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The Community Spirit Enjoyed By Chinese People In Ancient City Mirrors Community Spirit Of China Hutongs.
Living together in the Ancient City cultivated the same type of community spirit as can be found in the surviving Chinese Hutongs that can still be seen in some parts of China. The community spirit developed from the need of friendship with the people with whom the days were shared. The good community spirit was most likely to ensure that whenever help was needed, then it would be freely given. Neighbours were not strangers, but friends. If the communuity spirit prompted a person to give help to a friend or neighbour in need, then that same community spirit would bring help to the giver, whenever needed.
The people living in the ancient cities and hutongs of China, may not have the facilities taken for granted in the modern world, but they do enjoy a special community spirit. Whenever people move from these established ways of living, to a different world of modern houses and apartments, they are unable to take this community spirit with them. Friends living in an old city block where the residents on the same floor shared the same kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom, knew all the families living in the block. Later, these friends moved to a new apartment in a city tower block, but when asked who was living next door to them, they were unable to give an answer. There appeared to be no community spirit as such, anywhere in the tower block.
The people living in the ancient cities and hutongs of China, may not have the facilities taken for granted in the modern world, but they do enjoy a special community spirit. Whenever people move from these established ways of living, to a different world of modern houses and apartments, they are unable to take this community spirit with them. Friends living in an old city block where the residents on the same floor shared the same kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom, knew all the families living in the block. Later, these friends moved to a new apartment in a city tower block, but when asked who was living next door to them, they were unable to give an answer. There appeared to be no community spirit as such, anywhere in the tower block.
The day we went to visit the ancient city was very hot, and from walking through the narrow streets and up the stone steps to the ancient city, a thirst for a drink developed. A friend asked a woman standing by the doorway of one of the houses, if it was possible to have a glass of water. The long established community spirit then went into action. She promptly went into the house and soon came back out again, bringing with her a large mug of hot water, and also a wood stool to sit on, while the thirst was quenched.
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