北京胡同英文导游词（精选6篇）
The word "hutong" (胡同) means "water well"(水井) in Mongolian. The Mongolians keep thenomadic tradition of settling down around springs or wells. A hutong is the passage formed by lines of siheyuan (四合院, four-side enclosed courtyards). Strictly, hutong alleys are less than nine meters wide. Most hutongs in Beijing run in an east-west or north-south direction, with most houses facing south to take in as much sunshine as possible.
A standard siheyuan usually consists of houses on its four sides with a yard in the center. The gates are usually painted red and have large copper door rings. Usually, a whole family lives in compound. The elder generation lives in the main house standing at the north end, the younger generations live in the side houses, and the south house is usually the family sitting room or study.
Hutong joins hutong, and siheyuan meets siheyuan to form a block. Blocks join with blocks to form the whole residential constructions.
Good morning，Ladies and Gentlemen：Welcome to Beijing，and welcome to today's Hutong tour!My name is ，you can simply call me Grace. I was born and grew up in Hutong area. Today I'll show you around my neighborhood. If you have any questions，please let me know. I will try my best to make your stay a pleasant and memorable one!
First of all，I would like to start with the term"Hutong"，H-U-T-O-N-G what does Hutong mean?
According to experts，the word Hutong originated from Mongolian language meaning"Well".In ancient times，people tended to gather and live around wells. So the original meaning of Hutong should be"a place where people gather and live."Another explanation says that during the Yuan Dynasty，about 13th century，residential areas in the city were divided into many divisions.Between the smaller divisions were passageways for people to travel through. And those passageways also functioned as isolation belts against fire risks. In Mongolian language，passageways of this kind were called Hutong. But no matter what Hutong exactly means，one thing is for sure，that is，Hutong first appeared in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty. In the early 13th century，a Mongolian tribe from the north became very strong. Led by Genghis Khan，the Mongolian occupied Beijing，the capital of the Jin Dynasty. In the year 1271，Kubla Khan，the grandson of Genghis Khan，ounded Yuan Dynasty and set Beijing as the capital city in the following year. Unfortunately，the old city was completely destroyed during the war. So they had to rebuild it. In old China，all the structures and roads were required to be symmetrical. So the city was well designed. First，they had to find a center，and then built a regular square city.The layout of the city was very much like a chessboard. About 50 residential areas were constructed，with straight roads and Hutongs in between. At the time，there was a clear definition for avenue，street and Hutong. A 37-metre-wide road was called an avenue，an 18-metre-wide one was called a street，and a 9-metre-wide lane was called a Hutong. Most of today's Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that followed. Nobody knows exactly how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But one thing is for sure，if we connected all the Hutongs together，their total length would even be longer than the famous Great wall，which is about 4000 miles longer. Or to make it clear，it could build a highway from Seattle to Boston，all across America!
Today you can find various Hutongs with different shapes，lengths or directions.The shortest one is only 40 centimeters wide，which means a person like me has to walk sideways to get through. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns. With the growth of the population，many old Hutongs have disappeared to make way for high-rise apartments. Today I'm very happy to show you some well-preserved Hutongs，and to let you experience the typical Chinese life. Are you ready?Let's go!
As we walk through the Hutongs，you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored walls and bricks. Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses，where people live.In Chinese we call them"siheyuan"."Si"literally means four，"he"means to surround，and"yuan"refers to the courtyard. So a rectangular wall enclosing four houses，one built on each side facing into the center，is called a Siheyuan. When they were first built，usually one Siheyuan was owned by only one family，but nowadays，with the growth of the population，most Siheyuans are shared by 4 to 10 families.
The gate building of each Siheyuan is the only thing that we can see along the Hutongs.Chinese people used to try to protect their privacy from being intruded by strangers. So the gate building，in old times，was a symbol to show the position of each house owner. You don't have to go inside the courtyard. Just look at the gate building，you can already tell whether it's an influential family or not.
Look at this one，the gate building is big and tall. The head and eave of the gate are well decorated with brick carvings. See the design?Plum blossoms and bamboos. It indicated that the original owner of this courtyard must have been an official serving in the emperor's court. But look at that one nest door，it has the lion design，because that owner used to be a military officer.Interesting?
