First of all, you should look at the striking logo in the above picture:
U-CENTER wudaokou
U Please make a cosmic solution, if the universe is too long? It can be you! Send you a word:
You are the world!
three forked road
"Attention to pedestrians and vehicles, the train is coming, please wait outside the gate, don't rush, don't drill the railing ..."
The train goes left, the subway goes right, and Wudaokou is still there.
mix together
If you have long wanted to go to college, congratulations on your realization. This place has gathered many universities that are first-class in the universe and close to the first-class in the universe. One of the most gorgeous is:
The two nations in the universe gathered in Wudaokou so harmoniously! Can you say that 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? !
Did you take the self-taught college entrance examination?
Have you taken the CET-4 and CET-6 Computer Proficiency Test?
Have you taken the IELTS Defu Japanese proficiency test?
……
If so, dare you say that the center below is not an absolute center?
science and technology
Tsinghua Science Park! What is this, a bullfight?
On the other side, there is an inscription: "The nucleus is as heavy as an ox, and a new country is born by collision", originally to commemorate the nuclear collision.
This is how the universe collapses.
business
In addition to first-class schools, there are first-class companies in the universe. For example:
Don't trust Heliocentrism, go back to the center of the earth:
All over the world, isn't it the king of soil? So the center of the earth is China. Where is the center of China?
Can you guess? ...
eat
For the vast majority of people in the universe, the core question is "when?" .
A little dirty "land of food" is probably the most appropriate synonym for Wudaokou.
Within 500m of Fiona Fang, there are 3 KFC, 7 1 1 3, 3 Jiahe, 2 Bigger and 2 Pizza Hut. ...
I don't know how many Korean barbecues, Japanese food and North-South restaurants there are. ...
Of course, the most important thing is that at night, mala Tang, barbecue and pancakes come out one after another, making a mess. ...
-Only you-
In fact, the center of the universe does not need to be proved!
There is a saying that when you are young, the place where you squander your youth at any cost will always be the center of the universe in your heart. ...
Looked up and saw the words upstairs:
U-CENTER wudaokou
These are the centers of the universe in your heart. ...
Extended reading: the five crossings, the center of the universe
Original author Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Miao
From the urban-rural fringe full of farmland 20 years ago, to the underground rock holy land of passionate generate more than 10 years ago, and now to the "cosmic center" with five mixed parties, Wudaokou embodies a glimpse of the changes of this era. This is the intersection of cross-culture and cross-generation, where inheritance and integration coexist, and dreams and lost peers. "Change" is the unchangeable character of Wudaokou, which is full of challenges and hopes. People here may eventually leave, but what will never die is the memory of youth, which is the "center of the universe".
For architect Zhang Hong, the landmark building of Wudaokou is a railway. Born in 1967, both parents work in Tsinghua University. When I was a child, my parents rode bicycles, carried him and his younger brother, crossed a piece of Yang Shulin, and crossed the railway crossing to go to the workers' club to see a movie. That was his earliest memory of Wudaokou.
At least 5/kloc-0 trains pass through here every day, and there will be more during Spring Festival travel rush. The average road closure time is 6 minutes. Some impatient people rushed over before the fence was completely closed and were shouted at by the staff. The train roared by, and some people picked up their mobile phones to shoot, and more people looked dull. Someone once posted on the internet and asked what people waiting at the intersection were thinking at this time. The most common answer is empty, followed by where the train comes from and where it is going.
The staff commanded the intersection to close the road. Photo by Jing Wong.
Few people pay attention to the staff who open and close the bar door. It seems that only people who have been yelled at feel the existence of this group. Few people know that there is a master named Zhao who takes the train of this railway every day and spends one and a half hours coming here from Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing, 12 hours. He is bored here. Seeing pedestrians coming and going, he thought, "There are many people here, so what's there to visit?"
For the people in the nearby university campus, the most attractive thing about Wudaokou is the excitement. This is one of the most densely populated areas of universities in Beijing. Tsinghua University, Peking University, beijing language and culture university, China Geo University and University of Science and Technology Beijing are all gathered two or three kilometers away from Fiona Fang. Since the 1950s, Wudaokou has been a secular paradise for people in these ivory towers.
In his memory, until the 1990s, Wudaokou Workers' Club beside the railway was a well-deserved entertainment center in this community. Here, Zhang Hong watched Qiong Yao's film from the revolutionary classic, and later watched the first Korean film in his life. He also bought "CDs" (processed CDs confiscated by the customs) and went to bars in nearby shanty towns.
