Cungeng Hall

Cungeng Hall

"Cungengtang" is an ancient large-scale building with Hakka traditional characteristics. It was built between 1716 and 1781 (late Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty), with a total area of more than 13000 square meters. It is the largest and well preserved residential building in Zhongdu town. In Qing Dynasty, it was as famous as "sanlitang" (already recorded) and "baierjian" (later abbreviated to Tiande Hall), but it is second to none. It is known as "nine halls and ten people well" and is well-known. During the period of communization, there were more than 130 people from 33 households who lived in the whole production team, and the granary and warehouse were all located inside. The central hall was not only a canteen, but also a meeting place, which was quite impressive.

Architectural features

The hall is located at the head of Luoxi Village (according to the direction of water flow), with its back facing the mountain and facing the water. It is a civil structure with stone masonry as the foundation and rammed earth as the wall. The wall thickness of the back building foundation is 1.5 meters, decreasing layer by layer. The whole hall is five into four horizontal, gradually into the height, from a distance to see the rows, it is very spectacular. The first entrance is the enclosed gate house, which can accommodate a wide range of vehicles and horses; the second entrance is the lower hall, with stone gate frames, and fixed couplets on the left and right, which connect with Japan: "to be a gentleman with a mind to be indifferent, to cultivate a family and to sing for the ancients." The third entrance is the middle hall. On the top of the front screen, there is a plaque, which says: "Cungeng hall", "Cungeng" was written by a famous scholar in eastern Guangdong, and "Tang" is written by later generations. "Cungeng" means "to accumulate good intentions, to stay for the future generations". He Shangwen, one of the 94 year old masters of the hall, lives in Taiwan. He built a new house in Hualien County, named "Cungeng Xiaozhu", to commemorate his ancestral home and never forget his hometown. The central hall is very spacious. It can accommodate about 10 tables and banquets. The walls and wooden columns were once covered with famous paintings and calligraphy, but now they are mostly scattered. There is only a pair of woodcut couplets. The couplet says, "if you are a good family, you will have a happy ending; if you are rich and able to train, you will live forever." At the end of the line, the word "Zhiwan Songxiang" is written with eye-catching words, and the ancient seal is engraved on the bottom. It is one of the seven Hakka poets, song Xiangzhen's pen. Therefore, on December 17, 1996, people's daily once made a special report on "Shanghang found the remains of Qing Dynasty Hakka poet song Xiang". On the wall of the second floor of the right Huiting hall, the words "King Kang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stayed here on a certain day and a certain year" were written with a brush. It is said that Wang Haiyang, the later general of the Taiping army, led his troops to cross the Tingjiang River from Lufeng on the second day of may in the fourth year of the Tongzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty. After entering Zhongdu, he Shangwen stationed in this room 》In the book, there was a poem that "my family once recorded the king of Kang, and the ink stains are still on the wall", which was awed by the despicable power of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping Army settled in Jiaying (now Songyuan Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City), the handwriting has been erased and is still unrecognizable. The fourth entrance and the second row of horizontal rooms are all two-story buildings, but the last one is a three-story building in a row. Standing in the courtyard in front of the building, looking up, you can only see "a line of sky", which makes people feel unpredictable. The whole hall is upright, orderly and dignified. Every time you enter, between the horizontal building and the main hall, there are empty courtyards. These courtyards were full of exotic flowers and ancient trees, potted landscapes and straight plants. The breeze blows and the fragrance is strong. Both inside and outside the eaves are built with feldspar strips. The courtyard is deep in spring, just like the old Guanjia palace. It is said that this house was built after the Jiaochang in Foshan, Guangdong Province. When I was a child, every time I entered this room, I always felt dizzy and awed. I had to hold tight the corner of my adult's clothes and look around for fear that I would enter the maze and never come back. The hall has 180 rooms, nine halls and eighteen patios, so it is called "nine halls and eighteen patios". The floor of the whole house, when there is no cement or ceramic tile, is covered with the most advanced concrete, while the floor is inlaid with ceramic tiles.

Construction process

This luxurious building, named Chongshan (1716-1781 AD), was built by chicken workers. After 13 years, it used more than 90000 taels of silver. Some people say that if you send a strong laborer to open the doors and windows for the whole house in the morning and close them in the afternoon, you will be unprepared and panting. If you arrange a hundred tables for a big banquet, you don't have to go out of the house. You can imagine the scale of the hall structure, and you can also imagine the superb craftsmanship of the time.

According to the relevant data, it has been more than 200 years since the house was built. Although it was eroded by wind and rain, the whole house is still in good condition, which is basically the same as that of that year. In the past, there were many families, and the humanities flourished. In the Qing Dynasty, there were five scholars, two gifted students and one Juren. Only in the past ten or twenty years after the reform and opening up, due to the improvement of the living standards of the residents, did they move out of this ancient building one after another. New houses of fashionable brick wood and brick concrete structures were built on the back hill and the left and right open spaces of the hall, and there were still seven elderly or poor people living in the house

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In 1993, the people's Government of Shanghang County confirmed the house as the third batch of key cultural relics protection units at the county level.

geographical environment

Location: cungengtang Tulou is located in Luoxi village, Zhongdu Town, Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province

Main attractions

Features of earth buildings

In November 2009, it was listed as Fujian provincial cultural relics protection unit by Fujian Provincial People's government

Address: 970 County Road, Shanghang County, Longyan City

Longitude: 116.43218628417

Latitude: 24.86805882672

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