Lao She Teahouse, Mr. Lao She is the People's Artist of the famous play and named teahouse, built in 1988, the existing business area of ​​over 2600 square meters, the gathering tea, tea meal, tea houses and multifunctional integrated major tea .

In this quaint, Jingwei full environment, you can enjoy a wonderful day show brings together opera, folk art, acrobatics, magic, face changing and other outstanding national art, and can use all kinds of tea products, palace fine point, Beijing Beijing style cuisine and traditional snacks tea party. Since opening, the Lao She Teahouse received nearly 47 foreign heads of state, celebrities and many more than 200 million Chinese and foreign tourists, a display of national culture of quality characteristics "window" and connecting China with a "bridge."

Qianmen Courtyard Tea House is Lao She Teahouse Beijing style culture and promote the tea culture of another new mine. It's classic old traditional Beijing courtyard building is shaped to profound way God tea, blending grace extravagance of the capital of the rhyme, he created a tea house of your dreams. Here, only a leisurely and quiet, just relaxed and at ease, listening to melodious zither, look superb tea ceremony, product fragrance of tea, tea stolen enjoy a leisurely half-day.

Lao She Teahouse is located in the front door, is the high cost of land. The interior decor with traditional Chinese decoration based, darker, lanterns, mahogany tables and chairs and antique arena, the business area has a considerable size and number of tea-table, where you can drink tea a la carte, as well as roast duck supply and service items provided more homogeneous. Lao She Teahouse Another feature is the Buddhist flatted, door and platform layers are Buddhist worship.

On Lao She Teahouse tea to go to the third floor, varieties of tea to tea, green tea and more tea service with cups of tea (tureen based, both oolong tea is about more than twenty products), small snack with tea homemade, more variety, there are certain characteristics.

Lao She Teahouse guests to foreign tourists and tourists as much, at one, three, there are activities and music fans singing opera, drama and acrobatics evening began Friday afternoon 17:40 weekly, fare 40 yuan -130 yuan person people, the contents of two-man, stringed, opera singing and other color, wonderful fun, a good place to come home if the field of foreign friends or relatives, would be a Lao She teahouse hospitality.

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Mention "Lao She Teahouse", not only in the capital including women and children, that is, in other towns, even in foreign countries, know the size of a lot of people. "Lao She Teahouse" has become Beijing this ancient capital and international metropolis "city card."

Today, the capital of the size of the teahouse five or six hundred, Lao She Teahouse why only enjoy the "city card" in the world? First, because it started by two cents a bowl served in big bowls, after the reform and opening up, open the capital's first new teahouse. Second, because Mr. Lao She teahouse named Mr. Lao She is one of the representatives of capital taste culture, have high visibility. Third, because the Lao She Teahouse in taste. What's that smell? Capital Taste of course. It is not only the tea into the tea taste, but also products which taste of culture. The two gentile Lao She Teahouse whole accounted for. So it is not known who is famous for?

Of course, the Lao She Teahouse can enjoy a reputation in the capital, said that in addition to the above three points, another point can not be ignored, that is the teahouse founder Mr. Yin Shengxi reputation and visibility. To be honest, Yin Shengxi tuba, in the capital of Lao She Teahouse is inseparable. Lao She Teahouse mention people will naturally think of Yin Shengxi, too, talking about Yin Shengxi, I will also think of Lao She Teahouse. If the Lao She Teahouse is shaped, it can be said Yin Shengxi is its soul. In other words, there is no Yin Shengxi, there is no Lao She Teahouse. No Lao She Teahouse, Yin Shengxi not have such a high reputation. Mr. Yin has passed away in June 2003, but the Lao She Teahouse is still, as if Mr. Yin was still alive. People go to Lao She Teahouse, Mr. Yin will still talked about as a person and deeds, people do not think Mr. Yin "walk" up. A person's name and image can go hand in hand with a teahouse, ancient and modern fear is rare.

Yin Shengxi name was first linked with two cents a bowl served in big bowls. In 1979, the beginning of reform and opening up, people's awareness of the market economy is still in the hazy state, the old Yin to lead a gang of unemployed youth in the Qianmen Street support from the tea stall. The move caused a sensation, natural old Yin also typical of reform and opening to the newspapers, on TV. Chatan to the teahouse, old Yin spent nearly eight years. It is not hard to imagine a bowl of tea two cents, to accumulate funds to open a teahouse, how much hard work and sweat to pay. "Eight-year war", the old Yin survive. In November 1987, when the Lao She Teahouse held the opening ceremony for the opening of the teahouse of people can not help themselves. To know that the huge capital has not been a decent teahouse. Yin old became the first "eat crab" people.

Lao She Teahouse founded at the beginning, I have interviewed old Yin. Despite the teahouse after the opening, there are many famous cultural figures and arts to cheer, there are several central leadership also has municipal and district governments, plus getting laughs paternity, visited the tea, but tea is not ideal operating conditions. Some media objects to the teahouse tea envy of money, that the Lao She Teahouse threshold is too high, civilians could not come, not civilians Lao She Teahouse tea. He said a great truth, old Yin was psychological pressure. Times have changed, social progress, people's living standards and quality of life higher and higher, more and more diverse cultural needs. Beijing teahouse should be open to what? Old Yin has been carrying out for a long time thinking.

