The old Beijing Hutong post-modern taste (Figure)

Hutong.BeijingThe logo, downtown BeijingTravelingOne of the attractions. The Hutong of Beijing originally formed in thirteenth Century in the Yuan Dynasty, and now has evolved over hundreds of years of development. Beijing hutong is the most abundant, the most complicated life. Hutong residents love lane, will also his understanding of life, the understanding of Hutong, with their life time moment in the alley ancient walls, com. People visit Hutong will say that it has a history of several hundred years, say it with ancient cultural tradition, will say that it is the soul of the ancient city of Beijing...... However, history has never stopped it in an alley in the footsteps, Hutong is ancient, but also modern. In most people's eyes, the hutongs are the traditional symbol of the modern city at the end of the alley, in fact not only contains the history, it is the most avant-garde, modern city finally mode of existence.

����Juer Hutong, for those who will never get old people

6 in the morning, the city is still in the first rays of the morning sun, juer hutong is a busy scene. Hu Tongzhong's uncle aunt has started a day in the life. They went through the twists and turns of the alley at dawn, minced, along the way kept each other going to buy deep-fried dough sticks Hutong breakfast spread soybean milk, breakfast ready for one family. In the face of I raised my camera, they already be accustomed to, because when the sun rises when there will be countless tourists with a camera into the alley.

Juer home

Unlike other alley cottage building, there are many buildings juer Hutong, height is almost 2-3, but keep the original courtyard system, and received the advantages of unit building and courtyard. This transformation has received international acclaim. In 1992, the United Nations awarded juer Hu Tongwei renovation project "World Habitat award".

Walking in the winding arranged in a crisscross pattern, the juer Hutong, everything becomes gentle. The alley was filled with thick life breath, time here is warm and long, no business will take office set up in here. Uncle Zhang sat for a long time in the juer Hutong a junction of Mazar-e-Sharif, looked at me back and forth from him pass by many times and no response. When I kept shooting Hutong building, I found the old man barely moving the whole morning seemed to become a part of the alley. I handed Uncle Zhang a cigarette, so in this warm autumn afternoon, the silence of the father opened a conversation. Uncle Zhang's children are already out of the alley, now juer Hu Tongzhong house only he and his wife for two people. I asked him why he did not follow the children left the alley, Uncle Zhang said leave. In Uncle Zhang broken words, an alley and people's story emerge. Like many Hutong, Uncle Zhang young work units in the vicinity, in juer Hutong grew up, married, have children...... Now the juer Hutong in the aged. Juer Hutong for Uncle Zhang is not just a group of buildings, including friends of many years, together with colleagues, familiar with retirement life style etc.. Uncle Zhang and his experience in the alley, suddenly asked me, if the Sino-Japanese Diaoyu Islands crisis started because of a trade war, who will win?

The afternoon sun through trees scattered on the red brick eaves, elegant simplicity of the juer Hutong, to work, to school. In me and Uncle Zhang hiding in the shade of talking to a currency war, his wife Wang aunt to Uncle Zhang sent a large pot of jasmine tea bubble good. And aunt did not say two words, her mobile phone rang, is her friends urge her to dance in.

Uncle Zhang sharp question put me under pressure, so I followed a Wang aunt to appreciate their dance. The party started, in a clearing juer Hutong deep without men, are the age of mother. In this the oldest juer Hutong, the quiet afternoon, I appreciated the most trendy fashion dance. Aunt Wang and other ladies go dancing in the street, from the "aunt" version of the "Jiangnan Style" to "Nobody" are the ladies love dance. Dancing in the rest of the time, gossip Aunt Wang and his friends are always the most fashionable. They act as "China good voice" "judges", between different players compete to flush with shame. They are also the latest celebrity gossip gossip about, commenting after a wind, feeling, "we had more pure!"

In fact, the Hutong life than those many-storied buildings in life more convenient, rich. As the old community than the new community life convenient, alley is a hundred years of history of the community. From the neighborhood, canteen, vegetable stalls, barber shop, to cleaning, leisure and entertainment, security maintenance, housing repair and so on, a seemingly loose messy, but fully in line with modern living system of the life chain, complete construction in the alley community. In this space, the old people live a life orderly, interesting, than the alley outside world more comfortable.

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Address: Dongcheng District juer Hutong, east of Jiaodaokou South Street, West to Nanluogu Lane.

Will travel: juer Hutong was very prominent, the No. 3, No. 5, No. 7 was in the late Qing Dynasty minister Rong Lu mansion. The number 3 is the ancestral hall, 5 residential, 7, is a garden.

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