Qin's ancestral temple

Qin's ancestral temple

Qin's ancestral temple is located in the west section of Maya street, Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.

Qin's ancestral temple, a cultural relic protection unit of Tianyige Museum, is located on Maya street, west of Yuehu Lake in Ningbo City. It was built in 1923-1925 by Qin Jifan, Qin Jihan and Qin Jihao of Qin's clan to offer sacrifices to Qin Jun'an's lineage, which cost more than 200000 yuan. From the year after its completion to 1949, the descendants of the Qin family, as a prominent family in Yongshang, held ancestor worship activities here every year

. Qin's ancestral temple is located in the west section of Maya street, Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.

structure

Taking the north and South as the vertical axis, the temple is composed of a large-scale wooden structure building group, including the light wall, the hall, the stage, the main hall, the back hall, and the left and right wing rooms. The plane layout is rectangular, with a construction area of 2165 square meters. The stage is the most magnificent part of the whole building, with a construction area of 30.25 square meters, a width of 6.1 meters and a depth of 5.9 meters. The design of the caisson is the most ingenious. The 16 geometric curves composed of the Dougong flower board and the mouth are spiraling up until the dome meets, and the "mirror" is covered in the middle. Looking up, it is like stepping into a wonderful realm. Now it has been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Scenery

Qin's ancestral temple is a collection of folk architectural techniques

The layout, architectural design and decoration of Qin's ancestral temple are based on the traditional construction format in the south of the Yangtze River. The architecture of Qin's ancestral temple integrates wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, gilding, handmade and other folk crafts, which has a unique Ningbo local style. The contents of the patterns include baby play, fishing, firewood, farming and reading, the story of Yue Fei and the characters in the romance of the Three Kingdoms, as well as the auspicious patterns of dragon and Phoenix, magpie and plum. These patterns are exquisite and beautiful, which sublimate the architecture. The theme and form of the patterns have profound connotations and rich meanings, and place people's emotions and wishes on them, making it permanent The vitality of art.

The e-luoding caisson in the stage of Qin's ancestral temple is regarded as the first one in eastern Zhejiang by experts for its excellent manufacturing technology.

The unique Zhujin wood carving is a traditional craft with a long history in Ningbo. The carving technology of Qin's ancestral temple is a representative work of Zhujin wood carving. The beams and columns, queti, efang and meimeiren rely on the techniques of relief or openwork. With the help of line carving and convex block surface, they are decorated with lacquer and pasted with gold foil to achieve a brilliant effect.

The brick carvings of Qin's ancestral hall are also quite unique. The characters and auspicious patterns of various brick carvings are embedded in the screen walls, flower walls and leaky windows. The carvings are vivid and vivid, and the carving techniques are delicate and mellow.

Qin's ancestral hall is the representative of the excellent ancestral hall architecture in modern South China

history

Qin's branch ancestral hall was built by Ningbo rich businessmen in modern times. It has a large scale, exquisite workmanship and complete preservation. It is representative of the family ancestral hall in the south.

Qin's ancestral temple is the reflection of Ningbo business culture

Ningbo is an industrial and commercial city. The Modern Ningbo merchants have made great contributions to the development of Chinese commerce. Qin Jun'an, the representative of the Qin clan and the ancestor of the Qin ancestral temple, is one of the most famous. Ningbo businessmen are influenced by traditional Confucianism and values when they are engaged in business activities. Therefore, after they succeed in business, they often bring a lot of savings back to their hometown to build ancestral halls, temples, academies, schools, bridges, roads and so on, reflecting their folk customs of dealing with Confucianism and business.

On June 25, 2001, as a modern architecture, Qin's ancestral temple was approved by the State Council to be listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units and incorporated into the Tianyi Pavilion cultural relics.

Address: Maya street, Haishu District, Ningbo City

Longitude: 121.53971727192

Latitude: 29.870145685483

Tel: 0574-87293526

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