It was the most vigorous period of underground rock in Beijing. Zhang Hong, an ordinary young man, has also been to the famous screaming club and listened to the rock singer who tried to "howl" with the head of the Mohican. "At that time, there was no consumption, just for fun or happiness. Two people drink a bottle of beer. "
Nowadays, the dilapidated bungalows hidden in the underground rock center in Beijing have long since disappeared. There are many bars near Wudaokou, but here, except 13club, it is far from the subway, lives in the basement, and there is no rock and roll. A once vigorous punk movement seems to have never happened. What people consume is no longer passion, but real money.
Today's Wudaokou Workers' Club, photo by Wang.
However, Wudaokou Workers' Club, with only three screening halls, is still open. Although there are often huge posters of the latest blockbusters, the scenery is no longer there. Seeing two or three people approaching, the conductor will lazily open the LCD screen where the program preview is played. More often, they do nothing and look at all beings through the glass. The empty yard turned into a big parking lot.
The "U-Center" at Wudaokou is interpreted as "the center of the universe", which was taken by Wang.
Opposite the club, a new building was built on the old site of Wudaokou Department Store. At the top of the building, the words "Wudaokou U-Center" are very conspicuous. Some people say that "U" refers to the universe, which together is the "Wudaokou Universe Center". One of the investors in this building is graduate department, an alumnus of the People's Bank of China, with a class of 87. He built a financial center in Shanghai, also named after Wudaokou.
China People's Bank graduate department
Graduate department, China People's Bank, founded in 198 1, is the youngest university in this community. It has always claimed to be the "Five Crossroads", and many graduates trained here hold the lifeblood of China's finance.
However, even though it is called "the center of the universe", Wudaokou is still an undefined community. Its temperament is mixed: there are both international colors and traces of suburbs; Busy during the day, busy at night; Kochi is also a famous bar area in Beijing. Hormones full of desire, but also carrying an idealistic utopia; Messy, impetuous, energetic, free and tolerant.
Huaqing Jiayuan Jidong Shengyuan Apartment Phase 3
In the expensive Huaqing Jiayuan, many houses have been rented out. According to the data held by the intermediary, the ratio of renting to self-occupation is about 4: 6, and the occupancy rate of three relocated houses is relatively high. Like many residential areas in Beijing, Huaqing Jiayuan compensated the relocated households for loose house management; There is a postmodern irony in the small advertisement of "applying for a certificate" in the corridor, which is like a flower on the wall.
There are all kinds of tenants here. There are international students, parents who accompany their children to study in nearby primary schools, internet companies that have just started businesses, studios that specialize in taking job-hunting photos, beauty salons for massage and maintenance, educational institutions that make up lessons, tattoo shops, and exchange institutions that take care of young people's ideological collisions.
706 Youth Space Reception, photo by Wang.
This "706 Youth Space" founded by several students holds academic lectures, salons, free speeches or book clubs every week. Here, philosophers Chen Jiaying and Zhou Lian discuss issues related to the soul, folk Taiji masters talk about health preservation, and independent scholars decode the wonderful Bhagavad-gita ... Young people of all backgrounds and ideas exchange profound or strange questions.
Founder Wu Fangrong didn't study in a nearby university, but he took a fancy to Wudaokou University's strong academic atmosphere and five-party freedom. However, his biggest headache is money. In this beautifully decorated penthouse, the only property belonging to young people is more than 10 thousand books. Facing the monthly rent of 25,000 yuan, how to continue the spiritual utopia is a difficult problem.
706 youth space
Fortunately, despite several relocations, 706 did not leave Huaqing Jiayuan or Wudaokou. Yan Xiaochuan, a graduate of MIT, is a frequent visitor to Youth Space. He thinks Wudaokou is more diverse than culture, which is similar to the atmosphere he felt in Boston. "I rarely see this diversity in other parts of China."
Yuzhou wudaokou
Some people also classify the blending of multi-cultures as the "cosmic center" of Wudaokou. Wandering in the street, you will find something different here. About every 10 step, a foreigner will come into your sight: a blonde with a cool expression in sunglasses, a little black brother with a braid tied into a mop, an Islamic woman covered from head to toe, and only a scarf on her head is bright. A slim girl with green hair in a leopard-print skirt walked by quickly, and a young man with a silver plate came face to face not far away. They have Asian faces, maybe Koreans, Japanese, or your compatriots.
