Fuxue Hutong

　　Located in the northwest of Dongcheng District, it stretches east from Dongsi Beidajie, west to Jiaodaokou Nanjie, connects south to Zhongjianzixiang, and north to Beijianzixiang and Wen Chengxiang Hutong, under the jurisdiction of Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office.

　　Fuxue Hutong belonged to Jiaozhongfang in the Ming Dynasty and was called Fuxue Hutong, named after the Shuntian Prefecture School located in this hutong. The predecessor of the Shuntian Prefecture School was the Bao'en Temple from the Yuan Dynasty. It is recorded that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a monk built a temple here. Before the Buddha statues were placed, the Ming army captured Dadu. Fearing the newly built temple would be occupied by the Ming army, and having heard that the Ming army protected the location of Confucius, the monk hastily placed a wooden statue of Confucius inside the temple. As expected, the Ming army did not enter. But with the Confucius statue already placed, it could not be repurposed. In the early years of the Hongwu reign in the Ming Dynasty, the capital was established in Nanjing, and Dadu was renamed Beiping Prefecture. Thus, the Imperial College of the Yuan Dynasty became the Beiping Prefecture School, and Bao'en Temple became the Daxing County School. In the first year of the Yongle reign (1403), Beiping was elevated to Shuntian Prefecture, and the prefecture school was changed back to the Imperial College. The Daxing and Wanping County Schools were abolished, and the Daxing County School was promoted to the Shuntian Prefecture School. During the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to the Xianghuang Banner, and the hutong name remained unchanged, becoming a place where scholars in Beijing studied, learned, and took exams during the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to the "Shuntian Prefecture Annals," the western part of the Shuntian Prefecture School housed the school palace and Confucius Temple, the eastern part had the Wen Chengxiang Shrine, and further east was the Wenchang Shrine. On both the east and west sides of the school were built Yuxian Fang. Some halls still exist today. In 1984, it was designated as a municipal-level cultural relics protection unit.

　　Fuxue Hutong is an important street in Dongcheng District with many historical relics. The courtyard at No. 36 opposite the Shuntian Prefecture School is said to have been the family residence of Tian Guifei, the concubine of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and is now occupied by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics. At the eastern entrance of the hutong is the former residence of Duan Qirui when he served as Premier of the Beiyang Government, which is now the site of the Beijing Armed Police Ninth Detachment.