During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, after Joe separated from his two brothers, he bought several homesteads at the northeast corner of the crossroads and built a building. The main building is a brick building, the top of which is hard, with brick and wood structure, windows and no doors, and stairs are built indoors. It is characterized by thick walls and small windows. It is strong and firm, and it is a courtyard five miles away. To the east of the main building is the original house, which has also been decorated into a side yard. It also converted the second entrance of the side courtyard into a bookstore, which is the earliest courtyard of the Qiao family courtyard and the old courtyard. According to legend, there was a five-temple outside the courtyard before, and there were two locust trees in front of the temple, which were extremely long and called "sacred trees". There is a large brick altar between the main courtyard and the side courtyard, carved with stone mountains and ganoderma lucidum deer. There are four brick lions and a handle of Ruyi on the forehead of the land god, which is a metaphor for "the four seasons of Ruyi". There are also phoenix trees and pine trees on the temple wall, and six pairs of deer are combined together, which means "Liuhe is smooth". [3]

After Qiao Zhiyong took power, he continued to build a big house for Everbright. He bought a large homestead in the alley on the west side of the old courtyard and built a building compound, which is also five miles away, forming a two-story confrontation. The main building is a structure of exposed columns hanging from the top of the mountain. [3]

After the Ming Building was completed, Qiao Zhiyong built two quadrangles opposite the second floor, which made the four courtyards just located at the four corners of the intersection of streets and lanes, laying the foundation for later integration.

In the middle and late Guangxu period, the local public security was unstable. In order to protect their own safety, the Qiao family and Jingyan spent a lot of money to buy the right to occupy the road at that time. After the Qiao family obtained possession, they blocked the alley, and the alley built the northwest yard and side yard of southwest Nanning; Blocked the street corner in the east and built the city gate; The ancestral temple was built in the west; Outside the courtyard on the second floor in the north, it was expanded into two outer courtyards and two new gates were built. There is a fence cross frame in the courtyard, with arches as bridges, connecting the north and south courtyards, forming a castle-like building complex.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the population of the Qiao family increased and the housing was insufficient, so they bought land and expanded to the west. Ten years after the Republic of China, Joe and Qiao Yingkui built a new courtyard similar to the southeast courtyard next to Sainaning. The windows are carved with large lattice glass and decorated with western style, with good lighting effect and changed style. Even the wall facing the door in the yard is carved very carefully. At the same time, the northwest courtyard was also designed and transformed by Joe, which separated the open gallery connecting the outer courtyard with the old courtyard and transformed it into the living room together with the original kitchen. Also built a bathroom next to the living room and repaired the "foreign toilet". Near the northwest courtyard, there used to be a small courtyard, which was the home of the jstars, so it was called the study courtyard. After separation, Qiao Jian planned to build an inner garden and bought a full set of rockeries from a shabby family in Taigu County. Just before the construction, the "July 7th Incident" broke out, the Japanese invaded China, and the project stopped. During the Japanese occupation, the whole family fled, leaving an empty yard, leaving only some family members to take care of it.