You often feel a sense of dislocation here. On the sidewalk, a beggar wrote his Tibetan poem "Malaysia Airlines Missing" with chalk. His fine print is neat and delicate, so you want to take a picture of him. He showed a front tooth inlaid with gold: "Don't shoot me, shoot words!" " .
An old beggar wrote neat fine print with chalk, taken by Wang Jing.
Some people like things here, and some people may not appreciate them. Tsinghua "top student", the top student in the college entrance examination, went to a nightclub for the first time in Wudaokou. At that time, he was a senior, and several classmates made an appointment to see the legendary "debauchery". They came to the oldest bar next to Wudaokou subway station and saw a bunch of men and women who are called diaosi today. The music is deafening, you have to shout when you talk, and the wine you drink tastes wrong, as if it had been watered. "It's really boring." He thought.
For the post-90s Wang Xiao, Wudaokou is a treasure house for opening nightclubs, which is "eternal". He is the entertainment director of a nightclub. "International students change in batches, and people flow is never a problem." French DJ, American rapper, Russian dancer ... Lawrence Wang's team is almost all foreigners. Customers come from all over the world, just like their store names. "What are the rare countries?" "Iceland. Is it strange? " This store is the beginning of the story of the "Li Moumou Incident" that sensationalized the whole country.
Lawrence Wang provides a lively crowd at Wudaokou nightclub.
A thousand people have a thousand "five crossings" in their hearts. In this second largest Korean residential area in Beijing after Wangjing, in addition to the clothing city and various Korean restaurants, chain coffee shops and bakeries of Korean local brands can also be seen everywhere. When you enter the store, the clerk will greet you in Korean: an nyong ha se yo! Lu, a Korean student, often hallucinates when meeting friends, thinking that he is still in Korea.
World Wudaokou
The queuing culture of Wudaokou is by no means limited to the subway. Next to the bus stop, there was a long queue in front of a small shop selling jujube cakes. The boss's name is Chen Li. He is 44 years old, white and thin, from Henan. After graduating from high school, he came to Beijing to make a living. He likes to speak with numbers.
There is always a long line in front of the "Jujube Cake King" in Chen Li, and Jing Wong takes photos.
"10 years ago, 12 hours, the traffic here was 30,000, and now it is at least 80,000. The rent of my shop was 3000 yuan 20 years ago, but now it has increased by 100 times. I spend 165438+ 10,000 a year, open for 14 hours a day, and sell a jujube cake every 55 seconds on average to make ends meet. 80% of my customers are repeat customers, 5- 10% are foreigners, 30-40% are students, 40% are office workers, and 15% are surrounding residents. I can sell 1500 Jin of jujube cake every day. "
There are fewer and fewer traces of the past, so that people often forget the older historical stories here. 1on March 25th, 949, Mao Zedong went to Beijing with Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and others to take the exam, and the first step into Peiping was at Tsinghua Park Railway Station. When I attended founding ceremony, students from Tsinghua took an open carriage from there to Xizhimen, and then walked to Tiananmen Square.
Today, the old Tsinghua Park Railway Station is submerged in an alley in the shantytown of Wudaokou. Only the main hall is left, which is divided into small rooms for rent. A young man from Fujian rented a room of 40 square meters at a monthly rent of 2000 yuan. On the top of the outer wall of the room is Zhan Tianyou's calligraphy "Tsinghua Campus Station". A small restaurant specializing in takeout rented a room next door. Oil pollution and fouling are the marks left by the new era on this 104-year-old building.
Old Tsinghua Park Railway Station, standing here, you can see the modern buildings opposite, and the photos were taken by Wang Fang.
People who live here seldom look back on the past. They just need to look up at the tall buildings in Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, where famous Internet companies gather. This is a symbol of the new era.
In the eyes of Li Sining, an IT engineer, Wudaokou is special, because Internet companies are gathered here. However, he stressed that he had no special feelings for this place. Apart from work and company parties, he seldom comes to Wudaokou, but practices the violin at home. I began to learn piano after work, and now I can play Liang Zhu and Mendelssohn in just four years.
One of Li Sining's dreams is to hold a concert, but he has little hope for it. He has moved towards his second dream-to be a good teacher. He wants to teach 1000 successful students. "It is through my help that they stand out in their work, study and life." Several like-minded partners set up a training institution called "New Concept". Li Sining, who has no "special feelings" for Wudaokou, is looking for a house nearby to pin this dream. After all, it is still the center of the universe.
