The County Court is in the middle of the Ancient City. It started to be built in the Beiwei Dynasty. The architecture was fully built in the sixth year during the Yuanzhi Era (1346). It has a history of over six hundred years. The whole court faces the south with an axial symmetry layout. The court is over two hundred metres long and more than a hundred metres wide. It covers an area of 26,000 square metres. The design of the court is very Feudal traditional. In the central hall, civil officers stood in the left side and military officials in the right side. In the front there are offices while in the back there are living chambers. There are in all six architectures include the Gate, the First Hall, the Chamber Gate, the Second Hall, the Inside Chamber and Daxin Building. The First Hall was also called the Qinmin Hall. The Inside Chamber was also call the Qinshen Hall. In the east, there stands the Flower Hall, the Changping Storehouse, the Zanhou Temple, the Earth Ancestral Hall. The Changping Store house was also called Money and Grain Hall. In the west, there are prisons, Shiwang Temple and Jibu Hall. The architectures are in very good order with reasonable design. It is an epitome of imperial palaces. On May 19th, 2004 when the 11th Panchen Lama visited the Ancient City, he wrote an inscription that ‘the County Court is the best of the ancient offices’.
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