们喝着小酒，唱起了歌，和Matilde的儿子Mael玩耍，竟然和Mael用我那蹩脚的法语聊起了天。第二天一早醒来，发现Matilde已经上班去了，家门钥匙留给了我们。那是我们人生中最美好的回忆之一。
Another time, we visited Qinghai and got lost in a National Park. A Tibetan family offered us a place to stay. A Granny turning a prayer wheel in her hand in the bed, asked her grandson to bring a huge bason of roasted potatos to the table in front of us, and a lot of buttered tea. We sat around the bonfire and chatted the night away. If Kai had not had too much buttered tea and got a fever that night, it would have been even a more perfect night.
还有一回，我们去了青海，开车在一个国家公园迷了路。一个藏族人家收留了我们。一位坐在床上，手摇转经筒的老奶奶，让她的孙子搬来一大盆烤土豆，放到我们面前，还有好多好多的酥油茶。整个晚上，我们和这一家人围坐火堆旁，聊不完的家常话。如果不是那晚老赵喝了太多酥油茶，发了烧，那将会是最完美的一晚。
At the Beijing Way experience, you are not a visitor at all. You belong to here. You play and laugh like a child. You are the beautiful moment.
在“北京味儿体验”，你哪里是什么访客，你属于这里，你玩着，活着，像个孩童一般。你就是最美的一刻。
The Moments
Life is made up of moments, the moment of listening to the pigeons whistling in the blue sky sitting in a sway chair, completing a piece of art work by your hands, savoring Mom-made food, laughing loud with your kids, the moment of a very familiar but long gone story, and many many more… The Beijing Way Experience is sharing with you all those heart-touching moments in Beijing.
China’s First Securities Exchange
China’s first Securities Exchange founded by the Chinese people in 1918, is now a local residence shared by quite a few families. When we entered the building, sunlight beaming through the windows, it felt like a sacred place, a church, perhaps. Suddenly an Ayi who was cooking in the public kitchen on the first floor lobby, looked up and gave us a shout, “Your guys scared the shit out of me!” Then she continued with her cooking as if nothing had happened.
Dust in the air. The past glory, fortune, prosperity… and everything has turned into dust.
Ma Yinglong Pharmacy
It was such a coincidence to meet the third generation of the Ma Yinglong family who were known for a famous eye medicine in China since the early 20th century. I personally approached Mr. Ma and thanked him for his family’s eye medicine who helped to heal my daughter’s eye disease faster just a few months ago. By looking into the history, I found it interesting that one of the founders of the Gest Library at the Princeton Universty, Guion Moore Gest, also used the Ma Ying long eye medicine in the 1920’s while in Beijing. It gave him some temporary relief. In response, Gest started to collect Chinese works on the treatment of eye diseases, and medical books in general. It was this collection which formed the beginning of the Gest Library.
*Special thanks go to Sweetheart Grandpa for the wonderful photos!*
Upon your request, we design and create an unique Beijing Way Experience for YOU. We hope to capture and share all those heart touching moments with YOU. Talk to Yuhua now at 861380 124 3088, add WeChat: gotiger2013 or send your request by e-mail to byhua@hotmail.com.