Tracing the traces of Guangzhou | A glance at the thousand-year-old Lingnan style "Chen Clan Academy"

When you come to Guangzhou, you must visit the Chen Clan Academy, dive into the old times, and immerse yourself in the charm of Lingnan culture.
📍#陈家祠# is located on Zhongshan 7th Road in Guangzhou. It is the best preserved, most complete and most beautifully decorated Chinese Qing Dynasty ancestral temple building in Guangdong. It is known as the "Pearl of Lingnan Architectural Art".
🏮 Stepping into the Chen Clan Academy, it feels like traveling back to Lingnan a hundred years ago. Every brick, tile, beam and pillar here tells a story of the past.
Wood carving is a major feature of the Chen Clan Academy, and can be found on beams, brackets, corbels and other components. With their exquisite skills, craftsmen carved myths and legends, opera stories, flowers, birds, fish, insects, etc. on it. If you look closely, you will see that the characters' expressions are lifelike, the flowers and birds' postures are lively and agile, and every detail is handled with extreme exquisiteness.
The brick carvings are equally brilliant, using techniques such as relief and openwork, with rich layers. On the water-ground blue brick wall of the east and west halls at the first entrance, there is a brick carving of "Gathering Heroes at Liangshan". The 108 heroes have different shapes and vivid expressions, which makes people marvel at the craftsmanship of the craftsmen.
🌈 There are also beautiful pottery sculptures made of Shiwan pottery, with bright colors, which remain as bright as ever after weathering. On the roof, a group of ceramic sculptures consisting of various mythological figures, auspicious birds and beasts sparkle in the sunlight.
In addition to sculptures, the wooden buildings of Chen Clan Academy are equally impressive. The raised-beam wooden frame is made of fine materials and has a rigorous structure. The paintings on the beams are colorful and rich in subject matter, and they complement the wood carvings, brick carvings and other decorations, creating a gorgeous and solemn atmosphere.
Strolling in the Chen Clan Academy, you will find scenery everywhere and poetry at every step. Any photo can produce a good one, and wearing Hanfu can make the photos look like ancient style blockbusters.
Friends, when you come to Guangzhou, you must visit Chen Clan Academy to experience this breathtaking beauty!

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Post by JohnHo仔 | Feb 21, 2025