四合院（白天）

the inner courtyard of an original Qing-dynasty Beijing-style siheyuan, seen from just inside the chuihua gate: grey brick paving laid in a square pattern, the single-storey main hall across the far side raised on a low stone plinth with three red-lacquered timber bays, carved wooden lattice doors and windows backed with white paper, grey tile gable roof with curved ridge ends and a covered veranda with red columns, matching side wing halls on the left and right with their own lattice doors and verandas, a covered corridor joining the corners, a crabapple tree in a square bed at the left edge and a large glazed water vat at the right edge, and an empty patch of brick paving in the centre about four metres from the camera