Wudaokou, the earliest front desk of a western restaurant, was taken by Jing Wong. This is Wudaokou. The attracted crowd keeps pouring in. Wudaokou changed them, and they also influenced the spiritual characteristics of Wudaokou. In short, in the 200x' s, when I went to Wudaokou at night, all I saw was a pot of cars and people's stew, and all I heard was the sound of car horns, the sound of the power amplifier in the mobile phone shop, and even the noise of some groups pressing the road. At that time, Wudaokou was a mess (there was no such "high-end and upscale" shopping mall as U centre at that time), and the eye-catching street vendors were more like the urban-rural junction. As a result, college students and college graduates here have gradually formed such a kind of knowledge: if this is not the center of the universe, how can there be so many people in such a chaotic environment? Where did you get so many cars? How can there be such a high house price! Therefore, the reputation of "the center of the universe" spreads far and wide ... End of full text >
Thank you for inviting me. Although I don't know why I was invited to answer this question, according to my personal feelings and thoughts, I still have to talk about it.
Personally, the name Wudaokou, the center of the universe, is mainly because there are a group of people with characteristics and enough sense of humor living near Wudaokou.
Wudaokou, located in Haidian District, is a densely populated area of universities and research institutes. There are beijing language and culture university and China Geo-Universities in the east, Tsinghua University in the northwest, Beijing Forestry University in the northeast, Beihang University and Zhongguancun Campus of Chinese Academy of Sciences in the south, plus Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Mechanics, Institute of Electrician, Institute of Electronics, Institute of Acoustics, Institute of Physics, Institute of Theory, Institute of Computing, Institute of Mathematics and Systems and Space Center, not counting Taiwan Province Province of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Children's shoes in these universities and research institutes often ridicule themselves as Wudaokou Men's Technical School and Fu Bao Temple Research Monk. By the way, they also made their own contributions to the busy traffic, lively business district and high-level housing prices in Wudaokou area. The traffic, business circle and house price on the tall place laid the foundation for Wudaokou to become the center of the universe.
As mentioned earlier, there are a large number of foreign students studying in China in beijing language and culture university. Foreigners from other units and companies let Wudaokou feel some exotic customs around, especially Korean students and Korean restaurants. The name "cosmic power" has greatly increased Wudaokou's index of cosmic center.
Finally, the key is the neon lights hanging in a shopping center, with several big letters "U-CENTER" shining on them. Chinese and English children's shoes immediately understood the meaning of the center of the universe correctly, and finally achieved the historical position of Wudaokou's center of the universe.
Wudaokou is called the center of the universe. The earliest reason may be related to the "U-CENTER" sign in the shopping center. At the same time, there are famous schools such as Peking University, Tsinghua and Beijing Normal University near Wudaokou, which is also related to the "U" at the beginning of college English.
However, these are not enough. Wudaokou can become the "center of the universe" because it can create miracles. For example, the miracle of housing prices. Huaqing Jiayuan Community, located next to Wudaokou of the subway, is close to the highest price of 10. 1 10,000 square meters, which is rare in Beijing.
And Wudaokou is a gathering place for some young entrepreneurs and young people working in Internet companies. The information of Wudaokou can affect the whole country. Sohu Science and Technology Building is also located in Wudaokou, which is basically connected with Zhongguancun in the southwest, which also gives people a feeling that Wudaokou-Zhongguancun-Peking University Tsinghua is one.
On the other hand, there are many cultural bookstores next to Wudaokou, which are also places where young artists and cultural celebrities gather. There are cultural bookstores such as Wansheng Bookstore, Douban Bookstore, Weed Bookstore and CITIC Bookstore near Wudaokou, which adds to its cultural taste and attracts many young people to gather here and become a paradise for young people to seek knowledge and get together.
Wudaokou used to be able to cross the train, and a green leather train passed by. Now the last green train has left, but the prompt sound of "the train is coming, please avoid pedestrians and vehicles" still makes many people unforgettable. This seems to be the landmark of Wudaokou, and many people can see its charm and complexity when they come to Wudaokou. There are many people's dreams here, and it is also the place where many people dream of setting sail. Young people will gain a high position in Wudaokou, because it is a paradise and a struggle field for young people. In this sense, Wudaokou is indeed the "center of the universe" in the cultural sense.
