Huang's ancestral hall

Huang's ancestral hall

Jiangbian Huang's ancestral hall is a Chinese ancestral hall built in the middle of Ming Dynasty, which belongs to the place where the Chinese people worship their ancestors and sages. Located at the junction of Getang village and Dawei village, Jiangbian village, Qishi Town, Dongguan City, covering an area of 654 square meters. According to the genealogy of the Huang family in Jiangbian, the ancestor of the Huang family in Jiangbian moved southward from Jiangxia (now Hankou, Hubei Province) due to the war in the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1560), Huang Xueyi, an ethnic group, named officials as officials (who went to Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province to pass judgment), and proposed the construction of Huang's ancestral hall. In the ninth year of Xianfeng (1859) of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Longtao, a member of the clan, rebuilt the ancestral hall after being awarded by the imperial court for his meritorious service in suppressing the Taiping army. The ancestral hall has five rooms in width and three rooms in depth. It has a hard top. It has a beam lifting structure and a bucket structure. It has a symmetrical layout along the central axis and a courtyard design. It uses 36 stone columns as supporting beams. The main entrance is a Dougong archway, 12 meters high and 12 meters wide; the second and third entrances are equipped with tomorrow's well and corridor, and the third entrances are equipped with left and right wing rooms. Reasonable layout, spacious, clean, solemn, generous, with the early Pearl River Delta Chinese architectural culture characteristics. There is a couplet (imitation) inscribed by Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty, a plaque on the front door inscribed by Huang Xueyi, a woodcut imperial edict of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty to award Huang Longtao, a clansman, as "Zhenwei general", and a number of wooden, stone, and gray sculpture components. The exquisite workmanship shows the outstanding talents and artistic creativity of the ancient working people, and has a high artistic value Value. Huang's ancestral hall was renovated by the villagers of Jiangbian village in 1992 and listed as a cultural relic protection unit of Dongguan City in 1998.

Origin and development of ancestral hall

According to the records of Buqing family genealogy of Huang surnamed by the river, Huang Xueyi, a clansman, proposed to build Huang's ancestral hall. Huang Xueyi was a Juren in the 25th year of Jiajing (1546) of the Ming Dynasty. After the mid-term examination, he was appointed as a teacher in Qiongshan county (now in Hainan Province), and later as Zuo Tang and Tong Tan in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province. Qiongshan is the hometown of Hai Rui, a famous minister. When Huang Xueyi was in Qiongshan, he appreciated Hai Rui (1514-1587), who did not have "fame" at that time. A few years after Hai Rui became an official in 1549, Huang Xueyi was an official in Jiangxi Province. Huang Xueyi served as a judge in Fuzhou, and Hai Rui served as a magistrate in Xingguo. They had a close relationship. In the summer of 1572, Hai Rui lived in Huang's ancestral hall for more than a month. At that time, Hai Rui had been dismissed from office. He came from Qiongshan to visit Huang Xueyi who was at home and lived in the temple nearby. During this period, there was a couplet inscribed on the book of Huang's ancestral hall: "Kui Kui, the Duke of Kuang Bi, was drenched in rain and dew on the day; his loyal son, when he heard the voice of his son, he shook the sky.".

Huang's ancestral hall was first rebuilt in 1859, which was related to Huang Longtao. Huang Longtao (1814-1894) was the emperor of Qing Dynasty (1846). He was appointed as the general of guangzhoufu and Nanxiong Shaoguan company (Lianzhou). He was awarded the title of "Zhenwei general" by the imperial court for his meritorious deeds in suppressing the red scarf Army (he Liu uprising Army) and Taiping Army. In order to glorify the ancestors, the ancestral hall was rebuilt in 1859.

The main gate of Huang's ancestral hall is a Dougong archway, which was a high-standard building that could only be built with the permission of the imperial court at that time. There is no record of why pailou was allowed to be built. The popular saying is that Huang Xueyi, with the help of Hai Rui, approved the construction by the imperial court.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Huang's ancestral hall once became the hall of the seventh district government of Dongguan and a place for movies. Later, Huang's ancestral hall was transformed into a sugar, rice and oil workshop. In the summer of 1959, the Dongjiang River rose sharply. The wooden materials and plaques of the ancestral hall, including a pair of couplet wooden plaques (hardwood, about 4 meters long and 0.4 meters wide) inscribed by Hai Rui, were used as emergency materials to reinforce the dangerous section of the Dongjiang River dike. All of them were lost when the dike broke. During the cultural revolution, the plaques, wood carvings and craft components of the ancestral hall were regarded as "four old" and most of them were destroyed. In 1992, villagers along the river spontaneously raised funds to rebuild the ancestral hall.

Ancestral hall structure

Huang's ancestral hall is located in the South and north of the river. It is five rooms wide and three rooms deep. It has a hard top. It has a mixed beam structure of lifting beam and crossing bucket. The central axis is symmetrical and the courtyard design is built with 36 stone columns as supporting beams. The main entrance is a bucket arch archway, 12 meters high and 12 meters wide. The second and third entrances are equipped with tomorrow's well and cloister respectively, and the third entrances are equipped with left and right wing rooms. The layout of Huang's ancestral hall is reasonable, spacious, clear, solemn and generous, with obvious characteristics of Central Plains architectural culture and early Southern architecture. In the temple, there is a plaque on the main entrance of Qifeng inscribed by Huang Xueyi of Fuzhou left hall in the Ming Dynasty, a couplet (imitation) inscribed by Hai Rui, a wooden imperial edict awarded by Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty to Huang Longtao, and a number of fine wood carving, stone carving, gray sculpture and other building components, which are of high artistic value. The arched archway at the head gate of the ancestral hall belonged to a higher standard building at that time.

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