When is the best time to go to Qixian Folk Museum (Qiaojiayuan)?

Qixian Folk Museum (Qiaojia compound) best time: spring and fall

Famous architectural expert Zheng Xiao Xie said: Beijing has the Forbidden City, Xi'an has the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Qixian County has a thousand homes. Qixian's residential set Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing's French, sink Jiangnan Hebei's Dacheng, which is the most famous is the Qiao family compound, Qiao family compound is the Qing dynasty's famous commercial and financial capitalist Qiao Zhiyong's mansion, the original name in the Hall, was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection units in 1965, 1985 in the preparation for the construction of the Folk Museum in this area, November 1, 1986 was officially opened to the public, **** there are six compounds There are 6 big courtyards, 20 small courtyards and 313 houses. The first courtyard and the second courtyard for the history of the Qiao family and the Qiao family treasures two thematic displays. After the four courtyard mainly display folk crafts, clothing, food, housing and transportation, yearly festivals, weddings, funerals, agricultural and commercial customs and other nine major parts of the Qixian Folklore Museum is a so the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Han Dynasty as the main content of the large-scale museum of the customs of the Han Chinese people's life more than a decade, but also has received tourists; more than 6 million people, including the party and state leaders, Jiang Zemin, Qiao Shi, Liu Huaqing, Yu Jianxing, Li Tieying, etc.; experts and scholars! Fei Xiaotong, Hu Jiao, Jia Zhi, Luo Zhewen, Wu Bingan, etc.; Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, France, Russia and other more than 50 countries and regions of the friendship of the visiting group; there have been more than 30 film and television crews in my museum in the successive shooting, such as the "Red Lanterns Hanging Tall," "Chang Jinyuan ticket" and other films and television dramas. Thus achieved a certain degree of social and economic benefits, but also gained the strong support of the competent authorities at all levels and praise, 1990 was awarded the title of national cultural relics advanced units and provincial cultural relics system civilized units, 1995 was named one of the top ten tourist attractions in Shanxi Province, and was named by the provincial government as a patriotic education base. Qiaojia compound was built in the Qing dynasty during the Qianlong, Jiaqing years, occupying the ground 9,180.8 square meters, building area of 4,042.4 square meters, is a concentration of China's unique style of northern residential architecture in the Qing dynasty, the magnificent architectural groups, outside the view of the majestic and tall, such as the castle, inside the view of the opulent and magnificent, both the rocky levels, but also changes in the context of the unity of the norms, the structure of the elaborate, well-chosen materials. Inside the arch flying eaves, stone carving, brick carving, dental plate building, painted gold everywhere, exquisite craftsmanship, each with its own characteristics, showing our country's working people's superb architectural craftsmanship. Has a high architectural aesthetics and residential folklore research value, by many experts and scholars as: the Qing dynasty northern residential architecture of a pearl. Therefore, there is a Royal Palace, residential see Qiaojia said. A lot of scholars visit the end of all exclaimed; Qiao Yuan three Jin absolute, folklore an essence. It and the simple folklore display as one, can be said to be the beads of the wall, reflecting each other.

Qiao family compound is located in Qixian Qiaojia Fort village in the center. This is a majestic architectural group, from a high altitude overlooking the layout of the compound, is very similar to a symbol of great luck double happiness character. The entire compound covers an area of 8724 square meters, building area of 3870 square meters. Divided into six courtyards, within the set of 20 small courtyards, 313 houses. The compound is shaped like a castle, three sides of the street, surrounded by closed brick walls, high more than three zhang, on the upper side of the daughter of the cover wall and look out for the mouth, both safe and solid, but also looks majestic. Its exquisite design, craftsmanship, fully embodies the unique style of China's Qing Dynasty residential architecture, has a fairly high ornamental, scientific research and historical value, is indeed an unparalleled treasure trove of art, by experts and scholars aptly praised as a jewel of the northern residential architecture. No wonder some people visit said with emotion: the Royal Palace, residential Qiaojia.

