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Hutongs Beijing
One of the most beautiful historical cities, Beijing is the capital city and a major tourist attraction of China. The city has a rich glorious past and is therefore a home to number of monuments and architecture speaking volumes about the ancient culture and heritage. One of the most distinctive features of Beijing are the Hutongs or the city lanes. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Hutongs, Beijing in China.Hutongs are the old city alley or lanes of the Beijing city. Built especially in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties Beijing is a home to around thousands of Hutongs.
Hutongs, Beijing can be traced back to the times of the dynastic rule of China. During those days the residential areas were planned according to the etiquette systems of the Zhou Dynasty by the emperor's. The Forbidden City was at the center of the metropolis and was surrounded in concentric circles by the Inner city and the Outer city.
People of higher social status were permitted to live in the circles closer to the center of the city. The aristocratic class lived in the Hutongs located near the imperial palace to its east or west. The Hutongs, Beijing were not only orderly and properly planned but also had spacious homes and walled gardens.
The commoners Hutongs were far off from the palace and located to its north or the South and housed merchants, artisans and laborers.
With the disintegration of the Qing court and increase of foreign influence, at the turn of the 20th century, dynastic era was coming to an end and as a result the Hutongs, Beijing were also affected.
During the period of the Republic of China (1911 - 1948), due to number of civil wars and foreign invasions, the city of Beijing deteriorated which resulted in the worsening of the conditions of the hutongs.
However will still find many of Beijing's ancient hutongs of which number of them have been designated protected areas.
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