Salem - Yin Yu Tang House

Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Yin You Tang - an entire house brought from China

“During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a prosperous merchant surnamed Huang built a stately sixteen-bedroom house in China’s southeastern Huizhou region, calling his home Yin Yu Tang. … home to the Huang family for more than two hundred years until 1982 when the last descendants moved from the village. … The family’s well-documented genealogy and the accumulation of furnishings passed down through eight generations offer the opportunity to understand historical changes in China as they affect individuals in their daily lives and cultures on a global scale.”  https://www.pem.org/visit/yin-yu-tang

entrance

family's genealogy

cylinder on the right was for containing a small child while the adults worked

below - looking into the cylinder - a wrapped hot stone would be put in the bottom to keep the child warm

heat source carried room to room 

 very fancy bedroom

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