China - Beijing - Hutong street just south of Tiananmen

Man wearing fashionable pajamas ina Hutong street in Xuanwu district, an area just south of Tiananmen in Beijing, China. Hutongs are a type of narrow streets or alleys, most commonly associated with Beijing, China. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another neighbourhood. Since the mid-20th century, the number of Beijing hu (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)