{"id":1239,"date":"2010-12-04T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-12-04T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T15:22:06","slug":"hutongs-part-2-nan-luo-gu-xiang-hutong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Hutongs Part 2 Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hutongs Part 2 Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong<\/p>\n

My Chinese rogue deposited in the middle of Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong (alley).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know which way was north or south or how far an end was until I walked far enough to work it out.\u00a0 In any event it didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong is north of the Forbidden City and east of the lakes.\u00a0 It is a north south hutong of almost 800 metres built over 700 years ago.\u00a0 It was renovated prior to the 2008 Olympic Games.\u00a0 According to one website it was widened by the demolition of rooms\u00a0 from the front of some buildings.\u00a0 Parts of it probably looked like the hutongs around Qianamen in the photos\u00a0 which I posted previously.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It has smaller hutongs running off it at right angles.\u00a0 I read somewhere that it is the last remaining such hutong area in Beijing as the remainder are higgly piggly without straight streets.<\/p>\n

Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong has become a tourist mecca with the opening of restaurants, bars, handcrafts and knick nack shops.\u00a0\u00a0 The locals are still there but it\u2019s impossible to know how many when they are secreted behind high walls.\u00a0 The vast majority of tourists anywhere in China are domestic ones with fewer foreign tourists with increasing distances from Beijing or other major sites.<\/p>\n

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One part of Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong<\/p>\n

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Another<\/p>\n

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The red colour is material and makes a colourful display.\u00a0 Not sure how it would \u00a0cope with rain.<\/p>\n

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The red cover over the door is common in my city. It is heavy and padded and serves to retain heat inside.\u00a0 All of the others I’ve seen have been army green.<\/p>\n

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Tourists in the street<\/p>\n

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A display of double sided embroideries. ie. The technique is such that they can be viewed from either side.<\/p>\n

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This shop assistant was wearing some of the stock & moving her arms in response to music.<\/p>\n

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Unrenovated shops<\/p>\n

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A residential entrance.\u00a0 There was a sign on the wall describing some of its renovation.<\/p>\n

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Sign on the door requesting privacy.\u00a0 There was one one elewhere too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Peeping through an unrenovated doorway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Delivery duty<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Garbage services<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Entrance\u00a0to a coffee shop where I rested.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Entrance to a modern, clean toilet block.\u00a0 \u00a0The cubicles had doors too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One of the hutongs running from Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong.<\/p>\n

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Another<\/p>\n

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Car being driven too fast and with excessive horn honking in a narrow street.\u00a0 Driver was also talking on his phone which is normal.\u00a0 Some cars have stickers to customise them.\u00a0 This one also had the leopard skin sticker on the back door.<\/p>\n

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Another renovated property in a side alley with garages.<\/p>\n

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Never seen a green door before.\u00a0 They have always been a reddy rusty colour.<\/p>\n

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Roasted chestnuts in one of the side hutongs.<\/p>\n

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A bicycle rickshaw\u00a0 which there were numerous in the general area.<\/p>\n

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Old motorbike and side car\u00a0 parked in a side hutong outside a government building.<\/p>\n

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Dried chickens hanging over the chess set.<\/p>\n

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I was photographing this residential building when a young woman emerged from the building beside it.\u00a0 After acertaining that\u00a0I could speak English she asked if I would\u00a0provide some advice on the correct answer to a worksheet they were using in the English school. \u00a0After doing that she then invited me inside where we discussed correct answers and English some more.\u00a0 She would have kept me there for ages if I’d been willing.\u00a0 However, it was getting late and dark and I was still to make my way to a main road, cross it and find my next loctions.\u00a0 Not an easy thing when light is limited or non existent.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There she is in part of the classroom.\u00a0 There was only one kid there and a youngish man.\u00a0 The kid sang me a song as thanks and she offered me a job teaching English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hutongs Part 2 Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong My Chinese rogue deposited in the middle of Nan Luo Gu Xiang Hutong (alley).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know which way was north or south or how far an end was until I walked far enough to work it out.\u00a0 In any event it didn\u2019t matter. Nan Luo Gu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,93],"tags":[14,33,100,9,15,25,42],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","tag-architecture","tag-art-and-craft","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}