Qianmen Hutong 前门胡同

Wealthy merchants, opera singers and craftsmen also lived in the hutong. Some of the decorative features of past eras remain. The relief work on the doorway above is probably the same type of work used to create the gate below.

Old arch from19th century in a picture taken in the late 1800s or early 1900s

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