{"id":12814,"date":"2016-12-12T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2016-12-09T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:35:00","slug":"exploring-beijings-hutongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/exploring-beijings-hutongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Beijing&#8217;s Hutongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Beijing is an ancient city that\u2019s also increasingly modern. Many of the city\u2019s traditional neighborhoods have either been torn down or are on the chopping block. With each passing day, it\u2019s getting harder and harder to find\u00a0<strong>old Beijing<\/strong> (<span class=\"s1\">\u8001\u5317\u4eac<\/span> &#8211; l\u01ceo b\u011bi j\u012bng).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12815\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350.jpg\" aria-label=\"1 DSC 0350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12815\"  alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350-350x235.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In search of old Beijing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One place to look is in the city&#8217;s traditional alleyways, or <em><strong>hutong<\/strong><\/em> (<span class=\"s1\">\u80e1\u540c &#8211; <\/span>h\u00fa t\u00f2ng) in Chinese. This are changing fast here as well, as you&#8217;ll see in this short video tour:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploring Beijing&#039;s Hutongs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IaGmBGrodAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350-350x235.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"Chinese Survival Phrases\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350-350x235.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/1-DSC_0350.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Beijing is an ancient city that\u2019s also increasingly modern. Many of the city\u2019s traditional neighborhoods have either been torn down or are on the chopping block. With each passing day, it\u2019s getting harder and harder to find\u00a0old Beijing (\u8001\u5317\u4eac &#8211; l\u01ceo b\u011bi j\u012bng). One place to look is in the city&#8217;s traditional alleyways, or hutong&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/exploring-beijings-hutongs\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":12815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2663,371229,452042,452083,272740,452084,2006,452082,9982,69433,272738,69431,9984,292691,452049],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-hutongs","tag-beijing-live-music","tag-beijing-night-market","tag-beijing-nightlife","tag-beijing-street-food","tag-china","tag-fangjia-hutong","tag-hutong","tag-hutongs","tag-nanluoguxiang","tag-nlgx","tag-old-beijing","tag-street-food-in-china","tag-wudaoying-hutong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}