Guangdong Leizhou Chaohai Palace.

Chaohai Palace is a brick, stone, and wood structure with a four-entry, three-door, and four-courtyard layout. There are more than 20 palace buildings, including the mountain gate, the worship pavilion, the main hall, the rear hall, the east and west pavilions, and the three courtyards. According to the "Tianfei Chaohai Palace Management Monument" in the 30th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1765 AD), "During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (1506-1521 AD), the county guards Yuan and Liu brought the temple's sea fields, seaports, and pile gates into the temple as incense lamps." Although the palace has been repaired many times, the mountain gate worship pavilion and the main hall are still the architectural style of the Tongzhi year, and the main building structure is intact and the cultural relics are well protected. Chaohai Palace is magnificent and magnificent, with exquisite craftsmanship. There are three bluestone railings in front of the palace and a 10-meter-high navigation light flagpole. The mountain gate adopts the "Fan Ghost Tuo Liang" bucket arch beam structure, and the wood carving craftsmanship is lifelike. The more than one meter high wind and fire wall is gray and plastic with peony, plum vase, eight treasures, flowers, grass, insects and fish. The shape is a saddle, the outer eaves are gray and plastic flowers, birds, insects, and fish, which are lifelike and vivid. The ridge head is decorated with wheat ears, peonies, bats and other decorations, which are vivid. The wind and fire wall eaves are tall, which can not only highlight the majestic and spectacular, flexible decoration space, but also resist salt water erosion, and protect the beam frame from moisture and immersion. Its architectural craftsmanship can be compared with Guangzhou's "Chen Clan Ancestral Hall". In ancient texts, there is the praise of "Dunan Palace, Dunan Pavilion", which describes the extraordinary architectural style of Chaohai Palace as a whole. The "Fan Ghost Tuo Liang" wood carving in Chaohai Palace is a must-see, and it is very valuable. There are also many Ming and Qing inscriptions, a piece of exquisite marble incense burner carved in the Ming Dynasty, five pieces of the Qing Dynasty, and many couplets and wooden plaques from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. It is one of the "Five Sea Temples" series along the East China Sea, and it is of great importance for studying the folk culture of coastal fishermen, Mazu culture and the history of ethnic migration. Key cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong Province.