The north of the alley is called Hutong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are called Alleys, and Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Sichuan are called Alleys, all of which are standard for small towns. Kuanzhai Lane in Chengdu, three streets and two lanes in Nanning, and three lanes and seven lanes in Fuzhou are all old streets and lanes with heavy history and are still bustling today.

Because I live in my hometown, I often walk around in the alleys of the village, recalling the past years and feeling the vicissitudes of the world.

There used to be alleys in the village, but now the Wawu alley in the village has disappeared and replaced by buildings. Due to the villagers' strong sense of protection, the old house has not fallen down and no buildings have been built. The ancient villages of nearly 500 years have been preserved and become one of the two provincial-level protected ancient villages in our county. What is more gratifying is that this year, the government invested funds to discuss how to repair old houses and make them more durable and shiny.

The old village is there and the old alley of the old house is there. If the whole old village is a corpse and the old house is skin and muscle, then the winding village road is blood and the narrow alley is muscle.

There are several alleys and large families in the village. A family enters the same door and enjoys an alley. The so-called "not a family, not into a house." The alley is straight and narrow, more than two meters wide and twenty or thirty meters long. The ground is paved with blue bricks, and there is a sewer below to collect rainwater and sewage in the courtyard of the big house and discharge it into the pond or ditch outside the village. Some alleys are lined with several big houses, three high and two short, that is, the main room with three high and two short rooms. There is a skylight patio in front of the hall, and the cornices and carved wooden windows on the roof hall are integrated with the Zhuang style, showing the ingenuity of our ancestors in building houses.