First of all, you have to look at the logo in the picture above:
U-CENTER Wudaokou
U is Universe, if Universe is too long, you can replace it with You. You can replace it with You!
You are the World !
Crossings
"Attention pedestrians and vehicles, the train is coming, please wait outside the gate, do not rush, do not drill the railing ......"
The train goes to the left, the city railroad to the right, and does not move is the five crossings.
Integration
If you've been thinking about University for a long time, congratulations on your realization. This place brings together many of the universe's first-class and very close to the universe's first-class academic institutions. The most magnificent of them all:
Two peoples of the universe, so harmoniously gathered in Wudaokou! Can you say this is not the center of the universe?
Education
"I don't go to school there, what does your center have to do with me"?
Have you ever taken a college entrance exam or a graduate exam?
You've been to a computer class, and you've been to a computer class?
You've got to be able to get the best out of it, and you're going to be able to get the best out of it.
......
If so, then you dare to say that the following center is not the absolute center?
Technology
Tsinghua Science and Technology Park! What is this, a bullfight?
On the other side, there is an inscription: "Nuclei are heavy as oxen, and collision creates a new state", which commemorates nuclear collisions.
So, the universe is so crashed out well?
Business
In addition to the top schools in the universe, there are also the top companies in the universe. For example:
If you don't believe in heliocentricity, go back to geocentricity:
Under the sky, there is no one other than the king of earth, so the center of earth is China, and where is the center of China?
You guess it ......
Eat
For the vast majority of the universe of the Yu people, the most central question, no more than "times up?".
The most central question for the majority of the universe is "second?".
A little dirty "food office", I'm afraid is the most apt synonym for Wudaokou.
Within a 500-meter radius, there are three KFC, three 711, three Jiahe, two Beagle, two Pizza Hut ......
I don't know how many Korean barbecue Japanese cuisine North and South food halls ......
Of course, the most important, once the night have popped up to leave a mess of spicy hot pot, barbecue, pancakes ......
- Only U -
In fact, the center of the universe does not need to be proved!
There is such a saying: when you are young, no matter the cost of squandering your youth, will always be the center of the universe in your heart ......
And then look up to see to the upstairs of the words:
U-CENTER Wudaokou
Above all of these, that is, your The center of the universe in your mind ......
Extended reading: "The center of the universe" Wudaokou Zhi
Originally published by Han Miao, Xinhua News Agency
From the urban and rural areas full of farmland two decades ago to the underground rock mecca of more than a decade ago, it is now the center of the universe. It is a cross-cultural and cross-generational intersection, where inheritance and integration coexist, and dreams and losses go hand in hand. "Change" is the unchanging character of Wudaokou, which is full of challenges, but also full of hope. People here may be leaving, but not extinguished is the youthful memory of the "center of the universe".
For architect Zhang Hong, the landmark of Wudaokou is a railroad. Born in 1967, his parents worked at Tsinghua University. When he was a child, his mother and father rode their bicycles, carrying him and his brother, past a grove of poplars and across the railroad crossing to the Workers' Club to watch a movie, which is his earliest memory of Wudaokou.
At least 51 trains pass through here every day, and more during the Spring Festival. The average time to close the road is six minutes. Some eager people rushed through the fence before it was fully closed, and were loudly scolded by the staff. As trains whizzed by, some people picked up their cell phones to take pictures, and more people looked stupefied. There have been people posting on the Internet, asking people waiting at the crossing at this time are thinking about what, get the most answers is to let go, the second is to see where the train comes from, where to go.
Staff directing the crossing to seal the road, taken by Ms. Wang Jingcheng
Few people pay attention to the staff who open and close the gates, and it seems that only those who have been hooted and hollered at feel the presence of this group. Few people also know that a master surnamed Zhao spends an hour and a half traveling from Yanqing, on the outskirts of Beijing, to work a 12-hour shift here every day on a train on this railroad. He is annoyed here. Seeing the weaving of pedestrians, he thought, "This is a lot of traffic, what's good to shop".
For people on nearby college campuses, Wudaokou is the most attractive place to be. Here is one of the densest areas of colleges and universities in Beijing, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Language and Culture University, China University of Geosciences, Beijing University of Science and Technology and so on are piled up in the two or three kilometers around this crossing. From the 1950s onwards, Wudaokou is the worldly paradise of these ivory tower people.
In his memory, until the 1990s, the Wudaokou Workers' Club next to the railroad was the center of entertainment for the community. Here, Zhang Hong from the revolutionary classics to see Qiong Yao film, and later watched the first Korean movie in his life. He also bought "hit mouth discs" (CD discs confiscated by customs and processed), and went to a bar in a nearby shantytown.
