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structure that was burned down A DAY SOUTH OF TIAN’AN MEN
during the Boxer Rebellion. It has SQUARE
some fine stained-glass windows. Tian’an Men Legation
Square Quarter
Natural History Museum
9 Railway Station Police
Old Qian Men
Museum
MAP E6 • 126 Tangqiao
Nan Dajie • 6702 7702 • Subway: Beijing Planning
Exhibition Hall
Zhushikou, then walk • Open Southern
8:30am–5pm Tue–Sun Fish Tongrentang Pharmacy
Liubiju
• www.bmnh.org.cn Ruifuxiang
Deyuan
An overbearing piece of 1950s Spoonful Dazhalan Jie
architecture houses a great of Sugar
collection of dinosaur skeletons, as MORNING
well as stuffed pandas and other
animals. There are also fish, both Start on Tian’an Men Square,
dead (preserved in formaldehyde) at the southeast corner beside
and alive (in the aquarium). Visitors the stripey brick Old Qian Men
of a nervous disposition may want to Railway Station, built by the
skip the partially dissected human British in 1906, partly to bring
cadavers up on the third floor. military forces straight to the
assistance of foreigners in the
event of a repeat of the siege of
the Boxers. It’s now a Railway
Museum (see p18). Venture east
along Dong Jiao Min Xiang into
the Legation Quarter to visit the
Police Museum (see p40). On
leaving, head south to Qian Men
Dong Dajie and walk back west
for a glimpse of the Beijing of the
future at the Beijing Planning
Exhibition Hall (see p75). From
the museum, head into the
hutongs toward Dazhalan for
some crispy roast duck at
Deyuan (see p79).
AFTERNOON
Head east along Dazhalan Jie
(see p75). This is a great place
for specialty shops. Located
Ancient Architecture Museum
down the first alley is 400-year-
Ancient Architecture
0 old Liubiju (see p78), selling a vast
array of pickles. Ruifuxiang (see
Museum
MAP D6 • 21 Dongjing Lu • 6304 p78) dates from 1893 and is
renowned for silks. Tongrentang
5608 • Bus 15 to Nanwei Lu • Open Pharmacy (see p78) has been
9am–4pm Tue–Sun • Adm in business since 1669, while
Housed in the Hall of Jupiter, part of Zhangyiyuan Chazhuang has
the Xiannong Tan temple complex, been trading teas since the early
this museum focuses on the ancient 20th century. Then, after
construction techniques of Beijing all that tea, head back west to
buildings, all helpfully illuminated Spoonful of Sugar (see p79)
with detailed models. A fascinating for a coffee break, then grab
three-dimensional plan shows the a spicy Hunan dinner at
city as it was in 1949, its city walls Southern Fish (see p79).
and gates largely intact.
See map on pp74–5
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