Cui Hua Hutong is located in the north of Dongchang Hutong in Wangfujing, and is connected by Dongchang North Lane, showing the shape of "I". Like Dongchang Hutong, it starts from Wangfujing Street in the east and goes to East Huangchenggen South Street in the west. The Ming Dynasty belonged to Bao Dafang, where the white flag troops were stationed in the Qing Dynasty. However, the common terrain does not mean the same character of hutongs, and each hutong has its own unique soul. The Jinjie site has been abandoned for more than 20 years.
That was more than 20 years ago. Turn left from the east gate of Cui Hua Hutong, and there is a small frontispiece painting, the owner of which is an old lady.
Popsicles are sold in summer and candied haws are sold in winter. There is a long queue at the door almost every day. Business is so good that the old street is still proud: "We have a prime location here!"
In the last year of housing allocation in 1980s, the quiet Cui Hua Hutong suddenly became restless. First of all, people keep going to the east of hutong to see the house. When they talk about excitement, their eyes are shining, they are dancing and pointing, which is very energetic for doing a "big cause". Soon, residents living in the east of Hutong received the notice of demolition. Bulldozers and other roaring big guys are then stationed in the alley. The old neighborhoods have all moved away, and there is no news of them. Aunt Wu, who lives in No.27 Courtyard of Hutong, watched helplessly as the quadrangle was demolished, and one third of Hutong was razed to the ground, leaving a ruin.
The developer intended to build a shopping mall, but after the house was demolished, the demolition party ran away with huge sums of money. Today, the east side of the hutong is still in ruins. Looking down from the top floor of the Overseas Chinese Building, it looks like a huge scar.
A few years later, a rag collector suddenly drove an old truck and brought a container to this deserted ruin. After the flat tire, the simple container became a "cozy nest" for their family to eat and drink in Lazar, and the ruins became a big garbage dump. Aunt Wu couldn't help frowning and pouting when she remembered the east entrance of the hutong at that time. "That day was impossible." Hutong residents should stand on tiptoe every time they go to the east of Hutong to avoid cross-flow of sewage. The stench makes people have to cover their noses all the way. On this day, residents have endured 10 for many years. It was not until the Overseas Chinese Building held an important meeting that the relevant departments thought that the garbage dump would affect the city appearance and forcibly drive away the garbage collectors.
Today, this ruin has been surrounded by a concrete wall and guarded by special personnel every day. Aunt Wu still remembers that the former janitor didn't talk much to the hutong residents, but just sat under the telephone pole holding a book all day until the dim street lights came on. Ji Xianlin, an ancient house in Dongchang, is a "ghost neighbor"
As soon as you enter the west entrance of Hutong, you can see a deep house compound with a plaque of "Cuiyuan". Waiters dressed in Qing dynasty costumes stood at the door to greet guests who came to eat or stay. There are rockery trees in the newly renovated yard, the path under the gourd frame is tortuous, and the red carp leisurely shakes its head and tail in the pool. Occasionally, a few birdsongs make the whole yard seem more and more silent.
The earliest Cuiyuan is the ancient residence of Dongchang Royal Guards in Ming Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, Rui Lin, a college student, built a private garden here. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was placed under Peking University University of Arts and Sciences, and it was the Kuomintang Air Force Club on the eve of liberation. Beiping was peacefully liberated in June, and the headquarters of NLD was moved from Hong Kong to Beiping on March 5th. Since then, Cuiyuan has long served as the office address of the central organ of NLD.
Sixty years ago, Ji Xianlin lived in the back door of Cui Hua Hutong and the front door of the deep house compound in Dongchang Hutong. The buildings in the courtyard are complex, with winding corridors, scattered courtyards and overlapping gardens. When a stranger walks in, it's like entering a maze, and he doesn't distinguish between things. At that time, Ji Xianlin lived in seclusion, and few people visited him because he lived in this gloomy old house.
Ji Xianlin once wrote in an article that he lived in the East Room of the deepest courtyard, which was filled with coffins of the Han Dynasty. At dusk, people always feel that ghosts are coming, which is creepy. This used to be the location of the East Factory of the Ming Secret Service. This is a place where "prisoners" are tortured, imprisoned, tortured and killed. Many people died unjustly. It is said that their ghosts often wander around. Of course, Ji Xianlin doesn't believe in ghosts and gods. In his words, "living next door to a ghost every day is very quiet."
Kaifeng is located in a temperate zone with a mild climate, which is very suitable for the growth of various flowers and plants. Chrysanthemum, in particular, has been domesticated since the Northern Song Dynasty, and every household has its fragrance from generation to generation. Today, it is still the chrysanthemum in the city in late autumn and early winter, and it is known as the "Chrysanthemum City". But among the place names of Kaifeng Hutong, I traveled all over the city and read dozens of historical records, but I didn't find a hutong named after flowers in history or reality. There is an alley called Mao, and the other alley is called Mao. Although it has nothing to do with flowers and plants as ornamental plants, it is literally related to flowers and plants. So let's take a look at these two hutongs in Kan Kan!
Cui Hua Hutong is located in the north of the city and north of Dongsi Gate. It is a small hutong that turns east in the middle of the east side of Beixing Street Road. It runs east-west, has no east exit, and is a single exit lane. In fact, Cui Hua is not a flower, but a common name of Kaifeng people for making all kinds of jade (including agate and amber) ornaments. In the Qing Dynasty, it was named after several merchants dealing in Cui Hua, gold, silver and jewelry lived in this one-way street, and it continued. Hutong is not deep. A few years ago, when the road from North Gate to Xiaonanmen was widened and the shops moved back along the street, Cui Hua Hutong lost its territory and no longer existed.
Mao Hutong is located in Nanjing Lane, west of Dongsimen, and there is a hutong not far from the north exit of Nanjing Lane. It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, most residents of this hutong lived in huts with thatched roofs, hence the name Mao Hutong. Replacing Mao with Mao is a metaphor for its smallness. It was renamed Mao Hutong in the late Qing Dynasty.
What was Mao Hutong like in the past? You haven't seen it, but today Mao Hutong is a thatched house. It is also a one-way street, and only Nanjing Lane can pass. On the north side of Nei Lu Road Hutong, except for the easternmost two courtyards, the buildings of Miao Wen community in Miao Wen Street are all there. Judging from the existing gatehouse and several old houses on the south side of Lu 'an Road, although the architectural format and the scale of tall city walls in the Qing Dynasty are a little shabby, at least it can be explained that at the latest in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when this place was newly built, it was no longer a thatched cottage, but had built quite exquisite houses and courtyards.