Now let's see the doorway. Almost every doorway has a threshold，that high step over there.Remember we saw some yesterday in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace?For what reason they put a big step at the door?
You know Chinese people believe all the evil spirits are short. They can not jump over high steps. So the threshold is actually for warding off evil spirits. These two pieces of stone by the threshold are also decorations for the gate building. Like these two，shaped like drums. They are called drum stones. On the top are carved reclining lions，and on the front，right and left sides are carved a bat holding an ancient coin in its mouth. You know Chinese people like bats very much，because bat in our language shares the same pronunciation with"fortune"。So this pattern means good fortune is right before you. Some gate pillows are rectangular in shape，which means they are younger than the drum stones. They were only built in the recent 100 years，mainly for small-and-medium-scale courtyards. And their patterns are usually flowers and mascots.
In old times，transportation was not as convenient as today，so street vendors played a very important role in Hutong life. They wandered from lane to lane selling various goods or providing all kind of services. People could judge the goods or services from their peddling or the sounds of their special instruments. The food they sold usually include baked pancakes，seasoned millet mush，or Youzhaguo，a kind of deep-fried twisted dough sticks，and all kinds of vegetables.
A barber never peddles. With his instrument being a big pair of scissors and an ironing stick，he couldn't lose focus and make a wrong cut. But now，with modern life all around，including of course Michael Jackson's songs，it's hard for people to hear the traditional melodious hawking.Look at the crowd sitting over there!What do you think they are doing?Talking about Vic Tanny?
Oprah's?Or just gossiping?Any ideas?Let's go and see!
Oh，they are building a new Great Wall. But their bricks are Chinese Mahjong!A very popular pastime among the Hutong people，especially among the senior citizens who have retired. You probably wonder why some senior citizens over there are wearing red-colored armbands. They are actually the voluntary neighborhood watch. And their armbands say“On Duty”。If you think they are too old to be a professional security guard，you are wrong. Believe me，just because of these lovely Grandmas，this area has been a peaceful and safe place for many years. And if you don't believe it，you'd better not test them!
The main attraction of Hutong life is friendly and interpersonal communication. Children living in one courtyard play together and grow up together like one big family. So now our government is trying to preserve such Hutong area in Beijing. Without permission，nobody is allowed to tear down old houses to build high-rise apartments. We want to save it as a treasure to show our later generations what Beijing used to be like.
OK. Time files. It's almost the end of the tour. Today，through our Hutong tour，you have learnt a lot about our traditional Chinese houses and way of life.
I hope you are not only happy with what you have seen but also get a better understanding of the culture and people in the Hutong area. I do hope，one day，you will come back again，I will invite you to my home!
Thank you for your attention，and hope you enjoy the rest of the tour in China!
The alley ways of Beijing a dime a dozen, had eight hutongs world-famous. Because in those days, there was a tobacco LiuHang pronoun. "Eight hutongs" at the top of west pearl street, north of cycas, south of diagonal. "Eight" is refers to, the area at least 15 hutongs of old Beijing "red light district". Recognized as one of the eight hutongs are: best suitable hutong, rouge hutong, Han Gutan (now known as Korea's hutong), shanxi lane, stone hutong, Wang Guangfu diagonal (now known as palm diagonal), zhujiajian hutong, lee shamao hutong (now known as hutong, small hutong) energetically. In the alley outside of the eight lanes, also there are nearly hundred size brothels. Just then, the eight hutongs brothels are second-class, more prostitutes "class" is more high, so it is so famous. Eight hutongs in the past hundred along the hutongs, rouge hutong, Han Gutan, shaanxi lane, focus on the first class brothel; Stone hutong with numerous "teahouse", second class brothel; Wang Guangfu byway, zhujiajian hutong, lee shamao hutong, many scattered third-class brothels.
Yi yuan, such as the golden flower to live in is now a shanxi lane hotel; Small class of cloud, impatiens lived is now a painting; CAI and small impatiens double habitat of cherry byway 11 building, now a long palace hotel...
