The old courtyard was built in the early of Yongzheng Dynasty  , dating back three hundred years of history . Existing housing more than 30 rooms, 3,500 square meters, is a typical Tujia. Western region is the best preserved old house home soil, known as the "land home to a house."

    The old courtyard is the ancestral home of the  Tian tribe, the ancestors Tian Chengmian has over the years work in the Northern Song Dynasty , Now the old courtyard famous by the illustrious Tujia the rich and powerful in the field built from the Yuan. Brick, building area square meters. The original five slot door, is the only one, there is also the size of the room more than thirty, the three main room, four patio, facing south, things symmetrical, precise layout, seamless. Surprisingly, in order to increase the indoor lighting, craftsman to the ceiling out of the skylight cover bucket, so that natural light pouring like a waterfall-like. The roof is not in residential Han.
July 1940, Changsha, Ze secondary school to avoid the war against the school moved westward to this, the former Premier Zhu Rongji has forged a courtyard with the old unforgettable Love.

    Because highly Tujia customs building, the old yard into TV series, "Bloody Western" one of the shooting.

    Yard is located in the old city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, Yongding Road, east of Egret Bay Bridge, 200 meters, and often high-speed entrance Zhang. About 2 km from the railway station, airport about 5 km.