The Wang Family Courtyard is located in a famous historical and cultural town in China, at the east of Lingshi County12km.

The Wang Family Courtyard was built by the Ming and Qing families for more than 300 years, including five lanes, six castles and one street, with a total area of 250,000 square meters. It is also an architectural art museum with traditional cultural characteristics. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit and a 4A-level scenic spot. The architecture of the Wang Family Courtyard has the characteristics of emphasizing essence over beauty, re-emphasizing elegance, and not emphasizing refinement and elegance, which embodies the simplicity of nature.

The architectural decoration of Wang's courtyard is the epitome of fine and dense in Qing Dynasty. The structural accessories are beautiful, exquisite and elegant, such as the arches, foreheads and sparrows on the veranda, the stone carvings of pillars and walls, and the couplet plaques of various courtyards. They have various forms and excellent workmanship, which embodies the firmness, practicality and beauty of ancient northern buildings in China.

Compound mode

The architectural pattern of the Wang Family Courtyard inherits the courtyard style with the front hall and the back bedroom formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which not only provides enough space for external communication, but also meets the requirements of internal private atmosphere, achieving equal grades, orderly up and down, different men and women inside and outside, and complete living functions, fully embodying the majesty of the official family and the regularity of the patriarchal clan system.

There are 35 courtyards and 342 houses in Gaojiaya complex. Dunhou House and Ningruiju, the main courtyard, are three-way quadrangles. In addition to the ancestral temple and embroidered buildings on both sides, each courtyard also has its own kitchen and home school, as well as the academy, flower garden, long courtyard and * * * courtyard. The surrounding castle walls are tight, and four gates are selected, and the large and small courtyards set each other off.

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