Eight hutongs, not "red light district" at the beginning, but besides the location of the troupe. The qing dynasty, a policy of "flag of the people points city", the eight banners lived in the inner city of Beijing, han people moved to the front door. Eight hutongs are initially offer vocational school choice in residence, hotels are the properties of the outdoor playhouses concentrated in dashilan, actors have been selected in the dashilan, xinhua street, east to the south of the eight hutongs. "When HuiBan besides just staying at the eight hutongs Han Gutan, best suitable hutong area, then four xi, the stage of spring up one after another in Beijing troupe, best suitable at eight hutongs hutongs, shanxi lane and li3 tie3 turn byway. So the old Beijing has a saying: the way to the tiger to mountain, singing opera from the shun, Han Gutan. Visible eight hutongs and drama activities.
"" xianggong" is developed by drama activity. The characteristics of the qing dynasty is very special, the forbidden SuChang and brothel origin, liyuan pederasty daxing, find '" xianggong "' became the vogue of the upper class, slowly developed into a same-sex love relationship to each other." "Xianggong", "is the male prostitutes, the ancient called" rabbit ", "small singing", or "little sexual abuse", there are also called "small hands", later said, "like the gu", that is like a girl's meaning, then a homonym for "" xianggong". "some even have" first lady "in the title.
In the late qing and early republic, brothels are mainly concentrated in the front door avenue, because here are near the inner city, officials out of the city, and enjoy more convenient; Second, there is the railway station, distributes the passengers; Three is the front door avenue is a famous business street, quite busy; Four is in this area is the concentrated outdoor playhouses, teahouse, restaurant, eat, drink, and be merry, form an organic whole.
, according to a statistics of the 30 s "eight big hutong" was registered on the business of the brothel amounted to 117, prostitutes, more than 750 people, this is just a formal "quotation", not "prostitutes" and "were observed.
Old Beijing prostitutes are divided into "the class" and "north" class two kinds, in general, "south class" prostitute is mainly women in jiangnan area, some high level, not only the color, and talented. The prostitute accompany many dignitaries, such as the national capital famous prostitute "golden flower, small impatiens, etc. "The class" prostitute is given priority to with Yellow River north of woman, looks good, but some poor literacy. "Eight hutongs" prostitutes in the majority with "south" class, so much for one, second-class brothels. And in other parts of the brothel, most is the "north". At that time, many high rank and doing business in the capital city is from the south, as a result, "the eight hutongs" as the border of the dignitaries frequented.
Imagination of hutong in Beijing, is a quiet, clean, harmonious and peaceful. When I enter the hutong neighborhoods, sitting on the human tricycles, accompanied by the bell, shuttle less in the courtyard of neat feeling.
My trip to Beijing hutong from pipe smoke byway started the earliest Beijing hutongs, but no impression of shadow. In addition to the old, bumpy and full of mud green flag to prove its history, on both sides of the house is a bit can't see the years vicissitudes of life. House is trying to keep the style of of primitive simplicity, but seem very uncomfortable. Who lives with shops, mixed with underwear hanging on the street without cover, buzzing flies unbridled ground playing the rubbish in the corner.
Through the pipe of diagonal into hutong neighborhoods, slowly to find a little feeling. The afternoon sun on a few sparse poplar tree in the alley, and from leaking in leaf gap between, on the ground to form the dappled light and shadow, birds and cicadas seems to break the silence, silence silent. Away from the downtown of hutong, a peaceful, as if every other city. Without a map, only know that all the hutongs out "through", also no matter so much, go blind. And so, hutong tour pleasantly surprised unceasingly, full of fun. , for example, two turn son, encountered the drum tower, and walk, a while after the sultry swaying willow Yin was the palace, is the big corrupt official and arsenic home garden. And the 13 middle school in Beijing, is the tao baylor ye palace. Hey! In one hundred old buildings learning modern scientific and cultural knowledge, probably see a new world. The school, will be a combination of classical and modern perfectly. Turn seven took, hit the mei lanfang's former residence. This is a standard siheyuan, is rich to live within the range of a spacious house. The siheyun of now see on television, share, is also home to a few few single-family house. a
Walking in the alley, see the houses are painted on both sides of the road, the green paint, green paint falls off in some places, revealing the mottled walls. Buy a pile of hutong postcards all the ruins, the roof long weeds, parked at the gate of broken bicycle; Vendors carry a burden, shaved teacher carrying carrying pole with its load, a knife of pushing the car, Shouting a lane. Hutong in summer is cool, winter? The wind through the alleys, snow, blocking the road to sell carbon labored to pull tricycle difficult along...
