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Located on the second floor of Gemdale Center in Beijing's Chaoyang District, Hemu Su Xiaoya is an 854-square-metre restaurant by Beijing Dong San Chi Design, completed in February 2024, with lighting by Plotscape and construction by Beijing Zhongxiang Zaide. The restaurant serves a hybrid cuisine of Huainan dishes and Peking roast duck, and the design fuses two cultural worlds: the grand, axial solemnity of Beijing, with its vermilion palace walls and upturned eaves, and the gentle, ink-wash poetry of Jiangnan, with its mist, black-awning boats and canals. The first zone, the Jingwei worldly warmth, introduces an axial symmetry that runs through the whole interior, composing a procession of columns, doorframes and thresholds that recall Beijing's ceremonial architecture while echoing the slender columns of Jiangnan water towns, so that space is divided but never closed off. Rich cinnabar red and ink black are played against pale jade and green, carried from the entrance doors across walls and colonnades. Semi-enclosed booths sit under warm, restrained light, and a long sloping roof over the main hall evokes the poetic water-town imagery; the colonnade itself is inspired by a Jiangnan black-awning boat, finished with tung-oil texture and timber detailing. The private dining rooms shift away from axial symmetry toward an asymmetric, elegant mood, with pale tones, simple lines and subtly curved ceilings that free the mind. A series of paintings by artist Zhang Jingsheng, dominated by red but rich in layered texture, lines the walls and gives the room an energetic visual tension. Slender, delicate plants, jade vessels, antique paintings and modern Chinese furniture complete an atmosphere of quiet, unhurried elegance. Through the windows, Chang'an Jie's evening lights are visible, so that diners feel as if they are drifting on a boat down a night river. The design treats the guests themselves as the most vivid part of the scene, invited to a cultural banquet that nourishes the senses and human connection.