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According to experts, the word “Hutong” originated from Mongolian language, 1 means “a place where people gather and live.”
Hutong first appeared in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty. Most of today’s Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that 2 (follow). Nobody knows 3 (exact) how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But one thing is for sure, if we connected all the Hutongs together, their total 4 (long) would even be longer than the famous Great wall!
Today you can find various Hutongs 5 (show) different shapes and directions. The 6 (short) one is only 40 centimeters wide. That means a person has to walk sideways to get through. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns. 7 the growth of the population, many old Hutongs have disappeared to make way for high-rise apartments.
As we walk through the Hutongs, you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored 8 (brick). Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses, in which people live. In Chinese we call them “Siheyuan”. At first when they 9 (build), usually one Siheyuan was owned by only one family, 10 nowadays most Siheyuans are shared by 4 to 10 families.
