On Monday morning we visited a drum tower and surrounding neighborhood, then took a rickshaw ride through a hutong, visiting a family home on the way. Holding the largest drum in the world, the drum tower was formerly used to let people know when to get up and go to work. The drum beat could be heard from five kilometres away. While we were there we watched a short drum performance.
When we had finished our tour of the tower we were taken in rickshaws around the hutong neighborhood. Hutongs are old lanes where homes are built around a courtyard. Often different family members live in the homes surrounding the courtyard. We stopped at a family home where the owner served us tea. Although the whole morning was enjoyable the rickshaw ride was the most fun.
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July 19, 2008 at 5:28 pm
[...] where we travelled by rickshaw and visited a Chinese family’s home. L13 wrote about this here. It was great to see the style of living once enjoyed by many Chinese extended families, which I [...]