Beijing's Dongcheng City launches 4 cultural exploration routes, come and hit them up!

The 2024 Dongcheng Culture Month kicked off today (3 September) at the Shenle Department of the Temple of Heaven Park on Beijing's central axis. During this month's activities, the district launched cultural visit routes of Ancient Capital Style, Splendid History, Elegant Orient, and New Style of the Times, showing the unique charm of integrating the ancient and the modern. In addition, 60 exciting cultural activities will be held across the region, including the 2024 Ancient Architecture Art Season.

Performances in the Shrine of the Temple of Heaven Park

At 2:00 p.m., the kick-off ceremony of 2024 Dongcheng Culture Month kicked off in the Shenle Department of Tiantan Park, which is located on Beijing's central axis, accompanied by the continuous music of the national intangible cultural heritage Zhonghe Shaole. This year's event is held in conjunction with the 2024 Beijing Cultural Forum, creating a rich and warm cultural atmosphere for the Forum and highlighting the leading role of the core carrying area of the national cultural centre. In this year's activity, Dongcheng District launched four cultural visits: ‘Ancient Capital Style’, ‘Brilliant History’, ‘Elegant Orient’ and ‘New Style of the Times’. ‘In this year's activity, Dongcheng District launched four cultural visit routes to show the most beautiful picture of Dongcheng District.

Performances in the Shrine of the Temple of Heaven Park

In the Brilliant Course route, besides the traditional Peking University Red Building, there are several red cultural spots such as the former site of the New Youth Editorial Office, the former site of the Second Academy of Peking University, and the former site of the University of China and France; in the Elegant Orient section, there are the Dongsi Hutong Museum and the Shi Jia Hutong Museum with the characteristics of old Beijing; and in the area of the New Style of the Times, there are the Longfusi Cultural Block, the Nanchizi Museum of Fine Arts, and the Guantan Museum of Fine Arts, all of these newborn cultural spaces, which have brought a very large range of concessions.

Eastside Culture Month Kicks Off

During this cultural month, 60 exciting cultural activities will be held in the region, including the 2024 Ancient Architecture Art Season. Li Yan said, around the Beijing Cultural Forum's ‘heritage - innovation - mutual learning’ three permanent theme, carefully create a long cultural lineage, new new bloom, glittering three plates, linking more than 40 cultural institutions, such as Knowledge, Tencent music, to carry out the ‘echo of the times’, ‘Echoes of the Times‘, “”East of the Forbidden City’ Ancient Architecture Art Season’, “East Side Beauty Quest” and other 60 special cultural activities, highlighting the city's cultural charm of integrating the past and present.

East Side Culture Month Punch Card

At the same time, Dongcheng District comprehensively tapped into cultural resources, to carry out the light and shadow, watching theatre, tasting books, watching exhibitions, enjoying the national tide of five series of cultural activities for the benefit of the people, so that the general public to enjoy the ‘cultural feast’. For the activities of film viewing, Fang Ming, deputy general manager of Beijing New Film Association Cinema Co., Ltd. introduced that Beijing New Film Association Cinema, during this year's 2024 Dongcheng Culture Month activities, selected ‘Rebirth’, ‘The Hedgehog’ and ‘Wish You Happiness’, which are three films being screened, and at the concessionary ticket price of RMB 23, invited the public to come to watch films. New Film League Jinbao Cinema and New Film League Donghuan Cinema's public number to make inquiries or purchase tickets to share the cultural feast.