With 16 days to go before the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism supports and guides Music Weekly to launch the 2022 "Music Lights Up the City" - "Watch the Winter Olympics, Listen to Beijing" theme Beijing Subway Music Map, taking you to experience Beijing from a different perspective: watch a performance, walk while walking, and feel the unique charm of Beijing, the "City of The Two Olympics".
At the end of last year, the western section of Line 11, the southern section of Line 17, the first phase of Line 19, the third phase of Line 8 and other 9 (section) lines have been opened, Beijing rail transit has become more convenient, this special release of the 2022 Beijing subway music map, let you use the "hear" way to better experience Beijing!
The Beijing Subway Music Map has compiled 120 theaters, concert halls, bars, etc. related to "hearing" and recommending them to everyone. ↓↓↓ Reply to the "Beijing Metro Music Map" in the "Cultural Tourism Beijing" public account to get a high-definition electronic version of the map (please do not use it for commercial purposes~).
In addition, we have also specially selected the top ten subway stations in Beijing, as an unmissable "hear" punch card, like friends must take a look!
Tiananmen West Station
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Tiananmen is the main gate of the imperial city of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was built in the fifteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1417), designed by the Ming Dynasty's royal architect Master Ku Xiang, and renamed Tiananmen in the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651) of the Qing Dynasty. In any version of the China Travel Guide, there will be no shortage of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen In Beijing, so our "hearing" punch card starts at Tiananmen West Station on Line 1 of the Beijing Subway.
● National Centre for the Performing Arts: Metro Line 1 Tiananmen West Station Exit C walk 270 meters to the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The National Centre for the Performing Arts is one of the landmark buildings of the new "Sixteen Views of Beijing", which has an opera house, concert hall, drama theater, small theater, art exhibition hall, cultural and creative shop, Western restaurant, café and other supporting facilities. You can buy tickets separately, but the best way is to buy a ticket for the evening's show, both to visit and to watch a high-level performance, and the audiovisual enjoyment is combined.
● Great Hall of the People: East of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, across the street from it. Looking up at the national emblem, the magnificent architecture makes the sense of sacredness come to life. In the past two decades, the Great Hall of the People has been a popular venue for cultural performances, and the Beijing New Year Concert has been held here for 24 consecutive years. Affected by the epidemic, the 25th Beijing New Year Concert was broadcast live in the form of an online "cloud concert", and the 26th in 2022 was relocated to the North Exhibition Theater again.
● Palace Museum: Founded in 1925, the Palace Museum was built on the basis of the Forbidden City, the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. After six hundred years of rise and fall, the gates of the Imperial Palace were finally opened to the public. Here is one of the 50 must-see attractions in the world by the BBC. Although the Forbidden City is not a theater where you can watch the performance, but thinking of the Forbidden City, I believe that everyone can unconsciously echo the melody of a costume drama in their hearts, so "hearing" Beijing, punching in the Forbidden City is essential!
From Tiananmen via Duanmen, you can take the noon gate entrance to enter the Forbidden City; if you take the subway, it is recommended to get off from Tiananmen East Station on Line 1, you can walk less. After visiting the Forbidden City, it is recommended to take the exit of Donghuamen, which is very close to Wangfujing Commercial Street; if you go out from Shenwu Gate, the nearby scenic spots worth punching in are Jingshan Park and Beihai Park. To Jingshan Park, you must climb the Wanchun Pavilion and step on the center of Beijing, overlooking Beijing.
● Zhongshan Park Music Hall: Zhongshan Park and Jingshan Park are listed in the forbidden city one south and one north, zhongshan park music hall is located in the Royal Classical Garden Zhongshan Park with pine cypress sensen and pavilion ancient corridor, adjacent to the five-colored earth of the Sheji Altar. No matter which season you want to experience Beijing, you can enjoy a wonderful concert.
● Beijing Concert Hall: From the north gate of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, walk 700 meters west along Chang'an Avenue, or take Metro Line 1 or Line 4 directly from Xidan Station Exit D and walk to it. The Beijing Concert Hall was one of the first modern-scale performance venues on the mainland, designed and built for the performance of music, and was once known as the "Temple of Music in China".
Front door station
Qianmen Street is a historic commercial street located on the central axis of Beijing. These include Dashilar, Beijing Square, two major blocks of ancient and new, and Xianyukou Food Street. Beijing Fang is an old city renovation block that opened in 2017, including well-known hutongs and landmark places such as the original Langfang Toutiao and Persuasion Field, which is different from the original old shopping street like Dashilar, but a modern commercial and cultural block. It is a building cluster composed of a mix of new and old buildings with the cultural relics protection unit "Centennial Persuasion Field" as the core. Exit C of Qianmen Station on Metro Line 2 and experience the beauty of the collision of tradition and modernity!
