The Zhu Family Courtyard was built in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and has been reconstructed, expanded and repaired for nearly 10 generations. In its heyday, the compound was divided into many courtyards, with more than 200 buildings and bungalows. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders entered Shan County, and the Zhu family fled to the south. Some houses were demolished and burned. After liberation, only the two adjacent courtyards on the east and west remained.

In 1949, the Zhu Family Courtyard was the office location of the county committee and government of Shanxian County, Huxi District, Pingyuan Province. During the "Cultural Revolution", the more exquisite stone and brick carvings such as Suan Ni, bullfighting, Xiezhi, and Xiyu were demolished and damaged. The main building in the west courtyard has two floors and five rooms, the middle three rooms have corridors, green polished bricks, composite tiles, wooden pillars, stone foundations, and squares, quets, and pads under the eaves; the east and west wing buildings have three rooms and two floors, and the structure symmetry. The main building of the east courtyard has two floors and three bays. It is made of polished bricks and tiles. The eaves are set on the upper floor. It is built on wooden pillars and stone foundations. There are also two-story and three-bay wing buildings in the east and west.

According to records, the most representative building in the Zhu family courtyard is the East Butterfly Hall, which has sculptures of butterflies, flowers, birds, etc., a coiled dragon stone pillar, and contains calligraphy, paintings, antiques, etc. The library contains more than ten thousand volumes of classics, histories, works, collections, etc., and has special rooms, tables and chairs for people to read. There is an ancestral hall of the Zhu family in the courtyard complex, which enshrines the memorial tablets of the ancestors of the Zhu family. There are rows of memorial tablets for each generation, men on the left and women on the right. The highest position is the sixth generation ancestor Zhengsu Ye, followed by the fifth generation Shilian and the fourth generation Yunqian. The compound is surrounded by horse pens and granaries, and there is a sloping gate in the northeast corner, which is the only way for tenants to drive their horses and drive to deliver grain.

The Zhu family was the largest wealthy family in Shanxian County in the Qing Dynasty. It was said that "if you leave the city for hundreds of miles, your car will not drive through the land of a different surname, and your shoes will not get stained by other people's mud." Their mansion occupied one-fifth of the county area at that time. . The Zhu family has more than a dozen "Xiazhuangzi" outside the city, including Zhugaozhuang, Zhulaojia, Zhuzhai, and Zhulou. Zhu Hongfu's generation in the Qing Dynasty spent three years building more than 100 mansions in the south gate of the city. If all the mansions were preserved to this day, they would be comparable to the Qiao Family Courtyard in Shanxi.

At present, the Zhu Family Courtyard is the main attraction of Sanyuan Square, complementing the Huxi Revolutionary Historical Memorial Hall of Pingyuan Province and the Shanxian Historical Celebrities Cultural Wall that were converted from the Huxi Revolutionary Conference Hall. Shan County combined research results and historical materials to restore the buildings, courtyards and facilities. The renovated Zhu Family Courtyard has been transformed into the Shanxian Folk Museum, displaying hundreds of historical materials and objects collected from the people.

The Zhu Family Courtyard Folk Museum, the remaining Zhu Family Archway, the restored Wenchang Pavilion, the ancient city gate tower, etc. will become the treasures of Shan County’s cultural tourism industry.