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Beijing-old and new
Fifty years ago, if you flew over Beijing and looked down on the city, it looked like an army camp.
The whole city was laid out in regular squares. In the middle was the Forbidden City-like the general's
headquarters. North, south, east and west were miles and miles of hutongs, with their traditional courtyard
houses. Seen from the air, these looked like the tens of the army's ordinary soldiers.
In many ways, the old city of Beijing looked very much like other Chinese capital cities from the past
two or three thousand years. The regular city plan with the Emperor's Palace in the center, the traditional
buildings with their wooden structures and tiled roofs, the large city walls-these were features that the city
shared with other capitals of ancient China such as Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) or Kaifeng.
Until the 1940s, the city looked very much the same as it had for centuries. However, in the 1950s the
enormous city walls were torn down. More recently, most of the old hutongs have disappeared. In their
place, a modern city of wide roads and tall skyscrapers has been rising upwards, and spreading
outwards-far beyond the area of the old capital.
Vocabulary
army camp 軍營, lay out 設計, 策劃 regular 規則的, 整齊的 square 正方形; 方塊
Forbidden City 紫禁城 general 將軍 headquarters (單復數同)司令部, 大本營; 總部
courtyard 四合院 wooden 木制的, 木頭的 structure 結構, 構造 tiled 用磚瓦覆蓋的
feature 特點, 特征,特色 tear down 拆毀, 拆卸 spread 鋪開, 展開 outwards 向外
beyond (指空間) 在…….的那一邊, 遠于
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