Three Flavors Book House

Overall scoring
68
Word-of-mouth ratings
4.5
Popularity index
20563

Three Flavors Book House - Institutional Reviews

This Sanwei Bookstore is not where Lu Xun studied, it is the first private bookstore in Beijing, and it has been located on Chang'an Avenue for more than 30 years. The bookstore is a small residential building, two stories high, with an untouched grass behind it. The storefront is in the shape of a "hui", with bookshelves in the middle and a small gallery on the four walls. There are many photos and calligraphy of celebrities in the store, and the environment is simple and antique. The bookstore is surrounded by green trees and has two doors, after entering the door, you can read, taste tea, meditate, and talk. On the first door of the bookstore, there is a plaque of "Sanwei Bookstore", and the curtain is lifted to see the wall full of stickers - all of them are messages from book lovers, or warm and inspirational or grateful, all kinds of rhetoric. In the era of Internet BBS, this is the host of the offline lectures of China's most famous current affairs forum "Guantian Teahouse" at that time, and the 13 A4 sheets of paper on the wall record the list of more than 300 lectures held here, involving economic, cultural, religious, legal and other topics, with a wide range of cross-borders, and many big names have visited. The six sets of bookshelves display "hard books": politics, social science, history, economics, literature, and art. There are almost no bestsellers in the chicken soup category, and certainly no of the most lucrative textbooks. Many of the titles are book lists that university classroom Chinese teachers will open, search for Douban book reviews, and the scores are mostly above four stars, and the books here can be said to be popular or not. The owner of the bookstore is an old couple in their eighties, who have been running the bookstore for nearly 30 years, and have made Sanwei Bookstore a tourist attraction in Beijing. Visit the Sanwei Book House, where you can find beautifully designed reprints, famous translations from China and Europe, wonderful Peking Opera and Lu Xun, as well as overseas secret tourism, Chinese and foreign history, social sciences, etc. There are no extravagant décor or the subtlety of a fashion store or a shopping mall. Books that have not been paid for are not allowed to be brought into the gallery to read, and they can be consumed after sitting at the café. There is only one American coffee in the store, mainly for tea, a cup of chrysanthemum tea is 25 yuan, and the teacup is still a very old porcelain cup. And because the boss is old, the tea making action is relatively slow, and you can feel the slow life on Chang'an Street.

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