Speaking of the Wangs, like most Wang Xingren, they come from the Wangs in Taiyuan. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Xing moved from Taiyuan to Jingsheng Town, Lingshi. At first, I was a farmer, dealing in tofu. Its business grew from small to large, and its status changed from agriculture to commerce. After a period of development, the royal family once again set foot in officialdom. During the period of Kanggan in Qing Dynasty, the development of Lingshi Wangxing reached its peak, and then it began to decline. The Wang family courtyard was built in the process of the gradual development of the Wang family. The whole building was completed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which lasted more than 300 years. Five lanes, six castles and one street, with a total area of 250,000 square meters, which is 6,543,800 square meters larger than the Forbidden City.
Academics believe that the Wang Family Courtyard is a master of residential buildings in the Qing Dynasty and an artistic model of inheriting Chinese civilization for 5,000 years.
Wang Jia Courtyard was opened from 1997, and has become one of the must-see spots for tourists coming to Shaanxi. At the beginning of 2002, it was rated as a national AAAA tourist attraction. In 2006, it was listed as "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by the State Council, and it was listed in the China World Cultural Heritage Protection List from June 5438 to February 65438 in the same year. With its majestic scale, breathtaking architectural art and profound cultural taste, the Wang Family Courtyard has been praised by many experts and scholars at home and abroad as "China Folk Palace", "China's first residence" and "Shanxi Forbidden City", and won the wide praise of "the Wang family will go home without looking at the courtyard".
The usual arrival and departure routes for visiting the Wang Family Courtyard are: Taiyuan-Wang Family Courtyard-Pingyao Ancient City-Taiyuan, or Taiyuan-Pingyao Ancient City-Wang Family Courtyard-Taiyuan. Tourists generally don't spend the night in the Wangs' compound, but mostly stay in Pingyao or Taiyuan to solve the problem of accommodation.
Oh, Shanxi Wangjia Courtyard
People say that Shanxi has good scenery. From Yungang Grottoes in Datong to Wang Family Courtyard, the scenery flashed all the way:
Golden Beach, where Yang Jiajiang fought bloody battles, is overgrown with weeds, which makes people miss it; Looking up at Yanmenguan, this is a battleground for military strategists. For thousands of years, swords and shadows, drums and horns. Li He, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote such a magnificent poem: "Dark clouds crush the city to destroy it, and the light scatters the sun."
The "Wang Family Courtyard" is located in Lingshi County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, and is known as the "main road, the main road of Sichuan and Shaanxi". In the tenth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 590), Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty visited Taiyuan and got a stone when he opened the road near Fen. It looks like iron and stone, its color is gray, and its voice jingles ... Because it is auspicious, we set up a county here and named it "Lingshi County"
According to the local tour guide, this stone is a meteorite.
Walking into the "welcome door" of the Wang Family Courtyard is like opening a historical picture. The meaning of "Yingbinmen" comes from the sentence "Welcome out of Japan" in the Book of Songs Yao Dian. The East Gate is called "Welcome Gate" to show respect for the guests.
This royal courtyard is almost twice as big as the Forbidden City. The founder of the Royal Courtyard started from selling tofu diligently, and it took several generations to build this magnificent building. The film "Iron Pear" was shot here.
This royal courtyard built on the mountain looks like a tiger house. Climbing to the welcome door is like climbing the tiger's head. Having a bird's eye view of the whole building here, the Royal Courtyard is like a freehand brushwork of the word "Wang", which is also reminiscent of the word "Wang" on the tiger's head. Very domineering!
The whole building of this royal courtyard is patchwork and magnificent; All kinds of brick carvings and colored paintings are dazzling and beautiful; The cultural atmosphere is strong, which makes people linger!
Rush past. But what impressed me most about this compound was the Confucian Temple in front of the welcome door, named Jingsheng Confucian Temple. The screen wall of "Carp Jumping the Dragon Gate" here is 7 meters high and 10 meter long, with vivid pictures and exquisite workmanship. Since Jingsheng Temple was opened, there have been 1 1 Jinshi and 18 candidates taking the exam, which shows that the Wangs attach importance to education.
The Wangs' courtyard is like a gobbledygook, which can never be understood.
