Spring Activity Guide
In March, Beijing beckons with warming weather and burgeoning vitality, offering a cornucopia of delightful spring activities. Don't let these pleasant spring days slip away. Gather your "fun companions" quickly and venture out to embrace the season together!
Part 1: "Enjoying Spring" — The Second China-Chic Carnival of Beijing Garden Expo
Name: "Enjoying Spring" — The Second China-Chic Carnival of Beijing Garden Expo
Location: Beijing Garden Expo Park, Fengtai District, Beijing
Date: March 23, 2024, to April 6, 2024
Image/Beijing Garden Expo Park Witnesses Splendor
The "Enjoying Spring" — The Second China-Chic Carnival of Beijing Garden Expo is expected to welcome visitors from March 23 to April 6. The event will encompass four main sections: "Chinese Style, Flower Viewing, Family Activities, and Culture." Attendees can enjoy a Spring Fun Market, a Family Garden Party, Cultural Exchanges, Traditional Study Tours, Children's Puppet Shows, Leisure Camping, Pet Interactions, Stamp Collecting, and other interactive experiences, all while accompanied by the Twelve Chinese Flower Goddesses.
Recently, at the Eagle Mountain (Yingshan) Peach Blossom Valley in Beijing Garden Expo Park, over a hundred acres of mountain peach blossoms have begun to bloom, forming a pink cloud-like sea of flowers. Jasminum nudiflorum are also blooming in clusters, swaying gently in the wind, charming and delightful. In the coming months, not only will the park be adorned with beautiful spring flowers, but there will also be a variety of exciting springtime activities waiting for everyone to enjoy!
Part 2: The Second Mutianyu Great Wall Mountain Flower Festival
Name: The Second Mutianyu Great Wall Mountain Flower Festival
Location: Mutianyu Great Wall
Date: Starting March 30, 2024
The Mutianyu Great Wall "Ancient Style and Chinese Charm, Blooming Mutianyu" Mountain Flower Festival will commence on March 30. During the event, the service area and cable car upper platform will host interactive parades, including ancient style Hanfu parades, soldier parades, and war drum performances, creating a festive atmosphere. There will also be a China Time-honored Brands’ intangible cultural heritage experience market, and various interactive checkpoints along the tourist route, catering to visitors' needs for memorable experiences. The festival is expected to last for 3-4 weeks.
Part 3: The 21st Magnolia Flower Viewing Season and the First Beijing·Shijingshan Flower Festival Garden Party
Name: The 21st Magnolia Flower Viewing Season and the First Beijing·Shijingshan Flower Festival Garden Party
Location: Beijing International Sculpture Park
Date: March 29, 2024, to April 5, 2024
From March 29 to April 5, a large-scale Chinese Style cultural tourism event centered on magnolia flowers will kick off at the Beijing International Sculpture Park. This is the 21st Magnolia Flower Viewing Season and the First Beijing·Shijingshan Flower Festival Garden Party.
This year's Magnolia Flower Viewing Season will showcase a panoramic view of the ancient "Flower Festival" grandeur at the Beijing International Sculpture Park. During the Garden Party, there will be traditional activities such as Flower Goddesses Blessing, Chinese Style Elegant Gathering, and Tea and Poetry Meetings. Additionally, there will be intangible cultural heritage promotions, cultural and museum explanations, creative markets, and cultural consumption activities. Visitors can immerse themselves in a visual feast of magnolia flowers and enjoy a grand journey through Chinese Style culture. Nearly a hundred "Flower Fairies" dressed in ancient Hanfu will recreate the classic scene from the legendary Qing dynasty novel Mirror Flower Edge where Empress Wu Zetian descends with the Flower Fairies. Visitors might encounter these fairies during their visit, experiencing a thousand-year-old serendipity.