● GuangdeLou Theatre Garden: One of the oldest surviving theatre gardens in Beijing. The famous aspect of Guangde Lou is not only in the long history, but also in the fact that it is a treasure place where the ancestors of the opera ancestors and famous celebrities of the past quickly became popular by their talents. Cheng Changgeng, Yu Ziyun, Mei Qiaoling, Yu Sansheng, Wang Guifen and other peking opera grandfathers, as well as later famous classes such as "Xilian Cheng", "Shuangqing Society" and "Bin Qing Society" all performed here for a long time, and it was the hottest, most popular and best entertainment venue in Beijing at that time. Now it is the permanent performance place of Deyun Society. Tired of walking around, sitting down and listening to a crosstalk is also another kind of relaxation and experience.
●Sanqing Garden: Also known as "Sanqing Theater", it is an old opera garden mainly based on Peking Opera performances. According to the 1842 edition of the Menghua Trivia Book, "Today's Sanqing Garden, during the Qianlong period, feasted and lived in residence. In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), it was renamed "Sanqing Garden", and the restored Sanqing Garden reopened in 2016, the sound of yellow skin rose again, and the grand scenery of pear garden reappeared. Now it is also a permanent performance place for the Deyun Society, and in addition to cross-talk, the Deyun Library also performs here.
● Lao She Tea House: The tea house named after Mr. Lao She, built in 1988, is full of antique and Beijing flavor. You can enjoy a wealth of traditional art performances such as Peking Opera, Drum Music, Acrobatics, Ventriloquism, Hand Shadow Opera, and Beijing Peking Wrestling, and it is a must-visit punch card for children to feel the taste of Beijing.
● Debut • Heavenly Paradise: One of the famous "Four Great Theaters" of the Qing Dynasty, witnessing the ups and downs of Chinese Peking Opera for 200 years. There have been countless famous figures left here, and Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Shang Xiaoyun, Xun Huisheng, etc. of peking opera "four famous dans" have performed here. In 2019, the world's first national Peking Opera experience hall was unveiled and re-opened in Tianyuan. There are not only innovative Peking Opera performances, but also immersive Peking Opera experiences, which are worth experiencing live!
Wangfujing Station
Wangfujing Avenue, like the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysées, is as famous at home and abroad. With the penetration of the Line 8 subway at the end of 2021, the exit of the subway Jinyu Hutong Station leads directly to the apm shopping mall of the pedestrian street. In addition, there are department stores, Wangfu Zhonghuan, foreign bookstores, and Catholic Church East Church in the pedestrian street.
● Auspicious Grand Theatre: With the meaning of "auspicious ruyi", it reopened last year, experiencing vicissitudes and changes, witnessing the heyday of Peking Opera art and the changes of the times. If you want to listen to Peking Opera or Kunqu Opera, come to the Auspicious Grand Theater!
● Juyin Theater: Beijing People's Art Theater was built to commemorate Mr. Jiao Juyin, one of the famous Chinese dramatists and founders of Renyi, located in the northeast direction of Wangfujing, and can be reached by Exit A of Dengshikou Station of Metro Line 5. Go to the small theater to see a play, there will be an unexpected audiovisual experience!
● China Children's Theater: Located northwest of Wangfujing Department Store. The Chinese Children's Theater at night is like a fairy tale castle in the style of Baroque architecture, dedicating mysterious and magnificent fairy tale worlds to small audiences. Its brilliance and beauty have fulfilled many childhood dreams, and every child is worth feeling once.
Nanluoguxiang Station
Nanluoguxiang is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Beijing, completely preserving the courtyard texture of the Yuan Dynasty Hutongs, and is the largest, highest-grade, and most resource-rich checkerboard traditional residential area in the mainland, and one of the streets and alleys with the richest old Beijing style. From Ming Dynasty generals to Qing Dynasty princes, from the president of the Beiyang government to the president of the Kuomintang, from the literary masters to the giants of the painting world, every alley here has left traces of history. Today, the street has become a fashion landmark in Beijing and has been named "25 Great Places in Asia" by Time Magazine.
● Basil Theater: Known as the "Artemisia Pole Theater" by the jianghu people, it is opened next to the Central Academy of Drama and is the first non-profit small theater in Beijing, which was rebuilt on the basis of the Republic of China Quadrangle. Don't look at it in the alley, there is no grand doorway, but the Basil Theater is an international theater, has been holding China's second largest international theater festival "Nanluoguxiang Drama Festival" for six consecutive years. Usually, there are also talk show performances, which are very suitable for young people to feel it!
