First of all, let me explain that whether it is three or five entrances, the layout is basically the same. Let’s take the courtyard house in Beijing as an example.

1. When you enter the street gate, you face a screen wall. There are independent screen walls, and some are attached to the gables of the houses (side rooms) behind.

2. Behind the screen wall is the wing room. Taking a north-south courtyard as an example, behind the screen wall is the east wing room without a patio.

3. A courtyard with a garden is a compound courtyard. The garden is usually on one side of the main courtyard and is connected by a side door through a verandah.

4. The mountain-crossing verandah, also called the Chaoshou veranda, is an obvious symbol of courtyard architecture in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The verandah is connected to the main room, wing rooms, and hanging flower doors, and also runs through the front and rear courtyards.

5. When the host meets general visitors, he will sit down in the first room after entering the courtyard, because he wants to avoid the female family members in the courtyard. Acquaintances or distinguished guests will be invited to the central hall of the main room. People who are not close relatives are usually not invited directly to one's house. Of course, this is a stricter statement, and the public may not necessarily all act in accordance with this.

6. In addition to the inverted sitting room in the outer courtyard, there may be a back room on both sides of the street door. The back room has a door or a small window that is the same as the doorway of the street door. At the end of the inverted sitting room, there may be There will be huts.