This was the most vibrant period of Beijing's rock underground. Zhang Hong, an ordinary young man, went to the famous Scream Club, where he listened to rockers with mohawked hair "howling". "At that time, there was no consumption, it was just to be happy or to feel good. One beer for two."
Today, the dilapidated bungalows that hid the center of Beijing's rock underground are long gone. There are more bars in the Wudaokou neighborhood, but except for 13club, which lives in a basement far from the subway, there's no more rock here. It's as if the punk movement that was once so strong never happened. People are no longer consuming passion, but real money.
Today's Wudaokou Workers' Club, photo by Ms. Julia Wang
Yet the club, with only three screening rooms, is still in business. There are often huge posters of the latest blockbusters, but the scenery is no longer the same. Only when they see two or three people approaching does a ticket taker lazily turn on the LCD screen that shows movie previews. More often than not, they have nothing to do, looking down through the glass. The courtyard has been turned into a large parking lot.
The "U-Center" at Wudaokou is interpreted as the "Center of the Universe," a photo by Ms. Jingcheng Wang
Across the street from the club, a new building has been constructed on the site of the former Wudaokou department store. The words "Wudaokou U-Center" stand out at the top of the building. Some people say that the "U" stands for universe, which together means "Wudaokou U-Center". One of the investors in the building is an alumnus of the People's Bank of China Graduate School Class of '87, who built a financial center in Shanghai also named after "Wudaokou".
The Graduate School of the People's Bank of China
Founded in 1981, the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China is the youngest college in this neighborhood, and it has always been known as "Wudaokou," with many of its graduates holding the lifeblood of China's finance.
But even though it is called the "center of the universe," Wudaokou is still an undefined community. Its temperament is a mix: international and suburban; busy during the day and bustling at night; a concentration of highly educated people and the capital's famous bar district; full of desire hormones, but also carries the utopia of idealism; chaotic and impetuous, unlimited vitality, freedom and inclusiveness.
Huaqing Jiayuan, the third phase of the Dongsheng Park Apartments
Many houses in the expensive Huaqing Jiayuan are rented out. According to data held by the agent, the ratio of rented to owner-occupied is about 4:6, with three of the returned houses having an even higher rental rate. Like many neighborhoods in Beijing, the houses in Huaqing Jiayuan are loosely managed, and the advertisements in the hallways bloom like flowers on the walls, with a postmodern sneer.
The tenants here are all kinds of people. There are foreign students, parents studying with their children in the nearby elementary school, Internet companies that have just started up, studios that specialize in job hunting photos, beauty parlors that offer massages and maintenance, educational institutions that offer remedial training, tattoo parlors, and communication organizations that cater to the clash of ideas among young people.
The reception desk at 706 Youth Space, photo by Julia Wang
Founded by a few students, 706 Youth Space organizes weekly academic lectures, salons, free speeches, and book clubs. Here, philosophers Chen Jiaying and Zhou Lian discuss things related to the soul, folk taiji masters talk about keeping fit, and independent scholars decode the strange book of the celestial Buddha, the Bhagavad Gita....... Young people of all backgrounds and ideas exchange all kinds of esoteric or strange issues.
The founder, Wu Fangrong, does not study in the nearby colleges and universities, but he sees the strong academic atmosphere of the Wudaokou University and the free temperament of the five mixed gatherings. However, his biggest problem was money. In this tastefully decorated penthouse, the only property belonging to the youths is more than 10,000 books. With a monthly rent of 25,000 yuan, it is a challenge to sustain the spiritual utopia of a pure dream.
706 Youth Space
Fortunately, despite several relocations, 706 has not left Hua Qing Jia Yuan or Wudaokou. Yan Xiaochuan, an MIT undergraduate, is a regular visitor to the youth space. He feels that Wudaokou wins because of its cultural diversity, almost indistinguishable from the atmosphere he felt in Boston, "a diversity I've rarely seen elsewhere in China."
The Wudaokou of the Universe
Some people also attribute Wudaokou's multiculturalism to the "center of the universe". Wander around the streets and you'll see that there's something different about this place. About every 10 steps, there will be a foreigner into your sight: wearing sunglasses expression cool blonde, full head of pigtails to be tied into the mop type of black brother, from head to toe to cover up the Islamic women, only the head of the sarong through a splash of color. A slender, green-haired girl in a leopard-print dress walks quickly by, not far away from another silver plate-inch young people walking face to face, they have Asian faces, may be Korean, Japanese, or may be your compatriots.
