Passing through Langfang Toutiao and Beihuoshan Hutong from Qianmen Street, you will come to another Mutton Hutong (later changed to Yaowu Hutong). If we count from the "Provincial East Market" in the main entrance of Chengli in the Yuan Dynasty, Qianmen's commercial prosperity has gone through 700 years. Especially after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the activity outside Qianmen has become extremely lively. "You Sheng" was in the Qianlong Dynasty. At that time, distinctive commercial streets had formed on both sides of Qianmen Street, such as Jade Street (Langfang Street 2), Snack Hutong (Menzhang Hutong), and Shijia Hutong and Qianshi Hutong where banks and banks gathered. On the map of Beijing in the 15th year of Emperor Qianlong’s reign (1750), you can clearly see the “Deng Deng Hutong”, “Tan’er Hutong” and “Mutton Hutong”, etc., indicating that this area is a daily necessities, Distribution center for non-staple food products.

On this map, you can also find three other mutton alleys, namely the mutton alley located in the south of Caishikou and the east of Mishi Hutong, later renamed Nandaji Lane; the west of Gongyuan (in today's Jianguomen) It was later renamed Yangrou Hutong; there was also Raw Meat Alley in Niujie Street, which was renamed Mutton Hutong in the early years of the Republic of China (there was cooked meat alley in the east of Niujie Street, later renamed as Input Hutong; raw meat alley in the west, which was mutton alley). As soon as you enter the mutton alley, various signboards for Baoji Bean Juice Shop, Rice Cake Plum, Five-Spice Roast Beef and Mutton, and Halal Hot Buns are lined up on both sides of the road. Colorful and attractive rice cakes are placed in the glass counter, and there are small blackboards at the door of every house. It says fried loose pork, sesame tofu, and rice cakes. The newly baked sesame cakes and steamed buns are steaming. People who are watching Beijing movies in twos and threes take their dinner back while walking around. Those who are anxious eat sesame cakes and meat in the street. , the tourists' footsteps stopped involuntarily, and Niujie announced a wonderful opening with the most distinctive and rich snacks and delicacies.

"Two knives and eight ropes" refers to the livelihood of the Hui people. The "eight ropes" refer to the porters, and the "two knives" refer to the butchers and cake vendors. Nowadays, walking on cattle You can also see many stalls selling fresh beef and mutton on the street. Niujie's cakes and snacks are well-deserved, and Jiangmi sticky goods are the best among them. Pot cakes, white rice cakes, yellow rice cakes, jujube cakes, purple rice cakes, assorted cakes, just the types of rice cakes are enough. To dazzle you, of course there are donkey rolling, ai wowo, kidney bean cake, pea yellow, butter fried cake, sugar rolls, sugar ears, screw twist, fried steak fork, noodle tea, enema, offal soup, etc. These have long been famous. Famous delicacies spread far and wide. If you don’t pay attention, you will find that all the traditional snacks favored by Beijingers are produced in Niujie.