Where Silk Road Fortunes Built a Palace – China’s Most Lavish Merchant’s Home

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Step into the 10,000㎡ estate of China’s "Red Top Merchant," where gilded carvings whisper of tea and opium deals, secret courtyards hide concubine quarters, and a European-style ballroom clashes beautifully with scholar’s gardens—a monument to Qing dynasty ambition and eventual ruin.

✔ OPULENT HIGHLIGHTS
→ "100 Birds Hall" – Ceiling beams swarming with gold-leafed phoenixes
→ Underground Gold Vault – Now displaying silver sycee ingots from his banks
→ Concubine’s Swing – A carved marble seat in the peony-shaped courtyard

Post by Winnie21 | Aug 5, 2025