在世人的心目中,最有代表性的北京房子大概是故宫、天坛和四合院吧。可惜,这些房子我都没有住过。故宫是皇帝的房子,天坛不是住人的房子,所以我都没去住。至于四合院,北京现在还有多少四合院呢?保留着的,都是文物;新改建的,又都得特别有钱的人家才买得起。当我还是婴儿的时候,就住在姥姥家,那是北京城西一片平房中的一间。那种平房是50年代的房子,一排一排横平竖直的,整齐得像列队的士兵。我现在记 In the eyes of the world, the most representative Beijing house is probably the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Siheyuan it. Unfortunately, I have not lived in these houses. The Forbidden City is the emperor’s house, the Temple of Heaven is not a human house, so I did not go to live. As for the courtyard, how many courtyard houses are there now in Beijing? All the preserved ones are cultural relics; the newly rebuilt people, who are especially wealthy, can afford it. When I was a baby, I was living in my grandmother’s house, one of the bungalows in the west of Beijing. That bungalow is a house of the 50s, a row of vertical and horizontal rows, neatly lined soldiers. I remember now