ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 5月3日 01時52分

When @ニューヨーク・タイムズ reporter Ian Johnson first visited #Beijing in 1984, the city felt “dusty and forgotten, a onetime capital of temples and palaces that Mao had vowed — successfully, it seemed — to transform into a landscape of factories and chimneys.” It was hard for him to imagine the city as the sacred center of China’s spiritual universe. For most of its history, though, Beijing was exactly that. Its cosmology changed in the 20th century, especially after the Communist takeover in 1949. Its great city walls and many of its temples and distinctive alleys, or hutong, were destroyed. In the 1980s, real estate development wiped out almost all of the rest of the old town. Lost was a vast medieval city of 25 square miles — and with it, a way of life. Like many people who’ve fallen in love with Beijing, Ian felt the city’s culture was lost. “But in recent years,” he writes, “I have begun to think I was wrong. Beijing’s culture is not dead; it is being reborn in odd corners of the city and in unexpected ways.” The photographer @adamjdean took this photo of flowers in Beijing’s Ritan Park, which houses the Temple of the Sun. It was built in 1530, one of 4 shrines where the emperor worshiped key heavenly bodies. #北京

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