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| Zhang Yujun sits in his Hutong Zhang Beijing Folk Art Museum |
Zhang Yujun, 47, calls himself "a diehard fan of the hutong ability in Beijing". Over the accomplished decade, the Beijing built-in has invested about all of his money, activity and acumen into architecture a huge accumulating of toys, old articles, handicrafts, paintings and old photos of Beijing.
However, what makes this brood of a Qing Dynasty Manchu ancestors acclaimed is his accumulating of handmade, active miniatures of the streets and hutong alleys in the 1920s Beijing.
People alarm him "Hutong Zhang" for his efforts to action a window into old Beijing's acceptable community and bounded cultures at his Hutong Zhang Beijing Folk Art Museum.
The building is amid adverse the National Memorial of Chinese People's War Against Japanese Aggression abreast the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugou Bridge) in Wanping boondocks of Fengtai district.
Stepping into the two-storied, old appearance architecture with chaotic eaves, bright patterns and anesthetized tiles, visitors will acquisition countless old toys, handicrafts, best photos and posters.
Visitors can aswell flavor tea, acceptable snacks, adore Peking Opera, accompany in adumbration boob shows, ability authoritative and acceptable games.
But the alotof clear exhibits are rows of miniature siheyuan courtyards, barrio and old streets that admeasurement about 100 m long.
The miniature Beijing scenes cover food affairs beginning and broiled fruits, candies, snacks, toys, hats, covering appurtenances and curiosities.
They aswell affection temples, bazaar places, brotherhood houses, teahouses, monasteries, opera houses, courtyards, electrical cable posts, posters on the walls, and all address of utensils.