Entering the gate of the Qiao family home is a straight 80-meter-long stone paved tunnel, the six compounds are divided into two rows of north and south, the tunnel on both sides of the wall with a berm. At the western end is the Qiao Family Ancestral Hall, which corresponds to the gate. There are four main buildings in the compound, and six gate towers, more buildings, and overlook pavilions. There are walkways on the roofs of each courtyard, which are used for guarding the courtyard. Throughout the whole courtyard, from the outside, majestic and tall, neat and dignified; into the courtyard to see, magnificent, well organized, showing the living style of our northern feudal family. The whole compound, the layout is rigorous, architectural sophistication, norms and changes, not only has the overall beauty, but also in the local architectural features, even on the roof of the more than 140 chimneys have their own special. Pavilions and pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings, stacked gold and powder, fully demonstrated the ancient working people of China's superb level of architectural art, is indeed a rare work of art.

The compound was built in the twentieth year of the Qing dynasty Qianlong (A.D. 1756), and later there were two expansions, an additional repair. The first expansion in about the same period of the Qing Dynasty, presided over by Qiao Zhiyong, the second expansion for the Guangxu in the late Guangxu, by Qiao Jingyi, Qiao most Yan hand; the last repair is in the Republic of China ten years later, by Qiao Yingxia, Qiao Yingkui were completed. Nearly two centuries passed between the beginning of the construction and the final completion of the present layout. Although the time span is very large, but the subsequent expansion and renovation can be carried out according to the original concept, so that the entire compound style consistent, integrated.

The Qiao Family Residence is traditionally called the three northern courtyards, which are called the Old Courtyard, the Northwest Courtyard and the Study Courtyard from east to west. South of the three compounds in turn for the southeast yard, southwest yard, new yard. The designation of the six compounds in the north and south shows the order of construction of each compound in the Qiao family compound.

In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, where the present Qiao Family Compound is situated, a part of it happens to be the crossroads where the main street of Qiaojiabao Village crosses with the alleys. After Qiao Quanmei and his two elder brothers split up, they bought several residential lots at the northeast corner of the crossroads and started to build buildings. The main building was a brick house with a hard roof, a brick and wood structure with windows but no doors, and a staircase built inside the house to get to the upper floors. It is characterized by thick walls, small windows, solidity and firmness, with three courtyards inside and three courtyards outside. To the east of the main building is the original mansion, which was also renovated as a side yard. It also converted the second door in the side yard into a school, which is the earliest courtyard of the Qiao family compound, or the old courtyard. Legend has it that there was a Wudao Shrine outside the side yard, and in front of the shrine there were two acacia trees, which grew strangely and oddly, and people called them sacred trees. After the Qiao family obtained the right to use this piece of land, the original intention to move the temple not to move the trees. Later, Qiao Quanmei had a dream at night, dreaming that the Golden Armor God told him that: the tree to move live, the shrine to move rich, if you want both, the shrine and trees to move together. Four or five steps to the east is where the tree lives. If you move the shrine but not the tree, the tree will die and you will not get rich. It didn't take long for the tree to die. Qiao Quanmei was afraid of offending the gods, so according to the dream indicated the place, the tree moved over, the tree really came back to life, and the branches and leaves flourished as before. This seems to be the real God manifestation, the real God, and then in front of the side yard to repair a five-way shrine, until today still exists. At the same time the main courtyard and the side of the courtyard between a large brick carving of the land shrine, carved with stone mountains and mouth Ganoderma lucidum deer and so on. The forehead of the land shrine has four brick lions and a handle of Ruyi, a metaphor for the four seasons. There are also sycamore and pine trees on the walls of the shrine, and six pairs of deer are joined together, a metaphor for the smooth flow of the hexagrams.

After Qiao Zhiyong became the head of the family, in order to splendor the family, continue to build. He bought a large area of residential land on the west side of the old hospital across the alley, and built a building courtyard, also five outside three, forming two buildings facing each other, the main building for the hanging roof Lu Ming column structure. Tongtian latticework door, the doorway of the card is the NJ star riding a deer and a hundred children figure wood carvings. On the balcony corridor. Up to the corridor, along the front edge of the brick carving handrail, in the middle of the grapes Hundred Sons Figure, to the east is the Kui Long and magpie children to the sea; west of the heron silk play Lotus and sparrow play chrysanthemums, the most top of the wood carvings, engraved with the Kui Long Bogu Figure. Standing on the balcony, you can see the whole courtyard. Because the two buildings courtyard across the alley side by side, and the north and south building warped, so it is called double Yuanbao style.

