Beijing, Xian Tour

Date: 2008-3-31 2:05:00 by lissy Tags: Beijing Tour Xian tour

3rd, December

As we landed in Beijing, a cold, dry wind hit us. Beijing is located in northern China, which means that winter there can be extremely cold. The Beijing International airport is pretty far way from downtown Beijing. Streams of Taxies were quietly waiting there for customers. It would take you 70 by taxi to the downtown so we decided to take the shuttl

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Hutongs and Highrises

Date: 2008-3-12 1:21:00 by Mark_smith Tags: Hutongs Beijing Hutongs

Is it called the Forbidden City because it is a threshold between the rich on the eastern side and the poor on the western?  It certainly seemed so.

When I walked out of the hair salon I was dismayed.  There have been times, leftover birthday cake before me, when I have cut a sliver off the edge to even the line, and again to even that one, and so on, until only a sliver remai

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Beijing Folk Customs Review

Date: 2008-3-5 2:04:00 by david Tags: Beijing Folk Customs

The exploration of the ancient Beijing will never be complete without looking at its profound folk cultures and interesting customs. Beijing is both old and young, attracting numerous visitors with its dazzling cultures and relics: the ubiquitous narrow hutong, the wide spread siheyuan, the cultural temple fairs in Changdian, the hundreds of years old Beijing Opera, and the impressive Spring Fe

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Walking around Beijing's Hutong area

Date: 2008-1-3 3:58:00 by chinatravel Tags: Beijing Hutong

The hutongs are the oldest neighborhoods in Beijing.  Narrow alleys running east-west with hundreds of "sub-alleys" leading off each side into private courtyards, which are "home" to as many as twenty families each (up to 60 people).  Each hutong has four buildings around a central courtyard.  Each building has one, maybe two rooms, which totals about 4 to 500

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