In 1929, the square in front of the Bell Tower was the "People's Market"
Located on the north central axis of Beijing, the Drum Tower was changed to the Beiping First People's Education Center in the 1930s, and the curator is Li Wencheng. At that time, the original foundation was rectified, and various exhibition rooms were opened on the first floor of the building, which were openly visited by people without charge. Such as the health exhibition room, showing women and babies from sitting fetus to adult models and pictures, and introduced some health knowledge. In the other exhibition room, there are models of ethnic house architecture and clothing, as well as physical or replicas of weapons such as classical musical instruments and armor and spears, and there are scenic paintings of scenic spots and monuments hanging on the walls. There is a reading room for books and newspapers at the east gate, and newspapers and periodicals and pictorial newspapers from all over Pingjin and Shanghai are available. Whenever the sun sets in the west, the east gate
Reading newspapers and periodicals inside, the elderly pushing carts on the road outside the door or helping grandchildren play here, people come and go, it is not lively. Pine trees are planted in the outer courtyard wall of the building and 4 flower beds are built. The southeast corner of the building is a children's playground with swings, pressure plates, and parallel bars. The southwest corner is an adult stadium with basketball hoops and volleyball columns. The northwest corner is the flower hole, and the northeast corner is the staff dormitory and office. On the second floor, there are three large drums, one of which was pierced by the Eight-Power Alliance in 1900 to prove the crimes of the invaders and one of the national shames of our country.
Opposite the building is the bell tower, which is a two-story structure of green brick and white jade, the large bell hangs on the upper floor, the bell body is 4.5 meters high, weighs 63 tons, and was cast in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420). Legend has it that he repeatedly failed in the process of casting the bell. In the end, the emperor issued an edict that if it could not be cast again, it would be killed, so that the young daughter of the caster was thrown into the tin-copper alloy furnace and cast. The bell is loud and loud, and the sound can reach more than ten miles away, which is the highest among the ancient bells in China. According to the old bricklayer, in the early years, when the morning bell and the drum were announced, the width of the underground foundation of the bell tower was equal to the height of the above-ground floor to resist shaking.
In that era when science was not yet developed, huge and heavy bells were installed, there was no electricity or large mechanical equipment, and only artificial earth methods were used to lift. When the ground of the second floor is masonated, the pile of soil is sloped beyond the building. When it is cold and frozen, watering ice, ice solidification, the use of smooth ice, the big bell is transported to the slope, with a wooden gallows set of large ropes up, below the wooden crowbar up to transport, at any time insert wooden wedges, to prevent slipping. Transport to the top of the slope, slide the bell onto the floor mat and straighten it, and then install the wooden frame. Hang the big bell properly, remove the cushions, and the big clock will hang as it is now. Then the walls are built with white stucco and infused with white mortar, which is better than the solidity of cement. The walls are built and the roof is built.
There were originally three tea houses in the open space of about 3,000 square meters between the Bell and Drum Towers, which were later changed to the first, second and third tea houses of the First People's Education Hall in Beiping City. Each tea house is responsible for its own profits and losses, and the government helps the people.
The first tea house is the Shiji Tea House, with tall wooden planks and two east rooms. According to the morning tea habits of the old Beijingers, the tea house sells clear tea in the morning, and the tea customers bring their own. The pot and bowl are cleaned, the tea leaves are put into the pot, and the high-lifting kettle is flushed, and the water is added frequently. The civilian fees are quite praised by ordinary workers. In the afternoon, it is busy and busy, a little quiet, and the afternoon juggling. The tea house has 7 juggling venues, each equipped with benches, square tables, money boards, tea sets, and a white canvas shed high in summer. Artists are invited to perform, and the income is divided into 28% with the tea house, and 80% of the artists. Li Xinquan's commentary, "The Diagram of the Swordsman", is fluent and crisp, does not sell Guanzi, and is very praised by the audience. Day and night two turns (4 months) can buy a house, which shows its ability to call a seat.
