Dingcun

Dingcun is an old village located approximately 28 kilometers south of Linfen, in southern Shanxi Province, China.

Site description

Historical residential courtyards in Dingcun consist of a number of "foursquare" courtyards with buildings on the four directions including the main halls, the wing rooms along the east and west sides, the corridors and the entrance gateways. It has totally 40 complete sets of "four-square" courtyards 598.5 jian (Jian: the smallest unit of a building, approximately 15 square meters each) rooms and covers an area of 48000 square meters.

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History

The earliest courtyards were built in the 21st year in the reign of the Wanli Emperor (1593) of the Ming dynasty and the latest ones were of early republican period. Generally speaking, the total structure can be divided into three sections, the north courtyards, the middle courtyards and the south courtyards. These three sections respectively consisted of buildings of the Ming dynasty, the early and middle periods of the Qing dynasty and that of the later period of the Qing dynasty. These are one of the representative pieces of folk architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties in North China. Since these buildings were built in different times, their layout and style are different.

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World Heritage status

This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on February 12, 1996 in the Cultural category.^[3]

Notes

References

Historical Residential Courtyards in Dingcun - UNESCO World Heritage Centre Accessed 2009-02-23.

Prehistoric Asia

Paleolithic	Homo erectus georgicus Japanese Paleolithic Java Man List of Paleolithic sites in China Paleolithic Mesopotamia Peking Man Riwat Soanian Sangiran South Asian Stone Age Ubeidiya Xiaochangliang

Neolithic	Fertile crescent Early Neolithic settlements Khiamian Natufian culture Neolithic China Neolithic Tibet Neolithic Korea Neolithic Revolution Neolithic South Asia Ohalo Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (Mesopotamia) Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (Mesopotamia)

Chalcolithic	Daimabad Halaf culture Uruk period

Bronze Age	Andronovo culture Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Bronze Age Anatolia Bronze Age Caucasus Bronze Age China Bronze Age India Bronze Age Korea Bronze Age Levant List of Bronze Age sites in China Seima-Turbino phenomenon

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Coordinates: 35°50′28″N 111°24′48″E / 35.84111°N 111.41333°E / 35.84111; 111.41333

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