Hutong Attractions
Liu Ren is a traditional Chinese craftsman. He created a special type for showing the different characters from traditional Chinese legends or tales, with the material of paper. He cuts paper into quite different shapes, forming magic pictures with his scissors. His works are so famous among foreigners that a reservation is strongly recommended before […]
Zhang Baolin is a traditional Chinese craftsman. He created a special type for showing the different characters from traditional Chinese legends or tales, with the material of dough. His works are so famous among foreigners that a reservation is strongly recommended before your trip to the family museum. Zhang Baolin’s masterpieces have been popular just […]
Baidacheng is a traditional Chinese craftsman. He created a special type for playing the Chinese shadow play, with different characters standing on a plate. When he knocks on the edge of the plate, all the characters made by animal hair will move and show different gestures needed in a Peking Opera play. Baidacheng’s masterpieces have […]
The former residence of China’ s last empress, Wanrong, is located in Xicheng District nowadays. The site recorded Wanrong’s life with the last emperor of Qing Dynasty, Puyi outside of the Forbidden City. When the royal family was expelled from the Forbidden City in 1924, Wanrong had spent a few days in the residence, before […]
The courtyard used to contain the residences of Kui Jun, Governor of Sichuan Province and Gu Mengyu, chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Inside the gate are 11 rooms in the house facing south. In the second courtyard, there are 8.5 rooms as passage. A partition gate separates the second and third courtyards. The […]
The Central Academy of Drama is located on 39 East Mianhua Lane, Dongcheng District of Beijing. The academy was established in April 1950. It was named by Mao Zedong. It inherited the drama department of Lu Xun Art Academy in Yan’an, art school of North China University, and National Drama College in Nanjing. Its abbreviation […]
The Drum Tower is located at the north end of Dianmenwai street. They are a group of ancient buildings at the north end of the central axis from south to north in the ancient capital of Beijing. With a long history, they were once the time-keeping Centre in the capital of the Yuan, Ming and […]
It is a narrow channel joining Qianhai Lake and the Houhai Lake, the hub of Shichahai area with surrounding quiet hutongs. In the history, it was very much like a silver ingot upside down. Later, it went through some changes, but it still keeps in its shape. Li Dongyang, a Ming Dynasty person, once called […]
Beijing Prince Gong’s Mansion is located in the northern shore of Prince Gong’s Mansion Shichahai is the world’s largest courtyard, but also today, Beijing, more than 60 blocks in the Qing Dynasty palace to save the most complete one. Divided into two parallel east, central and western three-way. Road building is the three main sites, […]
The Shichahai area is the ideal destination. It is located situated in the west of old Beijing. It used to be part of the old Grand Canal of the Yuan Dynasty 600 years ago. And now it is circled by the former palaces of ministers, temples, well-kept Siheyuans (quadrangle) as well as residences of celebrities […]