Eat These Cooling Beijing Summer Foods to Help Lower Your Body Temperature May 25, 2021 8:30 am | Add a comment | 2850 reads
While we are excited to lap up the sun (especially at our favorite al fresco spots), Beijing summer isn’t always peachy, with temperatures sky rocketing and humidity on the rise. While you d think that the best way to spend an unbelievably hot day is to stay home and crank up your trusty air conditioner, sometimes you just need that little extra something to cool you down.
What you eat and drink also plays a large role in regulating your body temperature, and certain cooling foods can make you go from hot and bothered, to comfortable and relaxed. Instead of changing the temperature around you, why not kill two birds with one stone and snack on some of Beijing s delicious foods so as to relinquish hunger and cool your body from the inside
Qingming Festival: What Is It and How Can I Celebrate? Apr 4, 2021 11:30 am | Add a comment | 7517 reads
It’s that time of the year again! Every street corner in Beijing will be filled with people burning paper money and the sky will be full of kites, well, kind of. Qingming Festival (清明节) or Tomb Sweeping Day, rolls around in early April and is a day to celebrate life and commemorate the dead. It is also a day that marks the nascent spring warmth, falling on Apr 4 this year.
Qingming Festival entails many rituals, chief among them is a day spent visiting and tidying ancestors’ graves (hence the name Tomb Sweeping Day) as well as placing lilies and chrysanthemums, flowers usually associated with death. Families also offer food and burn incense in honor of those who have passed. You may also see families burning money, often at the side of the road at night, which are offerings to the dead so that they too can buy whatever