The landlord of Tang family was a famous "Sanshui Tang family" in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. By the fourth generation of the Tang Dynasty, it was the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, and the Tang family also reached a heyday. It is agriculture-oriented, business-based, and its firms are located in thirteen provinces of China, which is known as "exchanging thirteen provinces of China, including the title of donating officials;" Horses don't eat other people's grass when they go to other provinces, and people don't rest in other people's shops when they go to Sichuan. " Its scale is evident from this. Tang Jing went to Beijing to attend the "Thousand Banquets" hosted by Emperor Qianlong in the 60th year (1795), and presented seven official uniforms, silver medals, walking sticks and imperial decrees.
Since then, the Tang family has had an official title, and since then, it has had contact with emperors and officials, and has been exploited by commercial interests. In addition, it has been well-run, so the business is booming and the financial resources are strong. At that time, the Tang family owned a large area of land and many tenant farmers and livestock in Xunyi, Binxian, Chunhua and Yaoxian, and collected huge land rent every year. At that time, not only Shaanxi was rich, but also the whole country. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the Tang family had only 60 people, so they hired 165 servants and 66 Ying Ge sedan chairs (equivalent to limousines). It's really "never leave home, and the whole deacon will clear the way."
Because the Tang family is rich and powerful, the house built is extremely elegant and meticulous. At most, there were more than 200 craftsmen in the three houses a day, and it took 43 years to build 87 palaces, with about 700 in the two houses. All the buildings are made of wood, stone and brick, not only the foundation is solid, but also each house is made of polished bricks and finely carved stones depicting dragons and phoenixes, and the joints between bricks are also watered with lime and glutinous rice juice. The partition wall in the courtyard is engraved with various patterns such as "Eight Immortals" and "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", and the corner column wall in the courtyard is engraved with patterns such as "Eight Horses" and "Huashan Chess". There are also relief works such as peony, plum bamboo and lotus. When the compound was completed, the Tang family specially built a big theater to celebrate and sang for more than three months.
This big landlord family with deep pockets has gradually declined in extreme profligacy since the late Qing Dynasty. All kinds of household items and treasures purchased at home have almost disappeared after vicissitudes. The Tang Family Courtyard was turned into a folk museum, and most descendants of the Tang family lived in Tangjia Village and made a living by hard work.