During the heyday of Houtong mining, many miners' families moved here, and the miners' dormitories were also called "Liauzi." In Houtong, there are Neiliauzi, Sanzuoliau, Wuzuoliao, Fanziliau, and Meiyuancuo, all of which are workers' dormitories. In the early days, they used wooden boards to partition most houses and opened a small hole in the wooden wall to install electric lights for two households. They shared a kitchen, bathroom, and toilet.
Although the building looks like a two-story building, it has three floors inside, and each small window space is for a family to live in. At that time, thousands gathered in the miners' dormitories to live and work here. Everyone lived in the space separated by this window, which included children reading, sleeping, and eating. As the government ordered the mines to be closed one by one, many residents moved out of there to live elsewhere, leaving only the original miners' dormitories standing here, introducing the scenes of the miners' lives at that time to future generations.