It takes three years and one festival for storytellers to learn the art from their teachers (refers to three years plus one festival, such as the Spring Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival). When he left the master, the master gave him a piece of wake-up wood, a fan, and a book outline, and began an independent artistic career. The study book is the study of questioning, and the master says that you memorize it well. First of all, we must learn the armor praise, the open face, the sword and horse praise, the immediate step down the weapon move, and the old man, the old lady, the big girl, the little daughter-in-law to distinguish the voice, and then the plot of a book.
The commentaries are divided into: robe books, such as "Eastern and Western Han", "Three Kingdoms", "Nations", "Sui and Tang"; short hits, such as "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", "Five Daughters and Seven Virgins", "Sword Hero Diagram"; public case books include "Bao Gong Case", "Peng Gong Case", "Shi Gong Case", "Liu Gong Case"; mythology is "Fengshen List", "Journey to the West", "Ji Gong Biography", "Ye Shi Liaozhai".
Speaking of commentaries every two months to change the location of the book is called a turn. When talking about books, say a period of money, play money by the tea house guys, according to the person charge, how much to give at will. The trick of storytelling is to say that the end of each paragraph should be buckled, so that the audience cannot go, and must listen to the next decomposition. Book buckles should be amazing. Just right, gripping. The commentaries mentioned here are Jiang Linkui's "Nine Sages" by Jiang Linkui (a northeasterner); Chen Rongqi's "JingzhongZhiyue", by Yue Fei, who was born and was not born at the right time, and when it comes to fengboting's loyalty to the country and his death, as well as Ma Kuoshan's "Ming Yinglie" and Wu Kuoying's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Cross-talk was originally the art of landing, "poor not afraid" and "ten thousand people fascinated" to draw a white line as a field next to Yonglu Road, while sprinkling white sand to write while singing Taiping lyrics gathered to talk about work. Cross-talk is divided into stand-up, counterpart, storytelling and singing, meat and vegetarian. Later, it developed to Tianqiao, Dong'an Market East and West Temples (Huguo Temple and Longfu Temple), and Drum Tower. Nie Wenzhi's stand-up comedy is best at saying "Ganluo", from birth to 12-year-old worship. There is also "Xie Xueshi", which says that Liu Yong and Yan Han are full of wisdom.
Bao San sometimes came here to play with the middle banner, so that the people of the North City would be full of eyes. Xiong Deshan and Shan Shijun's whipping condoms, fake real practice can not see the flaws. The family portrait of the haha cavity, funny, makes people laugh. The double reed of the big bear; the two cooperate, one before and one after, rap in the back, demonstration in the front, ugly action, and amusing people. Tong Shuwang's top flower bed, all in the head kung fu, the top flower wine altar to the small jar, the performance is free. Wang Yutian and Wang Guiying's father and daughter's trembling bamboo were full of flying, and the small pot lid and wine cup were trembling in the air, but there was no sound.
The shuttlecock Tan's kicking shuttlecock, although the shuttlecock is light, up and down, left and right, with the feet undulating, there are Su Qin back sword, upside down kick purple gold crown and so on. The drill rings of machine six, Tie Yuntao and XiaoFuzi rose from two wooden rings to four high, the front head drilled in, the back legs drilled back, the body did not touch the circle, and the circle was as stable as Mount Tai. Cheng Banxian and Yang Qingbo's tricks are quick and fast,there are immortals picking beans, flipping heels to make a large lace bowl containing goldfish tails, swallowing iron balls or swallowing swords. The big monster funny Peking Opera is the second in the clouds, spilling dog blood to distort the image of Peking Opera and get the audience to laugh.
Feng Xiao braids, Jin Fuqin, Lian Youru's Xihe big drum, iron piece big drum, plum blossom big drum. Cross-talk actor Hou Baolin once lived in the tea house at an early age, and at the age of 12, he went to Tianjin to worship Zhu Kuoquan as a teacher to learn art, painstakingly studied, in addition to the old innovation, unique, middle-aged fame, and small mushrooms (Chang Peiting) each according to the Pingjin side.
The second tea house is Luji Tea House, with 4 north tile rooms. Every morning, bird walkers, bird dealers, eagle traders, eagle breeders and badger dogs, as well as bricklayers and carpenters, come here to drink tea and exchange information, discuss the techniques and experience of catching and raising birds, and look for repairs and construction work.
