Who lives in Caochang Hutong, Beijing?

The people living in Caochang Hutong in Beijing are locals.

As the only hutong group running north-south in Beijing, the Qianmen Caochang area is one of the city’s historical and cultural reserves and a representative of Beijing’s Nancheng urban well culture. Because it still retains the hutongs and courtyards with a rich old Beijing style, it has attracted many film and television crews to shoot scenes, and it has become a "film and television base" in the center of the city.

People riding "28" bicycles and wearing very "outdated" clothes in the alley, the slogans with the characteristics of the times on the walls on both sides of the alley, the little girl jumping forward, the grass yesterday afternoon Changer Tiao Hutong takes people back to the past in a trance. However, this is just a filming location for a TV series describing the life of old Beijingers. I chose to shoot here because the authentic old alley fits the plot.

“There are often film crews coming to film, especially in the past two years.” Mr. Lin, a resident of the hutongs, said that many hutongs have been demolished and the ones that have been repaired have lost their original sense of vicissitudes of life, but this one Hutongs with a history of hundreds of years have maintained their original appearance. The reporter noticed that the mottled doors on both sides of the alley, the stone piers on both sides in front of the doors, and the patterns carved on the stone piers were all relatively well preserved. Some residential houses with old Beijing characteristics in the hutongs are often "borrowed" by the crew.

Ms. Zhang, who lives at No. 17, Caochang Ertiao, said that her family’s courtyard house is more than 100 years old, and there have been basically no changes to the house or other facilities in the house. A few years ago, I originally wanted to repair it, but many film and television crews came to the house to "shoot scenes", saying that they liked the simplicity and originality, which made it more realistic to shoot. Now they simply don't repair it.

Not only Ms. Zhang’s house, but also many families in the hutong have been to the crew. It has almost become a “film and television base”, and sometimes residents will guest star as extras. "I was planning to be an extra that time, but I had curly hair at the time. No one had a perm at that time." Ms. Zhang said with a smile. ?