If you travel to Beijing, you must not miss the old Beijing Hutong, the more the old Hutong, the more can reflect the historical heritage of a place, so which hutongs are worth going to Beijing? What is the best route to visit the old Beijing hutongs? Let's take a look!
The best route to visit the old Beijing hutongs
Attraction 1: Nanluoguxiang
Address: The intersection area of Dongcheng District, Beijing, from Gulou East Avenue in the north to Ping'an Avenue in the south
Subway: Metro No. 6, No. 8 Nanluoguxiang Station
Reason for recommendation: This is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Beijing, 25 old city protection areas, and the only completely preserved Yuan Dynasty hutong in the country, which has a history of more than 740 years, but it is an earlier building complex than the Palace Museum! In the past, there were many officials and nobles living here, and now Nanluoguxiang has become a comprehensive block integrating leisure and entertainment, private snacks, bars and coffees, theme shops and many other fields, and has become a landmark attraction for Tourism in Beijing.
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Visit the main street in the hutong (snacks are not recommended here)
Tour the surrounding celebrity former residences (Monk Greenqin Palace / Qi Baishi Former Residence / Mao Dun Former Residence / KeYuan)
Enjoy a night bar drink (this has become a bar block with the same name as Houhai)
Warm tips: Due to the large passenger flow, it is not recommended to get together on the big holiday to play, and the centipede street (Nanluoguxiang) on weekdays is still very charming.
Attraction 2: Yanda diagonal street
Address: Di'anmen Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (50 meters from the Drum Tower), an alley in the northeast of Qianhai, Shichahai
Metro: Metro Line 8 under Shichahai Station
Recommended reasons: tobacco bag oblique street with a total length of 232 meters, is also one of the oldest commercial streets in Beijing, the main business of the Qing Dynasty smoking equipment, mounting calligraphy and paintings, selling antiques, the street is slender like a cigarette bag pole, the east entrance is shaped like a cigarette bag mouth, hence the name, here is full of ancient and unique city charm, a New Year's Festival, the whole street and alley are full of lights and colorful New Year's flavor!
Visit the Wangfu Garden (a Gongwang Mansion, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty)
Taste the old food (Yao Ji fried liver / Nanmen shabu-shabu)
Summer boat boat winter skating (Shichahai is a popular place, no matter what the season, people can find their own fun here)
Warm tips: Shichahai can be cruised every summer, the back sea under the night is very beautiful, the opening of the ice rink in winter is a national sport, laughter is continuous, one ticket system is not limited Oh)
Attraction 3: Dashilar
Address: West of Qianmen Street, Xicheng District, Beijing
Metro: Subway Line 2 down at Qianmen Station
Recommended reason: "Head ma Juyuan, foot inline rise, wearing Rui Fengxiang, waist wrapped around the four Heng" I don't know if you have heard this old Beijing phrase, which is both a description of a rich state of life, but also implies the old brands of various industries in Beijing, although with the change of years, some of the old brands have been mostly closed and changed, but most of the existing ones you can find in the Dashilar block. It is not only a commercial street, but also a rare food gathering place.
Pin Jing Wei Visiting the Old Horn (Ma Juyuan / Rui Yuxiang / Neilian Sheng / Zhang Xiaoquan / Zhang Yiyuan / TongRentang)
Tea House Listening to Books and Tea (Guangde Building/Sanqing Garden)
Eat and eat (here are a lot of time-honored delicacies, from roast duck to brine, from popcorn to roast sale, roast duck recommended: Quanjude / Four Seasons Minfu; roast sale must be all one; door frame alley's century-old brine boiling and bursting belly Feng are good choices)
Beijing's shortest hutong, Yiyi Avenue
One foot street, merged into Yangmeizhu Diagonal Street. Although it is called the street, it is actually an alley, the total length is only about 20 meters, there were originally 6 shops, 3 on the north side of the road are engraving shops, and 3 on the south side of the road are taverns, blacksmith shops and barber shops.
Yangmeizhu Xie Street, it is said that here once lived a Good Mediator Yang surnamed Matchmaker, so it was named Yang Media Xie Street, and then later harmonic and elegant, became Yangmei Bamboo Xie Street.
A few steps from the beginning to the end, you can see the head of the street.
One foot from the main street, you can reach Liulichang Street, Beijing's famous cultural street, which is named after the shops that sell antique calligraphy and paintings.
It originated in the Qing Dynasty, when most of the people from all over the world who came to Beijing to take the imperial examination lived in this area, so there were more shops selling books and pens, ink and paper here, forming a strong cultural atmosphere.
The longest hutong in Beijing, Dongjiaomin Lane
Located in the Dongcheng District of Beijing, the hutong starts from Tiananmen Square East Road in the west to Chongwenmennei Avenue in the east, with a total length of nearly 3 kilometers, which is the longest hutong in old Beijing.
Old Beijing has always had the saying that "the east is rich and the west is expensive, the south is lowly and the north is poor", and the original Dongcheng mainly lived some business people, so it was a place where the rich were concentrated. This Dongjiaomin Lane has no shortage of old-style Western-style Western-style western-style buildings, which can be seen.
The branches are swaying, the western buildings stand side by side, time flies, things are not people, the only constant is the expensive land price.
This long street is also the embassy district of old China.
Beijing's narrowest hutong, Qianshi Hutong
According to the records: Before the abolition and two reforms at the end of the Qing Dynasty, all the money houses, grain stores and major commercial firms in Beijing had to go to the money market every morning to participate in the transaction of exchanging silver for money, or vice versa.
After the establishment of the Republic of China, the furnace bank was depressed and there was no market, and it was converted into a silver number shop, so it can be regarded as the earliest and most complete financial exchange in China. At that time, the silver trumpets on both sides of Qianshi Hutong took advantage of loopholes in the law to expand their business buildings uncontrollably, embezzling public passages, and eventually making Qianshi Hutong the narrowest hutong in Beijing.