Beijing Tour

For tourists of Beijing tours, the Peking Opera Show is a good choice in the Beijing night and it is also a good way to experience traditional Chinese culture.
The excellent Peking Opera Show will be showed in the famous Liyuan Theater. Liyuan Theater is the first tea house style theater opened by Beijing Qianmen Hotel and Beijing Peking Opera Theater in October 1990. It is praised as the "best night stage" in Beijing for seven years. For more than ten years, the Liyuan Theatre performed a total of more than 3,800 games. There are famous and traditional Peking Opera Show troupes every day. The Three Divergences, Farewell to My Concubine, Picking up Jade Bracelet and Steal Silver and so on are all the main plays here. Millions of people leave footprints in the audience including former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, Estonian President Lennart Meri, Government officials and other world leaders and famous people.
Liyuan Theater is consisted of play hall, exhibition hall and fairs and sales hall three parts. The play hall is consisted of the stage and audience seats. The stage is eight meters high, twelve meters wide and seven meters deep. On the two sides of the stage, there are the couplets wrote by dramatists Weng Ouhong and Liu Bingsen. Surrounding the auditotium, there are eight large scale Beijing opera facial makeup and 14 Beijing opera figures colored drawing screens. There are totally three ticket sections including 800 seats. The Liyuan Theater is similar to the old opera theater custom. Audience can taste various Beijing snacks and tea when you are enjoying the Beijing opera show. You can also know the more than 200 years' development of the Peking Opera there. If you don't know much about Chinese, it doesn't matter. Most of the audiences in the theater are foreigners and the lists of plays are highlights from operas. In the hall, there is electron show screen. The words of the play can be shown on the screen with both Chinese and English. After the Peking Opera Bus Tour, you will deeply know the Chinese famous opera and enjoy this art.
There are the displays in the exhibition hall about the development of the Peking Opera. Tourists also like to buy some opera handiworks and souvenirs. The unique experience of Peking Opera Show will leave a deep impression on your Tour Beijing.

Into the modernization of Beijing, the buildings attract the people's attention usually not the row upon row of high-rise buildings, the wide roads, but the twists and turns Hutong and the beautiful courtyards. Therefore, it is known as the "Hutong Culture" and the "courtyard culture" by visitors. How many hutongs in Beijing now? According to historical records, in the Ming Dynasty, there were up to thousand, more than 900 in the inner city, and more than 300 in the outer city. To Qing Dynasty it grew to over 1800. Statistics showed that there are over 2550 hutongs in Beijing when New China was founded. Since the reform and opening up, with the development of economic and urban construction, so far, Beijing has over 4000 hutongs with names.
Seen from the names of Beijing Hutong, they are all-inclusive, with the name of rivers and lakes (Dajiang Hutong, River Park Hutong, Tuan Jie Hu Hutong and Seaside Hutong); the mountains and the sun and the moon (Pattern Hill Hutong, Chuandian Hutong, Huisheng Hutong and Moonlight Hutong); the characters surname (Zhang Zizhong Road and Jia's Alley); market and goods (Caishikou Hutong and Bowl Alley); factory workshop (Paint Alley); flowers, fish and insects (Lawn Alley, Jinyu Hutong, Beekeeping Narrow Lane); cloud and sky (Yunju Hutong, Rain Alley and Big Star Alley); poultry meat (Chicken Feet Alley, and Xianyukou Hutong), etc. The various names will make you feel blurred, however, if a careful analysis, you will find the features. The names of hutong in Beijing usually come from the Government Office official institutions, altar and the temple, warehouse, workshop, bridge, river, fair trade, trade objects, surnames, scenery and the sentiments. Today many of the hutongs are still in use the original names. Are you interested in the names of hutong in Beijing? During Beijing trip, you have the great chance to have a deep understanding about the old alleys.
The hutongs of Beijing are more than just the context of the city. They are also the living places of ordinary people and the important stage of the development of the historical and cultural of the capital city.
Besides hutongs in Beijing there are many other famous historical sightseeing deserve to visit during the Tour Beijing. Forbidden City shows the strong atmosphere of imperial power; Summer Palace enjoys the most beautiful scenery; Temple of Heaven is the symbol of Beijing. After the tour to these representative attractions, you will find your Beijing tour full of instructive.