The village gained its name in the Ming Dynasty since it sat to the south of “Cuanlian Pass”. The village is is in the middle part of a valley northwest of Zhaitang in western Beijing. Before 1949, the village belonged to Eight District of Wanping County. Now it is under the jurisdiction of Zhaitang Town. 90km away from Beijing, the village has an altitude of 650m and covers a landmass of 5.3km2. Sitting in Qingshui River basin, the village enjoys temperate monsoon climate and an average annual temperature of 10.1℃. With nice vegetation, it is an ideal place to raise sheep and honeybee. Cuandixia Village is a national Class-A scenic area.

The village is home to 93 people of 29 households, which live on 280mu of land. The village has 689 rooms of 74 courtyards. Most houses are courtyards and three-section compounds built in the late Qing Dynasty (a few of them were built in the Republic of China). These houses sit on mountain slopes of different heights. With the rear part of the village as the center, these houses lie on the two sides of Cuandixia Village following north-south axis and shape like a fan. The upper and lower parts of the village are divided by a 200m-long arc wall with some sections as high as 20m. The front of the village is surrounded by a 170m-long arch-shaped wall, making the village more compact. The three routes run through the village with the function of flood and burglary prevention.