As a former Wudaokou person, let me briefly talk about it. 1. First of all, there are many colleges and universities. There are mainly Tsinghua, China Agricultural University, China Geo University, Beijing Normal University and Beilin, and University of Science and Technology Beijing is a little far away. There are more schools, more students and more international students, so it will be more diversified.
2, eat more, after all, there are so many students, and their spending power is still very strong.
There are many companies. Tsinghua Science Park is here, and there are many companies such as Ziguang, Aauto Quicker, Sohu, Netease, etc. (but it seems that they have all moved away now).
As for the U-center in Wudaokou Hualian Department Store, you can understand it as the center of the universe, but I think it is too thin to explain it simply by this point.
In fact, Wudaokou is nothing interesting. You can visit colleges or eat if you want, but shopping or playing is not so good.
Because there are many Koreans there, what is the relationship between Koreans and the universe? Because the universe belongs to Koreans, Wudaokou is called the center of the universe, where Koreans gather. However, it is reported that the center of the universe now seems to be Wangjing. For the same reason.
Where is the universe? It is a difficult place to go, even harder for ordinary people. So why is this Wudaokou in Beijing called the center of the universe? It is because this place is too expensive that most people can't go.
So when it comes to this matter, it can be traced back to 20 13. At that time, a residential building began to be sold, but the published price was 3.5 million yuan 37 square meters, which was sky-high at 20 13, almost 0.0 million yuan per square meter/kloc-0.00 million yuan. Many people could not afford a toilet, but this is the fact.
You know, in the same year of 20 13, the price of a house in Shanghai is about 20,000 to 30,000, and the expensive place is 50,000 to 60,000. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that such an expensive house is called the center of the universe, and it may be necessary to praise the person who uses this word, which is really in place.
The center of the universe doesn't know whether to focus on the universe or the center. If it focuses on the center, it naturally means talking about the center of the world, so why do you say that? Because there are many universities near Wudaokou, such as Tsinghua Peking University, there are also many cultural shops, that is, shops with strong literary flavor are all nearby, so it is more reasonable to call it the center, because it is the center of literary flavor.
So there are many opinions about the universe. For example, the houses here are expensive, and so on, all of which are called the universe, but a square meter of 65438+ 10,000 is really a bit expensive, so it is not an exaggeration to call the universe.
I don't know who picked up the words "the center of the universe". It's really good. Let's go back to Wudaokou in Beijing. Why do you call it that? It is impossible to have casual intercourse, because there are many signs related to this U near Wudaokou. For example, this shopping center starts with a U, and there are many famous universities with English characters. These words also begin with u, which I think is a reasonable reason, but many people don't seem to think so, because there used to be a high-priced community in Wudaokou. What is the price? It was sold at a high price of 65438+100000 per square meter, and it was when I was studying in 20 13 years. At that time, the house price didn't seem to be that high, and in many places it was only tens of thousands, so people publicized the name of this space center by the way, so there is the current space center.
Wudaokou is called "the center of the universe" because of a Weibo of 20 13. The house in Huaqing Jiayuan Community of Wudaokou: 3.5 million for 37 square meters! The average price is nearly 65438+ 10,000/flat!
After seeing the price, netizens vomited. It seems that Wudaokou is the center of the universe!
There may be many people here who don't understand that a house of 65,438+100000 square meters is still rare in those years, and the property required anywhere in the center of a first-tier city is almost100000.
Let me compare the house prices in China's first tier cities in 20 13 years.
Beijing's house price is more than 30 thousand
In 20 13, the average price in Shanghai was more than 20,000, among which the average prices in Huangpu, Jing 'an, Changning and other districts in the urban area were all above 50,000 and 60,000.
As a result, 20 16 and 20 17 soared by as much as 50%, and even tripled in some areas.
20 13 Shenzhen
It's not too crazy. I am still looking forward to it. I feel that I can still save a down payment if I work hard.
Guangzhou 20 13
Now, the scale of funds to lock in real estate is already very large.
Come on, sell a building and catch up with the beautiful women in the Premier League. .
China is the center of education and technology, so it is the center of the universe.
There are many universities, and many students (later white-collar elites) have squandered their youth, so it is the center of the universe.
Because of the mixed fish and dragons and traffic jams, this is the center of the universe
Foreigners gather and cross-cultural exchanges flourish, so it is the center of the universe.
Outside the Fifth Ring Road, the house price is more than 65,438+10,000+,so it is the center of the universe.
There are many Koreans, so it must be the center of the universe.