Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall, where you can drink tea and listen to opera, explore the footprints of history and understand the glorious history of immigration
👏The layout of the interior of the guild hall is exquisite and reasonable, ✔️The palaces, theaters, and courtyards are scattered. The stage of the theater, the stone tables and stone benches in the courtyard, can feel the strong humanistic atmosphere, antique, ⏮Exquisite architecture, ↙️Every brick and tile tells the history, the atmosphere is quiet and solemn, 📶It also talks about the history of Huguang filling Sichuan, bring your children to learn about it, 👏Or choose a good seat, order a pot of good tea, it’s also good to taste tea and listen to opera, the weather is awesome, ☁️Blue sky, white clouds, yellow walls and black tiles, 💁Overlooking the entire Huguang Guild Hall from the Dongshuimen Bridge, it is completely different from the beauty you see in it. If you like taking pictures📷, 👏Hurry up and put on your beautiful skirt to check in‼ ️
📍Address of scenic spot: No. 1, Banana Garden, Changjiang Binjiang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing
Opening hours: 09:00-22:00, 21:00 to stop entry
🎟️Ticket information:
Ticket: Adult ticket: 25 yuan Children/senior/student ticket: 12.5 yuan
Seniors over 65 years old and children under 6 years old are free of charge.
🚗Scenic spot transportation:
🚋Rail transportation: Take Metro Line 1 or Line 6 to Xiaoshizi Station, exit from Exit 4B or Exit 8, 🚶 and you can arrive.
-🚌Bus: You can take bus No. 414, 440, 480 in the city and get off at Huguang Guildhall Station;
🚌Or take bus No. 112 Inner Ring, No. 120, No. 141, No. 372, No. 382, No. 862, No. 871 and get off at Daomenkou Station;
🚍You can also take bus No. 112 Inner Ring, No. 112 Outer Ring, No. 120, No. 141, No. 372, No. 382, No. 862, No. 871, No. 871 Interval and get off at Wanglongmen Station.
🚠Cableway: Take the Yangtze River Cableway, walk straight ahead after getting off the cableway, and you can also reach it along the path.
🌟Highlights:
🚩Chongqing Huguang Guildhall was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and is the largest existing ancient guildhall complex in China.
🔼Also known as Yuwang Temple, it was built by people from Huguang.
It faces south and the main gate faces the Yangtze River. 👍There is also a relatively well-preserved Dongshuimen city gate.
🚩The ancient building complex of the Guild Hall is large in scale and unique in style. It not only follows the typical architectural style of South China, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and ⬇️Jiangnan area, but also combines the characteristics of Chongqing mountainous areas and integrates the traditional architectural style of Bayu‼ ️
↗️There are tens of thousands of wood carvings, stone carvings, brick carvings and other sculptures in the Guild Hall. 💖The themes are mainly from famous stories; the carvings in the hall are lifelike and exquisite👍
↘️The wall style is a bright yellow fire-proof wall, which is composed of straight lines and stacked in a stepped manner. ↖️Its typical Jiangnan architectural style. It is in the shape of an "L", rushing down the hillside, creating a different visual impact.
Must-visit attractions:
✅It consists of Yuwang Palace, Yuzhou Academy, Guangdong Office, Qi'an Office, and Immigration Museum.
Yuwang Palace⬇️is the main component of Huguang Guild Hall, and is also the largest building in the Huguang Guild Hall complex in Chongqing. ✅Yuwang Palace is dedicated to Dayu, with carved beams and embroidered pillars in the hall. 👏There are also activities such as the "Yuwang Temple Fair" during the Spring Festival and the "Yuwang Sacrifice Ceremony" during Qingming Festival every year.
Guangdong Office: 👍Also known as Nanhua Palace, it is a social organization established by Cantonese people living in Chongqing, 🔰a non-governmental organization that handles public welfare for fellow townsmen. The layout of the quadrangle is high, with the words "Nanling Guanzhan" inscribed on the lintel of the gate, and "Yuezhi" and "Chuanchun" inscribed on the doors on both sides. The courtyard is centered on the theater, with ear towers and viewing halls on three sides.
Qi'an Public Office: 🔼 Commonly known as "Huangzhou Hall" and "Emperor's Palace", it is a regional business organization built by people from Huangzhou, Hubei in Chongqing in the Qing Dynasty. ⬇️ The layout is arranged along the central axis, 👏 from bottom to top are the theater, patio, viewing hall, embrace hall, main hall, etc., which is the best preserved in the guild hall complex.
Immigration Museum: 🚩 The "Huguang Filling Sichuan" Immigration Museum was built in 2005, ↙️ It is divided into two parts: the main hall and the secondary hall. 📷 Using multimedia technology, through the combination of sound, light and electricity, it restores the scene of people from Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces entering Sichuan by water or by land.
Dongshuimen: 👍One of the best-preserved ancient city gates in Chongqing, Dongshuimen Old Street has now become a hot pot street, ↘️where many authentic hot pot brands have taken root.
Yuzhou Academy:✅The front door of the academy is an arched stone vault door, on which is engraved a four-character stone plaque "Kuibi Mansion". Since the stone plaque is a cultural relic, 🔰the academy plaque cannot be placed. There are more than 3,000 books in it, 💁mainly monographs on the protection, inheritance and development of Chongqing's historical and cultural heritage.
The ancestral hall is based on the hundreds of surnames, ↖️which can provide a place for activities such as "seeking roots, connecting clans, and worshipping ancestors".
The Hanbian Pavilion 📶exhibits a total of 69 plaques from the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods in the Bashu region, 👏which are divided into five categories according to content: "praising achievements, encouraging learning, inscribing residences, promoting business, and celebrating birthdays".
💗Other tips:
🌃There is a performance of Ye Zui Bayu at night from 20:00 to 21:00, and the latest entry is before 20:00. ✔️There are also Zui Bayu performances during the day, with several performances, and the performance lasts 60 minutes
✔️There must be a short play at 3 pm every day in the guild hall, and the face-changing skills of Sichuan opera will also be performed on weekends and holidays.
✔️After entering the door, 🈶If you take a photo, it will be developed and you can choose whether to take it or not. One-inch photos are free, and large photos are charged.
✔️When visiting, you need to pay attention to protecting cultural relics and the environment, and do not touch or destroy buildings and cultural relics at will
✔️Take the elevator from the exit of Huguang Guild Hall to Dongshuimen Bridge. This is the best viewing position. You can overlook the entire Huguang Guild Hall complex. 👀You can also see the Chongqing Yangtze River Cableway passing through the river, which is different and has a great visual effect.