Tour a 10,000,000 RMB Siheyuan Courtyard Home! | China Life VLOG
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- We explored the residence of a wealthy construction company owner in Shaanxi. It turned out to be a very interesting walk thru a Courtyard style home, or Siheyuan, built with a combination of ancient and modern techniques. He built it all for 10,000,000 RMB or about 1.52 Million USD. Did he get a good deal?
A very informative link about Courtyard homes.
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JY_VLOG #981 - Siheyuan Courtyard Home
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What do you think? could you live there? And how about the tea... how much is a tower of compressed tea like that?
definitely does not worth this much
The tower of tea sure looked to me like a tower of poo (albeit more expensive).
TK Lee haha. Who knows. What if you ate a bunch of gold powder???
depending on quality of tea, could be upwards of a few hundred thousand RMB. if it's good aged puer, it could be over a mil easily, but those are hard to authenticate.
i would
I love courtyard house. The layout is so superb that it gives the outdoor prominence and indoor privacy. Protected from the public eyes with wall all round the property. Once you’re inside, it’s another world. Comes evening with the moonlight above and warm light from each living quarters, it is magic in the nite. Yes, I will build ones.
Ah Kin Choong love that. Inside you are in another world. True.
An enclose tranquillity. Like a home within home.
That's funny, the video we are releasing tomorrow was shot in that same house and was inspired by that red Baijiu bottle in 5:28 haha Cheers Matt!!
Mexicanos en China hahah. Cross promotion
U guys just reached 10,000 subscribers! Congrats!
Mexicans in China, How do you feel about Chinese Mexicans?
China ancient culture is amazing and beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏
I love courtyard houses! That is a huge one. I visited a smaller one in Da Xu Old Town (Guilin area). I could easily live in one.
da xu old town is my dad's born place
@@lleo9394 I spent a week there and took the bus to Xiong Cun. Beautiful old homes and scenery!
Courtyard style houses are very beautiful indeed..👌
hello fellow indian
Congratulations, Matt, I saw your video on the online version of People’s Daily. You are now a superstar in China.This means it may get hundreds of millions of clicks.
Yea. Crazy days.
He is building a legacy. By building this house he left behind a monument of his good work. He will be recognised for generations. His children and grandchildren will be blessed. I would love to build such a big house and contribute back to society.
You are a great ambassador for China.
My grandmother used to have one of this, of course not as fancy as this one. This is basically the traditional living style in Northern China, which is becoming rare as urbanization continues.
True. My grandparents had one of this, and I grew up in this kind of the courtyards. They loved flowers and the whole yard were full of flowers. About the chairs, old people don’t like sofa because they believe sofa is bad for their back. My grandparents had never leaned on the back of the chair. I miss them and their house.
I am in Florida USA and I absolutely couldn't build a shack for that price. I would love to live in a place like that where neighbors are so thoughtful and close. What a beautiful concept and way to live. Thank you for showing me this amazing village.
you are very welcome!
high quality video with nice introduction, good job, Matt!
Amazing info. Have always wondered what sort of cost to have one these houses. Great info bro. Once again thank you! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I like when you share the story of the place with culture you visited...I am Indonesian visited China (Beijing, Xian dan Tianjin) on 2010 with my Singapore and Australians friends for holiday...actually I was not interested to visit China...:)...but I realized I was wrong about my thought China ..the country consider delevoped country for me..:) ...Bec I was study in Architecture before ...I was surprised that so many interested buildings like Modern and traditional buildings, parks and infra there....the country is so big and every province has different culture and aesthetics....also I like the food too..wish can visit China again next time...
it's every chinese dream house
Compressed tea (fermented tea) serves a practical purpose. Like in Europe, yogurt is part of a healthy diet (probiotics), in the East, fermented tea serves the same purpose. The stiff chairs are designed not like a Lazyboy intentionally. Posture is key to good health (i.e. not lounging around for too much time). An "uncomfortable" chair naturally prevents sitting for long periods which is NOT healthy for human skeletal posture and long term bone health. The Chinese civilization being so old experimented with most conceivable things dealing with "long life and health".
Hi Mat, I visited this attraction about a year ago which involves the Geometry I have studied for the last 26 years, but most don't understand what this Geometry is really about.
