09 Visiting Beijing: Lao She Teahouse

by xue94fwsh on 2012-02-28 14:20:40

, what breast enlargement products does Amway have? This half-person tall Peking Opera flower-dressed female statue, seems to be Mu Guiying... priced at 28,000 RMB! The descendants of the eight banners in the Qing Dynasty had nothing to do all day, and teahouses became a good place to kill time. During the Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous era, with the password for cellular autologous breast enhancement, "the old peaceful people are accustomed to leisure, most are in wine shops and teahouses," from high-ranking officials to street vendors, going to teahouses became an important part of their lives. Lao She Teahouse has several floors, it's actually moving the layout of a quadrangle courtyard into a building. The teahouse is magnificent inside, with restaurants, tea rooms, tea houses, and more than ten performance halls set up. It mainly uses red-lacquered pillars, bluestone floors, and a large number of handicrafts full of Beijing cultural characteristics to decorate the atmosphere, while adding much of the pavilion style charm of Jiangnan gardens indoors. In short, once you enter the teahouse, the noise around you instantly turns into comfort and tranquility... Before coming to Beijing, I had already booked tickets to watch a folk art performance at Lao She Teahouse. Front-row seats cost 361 yuan, quite expensive. Lao She Teahouse is famous, as a Chinese person, one can't resist the temptation, let alone those foreigners? So this teahouse business is exceptionally good. There are many beautiful things in the crafts area, covered bowls for tea are one of the features of Beijing clear teahouses. Models of Peking Opera characters are prominently displayed, with every category of "Sheng Dan Jing Mo Chou" represented. I casually took a few pictures, unfortunately, I forgot to use the macro mode at the time, so the focus was a bit off. The strong young man at the door loudly hollers to welcome and see off guests using Beijing dialect. Just the volume was too loud, some people in our group were quite startled... Not to mention other things, just talking about face-changing: A few years ago, I watched a performance in Mount Emei, Sichuan, where the actor would continuously change faces multiple times. But here, the face-changing performance takes forever to change just once. Although there are parts where the actor walks down to shake hands with the audience and changes faces instantly, it still feels unsatisfactory... "Foreigners call that Peking Opera 'Bei-jing O-pe-ra', they haven't seen the five-colored greasepaint boldly painted on faces... Blue-faced Dou Erdun stealing the imperial horse, Red-faced Guan Yu battling in Changsha, Yellow-faced Dian Wei, White-faced Cao Cao, Black-faced Zhang Fei shouting cha cha..." To be continued, more pictures are stored in the space album... Coming to the performance hall on the west side of the third floor, the stage curtain has not yet been drawn. The waiter sees the guests arrive, pours tea for everyone, and sets out a few dishes of snacks... This large covered bowl tea is called Xin Daye Longjing tea, the snacks include chess piece pastries, glutinous rice rolls, pea yellow cake, cherry tomatoes (actually cashews), and small bag-packed candied haws. Coming to Lao She Teahouse, you will want to know what it used to look like. Here, the model scene recreates the appearance of Beijing teahouses during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Beijing's big bowl tea has a long history, especially prosperous during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Is this blue-faced one Dou Erlun or Lu Meng? And the red-faced Guan Yu, black-faced Bao Zheng... all are vividly lifelike. Naturally, I am reminded of Hang Tianqi's song "Singing Face Spectrum": As for the performance section, to be honest, it's really quite average! Folk music, lantern drumming, various tea art performances, Peking Opera, face-changing, etc.