Taishifang

⛰【Attractions Guide】 📍Detailed address: Longmei Village, Ding'an County, Hainan Province 🚗Transportation strategy: It is about 10 kilometers north of Ding'an County. There is no public transportation and it takes 14 minutes to drive. 🕙Opening hours: All day 💰Ticket price: Free 🌟Highlights: It was first built in the winter of the second year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1574). It was a memorial archway established by Yin Zhimao, the Right Deputy Censor-in-Chief, and Zhang Shouyue, the Governor of Guangdong, for Wang Honghui, the national historian. Taishifang faces northeast and southwest. It is an ancient stone archway with a stone-carved corrugated roof and a carp, dragon and owl tail top decoration. In the middle of the front side of the archway, there is an inscribed horizontal regular script of "Tai Shi Fang" in large characters, and on the right side are engraved vertical small regular script characters "Governor-General of Fujian and Guangdong, Governor-General of Food and Pay, Minister of Guangdong Ministry of War and Right Deputy Censor-in-Chief Yin Zhimao, and Governor-General of Guangdong, Censor-in-Chief Zhang Shouyue"; on the left side are engraved vertical small regular script characters "Established by Wang Honghui, the 20th place in the joint examination of the Yichou year of the Jiajing reign, editor of the Hanlin Academy, and co-editor of the national history, on an auspicious day of the first month of winter in the Jiaxu year of the Wanli reign". The reverse side is engraved with the words "Jieyuanfang" in large regular script, and the left side is engraved with small regular script characters "Wang Honghui, the first place in the Guangdong provincial examination in the Xinyou year of the Jiajing reign". On the opposite side of the main pillar in the main hall, there is an inscribed couplet: "The stone pillar warns the heavens, the beauty of the South Sea opens up five fingers, the Yaotai penetrates the Big Dipper, the light of the North Pole shakes and responds to the three terraces." Taishifang was listed as a county-level cultural relic protection unit in 1986. 📌Tips: There is free parking