You also often get a sense of dislocation here. On the sidewalk, a beggar wrote his own "missing Malaysia Airlines" poem in chalk, and his lowercase was so neat and fine that when you tried to take a picture of him, he showed a gold incisor: "Don't take a picture of me, take a picture of the words!
These are the first time I've ever seen the world's most popular movie.
A beggar old man with chalk to write a neat lowercase, Wang Jingqiang court photo
Here some people like the place, some other people may not know how to appreciate. The first time he went to a nightclub in his life was in Wudaokou, where he was a senior in college. At that time he was already in his senior year, a few classmates about to go to see the legendary "sound and color". They went to the oldest bar next to the Wudaokou subway station, and saw a bunch of men who today are called "losers" and girls in revealing clothes. The music was deafeningly loud, the words were shouted, and the drinks tasted like they were watered down. "This is no fun." He thought.
And for the 90-year-old Wang Snapdragon, Wudaokou is a treasure trove of nightclubs that "thrive". He is the entertainment director of a nightclub. "International students change from batch to batch, and foot traffic is never a problem." French DJs, American rappers, Russian dancers ...... Wang Snap's team is almost exclusively foreigners. The customers were also from all over the world, just like the name of their store. "Any rare countries?" "Iceland. Is that weird?" This store is the beginning of the story of the "Li So-and-So Incident", which has become a national sensation.
Crowd at Wudaokou nightclub, photo by Wang Snapdragon
There are a thousand Wudaokou's in a thousand people's hearts. In this area, the second largest Korean neighborhood in Beijing after Wangjing, in addition to the clothing city and a variety of large and small Korean restaurants, Korean local brands of chain coffee shops and bakeries are everywhere. When you enter the store, the clerk will greet you in Korean: an nyong ha se yo! When Korean students Lu Truth and friends get together, they often hallucinate that they are still in Korea.
The World's Wudaokou
Wudaokou's queuing culture has never been limited to the City Railway. Next to the bus station, a small store selling jujube cakes also often has a long queue in front. The owner, Chen Li, a pale, thin 44-year-old man from Henan province, came to Beijing after graduating from high school to make a living. He likes to talk in numbers.
Chen Li's "King of Date Cake" always has a long line in front of the door, Wang Qiangqiang took photo
"Ten years ago, the 12-hour traffic here was 30,000, now it's at least 80,000. 20 years ago, the rent for my store was 3,000 yuan, now it's more than 100 times more. It costs me 1.1 million a year, and I'm open 14 hours a day, selling an average of one date cake every 55 seconds to cover my costs. 80% of my customers are repeat customers, 5-10% are foreigners, 30-40% are students, 40% are office workers, and 15% are neighborhood residents. I can sell 1,500 pounds of date cakes every day."
There are fewer and fewer traces of the past, so much so that people often forget the longer history of this place. on March 25, 1949, Mao Zedong, along with Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai, "went to Beijing to catch the examination" from Xibaipo, and the first foot in Beiping was at the train station in Tsinghua Park. The founding ceremony, Tsinghua students from there to Xizhimen by open-cabin car, after walking to Tiananmen Square.
Nowadays, the old Qinghuayuan Railway Station is submerged in an alley in the Wudaokou shantytown. Only the main hall remains, partitioned into small rooms for rent. A young man from Fujian rented a 40-square-meter room with a monthly rent of 2,000 yuan, and on the top of the room's exterior wall is the handwritten inscription "Qinghuayuan Station" by Zhan Tianyou, the "father of the railroad". A small restaurant specializing in takeout rented a room next to it. The grease and grime is the mark of a new era for this 104-year-old building.
The old Tsinghua Railway Station, where you can see the modern buildings on the other side of the street, was taken by Wang Fang
The people who live here rarely look to the past, and they only need to raise their heads to see the high-rise buildings of the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, where the contemporary Internet companies are gathered. This is the symbol of the new era.
In the eyes of IT engineer Li Snin, Wudaokou is special because of the concentration of Internet companies. However, he emphasized that he has no special feelings for this place. Apart from going to work and company parties, he seldom comes to Wudaokou, instead practicing his violin at home. He began to learn the violin after work, and now, after only four years, he can already play "Liang Zhu" and Mendelssohn.
One of Li's dreams is to play a concert, but he doesn't hold out much hope. He has moved on to his second dream - to be a good teacher. He wants to teach a thousand successful students, "just by making them stand out in their own work-study lives through my help." A few like-minded partners set up a training organization, named "New Idea". And there is no "special feelings" for Wudaokou LiShiNing is looking for a house in the neighborhood, to put this dream. "After all, it is still the center of the universe.
