Chen's ancestral hall

Chen's ancestral hall

The Chen Clan ancestral hall in Qiantang is a family ancestral hall building, which belongs to the place where the Chen Clan worships their ancestors and sages. It is located in the east of Potou District, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, and the east of Poqian highway, three kilometers west of Qiantang town government. It is built from north to south, covering an area of 837.1 square meters. It is of brick and stone structure. It is divided into three two patios, three entrances and three doors, and two corridors connecting the left and right. There are 12 wing rooms, which are supported by 46 columns, including 28 brick columns, 10 stone columns and 8 wooden columns. The ancestral hall is the temple of the family, which records the glory and tradition of the family. As a symbol of the family's long history and traditional culture, it has unparalleled influence and historical value.

brief introduction

According to historical records, the Chen Clan ancestral hall in Qiantang was built in the second year of Yanyou reign of Renzong in the Yuan Dynasty (1315 A.D.), nearly 700 years ago, and has been repaired four times. The Chen family in Qiantang is a famous local family. Among them, Chen Yu was a famous incorruptible minister during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty; Chen Lanbin was the first generation ambassador to the United States of China, and a second-class minister during the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty; Chen Shangchuan was a famous overseas Chinese leader in Vietnam during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty; Chen Huilong was a cadre under Zeng Guofan, a famous minister who destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the reign of emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty. These famous figures have historical traces in the ancestral hall. The stone lions, stone drums and fish pearls in the ancestral hall are all for their merits. Chen family in Qiantang has lived in Fujian for more than 700 years. His lineage has spread to Zhanjiang and other surrounding areas, and extended to Hainan, Guangxi and other provinces. According to the genealogy and inscriptions in the ancestral hall, more than 300 villages have been built by the Chen people who moved out of Qiantang village, with a population of more than 300000. The ancestral hall is an important cultural relic to understand the life changes of some villages in Zhanjiang City in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

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Its architectural structure features: Flying ridge, angle, pheasant tail carving. There is a pair of stone drums on both sides of the main gate. There are two bottles of stone lions on both sides of the gate. There are three ridges on top of which are fish pearls. The gate is made of basalt, bluestone, stone drum, stone beast door clip and stone door pillow. The wooden plaque on the door reads "Chen's large amount". The character is written by Chen Lanbin, the first American minister in the first year of Guangxu of Qing Dynasty. The four character couplet "Wen YanXu, loyal legacy" written by Chen Lanbin is inscribed on the forehead and wall of the left and right two chamber doors. On the inside wall stands a stone tablet of "forbidding mangrove cutting" in the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. There are six pillars in the middle hall, of which two eaves pillars in the front hall are blue stone pillars, and four pillars in the middle hall are mahogany with lotus shaped blue stone base. There are two pairs of wooden couplets on the front eaves and in the middle of the hall. The couplets on the middle of the hall were written by Li Hongzhang, Minister of military aircraft of the Qing Dynasty. The gate of the back hall is of screen type, with the inscription "precious Yihou king" in Li style. The flower carvings are very exquisite. In front of the back hall, there are two blue stone pillars with thunder cloud pattern, two wood carving boards with flowers and plants sealing the eaves, and three doors with screen style. They are carved with mahogany. Their exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the outstanding talents and artistic creativity of the ancient working people.

Hundreds of years ago, in order to protect the ecological environment, the Chen people in Qiantang made village rules and regulations to prohibit the felling of jiadingmu (now known as mangrove) by the sea, and set up a monument in the ancestral hall in the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Up to now, there are still nearly 600 mu mangroves on the seashore opposite Qiantang village. This inscription bears witness to the cultural landscape that local coastal residents attach importance to environmental protection.

In 1936, five people died in Potou's "March 3" anti French struggle, of which three were Chen's children in Qiantang. This event caused a sensation at home and abroad at that time. Chen was once one of the important meeting places for planning, organizing and directing the incident. Therefore, Chen's ancestral hall in Qiantang not only has the historical value of studying the architectural art style of Qing Dynasty, but also has the cultural value of carrying out the education of patriotism and environmental protection. On May 18, 1991, the ancestral hall was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Shunde county. On July 17, 2002, the ancestral hall was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.

Address: Gongchuan Town, Yong'an City, Fujian Province

Longitude: 117.44455041093

Latitude: 26.0888231834

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