Chapter 111: Visiting the Forbidden City: God takes a selfie
With two days to go before the official Jobs biography press conference, Yang Guo plans to take Qiqi out to visit the capital. Zheng Yujie originally wanted to be a tour guide for Yang Guo, but she couldn't help it, because as the person in charge of the project team, she had to get ideas about a lot of things, and she couldn't get away for a while.
Where to go?
Coming to the capital, Houhai, Sanlitun's bar street is very popular, but it is inconvenient to go with your daughter, Liulichang, Panjiayuan this kind of antique city, I don't know how to go to this line of work, the major attractions are listed on the screen are dazzling, not to mention a day or two, a month or two may not be finished.
However, Yang Guo felt that there was a place that he couldn't go to! That's the Forbidden City!
The capital is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the Forbidden City is the palace of the last two feudal dynasties, a symbol of imperial power, and a representative of ancient Chinese architectural art!
Think about it a few hundred years ago, in the era when there were no large-scale machinery and no advanced construction technology, in a vast land with a width of 750 meters from east to west, a length of 960 meters from north to south, and an area of more than 720,000 square meters, it was possible to symmetrically list more than 9,000 magnificent and luxurious palaces along the central axis, and still be orderly and staggered, what kind of miracle is this? To this day, it can still attract the attention of the world, how can you not go to see such a place?
Yang Guo thought, the National Day has long passed now, and it is not a weekend, so there shouldn't be too many people going to the Forbidden City to watch it at this time, right?
After arriving, Yang Guo realized that he was taking it for granted!
Even on weekdays, there is still an endless stream of tourists visiting the Forbidden City, from Chinese people with different accents to foreign tourists with blond hair and blue eyes or swarthy bodies. Yang Guo is not the only one who understands that the Forbidden City, which is known as the first of the five major palaces in the world, is known as the first tourist attraction in the world, and there is no reason why tourists who come to Beijing not come to see it!
Although there are a lot of people, it is okay, not to the point of being crowded.
Today Kiki is sitting in a strap, carried by her father on her chest, traveling with her father, she is wearing a white panda shirt, with a matching hat, two black round ears on top of the white hat, looking very cute.
When Yang Guo was queuing up to buy tickets, Qiqi couldn't hold back her expectations, which attracted the attention of many tourists. There are even two blonde beauties from the United States, who are so cute that Kiki can't help but run over to take a photo with her. Yang Guo had no choice but to stand between them, and raised a V-shaped hand with a stiff expression.
After waiting in line for almost a quarter of an hour to buy a ticket, he was finally able to step into this palace complex, Yang Guo sorted out his excitement, hugged Qiqi's little belly, and walked in from Shenwu Gate.
Shenwu Gate belongs to the back door, and after Yang Guo entered, the first thing he saw was not a huge palace, but a garden-style royal backyard - the Imperial Garden. The Imperial Garden is very different from the Suzhou Garden in the south of the Yangtze River, it lacks a subtle squeamishness, towering pines and cypresses, rare and rare flowers and trees, like carefully carved natural strange stones, pavilions and pavilions across the lotus pond and blue lake, although beautiful and quiet, but people who are immersed in this scene can definitely feel a kind of indifferent atmosphere!
Kiki likes a beautiful place with flowers and grass like the Imperial Garden, she sits on Yang Guo's chest, looks at this piece of beauty, and happily clapps her little hands. When Yang Guo was about to leave, she pouted unhappily, kicked her calves twice indiscriminately, and her temper was not small!
Walk through the Imperial Garden, and you will find all kinds of palaces, large and small! Although it is still the inner court, the palace here is not small, Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, etc., are all familiar names on costume TV series! However, perhaps because it was the place where the royal family lived, there were various independent courtyard gardens everywhere.
After the inner court, Yang Guo put up an umbrella, mainly to shade Qiqi from the sun, but if he couldn't come to the capital, he would tan his daughter into a little black pig!
The imperial palace in front of the Forbidden City is completely different from the inner court that Yang Guo just saw, and its overall style is wide and wide, tall and majestic.
Time is limited, Yang Guo can't walk around one palace by one slowly, he can only walk through the various halls, but the shock in his heart can't be stopped: the distance view is magnificent and magnificent, and the near appreciation is classical and magnificent, solemn and solemn.
Although many palaces are just passing by in a hurry, but Yang Guo of Taihe Hall has not let go anymore, this legendary "Jinluan Palace" is also the existence of a big book even in the wild history! Not only is it the largest of all palaces, but its specifications are also the highest and most luxurious!
Not to mention its five ridges and four slopes, the ten beast-shaped sculptures of different shapes on the eaves are also unique in the world! Yang Guo felt that the most interesting thing was the several golden dragon pillars next to the throne, which looked particularly like the Dinghai Divine Needle in "Journey to the West", I don't know if Wu Chengen was inspired by this pillar back then.
