Alley Gates

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Lift gates alley, the old Beijing will not strangers, since the Ming and Qing dynasties to exist in the Qing Emperor Qianlong period the figure published in the capital streets clearly marked on the east side of northbound Caishikou the first north-south, east and slightly skewed, not too long of a lane - this is the alley gates.

It well-known, naturally there are several reason, one of the reasons is to listen to old people say, was undoubtedly the most famous gates pickles, and many people eat this port, some people stood at the door of the pickles do not buy, preferring to run up Bali miles specifically to the iron gate to buy pickles. I can remember, Although stores do not sell pickles pickles, but its popularity has long been famous outside of the.

I am the late fifties of last century this alley was born, grew up here, and have been living here until demolition in 2005, lived here for over forty years of life on the lanes here, living in the courtyard, the old house, the depth of injustice of the aisle, the door faded mottled, weathered old brick walls are all too familiar, full of nostalgia.

Alley gates childhood memory, or dirt road, alley south part of the first tens of meters near the narrower Luomashi Avenue, north to west through the grass has a wide plant, adjacent to the small alley there are five of cotton, alleys, Wang Yip, the Iron threshold and so on. Undoubtedly the biggest compound 17 compound, which is now east hotel location, the hospital was like a big playground, entered the Jiefang truck not to mention a dozen, sold here over the last sweet potato grain stores, burned when digging air-raid shelter also assemble a large brick kiln.

South Side alley gates have restaurants, food stores south, gold cake factory, food stations, grocery store, there are gates Primary School, Plumbing Equipment Factory, Beijing, four printing plants, north tractor factory. I live in the middle lane, go out with three old acacia trees, acacia trees in the alley near the mouth of the macro industry with a common tap. Many people in this cool summer. At that time not every hospital has running water, but we have homes, many residents have homes adjacent to our homes to fetch water.

Our hospital is not large, the South house occupied by Zhang Aunt and her daughter, son, daughter, son-in work of the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio. Son surnamed Huang, was tall and handsome, and very nice, very talented, that photography and will save the radio...... is the three generations of a get Westinghouse people, grandmother and a pair of work in the business a couple of fronts and four children. This memory turned on the wall of a door with a small frame, the top place with a Japanese production Muke, old-fashioned radio, most impressed by the radio beam often heard money ho taught to sing modern opera "The Red Lantern" Excerpts He sang one, three or four people singing along behind the sentence, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence repeatedly taught to sing, until the entire aria are taught over and over; we lived in North House, a Beijing Opera west side of the musician, and sometimes to rehearse at home.

We have several people living together for many years in the yard, get along very well, especially southern housing Zhang aunt, who is very good, very good for people. I remember when the Dragon Boat Festival in summer rice dumplings, the dumplings Zhang Aunt is fast and good-looking package. When my mother will not zongzi, Zhang Mother to teach hands over and over again to do demonstrations, until the church so far. At that time, someone's yard on what people need help, as long as proposed, we will lend a helping hand.

Iron gate alley south of a small restaurant, listening to the old man said in the past was called "Hing Street," the old, selling kerosene, and later converted into a restaurant, and then later called the "Spring River noodle," which made noodle and dumplings, unique flavor, but also in bulk and sell all kinds of liquor, beer, drinks side dishes, popular all welcome, all day long, business is booming, to the inside to eat often could not find seats.
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