After the completion of the Ming building, Qiao Zhiyong and the two buildings across the street from the building of two horizontal five vertical five quadrangle courtyard, so that the four courtyards are located in the four corners of the intersection of the streets and lanes, laying the pattern of the later connected to the whole.

In the middle and late Guangxu period, the local security is unstable, the Qiao family Jing Yi, Jing Yan in order to protect their own safety, went through a lot of trouble, spent a lot of silver, bought the right to occupy the streets and alleys at that time. Qiao family to obtain the right to occupy the alley, the alley blocked, the alley was built into the northwest courtyard and the southwest courtyard side yard; east blocked the street, built the gate; west built the ancestral hall; north of the two floors of the courtyard and expanded into two outside the yard, the new two Wuhu corridor gate. There is a fence passing between the cross-yards, and the top of the arched gate as a bridge, connecting the north and south yards to each other, forming a castle-like complex.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Qiao family's population increased, and housing appeared to be insufficient, so they purchased more land and expanded to the west. Ten years after the Republic of China, Qiao Yingxia and Qiao Yingkui built a new courtyard in the immediate southwest courtyard, with a similar layout to the southeast courtyard. But the windows are all carved with large glass, Western-style decorations, Zhu Guang effect is also very good, obviously in the style has been improved. It is the courtyard to meet the door to cover the wall carving is also very detailed. At the same time, the northwest courtyard also by qiao yingxia design remodeling, and the old courtyard connected to the outer courtyard of the open corridor blocked, together with the original stove room, converted into a living room. Also built in the living room next to the bathroom, repair the foreign thatched toilet, adding an exotic flavor.

Leaning against the northwest courtyard, there was a small courtyard, for the Qiao family's school, so this courtyard is called the study courtyard. After the separation of the family, Qiao Jian intends to build the inner garden, from the Taigu County, a broken big family bought back a full set of wigwam. Just waiting to be built, the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, the Japanese invasion of China, the project was halted. During the period of Japanese invasion, the whole family fled, leaving an empty courtyard, leaving only part of the family to look after it. Continuing to this day, the Qiao family compound has become a glittering pearl in the northern residential area.

Qiao family compound gate seat west to east, for the arched doorway, on the tall penthouse, penthouse hanging in the middle of Shanxi governor by the Empress Dowager Cixi's face and the gift of the plaque, on the book of the blessing of species Luanghuan four big words. The black lacquer door is equipped with a pair of pepper picture beast street large copper ring, and inlaid with a copper base plate couplet: children and grandchildren, clan will be great; brotherly harmony, the family's fat. Between the lines, it reveals the hope and pursuit of the owner of Qiaozhongtang, and perhaps it is precisely by following such a way of governing the family that Qiaozhongtang, through the efforts of successive generations, has reached the splendor of a prosperous family with ten thousand dollars of capital later on.

The top of the main door is embedded in the center of the green stone block, written on the ancient style. Robust penmanship and these two words represent the intention to undertake the ancient simple style of life, complement each other, intriguing. Opposite the main door to cover the wall, engraved with a brick carving of longevity, a word for a kind of words, words have style. On both sides of the wall is a meaningful couplet in seal script presented by Zuo Zongtang, a minister of the Qing Dynasty, which reads: "Losing human desires to restore heaven's reasoning, storing up morals and being able to write articles". The couplet reads Cuihe. This is very suitable for the Qiao family, which is a big businessman, and upholds the middle way of harmony and nobility. After entering the gate and walking through the long tunnel, at the end of the west end is the Qiao's Ancestral Hall with carved dragons and painted buildings, which corresponds to the gate. Ancestral hall decorated with great care, three steps, temple structure, with lion-headed pillars, alabaster stone carvings, longevity character handrail, latticework door wood carvings through the sky clip fan. Eaves to four pillars bearing the roof, two bright and two dark. Pillar head with jade tree cross-glorious, orchid Xin Guifu, vine Luo around the pine hollow wood carvings, decorative wonderful, rich and magnificent. There is a plaque on the forehead, on the book Ren Zhou Yi Pu four words, Li Hongzhang inscribed. Ancestral hall was originally displayed in the wood carving carved three layers of ancestral tablets.

