The names of Beijing hutongs can be described as all-encompassing, and these hutong names inherit the context of history and witness the changes of time. Today, I tell you about a rather poetic hutong in Beijing, which is very elegant among many hutong names. I believe that many readers know this hutong through this song "Beijing One Night", the lyrics are: "One night in beijing I left a lot of feelings, do not dare to ask for directions in the middle of the night for fear of walking to the depths of the hundred flowers; people say that the depths of the hundred flowers live with old lovers sewing embroidered shoes" The "hundred flowers deep" mentioned here is the name of the hutong we are going to talk about today.
Hundred Flowers Deep is a 147 meters long, three-meter wide hutong located in the Shichahai Subdistrict of Xicheng District, Beijing, which was recorded in the late Qing Dynasty scholar Zhu Yixin's book "Jingshi Zhuanxiang Zhi manuscript", then called BaihuaShen Hutong, and later went to "Hutong" after the Republic of China to abbreviate the present name. There is also a story about the name of the alley " Deep in a Hundred Flowers". Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty,000 years, a young couple bought an empty space here to grow vegetables for a living. Later, they began to plant some flowers and plants such as peonies and peonies in the garden, making the original vegetable field elegant and civilized. This also attracted many local literati and some scholars to gather here to enjoy the scenery and poetry, so there is a graceful name of "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers". Although the garden gradually became deserted with the death of the couple, the poetic name survived.
In addition to the story of the name, there is also a noteworthy point in the depths of the Hundred Flowers is related to music, beijing's well-known Hundred Flowers Recording Studio is located in the Depths of the Hundred Flowers No. 16, many classic songs such as "Rock on the New Long March Road", "Naked" and so on are recorded in this studio, and He Yong, one of the famous "Magic Rock Three Masters" of the year, also recorded his first album in the Hundred Flowers Recording Studio.
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It can be seen that in the depths of the hundred flowers, in addition to the very poetic name, this hutong does not lack stories, at the end of the article, I also hope that everyone will take the time to see these old Beijing hutongs, and the feeling of field visiting is definitely different from the feeling experienced in text reading. (The picture in the article comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author)
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