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Dongsi (,lit. "Eastern Four" or "Eastern Quadrangle") is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District,
Dongsi (,lit. "Eastern Four" or "Eastern Quadrangle") is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District, Beijing
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. Dongsi, at the intersection of what is now Dongsi Avenues North, South and West and Chaoyangmen Inner Street, dates to the Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongols, Mongol-led Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Division of the M ...
. The intersection is named after four ''paifang
A ''paifang'', also known as a ''pailou'', is a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure. Evolved from the Indian subcontinent's '' torana'' through the introduction of Buddhism to China, it has developed many styles ...
s'' or Chinese sign gates that marked the location and is known in Chinese as the Eastern Four Sign Gates or "Eastern Four" for short. Directly due west in Xicheng District
Xicheng District () is a district of Beijing. Xicheng District spans , covering the western half of the old city (largely inside the 2nd Ring Road - the eastern half is Dongcheng District, Beijing, Dongcheng District), and has 706,691 inhabitant ...
, another intersection with four sign gates is called '' Xisi'' or the "Western Four".
The sign gates at Dongsi and Xisi were removed in 1958 but the location names remain. Today, the Dongsi Station
Dongsi Station () is an interchange station on Line 5 and Line 6 of the Beijing Subway at Dongsi Subdistrict.
Around the station
* Dongsi Mosque
Station Layout
Both the line 5 and 6 stations have underground island platforms
An islan ...
on Lines 5 and 6 of the Beijing Subway
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is located underneath the intersection. Beijing Bus
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106, 110, 116, 684, and 夜10 stop south of the intersection. Bus 58, 101, 109, 112, 420, and 夜13 stop east of the intersection.
Dongsi is known for the Longfusi Snack Street where traditional restaurants such as Baikuilaohao serve Beijing snack cuisine. The Dongsi Mosque, founded in 1356 and rebuilt in 1447, is located just south of the intersection.
History
Dongsi Subdistrict
The neighborhood northeast of Dongsi, extending north to Dongsi Shitiao and east to the Second Ring Road, is administered as the Dongsi Subdistrict of Dongcheng District. The subdistrict was established in 1958 and , consists of eight residential communities. As of 2020, the Dongsi Subdistrict has a population of 33,670 and an area of . In 2021, the subdistrict was divided into the 6 following communities:Dongsi's numbered alleyways
Running east-west through the Dongsi Subdistrict are a series of parallel alleyways called ''tiao''. These '' hutongs'' are numbered in ascending order from south to north beginning with Dongsi Toutiao, the first alleyway of Dongsi, up to Dongsi Shisitiao or the fourteenth alleyway of Dongsi. The tenth alleyway, Dongsi Shitiao, was extended eastward through an opening in the Beijing city wall and was widened in the 1990s to become one of the main east–west thoroughfares in the old city. TheDongsi Shitiao Station
Dongsi Shitiao station (), is a station on Line 2 of the Beijing Subway.
Name
Dongsi Subdistrict is an area in the northeastern side of the old town of Beijing. ''Hutongs'' are sorted numerically from south to north, and are called "tiao" in lo ...
on Subway Line 2 marks the intersection of the alleyway and the wall.
See also
* Xisi * Dongdan * XidanReferences