The Wang Family Courtyard is a master of residential buildings in the Qing Dynasty, which occupies a high position in the architectural history of China. Wang Jia Courtyard, located in Lingshi County, Shaanxi Province, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and a national "Quality Miles" demonstration unit.
The Wangs' compound was not built in a few years or longer. The construction of the Wang Family Courtyard began in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and was basically completed in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. You can imagine the vastness of the project and the exquisiteness of the courtyard.
The building area of the Wang Family Courtyard is very large, and the neat momentum is also magnificent. There are five alleys, five castles and five ancestral halls in the compound.
As an outstanding traditional architectural cultural heritage and folk art treasure in China, Wang Family Courtyard has had a great influence at home and abroad since it was opened to the outside world. The Wangjiayuan enjoys high praise, and there is even a saying that "the Wangs don't look at the hospital when they return". At the same time, the Wang Family Courtyard is also known as "Shanxi Forbidden City", "the first residential house in China" and "China Folk Forbidden City", which shows its high status.
In recent years, relying on its own cultural tourism value and Shanxi's brand advantage of "famous city, famous mountain, famous courtyard and famous temple", Wang Jia quadrangle has become more and more famous in China.
I have been to the Wang Family Courtyard, which is really a "pearl" entering the barren land! Can't compare with the surrounding. The beautiful Ming and Qing mansions were built on such a greedy wasteland, surrounded by smooth and convex loess plateau. The size of the Wangs' compound makes you tongue-tied! It's much bigger than the jstars' compound, surrounded by high walls. This is really a castle that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is said that the shopkeeper is a Shanxi businessman who started with tofu!
I just went to the National Day, that's all. Not as interesting as Pingyao ancient city.
The Wang Family Courtyard is a classic case of challenging the wealth of three generations. The decline of the Wang family courtyard was attributed to the incompetence of the Qing government. The whole compound has been built for eight generations, and the overall scale is very large. When you come to Shanxi, you must visit the Wangs Courtyard. Remember to ask the tour guide to explain it in detail, or you won't understand anything for an hour. Look at the buildings in the past. What's the point? There are many opinions about the meaning of brick carving and doors and windows.
The Wang Family Courtyard is located in a famous historical and cultural town in China, at the east of Lingshi County12km. It is 35 kilometers away from Pingyao Ancient City, a world cultural heritage, and 4 kilometers away from Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu.
Brick carving, wood carving and stone carving in the Wangjia Courtyard are rich in themes and skillful in techniques, and a large number of artistic forms such as symbols, metaphors, homophones and even taboos recognized by secular concepts are adopted. With the participation of literati, painters and sculptors, flowers, birds, fish, insects, boats, allusions, legends and opera figures were carved on bricks, stones or wood, which reflected the architecture of the Qing Dynasty. Qiao's compound is a merchant's compound, Wang's compound is a government compound, Qiao's compound is in Qixian County, Wang's compound is in Lingshi, Qiao's compound is a 5a scenic spot, and Wang's compound is a 4a scenic spot. The popularity of the Qiao Family Courtyard is a world-class tourist attraction. Few people know that the Wangs may be out of Shanxi, and the size of the Wangs' compound may be twice that of the Qiao's compound.
Geographically, the Qiao Family Courtyard is located in Qixian County, a famous historical and cultural city and the hometown of Shanxi merchants. The traffic in Qixian County is better than Lingshi. Qixian County also has a Qujia Courtyard larger than Wangjiajia Courtyard, as well as some scattered scenery such as Jiugou Scenic Area, Qian Chao Agricultural Valley and Changyuanhe National Wetland Park, which is close to Pingyao Ancient City, a world cultural heritage. Wang Jia Courtyard is located in Lingshi, with scenic spots and Hongya Grand Canyon, adjacent to Mianshan, Jiexiu, a 5a-level scenic spot.
The Wang Family Courtyard is located in Jingsheng Town, which is 0/2 km east of Lingshi County, Shanxi Province. It took the Wang Jingsheng family more than 300 years to build it. With a total area of 250,000 square meters, the compound retains a large number of Ming and Qing dwellings, and is an ancient building museum with traditional cultural characteristics. There are many buildings in the compound, with more than 200 courtyards and 1000 houses. The main body is divided into East Courtyard, West Courtyard and Xiaoyi Hall. Among them, the East Courtyard, also known as Gaojiaya, is a castle-like residential group, which is famous for its rich brick carving, stone carving and wood carving themes, and has preserved many Ming and Qing cultural relics. The Wangjia Courtyard was rated as a national tourist attraction in 2002, listed as a "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by the State Council in 2006, and listed as a "China World Cultural Heritage Reserve List" in June 65438+February 65438+May of the same year.
