Wu's ancestral hall

Wu's ancestral hall is a well-built ancestral hall. Wu's ancestral hall used to be a business tycoon. From the powerful couplet "Zongkai Bohai, CI Zhen Zhujiang" on the gate of the ancestral hall, we can think of its grand occasion. The murals under the eaves have a history of more than 400 years, and are one of the few Su style color paintings in Lingnan area.

Wu's ancestral hall

Wu clan ancestral hall in Shexian County, Huizhou is a family ancestral hall building built in Ming Dynasty. It is located in Beian village, Shexian County, Huizhou. It is a place for Wu clan to sacrifice ancestors and sages. The wood carvings in the ancestral hall are round and full, the brick carvings in the ancestral hall are delicate and grand, and the stone carvings in the ancestral hall are famous at home and abroad - ten scenes of the West Lake, hundred deer pictures, especially 53 ritual vessels, which are treasures of the family sacrificial culture. Wu's ancestral hall, through its own architectural form and the dedication of the three sculptures of Huizhou style, gives a silent description of Huizhou's family sacrificial culture, clan culture, carving art, painting art and distant history, which is the concrete embodiment of the extensive and profound Huizhou culture.

Historical evolution

It was built in the early Ming Dynasty. In the sixth year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Yingsheng, a member of the Wu family, invested 220000 taels and raised 20000 taels, totaling 240000 taels of silver for expansion. Covering an area of about 10 mu, it is the largest existing ancestral hall of the Qing Dynasty of the Wu family in China.

In 1998, it was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province.

architectural composition

The ancestral hall of Wu family was built in imitation of the architectural regulation of the three entrances, two Ming halls and five bays of the government. The ancestral hall with three entrances and five bays is still rare in southern Anhui.

The gate is a five Phoenix building. The stone carvings on the base of the eight character wall, the brick carvings under the eaves, and the wood carvings on the Bo seam board are very beautiful.

The zhongjinyuanlan, composed of six Yi County bluestone slabs and eight stone pillars, is a stone sculpture of "ten scenes of the West Lake", with a total length of about eight meters

In terms of material and carving technology, it can be regarded as a unique stone carving in Huizhou. Huizhou stone carving began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Limited by the carving materials themselves, it is not as complicated as wood carving and brick carving. It is mainly based on animal and plant images, ancient patterns, calligraphy and so on as the theme of carving, while it is rare to carve characters' stories and landscapes as the theme of carving. This group of stone carvings in Wu's ancestral hall is carved with the theme of "ten sceneries of West Lake" in Hangzhou. Wu Yingsheng, a great businessman of the Wu family, employed Yu Shangxiang, a stonecutter from Yi County, to make people know the world. He settled down in Hangzhou, and after six months of copying, he returned to Huizhou to carve. Therefore, the ten sceneries of the West Lake are comprehensive and true, vivid and beautiful, which are the perfect combination of the landscape techniques and stone carving art of Xin'an painting school.

Then there is the Zhongjin of ancestral hall, also known as "Xiangtang". On the North Bank of Wu's ancestral hall, the moon beams and golden pillars of Jinxiang hall are the largest in Huizhou.

If you go further in, you will be backward. Under the backyard is a big pond. In the middle of the pond, there is a one foot two inch deep pond. There is a spring at the bottom of the pond, and there are carp and lotus. The fence to the north of the pond is the famous "hundred deer map". "Bai Lu Tu" is another masterpiece of the stone carving group of Wu's ancestral hall. It is also composed of seven Yi county green stone slabs, but the darker Yi county green stone. Its sculptors have a strong sense of three-dimensional. One hundred deer playing in the wild are on top of the picture.

Above the patio is the "bedroom", which has two floors, the upper and the lower, the lower is the bedroom and the upper is the attic. In the old days, the back wall of the hall was divided into a narrow room of about two meters by a partition fan, and a trapezoidal niche was set up, with three grids above and below, to honor the memorial tablet of Wu's ancestors.

On the Western gable there is a brick shrine. Although it is not square, the carving is gorgeous and exquisite. It takes the local gray brick as the raw material for carving. The brick should be made of fine clay, washed by hand to remove impurities and sand, and then fired with special skills. If there are sand and impurities in the green brick, it will affect the detailed carving of brick carving. Brick carving is one of the three traditional carvings in Huizhou. It is mostly used in the gatehouses, door jambs and lintels of Huizhou style to show the elegance and solemnity of buildings. Brick carvings such as Wu's ancestral hall are also extremely rare in Huizhou, which can be called the classic works of Huizhou brick carving art.

Located under the third courtyard of Wu's ancestral hall, there are 53 ritual vessels in the stone carving group of Qing Dynasty. In 1826, Wu Yingsheng, the eldest son of Jinglong tea house, presided over the renovation of the ancestral hall of the Wu family in Beian village of she County, an ancient Huizhou Prefecture. At the risk of deceiving the emperor, he engraved 53 pieces of traditional Chinese ritual utensils for the Royal Sacrifice in ancient China on the inner wall of the pool under the patio of the third entrance hall of Wu's ancestral hall. An ancient folk temple is carved with royal sacrificial vessels, which is also very rare in China.

Wu clan ancestral hall No

The general hall names are Zhide hall and Zhide hall.

In addition, the main hall names of the Wu family are: Yuanyuan hall, Sijing hall, Yide hall, Youzhi hall, sanrang hall, Chongli hall, rang de hall, sirang hall, Junan hall, Lvcheng hall, Dunhou hall, de rang hall, Yuande hall, Shude hall, Shide hall, Shuangle hall, Shuanghe hall“ Siyuan hall, Chongben hall, ruiben hall, Tingyi hall, Zhongde hall, Yanling hall, Qiankun hall, Xinglong hall, Zongmu hall, Cailu hall, Fude hall, qinheng hall, Xuexue hall, Youqi hall, Youhou hall, Anbang hall, Ping'an hall, Jixiang hall, Ruyi hall, Jili hall, Yiyi hall, Jixing hall, Bagua hall, etc.

Address: Huangyao ancient town, Zhaoping County, Hezhou City

Longitude: 111.21077720377

Latitude: 24.24751257273

Traffic information: the scenic area can be reached on foot