In Shanxi! I saw a mini Forbidden City!

✅ Wang Family Courtyard in Shanxi was built by the Wang family, who started out selling tofu, over 300 years during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It includes five alleys, six forts, and a street, with a total area of 250,000 square meters, thousands of rooms, and courtyards and houses connected to each other. It is even larger than the Forbidden City, and is known as the "No. 1 Residence of Chinese Folk Houses". 🎫 Ticket: CNY 50/person Only joint tickets are available for Wang Family Courtyard. The CNY 50 ticket includes: Wang Family Courtyard + Wang Family Manor + Hongya Canyon + Gypsum Mountain ⏰ Attraction opening hours Wang Family Courtyard: 8:30–16:50 Wang Family Manor: 8:00–16:30 Hongya Canyon: 8:00–16:50 Gypsum Mountain Scenic Area: 8:30–16:00 ✅ Tour route Enter from Shilubao and exit from Hengzhenbao, from east to west. When you reach Hengzhenbao, you can go from low to high to the garden, then climb the wall to overlook the entire building complex, and finally go down along the wall. ✅ 3 highlights 1️⃣ Rigorous layout The layout of the buildings is rigorous, with front halls and back bedrooms, and every layout reveals the hierarchy of respect and inferiority, order, seniority, and distinction between inside and outside. In Shilubao, the younger brother Wang Rucheng had a higher official rank of fourth grade, so the gate of his house was wider than his brother's, but not as high as his brother's. 2️⃣ Three carving arts The brick, wood, and stone carvings are rich in themes and auspicious meanings. Take stone carvings as an example, there are the Twenty-four Filial Piety, which means that filial piety is the first of all virtues, the hippocampus and flowing clouds, which means a bright future, the bamboo joints carved on the door frame, which means step by step, and the stone statue of a big monkey carrying a small monkey on the pillar, which means that generations of people will be granted the title of marquis. 3️⃣ Couplets and plaques There are couplets in the halls and plaques on the doors. The number of couplets and plaques and the depth of their content are unique in Jinshang culture. One of the plaques is inscribed with the four characters "Gui Yuan Ju Fang", and there is an extra dot in the lower right corner of the character "Ju", which means that the more rules, the less trouble. ❤️ Guide Be sure to listen to the guide, otherwise it is difficult to understand the details and connotations. The guide fee is CNY 120, and you can find someone to join the group. Or you can use the recommended CNY 30 electronic guide, with a deposit of CNY 100, which will be refunded at the exit. It has automatic induction, and will automatically explain when you reach the corresponding tour area, and there will be tour route tips.