Shijia Hutong

Shijia Hutong-----Beijing Qianmen Street Road West, there is a narrow alley next to a clothing store, go through the alley and go straight to Shijia Hutong. This hutong looks only better than the surrounding streets The hutong is only a little wider, but for more than half a century, it has been called the financial street of old Beijing. Shijia Hutong is of Xuannan culture. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, together with Xiheyan and Qianshi Hutong, it was a concentrated ethnic financial district in Beijing. Many private banks and giant merchants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Chaozhou and other places gathered in this hutong, among which Shanxi. Merchants dominate. At that time, the larger silver numbers were Qiansheng silver number 10, Yuxing Zhongyin number 11, Yisheng silver number 12, Fusheng silver number 15, Qiming silver number 17, and silver number 21. Sanjuyuan silver number, integrated silver number of No. 22, etc. It is said that the term "iron rice bowl" in Beijing has a long history, referring to the people who work in the Bank of Beijing.