Beijing’s Tianzi Hotel holds the Guinness Record for the world’s biggest image building. The trio of bearded, old men in colourful, traditional garb is intended to resemble three Chinese gods, the personifications of the three attributes for a good life. The red-robed Fu is linked with the fortune, the green-robed Lu represents prosperity, while the white-haired figure at far left is Shou associated with longevity. The entire body of each figure is a hotel building, and the rooms go all the way from head to feet. In traditional Chinese iconography, Shou always carries a peach, and in the Tianzi Hotel, the peach room is available for rent!
Despite consistently ranking among the upper echelon of one bizarre hotels in the world, precise details regarding the interior of this turn-of-the-millennium masterpiece is scarce; rather tales of visits are passed down from traveler to traveler. In an age where the Internet allows us to find most lodging’s details down to their exact metrics before booking – let alone arrival – staying inside a row of legendary gods based on a mixture of word of mouth and your favorite fluent friends playing translator makes the Tianzi Hotel all the more delightfully, magically mysterious.
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