Many people mistakenly think that the Taihe Hall is the place where the emperor goes to court every day, Yang Guo checked the information before coming, but in fact, it is not, the highest standard place like the Taihe Hall is used to hold major ceremonies, such as the emperor's wedding, birthday or something. Of course, the sacrifice to heaven is not here, it is the mound altar next to the Temple of Heaven.
When you come to the scenic spot, the most important thing is to take pictures, and Yang Guo, who is keen to record the life of himself and his daughter, will naturally not forget. In addition to taking a few photos in front of the Imperial Garden and various palaces, in the Taihe Palace, Yang Guo even took a selfie of himself and Qiqi with his iPhone.
Compared with looking for tourists to help take pictures, Yang Guo believes more in his own photo skills, especially after these months of exercise, Yang Guo has gradually mastered unique selfie skills, whether it is serious or funny, he can easily hold it!
The dragon chair can't be approached, Yang Guo can only shoot from a distance, even if there are a lot of people, Yang Guo is still very clever through borrowing and unique angles, not only took a photo that did not enter by mistake, but also took the effect of the father and daughter sitting on the dragon chair grinning! This is also due to the fact that the aperture of the iPhone is not too wide, so it will not cause the effect of far-end blurring due to focusing.
Walking out of the Taihe Palace, Yang Guo was still a little reluctant, because when he walked here, the Forbidden City almost passed by. Many places in the Forbidden City are not open to tourists, only some major palaces around the central axis. If there is a chance, Yang Guo really wants to visit the entire Forbidden City!
It took less than a morning to visit the Forbidden City, but Yang Guo didn't plan to stay in it longer, because even if he could endure the hunger, Qiqi would have to drink grandma, and after playing for a morning, Qiqi was also a little tired!
I walked out of the noon gate and walked a long way to find a café that was not so crowded. After coming in, Yang Guo knew the reason why there were not so many people in this café - it was too expensive here! An ordinary latte costs more than 200 yuan a cup, and the average tourist really can't afford it.
Yang Guo drank the most expensive coffee in Yangcheng or in a foreign trade company, once he went out to meet a customer, he invited the customer to drink cat poop coffee at public expense, which was 288 yuan a cup, but it was cat poop coffee! The latte in that café is only more than 50 yuan!
It's expensive, Yang Guo doesn't care, he is not short of money now, although he hasn't taken orders for two months, but the book he translated with Dongxin Publishing House has more than 100,000 yuan for manuscript alone, not to mention some miscellaneous remuneration (such as the leader of the translation team, proofreading, etc.)!
More than money, Yang Guo cares more about Qiqi's nap to sleep quietly and comfortably, which is exactly what this café can provide!
Ordered a cup of Blue Mountain coffee for 366 yuan, whether it is authentic or fake Yang Guo can't drink it, he has seen a saying, that is, the Blue Mountains in domestic cafes are basically fakes, but it doesn't matter, he likes the mellow taste and unique sweet and sour taste of Blue Mountain coffee, and he can't drink authentic (and can't afford it), and it's not bad to drink something less pure.
I asked for some snacks and a cup of hot water, and the hot water made milk powder for Kiki, and after Kiki drank the milk powder, she listened to the soft music of the café for a while, and then fell asleep sweetly.
Yang Guo, who drank coffee, was in good spirits, but he didn't want to run around in the face of this kind of big sun, so he simply sat on the soft sofa chair in the café, with one hand behind his head and one hand around her through the small quilt covering Qiqi.
His eyes were open, not squinting and sleepy, just thinking about what he wanted to do lately.
The project of translating Jobs' biography is basically completed, and Yang Guo should go back to be his own gold medal translator, although Yao Dehua kept saying that it didn't matter, but Yang Guo still felt that this big brother still needed his own very much, those urgent and important tasks, if there was no reliable and capable person, he really didn't dare to entrust them easily.
Yao Dehua can be said to have done himself a great favor in this storm of public opinion, at least so that he will not be so passive, and there are still media in his hometown of Guangdong Province to speak for him, and this kind of moving has even surpassed the moving! Such a kindness, find an opportunity to repay it.
Secondly, my mother has made a lot of phone calls, and the plan to go home has been delayed again and again, this time the matter in the capital is over, I must go back to my hometown to accompany my parents, I haven't been home for more than half a year!
There is also the matter of his own graduate school, no one knows himself better than Yang Guo about his current situation! His strength has already thrown graduate students off a few streets, and the graduate school entrance examination is not a problem for him!
The question is where to apply for graduate school? There are still a few days before the registration for this year's graduate exam is about to close, Yang Guo doesn't want to wait another year, it's best to solve it tonight or tomorrow!
I don't know why, Yang Guo's heart suddenly flashed a slim back standing by the lake, and a happy smile with Qiqi flashed......
Shaking his head, Yang Guo scratched his head and complained about himself in his heart. But he also made up his mind, since he was just going to get a diploma to go to graduate school, so why bother where he studied? Well, that's the truth!
(Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation, let's take a ticket and smash the cold door!) ≧▽≦)