Brief (coffeeyo.com): Ahead of the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays, Beijing’s Fragrant Hills Park has completed a full upgrade of its commercial offerings — a mountaintop cafe with signature drinks, a mid-slope self-service noodle bar, and themed flower displays now dot the climb.
A cup of summit coffee, a bowl of mid-slope hot noodles, a courtyard to rest — as the Mid-Autumn and National Day double holidays approach, Fragrant Hills Park has completed a full optimization and upgrade of its commercial formats.
This renovation is not simply adding commercial spots; rather, grounded in the spatial character of the mountain forest and ancient garden, it scientifically lays out light dining and rest-supply scenes along the climbing route, filling the gap in mid-climb supplies. Paired with themed flower borders and a series of cultural activities, it creates a double-holiday garden experience for citizens and tourists that blends everyday warmth, historical depth, and ecological beauty.
Multiple supply points along the climb
The park’s format upgrade follows a staggered layout of “gathering at the foot, rest midway, supply on the half-slope, and viewing-consumption at the summit,” fitting tourists’ climbing rhythm while not damaging the ancient-building environment or the mountain forest’s appearance.
At the foot, Wensong Xuan uses its courtyard space to offer Fujian Wuyi Mountain specialty snacks and tea drinks, where visitors can sit and rest in the old courtyard; the Xinhua Bookstore adds Western light meals, pairing books with bites; Yuhua Xiu builds a rest area with coffee, tea, and bread for a quick break mid-climb; the Xiangwu Ku platform on the half-slope sets up a self-service instant-noodle bar for quick hot-food supply; and the Yunxiu Mountain Villa food shop newly debuting at the Fragrant Censer Peak summit serves light meals, tea drinks, and desserts, ending the history of the summit lacking quality hot drinks and light food.
A specialty drink atop Fragrant Censer Peak
Now, standing atop Fragrant Censer Peak, visitors can sit down and order a specialty drink, taking the autumn colors of Fragrant Hills in at a glance.
Yunxiu Mountain Villa launches three Mid-Autumn-themed drinks: “Dusk Ridge Condensed Aroma,” a vanilla latte with mountain-shaped latte art depicting Fragrant Hills’ rolling ranges; “Cloud-Ridge Bamboo Rhyme,” a bamboo-aroma oolong milk tea whose foam writes “clouds out of the ridge,” echoing the forest mood; and “Brocade Red Eaves,” a hawthorn Americano accented with a glutinous-rice maple-leaf decoration, prefiguring the romance of the red-leaf season.
Many regular climbers are deeply moved: in the past, after reaching the top and wanting a hot coffee, they could only bring their own thermos. Now, at the summit, with the mountain wind and a distant view of the capital, a freshly made drink turns climbing fatigue into viewing pleasure.
Cook a bowl of hot noodles halfway up
As an important mid-route node, Xiangwu Ku newly sets up a “Half-Slope Tea-Aroma Self-Service Instant-Noodle Bar.” Within its 12-square-meter space are gathered over 140 kinds of goods, equipped with self-service noodle-cooking devices, where visitors can pick ingredients themselves and cook a bowl of hot noodles by hand.
Li Lupeng, head of the park’s publicity section, explained: “The Xiangwu Ku platform is an important rest node on the route, suited to quick supply and short stops. Instant noodles, with many flavors, convenience, and speed, are a supply way visitors enjoy when outing. We opened the self-service noodle bar, adding self-service noodle machines and such service supply, and provide a comfortable dining environment, hot-water service, and centralized garbage recycling — both eco-friendly and experience-enhancing. From visitor feedback, what the half-slope noodle bar is most praised for is exactly this free yet ritualized form.”
Double-holiday flower beds debut
To welcome Mid-Autumn and National Day, the park carefully built a themed flower bed outside the East Gate and three themed flower borders along the main garden path, totaling 2,200 square meters, using over 50 varieties and 110,000 plants.
Among them, the East Gate main flower bed is 4.9 meters high, 11 meters long, and 7 meters wide, framed by traditional begonia flower windows, shaping the layered mountain form of Fragrant Hills; squirrels and birds made of wheat ears dot the scene, full of forest vitality. The bed is fitted with night lighting, so during Mid-Autumn, National Day, and the red-leaf festival, visitors enjoy blooming mountain views by day and flowing-light flower borders by night.
Fenglin Village, Jiari Garden, and Zhiyuan Zhai simultaneously build distinctive flower borders, setting up ecological pieces like “insect hotels,” integrating ecological-protection ideas into the garden landscape — every plant telling the story of human-nature coexistence.
A series of cultural activities shine
While commercial support is upgraded, Fragrant Hills’ deep cultural core keeps thriving. On September 24, Jianxin Zhai will launch the themed photography exhibition “Light and Shadow, Seeing the Heart · Frames of Fragrant Hills,” freezing the garden’s four-season scenery and ancient-architecture details with the lens, gathering scattered landscape stories and human anecdotes into the old courtyard. Contemporary photographic art dialogues across time with the ancient mood of Jianxin Zhai’s “seeing the heart,” letting visitors understand Fragrant Hills through the exhibition.
During the Mid-Autumn holiday, Wensong Xuan hosts “Fragrant Hills Autumn Moon · Elegant Fragrance Gathering,” with hand-made incense-cake sessions and jade-rabbit incense experiences, plus osmanthus science study and Biyun Temple history-culture study, letting visitors feel traditional national style in the old courtyard.
During National Day, the red-study activity “The Exam Journey · Fragrant Hills — a Walking Civics Classroom” simultaneously recruits youth from society. Led by the park’s red-education guides, walking among Fragrant Hills’ red historic sites, visitors immerse themselves in red history, moving the civics classroom into the mountain forest and ancient garden, making red culture tangible and touchable.
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