Eight voices ganzhou title west four north five articles
Looking at the dark alleys of the miscellaneous halls, remember the dust of the past, and paint the re-carved walls of the building.
Nian E'e Zhu Zi, Yingying Pink Dai, all into the yellow sorghum.
It used to be the wind blowing the locust rain, according to the old incense. Even if there is a door to change, it is difficult to relieve the loneliness.
Pedestrians weave back and forth, reminiscing about childhood fragments, and thinking alone.
Cover up the old photos of the past year, and endure tears to slant the sun.
Looking at the world, the fragrance of life, who is annoyed, cold old intestines.
Looking back, it seems that the sound of the piano rises, and the moon rises on the east wing.
——Cai Zhaoyun (Architect)
The beautiful picture and complex mood do not know whether it has aroused your imagination of the five hutongs in the west and the north?
The beautiful verse made me can't help but explore the five hutongs in the west and north, and found that this hutong not only lived in universities and warlords, but also one of the important birthplaces of the Beijing Film Academy.
West 4 North 5, east from West 4 North Avenue, west to Zhao Dengyu Road. East-west, more than 400 meters long, not long or short. Originally, the name of the west four north five articles was Shi Lao Niang Hutong, which is said to be because a midwife surnamed Shi lived in this hutong. Later, in 1965, the hutong was renamed Xisibei Wutiao, and it has not changed to this day.
(West 4 North Wujo Hutong East Exit)
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West Four North Headlines to West Four North Eight
The west four and north five north and south sides are distributed on the north and south sides of the west four north four, west four north six, extending to both sides, from south to north, west four north headline to west four north eight, none of which has been left behind. The eight hutongs are neatly distributed, the whole resembles a right-angle trapezoid, and the queues are distributed in the north of Fuchengmennei Street.
The Xisibei Hutong Group was formed as early as the construction of the Yuan Capital, and belonged to Mingyufang in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the Boundary of the Zhenghong Banner in the Qing Dynasty. It can be seen that it has a long history. The design and layout of the building is the materialized expression of a city's management concept, ideology and culture, etc. This orderly and neat hutong group does have the taste of the solemnity of the central city of Beijing. In these longitudinal and horizontal hutongs, there are also many well-preserved courtyards, such as the No. 11 courtyard of Kitsanjo, which was once the residence of Ma Fuxiang, a member of the National Government and chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Committee; the No. 23 courtyard of Beiliutiao, which is a three-entry courtyard, and there is still a pair of lower horse stones and a shadow wall in front of the gatehouse, and the hanging flower door in the courtyard is flanked by a scribe veranda, and the flower wall with windows and the exquisite brick carving patterns that can be seen everywhere can be called a model of the Qing Courtyard. In addition to the courtyard, this hutong is also distributed with several ancient temples, Fuchengmennei Avenue Imperial Temple, Guangji Temple, North Sanjo Hutong No. 3 Longchang Temple, North Eight Hutong in the Longevity Temple, Baochan Temple, etc., large and small, it is difficult to elaborate.
Source: Wen Zongyong,Gong Bo,Li Wei,Zang Wei. Records of Xisi Beitoutiao to Beibatiao Historical and Cultural Conservation Area[J].Beijing Planning and Construction, 2011(04):152-158.
Scholar of the late Qing Dynasty
Fu Zengxiang immersed himself in the collection of books
Speaking of so many backgrounds, let's talk about the five alleys in the west and north in detail. In the smell of fireworks weaving with pedestrians, there is a scholar Fu Zengxiang.
Fu Zengxiang (1872-1949), a famous bibliophile in modern China, collected and treasured countless ancient books in his lifetime, and made great contributions to the protection of ancient Chinese books. When he moved to No. 7 Courtyard of Wutiao Hutong in Xisibei in 1918, he named his residence "Tibetan Garden", taken from his idol Su Dongpo,"Only the royal city is the most hidden, and ten thousand people have no sea to hide", of which the library is named "Shuangjian Lou", and he also has "Tibetan Garden Resident", "Tibetan Garden Old Man", "Shuangjian Lou Owner" and other other signatures.
(Source: Beijing Instant (865): Former Residence of Fu Zengxiang in the West Four And North Wutiao)
Living in the west and north of the five Hu at the same time, Mr. Fu belongs to the category of in-depth simplicity, obsessively reading and proofreading books in the Tibetan Garden, "if you hear that people have different books, they must read from them, they will get from the end, they will not read, and the emperor is hungry and thirsty for food", these old things are expressed in the scholar Yu Jiaxi's "Preface to the Sequel to the Inscriptions of the Tibetan Garden". It can be seen from this that Mr. Fu is "bookworm" without a doubt. In 1927, Mr. Fu Zengxiang also became the director of the library of the Palace Museum.
