Dongyang Lu Residence | Spanning a millennium in search of ancient charm, stroll through the old residence to enjoy a prosperous era
| Spanning a millennium in search of ancient charm, stroll through the old residence to enjoy a prosperous era. Come to Dongyang and check in for you, it's worth visiting.
The Lu Residence, located in Luzhai Village on the eastern outskirts of Dongyang City, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province,
is an ancient Chinese residential building, with thousands of rooms,
and more than 20 buildings still existing from the Ming Jingtai era to the early Republic of China.
The architectural complex is surrounded by water on three sides, facing the Bijiashan to the south
✅Main Buildings
The Lu Residence's Suyong Hall, which took six years to build, is arranged in a 'T' shape with nine courtyards, extending 320 meters in depth,
grand in scale, with gorgeously carved components, blending Dongyang wood carving with painted art,
incorporating brick carving and stone carving arts. The hall houses more than 300 types of palace lanterns from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Among them, the 'Baogai Suluo Lian Sanju Qicai Sui Yangjiao Lamp' in Suyong Hall is particularly magnificent and elegant, breathtaking,
This grand hall lamp is 4.5 meters high, weighs 255 kilograms, and is made with 400,000 colored glass beads, and has been recorded in the Guinness World Records.
✅Cultural Relics
The Lu Residence houses two masterpieces of Dongyang wood carving: the 'Nine Lions Playing Ball' three-beam structure, carved from a whole piece of camphor wood over 1.7 meters, reaching 1.5 meters in height.
Ancient artists used techniques such as deep relief, through-carving, and round carving to sculpt lions that are vivid and lifelike, truly the pinnacle of Dongyang's traditional architectural wood carving.
The 'hook-and-join' structure used between the front hall and the main hall of Suyong Hall is another unique feature of Dongyang wood carving.
To avoid the hall being too deep, to prevent the roof from rising continuously affecting the aesthetics, and to save materials, Dongyang's skilled craftsmen designed this 'hook-and-join'—two roofs connected together,
with a specially designed 'big ditch' at the joint for water flow. It can be said that the essence of ancient Dongyang wood carving is hidden in the Lu Residence.
✅About 'The Forbidden City in the north, the Lu Residence in the south'
The Dongyang Lu Residence has a central axis, similar in layout to the Forbidden City, known as 'front hall and rear sleeping quarters',
The front hall is the public hall of the Lu family, used for sacrifices, gatherings, entertainment, celebrations, discussions, and teaching among the clan,
while behind the Shikumen is the living space for family members and servants, usually closed to outsiders.
The entire central axis has nine sections, stretching 320 meters. In China, only the Forbidden City and the Confucius Temple have such a structure,
and the Confucius Temple is specially granted by the royal family, with a spatial sequence identical to the Forbidden City, hence the Lu Residence is known as the 'Forbidden City of the people'.
🎫Ticket: 65r
⏰Opening Hours: Year-round 8:00-17:00
Dongyang Luzhai completely retains the ancient architecture, exquisite carved craftsmanship, let us step into this antique scene, and have a dialogue with the ancients, how excellent you once were.
Going to a friend's house to play, when passing by, I went in and strolled around, all ancient buildings, marveling at the carving craftsmanship of the ancients, such a good ancient building can be completely preserved. It is really not easy.
Luzhai, located in Dongyang, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, Dongxiao Luzhai Village, is an ancient residential building in China! It is a complete sculpture art complex! In 1988, it was included in the national key cultural relics protection unit!
In Dongyang, there is an ancient village, which is the famous family of the local history-Dongyang Luzhai. A archway at the door tells the glory of the year. Here, there are the largest palace lights preserved, very exquisite. The old house covers a wide area, which also reflects the lu family's branches and leaves at that time, and pays great attention to education, so it can train many excellent children.
Dongyang Luzhai is very worth visiting. The old house is well preserved. The wood carvings are all boutiques. The furniture inside is also worth watching. It is very convenient to brush the Ctrip QR code to enter the park. The inside is quite big. It takes about two hours to visit slowly.
Ming and Qing Dynasty is the peak of ancient craft technology, but also the era of ideological and cultural stagnation, I think a society if the thought is stagnant, there is no new theoretical breakthrough, will continue to increase its decorative and complicated under the old technology. Throughout the development of human science and technology, every time there is a technological breakthrough, its products are first pragmatism and then decorativeism, alternate development. I used to listen to people blowing, foreigners can repair churches for hundreds of years, Chinese do not have this patience. This has nothing to do with patience, foreigners repair the decoration to their gods, Chinese repair the decoration to their own home, if a family can continue, then his home can also be built for hundreds of years.
Known as the Folk Forbidden City, the ancient building is good, the key cultural relics protection unit in the country, it is worth a visit, the tickets are not very expensive. Just in Dongyang City, the Spring Festival is very lively, and the small cockroach across the street from the scenic spot is good.