Inch Ancestral Hall - China Travel

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Cun's Ancestral Hall, also known as Cun's Ancestral Hall, is located in Heshun Ancient Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, adjacent to the east side of the main gate of Dashi Lane, covering an area of 2222 square meters. Preface, Yuhuihong. The temple was built early, the gate is "foreign", the benchmark is "cow", the platform is wide, and the couplets are rich, which is the roost and smooth. The Cun's Ancestral Hall is the landmark building of the ancient town of Heshun, the symbol of the Cun's Clan in Tengchong, the one with the longest history of the Eight Great Ancestral Halls in Heshun, and the earliest one built among the Eight Great Ancestral Halls in Heshun. The gate of the Cun’s Ancestral Hall is unique. The gates of the Bie’s Clan’s Ancestral Hall are all traditional cornices, bucket arches, and tile-wood structures. Only the Cun’s Ancestral Hall’s gate is unconventional in terms of materials and appearance. It is a typical South Asian style and full of foreign style. It has formed a classic work combining Chinese and foreign countries. After more than 70 years of vicissitudes, it has become a business card of Charming Heshun Overseas Chinese Township. Its exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully embody the outstanding talent and artistic creativity of the ancient Han working people. On the left and right sides of the upper platform outside the gate, there is a stone pillar with a height of more than two feet, that is, the ancient flagpole. Compared with the benchmarks of other ancestral halls, it is quite different. There are two layers of square buckets on the pole of the ancestral hall. This is very elegant: in the feudal era with strict hierarchy, there were strict regulations that could not be overstepped. Because in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Cun family not only had 223 scholarly civil and military students and 4 Juren, and they were born in the Guangxu Yiwei year. There was also a Jinshi in Cun Kaitai, so according to the law, it is allowed to hang two fights, but other ancestral halls do not have this honor. There are upper and lower platforms outside the gate, all of which are surrounded by stone railings and paved with stone slabs. Especially the lower platform next to Xiangqian Avenue is semi-circular, with an area of hundreds of square meters, which is very spacious. The family ancestral hall is second to none, and it can be called "broad". I recalled that I went to Heshun Central Primary School when I was a child. Every time there was a school meeting, all the teachers and students gathered on the lower platform, occupying only one wing, which shows how big it is.