Within the large compound's checkerboard layout, clan members were allotted quarters along the right and left sides according to their generational seniority, and the rules of life in a large clan applied; but the many unobtrusively placed small kitchen ranges betray the fact that the clan comprised many smaller families.
在這縱橫交錯的大宅裡，族人按照輩份左右分配房間，有著大家族規矩；暗藏四處的小灶又說明著大家族中有著一個個的小家庭。