Detailed explanation of tourist attractions in Qiao's courtyard

The tourist attractions of the Qiao Family Courtyard are detailed as follows:

Qiao Family Courtyard, located in Qiaojiabao Village, east of Qixian County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, is a national key cultural relics protection unit and a national second-class museum. It is a northern residential complex that records the rise and fall of the Qiao family in Shanxi merchants for a hundred years, fully embodies and preserves the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is the shooting place of film and television dramas such as Hanging Red Lanterns and Qiao Family Courtyard.

Qiao Family Courtyard is the house of Qiao Zhiyong, a commercial capitalist in Ming and Qing Dynasties, so it is also called "nave". ? It was built in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and rebuilt many times in Tongzhi, Guangxu and early Republic of China. The construction time spanned more than two centuries. The building complex covers an area of 8724.8 square meters with a building area of 3870 square meters. It consists of 6 courtyards, 9 courtyards and 365,438+03 houses.

In addition to its large scale, the complex is also famous for its exquisite architectural techniques such as "three sculptures and one painting", which is called "Lan Dian Gui Gong, carved beams and painted buildings". During Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China in the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi fled to Shanxi with Guangxu to facilitate the temporary residence of Qiao's courtyard, and presented them with treasures such as "Fu Zhong Lang Yi" and "Kowloon Lantern", which are important existing cultural relics of the building complex.

20 14 Qiao Family Courtyard declared as a national tourist attraction; 20 19 Due to serious substandard or serious problems in the annual review, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism gave the Qiao Family Courtyard the treatment of canceling the quality grade of tourist attractions.

architectural style

The Qiao family compound faces the street on the third side and is not connected with the surrounding houses. Entering the gate of Qiaojiayuan is an 80-meter-long straight stone tunnel, which divides six courtyards into two rows, north and south, with slope protection on both sides of the tunnel. At the end of the west is the ancestral hall of the Qiao family, which corresponds to the distant gate. There are four main buildings in the compound, including six gatehouses, watchtowers and watchtowers. There are walkways on the roof of each courtyard to patrol and protect the courtyard, which shows the lifestyle of feudal families in northern China.

Not only has the overall aesthetic feeling, but also has its own characteristics in local buildings. Even more than 40 chimneys on the roof/kloc-0 have their own characteristics. Pavilions and pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings, piled with Gionee powder. The periphery is a closed brick wall, the height of which exceeds 10 meter. The upper floor is a wall-mounted crib for women, with more floors. The gate sits west facing east, with a high top floor, a doorway in the middle and a brick-carved longevity painting opposite the gate. To the inside of the gate, there is an east-west corridor paved with stones. The walls on both sides of the corridor are surrounded by retaining walls. At the end of the corridor is the ancestral temple, which is a temple-like structure opposite to the gate. There are three courtyards in the north, all of which are hidden columns and eaves doors.