The Analysis Of The Architectural Configuration Characteristics Of The Grand Courtyards In Jinzhong

The Grand Courtyards in Jinzhong are one of the most characteristic Folk Houses with courtyards in the North of China, which is the important compound of Chinese traditional Folk Houses. In the periods of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the merchants who had been wallowed in money went back to their hometowns with honors, in order to bring the honors to their ancestors, they spent large number of money to build houses, which was record-breaking in the Folk House History no matter of the architectural scopes or of the architectural decorations. The scale of this kind of architecture is magnificent, the architectural functions are complicated, and the architecture can contain the daily living lives of all the family members and the servants, also the assorted units mainly are courtyard houses, so as to be chronically called " The Grand Courtyard Folk House Architecture".In this article, starting with the environments of the nature, culture and history, the author, using the comparison analysis research methods, selects the Qiao Family's Living Quarter and the Wang Family's Living Quarter which are the typical Living Quarters represented those in Jinzhong to have the study the architectural configurations of them mainly from the following four aspects: the site selection and the layout, the spatial configuration, the structural feature and the visual configuration. While concluding the characteristics of them individually, the author sums up the commonness of the above four aspects of the architectural configuration of the Grand Courtyards in Jinzhong, also, considering and analyzing the cause of the formation of the characteristic from the following aspects such as the clime, the economy and the traditional culture and so on, finally providing the use for reference for the protection and the renovation of the Folk House in the Middle of Shanxi as well as the contemporary architecture creation.