Residential Wangjia compound, why known as the "folk Forbidden City"?

Wangjiayuan reflects the style of Qing Dynasty architectural decoration, but also the northern ancient architecture of the hard to highlight the most. There is a saying that "the Wangs do not look at the yard", and it is true to its name. In this way, the Wang family compound can be called "folk Forbidden City".

Wang family compound is by the Jing Sheng Wang family, after more than 300 years of construction into, including five alleys, six fort a street, is a kind of cultural characteristics of the Han Chinese architecture museum. Wang Family Compound's building is a wooden frame in the front yard, and a two-story kiln building in the back yard, with a kiln cave on the ground floor and a beam-and-pillar wooden house on the second floor, which constitutes a typical and reasonable combination of beam-and-pillar wooden buildings and masonry kiln cave buildings, and the structural attachments and decorations are all splendid and exquisite.

The "three carvings" of the Wang Family Courtyard, i.e., brick carving, wood carving, and stone carving, are an important part of the overall architectural art, and one of the most representative features of the Wang Family Courtyard. The so-called "building must have a plan, the plan must have purpose, the intention must be auspicious" is a true reflection of the sculpture art of the Wang family home. For example, the vivid "Lion Rolling Embroidery Ball" on the wall in front of the door, the "Phoenix Playing Peony" and "Pine, Bamboo, Plum and Orchid" carved on the lintel of Songzhuyuan are all original masterpieces. In many of these themes, the artist implicitly expresses his or her desire for good fortune, fame and wealth, or to live and work in peace and contentment.

The architectural pattern of the Wang Family Compound inherits the courtyard style of the front hall and back bedchamber, which was already formed during the Western Zhou Dynasty in China. The design of the residence in the courtyard, the layout of the courtyard, although most of the courtyard for the multi-courtyard, but the style of change, the combination of appropriate, the entire architectural setup, set of government, business, the people of Confucianism is located in the integration of the traditional Chinese yin and yang and the five elements of the ancient Chinese, but also in line with the order of superiority and inferiority, the internal and external distinction between the ethical and moral etiquette.