In the center of the ** tourist route from Beijing to Xi'an, Jingsheng Town, Lingshi County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, there is a magnificent ancient building complex - the Wang Family Compound.
Known as "the first house of Chinese folk houses", the Wang family compound is the largest residential ancient building complex in China, with a total area of 250,000 square meters, a total of 54 courtyards, 1052 houses, you live in one every day, it takes 3 years to live all of them. The Wang's courtyard is a model of the private courtyard of the Jin merchants, and its architectural art and cultural value can be called a unique in China.
Zheng Xiaoxie, a famous architect in China, made two special trips to the Wang's compound to investigate and study regardless of his old age, and he called the Wang's compound "a national treasure, a human treasure, and a priceless treasure." The royal compound is also known
Folk Forbidden City", "Wonderful Northern Folk Houses", "Shanxi Forbidden City"."The first house of the Three Jin Dynasty"and many other reputations.
There have been more than ten film and television dramas such as "One Hundred Years of Vicissitudes of the Sea", "Ancient Town River", "Guanzhong Bandits", "Staying Up", "The Legend of Luliang Heroes", "Don't Take Bean Bags for Dry Food", "The Woman of the Swordsman Family" and other more than ten film and television dramas have been filmed in the Wang family compound.
The owner of the Wang family compound, the Wang family of Jingsheng Village, Lingshi County, Shanxi, was originally from Shandong, and later moved to Taiyuan, Shanxi. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Shinan, a clansman, moved south to Yutan Village, Lingshi County. Later, Wang Shi's tofu business gradually flourished, and he was respected as the ancestor of the king surname of Jingsheng Village. In the second year of Emperor Yuanqing (1313), the clansman Wang Chengzhai led his family to move to Jingsheng Village. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the clansman Wang Xingwang began to do business, and by the 14th Wang Qianshou, Wang Qianhe, Wang Zhengju, etc., the capital was thick, the number of shops increased, and gradually developed into a famous family of officials, business, and agriculture. The Wang family compound is the descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family, the Jingsheng Wang family, which was built in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing periods.
* In the early years, the Wang family shop still covered Jin, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, the family moved south, and the building was empty.
The Wang's courtyard was the first to build a house near the Zhangjia locust tree in the west of the village, from west to east, from low to high according to the mountain to gradually expand, the building scale is large, with "five lanes", "five forts", "five ancestral halls", showing the shape of the word "king". The king is a surname, the surname is half a country, the home is a courtyard, and the courtyard is half a city. The architectural style of the Wang's courtyard is very unique, changing with the shape, the courtyard is stacked on top of each other, it is scattered, the momentum is magnificent, and the functions are complete. Basically, it inherited the courtyard style of the front hall and the back bed that had been formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty of our country. The brick carving, wood carving, and stone carving of the whole building complex have extremely high artistic value, and are praised by people as "the heavenly sampling is made in the world, and the carving art is exquisite in the world", and has the characteristics of "noble but not expensive, expensive and novel and elegant but not expensive and delicate".
Walking in the courtyard of the royal family, you can fully feel the majestic spirit of the wealthy families in the feudal era. The Royal Family Compound is definitely a great place to visit. Embark on a journey through time and space in this ancient land. Travel