I talked to old Yin deep talked, he found the mood was very complicated. On the one hand, he was difficult to give up two cents a bowl of "served in big bowls complex." On the other hand, he tried to do a fully showcase capital taste culture has a certain quality and taste of modern teahouse, and make it a city of culture, a "window." These two completely fused together hard. Old Yin old Beijingers. A lot of old Beijing teahouse, old Beijing teahouse there are five main categories, namely large tea, tea books, chess tea, wild tea and two tea. The teahouse teahouse teahouse with the South than up, conditions are very simple, two cottages, a few square table bench, stove on branch, home to a large pot, you can open a teahouse. Wild tea refers to the suburbs or urban-rural boundaries, supporting a shed, put a few small square table, to attract passing the tip of rest and play, but also a teahouse. This old-fashioned teahouse to see the vision of modern civilization, already behind, even though these old-fashioned teahouse lot of flavor. But to help people this dimly lit, smoke-filled, noisy place sound, to tea on the dusty, apparently it is out of touch with modern life. Old Yin is after careful consideration, it chose the latter, that is, to do both a Beijing accent and cultural characteristics, but also modern life teahouse. It now appears that his choice is the right path. In a sense, precisely because of the mode of Lao She Teahouse old Yin founded, that there was all kinds of capital reflects the emergence of new tea tea culture.

Lao She Teahouse old Yin to run is to make every effort, for which he paid most of their lives in the effort. He put the big stage show as Lao She Teahouse Beijing style culture. These circumstances, we can learn to appreciate the content of the book. Most of the chapters in this book there is about the Lao She Teahouse tea, tea, tea margin of tea culture, detailed and specific details. Reading, we will feel the Yin year old founder of the cultural connotation of care and thought and Lao She Teahouse Lao She Teahouse has.

Yin old before his death to Lao She Teahouse under the banner, set up a business group, the sale did not small. Group engaged in commercial trade, engaged in the jewelry business, engaged in the development of tourism products, engaged in hotels, restaurants, Lei Feng Memorial Hall is also engaged in other social welfare undertakings. But no matter what business, he has to Lao She Teahouse industry, did not forget their roots. This "tea house complex", on the one hand explain his love of ancient culture, it also shows that he never forget our roots. Now the old Yin "Teahouse complex" is being extended to his daughter Yin Zhijun. Yin Zhijun belong to a new era of young people to grow up. Despite her knowledge of old Beijing culture without a father old Yin deep, but at his father's side, monasteries, coupled with her growing up and I was in the alley, and received higher education system, so she did for Beijing culture is full of like father of love. This love has been integrated into the series after she took over the business philosophy of Lao She Teahouse. Xiao Yin, whether in ideas, or in the thick of understanding of traditional culture, not worse than his father. Really should be the old saying goes, waves pushed forward waves, a generation older generation, excel rather than blue.

Pay attention to taste, pay attention to new ideas. This is the Yin Zhijun run Lao She Teahouse of the large ones. Take his father's classes soon, she will seriously examine the status of the capital of tea, and then they find an expert, consultant, humbly ask for advice, and soon she reached a conclusion: do teahouse is necessary to maintain the characteristics, but also all the time Jin, must not be rigid, static, eating his father's capital.

Her Daner seems bigger than his father. In 2002, she invested more than 100 million, a comprehensive transformation of the second floor of the former Lao She Teahouse, stunned built a "courtyard" on the second floor. After quaint courtyard teahouse opened, attracting patrons Plus. Then she has invested hundreds of thousands, comprehensive development of Beijing snacks, what do lib, sheep's head meat, seasoned millet mush, fried capers, tofu, milk and so on snacks masters, were she invited Lao She Teahouse. These initiatives not only enrich the cultural connotation of Lao She Teahouse of the original, but has been expanded over the epitaxial culture, so that people in more than tea, the drum comic storytelling can listen to Wyatt its objectives, but also enjoy authentic snacks, in order to satisfy their appetites. Xiao Yin tea really do love mindless, and there are many innovations. Of course, Yin Zhijun of these initiatives is just the beginning, according to her ideas, the future should be done in the field to Lao She Teahouse, even to go abroad. These, in this book we can appreciate. Lao She Teahouse is writing a book, Mr. Yin Shengxi lifetime of a big wish, now that his wish was his daughter Yin Zhijun achieved. This book is eloquent tens of thousands of words, said tea ceremony allusive to talk about things on Tea, Lao She Teahouse talk sounds appealing experiences and anecdotes, informative concrete, plain and simple language, for we understand Lao She Teahouse, and how to open the teahouse, with some reference value. Of course, the book also has at regret, no such write Lao She Teahouse founder Mr. Yin Shengxi spiritual world and his charisma. Yin Zhijun not written after his father's classes then, in a sense of mission, how to Lao She Teahouse again brilliant and moving experience. Of course, the book is written specifically teahouse tea things, as Lao She Teahouse publicity, can not cover everything. I would like, if possible in the future to write a book with Mr. Yin Shengxi Lao She Teahouse, in order to write this predominantly old Yin, will be more exciting, more attractive. A person "go", leaving a teahouse. A person "go", and his name was linked with a tea house, so that future generations never forget. This may be the best monument to a man's death.

A person "go", and he was still alive. Because he opened the teahouse still, when people drink tea tea, I think of this person, this person will be talking about. This is perhaps the life of a person's value lies.

From these two points of view, Lao She Teahouse worth mentioning. Mr. Yin Shengxi worth a book.

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Address: Xicheng District, Beijing Qianmen West Street 3 Hao

Transportation: by 17 , 22 , 43 , 826 bus to stop that is to the front door; subway or 2 Line to stop that is to the front door.