Qiao Family Compound

Qing-era merchant compound that featured in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern. 6 main courtyards with 313 rooms.

The Qiao Family Compound was built by the Qiao banking family of Qixian, 50 km from Pingyao. The compound covers 9,000 m² across 6 courtyards. The architecture is more compact than the Wang Compound but features prominently in Chinese cultural memory because of Zhang Yimou's 1991 film Raise the Red Lantern, which used it as the principal setting. Combined with Pingyao on most multi-day Shanxi tours.