The canal is divided into six courtyards north and south rows, three courtyards in the north are open dark latticework column corridors out of the eaves of the gate, easy to car, sedan chair in and out. Outside the gate, there are a horse post and horse stone. From the east to the west, one, two yards for the three into the five Union ring sets of yards, is a typical Qixian area in five outside the three through the heart of the courtyard, inside and outside the through the heart of the hall connected. The north side of the courtyard is the main house, two-story building, and the outer courtyard doorway building corresponds to the magnificent. From the main courtyard door to the main room above, you need to climb three times, it not only signifies the auspicious meaning of three consecutive promotions and a smooth transition, but also the scientific arrangement of the building hierarchy.

The three southern courtyards are two double passes for the courtyard, hard hilltop stepped doorway, the west span for the positive, the east span for the bias. The center and the other two courtyards are slightly different, the front of the main courtyard, the main hall at the breezeway there is a side door and the side of the courtyard connected. The entire row of southern courtyards, the main courtyard was occupied by the clan members, while the side courtyards were used as flower gardens and servants' quarters. Each of the main courtyards in the south yard has a roof covered with a more building, and configured to build a corresponding more road, connecting the whole compound.

The Qiao family compound is famous all over the world, not only because of its magnificent houses as a group of buildings, but also because of its superb architectural skills embodied in every brick, every tile, every piece of wood and every stone. North and south of the six compound courtyard, brick carving, wood carving, color painting, can be seen everywhere. From the structure of the door, there is a hard hill single-eaved brick gatehouse, half out of the eaves door, stone side spanning the door, a bucket of three liters of eleven stepped on the double-crossing door and so on. The format of the windows includes latticework windows modeled after Ming acid branches, latticework windows with a fan in the sky, barred windows, carved windows, double-opening and hanging-opening windows and large lattice windows, etc., all of which are various and endlessly changing. And then from the roof, there are hiatus roof, hard roof, hanging roof, rolled roof, cottage roof, etc., so that the formation of flat, low, high, convex, no ridge, ridge, upward warping, pendant arc, every place, every place is a different world, look at it in detail, actually let a person pleasing to the eye, taste endless.

Wood carving: the compound has a more fascinating place, that is, everywhere you can see the exquisite board painting process and the art of wood carving, carvings each have their folk moral. The main door of each courtyard is carved with various characters. Such as the main door of a courtyard for the rolling purlin doorway, there are hanging columns hemp leaves, hanging columns on the moon beam bucket, card wind cloud son, thirteen head of the dry bucket, among which there are columns bucket, corner bucket, mixed bucket, there are nine crows, can be said to be a first-class good craftsmanship. The second door and a door for the same, for the chrysanthemum Kakou, the window with dry pattern, the center of the grass dragon spinning board. The three doors of the wood carving kakou for the grapes and hundreds of children.

The main door of the second courtyard wood carving of eight steeds and the three stars of fortune, also known as the three stars of the picture. The second door of the second courtyard wood carving: flower Bogu and God of Fortune and God of Happiness. This flower Bogu is a kind of miscellaneous paintings, the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong ordered people to compile and paint the Xuanhe Temple collection of antiquities, into a Bogu map. Later generations will be painted on the artifacts, the formation of decorative artifacts, generally known as Bogu. Such as Bogu figure plus flowers, fruits as embellishments to complete the painting is called flower Bogu. The doorway of the main room is the Nanki Fairy riding a deer and the Hundred Sons Figure. Other wood carvings are Tianguan Zhifu, sunrise and moon, Kirin to send children, fortune, three stars and Heping two immortals. Harmony two immortals, also known as Harmony two saints, is a kind of folk mythological story painting. The Ming Dynasty Tian Rucheng "West Lake Tourism Zhiyu" said: Song with Hangzhou to the waxing moon ritual Wan Hui brother, whose image of puffy head and smiling face, dressed in green, left hand drums, the right hand stick, the cloud is the God of Harmony. Sacrifices can make a person 10,000 miles away can also go home, so it is called Wan Hui. Later, it was divided into two gods, called the Two Immortals of Harmony. Two Immortals also poufy head and smiling face, one holding a lotus flower, one holding a round, take the meaning of harmony and good. In the old days, usually hung in the hall at the wedding, to show good luck.

