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Why do the stubborn leaders in the capital curse?

The old Beijing stubborn likes to brag, "If you ask around in the 49 cities this afternoon, no one will know me." There are still some claims in this 49 cities.

- Beijing formed a construction model of "7 4 9 inside the imperial city and outside" because of the Ming Dynasty. "The emperor is outside 9 7 4" means that Beijing has nine city gates within the city, seven gates outside the city, and four city gates in the imperial city. The inner and outer parts of the imperial city are divided into five administrative regions: east, west, south, north and center. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty implemented a policy of ethnic discrimination, and the entire Han Dynasty drove people to live outside the city, releasing banners carried by the military to live in the inner city and their families (until the end of the Han Dynasty, senior professional tourists were living in the city, so As Liu Yong and Liu Luoguo's father Liu Tongxun). Therefore, Beijing was artificially divided into two parts. The inner city has become a military fortress and family area, and the outer city is a purely residential area. The inner city, the outer city is completely different, the banners, the people who guard the borders. Banner was very proud of his privileged position and called his residence the "Four Nine Cities" to show that they were higher than the other special groups surrounding the Forbidden City and to distinguish those who lived outside the city. The nine gates of the city are collectively referred to as "Four-Nine City", that is, the Four-Gate Imperial City, which is in the name of the city. It is now seen as "Four Nine Cities" in the title instead of "Beijing", which is not comprehensive. From a geographical point of view, it is excluded from the outer city; from historical data, this is due to the regional concept brought about by ethnic discrimination.

If the term "Four Nine Cities" was used in a specific historical period, it would be unobjectionable, but today it is especially used to describe the typical environment of "Beijing", a typical character with shortcomings