Why is Wang Jia Siheyuan, an ancient residential building, called "Folk Forbidden City"?

Everyone knows that the Forbidden City is magnificent and big, and it is also the place where the emperor lives. Why is the ancient building Wang Family Courtyard, known as the Folk Forbidden City, beautiful and big?

Wang Yuan is an outstanding representative of Shanxi Merchants Group. Located in Jinzhong basin. This is a completely closed castle complex, built on the hill. It is called "the first residence of China people". Wang Siheyuan was built by the family in Ming and Qing Dynasties. After more than 300 years of development, it includes five alleys, six fortresses and a street. It is an architectural art museum with China cultural characteristics.

Most of the buildings in the Wangs' compound adopt the wooden frame structure in the front yard and the two-story kiln building in the back yard. The first floor is a cave with a front eaves aisle, and the second floor is a beam-column wood structure building, forming a typical and reasonable architectural form combining beam-column wood structure building with brick kiln building. Gorgeous and exquisite structure. Wood carvings in the bucket arch structure, such as the bucket arch and the forehead square, as well as stone pillars and wall sills, have various forms and excellent workmanship.

The architectural pattern of the Wangs Courtyard inherits the courtyard style of the front yard and backyard formed in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty. The life pattern in the yard has a direction. Courtyard layout is mostly compound courtyard, but the pattern is changeable and the combination is proper. The whole building was built by officials, businessmen and folk Confucianism. It not only follows the traditional theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in ancient China, but also conforms to the ethical etiquette system of internal and external advantages and disadvantages. At the same time, it also absorbed the design style of southern garden architecture in local and subtle places, and organically combined architectural skills with garden art, forming another major feature of the architectural art of Wang's courtyard. All these make this courtyard a multicultural art palace.