Shanxi | Nanny-level tour guide to Wang Family Courtyard in Lingshi, Jinzhong

|A nanny-level tour guide to Wang Family Courtyard in Lingshi, Jinzhong. The Forbidden City tells us about the majesty of the royal family, and the royal residence tells us about the prominence of Shanxi merchants. The Wang Family Courtyard in Shanxi was built by the Wang family, who started out selling tofu. It took 300 years from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to build. It includes five alleys, six forts and one street, with a total area of ​​250,000 square meters and thousands of rooms. Courtyards and houses are connected to each other. It is larger than the Forbidden City. It is no exaggeration to call it "the No. 1 House in Chinese Civilian Residence". The core tour area is Gaojia Cliff Building Complex (visual tour) There are two forts, Hongmen Fort (Hengzhen Fort) and Hongmen Fort complex (Hengzhen Fort), which are connected by a stone bridge. Shili Fort was an official residence. It was a luxurious mansion built by the two brothers Wang Rucheng, a fourth-rank official, and Wang Rucong, a fifth-rank official, after they were appointed officials. It is fully equipped with an ancestral hall, an embroidery building, a kitchen yard, a private school yard, a courtyard for long-term workers, a courtyard for servants, a flower garden, etc., and the house decoration is also more exquisite. Hengzhen Fort is a private residence, equivalent to a large community of the Wang family. The main alley in the middle and three side alleys form a neat Chinese character "王". There are 88 courtyards in the fort with relatively simple decoration. There are four highlights: 1 Three carving art P5-12 Brick carvings, wood carvings and stone carvings have rich themes and auspicious meanings. Taking stone carvings as an example, there are the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, which imply that filial piety is the most important virtue; the seahorse and flowing clouds, which imply a bright future; there are also stone carvings of bamboo joints on door frames, which imply promotion step by step; and there are stone statues of small monkeys on the backs of big monkeys on watchtowers, which imply that generations will be granted titles of nobility. Rigorous layout P13 With layers of buildings and courtyards, a hall in front and a bedroom in the back, every layout reveals the hierarchy of respect and inferiority, the order of superiors and subordinates, the distinction between the old and the young, and the distinction between inside and outside. Wang Rucheng, the younger brother of Shili Fort, had a higher official rank of fourth rank, so the gatehouse of his house was wider than that of his fifth rank brother, but not as high as his brother's. Couplets and plaques P4 Where there is a hall, there must be couplets; where there is a door, there must be a plaque. The large number of couplets and plaques and the profound content of their content make them unique in Shanxi merchant culture. On one of the plaques there are four characters inscribed: "规圆准方". There is an extra dot in the lower right corner of the character “準”, which means more rules and less trouble. Opens at 8:00, ticket sales stop at 17:40, admission stops at 18:00, recommended tour duration is 3 hours. P【Parking】 There are many cars on holidays, so you need to park your car in a dirt slope parking lot 1.5km away. The parking fee is 10 yuan for a sedan and 15 yuan for an SUV, and then take the free shuttle bus to and from. The shuttle bus ends at 18:00, so if you miss the last bus you can only walk back. 【Tickets】 Only 3-day combined tickets are sold, Wang Family Courtyard + Wang Family Manor + Hongya Canyon + Gypsum Mountain Scenic Area, totaling 50 yuan. You can buy tickets online and scan your ID card on site. 【route] Enter from Shilu Fort and exit from Hengzhen Fort, from east to west. When you arrive at Hengzhen Fort, you can go from low to high to the garden, then climb up the wall to overlook the entire building complex, and finally go down along the wall. Be sure to listen to the explanation, otherwise it will be difficult to understand the details in depth. The tour guide fee is 120 yuan (80 yuan for part-time college students), and you can find someone to join a group. However, even with more than 70 tour guides, there will still be long queues for tour guides during holidays. If you don't want to wait, we recommend the 30-yuan electronic tour guide, which has a deposit of 100 yuan and is refundable at the exit. It has automatic sensing and will automatically explain when you walk to the corresponding tourist area. There will also be reminders of the tour route.