漫步在北京紫禁城筒子河四周的街巷中,会发现许多特色鲜明的街巷名称,如“米粮库胡同”、“织染局胡同”、“火药局胡同”、“马圈胡同”、“西什库大街”等等。这些地名其实皆是明朝所设立的宦官机构“廿四衙门”及其分署的所在地。在这些胡同中散落着诸多寺庙,它们当中的绝大多数都与宦官有着不 Stroll around Beijing’s Forbidden City on the banks of the river around the cheese river, you will find many distinctive street names, such as “rice grain storage alley”, “Weaving and dyeing Bureau alley”, “gunpowder alley”, “Ma circle alley”, “ Xishiku Street ”and so on. These place names are actually all the places where the “Nian 4 Yamen” of the eunuch established by the Ming Dynasty and its sub-offices are located. There are many temples scattered in these alleyways, and most of them have eunuchs