Fall for Red Beijing in
the Season of Fall
4 November 2006
Beijing is a dry
northern city that is depressingly cold
in winter and dismally hot in summer
while the spring, that ought to be the
season of delectation, actually is the
most disturbing, as sand storms from the
Mongolia desert keep disheartening its
spirits.
But autumn is
another story entirely, when the sky
looks blue, the clouds appear to be
white, the air is invisible and the land,
rendered by fallen leaves, is in the
colour of gold. Yet what makes many
people fall for Beijing’s season of
fall is its radiant cheery red - with its
magic touch this plain-looking lady is
transformed into the drop dead beauty
queen.
In recent years,
Beijing began a project to put a bit more
make-ups on the capital, and by now a
belt 200 kilometres long with
multi-coloured plantations has formed,
that is like a bright ribbon adorning the
city.
But still, only
the Fragrant Hills, located further west
of the Summer Palace, could be called the
tempting red lips of Beijing. Each year
during November the leaves of 90,000
smoke tress turn blazing red like
wildfire spreading all over the
mountains.
On October 30,
the Double Nine Festival, it is reported
that about 20,000 people took the journey
to the west, although by then only 60 per
cent of the leaves were coloured. This
weekend, as the pretty woman has finally
finished her make-up, there could be even
more fans lining up to kiss her lips.
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