Wang's Grand Courtyard is situated in Jingsheng Town ,Lingshi County , Shanxi Province.

It is at the same tourist line as Yungang Grotto of Datong, Jinci Temple of Taiyuan, Ancient City

of Pingyao and Hukou Waterfall, with very favorable traffic of railways and highways.

Wang's Grand Courtyard is an example of Chinese civil residence architecture of Qing

Dynasty; with a total area of up to 0.15 million sq.m. The three huge architectural complexes

of Gaojiaya, Red-Gate Fort and Piety-righteousness Ancestral Temple now opened up as "

Chinese Civil Residence Art House" and "Wang's Museum" were built in the periods of

kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing of Qing Dynasty, with an sum area of 45000

sq.m and covering 123 large and small compounds and 1118 houses.

The two architectural complexes of Gaojiaya and Red-gate Fort confronting each

other in the east-west direction and connected each other by a bridge .They are both

the full-closed type buildings on the loess high slope. They have the general characteristics

of relying on mountains and complying with the terrain, buildings and courts in layer upon

layer and well-proportioned, great momentum and complete functions, and basically

inherit the courtyard style of front halls and back bed houses. In addition, the brick carvings, wood

carvings and stone carvings have great originality and, with their elegant decoration, rich connotation,

unified practicability and beautiful look and the compatible south and north sentiments, rank in an extremely

high cultural grade.

The two main courtyards of Gaojiaya architectural complex are 3-year Siheyuan (quadrangles), which have separate kitchen yard and home school yard with private tutor as well as common classics-learning academy, flower yard, long-term hired farm-laborer yard and enclosed yard (servant yard), in addition to the sacrificial ancestral hall at high place and the embroidering buildings

on both sides. The fort wall encloses the fort along its periphery, several gates were set up in the selected positions,

and the large and small courts are connected like bead strings or joined by a common wall while being independent in separate structures, some

hidden while some appearing, with different households of various kinds and multiple styles as if there are yards inside the yards and there are gates behind.

the gates just like a labyrinth.

In the overall layout of Red-gate Fort architectural complex are both hidden one Chinese

character "Wang" and attached a modeling of dragon. Except the courtyard with

front halls and back bed houses, a part of the courtyards change to have front gardens

and back yards to suit the geographical conditions. Some of the courtyard houses are

sumptuous and some are winding and quiet as well as small and exquisite. Like

Gaojiaya, the combination of the cave dwellings with houses is proper, with the

carving skills being the type of fineness and denseness of Qing Dynasty, while the

difference lies in that some of the courtyards were built in the early Qianlong period

and their carving style appears to be of primitive simplicity, straight forwardness and

uninhibitedness, close to style of Ming Dynasty. The Wang's Museum set up in

Redgate Fort will be the study, exhibition, collection and development centre of

Wang's culture and also the historical destination of the overall image of Wang's family.

Now, the family-tree collection pavilion has been basically well prepared, ready for

opening to tourists and the calligraphy and painting house and jewellery house have

been opened to the tourists.