Huguang Guild Hall

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Huguang Guild Hall is located on the side of Gudongshuimen on the banks of the Yangtze River in Yuzhong District, Chongqing City. It consists of three major guild halls: Yuwang Palace, Qi'an Office and Guangdong Office surrounded by high walls. Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall was first built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. After continuous reconstruction and expansion from the Qianlong period to the Guangxu period, it became the scale it is today. It has a history of nearly 300 years. At the end of 2003, the governments of Chongqing Municipality and Yuzhong District invested nearly 200 million yuan in the protective restoration of the buildings in the core area of ​​Huguang Guild Hall, which was completed in September 2005. The core area of ​​the guild hall covers an area of ​​18,418 square meters. As an industrial and commercial institution stationed in Chongqing (Chongqing) funded by foreign officials, gentry, and merchants during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it is the largest and best-preserved ancient guild building complex in my country.

Three hundred years ago, represented by "Huguang Filling Sichuan", involving more than a dozen provinces, the large-scale immigrant movement created Chongqing people's broad-mindedness of tolerance, openness, unity, and enterprising, as well as their resolute, brave, enthusiastic, and straightforward character traits. Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall not only preserves the material culture of the building, but also embodies the intangible culture of immigrant spirit. In the past, present and future, Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall is an important cultural symbol that Chongqing people are proud of. The guild hall has a large scale, well-proportioned layout, towering and magnificent halls, and simple and elegant shapes. It is not easy to survive in the downtown area full of high-rise buildings, and it is of great historical, artistic and scientific value.

Huguang Guild Hall is also called Yuwang Temple, Yuwang Palace, and Chu Temple. It is dedicated to King Yu to prevent floods; The Guangdong Office is also called Nanhua Palace, where Huineng, the patriarch of Nanhua, is worshipped. Immigrants from various provinces, mainly from Huguang, settled in Bashu, and beliefs from various places also entered Sichuan with the immigrants, thus forming a unique pattern of folk beliefs in Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty. The Dayu belief in the Bashu area during this period also showed the unique phenomenon of "produced in Shu and worshiped in Chu". Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall has received more than ten million tourists from home and abroad since its opening, and has become a business card of Chongqing city, a monument of Chinese immigrant culture, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad; An important carrier and proof of the inheritance of the land of Bashu, it is a boutique stage where splendid history and modern culture complement each other.

There are tens of thousands of wood carvings, stone carvings, brick carvings and other carvings in the guild hall building, all of which are exquisitely crafted and breathtaking. Before the guild hall was restored, there were a large number of sculptures from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The themes were mainly patterns of stories about characters such as Journey to the West, Romance of the West Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Fengshen Bang, and Twenty-Four Filial Piety, as well as patterns of dragons and phoenixes, animals, and various exotic flowers and plants. They should be immigrants. A kind of respect for the totem of hometown is an outstanding representative of southern carving art in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of our country. In 2003, with the support of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Tourism Administration and other departments, cultural relic building restoration experts and teams from Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beijing, Sichuan and other parts of the country spent nearly two years to restore and repair the sculpture art preserved in the hall. Restoration makes it reappear in the world. The sculptures in the museum have a wide variety of themes, beautiful forms, gilding and colorful, lifelike, and the antique flavor gives people the enjoyment of beauty, showing the elegant aesthetics and superb craftsmanship of the ancients everywhere.

As the first special immigration museum in my country, the Huguang Filling Sichuan Immigrant Museum, with the background of "Huguang Filling Sichuan", shows the political background, economic factors and routes of immigrants entering Sichuan from different angles, vividly and comprehensively reflecting the "Huguang Filling Sichuan" "This period of history is of great research and educational value in folklore and guild hall culture, architecture and garden culture. To learn from others' strengths, to bring forth new ideas through the old, to use modern multimedia technology, through the combination of sound and light technology, and through a series of interactive experience activities, tourists can re-walk the immigration road and feel the hardships of their ancestors' entrepreneurship. It restores the scenes of people from provinces such as Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and other provinces entering Sichuan by water and land, and systematically introduces the influx of commercial immigrants, making Chongqing gradually become an immigrant business city.

The Dongshuimen city wall was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 600 years. Facing the Yangtze River, standing alone in the middle of the river, it is dangerous and majestic. It presents a typical ancient city wall with the characteristics of a mountain city, and has high architectural scientific and artistic value. The long historical process of the establishment and evolution of the East Water Gate and the city wall records the vicissitudes of the former water terminal and the mother city of Chongqing, and also reflects the long history and profound culture of Chongqing. In 2000, it was announced by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government as the first batch of municipal-level cultural relics protection units after it was directly under the Central Government. In 2013, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The rich historical and cultural heritage of Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall and the ingenious ancient architectural form have attracted many film and television shooting agencies to come to take pictures, and it has become a popular film and television location shooting base. Since the restoration and opening, it has successively written "Wisdom Fighting Shajiabang", "Golden Love", "Spy War", "Chongqing 1950", "Ace Bodyguard", "Lu Zuofu", "Eight Minutes of Warmth", "Lie Detector" , "Extreme Challenge", "Twelve Ways of Flavor", "New Year" and many other film and television, variety and photography programs provide locations for location shooting.

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09:00-18:00 throughout the year (stop selling tickets at 17:00, last admission at 17:00)

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