Warlord of the Republic of China
Zhang Zongchang was having fun
If Mr. Fu is a talented son of Xijing, then the No. 3 courtyard next door to the hutong once lived in the "prodigal son" warlord Zhang Zongchang. Speaking of him, many people hate him. Leaving aside his infamous things, his many ridiculous nicknames can make people laugh. Among them, there is a nickname called "General Sanwu", the soldiers do not know how much, the money does not know how much, the aunt does not know how much. In the courtyard of the big mansion in the west four north five alleys, he often recruited prostitutes in the house, raised aunts and wives, and was ridiculed by neighbors that the old niang hutong was about to become a little niang hutong.
(No. 3 Courtyard of Nishi-4-Hoku-Jojo, now a resident's house)
New China
The beginning of a film career
However, it is interesting that 18 years after Zhang Zongchang's death, No. 3 Cinema has become the cradle of China's film industry. In 1950, the Central Bureau of Culture and Film established the Institute of Performing Arts in the No. 4 Courtyard of Shilaoniang Hutong, and in May 1951, the Institute of Performing Arts was renamed the Film School of the Central Bureau of Culture. In March 1953, it was renamed beijing film school, and the school site was expanded to No. 9 Courtyard of Shilaoniang Hutong and Shoubi Hutong (now Xisibei Sitiao). In 1956, the Beijing Film Academy was established on the basis of the Beijing Film School, and moved to a new campus at No. 25 Xinjiekou Outer Street. The founding of the Institute of Performance was at the beginning of the founding of New China, and at a time when everything was in ruins, this hutong carried the aspirations of many people for the construction of national cultural development and film education, according to the late professor Yu Qian of the Beijing Film Academy, at that time, there were several old quadrangles, and the classrooms of the screenwriting class and the acting class were still the same. Students who wanted to enter the acting institute at that time did not aspire to the so-called big hits, but had a pure love for movies and a desire for nation-building. However, no matter what, the West Four North Wutiao Hutong has stepped out of the first generation of directors, actors and playwrights in New China, laying a very important foundation for the development of China's film industry.
(Former site of the Institute of Performing Arts, now a residential residence)
New era
Cozy residential alley
Strange to say, I did not expect that the place where the great warlords were once looking for fun had become a training base for China's film talents, so I think that many times the quality of things has nothing to do with external things, more in the creation of people. Today's Xisibei Wutiao Hutong is an ordinary hutong in Beijing. Entering the noisy Xisi North Avenue in the east, the environment is quiet, and it is still a relatively traditional Beijing low-courtyard house. There are also many well-preserved, restored and updated courtyards. Interestingly, the overseas digest magazine agency is hidden in No. 26 Wutiao Hutong in the west of the four north, the courtyard door is wide open, a small piece of bamboo verdant, the environment is quiet, quite ancient, especially prominent in a residential house. According to the old neighbors who live opposite the publishing house, the Overseas Digest Magazine has been here since the 1980s. Walking and stopping in the West Fourth North Wutiao Hutong, encountering residents walking their dogs, uncles taking shelter at the door, and the hutongs are comfortable and leisurely, compared with the pedestrians rushing west four north avenues, I seem to understand the meaning of "ten thousand people like the sea and one body hidden".
HUTONG
The story of what happened in the Five Hutongs in the West Four And North is far more than that, or the history of each hutong in Beijing is a book that needs to be dug deeply, from the excitement of the intestines to the dullness of chai rice oil and salt. Our nostalgia for the hutong lies in the nostalgia for history and the nostalgia for culture. As the architect Cai Zhaoyun expressed, the once busy scene has become an old photo of the years. But we still miss, all the things that are relevant to us, because they are also part of our lives.
bibliography:
[1] Wen Zongyong,Gong Bo,Li Wei,Zang Wei. Records of Xisi Beitoutiao to Beibatiao Historical and Cultural Conservation Area[J].Beijing Planning and Construction, 2011(04):152-158.
[2] Buns and Chaotic Travels, Touring Beijing's "Shi Lao Niang" Hutong: A Visit to the Old Mansions of Wutiao in the West, Sibei, Sohu.com, 2019.
[3] From Shi Laoniang to Zhang Zongchang, how many hutong anecdotes were circulated | Xisibei Wutiao, formerly known as Shi Lao Niang Hutong, Sohu.com, 2018.
[4] Ten Thousand People Like the Sea in One Body: Sketches of Five Mobile Phones in Xishibei, Beijing Xicheng, Personal Library, 2020.
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