Kaiping | A Low-Key City of Book Lovers

Kaiping, a place that might be unfamiliar to many Located in the Wuyi region of Jiangmen This is China's first hometown of overseas Chinese, a city of gourmet food, and a hometown of traditional opera It is also a city filled with the fragrance of books The Kaiping Avant-Garde Grain Warehouse Bookstore, which opened at the end of last year Brought my footsteps here The bookstore, remodeled from five grain warehouses, is spacious and bright The white buildings are surrounded by rice fields, trees, and a civic square For the first time, I felt that the Avant-Garde Bookstore had not only entered the countryside But also entered life When I arrived, the sky was already dim The glass windows framed the warm yellow light, like a painting A stranger sat on the windowsill reading a book In the pattering rain of August, such a scene was very warm At the end of the path is a completely white literary clock tower To be honest, I didn't recognize it at the time I just thought this small building was very interesting From bottom to top, there are four observation decks in different directions and at different heights I held an umbrella and walked all the way up I saw clouds, rice fields, distant mountains, children playing in the square, and the solemn tiled roofs of the grain warehouses Perhaps the designer wanted to tell people that while climbing, don't miss the beautiful scenery along the way The design inside the bookstore is very friendly The five grain warehouses are independent of each other, connected by a corridor on the right Each grain warehouse corresponds to a different themed book section Each warehouse has a theater-style public reading space Readers with different preferences can find their own place TIPS: 1⃣️ Kaiping has inconvenient transportation, it is recommended to drive there, it takes about an hour and a half from Guangzhou Panyu; if you take the high-speed rail, it takes about an hour from Guangzhou South to Kaiping South Station, and about 35 minutes by taxi; 2⃣️ The interior design of the bookstore is also very exquisite, you should be able to see more of the designer's ingenuity on a sunny day; 3⃣️ There are many local farm restaurants around that have been open for a long time, generally you won't go wrong, the environment is average~