The third tea house is The Lee Kee Tea House, with 4 Siwa rooms. Every day before noon, there are teas, and the house brokers who come here to drink and talk about business, exchange rent and sell real estate information, write and write houses to fold money. All tea houses have posted "clothes for self-viewing" and "do not talk about state affairs" notes or wooden signs to remind customers to pay attention.
Luxi Wuji LuoziGuan, Bai Yushan performed "Old Mother Shangjing", "Xiaohua Yuan", "Xiao Shang Tomb", "Noodle Jar", "Saw Bowl Ding". "Saw Bowl Ding" is a real thing in Chaowaiji City, the little daughter-in-law is angry and diving in the tank, the mother-in-law is not satisfied, the little sister-in-law plays the flag when the funeral comes out, and the mother-in-law holds the can. The old ladies and daughters-in-law who listened to the play were touched after listening to it, and they did not feel the tears of sympathy.
Chen Family Opera Shed (opposite the east entrance of Zhongku Hutong) Chen Dengchun and His son Tie Dan sang Hebei Zizi and Peking Opera, such as "Butterfly Cup", "Wu Jia Po", "Three Niangs Godson", "Fenhe Bay", "Female Solution", "Mulberry Garden Society", "Dadeng Dian" and so on. The theater is a white canvas shed, surrounded by red-edged white cloth, 1 meter high, and a rope net on the outside, and there is a long bench in the field for guests to use.
The above two plays at the door of the kanzi to collect tickets, enter the play, sing a paragraph of a dozen dollars, an afternoon of a total of eight cents, does not save money.
In conjunction with 3 tea shops, vendors selling proprietary Chinese medicine, diet, toys and service industries are scattered around:
Wu Xuting's yam pills with a steel fork, ancestral secret recipe tonic has a special effect function, famous far and wide. The masons have no life on cloudy days, and they can cure all diseases by setting up a place to practice cross-cutting or pulling down bows, talking about buying and selling, and selling large tonic pills. Pills are made from zhushikou herbal medicine shop to buy back mixed with syrup processing and kneading, wrapped in paper. There are boxed dosing pills on the outside, but each pill is just pasted with some gold paper. After taking the medicine, there was no success in asking for children. The plaster is boiled into a thick liquid in an iron pot with miasma and Chinese herbal powder, spread on a piece of paper or cloth to form a round cake shape.
There are plaster fields and plasters that occupy this place for a long time. Plaster Chen is shrewd and capable, and has a set of ulterior motives. After the opening statement, first cut the plaster paper into a round shape, bake the plaster oil with fire, paste it on the stomach of a child suffering from water drum disease in the crowd (in fact, it is his own person), do the hand and foot when pasting, put the object the size of a soybean in the plaster oil, paste it for half a moment, remove the plaster and see that the plaster oil surface has white stickiness, to show that it is the cold that is pulled out by the function of the plaster. At this time, greedy people are eager to buy plasters, in fact, "white sticky" is the "sticky" of green onions!
The food stalls are next to each other, but they are also clean and refreshing. The stalls have a wide variety of goods, complete goods, staple snacks, steaming and cooking, sour, sweet, spicy and salty, the price is civilian, and each has its own unique skills.
Ding Da of the Liquor and Vinegar Bureau, Ding San of Zhao Fu Street, Yao Jia of Lingding Hutong, Zhao Da and Zhao Er are all cut cakes of yellow rice noodles, large kidney beans and small red dates according to the season, which are cut into pieces or slices at retail, eaten with bamboo sticks, and sometimes sprinkled with some white sugar. During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, yellow and white noodle jujube rice cakes, donkey rolls, Ai Wo Wo, yellow and white vegetarian rice cakes, rice cakes and so on are supplied. Then there are all kinds of fine stuffing Lantern, there are white sugar sesame seeds, white sugar hawthorn, bean paste filling, etc., fine workmanship, delicious taste, five competition, no one lets, to take people.
Wang Laojiu's enema was overflowing with oil. The method of enema is to use starch and a little red and form a thick paste, put it on the fire and mash it, then use the hand balls to grow in a round shape and cool into bamboo baskets to sell the enemas with a knife when cutting into slices, put them into a bell, fry them in soup oil until they are browned on both sides, put them into a dish, pour garlic paste and salty juice, and eat them with bamboo needles.
