Get away from busy city beijing and head into the lush fertile valleys of the old citys courtyard cuandixia village where you will see about 70 well preserved courtyard homes since ming dynasty cuandixia village is located on ancient post road roughly 90 km northwest from central beijing in the jingxi mountain region and its built by a family who migrated from shanxi province around 400 years ago during the ming and qing dynasties the road that led through the mountains to the provinces o