Ermei Bookstore

Ermei Book House was announced as a national key cultural relic protection unit in 2006 and is now used as the Fujian Folk Museum. Located at No. 25 on the south side of the western section of Langguan Lane, it was the residence of Lin Xingzhang, a Jinshi in the sixth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1826). It was named after the two plum trees planted in the courtyard. It was first built in the late Ming Dynasty and was renovated several times during the Daoguang and Tongzhi periods of the Qing Dynasty. It faces south and north, with five entrances in front, back, left and right, covering an area of ​​2,434 square meters, and connecting Langguan Lane to Ta Lane.

The courtyard has six doors facing the street. The main hall is divided into front and back halls by a colorful gold screen door. The hall is high and spacious, and can accommodate a seven-layer table. The window lattices of the side rooms are decorated with various patterns made of wood lattice patterns. The doors, windows, wall panels, etc. are all made of nanmu. The second entrance is roughly the same as the first entrance. Each entrance is separated by a wall, and there are tortoise pavilions in the open air of the corridor to shelter from the rain.

Outside the east wall of the main building is the "Ermei Book House", with two plum trees in front of it, forming a courtyard of its own. There is a gray snow cave on the east side of the Ermei Book House, called the "Seven Star Cave". The third entrance is the flower hall, and all doors, windows, walls and panels are made of nanmu. The doors and windows are double-layered, with window paper in winter and window screens in summer; the wall panels and the upper blocking boards of the door panels are painted with trees, flowers, birds and drama stories. Two ancient pavilions were built in the small garden in front of the hall, one of which is a hexagonal half-side pavilion, and there is a lychee tree and a palm tree that are more than a hundred years old. Lin Huimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, once lived in this courtyard.