1. The Qiao Family Courtyard is located in Qiaojiabao Village, Dongguan Town, Qi County. It is a museum in Shanxi Province that reflects the folk customs in central Shanxi. It is also the most complete residential building preserved in my country.
2. The Qiao family is a typical family steeped in traditional culture. From the naming of generations to the family rules and business, everything shows the essence of Confucianism. For example, the name of each household's hall, "in the middle hall" takes the meaning of "the golden mean, impartiality, holding both ends and uses". Dexing hall is taken from "long hair makes it auspicious, only the virtuous live here", Ning Shoutang comes from "peace and tranquility, trustworthiness and promise keeping", etc., which have exerted a subtle influence on the descendants of the Qiao family.
3. From the rise to the decline of the Qiao family, it lasted for seven generations.
4. Qiao Guifa is the founder of the Qiao family. He was originally a poor farmer. His life is legendary. He started from scratch and left his hometown to work as a clerk in a pawn shop in Inner Mongolia. After more than ten years, with some savings, he He moved to Baotou and opened a forage shop, selling tofu, bean sprouts, sesame seed cakes, noodles and scattered groceries without a brand name. In the 20th year of Qianlong's reign, there was a bumper agricultural harvest and food prices were low, so they bought a large amount of soybeans and prepared to make tofu. That year, the price of soybeans rose sharply, and they made more profits from selling soybeans, so they put up the "Guangsheng Gong" sign. He often succeeds unexpectedly in doing business with integrity. His childhood life experience has tempered his perseverance and laid the foundation for his achievements.
5. Qiao Quanmei opened a money shop, a pawn shop, a clothing appraisal shop, etc. under the brand name "Guangsheng Gong", and partnered with the Qin family to reorganize "Guangsheng Gong" into "Fusheng Gong" , Since then, the Qiao family has continuously established the "Fu" brand name, gradually dominating the Baotou market.
6. When Qiao Zhiyong was young, due to his brother's misfortune, he gave up school and went into business. Qiao Zhiyong lived to the age of 89, creating the heyday of the Qiao family and becoming one of the richest merchants in Shanxi. After Qiao Zhiyong took charge of the family, he continued to carry out large-scale construction work to build the Qiao family courtyard in order to light up the courtyard. Qiao Zhiyong runs the family very strictly. His family rules include: first, no drug use, second, no concubinage, third, no abuse of servants, fourth, no gambling, fifth, no traveling, and sixth, no drinking. These family rules not only eliminate the root cause of the failure, but also serve as a guarantee for the family to remain profitable and prosperous.
7. Qiao Yingxia is smart and capable, daring to act, and has radical ideas. Deeply influenced by family tradition and ancestral rules, since taking charge of the Qiao family, he has a strong career ambition and rigorous family management. With his efforts, the Qiao family's business flourished and reached its peak. Qiao Yingxia had a relatively open-minded mind. She was the first to cut pigtails and mobilize women in her family to eliminate the bad habit of foot-binding. She also served as district mayor and anti-smoking director, reaching the pinnacle of her career.
8. During the Guangxu period, foreign capital entered, and the Ministry of Household Affairs also established official and commercial banks, which severely impacted private bank accounts. It was at this time that the Qiao family's business began to slowly decline. The warlords fought in a melee, and the Japanese army invaded Baotou and occupied Fusheng Gong's bank and pawn shop in Baotou. Under many blows, the Qiao family never recovered. Qiao Yingxia had two sons, Qiao Tiehan and Qiao Tiemin. In 1950, amid the tide of public-private partnership, the complex was finally closed by Qiao Tiehan on behalf of the Qiao family, and Qiao Tiemin and his cousin Qiao Zizhen came to Baotou to handle the matter. The Qiao family and the century-old complex were Font size is no longer relevant.
9. Kunqu opera performing artist, born in 1943 in the Dade Pass of Qiao’s family in Tianjin. He lived with Qiao Zhiyong’s eldest grandson Qiao Yingxia for more than ten years. He entered the Liyuan Theater at the age of 15. Before his retirement, he was a graduate student in Beijing. Huadan actors from the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater are still engaged in the Kunqu opera education industry.