Unity Lake Station
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Every day, when it comes to the end of the day, there are more young people from the Tuanjiehu subway station on Line 10. They either go to Sanlitun Taikoo Li Shopping Mall to eat and shop, or they go to Sanlitun Bar Street... In short, the bustling nightlife in Beijing has begun! Completely different from the bar style of Houhai and Wudaoying, it is bustling and full of lights and highlights of the metropolis.
● Red Pavilion: Located in Taikoo Li North District, Sanlitun, Beijing, it is one of the favorite gathering places of stars and artists in Beijing, as well as hipsters, where a lot of art exhibitions, trend exhibitions, brand exhibitions and other activities are held, suitable for creating an immersive art experience, bringing a new feeling to the audience from the visual, auditory and tactile senses. In recent years, in the autumn of autumn, many important experimental performances of the Beijing International Music Festival have been staged in the Red Pavilion.
● PH Beijing: Sanlitun li Beijing's most HipHop bar, many well-known rappers are going to perform, if you also like HipHop music, you may wish to come here for a night of hip hop!
● 1/3· OT (Workers' Sports Shop): Another of Beijing's most popular nightclubs southwest of Sanlitun. The 24 hours of the day are divided into three equal parts, of which 1/3 (8 hours) is for entertainment, and becoming the best 1/3 of your life is the ultimate goal of ONE THIRD. OT often has world-class guests to visit the tour, if you don't want to walk, you can take the subway line 2, exit from Chaoyangmen Exit A and walk past.
Wangjing South Station
When it comes to art centers in Beijing, the first thing that comes to mind is the 798 Art District, which gathers the UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the Living 3D Museum, the IOMA Hermas Art Center, the Mumu Art Museum and many other Internet celebrity punch cards, no matter how old you are, you can find a pleasant place here.
● Xiao Ke Theater: Located in the 798 Art District, Xiao Ke Theater is a new form of theater, musician Xiao Ke is well known for creating "Because of Love", "Waiting for You to Love Me", "Homecoming", "Welcome to Beijing", this theater is also a place he has operated for many years. The theater is committed to producing high-quality "Xiaoke form dramas" with strong sensory stimulation that change the traditional viewing relationship, so that the audience becomes an actor and the actor becomes an audience, and every audience will be immersed in the performance process of the play and immersed in the scene.
Wukesong Station
The first Bloomage LIVE is located in Wukesong and consists of Beijing Cadillac Center, M Space, Hi-Park Basketball Park, Wukesong Cultural and Sports Plaza, as well as Hi-Up and Hi-Ice. Hundreds of concerts, sports events and other activities are held here every year, attracting millions of spectators, and is a new landmark of beijing entertainment and a basketball mecca.
● MAO Livehouse: Since 2007, the first store was opened in Wukesong, Beijing, and it has become the first chain management model Livehouse in China for more than ten years, with 9 chain stores nationwide. MAO Livehouse is a gathering place for literary youth and is also a popularity. It is the cradle of the growth of independent musicians and the cultural landmark of the city.
● Beijing Cadillac Center: Beijing Cadillac Center, formerly known as Wukesong Gymnasium, is the venue for basketball events at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and is also one of the few professional basketball venues in China that can compete with NBA venues. Many popular artists have held concerts here.
● Hip Hop Bag Shop: In Bloomage Hi-Up, there are hip hop bag shop small theater performances. Hip Hop Bag Shop has nearly 100 cross-talk actors and a professional operation team, while operating hip hop bag shop and carrying forward traditional Chinese cross-talk, it also takes into account the cultural business activities of qu art and drama.
Shichahai Station
Shichahai includes three waters and adjacent areas of Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai, Shichahai is also written as "Shichahai", and there are originally ten Buddhist temples around it, so it is called. Many ancient buildings in Shicha Seascape Area occupy an important position in the history of urban construction and development and cultural history in Beijing, and the main representative attractions are Gongwangfu, Qingwangfu, Prince Alcohol Palace, Bell and Drum Tower, Deshengmen Arrow Tower, Guanghua Temple, Yanbao Xie Street, etc.
● Houhai Bar Street: Compared with the workers' body Sanlitun, Houhai Bar Street is more literary and quiet. At night, when the lights come on, the lights are red and green, and the melodious music floats out of the hutongs, creating a unique beijing nighttime beauty.
