Article by AndrewJames
Beijing the Chinese local Chronicles of the Beijing office presided compilation of comrade hu going to be published, this is about Beijing a major achievements in research of the culture construction of Beijing, is a great thing, and this is very happy to extend our heartfelt congratulations.As Beijing hutongs, the basic unit of the overall urban construction, and today’s Beijing’s predecessor, the yuan dynasty began together to yuan RMB 22 (1285 years).Has been 700 years of history.From its first appearance, we received many scholars’ attention.From Marco Polo to the modern world renowned architectural Eiler Steen master Ross muston (Rasmussen), beacon (Edmund N.B acon) to Beijing and such basic unit – hutong gave high attention, and praise.Many scholars are modern China to Beijing’s hutongs done a special study of Beijing’s hutongs, but a comprehensive, systematic, comprehensive record book is still very rare.Like the Beijing comrade hu “so to history to once had the origin, each strip hutong evolution, to live within and hutong celebrity, the historical events that happened is described, and match with maps and images have never had.Beijing’s hutongs contains very rich history, culture and customs, architecture, planning and so on various subjects, the scientific content for each subject study provide the inexhaustible science material.But recently, due to the development of the city and the rapid modernization, hutongs is less and less.For hundreds of years, Beijing’s hutongs after yuan, Ming and qing and the republic of China and the new China, until the early liberation, generally haven’t changed much.It witnessed Beijing’s historical changes, also suffered years baptism, hold people of historical events, famous figures memories.In the Beijing hutongs generations to provide the calm, serene, harmonious living space and raise generation after generation at the same time, they create a unique cultural landscape and hutong hutongs.All these have become beijingers hard of give feelings.Those who spread all over the world, they swept Beijing homesickness, townships dream, township, with Beijing’s hutongs are closely linked.How many Hispanic-American hutongs, will stop swept past memories. To evokeBeijing’s hutongs is a huge museum, from every village gate, brick, MenDun, tablet watts of ancient architecture can see art;From the burgeoning celebrity’s home, wangfu house, temples, Taoist temple, can make people feel Beijing that profound humanistic spirit, one greatly small hutong courtyards from the citizens of Beijing can understand life, including their way of life, and life interest, and neighborhood relationship, Beijing’s hutongs is life’s big classroom, people can draw nourishment from here, rich and enrich himself.Since the reform and open policy, Beijing is to modern international metropolis goal, Beijing urban construction is undergoing tremendous change, many hutong have disappeared or already change at all.How to correctly handle the international metropolis and protection of the ancient style of pair of contradictions, is the Beijing urban planning and construction ordeal.In the Beijing city master plan new “, the Beijing location for the country in the capital, is the country’s political center and cultural center, is the world capital of the minorities and historical and cultural city at the same time, to properly handle the historical and cultural city protection and modernization of the city, the relationship of the special historical and cultural city protection planning “.Believe has 3,000 years construction for more than eight hundred years history and history of ancient capital of Beijing, certainly can handle the modernization construction and urban renewal and protect the relationship.The ancient and charming in Beijing hutongs also must be in modernization construction coruscate gives new youth, let “Beijing comrade hu” in this work plays an important role.October 2006
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