In addition, the wood carving on the column head is also diverse. Such as the eight steeds, pine and bamboo, grapes, said the spread of long and many children, upright, robust; hibiscus, osmanthus, ten thousand years, said ten thousand years of wealth and prosperity; over the Hall of the wooden clip fan carved with large relief four seasons of the flowers, the Eight Immortals to offer longevity, that is, one of the traditional decorative motifs. Eight Immortals offer life, is the legend of Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao, Han Xiangzi, Li Tiekou, Lv Dongbin, Cao Guoyu, blue color and, He Xianqun eight Immortals went to Yaochi, for the Queen Mother of the West to wish a birthday, so that the composition of the picture pattern, the shape of the beautiful, lifelike. The whole hospital now has more than three hundred pieces of wood carving art, can not be listed here.

Brick carving: brick carving process is everywhere, a very wide range of subjects. There are wall carvings, ridge carvings, screen carvings, handrail carvings. Such as a courtyard door carved with four lions, that is, four lions (when) spitting clouds. Horse head carved with two immortals, carrying gold and silver treasures. Card round carved with orchids. Covering the wall for the turtle back Hanjin, is a traditional decorative pattern, for the hexagonal skeleton composed of continuous geometric shapes. It is named because it resembles the back pattern of a turtle. In ancient times, the tortoise armor as a tool for divination, depending on the omen of good and bad luck. Ancient books, "the book" cloud: the turtle a thousand years of hair, life of five thousand years is called the divine turtle, ten thousand years for the spirit of the turtle. Turtle for longevity of a spirit, used as a pattern, to show auspicious prolonged life. Into a courtyard opposite the gate there is a large brick land shrine, carved with pine trees, tung trees and stirrups in the Taihu Lake rocky mountain of nine deer, a metaphor for the nine roads. Columns with four lions rolling embroidered balls; a yard off the wall of the south room there are five handrail carving, the middle of the grape hundreds of children figure, said the vine grows more children and wealth and prosperity, the remaining four grids for the Bogu figure. In the main courtyard of the first courtyard, there are four seasons of flowers carved on the horse's head. In the second courtyard, the horse's head is decorated with four fruits and the Eight Immortals. Dark Eight Immortals is also a kind of traditional decorative pattern, which is made up of the artifacts held by eight immortals in ancient legends. According to legend, Han Zhongli shook a small fan and was happy, often holding a small fan; Lv Dongbin's sword showed the light of the spirits and demons, often carrying a sword; Zhang Guolao's fish drums beat up the sound of the Brahmins, often holding fish drums; Cao Guoyu's jade board and the sound of ten thousand voices, often holding a jade board; Tiequan Li's gourd is not the only one in the storage of the Five Fortunes, often with a gourd; Han Xiangzi's purple xiao blowing the degree of dryness and quietness, often holding a xiao; Lan Caihe's basket of flowers is not an ordinary storage, often holding a basket of flowers; He Xiangfu was holding the lotus without staining the dust, always holding a lotus flower. Because they only use the objects they hold, do not paint the immortal, so called the dark eight immortals, containing the meaning of good luck, the Ming and Qing dynasties used more.

The horse head of the gate of the second courtyard front rhinoceros Hershey, flanked by seasonal flowers. The second courtyard in front of the corridor of the main room of the handrail carving, counting from east to west, one is the magpies, the second is the Kui Long Tengkong, the third is the grapes, the fourth is the heron silk play lotus, the fifth is the sparrow play chrysanthemums. The east side of the courtyard over the door carved with four seasons of flowers, four fruits, plus qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, also take the meaning of good luck.