● Guanghua Temple: Beijing's famous large-scale Buddhist temple, walking into the temple, ancient trees, incense smoke, Sanskrit sound bursts, will make people feel the peace of mind instantly. Guanghua Temple is only open on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, because it is also the seat of the Beijing Buddhist Association, so on major Buddhist festivals, festivals are organized here.
● Gulou West Theater: Gulou West Theater integrates theater, café, book bar and rehearsal hall, with more than 260 performances per year, and has become a new landmark of Beijing drama due to its unique genetic quality. Since its inception, it has produced a series of enduring high-reputation drama works: "Pillow Man", "Inspector Visit", "One Sentence top 10,000 Sentences", "The Beauty of Li Nanshan", "Marriage Situation", "Good Night, Mother" and so on. If you don't want to walk from Shichahai, you can take Metro Line 2 or Line 8 and go directly from Gulou Street Exit H.
Lama Temple Station
Near the Lama Temple subway station, there is a very famous hutong, Wudaoying Hutong. After the founding of new China, there were 69 courtyards in this 600-meter hutong, and when the place name was rectified in 1965, it was officially named "Wudaoying Hutong". Before the development of the five camps, most of them were homes. In the early morning, eat a steaming meal of soy milk fritters, catch a morning market to pick up some fresh vegetables and fruits, and the day of the Wudao Camp begins here. Today, Wudaoying Hutong has slowly become a gathering place for Internet celebrities of petty bourgeois literary and artistic youth, and unlike the people in Nanluoguxiang, Wudaoying Hutong is more idyllic and more diverse. You can reach it by subway line 2 or line 5 Lama Temple Station, line 2 and Andingmen station.
● School: A special introduction to this small Livehouse in Wudaoying Hutong, founded by Joyside band manager Liu Fei and bassist Liu Hao, is very famous in Beijing rock circles. With the broadcast of the music variety show "Summer of the Band", School has become a standard Internet celebrity punch card. This is the starting point for many young bands to start their rock dreams, and it is also a place where many bands can find their former true feelings, and it is also a good place for you to enjoy wine and rock and roll.
● Confucius Temple and Guozijian Museum: The Confucius Temple and Guozijian in Beijing were in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and were not only important places for royal worship of Confucius, but also the highest institution of learning and educational administrative institutions, which can be called the holy places of Traditional Chinese Studies. Stroll through the "YongYong", feel the "Emperor's personal teaching", and have a "listening" taste.
Tianqiao Station
In history, Beijing was partly the Beijing of the royal nobility centered on the imperial city, and part of the Beijing of the commoners represented by the tianqiao. The flyover is the place where the old Beijing practiced in the old era, and it is the place where the hustle and bustle of the city is full of acrobatics, so it has become the place that best reflects the folk customs of the capital for hundreds of years. Today's Beijing, still retain the tianqiao culture, take the subway line 8 Tianqiao Station Exit A, let's feel the beauty of the tianqiao under the customs and culture of the new era.
● Tianqiao Art Center: Tianqiao Art Center is a comprehensive theater group mainly based on musicals, including dramas, dance dramas, shows, concerts, ballets and symphonic concerts and other performing arts forms. The performances are varied and concentrated.
● Tianqiao Theater: Tianqiao Theater was built in 1953 and was the first theater built in Beijing after the founding of new China. Inaugurated in March 2001, the New Tianqiao Theatre is the only professional opera and ballet theatre in the capital. World-famous art groups and artists such as the Royal Ballet and Pavarotti have performed here.
● Beijing Deyunshe Theater (Tianqiao): Beijing Deyunshe Theater is located in Tianqiao, the birthplace of Jingwei folk art, and is rebuilt from the Tianle Theater, which was founded in 1933. Founded in 1996, "Beijing Deyun Society" uses theater as a medium to disseminate traditional culture and folk art to the public, so that cross-talk art can return to the theater and survive. This is the place where the Deyun Society began, and it is also a must-come place for every Deyun girl.
● Xuannan Bookstore: A good place to listen to commentaries. Xuannan Bookstore was established in 2007, in addition to the suspension of performances due to the epidemic, for more than ten years, Xuannan Bookstore has been rain or shine, every Saturday afternoon punctual performance, led by the famous storyteller Lian Liru three generations of storytellers to provide the audience with the original Beijing storytelling, the artistic charm of on-site storytelling has been fully displayed.
● Jiangjin Wine· OMNI SPACE: Moved from Drum Tower to Tianqiao Art Center B1, Jiangjin Liquor grew from a music bar to a Jiangjin Liquor · OMNI SPACE has brought more rock 'n' roll to the south city of Beijing. Many well-known bands have performed here, including familiar faces from the music variety show "Summer of the Band". Friends who like rock and roll, be sure to come and feel it.
