Beijing Trip Overview
Join this Private Beijing Hutong Culture Study Tour to gain deep understanding of the local’s culture and life! Listen to the expert’s lecture on the traditional Sunmao style architecture and participate in; Watch the fun cricket flighting in the Hutong family and learn how to play Kongzhu and Jianzi. Enjoy delicious Beijing style homemade lunch and stroll around the Hutong allays to get a glimpse of the locals life and culture. You’ll also get a bird’s-eye view of city from the Drum Tower! This private tour including English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, local lunch, hotel pick up and drop off.
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Duration: 4 to 6 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Join this Private Beijing Hutong Culture Study Tour to gain deep understanding of the local’s culture and life! Listen to the expert’s lecture on the traditional Sunmao style architecture and participate in; Watch the fun cricket flighting in the Hutong family and learn how to play Kongzhu and Jianzi. Enjoy delicious Beijing style homemade lunch and stroll around the Hutong allays to get a glimpse of the locals life and culture. You’ll also get a bird’s-eye view of city from the Drum Tower! This private tour including English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, local lunch, hotel pick up and drop off.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Bell and Drum Towers, Di’anmen Wai Main Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
Your guide will pick you up from your Beijing city hotels lobby and take private vehicle heading to Bell and Drum towers.
With a long history, they were once the time-keeping Centre in the city. Drum Tower was first built in 1272, climb up to the tower, get to know the meaning of the 25 drums and enjoy an amazing view of the surroundings.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Baochao Hutong, South of Andingmen Wesst Road North of East Gulou Street, Beijing China
Next, you will explore the off-the-beaten-path hutong allays, you will get to experience what it truly feels like to be a local on a more personal level without the crowds. Also wander through a maze of courtyards and spend time with a neighborhood family to get a glimpse of what life is like for a real Beijing hutong resident as you are invited into their home.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Hutong Restaurant, China, Bei Jing Shi, Dong Cheng Qu, 东四东四五条胡同 邮政编码: 100009
Spend 30 minutes with the local expert to learn the “Sunmao” Style ancient architecture, the class including the slideshow and models that will help you understand. Ancient Chinese architectures are featured timber framework as the supporting structure. The wooden frame structures are shock-resistant, because the parts are linked by tenon-and mortise joints so that they ares after in earthquakes. Learn how it works, and participate in.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Nanluoguxiang, Nanluoguo Xiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100009 China
Enjoy lunch in the Hutong courtyard for an authentic Beijing style homemade lunch.
Continue to next courtyard, there we will be meeting the local Beijingren and experience first-hand story about his collection of the “old Beijing Thing”, learn the functions of his collections.
Continue our journey to watch the cricket flighting. Raising crickets is a traditional Chinese hobby. According to historical records from the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), imperial concubines put crickets in small gold cages and took them to bed to hear their singing during the night.
Finally, watch a short performance of playing Kongzhu and Jianzi. Then learn how to play them.
After the tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Beijing.
Duration: 1 hour