In the year of zongzi, rice and small red dates are wrapped in reed leaves into a diamond horn shape, cooked and dried into mountains, and coldly frozen in large pieces. When selling, peel off the rice dumpling leaves, sprinkle with sugar, and add rosewood rhino juice.
Cui Ji's bean juice, old Beijingers love to drink regardless of men, women and children, the price is low, you can buy a bowl with no money, pickles to eat. Pickles are nothing more than water lumps cut into thin strips, plus some celery segments, salty carrot shreds and chili oil. In addition, there are sauce cucumbers, small sauce radish, sauce lettuce, such as eating additional money. Working people buy a flatbread, drink two bowls of bean juice, quench their thirst and quench their fullness, more economical than anything.
Li Guangming's grandfather's Su-made meat is also very famous. Su made meat is the Qing Dynasty Ministry of Internal Affairs Shengping Department eunuch developed, because the Shengping Bureau commonly known as Nanfu, so also called Nanfu Su made meat, in addition to 24 flavor aromatic Chinese herbs, but also put Suzi sauce, it is said that Suzi can dissolve phlegm, the right amount of fat intestines to burn and eat, beautiful.
Zhangwang Hutong Laoqing family steamed white kidney beans, boiled salty large broad beans, the price is low and affordable. White kidney beans are blistered, lightly boiled, and then steamed. When sold, white kidney beans are placed in a white cloth, accompanied by fine salt or sugar, and kneaded into a round cake, which children like to eat. Broad beans need to be soaked for more than 20 days, swelled with cracks, accompanied by large salt, large ingredients, peppercorns, cinnamon, cumin boiled rotten, is a good dish to drink.
Cao Ji's noodle stall, Jin Cake Jin Noodles with handmade dumplings, using Daxi brand and Bing Ship brand white flour. The dumplings are thinly stuffed with pork cabbage, leeks or three fresh fillings. The flatbread has many layers and brushes the oil diligently. The noodles are slender, accompanied by fried yellow sauce, tahini or vegetarian brine, and then add cucumber shreds, garlic slices, vinegar, etc., in the summer with freshly beaten well water, cool and delicious, commonly known as "cold noodles".
Manba's popcorn, the case is placed with soy sauce, sesame paste, chili oil, minced shallots, minced fragrant tea, a large flower plate with lamb belly, belly, mushrooms, steamed buns, etc., on the small stove sits on the small iron pot that is opening the pot, the customer eats what to cut, eat as you cook, boil in boiling water, with spices, eat to the mouth tender and crisp, and then a glass of white wine, it is really fun.
Song Ji sheep frost intestine, earlier was Zhi Ji sheep frost intestine. Zhi is good at spinning wood technology, can spin all kinds of birds and animals, and transferred to Zhongshan Park. Sheep frost intestines are poured with sheep intestines into sheep blood or add some sheep brains, sheep spinal cords, and sheep oil blocks, and after the blood coagulates, they become sheep frost intestines and cook them in an iron pot. When sold, cut the cream sausage into small pieces, put it in a bowl, and add sesame paste, chili oil, minced green onion, chopped coriander, vinegar and other ingredients.
The steak cakes and cold powders of The Constant And Annual Records are also very distinctive. The cake is made of white soba noodles and a thick paste, placed on the fire and cooked with a wooden stick, grabbed by hand from the hot pot into a ball (it is a kung fu) and placed on the reed curtain, flattened into a cake shape by hand, put into the water in the barrel to soak, not bad for a few days, it can be seen that the quality is excellent. It is sold in summer with natural ice and overheated with a bell when it is cold. The cold powder is made of starch made of pure mung beans with water and thin boiling, poured into a square wooden trough, wait for it to solidify and cut into cubes, soak in barrel water, and then placed on a bamboo grate and pressed by hand to form a small fish. Both snacks are served with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame paste, mustard, chili oil, pickled carrot shreds, garlic paste, and are cool and spicy.
