Does the TV series Sesame Hutong have a prototype?

The popularity of Sesame Hutong has made many people curious about this Beijing-style drama, wondering if this story has a prototype and what its basis is. But in fact, this drama with a strong flavor of the times has no prototype.

Although there is no prototype for the plot and character setting of this play, as a landmark building in the play, Qin Fang Mansion has a prototype. Once Sesame Hutong was broadcast, many people speculated whether the prototype of Qin Fang folk houses was a six-dwelling house. Various textual research shows that Qin Fangju borrowed from Liu Biju to some extent.

Liubiju is one of the oldest and most famous pickles in Beijing, and the pickles it produces are still essential dishes for many families in Beijing. The prototype of Qin Fangju in Sesame Hutong is Liubiju. Why do you say that? Mainly because:

During the Cultural Revolution, Liubiju was destroyed and renamed as "Hongqi Pickle Factory". Sesame Hutong and Qinfangju were also renamed as "Hongqi Pickle Factory" during the Cultural Revolution. It can be inferred from this that the prototype of Qin Fangju is Liubiju.

2. Beijingers are no strangers to Liubiju. There are 12 kinds of traditional products in Liubiju, and these 12 kinds of traditional products are also consistent with Qin's products in Sesame Hutong, including: black and white cabbage with sweet sauce, sweet cabbage with sweet sauce, melon with sweet sauce, cucumber with sweet sauce, sweet manna with sweet sauce, ginger sprouts with sweet sauce and coriander with sweet sauce.

In fact, whether a TV series looks good or not does not depend on whether there is a prototype. If there is a prototype, we can learn more about people's deeds according to the historical prototype, but if there is no prototype, we can expand more imagination space through brand-new stories.