Chen Clan Ancestral Hall in Guangzhou | 10 yuan for tickets, free explanation, a good place to understand Lingnan culture
I've been to Guangzhou several times, but I've never been to the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. This time I had the chance to visit, and it was great value!
🚇Transportation: The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall has a subway station, which is very convenient
🎫Tickets: 10 yuan, super cheap
👩Explanation: Free human explanation, super value! We shared with another 4 people, waited for about 50 minutes, the explanation lasted 1 hour, really learned a lot about the local traditional culture of Lingnan, very enlightening!!
Different from the architecture of Jiangnan, the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall is more magnificent and colorful, solemn and heavy, giving me a refreshing feeling, highly recommended!
Chenjiayutang is located on Gongjing Street, covering an area of 770 square meters. The building is a brick and wood structure, consisting of the main hall, the wing building, the theater building, the layout of the courtyard, the moth angle, the exquisite and chic.
Listen to the tour guide to understand Chen Jiaxuan's art, culture, history, stories, etc. Very exquisite wood carvings, stone carvings, brick carvings and colored plastics. It perfectly shows the culture and sculpture skills of Lingnan, which is full of traditional Chinese elements, and also reflects the honor and inheritance of the Chen family, records the glory of the Chen family, and inspires youth to learn from the example and progress.
Everyone from the crowd, everyone from the crowd, everyone from the crowd, everyone from the crowd, everyone from the crowd, the festival is huge, the subway station is out, but the children still harvest knowledge after listening, this is enough.
Chen Jiazhaotang is also known as "Chen's College", commonly known as Chen Jiazhao, located on Zhongshan 7th Road, Guangzhou. Chen's College was built in Qingguangxu 14 years (1888), 19 years (1893), is a "hezuxu" built by the Chen clan in Guangdong Province, for Chen's clan children to prepare for examinations, appointments, tax payment, litigation and other matters to provide temporary residence. Chen Jiazhangtang is one of the largest existing traditional buildings in Guangfu, and is also the largest existing, most well-preserved and most beautifully decorated yutang-style buildings in China, known as the "Pearl of Lingnan Architectural Art". The area covers an area of 15,000 square meters, the construction area reaches 8,000 square meters, the building structure can be divided into three axes, three-in, a total of nine halls and six courtyards. Chen Jiazhaotang collects the great achievements of Lingnan architectural craft decoration, almost all the halls, courtyards, corridors, halls, doors, windows, bars, walls, roof ridges and beams show the "three carvings, two plastics, one casting and one painting" of Lingnan buildings, namely wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, ceramic plastic, gray plastic, Excellent art of building decoration such as copper iron casting and painted murals. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was included in the two great works of German World Architecture and British Ancient Chinese Art Architecture. Chen Jiazhao is also the location of Guangdong Folk Craft Museum. It is a national-level museum. It houses more than 20,000 precious cultural relics and modern crafts. Among them, nearly 3,000 precious cultural relics are national-level. It is the most abundant folk crafts in Guangdong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The rich art museum, including Shiwan Tao, Guangcai porcelain, ivory carving, Guangdong embroidery, Guangzhou wood carving, brick carving, stone carving and other skills carrier, covers all the crafts that have been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list in Guangdong Province.
Come here to be sure to follow the narrator, the child follows the tour guide throughout the whole process, like listening to a story. I just don't understand why ancient people spent such a big price building a mansion.
The attraction is the top of Lingnan architecture. The tour guide is a good person. He speaks very carefully. To be honest, this place has not listened to the explanation. There are many who can't understand it. So it is necessary to listen to the explanation. Guangdong's architectural culture and traditional crafts are here.