When I return to China, I will revisit this attraction, and hopefully do a documentary on this subject, for those interested.
In the olden days, the rich guy would have concubines and they'd be put up at different sections of the house according to seniority. In case anyone doesn't realise, the forbidden palace in beijing of many an emperor past IS a giant courtyard house.
And then there was the cold palace for abandoned and punished concubines and wives
Nice introduction with nice video, keep up the good job, Matt...Jayoe.💪加油👍
Great explanations and narrating. It is fun to watch your videos with relaxing
I am in China from 4 years but never saw compressed tea.thanks for sharing...
Compressed Pu'er tea, sometimes this kind of tea is really expensive, some also say you can get intoxicated by drinking really good Pu'er tea.
@@fsh3702 thanks for the info🙏
@@DiptiMali Yeah, you are welcome
You should tour "OLD" courthouses too, circular and square courtyards, preferably with inhabitants.
I found you have very good potential as a realtor for expansive property😉😉
Such a unique experiece!
Aged Pu Er tea in compressed discs can be extremely expensive. Unlike fragrant flowery teas such as Jasmine that Westerners are accustomed to drink, aged Pu Er tea tastes kind of woody and is regarded as very beneficial to health, nurturing the digestive systems and slows aging. "Greener" teas are not supposed to be taken with an empty stomach, but aged Pu Er can be taken before breakfast.
For a person who can afford to build that kind of court yard & houses & support or help his community, he must have more than a billion RMB in his savings.
Chinese believes family is the core value of one's life. Chinese have the tradition of big family living under one roof. It is considered a blessing from ancestors to have five generations living together under one roof. Big court house is a common style of housing in the old days, especially those who were wealthy.
Mat, this is worth more than 10m. 40m is minimum on the market
Only if its in beijing......thats nit worth anything like ¥10m
@Finn Hansen no idea hiw that cost 10m to build....these homes are 10-20m in beijing
@@jonathanherreen2560 Acturally, you know nothing about siheyuan in Beijing. If it‘s a Beijing siheyuan, the price will be at least 100m RMB. The siheyuan showed in video is huge.
@@andyluo5878 its not huge......its all ground you fool.
I know 2 people in beijing that sold in last 2 years.....less than half your 100m.
Keep dreaming fool
BTW this so called 10m is in a back water....wake up and dont bullshit
Will be great if there be a video in the future to show villages just came out from extreme poverty.
That pot of water call : Meng Hai(门海), lf there was a fire, they would use the water .
im a chinese from malaysia, and my aunt has those traditional hard couches in her living room since before i was borned. except she doesnt even have the cushion on it anymore its very old. we're just kinda used to the hard couch. might considered having those kinds of couches in my future home, i think they look good.
Most foreigners have no idea about the land cost in China. For all commercial homes (almost all homes sold in the cities and towns), the land cost occupies the majority of total cost home buyers pay in China. The material and construction cost, across China, would be 1500-3000 RMB yuan per square meter (no furnishing, bare walls). It is very inexpensive indeed. However, as all land in China is owned by the government, those commercial home buyers buy a lease of 70 years for the land their home are sitting on (it was reported the lease can be renewed when it expires). In most places, the land cost is much much higher than the construction cost of the homes. Usually the home building companies need to acquire the land (the right to use the land for 70 years) through auctions in the open market. On the other hand, much of the land in the countryside is managed by collective entity of villages. When the local residents (with countryside HuKou) build their homes on these land lots, they can use the land for free, and with no time limit. However, these homes can not be resold. The courtyard house appears to be this type of property (the land cost is zero, otherwise it should be way more than 10 million RMB). Strictly, the property is probably not entirely legal. The land law in China does not allow any people to build homes like this (on collectively owned land), unless it is for other purposes (factory projects, company office, etc) which is not disclosed.
Good to see a successful person build a beautiful traditional Chinese building to his native village.
Labour cost is the key for making a house like that. But the market price is dependent on location. This could be build for the same cost in Russia, east Europe. And even cheaper in other parts in the world. He could write off the labour cost on other project.
Nice courtyard house
10M yuan property is not a great deal of money in China. For that amount, you would probably only get a half decent apartment in Shanghai.
Thus, it's money well spent.
