Beijing Hutong

Among so many Beijing Hutongs, the Golden Fish Hutong is one of the famous Beijing Hutongs. Golden Fish Hutong is located in Dongcheng District Beijing. It is on south of the Dengshikou Street and belongs to Donghuamen street office. This Beijing Hutong presents east and west line. It is from Dongdan North Street in east to wangfujing Street in west. In south, it connects with the Jiaowei Hutong and close to the Xitangzi Hutong in north. The totally length of the Golden Fish Hutong is 567 meters and the width is 12 meters in west corner.

In Golden Fish Hutong, there is the prosperous Dongan Market and Jixiang Theater in west corner. The Nafu covers one fourth of the east corner. The ancient Golden Fish Hutong is only a two zhang wide small Beijing hutong and there are ancient scholar trees on the two sides. There is the pitch road. Even though in such a poor Beijing Hutong, it is one of the famous Beijing hutongs.

Nowadays, the Beijing Hutong is wide and spacious. There are Taiwan restaurant, Peace Hotel and Wangfu Restaurant on the two sides of the Hutong. Go to the end of the Donghuamen Street and cross the Wangfujing, you will get to the famous Golden Fish Hutong. Now it is named Jinbao Street.

The Golden Fish Hutong is wider than the ordinary Beijing Hutong. It is 540 meters long. We can call it road. The famous Jixiang Theater and Beijing Donglaishun Restaurant are all here. The perosperous Dongan Market has north gate in this Beijing Hutong. Go to east, there is the Peace Hotel. It was the Qing grand secretary—Natong’s mansion. The middle part of the Golden Fish Beijing Hutong intersects with the Jiaowei Hutong. In this area, there is also the former Xianliang Temple.

The Dongan Market is on south of the Golden Fish Beijing Hutong. The old and famous Tianyuan Jiangyuan is there. The special roof in the Tianyuan Jiangyuan is unique in Beijing. You will feel comfortable there. There is no flavor of sauce and various vegetable flavors.

You will find many interesting matters here. The old Beijing Hutong now has new appearance. If you want to feel the old Beijing culture, just go to the Beijing Hutong. You will find more there.

Now spring comes and the best time for traveling to Beijing is coming. The excellent experience during Beijing tour will leave an unforgettable memory to every tourist. During Beijing tour, tourists could both enjoy the historical sightseeing and learn a lot of traditional culture.

At first glance, Beijing hutongs are all gray walls and gray tiles, just look the same. But in fact, as long as you are willing to doing something with the string on a few alleys and talk for a while with the old tenants, you will find, each alley has its own story, with a legend, anecdote anecdotes are plenty inside.

Since Beijing Hutong is more than just the context of the city traffic, it is the place of the ordinary people living in Beijing, an important stage of development and evolution of the capital’s history and culture. Beijing Hutong writes down the history of changes, the style of the times, and contains a rich cultural atmosphere, like a seat of the museum of folk customs, bears the imprint of the people of social life. Walking along an old Beijing Hutong, there is full of monuments, and savoring it just like the encyclopedia. Every brick and the tile in Beijing Hutong may have a history of several centuries.

Beijing Hutong formation, evolution and development are with the pace of the formation of the Beijing City, but the real change is after the liberation. In recent years, Beijing is not only set up many new high-rise buildings, residential living quarters, but also in the construction of the transformation of the old street, the small Beijing Hutong. Many alleys, although the name remains the same, mostly no longer in the old shape, and the dilapidated cottages have long been unit small building replaced. Typical courtyard style residential buildings, such as the Juer Jitong in Dongcheng District, the courtyard buildings in Xicheng District, not only residents of the housing conditions have fundamentally improved, but also maintained a full taste of the “Beijing Flavor”. For the protection of the ancient capital, maintaining the traditional characteristics, Beijing also designated more than 20 alleys for the historical and cultural protection areas, like Nanluoguxiang, Xisiyitiao to Xisibatiao, and so on as courtyard bungalows protected areas.