Three large corridors, horse head front unicorn sends a son, side pine, bamboo, plum orchid, and plum orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums. Chinese painting is precisely to plum orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums four kinds of flowers as the subject of the general term, bird and flower painting for its branch. Song and Yuan period many painters like to paint plum orchids plus pine trees, called pine, bamboo and plum, also known as the three friends. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wu Zhen added orchids to the Three Friends, which was called Four Friends. Ming Shenzong Wanli years (A.D. 15731619) Huang Feng his collection of "plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum four spectrum", also known as the Four Gentlemen. Later generations added the pine tree or daffodil, strange stones, collectively known as the five clear or five friends. Qing dynasty wang probability edited "mustard seed drawing biography" third series, that is, "plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum four spectrum". This type of subject matter, symbolizing high and pure character and integrity, strength, resilience, optimism and the spirit of defiance.

The four courtyards in the doorway for the incense burner, the side of the piano and chess calligraphy and painting. Inside the courtyard ladder clouds sieve moon Hen has four lions (when) Ruyi, plum root dragon head, four seasons of flowers, blossoms and riches. And there is a cover wall, Zhao Tieshan writing inscriptions. On the right is the Dark Eight Immortals, the lion rolls the embroidered ball, indicating peace and goodwill. There is also a phoenix playing peonies, deer and crane in spring. The left side is double fish, halberd exhausted, belongs to the auspicious and lucky picture, is one of the traditional decorative patterns, refers to the ancient weapons in the halberd, musical instruments in the exhausted and fish patterns composed of images, take the halberd and the auspicious, exhausted and the celebrations, the fish and the remainder of the homophonic, that is expressed in the auspicious celebration of the surplus. The doorway of the main room in the west courtyard has grapes and chrysanthemums with hundreds of seeds, and the top handrail is a picture of zither, chess, calligraphy, painting and Bogu. The four horse heads have four lions on the front and four seasonal flowers on the side. Especially, the carving of Provincial Proverbs is a rare art treasure as well as the carving of Hundred Longevity Scrolls which has been mentioned before.

The horse head of the doorway of the five courtyards is a unicorn sending its son, and the four horse heads in the courtyards are deer, crane, and tung pine. South main room doorway for the chrysanthemum hundred children, in the middle of the seven stars of Wenwu, back to the Beggar's Nest, also known as the Tanabata Beggar's Nest. Tanabata beguiling figure is a folk mythological story painting title. Tanabata is the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to legend, the Cowherd, the Weaving Maiden meet in the River in the sky. On this night, women knotted colorful wisps, pierced seven-hole needles, and displayed melons and fruits in the court to beg for coincidences. Cowherd and Weaving Maiden are both star names that evolved into mythological characters. Weaving Maiden is the granddaughter of the Heavenly Emperor and has been weaving cloud brocade for many years. Since she married Cowherd from the west of the river, her weaving was interrupted. The Heavenly Emperor was furious and ordered her to separate from Cowherd, allowing them to meet only once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month. It is recorded in the book "Customs" that when the Weaving Maiden met the Cowherd, magpies built a bridge over the Heavenly River for her, which is called the Magpie Bridge. The picture of Beggar's Nest on the seventh day of the seventh month was initially made by Hou Yi, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was gradually popularized.

The east courtyard of the Sixth House is flanked by magpies on both sides of the entrance, and on the back are bamboo and the three characters of "Fortune, Luster and Longevity". The four horse heads are the Dark Eight Immortals. In the main room, there are grapes in the banister, lotus flower in the east and peony in the west. In the front yard there is the Fude Shrine with two living lions and the metaphor of auspiciousness on the eight treasures.

Stone carving: stone carving in the Qiao family compound, although relatively rare, is very fine. Existing pairs of stone lions, stone lions in different forms, naive. Some stone lions for the pacing forward, knife lines such as new, the sharp edge is still there, the performance of vigilance, mighty, active. The head of its pride, lifting the whole body of the spirit, the lion's performance of the majestic, heroic, but not distorted, giving people a healthy, active, full of vitality.

There are also Yin line carving, such as the five courtyards door squatting stone lion base for the Golden Lion White Elephant, in the immediately sealed monkeys (marquis), Yanshan teach children, generations of marquis. South room pillar stone base cushion for fishermen and woodcutters, Magu Xianshou, etc.. Six courtyards door squatting stone lions on the stone base of the generals, Shentan Yubi (according to legend, in ancient times to Shentan, Yubi for the door god, can be evil evil evil to avoid ghosts), victory back to the dynasty and other line carvings, the image is clear, the story is attractive, the lines are fluent, realistic image.

