For Beijingers
Think of the alley
There is always a sense of closeness
Hutong has been called since its inception in the Yuan Dynasty
As the fabric of Beijing's urban space
It has a history of 700 to 800 years
It has gone through three generations of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties
It also went through the Republic of China and new China
The hutongs carry the endless memories of old Beijing
In this issue, I came with the Cultural Tourism Jun
"Former Public Hutong" in Xicheng District, Beijing
Look at the people and things that have walked there
Source: Beijing News Network Zhang Ning, invasion and deletion
The former public hutong runs east-west, from Xinjiekou South Street in the east to Zhao Dengyu Road in the west. The Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty belonged to Mingyufang, and during the Ming Dynasty, a court supply warehouse was set up here, so it was named Supply Library Hutong. During the Qing Dynasty, the use of the supply warehouse became the Palace Clothing Warehouse, called the former public library hutong, and in 1965 it was named the former public hutong.
Former Public Alley No. 15
The most famous building in the hutong is the No. 15 Courtyard, which is the residence of the late Qing Dynasty's heavy courtiers, which is the best preserved mansion of the Chonghou family in Beijing. This courtyard is three times in front of and behind, and there are cross-courtyards on the east and west sides. The front of this courtyard middle road and west road is a garden, and the courtyard with a garden in Beijing generally adopts the architectural pattern of "West House East Garden" and "East House West Garden", while like Chonghou House, the courtyard pattern of placing the garden before the main courtyard is rare in Beijing. After the Xinhai Revolution, this mansion became the residence of the Warlord Fu Shuangying.
Former public hutong No. 15 courtyard
It is now the Children's Palace in Xicheng District, Beijing
Completed Yan Chonghou, Manchu yellow flag people, is a descendant of the Jin Dynasty royal family of the Completed Yan clan, born into a famous family, successive generations of nobles. Unlike the general imperial family nobles who started from the military rank as officials, the Yan family began by following Dolgun into the pass, mainly through the imperial examination to enter the career, poetry and book heirlooms, five generations of scholars, and there are many outstanding scholars among the descendants. Among them, the seventh ancestor Ashtan translated many Confucian classics into Manchu, and the Kangxi Emperor praised them as "I am the Great Confucian of the Dynasty". The lofty grandmother and mother are all Han Chinese. Grandmother Yunzhu was a famous female poet of the Qing Dynasty and the granddaughter of the great Jiangnan painter Yun Shouping, and this kind of marriage was rare among the Manchu magnates. Chonghou's father, Lin Qing, was a 19-year-old zhongjinshi, who served as the governor of Jiangnan River for nearly 10 years, accumulating great wealth, and arranged for his eldest son Chongshi to purchase a new house and half an acre of garden in the capital in the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841).
Source: Chinese government website, invasion and deletion
The story of the former public alley
That's it for you
We'll see you next time
Text source: "Old Beijing Narrative Hutong Streets and Alleys"