Present situation and problems of traditional commercial street

The eight famous hutongs in Beijing are Shaanxi Lane, Rouge Hutong, Baishun Hutong, Hanjiatan (now Hanjia Hutong), Jia Zhu Hutong, Shitou Hutong, Palm Tree Xie Jie (formerly Xie Jie, Wang Guangfu) and Dali Hutong (formerly Lishamao Hutong). There are many hutongs in Beijing, and the only eight hutongs are famous at home and abroad, especially in the Qing Dynasty, when many officials often came here.

The Eight Hutongs were the fireworks Liuxiang before the Qing Dynasty, and the story of "Golden Flower Race" was staged here. Fengxian Xiao, the man of the hour in the Republic of China, also lived in eight hutongs. Now this area is a dilapidated courtyard. It was about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and the yard began to smell of fireworks. The alley is full of children playing, cooked food stalls on the roadside, and old people walking their dogs. The eight hutongs are only a mile or two from Tiananmen Square, but they look like they were in the 1980s. Time stopped flowing here.

The eight hutongs are inhabited and still full of old Beijing life. The yard in front of the door, green vines, weeds on the eaves, couplets, grocery stores, public toilets, Beijing dialect ... faint hutongs echo the tone of children; The flowers and plants in front of the yard have their own flavors.

The eight hutongs used to be brothels and tea rooms, but now they are all big and messy, with only a few beautifully carved colonnade buildings, and some old scenes can be seen vaguely. Want to know more interesting folk stories, here are three rounds of manpower. Take a special human tricycles and visit Beijing Hutong. Rickshaw drivers and tour guides can tell tourists a short story about the history of this street. The hutongs around us crisscross, and we walk through them.

Perhaps many older people will feel ashamed and angry about living in the former "red light district", but for us, or our children and grandchildren, these small gray brick buildings and even illegible plaques are indeed the last memories left by the eight hutongs. Fortunately, there are too many old houses in the eight hutongs, and it is very difficult to rebuild them. Therefore, the renovation of dilapidated houses in Beijing has not yet set foot here, and it can only be preserved when the streets are under construction.

The old house is silent, only vicissitudes. After all, a hundred years is enough to erase all the shady affairs and glory. Those full of tea fragrance, those chic romance, have already floated in the wind with the clouds in Beijing, and who will remember the green window and red face?