The first part of rows of dwellings (1)

Beijing urban district also calls 49 cities, before manages the national capital public security to be called nine prefects, had a view long ago “rich Western city, expensive East city, poor Chongwen, rotten Xuanwu Period”. The Western city rich merchant are many, the East city palace are many, area that's alley brings a noble gas, after before the courtyard also mostly is mostly, the eave, keel, hungry lion goalkeeper, after the liberation, moves to that piece of person is also some statuses. As for Xuanwu Period, Chongwen are the outer cities which Ming Dynasty later period constructs, basically was the old times slum, besides eight big alley's red-light districts was the place which the high official high-ranking patronized frequently, did not have any good destination. But the resident mostly is pulls rickshaw's coolie, earns living the potential artisan, as well as the small traders and peddlers, if lived outside the city wall is not locality vegetable farmer basically belongs to the flow of rural people into the cities. But the big courtyard is also Chongwen, Xuanwu Period's special product, after Beicheng presented the big courtyard is the educated youth returned to the matter. After the liberation, although resident's housing pattern has a new look, but south Beicheng receives and in the social position disparity has existed, the Beicheng people have regarded as the Nancheng person half country bumpkin. Our family in Nancheng, moreover outside the moat, so calculated belonged to 3/4 country bumpkins.