The front of one of the first Western restaurants in Wudaokou, taken by Ms. Jingcheng Wang, is Wudaokou, and the influx of people attracted to the area has changed them, and they have influenced the spirit of Wudaokou. In short, in the 200s, the view from Wudaokou at night was a stew of cars and people, and all you could hear were car horns, cell phone store amplifiers, and even the hustle and bustle of groups of people crushing the road. In those days, Wudaokou was dirty (there was no "high class" shopping mall like U center at that time), full of stalls and vendors, and more like a combination of urban and rural areas. As a result, the college students and graduates here gradually formed this **** knowledge: such a dirty and messy environment, if this is not the center of the universe, where are so many people? Where are all the cars? How can there be such high housing prices! So the reputation of the "center of the universe" has spread far and wide ...... Full text >
Thanks for the invitation, although I don't know why this question will invite me to answer, I have to follow my personal feelings and ideas to blindly talk about it.
Personally, I think the reason why the center of the universe is called Wudaokou is because there are a lot of people living around Wudaokou who are quite unique and have a good sense of humor.
Wudaokou is located in Haidian District, which is a dense area of universities and research institutes, with Beijing Language and Culture University and China University of Geosciences in the east, Tsinghua University in the northwest, Beijing Forestry University in the northeast, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the south, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Zhongguancun plus the Institute of Physics and Chemistry (IPSC), Mechanics Institute (MI), Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE), Electronics Institute (EI), Acoustics Institute (AI), Institute of Physics (IP), Institute of Theoretical Engineering (ITE), Institute of Computing (ICE), Institute of Mathematics and System Sciences (IMSS), Space Center and a bunch of others. Institute of Systems Science, Space Center and a bunch of CAS institutes, which does not count the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Taiwan Research Institute and a bunch of IT companies.
These universities and institutes often laugh at themselves as Wudaokou men's technical school, Baofu Temple research monks, and so on, and by the way, also for the Wudaokou area of busy traffic, lively business district and a high level of housing prices to make their own contribution. The high level of traffic, business district and housing prices laid the foundation for Wudaokou to become the center of the universe.
The aforementioned Beijing Language and Culture University has a large number of foreign students coming to China, plus foreigners from other organizations and companies, which makes the surrounding area of Wudaokou feel a bit exotic, especially Korean students and Korean restaurants, and the name of the "Big Country of the Universe" makes Wudaokou's index of the center of the universe rise by a large margin.
The final key is the neon sign hanging out of a shopping center, with the glittering words "U-CENTER", which is immediately and correctly interpreted as the Center of the U niverse by Chinese and English educated children, finally achieving the historical position of Wudaokou as the Center of the U niverse. The Center of the U niverse is the center of the universe.
Wudaokou is known as the center of the universe, the earliest reason, may be related to the shopping center of the "U-CENTER" logo, at the same time, Wudaokou near the Peking University, Tsinghua University, BeiYu and other prestigious universities, but also with the beginning of the university's English "U" The word "U" is also related to the beginning of the English language of the university.
But that's not enough. The reason why Wudaokou can become the "center of the universe" is that it can create miracles. For example, the miracle of housing prices. Located next to the subway Wudaokou Huaqing Jiayuan neighborhood, the highest prices close to 100,000 a square foot, such high prices in Beijing is also considered rare.
And, Wudaokou is a gathering place for some entrepreneurial youths and those working for Internet companies. The message from Wudaokou is one that can influence the whole country. The Sohu Technology Building is also in Wudaokou, and the fact that Wudaokou is basically connected to Zhongguancun to the southwest also gives the impression that Wudaokou-Zhongguancun-Peking University and Tsinghua*** are one and the same.
On the other hand, there are many cultural bookstores next to Wudaokou, which is also a place where literary youth and cultural celebrities gather. Wansheng Book Garden, Douban Bookstore, Wild Grass Bookstore, CITIC Bookstore these cultural bookstores gathered near Wudaokou, adding to its cultural taste, and attracting a lot of young people to gather here, which becomes a paradise for young people to seek knowledge and party.
Wudaokou used to be a place where you could cross the train, and a green train passed by. Now the last green train is gone, but the sound of the "train is coming, pedestrians and vehicles please avoid" is still unforgettable to many people. This seems to have become the iconic symbol of Wudaokou, and many people come to Wudaokou to see its charm and complexity. Here there are many people's dreams, but also many people's dreams set sail here, young people in Wudaokou will get a very high status, because here is the paradise of young people and struggle. In this sense, Wudaokou is indeed the "center of the universe" in terms of cultural meaning.