Yes, Beijing's hutong is ailing. A history of coagulation, in one hundred the capital of the humanities, thus being a little eating into high-rise buildings. Many people always called for, Shouting: "put some hutongs left to future generations," the idea is good, but for those three generations the petty townsfolk and ordinary people, old and young in a room, in order to keep hutongs and crowded in a small room, it is not fair. Now hutongs, some really has been broken, and only those who deliberately protection of cultural relics are beautiful, the other only in front of the fuzzy stone, lost the edges of the board and the towering old trees recording the hutong's prosperous. And all this, it is necessary to be replaced by a modern things, because things are growing.
My hutong tour will be at the end, I walked into a halal Beijing snack bar, choose the opening on the seat, smelling the aroma of Fried cake, steamed stuffed bun, through the be born glass looked at the street. The lights on, hutong courtyard raised smoke, children playing by his mother calling home for dinner. And I look around the store, the edge of the square table is diners. From the human face, I can't see the tall building is yearning, also can not read and attachment to the hutong, perhaps in hutong life has become a historical inertia, or perhaps, they change from the bottom of my heart quietly looking forward to...
a "hutong" is an ancient city alleyway or lane typical of ancient beijing, where hutongs once ran into the thousands.
hutongs were first built around the walled imperial compound known as the forbidden city. the majority of these alleyways were built during the yuan, ming and qing dynasties (1271—1911). at the height of each era, the emperor arranged the residential areas surrounding his moat according to a system of etiquette hailing back to the zhou dynasty (c.1100—221 b.c.).
at its heart was the forbidden city, surrounded by main roadways travelling east-west and north-south. there were originally two kinds of hutongs. the first were grouped to the east and west of the forbidden city and laid in an orderly design alongside main roadways. most of these hutongs housed members of the royal family, officials, eunuchs and aristocrats. the second type of hutong was a crude version of the first, located far to the north and south of the sprawling imperial compound, inhabited by merchants and commoners.
what both had in common was the type of structure lining the alleyways. the "siheyuan" known in english as a quadrangle, or courtyard complex, invariably comprised four main buildings facing each compass point and surrounded by a high wall. the size and design of each complex reflected the social status of the inhabitants.
wealthy families often boasted several walled courtyards surrounded by a main wall, each building decorated with intricately carved and painted beams and pillars.
the quadrangles of the poor were of a much simpler construction with small gates and low ceilings. beijing's meandering hutongs are passageways formed by thousands of closely arranged quadrangles of different sizes. the main buildings of most of these structures face south for optimum sunlight, especially during the bitter beijing winters. because of this, the majority of the city's hutongs run east to west. between the major hutongs meandered narrow alleys running north to south to allow convenient passage through what was once a vast maze of gray brick and tiled roofs.
old beijing is in essence a magnified quadrangle, symmetrically arranged and surrounded by a high city wall that was torn down half a century ago to make way for a beltway ringing the increasingly modern capital.
by the end of the qing dynasty, china's economy was in tatters. but pleasure-loving beijing continued to cater to the emperor and his hangers-on. life was mostly confined to the hutongs. the quadrangle reflected the way of life and social culture of the times.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen:
Welcome to Beijing, welcome you to participate in the hutong. My name is , you can call me Grace. Since I was young, I grew up in the hutongs. Today I will take you to visit here, if you have any question, I will do my best to give you a satisfactory answer, make your hutong tour pleasant and memorable.
First of all, I will start with the word "hutong". Experts believe that the word "hutong" is derived from the Mongolian language, meaning "well". In ancient times people living and gathered around the well, so the meaning of the word "hutong" should be "in the people's life. Another explanation is that during the yuan dynasty (13th century), residential area is divided into several regions, areas between the aisles for residents. Another effect of the corridor has been isolated fire. In the Mongolian language, the corridor called hutong. Whatever its exact meaning, one thing is for sure, hutong in Beijing is the first time in the yuan dynasty.
