Fun stuff

　
Beijing intoxication
When you arrive at Beijing international airport, you feel as if you are in the studio set of the old movie.  International airports in advanced countries are similar.  They have modern buildings and facilities with many fancy shops and restaurants.  The Beijing airport is more like an old railway station.  When I first stepped in the airport, I felt very lonely and sad.   One of the reasons was that I thought Beijing was a country which only could build such a shabby building.  But walking in this stuidio-set like airport, I felt I were held in warm and calm atmosphere.  A Japanese famous author, Osamu Dazai who was famous for a sense of the aesthetic wrote to his friend, Saisei Muroo "I have been here for three days and am already intoxicated with Beijing."  This feeling  is so callled  "Beijing intoxication" named by Chen   Chen The way to the central city from the airport, you will see many phases of Beijing. Beijing is a breathtakingly beautiful city.  Once you walk in Hutong, you are not able to leave the city.  　
　
　
Fun stuff
Chinese are very clever fingered people.  Not only famous embroidery of Shantou and Suzhou, but also small cheap toys are breathtaking arts.  Children  fly artistically decorated kites in Tiananmen Square or play with various shaped handcrafts made of leaves, paper and bamboo.  Those small toys are sold by people on the main streets at 1 or 2 yuan (1 yuan = a dime = JP\15).
　
 

      Kite flying　　　　

When you step into the Tianamen Squire, you will find many various shaped kites flying in the air.  They are made in three dimensions which are quite different from our familiar kites.  Each kite has a reel which makes you fly a kite very easily.  You find eagle, butterfly, goldfish, dragonfly and other animals flying high up in the sky.  You can get those kites there from a vendor at the price from 35 yuan and above depending on your negotiating ability.   Chinese children also fly them on pedestrian bridges and anywhere they like.....
 

Fun stuff on the streets　

Besides food vendors, you also find many people selling various small souvenirs and toys on any street in Beijing.  When you walk with a kid, you probably need 1 yuan every time you see them....depending on your discipline of your child.  They are made and designed very simply but quite interesting.  You will be again impressed by the idea of Chinese.
  　　　　　　　　
  A man selling butterflies knitted out of bamboo leaves.                     A shop in the Beijing zoo
 
 
 
 
   Beijing Amusement Park
 
 
You probably think an amusement park in Beijing is not fun.  You are wrong.  Of course they are quite different from modern Disneyland, but their unique idea covers the drawbacks.  Talking about a  jet coaster, the mechanical technology is very simple and old-fashioned. Moreover we are afraid of their QC level.  It is very scary...   whoops, I am just kidding.  The facility itself is not state of the art, but their software is unique and imaginary which makes us quite satisfied.  Though I know most of the world-famous amusement parks such as Disneyland and Universal Studio,  I enjoyed the park very much.