As a former mixer of Wudaokou, I'll make a brief comment. 1, first of all, there are many colleges and universities. The main Tsinghua, China Agricultural University, China University of Geosciences, BeiLin, BeiLin, BeiKeDa is a little far away. More schools, more students, more international students, so it will be more diverse.
2, eat a lot of things, after all, there are so many students, spending power is still very strong.
3. There are many companies. Tsinghua Science and Technology Park is here, there are a lot of companies such as Tsinghua Purple, fast, Sohu, NetEase (but now it seems to have moved away) and so on.
4. As for the U-center on Hualian Commercial Building in Wudaokou, you can understand that this is the center of the universe, but I think the reason is too thin to explain simply by this point.
In fact, Wudaokou has nothing to play with, if you want to stroll around the college or eat, it's okay, shopping or playing is not good.
Because there are a lot of Koreans there, and what does that have to do with the universe? Because the universe is all Korean, Wudaokou is known as the center of the universe, which is where Koreans gather (the heartland). However, some sources say that the center of the universe seems to be Wangjing now. The reason is the same as above.
The universe is what it is, a place that is hard to get to, and even harder for ordinary people. So why is this Wudaokou in Beijing called the center of the universe? It is because this place is so expensive that ordinary people can not go.
Then this thing also dates back to 2013, that year, there is a neighborhood of the property began to sell, but the price was announced that 37 square feet to 3.5 million, in 2013 is considered the price of heaven, almost 100,000 yuan a square meter, how many people can not afford to buy a toilet, but this is the truth.
To know the same time in 2013, Shanghai's house is almost the price of two or three million or so, the expensive place is also 50,000 or 60,000, and have not seen the torture of the expensive 100,000, so it is not exaggerated to say that such an expensive house is called the center of the universe is not too much, and may also want to praise this person with the word, it is really with the right place.
The center of the universe I do not know is heavy in the universe or heavy in the center of the word, if heavy in the center of the words, the natural meaning is like talking about the center of the world, so why say so? Because there are a lot of universities next to the Wudaokou, such as Tsinghua University and so on are in the vicinity of there, and in addition to this is that there are a lot of cultural stores ah, that is, with a lot of literary atmosphere of the things of the store are in the vicinity of there, so was called the center of course is more reasonable, because it is the center of the literary atmosphere.
Then about the universe of the problem there are a lot of sayings, such as the house here is expensive ah, and so on are called the universe of the reason, but a square meter of 100,000 is indeed also a little expensive ah, was called the universe is not excessive.
The center of the universe this person word also do not know who to take, but also really good, then back to the question of the Beijing Wudaokou it, why is this called? It is not possible to haphazardly hand over, the reason is out of this neighborhood a lot of this five-daokou ah have a lot of and this u-related markers, such as this shopping center is to start with u, for example, there are many prestigious universities, that is, there is the word in English, these words are also to u at the beginning of the, I think this is still a more plausible reason, but a lot of people do not seem to be so feel because in this five-daokou once appeared to be a high priced neighborhood, high priced to what extent? The high price sold to 100,000 yuan a square meter, and still in 2013 read the time, then the price of housing does not seem to be so high, a lot of places are only a few tens of thousands of about, so people on the way to the center of the universe this name proclaimed a number of, so there is a center of the universe such as me now.
Wudaokou is known as the "center of the universe", starting from a microblogging message in 2013, Wudaokou Huaqing Jiayuan district house: 37 flat price of 3.5 million! The average price of nearly 100,000 / flat!
After seeing the price, netizens have spit, it seems that the five-way intersection is the center of the universe!
Here may be a lot of people, do not understand, when the 100,000 square feet of the house is still very rare, where as now the first-tier cities in the center of the city wherever the property ask to go are forced to 100,000.
I'll give you a comparison of 2013, the domestic first-tier city prices.
Beijing housing prices more than 30,000
2013 Shanghai average price of more than 20,000, which the city of several districts, Huangpu, Jingan, Changning average price of 50,000, more than 60,000.
As a result, 2016, 2017 wave of surge, or basically up to 50 percent, individual areas even doubled and tripled.
2013 Shenzhen
Not too outrageous, looking at some vision, think hard or can save a down payment.
Guangzhou in 2013
Now, the size of the money locked up in real estate has been very large.
Go for it, sell a building and catch up with the UK and the US.
China's center of education and technology, so it is the center of the universe
University, many students (later white-collar elite), squandered their youth, so it is the center of the universe
fish and dragons, traffic chaos and congestion, so it is the center of the universe
foreigners gathered, cross-cultural exchanges flourished, so it is the center of the universe
Outside the 5th ring road, the price of housing is more than 100,000+, so it's the center of the universe
There are a lot of Koreans, so it must be the center of the universe