Xicheng Dist., 西城区
Beijing, China
According to Old Beijing, this street was so named after a Wudao Temple 五道庙 from 1607, which was Ming Dynasty. The length is 238 meters from NE to SW. The beginning and end to Bada Hutong 八大胡同. In 1965, changed to the current name.
旧北京网 五道街，位于大栅栏地区西南部，东北至西南走向。南起南新华街南端，北至铁树斜街、樱桃斜街、堂子街、韩家胡同的交会处。全长238米，宽10米。门牌1-21号，2-80号。此街明代称五道庙，因有五道庙得名。五道庙建于万历三十五年（1607），明兵部尚书王象乾曾撰文，立
Baishun 百顺胡同
Dongdan, Beijing
From PUMC, we came to this famous area. The Eight Great Hutongs is a geographic term, referring to the area SW of Qianmen 前门, at the corner of S Xinhua Road 南新华街 and ZhuShiKou W Road 珠市口西街. Huang Bridge subway is near by.
A tour guide is soliciting business, who charges $17 (
This house on Dashun Hutong in Bada Hutong hasn’t changed much. The railings on the second floor are falling off. Dilapidated is an understatement. The bathrooms in the neighborhood although updated but the smell is very strong.
北京协和医院住宅群: 别墅区
Dongdan, Beijing
Peking Union Medical College/Hospital housing complex: villa District, in Dongdan.
After lunch, we wandered by this housing complex. In 1918, when Rockefeller Foundation was building the PUMC, they also built the villas for its professors/experts. The project took three years to finish.
… we then headed to Eight Great Hutongs.
More photo of Xiehe 协和 and a little history:
Dr. Thomas Cochrane (1866-1953; 科龄) was a Scottish medical missionary who went to China in 1900, as Boxer Uprising was in session. He then moved to Beijing, trying to restore the hospital. Because he had healed Cixi’s chief eunuch Li Lianying and her lady in waiting, when Dr. Cochrane proposed a teaching school for Chinese doctors, Cixi readily agreed. When the hospital ran into financial crisis, Rockefeller Foundation stepped in, and expanded it.
Photos below is from this post:
The Eternally Peace Gate in Beijing is on the central axis 中轴. It was built in 1553 and four hundred years later, demolished in 1950s for the new road construction. The current one is reconstruction in 2004.
The In 1950 fm wiki. In 1900, a Japanese was killed by Dong Fuxiang (董福祥 from Gansu province) near the gate, in the early stage of Boxer Uprising.
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Coming out of Yanzhi Hutong @ Bada, we stopped at this tiny garden on the Zhushikou W Street 珠市口西大街. It has many old Beijing opera performers.
The former red district, Bada Hutong begins and ends at Wudao Jie (五道街). The few most famous streets are:
百顺胡同 Baishun, #18 @ Dabaishu
石头胡同
韩家潭 Hanjia Hutong
万佛寺湾
大外廊馆
小外廊馆
王寡妇斜街
胭脂胡同 Yanzhi
陕西巷
朱茅胡同 &Xibiying.
There are also plaques commemorate the old celebrities, such as Cheng Changgeng 程长庚, Chen Delin.
19 Gongmenkou 2nd Alley, Xicheng
Beijing, China
Everywhere I went, they demanded my ID, even for going into this museum. What do they do with the info they collected? And all I can pray is, they shred them thoroughly.