During the tour to Beijing Hutong, tourists will learn more about Beijing Hutong culture. And also you could enjoy the typical Beijing snacks as well.

Beijing Hutong, just as the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, is one of the symbols of Beijing both in ancient times and modern time. So during Beijing tour if you have enough time you had better visit Famous Beijing Hutong to experience old life.

Qianshi Hutong is a famous Beijing Hutong located in the west of Zhubaoshi Jie, next to the famous business district in Beijing, Dashilan . It is the narrowest Hutong both at present and in ancient times in Beijing with the total length of 55 meters, the average width of 0.7 meters while the narrowest point is only 0.4 meters. Qianshi Hutong consists of nine groups of north-south buildings. Two people have to sidle across the walk while a man pushing a bicycle would be difficult to pass up. On the western end of Qianshi Hutong there is a large canopy which was the government-run money trading floor, referred to as “money market” during Qing Dynasty. Therefore the hutong got its name of Qianshi. Generally speaking, Qianshi Hutong is the oldest city alley and the most complete financial transactions in China.

On both sides of Qianshi Hutong there are the precious metal casting industries, specializing in the workshops special approval of the government of the Qing Dynasty. These industries along the hutong at the time are known as the “furnace line”. Jewelry Street is the most concentrated of the furnace line sections in the Qing Dynasty, the formation of the money market, the Republic of depression after the furnace line, the money market was converted into silver Shop room, forming a narrow alley. There are four courtyards and a paved house located in the south of the street and each one covers an area of ​​80 square meters with the book from the plaque on the door has changed the indications, was the furnace line, to the store after the workshop.

Currently in Qianshi Hutong, there are 10 tablets and several early financial companies such as “Chase Bank “, “Matthey Silver” and other buildings. Some courtyards still remains the style of Qing Dynasty, preserved wooden ceiling structure, and some still pinned iron license “the capital of Commerce”.

If you are interested in Beijing Hutong and want to pay a visit, you could join the group of half day Beijing Hutong tour which you will get a deep understanding about Beijing Hutong culture.

Beijing Hutong tour is a main theme of Beijing tour and attracts a lot of international tourists to have a visit of Beijing Hutong; the most famous Beijing Hutong tour resorts are Beijing Shichahai and Nanluoguxiang, Beijing Shichahai and Nanluoguxinag is very close. However, tourists maybe will lose road because Beijing hutong in Shichahai zone just like a maze; so it is necessary to book one tour guide for the Beijing hutong Shichahai tour. In Beijing, there is a place for travel twice that Shichahai. Here is a little information about the Beijing Hutong Shichahai tour for tourists who are interested in Beijing hutong culture.

The first pass, only one man quietly has a travel. In finding the way, those who reveal the ancient symbol of Beijing and breathe the good culture Beijing hutong smell, freezing in the bar of the freehand wall, freezing in a variety of crises-cross the alley deep, believe it will touch your soul’s most secret purity. Second time is travel with friends in the Beijing hutong Shichahai zone. In addition to enjoy the charming atmosphere of Houhai Sea and the ancient Yin Ding Bridge, pipe Xie Jie, who never play Amoy endless strange accident, as well as shared meaning.

Houhai Bar is national and ideographic, Chinese and Western. Into Shichahai, many people like to enter from the Houhai zone, turn right at North Main Street from Xinjiekou, after the traffic lights, go inside from the bridge head, when a blue waves of the open waters of the show in front, it arrived. Waterside of the road will give you enough time to greedily sucking moist air, large tracts of ducks on the water pacing up and down, occasionally, a pair of mandarin ducks arrogant way across. In this season, spent the two sides opened Magnolia exceptionally swagger, to stimulate the visual senses. Pinch of sugar with the traditional Beijing street hawkers who, it is Beijing’s an old craft, but unfortunately, shape of the dog, the Monkey King of the sugar people, could not try to eat, and, each priced at $ 10. Tourists of Beijing hutong tour in Houhai have a lot of interesting to do; more information will be introduced next time. Tourists are welcomed to book Beijing hutong tour online here!