Fascinating and congratulations to the owner.May I ask for clarification of the region that is famous for pottery please?
Jingdezhen. Search JaYoe and jingdezhen
My hometown！！I miss there
if this courtyard in Beijing, add one more "0"
100000000+
hha
right
If this court yard was in Beijing, you gotta add at least two more 0s. This court yard may have cost 10 million RMB to build, but it could easily be sold for 100 million. The land alone is worth more than 10 million rmb.
200 Million + at least...
Cool 😎
That table outside isn't for playing Chinese checkers. That is actually a Xiangqi board for playing Chinese chess. I noticed in other videos you had also referred to Xiangqi as being Chinese checkers. I figured you'd probably eventually like to learn how to play. It's actually very fun to play. I'd love to see a fun video where you learn with your wife and Eva how to play. Chinese checkers is easier for kids, but Chinese chess is much more complicated. It's easy to play through a game correctly, but it's hard to play at a high level.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful facts, it would have been nice though if you toured us around while you were telling the story instead of being in the frame and blocking 1/3 of the area the whole time... really wanted to see more of the house 😢
古代中国人的理想：开牙建府，起居八座。
Dream of ancient Chinese: Build an office serving the emperor, buy eight rosewood chairs in the living room.
Fab. Thanks. I wouldn't live there but it looks interesting. I would prefer more gardens and lakes/ponds. woodland etc if I were that wealthy.
You know, actually it's more about the rosewood furniture culture in China, successful people like to buy rosewood traditional styled furniture or antique stuff to manifest their taste, and the rosewood market in China is hyped.
the circular structure is called a moon gate
Nice
My family used to live in a small courtyard house in Beijing, it's not even close to the size of this one here.
It's a beautiful building. In years to come, It maybe become a major tourist site. It better than building a multi-storey building
didn't know the owner of this immaculate mansion is a jeremy lin fan (LoL); all chess games even kungfu are invented by india...very interesting video & thank you! NYC
There is somewhere that the water source was central, could the courtyard that is lower have at one time been a water source? I love to look at homes!
It's really cool! Love it but it wouldn't work in Canada lol That courtyard would be fun to keep the snow out of ;) Though I suppose you could glass dome the courtyard.
My dreams house.
This is my dream , building a very traditional style house to live in . The only problem is ... no bullet ... so it will remain a dream.
四合院，中國特色建築，中間天井好有作用。
Come back after done.
👍👍👍👍👍
can u make video about church or mosque ,this important to counter fake western propaganda
Yea. There are many.
You could buy a teardown or an apartment in Vancouver, Canada with that money.
I'd rather live in a house with a courtyard than not, and it would be all the more pleasant if there was a stone laver, as the one shown in your video, along with a lush, green garden.
👍👍👍
I would probably renovate an old place rather than build brand new and in courtyard style would be awesome
Hey, this is what I have been dreaming of to build a courtyard house when I have the money , and I have a dream that my koi fish pond runs right into my living hall with a strong topping of strong glass top , and we can really see the beautiful fishes swimming beneath us when we are relaxing in the living hall, and of course the pavillion with a bridge too ...
These furniture may be more expensive than the house
有钱谁不想来几件红木家具，
Yeah, rich people buy rosewood furniture, but I am poor, so I can only buy rosewood beads.
Astonishing.
A nice courtyard style home. It's usually for a large extended family in the old days, i.e. four generations are living under the same roof.
So no thanks, it's not for me! Lol
Personally I would kill to have a house like this especially with all the traditional furniture and the features outside as I am crazy about the traditional Chinese look but my wife who is from Nanning would not be impressed at all as she likes everything modern 🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣
这老兄还是一件短袖啊，牛人
1000万算个球！Billion US$ 才算真正的土豪！
That's a lot
Hookah or hooker?!
Jingdezhen - wasn't this the ceramics + pottery place on your YT feature when the young boy went all po-faced on you despite your best efforts to make him smile? That was a good one too.
Thank you.
I’ll like to have a courtyard house if I have enough money but a little different than this because the total view of this is too hard, not soft enough, too much stone works. On the floor, I’ll like to have a path with some plants on the side, it doesn’t have to be flowers, whatever shots but match the path style, and I like to have some wooden floors inside and on the hallway, then some times I can make teas on the hallway.
