Mingshan Hall

Mingshan Hall

Mingshan hall, located in Shangwan village, Yangwan, Dongshan, is a magnificent folk house with high architectural art. It was built in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. The main building in the East, there are flower hall, hall, main building and around the lane, wing room, etc. In the west, there are wall doors, ear rooms, guest halls, Buddha buildings and gardens.

brief introduction

Mingshan hall is located in Shangwan village, Yangwan Town, Dongshan Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou city.

Mingshan hall is a medium-sized residential building with Ming Dynasty style. The layout of the whole building is reasonable and has strong artistry and practicability. The brick gate building on one side of the hall is like a memorial archway. It is the main decoration of Mingshan hall. The essence of its carving is rare in the architecture of Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan area. The brick, stone and wood carvings and painted patterns of Mingshan Hall's residential building, gatehouse and wall show the superb skills of Jiangnan folk architectural art. It is an art hall of brick, stone, carving and painting.

Landscape introduction

Mingshan hall is quite different from Dongshan carving house. The former is simple and elegant, while the latter is greedy and adds to the cake by taking all the five words of "fortune, fortune, longevity, happiness and wealth" for himself. The two are in sharp contrast. One of them is weixianhehe. He can't finish writing and blowing. In the final analysis, it's a building in the 1920s. One is desolate, endless loneliness and endless suffering; the other is busy with traffic and people, and the other is the lack of cars and horses. Genuine goods at a fair price are the essence of ancient art.

Mingshan hall is magnificent. The whole building combines brick carving, stone carving, wood carving and color painting. The layout can be divided into two parts. The outer area is composed of carved gatehouse, hall, flower hall, guest hall and Buddha building. The hall is used for ceremonial ceremony and reception of guests. The inner area is for daily life. There are deep preparation on the left, ears and wing rooms on the right. The houses are divided by patio and storehouse gate, giving people a sense of twists and turns.

The gatehouse and the plug wall are the ornamental essence of the brick carving in the Ming Shan hall. The inner side of the gate is more exquisite than the outer side. Guijiao decoration, light carving Ruyi, beautiful and smooth curve. The left and right sides were carved with "Qilin sending the child" and "taking the lead". In the upper Fang, the long-lived allusion of "the ancestor of chengtan has been trapped for a thousand years" is deeply carved; in the lower Fang, the relief of "Phoenix wears peony" is carved; in the Tianman, the auspicious patterns of Hibiscus, camellia, kumquat, ancient coins and so on are shallow carved, with the word "Fu" embedded in it, which means "harmony". The two corner pillars are concave and solitary, with lotus flowers in full bloom carved at the end, which gives people a sense of exuberance.

The main hall of Mingshan hall is the main body of the whole ancient building, with three rooms in width, eight columns in depth, ten frames and thirteen purlins. The front and back of the hall are turned over, and the plane is slightly square. The beams on the mountain shelf are decorated and beautified with the picture of "cloud and mist in the mountain", and the beams, purlins, fangs and mountain pads are all painted in Soviet style. The inner column is in a round shape, with a wooden drum on the top and a lotus leaf shaped stone on the bottom to prevent moisture and moth. The long window in front of the hall is square, like a star, simple and generous.

It is worth mentioning that there is a couplet on the column of the hall, which says: "it's better to accumulate money and jade than to accumulate knowledge and teach children. It's better to be generous in fields and lands than to treat people generously.".

Mingshan hall was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province in March 1982. At present, the land Lane behind Dongshan mountain is under development and repair, and Mingshan hall will become a good place for tourism around Dongshan mountain.

Opening Hours

Ticket price: 5 yuan

Transportation guide

Take bus No.20 to Dongshan Town, or take the minibus from Wuzhong bus station to Dongshan Town. Then turn to Dongshan Town and drive to the Zhongba in the direction of Luxiang ancient village to Mingshan hall.

Address: Shangwan village, Yangwan Town, Dongshan Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.363552

Latitude: 31.051732

Tel: 0512-66393308

Ticket information: market price: 5.0 yuan

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