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An outside view of Tian'anmen Square. We will be touring that tomorrow.
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Today, we start at the entrance of Drum tower. We will take a bike tour of the area.
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City workers fixing the trees. Notice, no machinery when uprooting this tree.
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Entrance to a prayer Hutong.
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Hutong means small lanes. They usually run north-south so they get lots of sunlight.
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Here is the prayer altar for incense and offerings.
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In many of the Hutongs are Shiheyuans which means dwelling compounds or quadrangles.
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Here is a bridge in the Bar Hutong District.
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This old building has been spruced up even with the outside balcony.
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A great name for a bar...
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And if you thought the name of the bar was cool, check out the rules posted on the door.
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The Youhao Guest house, is a famous hotel where Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek once stayed.
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Turning the lucky gold cylinders.
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This is a horse mounting step.
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Here lived a high ranking official. The rank is shown by the number of stars above their door of their siheyuan.
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On our tour, we stopped by someone's siheyuan.
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A siheyuan, is kinda like a townhouse complex where 4 houses will share a common courtyard and a common entrance.
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In this house, this old woman served us a kinda green Chrysanthemum tea. We talked and shared some pictures.
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Here is us in the bike buggy.
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picture 20
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