Abstract: It has very actual significance to excavate the wealthy humanism connotation in the living space shape oftraditional residence, and to make it accommodate to modern living style and simultaneously keeping local features. Thispaper anatomizes the flexibility of the development of the mode of traditional residence Liang Shuai Xiu courtyardhouse, and expatiates on the value and the approaches of the inheritance and development of the mode of traditionalresidence in contemporary housing in China.