The Hutongs are small streets in Beijing that are home to many people. These are slowly being replaced by high rise apartments. People who are displaced from the hutongs to make way for apartment blocks are provided with similar square metres in the new apartments. Cars and bikes travel down the hutongs and as you can see there is little room for either. We had a rickshaw ride around the hutongs in the morning of our second day in Beijing.
Here's Al and kids during our fourth day in Beijing, going on a walking tour. If you zoom in on this photo above there is a sign just above the van that Al is racing for. We saw this sign on our official tour of the hutongs two days earlier, when we got to the sign the place was closed.
I can't work out how to turn the photo around but this is us standing in front of a door to a Quadrangle or family home.
From various aspects of the door you can a lot about the people who live there. Firstly the pillars above the door (two here) signifies had importance the person is, most important is 12. The next thing is the whether the door step is wood or metal, tells whether the person works as military or cival role. The stones at either side of the door have carving on them that tell what sort of role the person has and final carvings above the door, not seen in the above photo tell how rich the person is.
The hutongs we went through on our tour were quite clean, Al thought this was because they were used for all the tour parties. We did have a rickshaw ride on our fourth day that lead us through other hutongs and they were of similar cleanliness.
Again, can't work out how to turn the picture around, here we are in a quadrangle set up for tourists to look through. They all have an internal courtyard with rooms coming off the four separate sides.
Here's our hutong tour guide, Sophie, probably not her really name.
Here's a photo of the boys at the zoo with Alisons sister Emily, put here by accident and I can't get rid of it.
Here's Al and kids during our fourth day in Beijing, going on a walking tour. If you zoom in on this photo above there is a sign just above the van that Al is racing for. We saw this sign on our official tour of the hutongs two days earlier, when we got to the sign the place was closed.
I can't work out how to turn the photo around but this is us standing in front of a door to a Quadrangle or family home.
From various aspects of the door you can a lot about the people who live there. Firstly the pillars above the door (two here) signifies had importance the person is, most important is 12. The next thing is the whether the door step is wood or metal, tells whether the person works as military or cival role. The stones at either side of the door have carving on them that tell what sort of role the person has and final carvings above the door, not seen in the above photo tell how rich the person is.
The hutongs we went through on our tour were quite clean, Al thought this was because they were used for all the tour parties. We did have a rickshaw ride on our fourth day that lead us through other hutongs and they were of similar cleanliness.
Again, can't work out how to turn the picture around, here we are in a quadrangle set up for tourists to look through. They all have an internal courtyard with rooms coming off the four separate sides.
Here's our hutong tour guide, Sophie, probably not her really name.
Here's a photo of the boys at the zoo with Alisons sister Emily, put here by accident and I can't get rid of it.
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