Travel to Beijing (1) - Wangfujing 北京之行(1) - 王府井

aaronli (73)in #travel • 6 years ago (edited)

Being a good son, when I found that my dad wanted to visit Beijing, I planed the trip at once! Finally, we started the journey this Wednesday!

If you had come to China before, you may know that the flights of China always delay and delay. This time we met the delay. The plane of 1245 was delayed to 1430 and we were sitting in the plane doing nothing. But it’s lucky already as the delay was less than two hours! It’s already 6pm when we arrived Beijing and we quickly rushed to the hotel. It was 8pm

成為一名孝子，在得知老爸想去北京看看的時候，我當然二話不說，就組織這次旅程了！終於，在這個星期三，我們出發了！
去過內地的朋友都知道，內地航班行程延誤是很普遍的事，這次我們就遇上了，本來是1245起飛的班機，結果一直在飛機上坐到差不多2點半才起飛，但已經是十分幸運了，因為只延誤了不足兩個小時！到了北京機場已是六點，我們匆匆去到入住的酒店，那個時候已是8點了。

So we could go nowhere on the first day and we just walked around. We were staying at Wangfujing. It means Prince’s Mansion Well in Chinese. It is one of the famous spot in Beijing and I think most of you know it if you visited Beijing before. It was located beside the Tiananmen. Wangfujing started development around 1000 years ago. In the Ming dynasty (1417 AD), ten princes’ mansions were built here so the street was then called Wangfu Street (Prince’s Mansion Street). Later in Qing dynasty (1905), the government renamed the street in Beijing. They found a well in the street and then called it Wangfujing. However, because of the Cultural Revolution, all the minions were destroyed.

就是說，第一天的行程是什麼地方都去不了的，所以我們只能在附近逛逛。我們住在王府井步行街，王府井可說是北京其中一個最出名的旅遊商業區了，位於天安門的附近。這條街道在元朝定都北京時已開始發展，明朝時，這裡建了十個王府，所以就叫做了王府街，後來到了清朝重新為北京街道命名，因王府街有一口水井，故更名為王府井大街。不過，經過了文化大革命，王府井的十個王府現在都已不存在了。

We had our dinner at a restaurant selling Goubuli buns. Goubuli means “dogs ignore” and it is one of the most famous food in China. There is a story: In the late 19th century, there was a man with nickname “Gouzhai” (dog). He had a shop selling steamed baozi (bread with meat). His baozi was very delicious and popular so he was very busy and had no time to chat with his customers. So the customers started to say that “Gouzhai doesn’t talk to people”. And it’s the origin of the name Goubuli (dogs ignore people).

我們隨便找了酒店一家餐廳吃狗不理包子。狗不理包子是天津三大美食之一，原來它都有一個故事：清咸豐年間有一個叫高貴友的人，乳名是狗子，在天津經營肉包子生意。由於他做的包子很好吃，客似雲來，高貴友忙得都無時間理客人，客人就笑言「狗子賣包子，不理人」，狗不理的名字不徑而走。後來慈禧太后試過狗不理包子，覺得很好吃，狗不理包子自此名聲大振。

After dinner, we visited the Wangfujing Snack Street. It is now a tourist spot of Beijing, but the price also meet the standard of a tourist spot haha. In the street there is a well.

吃過包子，我們到了附近的王府井小吃街，這小吃街在2000年開始發展，至今已成為旅遊熱點，食物價錢都很誇張！在小吃街內，在一口古井，是在王府井小吃街動工時發掘出來的，正好驗證了王府井的井字。

Yeah! After food we back to the hotel and slept. So see you the next day!

好了，飲飽食醉後就要回家睡覺了，老爸和我哥竟說第二天五點起床到天安門看升旗，我就不理他們了，哈哈。

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