Peng Chengchang House in Zhuyi Village, Xingning, Guangdong

Peng Chengchang House, also known as 'Zhongyi Di', covers an area of about 5000 square meters, with the main building being 74.7 meters wide and 62.6 meters deep, occupying a floor area of 4249.7 square meters. The construction of Peng Chengchang House began during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and was built by the eighteenth generation ancestor of the Peng family, Chengchang. The reason for the alternative name 'Peng Chengchang' is because the Peng family ancestor (the nineteenth generation ancestor Peng Huanzhang, who built the house) operated a pawnshop named Chengchang in Nanyang, and the neighbors were accustomed to this name; the name 'Zhongyi Di' comes from an earlier ancestor's official title—Zhongyi Daifu. The house faces south with the back to the north and is a three-hall, five-horizontal, and one-surrounding dragon house, with a grain terrace and a pond in front of the door, and a well to the right front of the house. The surrounding house has 18 halls, 95 rooms, 15 courtyards, 14 stone pillars in the upper, middle, and lower halls, and exquisite wood carvings on the beams and frames. The outer walls are made of lime and rammed earth, while the inner walls below 2.5 meters are based on rammed earth, with the upper part constructed of adobe, wood, and tiles, with a hard mountain top. On August 10, 2009, Peng Chengchang House was announced by the Xingning Municipal People's Government as a protected unit of 'Xingning's Characteristic Ancient Residences'. The house has been repeatedly stolen due to its exquisite gilded wood carvings.