The private Garden of the Zhu Family 

The Private Garden of the Zhu Family lies in Jianshui Street, Jianshui county, has a total area of 20,000 square meters and a floor space of 5,000 square meters, This grand complex is a typical local residence with distinctive features .As it was built by Zhu Chaoying and his brother in the late Qing Dynasty, it got the name "the Private Garden of the Zhu Family ". 

Divided into dwelling houses and ancestral halls, the private garden has layout of "vertically, three courtyard houses and horizontally, four” and "four small yards attached to one big yard" .Altogether there are 42 yards . With the well arranged yard and well furnished room and halls, the structure of the architecture can be described as "streamlined " .On the left side and near the street are 13 suspending houses and the right side are the ancestral halls that face a pool, a sate and pavilions .Poems and pictures are carved on the stone banisters around the pool. 

In the center of the garden there is a flower hall the two sides of which are called "xiulou”, a place where ladies lived. The place in front of the flower hall is naturally divided into two gardens .Rockeries and rice fields in the east garden and bamboo groves and flowers in the west garden reveal a typical style of a southern private garden. Thus is enjoys the fame "the Daguan Darden at a Border Town". Large and magnificent buildings like the private Garden of the Zhu family are now rarely seen in China. Today, it is one of the provincial cultural relics.