Incredible:) but I’d rather get a fancy house by the beach for 1.5 million dollars.
還是蘇州的園林比較好看。設計的美。
确实，北方的比较粗犷，园林还是江浙的漂亮。
Siheyuan in Beijing is about 10 times the price, around 100m yuan.
小艾 films a lot of high priced houses in China. I wonder if this is documented .. 🧐🧐
10 million RMB for a Siheyuan is cheap. Of course those in Beijing are much more expensive than other parts of China.
it's like living in a park.
Why not build a Chinese garden in NZ and Seatle?
5:55
"5 mins ill be there all right?
looks at video:
more than 5 mins.
the dudes gonna be madddd
Siheyuan in Beijing is much more expensive, in 2007, a Russian billionaire spent 110,000,000 RMB buying a siheyuan in Beijing, he ranked 8th richest in Russia at that time.
They suppose to give you plenty time to go through this place. It may double the price now at least more than 10M yuan now.
I’d love to own a courtyard style property as they are gorgeous. For that money you’d get a 2 maybe 3 bed house round my part of london, I’d take the courtyard property in a heartbeat.
Nice one Matt and thanks for sharing 👊
That is about what it costs in San Francisco
Almost all Chinese families have a courtyard house... it is most families ancestral home where it’s passed down from many generations. Unfortunately, the government forced most to sell theirs to build the modern cities, roads, etc. In the US, it’s call “eminent domain”.
It depends though. Most of the old courtyard houses are not featured with the modernized features, for example, electricity, modern toilet, even tap water. Lots of residents in my town actually waiting for the government to come and trade their old house for apartments/cash. So it is not fair to say “forced”. Not everyone can afford a fancy one like this.
@@zhujingwang3115 Yes, it is a forced sale by the Chinese government. My grandfather didn’t want to sell it, but the chinese government demolished the house and paid us a small amount for it AFTER it was demolished to make way for a highway to Shanghai. The whole town where the ancestral home was doesn’t exist any more. This was back in the 1990s when China was quickly expanding and growing.
@@zhujingwang3115 Stop lying. If the government makes you sell the property to them against your will and you repeatedly say you don’t want to sell, that is being forced against your will.
@@davidwongnyc I feel sorry for your grandfather. But in my hometown, there was a family that refused to sell their property. The land was used to build a university, and the house is still inside the university now if you check. That university is called Jiangnan University. You can look it up. It is unfortunate that things like what happened to your grandfather exist, but not all local governments are like that in China. So before you say I'm lying, do your own research.
this huge house is built.for tourists not for living. it seems like a gathering organized for foreign vloggers living china?
哪里的？比较便宜了吧
Please keep your camera a little bit far away
If you "accidentally" take a small chunk of the condensed tea from behind the huge tea tree, or a small piece of pottery out of thousands of pieces, do you think they may find out? Just saying…
Land is limited, only the very wealthy ones can afford this luxury.
Anyone here can explain why Chinese like to put that kind of uncomfortable chair in the living room
Status mostly. I think.
@@JaYoeNation yeah what I heard from older generations said they did it this way on purpose to keep you sit properly, like keep upper body straight up while sitting and only sit one third or half of the surface to show respect to the people you are talking to. Don’t know I’m right or not😂
那些椅子不舒服可能是因为 坐要有坐相 吧
hi
With the money, I prefer to build a big spread like this.
Inside deco is lacking
Sigh, for that price one can only afford a decent 160 sqm apartment in Guangzhou.
10 million RNB = 1.5 million US dollars about
This guy is so wealthy now and he doesn’t need extra cash from this beautiful courtyard style house. For me I would build it as a tour attraction and charge entry fee. I will have tour guides to explain all the intricacies to the onlookers. I believe that I will make enough to cover the cost of building this house. What do you think?
This is only northern residential style in China. I like the entrance, it keeps the privacy. Inner courtyard house reflect Chinese inward looking mentality. I am an introvert, courtyard house suits me perfectly. But I won't like living in this one, it is toooo big to be cozy and toooo much work to maintain.
The landscaping gotta be a headache
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siheyuan in Beijing is Billions.
Matt, Chinese chess. There is no Chinese checker.
Chinese checker is 波子棋😂