1.6 times of the area of the Forbidden City, it’s the top one Chinese residence

这座历经三百余年修建而成的
Its construction last for over over 300 years.
明清古建筑群
It now combines architectures of Ming and Qing dynasties
其建筑规模在19世纪中叶
In the middle of the 19th century,
一度达到25万平方米
the grand courtyard once covered 250,000 square meters,
是故宫的1.6倍
1.6 times of the area of the Forbidden City.
“家是一个院 院是半座城”
“The Wang’s lives in the courtyard, which covers half of the city.”
山西民间流传的这两句诗
This folk passed around in Shanxi
说的正是王家大院
is describing the Wang’s Grand Courtyard.
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[@MoscowsFinest]

Love theses Videos with Chinese/English subtitles, helps a lot when learning Chinese.

[@yttean98]

Beautiful architecture, hope they can preserve their buildings otherwise future generations cannot enjoy what glorious past they had.

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Jaw dropping beautiful.

[@xrc5540]

Awesome. Can this house be visited?

[@czoe6733]

I think yes, there are so many old build which maintenance good in China can be visited, but maybe will limited everyday amount of visitors