Hutong Culture Tour of Beijing

Beijing Hutong Culture has a long history, profound meaning. "Hutong" is, according to research from the Mongolian, meaning the "wells" where the land is inhabited by people, so the ancient "square wells", "marketplace" in the title.
Starting from the Yuan Dynasty, Beijing's hutongs, the island of Salmonella in the Yuan Dynasty {sea} Zhang cook other works, there is "alley" in appearance. In the 13th century, the Mongolian leader Genghis Khan shuaibing south, outside the burned area in this Grandmaster in the capital city of gold, after his grandson Kublai Khan lived in the northern suburb of gold in both the East and beautiful scenery, "Daning palace," term of the present North Sea Qionghua Island.

According to "Genshi" The mass contains: Kublai reuse Han Xingtai great wit, astronomy, geography, classical studies, legal experience and three type Liuren other spells are all proficient Liu Bingzhong, ordered the construction of Dadu he presided over the design. Liu Bingzhong order to reflect the "imperial supremacy" and the concept of the peoples of your system, in accordance with the Book of Changes} {yin and yang, gossip four images and a shield with the legend, the feng shui knowledge, and follow the "Rites? Kaogongji" on the imperial capital cities should be a square, each with three sides, the city name should be named gossip. And large parts of the city's central palace, outside the palace as a "former outlook, community right-left ancestors" of the Imperial City of the system: so to the North Sea as the center Dajian Liu Bingzhong Dadu, the largest city within the palace and outside, and to facing south axis and the symmetrical layout of the system for the overall planning design and construction, thus creating a more north-south streets, and alleys while walking through the alley thing. At the same time and the "Square" as a unit, system built 50 residential areas, between the Square and Square alley with varying width separated. This alley is traffic channel, but also a "Square" buffer zone between the fire, which has "fire Tuan, Huo Xiang, get the fire" and other names. Since the construction of Dadu like Yin and Yang Liu Bingzhong Eight Diagrams, very strict and majestic. Guo Shou-jing Liu Bingzhong students combined scientific management of the capital water, more so Dadu full of the charm of oriental civilization, spectacular, deeply Italian traveler Marco Polo of the praise.

According to historical statistics Dadu has more than 400 alley. Flicker monthly, based on the reconstruction of the capital in Dadu, divided into 36 workshops, with alley 1170. After clearing off that followed the old city, was renamed the capital, inside and outside the city a total alley 2077. After the liberation of the rapid development of urban construction, since there are more than 6,000 new and old alley.

Alley is not only the street, alley, road, where known, especially with the Peking Opera, Beijing accent, like, have a rich "Jingwei" culture, has a very rich cultural connotations, is Beijing's history, folk customs, the birthplace and the cornucopia of anecdote story .