Xi'an is famous for its many cultural relics at home and abroad. Ancient temples, ancient towers and other ancient ruins dating back to thousands of years can be seen everywhere. However, careful people will also find that it is rare to see well-preserved residential buildings in Shaanxi. How can Xi'an, which has profound historical and cultural heritage, have no ancient residential buildings? Many people expressed great curiosity about this. The only famous ancient courtyard around Xi'an City is located in a Guanzhong Folk Museum. However, these more than 30 courtyards are not native Xi'an courtyards, but have been relocated from all over the country as buildings for exhibitions and visits.

In fact, before the 1990s, there were still many old houses and courtyards in Xi'an. However, in the late 1990s, the rapid development of Xi'an city caused many old houses and homes to disappear rapidly. But fortunately, in the busiest street in Xi'an, the Gaojia Courtyard located at the north gate of Huimin Street was fortunately preserved. Gaojia Courtyard is the most completely preserved ancient Han residential building in Xi'an. Its scale and complexity and beauty of the building are unparalleled. Although it is located in the most prosperous downtown area, the outer wall of this compound, built in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, isolates the noise outside, leaving only tranquility and tranquility when you walk into it. The original owner of this compound was named Gao Yuesong, who was a runner-up in the imperial examinations during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Gao family compound was also called the "Bangyan Mansion". The Gao family was officials for seven generations. You can also see the glory of the year from the specifications of this typical Guanzhong courtyard house.

The overall courtyard is distributed symmetrically along the central axis. The main building faces west and east, and there are cross-courtyards on both north and south sides. It is large in scale and exquisite in details. Entering from the north courtyard gate, the first thing that comes into view is an exquisitely carved curtain wall. Visitors can see the end at a glance when standing in the first courtyard. The most amazing thing is that in the second courtyard, the load-bearing columns inside are slightly different from ordinary load-bearing columns. The columns in other halls are all common cylindrical, but the one in this "Ningrui Hall" is square. After inquiry, I learned that in ancient times, people paid attention to "the sky is round and the earth is square", and "the man is the sky, and the woman is the earth." This "Ningrui Hall" was once a place where the hostess of the Gao family hosted female guests, so when building the house, the pillars were built into squares.

Every detail of ancient buildings contains a lot of cultural knowledge. This Gaojia compound is also carefully built. There are also carved stones in the corridor between the two halls to prevent rain from wetting shoes. The ancestral hall must be built in the highest place in the hospital... The preciousness of ancient buildings often lies not in themselves, but in their attached value. An ancient building is a cultural history and an important witness of the connection between contemporary people and the years thousands of years ago.

Tickets for this ancient courtyard are not expensive, and it is worth visiting one of the few residential and ancient buildings in Xi'an.