If you want to listen while walking and planning a day trip to the outskirts of Beijing, then you can refer to the following 5 different styles of route recommendations, choose one you are interested in, meet the small partners, and go up!
Red Music Tour
Tangshang Village is located in the Xiayunling National Forest Park in Beijing, with a deep red background, and is an important part of the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Pingxi. In 1943, at the age of 19, Cao Mars composed the revolutionary song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" that spread throughout the motherland. Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China Memorial Hall here, and in 2021 it will receive 200,000 visitors to study here. In the morning, come to Tangshang Village to feel the red tour, and in the afternoon, you can go straight to the Baicao Riverside Scenic Area to "release". Baicao Bank is the only tourist attraction in Beijing that can be directly reached by car to the top of more than 2,000 meters, with a variety of landscape styles, you can feel and watch the wonders of "one mountain and four seasons", "alpine cloud sea" and "glacier rhododendron", which is one of the new punching places in the film.
Ancient rhyme music tour
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In Beijing, if you want to find a place where you can feel the beauty of the guqin that has been passed down for thousands of years, then JunTianfang, which has the titles of "National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base" and "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Research Base", is an excellent choice. Designed by Wang Peng, a famous guqin cutting master in mainland China, Juntianfang is located in QianyuanShangcun, Weishanzhuang, Daxing District, Beijing, with a quiet environment and two huge wooden doors separating the hustle and bustle of the world outside. The Juntianfang houses Wang Peng's collection of famous pianos and various ancient notation classics. Walking through these old pianos with a long history and incomparably precious, here, you can't help but sigh the strong vitality of traditional culture. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Mr. Wang Peng's "Taikoo Legacy" Shi Kuang style was used for live guqin solos, allowing global audiences to share the same taste. Jun Tianfang accepts tourists to make an appointment to visit, and information about exhibitions, performances and other information can be obtained in its public account.
Five Senses Music Tour
Universal Beijing Resort, located in Tongzhou District, Beijing, is the third theme park in Asia and the fifth in the world. Officially opened in September last year, the second phase plans to build a theme park containing Chinese elements, introducing Chinese culture and IP such as Sun Wukong. The third phase will also plan to build a water park. Universal Park includes seven themed attractions including Jurassic World Nubra Island, Transformers Base, Kung Fu Panda Gaiworld, Future Water World, Harry Potter's Wizarding World, Minion Land and Hollywood. Compared with ordinary amusement parks, the 3D project here is really dazzling. Transformers Fire Source Scramble, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, Despicable Minion Haunting, jurassic world adventure these 4 items are a must-play! The all-round amusement experience of sight, hearing and smell makes people fully open! Local visitors can spend a day, while out-of-town visitors can choose to stay one night at a hotel in the resort area. Parents with babies should pay attention to the fact that most of the children with a height of 1 meter-1.2 meters can play Oh, there is a height self-test at the gate of the scenic spot to play the project, and those who are not at ease can first go to the test. Metro Line 7 / Batong Line Universal Resort Station Exit D, walk 785 meters to reach.
Outdoor music tour
Located in the Beijing Yuyang International Ski Resort in Pinggu District, many well-known music festivals are held here. China Legu Grassland Music Park adopts the same high-end lawn varieties of "early maturing grass" as Tiananmen Square. This cold-season grass is a perennial variety, its characteristic is that it prefers a cold, cool and humid climate, and in Beijing and other areas, it can maintain a long green period and meet the requirements of evergreen to a certain extent. The soft and comfortable venue environment allows the audience to listen to music while jumping passionately on the grass barefoot, or lying on their backs in the green ocean, feeling the unique charm of outdoor music. When the epidemic is over and the spring is in full bloom, let's meet here and feel the singing night brought by the music festival!
Industrial music tour
The rugged steelmaking furnace of the past, which blends modern exhibition and commercial elements, is now a famous internet celebrity punch card. Shougang Park, which was suspended and relocated due to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, is inseparable from the Olympic Games. As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics approach, it is back to life. Shougang Ski Jump is the only snow competition venue built in the urban area of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and after the Winter Olympics, it will also become the world's first permanently retained ski jump. Shougang Park often hosts a variety of creative markets, art exhibitions and live music events, or a magical place where you can shoot a large number of effects, hurry up and call your friends to a steel trip! Metro Line 11 Xinshougang Station Exit D, walk 277 meters to reach.
Image source | Visual China, Jun Tianfang WeChat public account
Text source | Music Weekly