The Wang Family Courtyard is one of the largest residential buildings in China, and it is a master of residential buildings in Qing Dynasty. The hospital has been built for more than 300 years, with magnificent overall, exquisite and unique architecture, "three sculptures" decorations everywhere, or historical allusions, or exotic flowers and animals, or warnings to advise the younger generation, which shows the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and the Wang family's concept of managing the family.
Strolling through the ancient courtyard and experiencing the rise and fall of Shanxi merchants, the precipitation of several generations has cast the dream home of the Wang family courtyard. Its brick carving, wood carving and stone carving are unparalleled in the world, and precious imperial edicts and plaques remain in the world. There are "China Wangs Museum" and "China Folk House Museum", gorgeous working beds and elegant mahogany furniture, which are known as "the first house of China folk houses" and "China folk palace". Many ancient costume films and TV plays were also filmed here, such as "The Knife Family" and "The Biography of luliang heroes" ... Traditional ancient buildings were actively born on the screen.
The Wang Family Courtyard is located in Jingsheng Town, Lingshi County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. It is a typical representative of Shanxi quadrangle architecture and a true portrayal of the famous Shanxi merchant family. The Wangs' Courtyard is built on the mountain, which is grand in scale and strewn at random, showing the style and prosperity of the Wangs. In terms of architectural style, the carving decoration in various places is exquisite, which can be said to be the concentrated embodiment of the essence of residential buildings in the Qing Dynasty.
The main attractions are: Hong Men Fort, Gaojiaya, Wang Ancestral Hall and Jingsheng Confucian Temple. The opening hours of the Wang Family Courtyard are 08:00- 19:00 in summer and 08:00- 17:00 in winter. Special snacks include: rubbing fish, noodles with gravy, Zhajiang Noodles, braised tofu, etc.
Gaojiaya was built in the 16th year of Jiaqing (18 1 1), with a total area of 19572 square meters, 35 courtyards and 342 houses. Built on the mountain and layered at will, it draws lessons from the courtyard style of front hall and back bedroom formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is everywhere. Hong Men Fort complex was completed in the 58th year of Qianlong (1793), with a total area of 25,000 square meters, 88 courtyards and 776 houses. The Wang Museum, the Painting and Calligraphy Museum, the Treasure Hall, the Piju Teahouse, the Vinegar Workshop, the Tofu Workshop and the "National Photo Exhibition of Shanxi Merchants' Guild" set up in Hongmenbao have been opened to tourists.
The gate occupies an extremely important position in the Wang family courtyard. When you walk into the Wang family courtyard, you enter the world of doors. The whole Wang family courtyard is covered with courtyards and gates, which can be described as "one door governs three doors, and three doors lead to four hospitals". There are as many as 66 city gates, including Bao Gate, Zhai Gate, Fu Gate, Small Wall Gate, Chicken Gate, Ruyi Gate, Hanging Flower Gate, Flat Gate, Side Gate and Waist Gate. Many of these doors have their own uses, shapes, patterns, sizes, decorations and cold and warm colors.
Sculpture also occupies a very important position in the Wang family courtyard. Among the vast traditional residential buildings in China, the "three carvings" (brick carving, stone carving and wood carving) of the Wangs of Lingshi have always been praised as "made in heaven, with exquisite carving". These large-scale carvings are exquisite in craftsmanship, ingenious in conception, exquisite in decoration and dazzling, and exude the temperament and charm of China traditional culture. They carved with their hearts and painted with their feelings. Whether it was beautiful natural scenery or familiar historical allusions, those lifeless bricks and eaves became lively under the carving knives of skilled craftsmen.
When you came to the Wangs' Courtyard in Shanxi, you must be very happy that you came. As long as you open this heavy door, there will be a strange feeling waiting for your discovery.
Shanxi Wang Jia Courtyard is also one of the main courtyards. It is also a 4a-level scenic spot and a place of Shanxi merchants' culture. It is also good and worth visiting.