He's ancestral hall

Built in the 37th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, he's ancestral hall is one of the most prominent ancient buildings of Ming Dynasty in Guodong.

It covers an area of 1060 square meters, with a building area of 1200 square meters. The ancestral hall is divided into three parts: the front gate, the main hall and the back hall.

The ancestral hall stage is decorated with cornices, the top of which is decorated with clay fish, and the ridge of which is decorated with clay dragon upside down.

There will be two ancestor worship ceremonies every year, grand and solemn.

He's ancestral hall

He's ancestral hall is a family ancestral hall built in the Ming Dynasty, which belongs to the place where he's family worships their ancestors and sages. The ancestral hall built by he family to commemorate the ancestors and educate the posterity. There are mainly he's ancestral hall in Zhuji City of Zhejiang Province and he's ancestral hall in Huangqiao town of Jiangsu Province. Ancestral temple ceremony represents the excellent cultural form of family ancestor belief, which has great influence and historical value.

brief introduction

The ancestral hall of he family is located at 124 Zhuxiang street, Huangqiao Town, a famous historical and cultural town in China. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty. It has a history of 500 years. Although it has gone through many vicissitudes, it is still a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.

It is known as "the first ancestral temple in the north of the Yangtze River", which echoes Yueyang Tower, the first building in the south of the Yangtze River.

present situation

He's ancestral hall is composed of Damen hall, Yimen hall and Zhenyi building. The ancestral hall faces south, with large brick carvings carved on both sides of the gate with auspicious patterns such as Ganoderma lucidum, coral, rhinoceros horn, Yuanbao and ancient coins. The style of the gate is the general gate of an ancient building. There are four hairpins on the architrave under the eaves truss. Beside the gate, there are symmetrical "door to door" frames. On both sides of the gate, there are relief stone piers with lion balls and big drums. On the door leaf, there are animal head doorrings. There are six gates in total. At ordinary times, there are two side doors in the East and the West. If there is a big event, the main gate will be wide open.

Entering the gate and passing through the small patio is the Yi gate, which embodies the concise and bright style of architecture in Ming Dynasty. The gate building of Yimen is built by grinding bricks, which is bonded with folk glutinous rice juice and lime slurry. The mortar joint is fine and firm, and it is still perfect. The door of the instrument opens inward, and through the patio is the ancient hall. The hall is three rooms wide, and the south facade eaves column and the hall are equipped with walking horse eaves to expand the space depth of the hall. The beams and columns of zouma corridor are unique, with lotus shaped wooden piers as ornaments, 8 piers and 12 facades being the same. The hall is built of wood structure with excellent materials and exquisite workmanship. The wooden piles in the hall are made of Phoebe. The structure of the hall is strong and magnificent, and between the pillar head of cloud column under the main beam and the supporting beam and bucket arch, opencut "Baoliang cloud" and "Shanwu cloud" flower boards are used for decoration. The combination of tenon and mortise complement each other. At that time, the beams, beams, capitals, brackets and other components of the hall were decorated with colored paintings. Up to now, there are still traces of flowers and birds on the beams. The floor is laid with one foot square bricks. Behind the hall is a large courtyard. The Zhenyi building with the name of he clan was built. It was later destroyed by fire. In 1992, it was rebuilt at the original site by the local government. Now it is used as an exhibition hall for displaying historical relics.

Collection

As a result of the local government's key protection, the ancestral hall of he family has been repaired as before, and the building has become a small museum for local collection and display of cultural relics. In the ancestral hall, there are four plaques of Kangxi Dynasty, ten rules of family model and conditions formulated by he's seventh ancestor in the orthodox period of Ming Dynasty, he's family carvings of Guangxu edition of Qing Dynasty, several books of thread binding of Qing Dynasty, bamboo carvings of Liu Yong, Prime Minister of Qing Dynasty, porcelain paintings treasures of Jingdezhen, stone inscriptions and mahogany furniture

And so on. There are also two floor tiles (gold bricks) made by the imperial cellar factory in the 17th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty for the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing. The bricks are 66 cm square and 8 cm thick, weighing about 100 Jin. They are black, delicate and angular. There are four seals on each brick. One is the seal of the making time, the other is the official seal made by the governor of Jiangnan Suzhou, the third is the official seal made by the governor of Jiangnan Suzhou, and the fourth is the seal made by gongziying. The wooden screen of Ming Dynasty collected in the ancestral hall is of traditional artistic value. The screen is a mahogany base, carved with a picture of deer, crane and pines. On the front of the screen, there is a paragraph of text, which looks like seal script and Li script. The calligraphy of the twelve "Zui" and "Yi" in the text is different.

Origin

The he family is a large family of Huangqiao. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were four Jinshi (the hall of the he family ancestral hall was built when He Fei was the imperial censor in the 15th year of Hongzhi of Ming Dynasty), 10 Juren, 30 Gongsheng and 300 Xiucai. Among the officials, there were many upright and honest people. As far as an ancient town or a family is concerned, such achievements are rare.

In the summer and autumn of 1940, the New Fourth Army entered Huangqiao and set up a public club to carry out literary and artistic propaganda. In October of the same year, during the decisive battle of Huangqiao, there was a front support Committee in the temple. The people of Huangqiao concentrated thousands of baked cakes here and sent them to the front line to support the New Fourth Army. At the end of 1948, Huangqiao was liberated and Taixing county government was stationed here. In 1982, the former site of Huangqiao decisive battle Committee (he's ancestral hall) was designated as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. In recent years, he's ancestral hall has been renovated and officially opened to the public. Shao Huaze, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the all China Journalists Association, inscribed "the first ancestral temple in Jiangbei".

Address: Guodong ancient ecological village, Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

Longitude: 119.559358

Latitude: 28.66166

Tour time: 1 hour

Traffic information: in Guodong scenic area, you can walk to it

Ticket information: included in Guodong scenic area

Opening hours: all day

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