"The Book of Rites" describes that "Mansion is the house of an important person", it first refers to the imperial palace; second, it refers to the palace room; third, it refers to the public palace and house; fourth it refers to the residence; fifth it refers to the palace house or Palace pavilion; sixth, it refers to the official residence or Public accommodation of an imperial official; seventh, it refers to the residence of the bureaucratic and rich person; in short, the "mansion" bears the trajectory of the elite class in the form of architecture, and it tells the living culture in the past years.

While the modern mansion buildings originated in Shanghai during the Republic of China. The residents gradually evolved from the original ruling class to the elite
class. The structure of mansion also extended from the traditional Chinese architecture to the Shanghai-style mixing with western architectural style following the trend. When Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Harbin, Guangzhou and other cities began to build mansions, the cultural circle was also formed and emerged accordingly. Exquisite costumes, gourmet cuisine, and modern social circles, the mansions not only record the daily life of the residents, but also went along with the living culture of elite class in that era!