Old Beijing courtyard house,not only a garden-style courtyard, but with traditional decoration in room; not only embodies the family as a whole, but have their own relatively independent. This is the East house, is Oriental culture and is also the culture of old Beijing courtyard houses.
      Yuan Dynasty set its capital in Beijing, take the courtyard as the main layout of the capital construction, forming a unique pattern of the city to make people think of Beijing courtyard a mention. Just like a cave brings the same thought of Shanxi.
     Courtyard inside the house faces south is the main building (the older housing), the east and west wing called the housing relative (junior resident), sit down south to the north called for housing blocks (for the living room or den). The Courtyard housing patterns, old and young orderly, and from top to bottom are different, internal and external morality is embodies the feudal order of the family. In the courtyard, all the doors are towards the courtyard,which embodies the integration of family ties.
       Beijing courtyard houses have large, medium and small sizes, regardless the size of the scale of the courtyard, its construction is generally in accordance with the central axis symmetrical layout. There are three hokubo each in north and south room .east-west wing are two each, tile-roofed house and water from the ridge crest gate of the courtyard, called the small courtyard. Basically large and medium-sized courtyard as a unit to the depth or lateral stretch, and become a multi-channel, multi-combination into the courtyard. Of course, different combinations, the quantity, size, shape of the garden and shape, pattern, decoration, materials, colors of wood frame building are also a corresponding change. At least it has Inside and outside two Jinyuan La, there are five principal room, and with a penthouse, and could be called medium courtyard. Before the main building completed ,a gallery out of buildings, built behind the shield room, the Housing veranda attached to the yard is divided into prostrata goalkeeper Jin, multi-channel (vertical axis into the line, horizontal line road), and built gardens, have been called it a large courtyard, mostly is the house of Palace and dignitaries .