What are the big families in China that have been passed down from ancient times to the present day?

The big family in China that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day --- the Kang Millionaire Family --- has survived for 400 years and is still in existence today, with 12 generations of descendants who are all rich and powerful!

There is an old Chinese saying, "Wealth is only three generations", which has been a lingering spell in the hearts of many wealthy families. In ancient China there was such a family, from the ancestors to the descendants of the descendants of more than four hundred years of prosperity, all are rich, and today the family descendants are still the rich.

"Kang million" because of the Cixi grant famous in fact, "Kang million" is not a person, but the Henan Gongyi Kang family collectively, and its quite medieval style castle - Kang million manor is still in. The manor house was built four hundred years ago. The manor was built four hundred years ago. At that time, the Kang family could be said to be very rich, and the people said that they "had a headrest in Jingyang and Xi'an, and a footrest in Linyi and Jinan; the horses ran for thousands of kilometers without eating the grass of other families, and the people walked for thousands of kilometers on the Kang family's fields! It was a great success for a while. With the accumulation of family wealth, the Kang family in the original manor on the basis of the expansion of the premises built to the top of the hill, it according to the "unity of man and nature, the master of nature" tradition and built, backed by Mangshan, facing the Luo water, take the "Golden Tortoise explore the water," the situation, high above, dominating the top.

The building is built on the back of Mt.

The manor is built on the mountain and water, building kilns on the mountain, building buildings on the street, setting up a dragon's head on the river, according to the danger of the fortress wall, set agriculture, government, business in one, both garden art and palace art features, covering an area of more than 160,000 square meters, spectacular. It consists of 19 fully functional, rigorous layout, hierarchical, different styles of building complexes, there are 33 courtyards, 53 buildings, 97 bungalows, 73 holes in the kiln, ***571 houses, now preserved mainly in the residential area, the stacks area, the workshop area, the South Compound, the Ancestral Temple area and other parts of the country is one of the few preserved Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural complexes.