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  Though closed, a siheyuan is a compact world. Once inside the courtyard, there is a screen, behind which is the chuihua gate, or the inner gate that has a decorative roof with short carved posts hanging down from the four corners. This inner gate leads to a yard, the center of the courtyard. Opposite the inner gate is the main house, flanked by a row of rooms on each side. All the doors of the rooms open into the yard. Inside the yard can be found goldfish tanks and different kinds of plants and flowers, such as plum and date trees, Chinese flowering crabapple, pomegranate, oleander, and Chinese wisteria. Residents can thus appreciate flowers in the spring, have shade in the summer and harvest in autumn – "not a day without something fine to enjoy all year round," as contemporary Chinese writer Yu Dafu (1895-1945) once remarked.

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