Hsia Chu-joe, a professor at Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, explains that walking Beijing's most evocative axis is like an initiation ceremony by which one becomes a naturalized Beijinger, just as when one goes to Paris it is de rigueur to ascend the Eiffel Tower for a bird's-eye view of the city.
台大城鄉所教授夏鑄九解釋說，走過北京最動人的軸線，就像是作為入族北京的「入族式」（成為北京人的一種儀式），就像到巴黎一定要爬上巴黎鐵塔俯瞰。