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Brief introduction of eight hutongs in Beijing
Shaanxi Lane 1

Shaanxi Lane is a north-south alley, with the north gate intersecting with palm tree Xie Jie and the south to zhushikou West Street. The east side of this hutong intersects with Yushu Lane and Wanfu Lane, and the north side intersects with Hanjia Hutong, Baishun Yi Tong and Dongbiying Hutong. It is said that Shaanxi Lane existed in the Ming Dynasty, but it has not been renamed for hundreds of years, which is really rare.

2. Baishun Interchange

Baishun Hutong was originally named Bai Shu Hutong. It was called Cypress Hutong in Ming Dynasty, so it was named after planting cypress. In the early Qing Dynasty, the homonym took the meaning of "Baishun Shun" and changed its name to Baishun Hutong. Located in the southwest of Dashilan area, it is 245 meters long and 5.7 meters wide. Baishun Hutong is Shaanxi Lane in the east and Dabaishun Hutong in the west. Parallel to it is Hanjia Hutong in the north, and Dongbiying Hutong and Xibiying Hutong in the south.

3. Shitou Hutong

Stone Hutong starts from zhushikou West Street in the south and ends at Tieshuxie Street in the north. It is explained that during the Yongle period, a large number of buildings were built in Beijing for Emperor Yongle to move the capital. Stone Hutong is a place to store stones. Counting the names of stones has a history of nearly 600 years.

4. Hanjia Hutong

Hanjia Hutong, located in the southwest of Dashilan area outside Qianmen, is an ancient hutong. Formerly known as "Hanjiatan". It was not until 1965 that the place name was reorganized that it was changed to Hanjia Hutong. Hanjiatan is a hutong with rich cultural background. Because this ancient hutong is one of the cradles of Peking Opera.

5. Wang Guangfu Xie Jie

Xie Jie, Wang Guangfu, now called Palm Xie Jie, is connected to Shamao Hutong of Da and Xiao Li in the east and Stone Hutong in the west. The house in this hutong is rather shabby.

6. Rouge Hutong

Rouge Hutong, formerly known as Rouge Lane, has a total length of 100 meter and a width of about 5 meters. The north exit of Rouge Hutong is in Baishun Hutong, and the south exit is on Liangguang Road. Hutong is north-south, with Dongbi Camp and Xibi Camp in the middle. Now the remaining length is only thirty or forty meters. Hutongs are small, but they are often included in the eight hutongs.

7. Wailangying Interchange

The name of the lane is Wailangying, which can be interpreted as the place where officials live together, but it is also possible that the place was originally the tomb of strangers. Considering that the direction of this area is the suburbs outside Jin Zhongdu and Yuan Dadu, it is particularly easy to be mistaken for "camp". Because it was written as "Ying" in Ming Dynasty, we can know that it was "Yi", and it was Yuan Dynasty at the latest or even earlier.

8. pimping camp

Dongbiying Hutong was originally named Dongbiying, Dongbiying and Pitiao Hutong. Located in the south of Dashilan area, it is 75 meters long and 3 meters wide. Dongbiying Hutong and Xibiying Hutong are actually a hutong. Rouge Hutong passes through and is divided into two hutongs, and its east entrance is in Shaanxi Lane.

Extended data

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.

In fact, the "eight hutongs" mentioned by old Beijingers do not refer exclusively to these eight streets and alleys, but generally refer to the Dashilan area outside Qianmen, because there are nearly 100 brothels of different sizes in the hutongs outside these eight streets and alleys. It's just that the brothels in these eight hutongs were mostly first-class and second-class, and the prostitutes' "grades" were relatively high, so they were so famous.

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