After visiting the royal gardens in the daytime, you can continue to visit South Luogu Lane, the most popular alley in Beijing, in the evening. South Luogu Lane was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It is the only Beijing Hutong that preserved the texture of "fish bone" Hutong and the pattern of chessboard in the Yuan Dynasty. It used to be the residence of dignitaries and dignitaries in the past dynasties. It has more than 740 years of historical relics and has collected different architectural styles since the Yuan Dynasty.

Today's South Luogu Lane is one of the must-visit places for tourists in Beijing. There stand various shops on both sides.

Shop 1: cosmetics shop full of soaps

The store, with fragrance everywhere and a strong republican style, is known as "China's first makeup" shop. It reminds visitors of Shanghai style in Zhang Ailing’s works. The shop also sells all kinds of soaps. There are several similar cosmetics stores in South Luogu Lane, and they seem to sell similar products. It seems that these goods are very popular.

Shop 2: A silver shop where silverware is polished on site

There is more than one silver shop there. Because it's on-site, it's very popular with tourists.

Shop 3: Sugar figure making

The shop with most Beijing flavor is the one with the skill of "sugar figure making". A man with a strong Beijing style, a small pot of burnt yellow sugar, and a bamboo stick, all the things needed for "sugar figure making" are ready. If interested tourists want to blow, he will dip a small lump of sugar with a bamboo stick, and then pull it out to let the tourists directly blow with the extracted sugar. Then the lump of sugar will become hollow and gradually become bulging. With uncle's smart hands, it will eventually become different kinds of cute animals. The most incredible thing about "sugar figure making" is why a lump of small sugar has become a hollow pipe handled by the man! Perhaps, this is the key to "sugar figure making" becoming intangible cultural heritage!

Shop 4: a shop selling postcards

With the popularity of electronic products, not only paper letters have gradually withdrawn from the stage of history, but also postcards, which were once very popular among the public, have almost faded out of people's sight. However, there are several small shops selling postcards in South Luogu Lane. Moreover, it is obviously popular with tourists. Many tourists will choose some postcards that they like to represent Beijing and stamp them with the postmark provided by the owner. In addition to postcards, there are other literary and artistic notebooks, small decorations, small pendants, etc. There are also ancient bamboo slips.