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　　The alley ways of Beijing a dime a dozen, had eight hutongs world-famous. Because in those days, there was a tobacco LiuHang pronoun. "Eight hutongs" at the top of west pearl street, north of cycas, south of diagonal. "Eight" is refers to, the area at least 15 hutongs of old Beijing "red light district". Recognized as one of the eight hutongs are: best suitable hutong, rouge hutong, Han Gutan (now known as Korea's hutong), shanxi lane, stone hutong, Wang Guangfu diagonal (now known as palm diagonal), zhujiajian hutong, lee shamao hutong (now known as hutong, small hutong) energetically. In the alley outside of the eight lanes, also there are nearly hundred size brothels. Just then, the eight hutongs brothels are second-class, more prostitutes "class" is more high, so it is so famous. Eight hutongs in the past hundred along the hutongs, rouge hutong, Han Gutan, shaanxi lane, focus on the first class brothel; Stone hutong with numerous "teahouse", second class brothel; Wang Guangfu byway, zhujiajian hutong, lee shamao hutong, many scattered third-class brothels.

　　Yi yuan, such as the golden flower to live in is now a shanxi lane hotel; Small class of cloud, impatiens lived is now a painting; CAI and small impatiens double habitat of cherry byway 11 building, now a long palace hotel...

　　Eight hutongs, not "red light district" at the beginning, but besides the location of the troupe. The qing dynasty, a policy of "flag of the people points city", the eight banners lived in the inner city of Beijing, han people moved to the front door. Eight hutongs are initially offer vocational school choice in residence, hotels are the properties of the outdoor playhouses concentrated in dashilan, actors have been selected in the dashilan, xinhua street, east to the south of the eight hutongs. "When HuiBan besides just staying at the eight hutongs Han Gutan, best suitable hutong area, then four xi, the stage of spring up one after another in Beijing troupe, best suitable at eight hutongs hutongs, shanxi lane and li3 tie3 turn byway. So the old Beijing has a saying: the way to the tiger to mountain, singing opera from the shun, Han Gutan. Visible eight hutongs and drama activities.

　　"" xianggong" is developed by drama activity. The characteristics of the qing dynasty is very special, the forbidden SuChang and brothel origin, liyuan pederasty daxing, find '" xianggong "' became the vogue of the upper class, slowly developed into a same-sex love relationship to each other." "Xianggong", "is the male prostitutes, the ancient called" rabbit ", "small singing", or "little sexual abuse", there are also called "small hands", later said, "like the gu", that is like a girl's meaning, then a homonym for "" xianggong". "some even have" first lady "in the title.

　　In the late qing and early republic, brothels are mainly concentrated in the front door avenue, because here are near the inner city, officials out of the city, and enjoy more convenient; Second, there is the railway station, distributes the passengers; Three is the front door avenue is a famous business street, quite busy; Four is in this area is the concentrated outdoor playhouses, teahouse, restaurant, eat, drink, and be merry, form an organic whole.

　　, according to a statistics of the 30 s "eight big hutong" was registered on the business of the brothel amounted to 117, prostitutes, more than 750 people, this is just a formal "quotation", not "prostitutes" and "were observed.

　　Old Beijing prostitutes are divided into "the class" and "north" class two kinds, in general, "south class" prostitute is mainly women in jiangnan area, some high level, not only the color, and talented. The prostitute accompany many dignitaries, such as the national capital famous prostitute "golden flower, small impatiens, etc. "The class" prostitute is given priority to with Yellow River north of woman, looks good, but some poor literacy. "Eight hutongs" prostitutes in the majority with "south" class, so much for one, second-class brothels. And in other parts of the brothel, most is the "north". At that time, many high rank and doing business in the capital city is from the south, as a result, "the eight hutongs" as the border of the dignitaries frequented.