Waiting for customers / Back to Beijing

Posted by Leena (Joensuu, Finland) on 21 May 2009 in Lifestyle & Culture.

And of course we did driving with them or should I say, we were sitting - big, heavy, lazy people and a small Chinese was driving, I was worrying all the time how can he manage with us. But he was smiling - sweating and smiling! Smile is especially important in China.
We saw one hutong area and in many houses men were prepairing their house, because the governement has given money for prepairing these historical small houses.
"In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods" ( a source is Wikipedia )

Thank you very much for your visits and comments !

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