Painting: the entire compound all rooms of the lower part of the eaves are painted in real gold, the content of the characters of the story-based, in addition to the Yanshan teach children, Magoo Xianshou, full bed Wat, fishing, woodcutting, farming and reading, there are flowers, plants, insects and birds, as well as railways, trains, stations, clocks and other diverse patterns. These patterns, piles of gold standing powder and three orchid five-color paintings have their own chic. The gold foil used is of high purity, and although it has been exposed to the sun and wind for a long time, it is still glittering to this day. Li powder process is very detailed, shall be a layer of dry and then on a layer, so that layer after layer of piling, until a piece of jewelry realistic relief made until the last coating of gold. Coated with gold is to use the oil on the head of the paste up, because it is too thin, you must pick a clear weather without rain and wind, in order to carry out the operation, it can be seen that the completion of a patterned work is quite laborious, time-consuming. Other lines hook gold, dressing bottom coloring, are natural stone color, therefore, can keep a long time does not fade, color and lustre bright.

Plaque: the Qiao family compound of the various gates hanging a lot of plaques, there are four of the most valuable. Three of these plaques are the Qiao family, but also worthy of the Qiao family proud and feel honored. That is the four years of Guangxu written by Li Hongzhang Ren Zhouyi Pu and Shanxi Governor Ding Baoquan by the Empress Dowager Cixi Oracle sent by the blessed kind of Luanghuan and the Republic of China in 16 years Qixian Changyuan River East thirty-six villages to give Qiao Yingkui's body ready for the six lines. The first two pieces show that the Qiao family at a certain period of time to the government's contributions, and by the court official inscriptions respected, and therefore doubled the honor and glory. The latter piece also reflects some of the Qiao family's good deeds and the way to deal with people from a side. Another piece of higher value, that is, Fu Shan personally inscribed Danfeng Pavilion plaque (now stored in the fourth courtyard of the Qiao family in the east room). Danfengge after the completion of the plaque, Fu Shan for its personal inscription, at the same time, Dai Ting style wrote Danfengge note, Fu Shan and added a trek in the back. A plaque and three treks, the statement is puzzling. Detailed analysis, Dai Ting style "Danfeng Pavilion Note" to the effect that: in September 1660 AD, he had a dream, dreaming and a few people wearing ancient costumes outside the city counterparts. Suddenly there was a big change, and when he looked back, there was no flat road, and in front of him was a cliff full of maple trees and pines, and in the center there was a small pavilion with the word Danfeng written on the plaque. He woke up according to the style of the dream building Danfeng Pavilion. In fact, Dai Tingxie's dream of traveling with people in ancient costumes was a nostalgia for his homeland. There was a big change, referring to the change of political situation. The real meaning of Danfeng Pavilion is that the country was destroyed and the national tragedy was imminent, and the Danfeng Pavilion was put in place to send the pain of the death of Ming Dynasty. Fu Shan in the "Dan Feng Pavilion Note" written after the "Trek" in the words: Dan is the center of the reading, maple is the word Dai Ting style, Pavilion is Dai Ting style reading place. Therefore, the cabinet named maple, the word Dan written in front of the eye-catching. Dan denotes red color and loyalty; Feng denotes both temperament and red color, both of which are filled with nostalgic thoughts for the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there are also the door plaques of each house, such as Tongyunwuan, Shenjiande, Shutianshidian, reading taste long, a hundred years of trees, but Huaiyongtu, for the good most happy, living in the peace, the rule of the blessings of the many, Jiannaijia, Jingguanyuanxuan, the ladder clouds sieve the moon and so on, all of them have their own specific meanings.

In short, the Qiao family compound is not only a treasure trove of architectural art, but also a temple of folklore. Step into it, both will get the enjoyment of beauty, but also will make people grow a lot of knowledge. Therefore, to Qixian Folklore Museum tour, from art, science, culture, fun in every aspect, will make you feel very beneficial, not a false trip.