In the 13th century, a Mongolian tribes in the north is becoming more and more powerful. Under the leadership of the tribal leader genghis khan, they occupied the rulers of nations - Beijing. In A.D. 1271, genghis khan's grandson Kublai Khan established the yuan dynasty, made in Beijing in 1272 countries. Unfortunately city was completely destroyed in the war, therefore had to be built. In ancient times, built buildings and roads need symmetrical, so they must find a center, according to the city's center building, the design of the whole city is like a checkerboard. About to build more than 50 residential area, residential area between the road and hutongs connect. At the time, road, street, alley has a clear concept. 37 meters wide road, streets of 18 meters wide, hutong is 9 meters wide.
Today, we see most of the hutongs are the Ming and qing dynasties, no one can say exactly how many hutong in Beijing. But one thing is clear, if connect each hutong, a total length more than the famous Great Wall. Speak more clearly, equivalent to build a highway from Seattle to Boston, it's across the continental United States! Today you can find different shape, length, and the direction of the hutong. The shortest hutong is only 10 meters long, the narrowest hutong just 40 cm wide, that is to say, like I need to walk sideways to figure through the hutongs, also some hutongs have more than 20.
With the growth of the population, some old hutongs, replaced by the springing up of high-rise buildings. Today, I am very glad to take you to well preserved hutong tour, believe it will make you to a typical Chinese residents have a deeper understanding of life. Ok, go!
When we entered the alley, you may find almost all of the walls and brick are grey. In fact, behind the wall is the home of the residents, we call it the "siheyuan". Which is a rectangle around the walls of the four rooms, each room door toward the courtyard. In the past, a courtyard only belongs to a family, but now with the growth of the population, most of the courtyard four to ten families.
We can only see in the hutong courtyard gate. The ancient Chinese people don't want there to be a stranger to bother, so from the appearance of the door can see the identity and status of the owner. The door, for example, tall and big, the door has brick decorated eaves. Carefully look at its design, Li Zihua and bamboo, which means that the owner was serve the emperor of the nobles. Look next to the door, and there is a lion pattern, suggesting that once lived here attache. Interesting, isn't it?
Let's take a look at the door, almost every door has a bar, do you remember we saw in the Palace Museum and the Summer Palace is also the same bar? The effect is a exorcism asylum. Folklore imp is very short, they are not able to skip the steps of high, so set the crossbar.
It treats two against the crossbar stone pillow, have the effect of reinforcement on its gates. Similarly, it also has a decorative role. The two stone drum stone, like drum has a lion on top of it, in the front with two mouth containing copper bat around. In China, people like bats very much, because it's pronunciation is the same as the blessing of blessings, and use it to make adornment to be able to bring good luck for you. Some pillow door is a rectangle, they are after drum stones. They are the product of nearly 100 years, generally appeared at the door of the small and medium-sized siheyuan, usually decorated with flowers and god.
In the past, the traffic is not developed like now, street vendors play an important role in the hutongs, between them in hutong, selling all kinds of goods or provide services. People can distinguish from different cries of what they want to sell or provide what kind of service. They sell food is mainly a pancake, millet congee, Fried fruit, and Fried dough sticks and some vegetables. The barber does not Shouting, he only need to take a haircut tools completes the labor of duty. In the present, but here is modern life atmosphere, is hard to hear the ringing cries of old Beijing.
Over there sat a group of people, you know what are they doing? They were building the new Great Wall! They are using the latest brick - mahjong tiles. It is a very popular pastime, especially in the retired old people.
You may want to ask, why some old people wear red band? Their neighborhood volunteers, they think it is their duty. If you think they are too old to work rather than their armbands, you'd be wrong. Because of these lovely old man, the region will be peaceful and safe environment.
The biggest charm of hutong life is friendly exchanges between people. The children grew up together, like a family. Therefore, Chinese government intends to protect this area without government approval, shall not dismantle sloshing in this region, maintain this precious heritage for our children and grandchildren.
Time really fast! Today we're going to end in the travel. You must have learned that many of our traditional way of life and the housing situation, I hope you not only view, and learn more about hutong culture and people here. If one day you visit again, I will invite you to my home.
Thank you all! Hope you enjoy the rest of the trip to China!