Part 4: Panjiayuan × Xinqiao Handicraft Market
Name: Panjiayuan × Xinqiao Handicraft Market
Location: Panjiayuan Flea Market
Date: March 22 to March 24, 2024 (Friday to Sunday, including night market) Friday: 15:00-22:00 Saturday and Sunday: 12:00-19:30
Over 400 merchants registered for this market event, with 200 top-quality vendors selected each week to ensure product quality. They will bring various artistic and daily-use items made of ceramics, clay, gold, silver, jade, pearls, and more. Additionally, there will be handmade fabric, paper art, original sculptures, paintings, photography works, and some European (Japanese) ceramics, lacquerware, ironware, wooden works, ukiyo-e, miscellaneous goods, as well as books and magazines on folk art, art, and lifestyle aesthetics.
Part 5: The 8th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival
Name: The 8th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival
Location: Beijing Tianqiao Arts Center
Date: March to June 2024
This year's art festival is divided into five thematic units based on performance types: the tears and laughters of life in diverse dramas, the passionate release of original musicals, the poetic and picturesque dance performances, the unique beauty of Eastern opera, and the star-studded music concerts and family plays. Together, they will create a beautiful and moving spring symphony. Nearly seventy performances, multiple open activities, and over ten art education activities will come together in the spring and culminate in the summer.
This weekend (March 22 to 24), the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre will perform Over the Wall and The Riverside Pavilion at the Small Theatre of Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. The 8th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival invites you to join in the theater and celebrate every day related to spring.
Part 6: Beijing Bread Festival
Name: Beijing Bread Festival
Location: THE BOX Chaowai | Youth Energy Center, Dongyue Culture Square
Date: March 29, 2024, to March 31, 2024 11:00-19:00
This event is co-hosted by "Heshima" and "Qiduoshi" bringing together over 50 top-notch original baking units in Beijing. Top-tier products in the baking industry, including Danish pastries, European bread, toast, bagels, and scones, as well as trendy beverages like coffee, milk tea, and coconut water, will be available, creating an unmissable gourmet feast! The second Beijing Bread Festival aims to awaken the beauty in everyone's hearts with the "awakening" in baking as spring approaches.
Part 7: 2024 Beijing Book Market·Spring Edition
Name: 2024 Beijing Book Market·Spring Edition
Location: Langyuan Vintage
Date: March 29, 2024, to March 31, 2024
From March 29 to March 31, the 2024 Beijing Book Market·Spring Edition will take place as scheduled. This year's theme is "In the Season of All Things, Give Everything to the Present." In addition to participation from over a hundred publishers and art stalls, this event will offer a wealth of interactive content to infuse new vitality into everyone's spring.
This time, all vendors are invited to join the "Institute of All Things Madness" to explore the theme of this market — how to give everything to the present in the season of all things? At the participating stalls, you'll see the vendors' responses through books and encounter their invited animal spirit idols. The market also features the "Old Books New Knowledge" series, including "Old Book Auction" and "Old Book Drift," bringing new surprises on-site. Additionally, there is the "I Shout Radio Station," where the book market scene helps " introversion " become "extroversion" and everyone's participation is welcome.
Part 8: Towards Spring·Blooming Healing Season
Name: Towards Spring·Blooming Healing Season
Location: Lanjing Art Center, Langyuan Vintage
Date: March 2, 2024, to March 24, 2024
Towards Spring·Blooming Healing Season — Between pure cultural art and the bustling urban noise, the Lanjing Art Center at Langyuan Vintage is creating a space for inner healing, offering "10+" healing experience workshops, including dance, painting, aromatherapy, drama, astrology, tarot, and more.
The event invites psychologists, illustrators, and healing curators as art healing leaders to delve into the Lanjing Art Center and each person's soft inner layers, capturing moments of vitality and resonating with the soul's magnetic field.
Bonus Time
Having seen so many exciting and interesting activities, are you eager to join in? In this vibrant spring season, spring outings with kids must be on every family's to-do list!
In Beijing, the Forbidden City in spring is a fantastic family outing destination! Today, I want to recommend a super fun book — the interactive knowledge picture book Forbidden City, Here I Come! Whether your child has visited the Forbidden City or not, they will surely fall in love with it!
Share your "Beijing spring outing destinations" in the comments section of this article, and we will randomly select 2 lucky fans to receive a copy of the book Forbidden City, Here I Come!
Comment Time: From now until March 21, 10:00 AM
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