In ancient times, the rich attached great importance to their own mansions and mansions. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the rich could recruit doormen and staff at their own expense and form their own private forces. Since then, with the unification of the country and the concentration of power, private power has been severely limited, but the rich still like to build large mansions and mansions, which are both a symbol of power and a good way for them to protect themselves. After all, the servants in the mansion were all available to them.
There were many large mansions and mansions in ancient China, and some of them were even like fortresses, and even the army could not attack them. However, if you mention China's most famous private house, many people may say that it is "Qiao Family Courtyard", after all, the film and television program about Qiao Family Courtyard is too popular, so that the people of the whole country know it.
The Qiao family compound is not a fiction in the film and television program, it is a real place in history. The original name of the Qiao family compound was "In the Middle Hall", and the owner was Qiao Zhiyong. Qiao Zhiyong's Qiao family is a very famous local family, which has continued to develop since the beginning of his grandfather Qiao Guifa's generation, and even the imperial court attaches great importance to them at its peak.
However, like the first entrepreneur of many huge families, Qiao Guifa's life was also very bumpy. Qiao Guifa's parents died since he was a child, and he and his brother were adopted by his uncle and lived in his uncle's house. The uncle has a general attitude towards Qiao Guifa, but the aunt is very disgusted with the orphans who have lost their parents, looks down on them very much, sneers at them on weekdays, and often bullies them. As an adult, Qiao Guifa really couldn't stand the bullying of his aunt, so he left his uncle's house alone and came to Mongolia to find a job. After a hard try, Qiao Guifa became a clerk in a pawnshop.
After saving some money, Qiao Guifa began to start his own business, and under his efforts, his business became better and better, and the Qiao family also became a famous local family. At the peak of Joe's family, they owned countless properties, thousands of properties. At the same time, the incense of the Qiao family is also quite exuberant, and there are talents in each generation, inheriting the position of the head of the family and leading the Qiao family to develop better and better.
Qiao Guifa's third son, Qiao Quanmei, inherited his position and founded the famous "Fusheng Gong", which became the most famous pawnshop in the world at that time. However, the most famous owner of the Qiao family still belongs to the third generation of Qiao Zhiyong. Qiao Zhiyong, as the son of Qiao Quanmei, was not interested in business at first. In the Qing Dynasty, the status of merchants was no less, no longer discriminated against like in the Han Dynasty, but became an upper class, but the most glorious thing in that era was still to study and become an official.
Therefore, when Qiao Zhiyong was young, he wanted to become an official through the imperial examination and realize his ambitions. However, because of the family changes, Qiao Zhiyong can only give up the imperial examination and take charge of the family. Under the leadership of Qiao Zhiyong, the wealth of the Qiao family reached its peak and became one of the representatives of Jin Shang. Moreover, it was Qiao Zhiyong who built the famous "Middle Hall", that is, the Qiao family compound.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest, business hit, and the environment became more and more dangerous, so wealthy merchants began to pay attention to the construction of mansions and mansions, one for investment, the other for the protection of the family, and Qiao Zhiyong was naturally no exception. Not only that, Qiao Zhiyong also spent a lot of money and energy here, and the compound alone covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, and there are countless houses inside.
And now the Qiao family compound has become a famous tourist attraction in China, the number of tourists every year is very large, the ticket revenue alone is more than 100 million, in 2017, it has even been as a company, applied for listing.
Qiao Guifa may not have thought that he had created a brilliant family that has been passed down for generations, and Qiao Zhiyong may not have thought that the Qiao family compound he poured his heart and soul into building has been baptized by years and is still preserved intact until now, and has become one of the important wealth in China.