Lu Ji's balls are made with bean noodles, shredded carrots, chopped green onions, five-spice powder and fried in oil. When frying, first boil 5 kg of soybean oil, and then pour 1 kg of sesame oil to float on it, and the fried balls are fragrant, charred and crispy.
Platinum flat fried cake is also famous, yellow rice noodle bean paste filling, with the bag with fried as sold. Sesame oil soybean oil 150%, fried out of the caramelized inside, do not stick to the teeth.
Stuffy fried triangle is a snack of old Beijing, starch and thin with salt, soy sauce, coriander, etc., condensed into large pieces and then cut into small pieces as filling, bread with hot noodles, fried in oil, dipped in soy sauce and minced garlic when eating.
Li Ji's tea soup and beef bone marrow oil fried noodles. Tea noodle soup is miso noodles. Fried noodles are fried in beef bone marrow oil and filled with melon seeds, sesame seeds, raisins, sugar, tide sugar (sweet and sour), rosewood rhino juice. A large brass tea soup pot, steaming hot inside, the water is always boiling. When brewing tea soup, first boil the bowl with boiling water, leaving a little warm boiling water to put on the tea soup noodles and open, one hand copper pot water flows out, the other hand uses the bowl to connect, rush to cook, sprinkle with sugar, tide sugar, rosewood rhino juice. Stir-fried noodles in oil, sugar and tide sugar are placed in a bowl and rinsed with boiling water, and the tablespoon is mixed well.
Hu Ji oil residue is to buy back a large oil residue from the rolling mill, smash it into an iron pot and boil it with water, and put it into a bowl when selling, plus soy sauce, vinegar and coriander. Young people who sell their strength buy a cake, come to two bowls of oil residue and ask for soup, so that they can not be hungry for half a day.
In May, Yao Laosi's sour plum soup looked up again. Natural water to improve color, add appropriate saccharin, dried apricot dry water put a piece of natural ice, sour and sweet and cool and thirst-quenching, into the autumn to sell birds, old west, into the winter to sell eagles, and cement smith technology, a year idle.
Others include: small poplar woodcut stamps; chongji and Dongji's fish and fish worms; Zhang Changhai's fresh fish, which retrieve the yellow croaker and shrimp that just got off the train from the West River at noon; Zhang San's kite, including arowana, a small centipede, and a large and small sand goose; fresh lamb from Hailin father and son, a big-tailed mouth sheep, really fat; fresh green vegetables of Liang Mazi, which are available in all seasons, and in winter there are cave vegetables, green leeks, garlic yellow, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.; sugar turntables won prizes, and the winners won sugar in the shape of dragons or fish; children's toys include small cloth tigers, wooden knives, guns, swords, and halberds , sticks, carts, dolls, landscape paintings, foreign smoke paintings, etc.
There are also turnip six and Wotou Zhao's cockroach stalls here. Crickets, also known as crickets and weaving, are the favorite fighting insects of young men. It is taken from the area of Xiaotangshan, and near the stone crevices of the railway tracks on the outskirts of the city, in the grass of the grave circle, or in the courtyard of the deep house. After smelling the sound, fill the hole with water to make it jump out, and catch it with a clam cover. The best breed is to choose a head, big feet, round, wide and rich body. The cockroach jar is famous for being produced by Zhao Ziyu and made of puree. The new tank is dry, and it needs to be boiled in water four or five times after purchase.
Secondly, use 10% of the old quicklime, 20% of the tile mud to add water and evenly put it into the bottom of the tank, beat it firmly with a wooden stick, and avoid smoothing so as not to hurt the foot edge of the clam. Often fed green edamame. Defeat the injured clams and be healed by feeding them to the earth turtle and the earth squid. Cockroaches are the most taboo sour, and the jasmine fragrance should be far away. All those who look up, exercise their teeth, tendrils, and shake their legs are all signs of illness and should be cured. The hood is made of copper wire and wire, and the clams are mostly glued to the end of the bamboo with wax with long rat whiskers for use when fighting clams. The above-mentioned clams and utensils can be purchased at both stalls.
There are also Four shaving sheds of Zhang San, Jin Ruiting, Liang Ji and Dong Ji. Shaving, flat head, splitting the head, shaving the face, washing the hair are all available, and the price is civilian.
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