The first is the Wangs' compound.
The Wangs' compound is also a courtyard of Shanxi merchants, just like the jstars' compound. The total area of the Wang Family Courtyard is 45,000 square meters. In contrast, the building area of the Forbidden City is only 6.5438+0.5 million square meters. Now when we travel to the Wang Family Courtyard, we can only see three groups of buildings, namely the Red Gate Castle, the Gaojiaya Castle and the Wang Family Ancestral Temple. These three scenic spots add up to less than a quarter of the total area of the Wang family courtyard, so it is conceivable how big the Wang family courtyard is.
Walking into the Wang Family Courtyard, we seem to have walked into an ancient city. The buildings here are all built on the mountains. There are all kinds of buildings in the tall gatehouse, and exquisite stone carvings can be seen everywhere. Although not as exquisite as the jstars' courtyard, the Wangs' courtyard pays attention to a magnificent momentum, which is very unusual. According to records, the ancestor of the Wangs was named Wang Shi, who originally bought tofu. Later, his business grew bigger and bigger, and people were very competitive, so he had the present scale. Traveling to Shanxi now, I'd rather not go to Qiao's compound than to Wang's compound. It feels completely different.
The second is Kang Million Manor.
Leaving Shanxi, let's turn our attention to Henan. In Gongyi, Henan, there is a famous Kang Million Manor with a large scale.
Kang million manor is known as the first of the three manors. The Kang family has flourished for more than 400 years and is still very influential in the local area. There is a folk song circulating in the local area, which tells the horse to run thousands of miles without eating other grass, and people walk thousands of miles with Kang Jiatian, showing the wealth of the Kang family at that time. Besides getting rich in business, the Kang family is also very generous. For example, Mr. Kang Yingkui in the late Qing Dynasty burned all the debts owed by his clansmen and blind date on his 75th birthday. This move shocked the Central Plains. Cixi fled to the west, and the Kang family paid a tribute of 1.2 million silver at a time before staying? Kang Million? The name of.
The third is the Moushi Manor.
In Yantai, Shandong Province, there is a Mou manor. A family manor built by the Mou family. From the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the Mou family developed into a super family, with 60,000 mu of land and an annual grain income of more than 3 million Jin. On such a solid economic foundation, it took the Mu family several generations to build this Mu manor. Moushi Manor covers an area of 20,000 square meters, and the cost of building this manor is about 432,000 yuan, with more than 480 houses. It embodies the traditional characteristics of northern dwellings and is of great value to the study of ancient economy and folk architecture.