Chen Lu

Lifestyle

生活方式

Outdoor practice, city leisure, and consumption as lived experience — I report on how people choose gear, services, and places, and what those choices say about a changing middle-class life.

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Glamping in Hangzhou: Style, Ritual, and a New Urban Leisure 杭州野奢:风格、仪式感与一种新的城市休闲
Reported feature·Outdoor & Gear·Experience economy
A “style camping” scene that moved outdoor life into the city—through taste, storage discipline, and social choreography.
Cycle Hainan, Slowly: Old-Dad Tea, Villages, and an Island Tempo 五一去海南,不如来个环岛休闲骑?
Reported feature·Travel·Local life
“Slow riding” as a method: how routes, tea breaks, and small-town stops reveal a lived Hainan beyond the highway.
Solo Camping: A Two-Day Escape from Shanghai 一个人露营也很好:两天逃离上海
Reported feature·Camping·Urban outdoor
A portrait of solo camping as a monthly ritual—less “escape,” more a new way to organize attention, comfort, and freedom.
Birding in Guangzhou: Once You Go, You’ll Understand 去广州观鸟,就对了
Reported feature·Nature·Practice
Waiting, distance, tides, and a city’s ecological edges—birding as an urban way of seeing.
How Does a Designer Think Like an Animal? 设计师如何像动物一样去思考
Reported feature·City·Public space
From enclosure design to visitor choreography: how “internet-famous animals” are also a spatial design outcome.
Which MBTI Type Are You? The Social Temptation of a Pop Test 你属于哪种 MBTI 类型?MBTI:流行文化下的社交诱惑
Reported feature·City·Identity
A test that turned into small talk, self-description, and a new kind of “identity shorthand.”